{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-08", "file": "debates1927-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "da9c5e0b35cd3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Major MacANDREW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major MacANDREW", "preceding_text": "ry without firing a shot, but I can imagine nothing that would bring any Government more into disrepute than the loss of British lives through negligence or carelessness in taking the necessary precaution of sending a force to China or anywhere else. One has read with great pleasure speeches in the country by right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite commending the Government for what they have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-08", "file": "debates1927-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "da9c5e0b35cd3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.19.0", "colnum": "19", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agriculture.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "plainly than this one that His Majesty's advisers have nothing to advise His Majesty about? Take agriculture. The hon. Member who moved the Address indulged in very pleasant-professions of faith. He gave us a very pretty picture of the woes of agriculturists. But what are the Government going to do? Bills in connection with agriculture will be laid before the House. What Bills? Upon what subjects?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.19.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-08", "file": "debates1927-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "da9c5e0b35cd3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.19.0", "colnum": "19", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "g to advise His Majesty about? Take agriculture. The hon. Member who moved the Address indulged in very pleasant-professions of faith. He gave us a very pretty picture of the woes of agriculturists. But what are the Government going to do? Bills in connection with agriculture will be laid before the House. What Bills? Upon what subjects? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Agriculture.\"] There is a Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.19.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-08", "file": "debates1927-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "da9c5e0b35cd3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.24.2", "colnum": "24", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You would like to!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "self-governing nation. That is what I understand is recognised by those manifestoes. Then there comes to the other school, the school which, whilst negotiations are going on, feels that they are not enough, the school that feels, as was very admirably expressed by the Seconder, that somehow or other there is still the problem of security. We have got our people out there, and we cannot leave them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.24.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-08", "file": "debates1927-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "da9c5e0b35cd3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.28.3", "colnum": "28", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "stification, has led to the political authority losing the initiative and military events compelling the political authority to subordinate its policy to them. Therefore, while I deprecate references to war, it must not be overlooked that the danger of a war is brought very much nearer to us by the use of this defence force, by the sending of soldiers to Shanghai, than otherwise would be the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.28.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-08", "file": "debates1927-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "da9c5e0b35cd3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "rs since Wanh-sien. I think the Foreign Secretary will agree that, the more information he can give at the present time, the better. In normal circumstances, when there is no malicious gossip going about, he may feel that he would prefer not to advertise the truth, but at the present moment one of the most mischievous things is this malicious gossip, this spreading of statements that are not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-08", "file": "debates1927-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "da9c5e0b35cd3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " better. In normal circumstances, when there is no malicious gossip going about, he may feel that he would prefer not to advertise the truth, but at the present moment one of the most mischievous things is this malicious gossip, this spreading of statements that are not true. [ Interruption. ] We know perfectly well that in China there are certain elements that do not desire a peaceful settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-08", "file": "debates1927-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "da9c5e0b35cd3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.33.0", "colnum": "33", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "e which was shown by our men at Hankow. One of the difficulties of the situation, as the right hon. Gentleman knows, is that there are elements at work that desire to push us into fighting and desire bloodshed. China is not like this country; the mentality is very different. China is in a state of civil war. There have been events in the history of that country, unhappy events, which compel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.33.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-08", "file": "debates1927-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "da9c5e0b35cd3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.54.0", "colnum": "54", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Lord HENRY CAVENDISH-BEN-TINCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord HENRY CAVENDISH-BEN-TINCK", "preceding_text": "ustrial prosperity and he concluded that letter by stating that what was wanted was leadership. Undoubtedly what is wanted is leadership, and I always hoped that the Government would take the country by the hand and lead it along the road to greater prosperity. But I cannot see that there is any sign that the Government think it their duty to show the qualities of leadership at the present moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.54.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-08", "file": "debates1927-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "da9c5e0b35cd3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.83.2", "colnum": "83", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "have been given to the men and women who stood by the miners during that particular period. I wish we had heard in more detail what was meant by the hon. Member when he said that the majority opinion of the Trade Union Congress could not be taken notice of at this time, and that those of us who are in the trade union movement are led by an infinitesimal minority. I think that was the term he used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.83.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-08", "file": "debates1927-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "da9c5e0b35cd3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.83.2", "colnum": "83", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The employers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": " Congress could not be taken notice of at this time, and that those of us who are in the trade union movement are led by an infinitesimal minority. I think that was the term he used. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"] I suppose the hon. Member who said \"Hear, hear!\" is a member of a trade union, and therefore he knows. If so, I would like to know the particular trade union with which he is connected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.83.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-08", "file": "debates1927-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "da9c5e0b35cd3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.93.0", "colnum": "93", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" It was last night!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "now also that every time we make an application for money to be spent on public services for the improvement of public health we are faced with all sorts of difficulties before we get consent to spent a few thousand pounds of our own money. Right hon. Gentlemen opposite who represent the Government at the moment I know have a very important reception to attend at Lord Londonderry's house to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.93.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-08", "file": "debates1927-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "da9c5e0b35cd3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.93.0", "colnum": "93", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Labour Benches?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ces for the improvement of public health we are faced with all sorts of difficulties before we get consent to spent a few thousand pounds of our own money. Right hon. Gentlemen opposite who represent the Government at the moment I know have a very important reception to attend at Lord Londonderry's house to-night. [HON. MEMBERS:\" It was last night!\"] Then Ministers have no excuse for being absent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.93.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-08", "file": "debates1927-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "da9c5e0b35cd3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER:\" That is your policy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": "ople and once having taken up an attitude we stick to it. I would appeal to the Government to give the fullest possible consideration to the effect of what a hurried reading of this second paragraph would convey. Unfortunately the people of this country —I believe with some reason—always regard political statements as being words used to conceal thought, and about this paragraph—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-08", "file": "debates1927-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "da9c5e0b35cd3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": " to he a fetish of stiff-necked British Imperialism. I say that without putting it in a gibing manner. I want to put it as fairly as I can and yet put it frankly. 9.0 p.m. I would add a word of criticism for what I feel to be a regrettable absence from His Majesty's Speech. Not only I, but many Members of this House, regret that there is no mention in the Speech of closer relationship with Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-08", "file": "debates1927-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "da9c5e0b35cd3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" To Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": "eat many nations when they fly at each other's throats. But that, I suggest, is an excuse. Since such suggestions have been made, within the last few weeks, many millions of pounds of Russian gold have been taken from our country to other countries for the purpose of trading. That may be a very serious loss. With all its attendant possibilities of trade, it has been transferred to other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-08", "file": "debates1927-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "da9c5e0b35cd3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.109.4", "colnum": "109", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. LYNN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. LYNN", "preceding_text": "lasses that we should do as much business as we can with every nation in the world? I am surprised at this suggestion of my hon. Friend, who, as a rule, is very sensible in those things —except in his opinions about the leaders of his own party. That is one of the things he and I never can agree on. He never will admit that the leaders of the Socialist party can do anything wise or sensible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.109.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-08", "file": "debates1927-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "da9c5e0b35cd3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. LYNN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. LYNN", "preceding_text": "Recently I read the report of a trade union organisation in Russia which pointed out that the conditions in Russia to-day were really worse than they were under the Tsar in 1913.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-08", "file": "debates1927-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "da9c5e0b35cd3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.112.0", "colnum": "112", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMES HUDSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Whose fault was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMES HUDSON", "preceding_text": "e, but it is very easy to talk in that strain when you have the other fellow down. The difficulty is that the hon. Member for West Belfast concentrated his mind on Russia, and the report which he has read about the reduction of wages in Russia as compared with the year 1913 under the Tsarist Government. The hon. Member apparently forgets that last year we went through a terrible industrial crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-08a.112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-09", "file": "debates1927-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "23d4ae266cc25fa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.129.5", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ular subject that brooks no delay. The last few years I have been pointing out in another place, and persuading the country, that the one essential safeguard of the future is the reform of the House of Lords.\" In fact he could say to himself, \"I have not only burnt my boats, but I have committed the Tory party to it.\" Then he would ask, \"Now, what about me?\" The Prime Minister silently says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.129.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-09", "file": "debates1927-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "23d4ae266cc25fa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.129.5", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"This year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " have the Home Secretary. He was put up twice last year, not only to defend himself and his Department; on two specific occasions the Home Secretary got up and said: \"I am speaking not only for myself, but I am speaking for the Prime Minister, \"Clearly, definitely and specifically, both on the Factories Bill and the Franchise Bill, he committed the Prime Minister and the Government to legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.129.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-09", "file": "debates1927-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "23d4ae266cc25fa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.129.5", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who gave it to them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "at is to say, we will introduce legislation which will further curtail the only bargaining power which the workers possess.\" Whatever else may he said about trade unionism and trade union legislation, whatever may he said of the mistakes made in any trade dispute, no-one can deny that the one and only bargaining power possessed by the working classes to-day is their right of collective bargaining.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.129.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-09", "file": "debates1927-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "23d4ae266cc25fa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "blem? What is our experience of the Government's attitude last year? Whatever may be said about the conduct of the miners' dispute—I have views, and have expressed them publicly, but I have never forgotten, I have never done other than point out that, whatever may be said about the causes or conduct of the general strike, the main responsibility for the general strike rests on those benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-09", "file": "debates1927-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "23d4ae266cc25fa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Labour party!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " Exchequer's speech in Manchester. Therefore, no criticism, no blame ought to be directed by the Prime Minister to our contributions in this Chinese difficulty. Rather he ought to ask himself what rebuke is justified of the colleagues I have mentioned. Notwithstanding anything that has been done, notwithstanding the indiscretions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Colonial Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-09", "file": "debates1927-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "23d4ae266cc25fa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.165.0", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Lock-out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "preceding_text": "e House too long, I should just like briefly to sketch the industrial conditions of this country, analysed upon the basis that Mr. McKenna's views are correct, in so far as actual banking considerations are concerned, and analysed upon the basis that the psychological effect of that monetary policy, as I have attempted to give it, is also correct. Take, for instance, the first coal strike in 1921.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-09", "file": "debates1927-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "23d4ae266cc25fa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The fruits of a Tory Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "mes as great. When one thinks of the disastrous, terrible and pitiful series of events which marked our domestic life last year and the immense injury done to our commerce and productive forces throughout the whole of the country, what one is astonished at is not that there are 150,000 more unemployed than at this time last year, but that the figure has not reached an even far more alarming level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-09", "file": "debates1927-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "23d4ae266cc25fa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Certainly!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ing and the power of conducting a strike in a reasonable and effective manner. But when the right hon. Gentleman tells us that we are going to take away the workers' only bargaining power I must ask him one or two questions. Is a general strike—which, whether intentionally or not, is inevitably against the Constitution—a necessary part of the workers' bargaining power in trade methods?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-09", "file": "debates1927-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "23d4ae266cc25fa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That will be too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ld welcome an opportunity to discuss the various points in it with responsible representatives of the trade unions—certainly. We seek nothing in this matter except to assert certain broad points of public principle. We desire to assert and affirm those points of public principle by legislation, with the minimum of vexation and inconvenience to the trade unions themselves. That is our policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-09", "file": "debates1927-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "23d4ae266cc25fa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "held at any time before October 1928, it is necessary that the legislation should reach the Statute Book before 1st June, 1927. The hon. Member for Leicester (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence) put that point very well yesterday. I ask the Government to remember that we women of the Unionist party have to fight a great battle, there are so many men who say such amazingly stupid things about women in our party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-09", "file": "debates1927-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "23d4ae266cc25fa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "esterday. I ask the Government to remember that we women of the Unionist party have to fight a great battle, there are so many men who say such amazingly stupid things about women in our party. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Yes, and the other parties do amazingly stupid things about women. The reason why we need to have factory legislation is because the trade unions have never stood up for women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-09", "file": "debates1927-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "23d4ae266cc25fa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " in, but not unless they show an interest in real social reform and keep their pledges. From the point of view of a Member who is deeply interested in social reform, I was bitterly disappointed with the King's Speech, and I think it showed just as great a lack of vision as the Eight Hours Bill, which, thank goodness, I never voted for and which many of us think delayed a settlement of the dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-09", "file": "debates1927-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "23d4ae266cc25fa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.230.0", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GERALD STRICKLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERALD STRICKLAND", "preceding_text": "presenting an English constituency to support the rights for which the Crown is the custodian in giving effect to what the Crown has given in the way of recognising the useful side of trade unionism in Empire development. Now I wish to go to China for a moment. China is so eminently conservative outside Shanghai and the international settlements that there is no possibility of living at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-09", "file": "debates1927-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "23d4ae266cc25fa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir HERBERT CAYZER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir HERBERT CAYZER", "preceding_text": " the Leader of the Opposition, but towards the end of his speech said there was a \"half-suppressed antagonism\" on the part of Russia against this country. It is rather amusing to hear the term \"half-suppressed\" when the leaders of the Soviet Government have been declaring their open antagonism to this country and their intention of smashing not only the trade of this coutry but the British Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-09", "file": "debates1927-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "23d4ae266cc25fa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.246.5", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "In each of the last two King's Speeches statements have been made that the Government were constantly considering this question of unemployment; in fact, they said that their hearts bled at the picture of so large a number of men who were willing to work, and were unable to obtain employment. The party opposite told the country at the last election that they had a positive remedy for unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.246.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-09", "file": "debates1927-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "23d4ae266cc25fa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "e essential weapon of defence, preparatory to a wholesale attack on their wages and their standard of life. That is why I think the Government are taking a mad course in proposing this legislation. Why cannot they listen to the sane and sober people in their ranks—men like the noble Lord the Member for South Nottingham (Lord H. Cavendish-Bentinck) who represents the best side of their party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-09", "file": "debates1927-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "23d4ae266cc25fa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "o be an honest man, and as he himself said in reply to my right hon. Friend just before Christmas, there was a large number of members of his own party who were earnest in their desire for social reform. I believe they were, and they were looking to the present Prime Minister to carry out the policy of Disraeli and to make the Tory party into a Social Reform party. Those hopes have been dispelled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-09a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.310.6", "colnum": "310", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "tse is going, well then it is in these events which are constantly before the Chinese people. There is no need for wild propagandists to make people object to being shot. There is an effort to make out that the real reason why the Chinese are so passionately indignant to-day is because of Borodin—because of Russian adventurers. I want to say this very plainly and I believe I speak for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.310.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.310.6", "colnum": "310", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "at any rate for the time. That disaster has already occurred. The negotiations have been broken off. The end which we were all wishing for—coming to terms with the Chinese people—has been defeated. That is the first disappointment. Then there is another very serious matter. Hon. Members opposite wish to secure the safety of the 8,000 or 10,000 Britishers in Shanghai—as we all do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.310.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.310.6", "colnum": "310", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": " we all want that. According to figures given to us this afternoon, there are 9,300 British people in Shanghai. This expedition is going to make their lives secure without the necessity of removing them if danger occurs. What about the other Britishers? By the figures given us to-day there are another 6,000 scattered all over China Up to now, on the whole, these compatriots of ours have been safe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.310.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir Austen Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir Austen Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "st of China it was persistently continued at Canton against all that Came from British sources or through the British Colony at Hong Kong. You come then to Hankow. I do not deal with Wanhsien for two reasons. That was not an incident between the British and an authority of the National Government, because I am glad to say that our relations with Yang Sen have been, and are, perfectly satisfactory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir Austen Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir Austen Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "ch, in face of the advice of every man on the spot, he could fairly take, if upon his shoulders, instead of upon ours, rested the responsibility? We decided, therefore, that we must send reinforcements to the Far East. It is asked, why we thought those precautions necessary when no other Power took similar precautions? Every Power has taken some precautions, but our position is a very special one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.329.0", "colnum": "329", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "al of the credit for the change of that policy. The right hon. Gentleman seemed to be surprised that a self-respecting Government should object to negotiation under a hostile mobilisation, but it is not so very long ago that the Government of this country took a similar course in relation to their own countrymen. The right hon. Gentleman and his Government plunged this country into industrial war,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.330.3", "colnum": "330", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "Let us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.330.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.330.3", "colnum": "330", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "sisted the appeal of reason, and ultimately surrendered to a successful violence far more than they had been asked to surrender to reason at an earlier stage. That is the recurrent catastrophe with which a Conservative Government confront this country, and it is a lesson which the country should mark well. Toryism will never do the big thing until passions have been inflamed by the smaller things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.330.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.336.5", "colnum": "336", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You mean relations?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": " crowning folly of breaking off negotiations with Soviet Russia at this stage I do not know. I think it would indeed be a real disaster and a terrible reflection on the wisdom of Conservative policy if at tins moment in face of all these entanglements and difficulties to which they are committed all over the world they took the additional step of breaking off negotiations with Soviet Russia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.336.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "These images spring very easily to the mind when one is confronted by some persons. This party, which appeals for national unity in its support, is a party which has brought war between class and class at home, and has nearly brought war between nation and nation abroad; and between our conception of foreign policy and domestic policy and their conception there can be no compromise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.338.2", "colnum": "338", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "lity with which he has answered the appeal made by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs that there should be nothing provocative said in this Debate. It was one admirable characteristic of the greater part of the hon. Member's speech that, as it might apply to any subject which came on for Debate in this House, so, no doubt, we shall have many opportunities of hearing it again in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.338.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.338.2", "colnum": "338", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "e, among themselves, as big a body of direct experience of the horrors of war as is possessed by any body of men in the world of their numbers. It is we who are told to-day that to gain a political advantage we are promoting another war in the Far East. When such a charge is made against such men, I think we are conscious that we are faced with an irresponsibility to which it is needless to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.338.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "e appeal of prejudice against the bond-holders. What an easy drum that is to beat! It is true there are £250,000,000 or £300,000,000 of British capital invested in China. It is true that, of that, £60,000,000 is at Shanghai, and £20,000,000 is owing to us by the Chinese Government. It is the case that our money has gone there to provide China with the rudiments of civilisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HADEN GUEST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HADEN GUEST", "preceding_text": " our people in China of the protection which they would get from our troops who, as the Leader of the Opposition said on Tuesday, were sent there to act not as soldiers but as police. The policy which I have been applying is the policy of the Labour movement in contradiction to the policy laid clown in the Amendment, which is not the policy of the united Labour movement but of a small group—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "India and all other subject races under their control. We are always being asked why the British are hated in China. The hon. Member who have just sat down, as is usual with hon. Members opposite, dragged in the red herring of Russia. Hon. and right hon. Gentleman opposite ought to know a little more history than they appear to know. It is nothing unusual that the British should be hated in China.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON, MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "n China. The hon. Member who have just sat down, as is usual with hon. Members opposite, dragged in the red herring of Russia. Hon. and right hon. Gentleman opposite ought to know a little more history than they appear to know. It is nothing unusual that the British should be hated in China. [ Interruption. ] Nothing at all. I do not want to prevent hon. Members from speaking by speaking too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "tish. You will find in that volume evidence supplied not by the rhetoric of Parliamentary speakers but by despatches sent home by the \"men on the spot,\" as they are described. One of them said: People want to know why the British are hated, why the British are always clamouring for protection. It is because of their treatment of the Chinese, because of the manlier in which they comport themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "rs that he was very nearly put out of the way by his own people. A certain diplomatic incident occurred because of his arrest and he was taken into the Chinese Embassy. Sun Yat Sen went back to China full of the ideas of economic and political liberty which he learned in this country. Of course he probably added to them by rubbing shoulders with people from Russia, but other people have done that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.387.3", "colnum": "387", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "We make speeches in this House for a variety of reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.387.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.388.3", "colnum": "388", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I am.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.388.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.388.3", "colnum": "388", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ement I make here. The British Governor of Hong Kong—and I am sorry the Secretary of State for the Colonies is not here—announced that arrangements had been made to deal with pickets in that Colony, and that in future they would be flogged. I suggest that as a Clause in the Governments new Bill for dealing with trade unionism. Now I come to the last of the incidents that have happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.388.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Whether it is inaccurate or not, I stand by it until the hon. Gentleman produces the report of the officers which we have asked for and which they dare not produce. As the gunboats steamed off they bombarded the town of Wanhsien. I should like to know by what authority they bombarded the town and what happened in the town. Two barge loads of soldiers have been sent to the bottom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "tended but there is one other thing I should like to say before I sit down. I have been listening to a considerable part of this Debate, and I will not say I am startled, but I am disappointed that there is a certain note in the speeches from the benches opposite which always indicates a depreciation of the British position and of British people who have taken part in building up trade with China.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "e to say something I had no intention of saying on account of what the right hon. Gentleman said with regard to what he called negotiations with Mr. Chen. There were no negotiations with Mr. Chen—none whatever. What there was with Mr. Chen was a communication of views, not in the nature of negotiations, but in the nature of definition of where the Labour movement stood. Why was it necessary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "resentative who is engaged in negotiating with me. Now that is his first position. He says \"If the object of the Government is so and so then I negotiate.\" There is no insulting language there. In the next paragraph he says: If, however, the massing of armed British forces in the direction of Shanghai is an illustration of the type of governing, mind that feeds on bodies of slaughtered men\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "eve his fears.\" But, he says, if that is not so, and the opposite policy is so, then if the British Government policy is the alternative which he describes, then then it, is to be feared that the disablement of British trade and commerce may have to continue until British Labour is entrusted by England with the task of arresting the British decline in Far Asia by substituting statesmenship\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERBS: \"Are being distributed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "must say that the placid and very friendly references—references which, believe me, I quite reciprocate—of a real desire to settle this question and settle it quickly and settle it permanently, are very good, very promising and very helpful. But I hold in my hand two leaflets—specimen leaflets, not the whole stock—that are going to be distributed all over the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Some!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "troops is the biggest obstacle to that accommodation at the present time. Our position is, surely, perfectly clear. So far as the Foreign Office is concerned, so far as these Memoranda are concerned, so far as the instructions to Mr. O'Malley are concerned, so far as the action that was taken at Hankow is concerned—has anyone supported the right hon. Gentleman more than some of us have done?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " some of us have done? [An Hon. MEMBER: \"Some!\"] Others did not. If hon. Members think that interruption a great contribution, I make them a present of it. There is no dispute at all about the negotiations, none what ever. In that communication the value of which hon. Members opposite may doubt, though I do not, every section of the Labour movement has combined to make the negotiations easy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": ". MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—to make the negotiations easy, and to stand behind the Foreign Office in conducting those negotiations. The dispute, the division, is over the dispatch of troops. I say that if there was any justification for the dispatch of troops, every possibility of removing the danger ought to have been exhausted before that step was taken, because surely it is perfectly obvious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Read them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "s. I say that if there was any justification for the dispatch of troops, every possibility of removing the danger ought to have been exhausted before that step was taken, because surely it is perfectly obvious—[ Interruption ]. I assume that there is some honesty in what the Government say and that their policy is not based on leaflets like these. Of course, if it is, then I understand them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "My point is this, that the right hon. Gentleman has taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "My point is this, that the right hon. Gentleman has taken—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"]—my point is this, that the right hon. Gentleman has never tried to protect himself against that except by soldiers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "this, that the right hon. Gentleman has taken—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"]—my point is this, that the right hon. Gentleman has never tried to protect himself against that except by soldiers—[ Interruption. ]—and that, in adopting that method alone, he knows perfectly well that he can draw no line in an operation which begins with defence but which is bound to end with offence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-10", "file": "debates1927-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fbc62c923a87cea0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.416.2", "colnum": "416", "heading": "BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "tain leaflets which have been issued, I understand, by certain Conservative agents. But after all, we are not the only people who issue leaflets. I have here a leaflet numbered 190, 4s. per 1,000, published by the Labour party from Eccleston Square, which was being distributed to-day on the District Railway. One of its headings is this: The Government are supplementing negotiations by armed force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-10a.416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-11", "file": "debates1927-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "2dfe95953f23f652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-11a.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "LOCAL TAXATION.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Neville Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many more cars are on the road?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Neville Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "ng the raid, an additional £1,400,000 has been assigned this year to the maintenance of rural roads. The total sum to be given in grants from the Road Fund this year is £17,300,000 as against £16,700,000 last year. As a matter of fact, so far from rural districts being put into a worse position, actually they are going to receive considerably more money than they received last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-11a.478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-11", "file": "debates1927-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "2dfe95953f23f652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-11a.503.0", "colnum": "503", "heading": "LOCAL TAXATION.", "cue_speaker": "Major TASKEIR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major TASKEIR", "preceding_text": " There are schools in London for teaching foreign languages, and our council schools are used for that purpose, and many of the people attending those schools go through a whole session and pay a fee of 10s. for instruction in French, German, Italian, Spanish, or other languages, but they are in such affluent circumstances that they are enabled to drive up to those schools in their own motor cars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-11a.503.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-11", "file": "debates1927-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "2dfe95953f23f652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-11a.503.0", "colnum": "503", "heading": "LOCAL TAXATION.", "cue_speaker": "Major TASKEIR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Make the best. of it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major TASKEIR", "preceding_text": "the individual council; it belongs to the ratepayers. The Government might afford some protection to the overburdened people by insisting upon the local authorities getting rid of their surplus land, and in that way encourage buildings, increase the revenue of rates and, taxes, and reduce the local burden. I am sorry my ten minutes are up We on these back benches get ten minutes about once a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-11a.503.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-11", "file": "debates1927-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "2dfe95953f23f652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-11a.526.2", "colnum": "526", "heading": "LOCAL TAXATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "preceding_text": "May I ask the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-11a.526.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.591.6", "colnum": "591", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "our resources on industrial strife. It is strange that the Prime Minister, having then made that appeal, should begin this Session by announcing a Measure certain to have the effect which he asked us to avoid. I declare then that the central feature of the Speech is an unmistakeable portent of industrial conflict and of further internal unsettlement. This Bill, of course, as yet, we have not seen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.591.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.591.6", "colnum": "591", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "raged wage reductions, and never discouraged aggressive action on the part of employers, even when those actions of employers have been against the national interest, and clearly were leading to social and industrial disturbance. Never a word was uttered except on the one occasion in the middle of the coal lockout when the stupidity of the mineowners was referred to for once by the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.591.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.591.6", "colnum": "591", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "e basis of that test no mandate can be claimed for this repressive and unnecessary legislation. Let me take another comparison. In the last one I included all the seven constituences, three of which are agricultural divisions. Let us take the verdict of industrial Britain, for I assume that this legislation is intended for the protection of the workers and of the inhabitants of industrial Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.591.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "wardice or calculation or anything of that kind. I think the Labour party in this House is here as the Parliamentary wing of the trade union movement. They represent as spokesmen in this House, to a very large extent, that immense organised body of public opinion. I do not say it in the least to reproach them, but the Labour party in its finances is very largely supported out of trade union funds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "okesmen in this House, to a very large extent, that immense organised body of public opinion. I do not say it in the least to reproach them, but the Labour party in its finances is very largely supported out of trade union funds. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"] I think it is a weakness that any party in this House, small or great, should depend too exclusively on finances drawn from a single quarter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.606.2", "colnum": "606", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "I think it is a weakness for their case that even when those who speak in the name of the party may sincerely agree with the view entertained in the quarter from which the money comes they are still exposed to suspicion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.606.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "people speaking about the law of peaceful picketing as though the law passed by a previous Government was a law which, in terms, said that any number of men might arm themselves with sticks and demonstrate in front of a working man's house and break his head if he attempted to go to work There is no such law, and there never has been. It is all nonsense to pretend that the law authorises violence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.611.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.625.0", "colnum": "625", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "preceding_text": "ltered or not, whether the general strike is or is not illegal at the present time. Although there is very little which one can quote on the point, there is one decision which was given so long ago as 1843—the judgment of Mr. Justice Erskine—which certainly seems to suggest that a general strike, accompanied by no form of intimidation or sedition or breach of contract, is not unlawful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "preceding_text": "The jury found, as a fact, that he had practised sedition, and he was convicted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "preceding_text": "we have listened. As to the other argument of the hon. Member who has just sat down, and the right hon. Member for Platting (Mr. Clynes), they made reasonable and moderate speeches, but devoted them mainly to the defence of trade unions, and to showing the great work trade unions have done in the past. We acknowledge that. Nobody has done more on behalf of trade unions than the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.654.3", "colnum": "654", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "preceding_text": "I will give you one example of the kind of injustice, which I happen to have in my pocket. This is not a political levy ca-se, though I am dealing with the political levy at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.654.3", "colnum": "654", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "preceding_text": "I will give you one example of the kind of injustice, which I happen to have in my pocket. This is not a political levy ca-se, though I am dealing with the political levy at the moment. [HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"] Well, really! Do hon. Members seriously believe that the whole of this agitation against the political levy is founded on nothing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.654.3", "colnum": "654", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Do you know of it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "preceding_text": "of the kind of injustice, which I happen to have in my pocket. This is not a political levy ca-se, though I am dealing with the political levy at the moment. [HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"] Well, really! Do hon. Members seriously believe that the whole of this agitation against the political levy is founded on nothing? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Then I despair of persuading them. This ease is a small one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.654.7", "colnum": "654", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "preceding_text": "ng the Government, who control the majority in this House, were to insert in it a few pages from \"Two Years' Work,\" or any other of their political propaganada publications, and were then to pass a rule—I think they could do it just as ea,sily—that every Member of this House had got to buy a copy of that whether he wished it or not. Would the hon. Member say that that was fair or just?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.654.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.655.3", "colnum": "655", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "preceding_text": "There is the spirit of trade unionism! Certainly they ought! That is the spirit of trade unionism. These men may not want to know the rules, but they have got to learn them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.655.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "preceding_text": "a. He, of course has the law on his side, but to the ordinary man who read the case the fact did not appear to be denied that sums of money had been expended in assisting the candidature of certain Members opposite. The Registrar of Friendly Societies decided that that was not political expenditure? It was not political expenditure to subsidise the \"Daily Herald,\" the organ of the Socialist party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "preceding_text": "at that was not political expenditure? It was not political expenditure to subsidise the \"Daily Herald,\" the organ of the Socialist party? [HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"] Then it is difficult to understand what hon. Members opposite would describe as political expenditure. To my mind, hon. Members opposite ought to be ashamed that money is being taken out of the wages of poor Unionists and poor Conservatives", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thank you for the affluence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "preceding_text": "he 10,000,000 people who voted for us at the last election were all rich people. I wish they were. I wish we could feel that the position of this country were such that there were 10,000,000 rich people at the present clay. I think hon. Members opposite ought to be ashamed that this money should be taken out of the wages of poor men, against their wish, in order that they may be kept in affluence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "preceding_text": "gh they had denied the principle, they would have endeavoured to show that in this particular instance, the need justified the means adopted. We know that quite the contrary has happened, and that the members of the Trade Union Congress did not believe in the cause for which they were fighting, because they found themselves in opposition to the vast majority of the trade unionists of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "e hon. and learned Member who was the Solicitor-General in the last Government and who, I believe, hopes to be Attorney-General in the next, although he has not declared it to be illegal, has, in his text book, prior to the general strike, made statements which go very far towards that view. Important trade union leaders have made the most specific declarations that the general strike was illegal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not do anything?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "ey have to go to endless trouble with the Income Tax collectors in order to contract out. Perhaps someone who advocates an alteration of the law will tell me how it comes about that a principle which is salutary when exercised by Income Tax collectors is obnoxious when exercised by trade unions. There is nothing whatever to be gained by this proposal, and h hope the Government will leave it alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.680.0", "colnum": "680", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RENTOUL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RENTOUL", "preceding_text": " unfair privileges possessed by certain sections in the country should, nevertheless, claim for themselves and their own organisations a privilege greater than is claimed by any other class. I suppose it is useless at this time of the day to assure hon. Members opposite that there is no hostility from this side of this House to trade unions as such, and nothing but the highest regard and goodwill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.680.0", "colnum": "680", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RENTOUL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RENTOUL", "preceding_text": "ongly, that the trade unions—or some of them—are in the process of disintegration to-day that they think it would be better to leave the matter untouched because the unions are more likely to smash up in that way. They think that if the Government remedy abuses and anomalies they will strengthen the position of the trade unions, and put them in a better position to carry on their work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "on for £10,000 hung in the general manager's office of the Taff Vale Railway, because he had arranged with the bank to have that cheque framed as a monument to how they had defeated the working classes. I am only trying to show the vindictive mind of the particular individual concerned, who was, not only content to have the £10,000, but to have the cheque returned to his bank and framed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.699.2", "colnum": "699", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Ah, 1905!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I think the House will agree that both interests are satisfied. The Osborne judgment was given in 1909 and here is the considered opinion of Sir Edward Clarke and Sir Robert Reid, given to us and paid for on 30th March, 1905.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.699.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.701.0", "colnum": "701", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read from the OFFICIAL REPORT!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I am not only reading the whole of it, but I challenge anyone to deny that he added any other words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.701.0", "colnum": "701", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "f. He admitted that the Tory organisation had printed a million of documents like the one I have here which bears their signature. That sets out liberally the abuses that Conservative working men were subjected to. It says: We are issuing book forms of exemptions. Each book contains 50 detachable forms, so that you can send them to your trade unions and get exemption without any difficulty at ail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Did they do it\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " necessary for a particular purpose, that should not apply to the employers as well? Very well. Then will you tell us how you are going to deal with the Durham coalowners, who issued a circular in November, 1922, urging that there should be a levy of 2s. per 1,000 tons in order to finance a colliery proprietors' candidate in the Durham municipal election? Was a ballot taken Were the funds examined", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait and sees!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "th a general strike or a sympathetic strike. I will not ask the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Spen Valley (Sir J. Simon) because I am more concerned with those who are against us and have power to enforce their opinion: but I would ask the Attorney-General to observe carefully that what we shall want to know is, Where does a sympathetic strike commence, and where does a general strike start?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ot help the railwaymen.\" I am putting it quite fairly as a workman will visualise it. Therefore the omnibusmen say, \"We shall injure the railwaymen unless we stop.\" The transport man says, \"But if the omnibuses stop, men may he transferred to our department. We do not want to injure the omnibus- men, and we do not want to injure the railwaymen and we stop.\" That is a legitimate sympathetic strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " will observe that it, does not purport to condemn any specific proposals of the Government, even assuming that some hon. Gentlemen think they know what those proposals are to be. What it purports to condemn is the reference to proposals \"for defining and amending the law with regard to industrial disputes.\" It condemns not specific proposals, but it condemns us for daring to produce any proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"After an inquiry?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " a few years before a Conservative Administration conferred privileges on trade unions in 1875. It is a fact that both companies and trade unions do enjoy, thanks to legislation, special privileges before the law. It has been thought necessary, in the course of experience, to introduce legis- lation during the corning Session to reform abuses which have been made manifest in the company law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Without inquiry!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "abuses which have been made manifest in the company law—[An HON. MEMBER: \"After an inquiry?\"]—to prevent directors from the improper administration of company funds and improper dealings with shareholders' rights. Nobody suggests that that legislation is an attack upon company shareholders, but when we, in the same speech, propose to introduce some leislation to define and amend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very eminent!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ne and amend the law. The first question which I should like Members of the House to ask themselves is this: In their view, is a general strike illegal or not? I mean a strike which is designed, to use the words of Mr. Cramp, to compel the Government of the country to take a certain course. I am not giving that as a definition, but as a sufficient statement by one very eminent Labour leader—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"ho are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "are cheered from the back benches, who take just the opposite view. If it be true, as the right hon. Member for Colne Valley says, that unless something can be done to stop it the doom of Great Britain as a commercial nation is certain, and if it be also true that a responsible section, represented in this House, of the trade union leaders are preparing and advocating another general strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.714.3", "colnum": "714", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says, \"That is the answer.\" Does he think it satisfactory that large bodies of trade unionists, including Members of this House, should be left under a complete delusion as to the law?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.714.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.714.3", "colnum": "714", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "sort of temptation and then say, \"Oh, there is no harm done because they can always be sent to prison afterwards.\" That is not my idea of statesmanship. Time and again there have been cases which have been described by Judges as degrading trade unionism. The hon. and learned Member for South-East Leeds (Sir H. Slesser) said, \"Well, but there are some employers who intimidate. They are just as bad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.714.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-14", "file": "debates1927-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f641b1e5420e1fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.714.3", "colnum": "714", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You should do, but you will not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "me and again there have been cases which have been described by Judges as degrading trade unionism. The hon. and learned Member for South-East Leeds (Sir H. Slesser) said, \"Well, but there are some employers who intimidate. They are just as bad. [ Interruption ] Who says that we age not going to deal with employers' trade unions. If these grievances exist, why should we not seek to deal with them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-14a.714.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-15", "file": "debates1927-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "06e9e23630034154", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.787.2", "colnum": "787", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WOODCOCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lockout!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WOODCOCK", "preceding_text": "rom the figures the Minister gave us or from the figures that appear on the Estimate. He is making a calculation of £69,000 for 70,000 tons. If he will look below, he will find, \"Fuel and household articles less anticipated savings on other sub-heads.\" We want to know the proportion of that. I should also like to ask as to the provision which was made for this great strike that we had in May.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.787.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-15", "file": "debates1927-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "06e9e23630034154", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.787.2", "colnum": "787", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WOODCOCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There was no strike in May!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WOODCOCK", "preceding_text": "that appear on the Estimate. He is making a calculation of £69,000 for 70,000 tons. If he will look below, he will find, \"Fuel and household articles less anticipated savings on other sub-heads.\" We want to know the proportion of that. I should also like to ask as to the provision which was made for this great strike that we had in May. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Lockout!\"] I am referring to the strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.787.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-15", "file": "debates1927-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "06e9e23630034154", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Question\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "brought into the country to defeat the miners last year. In every Estimate that comes before the House, in which one penny appears for this blackleg coal, we shall divide the House because, on principle, we are opposed to blackleg coal and to the Government spending a single penny of the British taxpayers' money for the purchase of such coal. In this matter we stand in the interests of the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.791.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-02-15", "file": "debates1927-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "06e9e23630034154", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.795.0", "colnum": "795", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "I thought I moved it at the beginning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.794.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-15", "file": "debates1927-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "06e9e23630034154", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "w many of these 60 schemes that they finally adopted are now being carried into effect. The coal dispute is over. So far as the home production of coal is concerned we have reached almost normal. There is, in addition, an amount of 400,000 tons of imported coal in this country, so that the stoppage of this great building work cannot be said to be due to the fact that we have no coal to go on with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-15", "file": "debates1927-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "06e9e23630034154", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.799.3", "colnum": "799", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Captain HACKING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is shear robbery!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain HACKING", "preceding_text": "to the actual price that we paid, the average was approximately 80s. per ton. Certain Members of the House have stated that they thought we had paid a very excessive price. It may be excessive in normal times, but I do not think the Committee can consider that it was excessive in the circumstances which existed at the moment, for I am told that retailers charged 112s. a ton during the same period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.799.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-15", "file": "debates1927-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "06e9e23630034154", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Lock-out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": " from the nation in that very difficult situation.\" It is impossible to hear the hon. and gallant Member's explanation and to believe that this business has been conducted in the most efficient manner that was possible. There are other factors in this Estimate which have not yet received comment. One interesting point that arises is the Government's miscalculation as to the duration of the strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-15", "file": "debates1927-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "06e9e23630034154", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": " There are other factors in this Estimate which have not yet received comment. One interesting point that arises is the Government's miscalculation as to the duration of the strike. [Hon. MEMBERS: \"Lock-out!\"] I beg pardon. The Government miscalculated the duration of the lock-out. There were two events, the general strike and the lock-out. Personally, I should argue that they were both lock-outs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-15", "file": "debates1927-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "06e9e23630034154", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.817.2", "colnum": "817", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "preceding_text": "I think I have already expressed my regret that I was not in my place when the first Vote was taken. Unfortunately, I had to go to get some tea, as I have had nothing since breakfast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.817.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-15", "file": "debates1927-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "06e9e23630034154", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.863.2", "colnum": "863", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You do not think much of the people!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": "Parliamentary Government. It appears to me that we on this side of the House in the constituencies already labour under great disadvantages, the balance is already sufficiently tilted on the side of the Conservative party. You have practically all the newspapers which during an election, at the last moment, can divert the minds of the people to some stunt, true or untrue, favourable to yourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.863.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-15", "file": "debates1927-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "06e9e23630034154", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.870.0", "colnum": "870", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT SANDERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT SANDERS", "preceding_text": "I think it was a surprise to find the Labour party taking such an interest in a matter of constitutional principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-15", "file": "debates1927-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "06e9e23630034154", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.871.0", "colnum": "871", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. SANDERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Red Letter!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. SANDERS", "preceding_text": "et into power with a large majority they would pass any Measure they please, however objectionable it might be to the electors of this country. I may be doing them an injustice, but that is my opinion, and that is why I am supporting this Motion. I conceive that it is possible that a Labour party might get a majority at a general election, not on concrete proposals but on vague generalities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-15", "file": "debates1927-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "06e9e23630034154", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.885.3", "colnum": "885", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "e quoted. He said that 33 were against the hereditary element and 25 were for it. Then he went on to explain why the matter was urgent. It was urgent, not because they were opposed to the other place and the constitution of the other place as it is now. No, they were concerned with the constitution of the other place at the present time, because they wanted the other place endowed with more power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.885.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-15", "file": "debates1927-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "06e9e23630034154", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.885.3", "colnum": "885", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "en he went on to explain why the matter was urgent. It was urgent, not because they were opposed to the other place and the constitution of the other place as it is now. No, they were concerned with the constitution of the other place at the present time, because they wanted the other place endowed with more power. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Exactly. They want more power to protect the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.885.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-15", "file": "debates1927-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "06e9e23630034154", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.888.1", "colnum": "888", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was speaking for himself!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "re sitting on the other side of the House, and if I wanted to change the Constitution for some reason, then, according to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Wells, I should be perfectly entitled to force by a majority which might happen to be behind me a constitutional change of the most vital and important character for no other reason than that I wanted to protect myself against the Tories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.888.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-15", "file": "debates1927-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "06e9e23630034154", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.888.1", "colnum": "888", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Very slowly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "them now. They should not set an example in changing Constitutions, things they hold in such reverence. They should not change Constitutions by a party vote in this House, more particularly when, as the right hon. Gentleman has admitted, the party majority in this House does not represent a majority in the country. You can force this through, I know. You have got your 200 majority, slowly wasting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.888.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-15", "file": "debates1927-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "06e9e23630034154", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.890.0", "colnum": "890", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You ought to know about cupidity!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "preceding_text": "of Lords would disappear. I do not believe it will disappear. I believe if hon. Members opposite agreed to consolidate their thunder at the next General Election upon the House of Lords—but I agree they will not do it. They know quite well that cock would not fight. They think they have something up their sleeve which is far better—something that will appeal to the cupidity of mankind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.890.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-15", "file": "debates1927-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "06e9e23630034154", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"As you are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "I will try not to do so. I have great respect for the right hon. Gentleman, but even he might be tempted--or pushed by his followers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-15a.893.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-16", "file": "debates1927-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "60382d7a0eb90b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-16a.1041.0", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is all this about?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "preceding_text": " quite possible that the motion would be ruled out of order by the Chair, but I bow to your decision, Mr. Speaker, all the more readily because it suits our convenience on this side of the House. Had the hon. Member been allowed to retable his Motion he might have done so more adroitly and ingeniously, and then the Government would not have been in the impregnable position in which they now stand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-16a.1041.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-16", "file": "debates1927-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "60382d7a0eb90b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-16a.1049.0", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "ph 21— It is desirable that legislation should be passed fixing the age of 15 years as that up to which attendance at school will become obligatory. That is the essential recommendation of the Report, and unless you get legislation making it obligatory for children to attend school up to the age of 15, practically all the superstructure that the Report. recommends will be of no avail at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-16a.1049.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-16", "file": "debates1927-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "60382d7a0eb90b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-16a.1049.0", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is quite right! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "ill 15. when in the very immediate town of B children are able to leave school at the age of 14. That would be an unfair competition as between the children of one area and the children of another:' As a matter of fact, I think London Members will agree with me that it was the voluntary nature of the continuation schools, merely applied to the London area, that broke the continuation schools down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-16a.1049.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-16", "file": "debates1927-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "60382d7a0eb90b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-16a.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not 21?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "de, and that is what alarms me. Even if you cannot get complete education, and you will not, do let us try within the next five years to keep the children under supervision, as it were, and to keep some hold over them until we can put the whole of the Report into operation. I agree with the hon. Gentleman the Member for Wellingborough (Mr. Cove) that 16 should be the compulsory school-leaving age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-16a.1054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-16", "file": "debates1927-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "60382d7a0eb90b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-16a.1057.0", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": ". In the face of that warning, let us see what we are asked to pass. The hon. Member for Wednesbury asked us—blindly, I know—to pass a Motion whereby Wednesbury would be abolished as an independent local education authority. Does he mean that? Is that the policy of the party opposite? I call for a reply. It is not a question of what I have done, but what the Report says should be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-16a.1057.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-16", "file": "debates1927-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "60382d7a0eb90b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-16a.1058.2", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "ave always advocated, which we on this side have always advocated, and which many hon. Members opposite have advocated—it is not a party question—namely, the establishment of central schools as distinguished from grammar schools, as distinguished from those higher \"tops\" in which the hon. Member's own educational authority indulges. Does he mean that I am to take administrative action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-16a.1058.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-16", "file": "debates1927-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "60382d7a0eb90b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-16a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": " which they are expecting to have this year, they would, under the right hon. Gentleman's new proposals, be £5,000 out of pocket. I have given him the figures, but the point is this: The right hon. Gentleman is pursuing a policy of economy, issuing circular after circular in which he is inculcating economy, showing new methods by which economy is to be required of the local authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-16a.1067.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-02-17", "file": "debates1927-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "4eaed30311b8116a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1087.4", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "May the House take it for granted that the right hon. Gentleman will now use this action as a precedent against all teachers who take disciplinary action against their children for offences committed against the order of the teacher, and given by the teacher in the interests of the child? Is this procedure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1087.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-17", "file": "debates1927-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "4eaed30311b8116a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1181.4", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "rs apply at the Vote Office, they are told it is not possible to get that Report at the Vote Office, and that they have to apply to the Stationery Office. It has not been the only case. There have been several important Reports lately which are absolutely necessary to any Member who is taking an interest in his work. Probably Members sitting opposite do not feel it as keenly as we do on this side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1181.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-17", "file": "debates1927-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "4eaed30311b8116a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1230.0", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "the world, including Australia and New Zealand. The House will remember that on a former occasion I raised this question in regard to the Prince of Wales when he went on his joy-ride from Africa to South America, and we were told at that time from all parts of the House that the reason for him going was for the benefit of trade and for the cementing of the British Empire. Did it turn out that way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-17", "file": "debates1927-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "4eaed30311b8116a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1230.0", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "enefit of trade and for the cementing of the British Empire. Did it turn out that way? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"] He went to the Argentine, and now this Government has given the Argentine Republic the order for beef that formerly was bought by the Government from Australia. Is that cementing the British Empire? That is what this Government does. They do those things because they are not sincere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-17", "file": "debates1927-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "4eaed30311b8116a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1230.0", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"NO\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "#8212;[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"]—neither about the welfare of the British Empire nor any other Empire but their own particular Empire, and that depends on the firm and the house of financiers which they happen to represent. The Duke of York and his wife are being voted this £7,000, and who has to pay it? The working class has to pay it, my class, my fellow-tradesmen the engineers —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-17", "file": "debates1927-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "4eaed30311b8116a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "employed of this country, and which means the cutting off of about 6,000 unemployed because the country cannot afford to keep them going. That is a statement which has just been made and yet the country can afford to vote -£7,000 to send out their Royal Highnesses to the uttermost parts of the earth, and it would not matter one iota to the welfare of the country supposing they never returned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-17", "file": "debates1927-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "4eaed30311b8116a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1231.5", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I bow to your ruling, Sir; I do not wish to fall foul of you. But the fact remains that here are their Royal Highnesses being sent out at the expense of the people of this country. Money is no obstacle where they are concerned. When they got married, I protested in this House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1231.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-17", "file": "debates1927-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "4eaed30311b8116a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I am coming to the expenditure. When expenditure is on, then they are in the place of beggars. This House, the Government,, places them in that position and comes to this House and begs of the House to give them £7,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-17", "file": "debates1927-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "4eaed30311b8116a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1239.0", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "remember that during the industrial trouble a very distinguished member of the Royal Family was kind enough to assist financially some of the men whom we represent in this House, and immediately we were told by the supporters of hon. Members opposite that princes or bishops should not stand in their way when they were engaged in what they believed to be right. We claim the same right of criticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-17", "file": "debates1927-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "4eaed30311b8116a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1240.6", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "ished family that he will be an adequate representative, or that the young lady he chooses to marry will be an adequate representative of the nation in other parts. We really try squarely to face the attraction and the fascination which, undoubtedly, members of the Royal Family exercise, not only over the superior social classes, but over very large sections of what are termed the working classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1240.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-17", "file": "debates1927-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "4eaed30311b8116a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1240.6", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": " members of the Royal Family exercise, not only over the superior social classes, but over very large sections of what are termed the working classes. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I am not denying that. You cannot argue by denying everything your opponent says—but I would say from what I have seen that this great spell or hold over a rapidly diminishing section of the working classes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1240.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-17", "file": "debates1927-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "4eaed30311b8116a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1241.1", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So do we!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEANS", "preceding_text": "I represent them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1241.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-02-17", "file": "debates1927-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "4eaed30311b8116a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1262.5", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "HEADLEY HILL SCHOOL (HEADMASTER).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "preceding_text": "Is it not always done?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-17a.1262.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-18", "file": "debates1927-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b35f7b186593032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1280.2", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (INTERFERENCE WITH TRADE AND INDUSTRIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BANKS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BANKS", "preceding_text": "ibution 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 families, are perfectly indifferent to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1280.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-18", "file": "debates1927-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b35f7b186593032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1280.2", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (INTERFERENCE WITH TRADE AND INDUSTRIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BANKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BANKS", "preceding_text": "estions he says to us, in effect, \"What, want a little chat about these horrid Bolshevists! There is no subject I like to talk about more from time to time, and some of these afternoons we will have a real good talk about it—but for the moment I am too busy.\" Nobody knows better than hon. Gentlemen opposite that the Prime Minister when he prayed for peace in our time, was absolutely sincere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1280.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-18", "file": "debates1927-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b35f7b186593032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (INTERFERENCE WITH TRADE AND INDUSTRIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": " its worst moments, known such a vicious proposal pot in such a vicious way as that which we have had this morning. The hon. and learned Member for Swindon (Mr. Banks), who introduced the Bill, expressed the opinion that his constituents of Swindon would certainly approve of his action. I can put him at rest with regard to that matter. I have here a resolution passed by the Swindon Trades Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-18", "file": "debates1927-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b35f7b186593032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1293.1", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (INTERFERENCE WITH TRADE AND INDUSTRIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "This Bill is not a Bill dealing with the miners' trouble of last year, nor with the general dispute of last year; this is an attack upon the trade unions of this country, and an attack upon every man or woman in this country who attempts to raise their standard of life in a contest with their employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-18", "file": "debates1927-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b35f7b186593032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1296.1", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (INTERFERENCE WITH TRADE AND INDUSTRIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "a foreign country, whether directly or by or through an agent or intermediary, for the purpose of inciting, encouraging, promoting, furthering or maintaining any industrial dispute in Great Britain. Any attempt to finance such e dispute by the smallest contribution from a foreign country would give cause for action in court. I wonder whether hon. Members opposite intend that to apply to employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-18", "file": "debates1927-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b35f7b186593032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1299.1", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (INTERFERENCE WITH TRADE AND INDUSTRIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "We intend to subscribe to disputes in foreign countries where they are for the upliftment of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-18", "file": "debates1927-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b35f7b186593032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1301.0", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (INTERFERENCE WITH TRADE AND INDUSTRIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROSE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Brief him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROSE", "preceding_text": "w. Although I am sitting here, I am not all here. This is one of the things—and admit there are few things—on which I and those sitting on these benches with me are wholeheartedly at one, and that is why I so willingly associate myself with the activities of the Labour party this afternoon. The hon. and learned Member for Swindon, if he cannot do better than this had better give it up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-18", "file": "debates1927-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b35f7b186593032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1326.1", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (INTERFERENCE WITH TRADE AND INDUSTRIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": "I am not surprised in one sense at the Government introducing a Measure of this character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-18", "file": "debates1927-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b35f7b186593032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1338.1", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (INTERFERENCE WITH TRADE AND INDUSTRIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What has that got to do with the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "is country, a kind which has been much lacking in recent years, is intelligent trade unionism—trade unionism which will seek to put men in employment and to ensure that more employment will be found for our people and to ensure a higher level of productive efficiency and a higher standard of living. Nowadays nine-tenths of the efforts of trade unionism are directed in the opposite direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-18", "file": "debates1927-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b35f7b186593032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1341.1", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (INTERFERENCE WITH TRADE AND INDUSTRIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Red Letter!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " Lists for last Session, I think the hon. Member will not find that his assertion is well supported. I do not think that, at any rate, the hon. Member will suggest that I am often absent. The question was raised by the hon. Member for Cleveland (Sir P. Goff) that, in fact, what we are discussing to-day was an issue at the last General Election, or a branch of an issue at the last General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-18", "file": "debates1927-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b35f7b186593032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1342.0", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (INTERFERENCE WITH TRADE AND INDUSTRIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "Even the most insignificant of Members is capable of spreading falsehoods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-18", "file": "debates1927-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b35f7b186593032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1342.0", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (INTERFERENCE WITH TRADE AND INDUSTRIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "Even the most insignificant of Members is capable of spreading falsehoods— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"]—and I desire to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-18", "file": "debates1927-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b35f7b186593032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1342.1", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (INTERFERENCE WITH TRADE AND INDUSTRIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have been here too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ary of State for Foreign Affairs. Therefore, I think these three distinguished right hon. Gentlemen—far more significant than I am—are agreed that the letter was not a forgery. That is all I was seeking to establish. It would be wise for the right hon. Gentleman to bear in mind that significance or insignificance is not necessarily measured by the length of one's service in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-18", "file": "debates1927-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b35f7b186593032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1346.1", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (INTERFERENCE WITH TRADE AND INDUSTRIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "h miner who desired to send a subscription to the miner to keep the home fires burning, and he said that would be illegal under this Act. I would also point out that it would be illegal for the Englishman to receive that money. It would be illegal for a man out on strike and who was poor and whose wife and children were, I will not say starving, because we do not permit that in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-18", "file": "debates1927-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "9b35f7b186593032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1351.2", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (INTERFERENCE WITH TRADE AND INDUSTRIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALS H", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALS H", "preceding_text": "The whole burden of the case made by the hon. and learned Gentleman and his friends was the amount of the contributions made by Russia, not by the Russian Government, and not by order either, but collected from the hardwon earnings of the workers in Russia. Hon. Members who repeat the lie which they know to he a lie—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-18a.1351.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-21", "file": "debates1927-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "871e4cada0054174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-21a.1390.2", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NIGERIAN LOAN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\" and \"Socialism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman explain the success of this and other loans, and the failure of all the Australian loans?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-21a.1390.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-21", "file": "debates1927-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "871e4cada0054174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-21a.1396.0", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL PRICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "May I ask the hon. Gentleman, as one who has read carefully the Reports of those inquiries, whether it is not a fact that the miners have now about half the wages they had before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-21a.1396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-21", "file": "debates1927-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "871e4cada0054174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-21a.1446.0", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "workers, with which Members of Parliament will, probably, find themselves in agreement, that the process of the local offices and of the local committees ought to he exhausted before anybody approaches a Member of Parliament. I have myself known quite a number of cases in which a pensioner, anxious to obtain a pension from the State, has begun by writing to his Member of Parliament. That is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-21a.1446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-21", "file": "debates1927-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "871e4cada0054174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-21a.1507.0", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "er one head but under five heads, and year after year, to come to this House with Supplementary Estimates. We are here spending an evening which might have been well spent in discussing the social conditions of the people, but probably to prevent our discussing adequately those conditions, the Government embarrasses this House by keeping most of its time devoted to passing Supplementary Estimates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-21a.1507.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-22", "file": "debates1927-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "69164342bdbb0b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-22a.1616.0", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POOR LAW EMERGENCY PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM ADAMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have all got them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM ADAMSON", "preceding_text": " taken in this matter in Scotland, that we ace to-day receiving telegrams protesting, not only against the terms of this Bill hut against the undue haste with which the Bill is being put before the House—a haste that has prevented a number of representative men from being present to-day in order to discuss this matter with their representatives in this House. I have here two telegrams—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-22a.1616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-22", "file": "debates1927-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "69164342bdbb0b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-22a.1658.0", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POOR LAW EMERGENCY PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "ke them, as the hon. Member for North Lanark asked, to the Courts? Surely there has been enough ridiculous conception about parochial legislation when you have a man's birthplace, a place for which he is held responsible in the sense of debiting the parish council with the outlay in his case. We have had cases of that kind taken to the Court of Session and lawyers engaged on the job on both sides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-22a.1658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-22", "file": "debates1927-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "69164342bdbb0b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-22a.1693.1", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "COAL MINING INDUSTRY (CO-OPERATIVE SELLING).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not Welsh steam!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "preceding_text": "ge paid, at £1 12s. 4d. a ton. In the west of Italy they can put it at £1 12s. 6d. a ton, and they can deliver it at Port Said at 33s. 5d. When we can have this kind of thing done so many miles away, and particularly with the best class of coal that we have for steam purposes, and we find in London it is selling to the consumer at over 60s., there is certainly plenty of room for inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-22a.1693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-22", "file": "debates1927-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "69164342bdbb0b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-22a.1693.3", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "COAL MINING INDUSTRY (CO-OPERATIVE SELLING).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "preceding_text": "rding to the statement made with respect to the Westphalian Wholesale Syndicate. They sell their coal at something like a rate of ld. a ton, and if it takes six times the amount of money to sell coal in this country as compared with Germany, we must understand that there is a very wide leakage or there are very excessive profits made somewhere. It is said there is no need for such an organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-22a.1693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-22", "file": "debates1927-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "69164342bdbb0b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-22a.1705.3", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "COAL MINING INDUSTRY (CO-OPERATIVE SELLING).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VARLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VARLEY", "preceding_text": " desirability of the scheme and it is no use going into the details of the scheme until, either voluntarily or by compulsion from this House, they have adopted the principle. However, scheme galore have been submitted and whilst I admit that it would be difficult to put them into operation, the difficulties are not insuperable. I am now coming to the end of my time and other Members wish to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-22a.1705.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-22", "file": "debates1927-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "69164342bdbb0b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-22a.1712.1", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "COAL MINING INDUSTRY (CO-OPERATIVE SELLING).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER \"So are we!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEANS", "preceding_text": "ant is the restriction of output, so that there shall not be so much competition between the producers of the goods in question. If, as I believe, the regulation or the restriction of output would cause rather a diminution in employment in the coalfields than an increase, surely that diminution of employment would worsen the position of the men in the coalfields, for whom I am very much concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-22a.1712.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-02-22", "file": "debates1927-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "69164342bdbb0b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-22a.1716.3", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "COAL MINING INDUSTRY (CO-OPERATIVE SELLING).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "I want the hon. Member to answer the question I have put.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-22a.1716.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-22", "file": "debates1927-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "69164342bdbb0b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-22a.1717.0", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "COAL MINING INDUSTRY (CO-OPERATIVE SELLING).", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister)", "preceding_text": "o force an industry against its will into a particular line of action,' and I do not think the House would be ready to accept such a proposal unless the case were unanswerable. In the second place, let the House observe what is proposed. This is not a case where some form of regulation or restriction is considered necessary in the public interest or for the safety of those engaged in the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-22a.1717.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-02-23", "file": "debates1927-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd47d7040cb215d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-23a.1734.7", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that his refusal to publish these papers is giving rise to the impression that this country has a great deal to hide in this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-23a.1734.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-23", "file": "debates1927-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd47d7040cb215d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-23a.1815.0", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "PUBLIC WORKS LOAN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": ", I may say my late friends below the Gangway—for so many generations. I think that that policy has been justified by the result. I think the approval by this House of a scheme for financial payments from the Irish Free State to this country gives an opportunity for the right hon. Gentleman the Financial Secretary, of all people, to give us some account of the financial situation in Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-23a.1815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-23", "file": "debates1927-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd47d7040cb215d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-23a.1835.2", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": " Bermondsey tonight but we have not had much experience of Bermondsey having powers of this kind. We have some experience of similar powers in the City of London, and they have been proved to be disastrous to the street trader, who is now conspicuous by his absence. There are very few street traders supplying the City of London. You have to hunt to find them. They have been driven off the streets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-23a.1835.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-23", "file": "debates1927-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd47d7040cb215d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-23a.1855.3", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "I do suggest that the position of a man who is not represented against counsel is very often an advantage to the man who is not represented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-23a.1855.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-23", "file": "debates1927-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd47d7040cb215d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-23a.1859.3", "colnum": "1859", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NAYLOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NAYLOR", "preceding_text": "I think I am right in assuming that some at least of these 10 borough councils will not be in favour of operating this particular Clause. Supposing only one council is not prepared to operate this Clause, it means that not a single street trader can ply his calling in that locality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-23a.1859.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-23", "file": "debates1927-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd47d7040cb215d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-23a.1859.3", "colnum": "1859", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NAYLOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What have they got to do with it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NAYLOR", "preceding_text": "Clause, the street traders in that locality are at once doing an illegal act, because they are trading without a licence. I say that is clearly a case of restricting a street trader's opportunity of earning his living. Then, again, one would suppose that the framers of this Bill would have made the issuing of licences a question not for the local borough council, but for the London County Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-23a.1859.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-23", "file": "debates1927-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd47d7040cb215d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-23a.1862.0", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Captain Hacking)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They could not afford it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Captain Hacking)", "preceding_text": "ounty County Council decided to place Clause 29 and the following Clauses in this Bill. The point I want to make is that the three most interested parties, namely, the street traders, the shopkeepers and the Metropolitan Boroughs Joint Standing Committee were all presumably in favour of those two Acts. The street traders made no opposition at all to the Acts when they were going through Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-23a.1862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-23", "file": "debates1927-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd47d7040cb215d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-23a.1862.0", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Captain Hacking)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They had not the money!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Captain Hacking)", "preceding_text": "ree most interested parties, namely, the street traders, the shopkeepers and the Metropolitan Boroughs Joint Standing Committee were all presumably in favour of those two Acts. The street traders made no opposition at all to the Acts when they were going through Committee. [HON. MEMBERS: \"They could not afford it!\"] They had every opportunity of corning to the House, every opportunity of lobbying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-23a.1862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-24", "file": "debates1927-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "a97a793ff497d108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-24a.1887.5", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DISORDERLY PREMISES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "If I were satisfied that it is the general wish of the House that the Home Secretary should have more powers in this direction, it might be possible to introduce a Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-24a.1887.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-24", "file": "debates1927-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "a97a793ff497d108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-24a.2000.2", "colnum": "2000", "heading": "POOR LAW EMERGENCY PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRIGHT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRIGHT", "preceding_text": "ecall, there has not been a word in favour of this proposal from any of the Conservative Members from Scotland who represent chiefly agricultural areas and not industrial areas. Therefore, it will became law by the votes of Conservative Members who have not heard the Debate and who do not understand the conditions which prevail in Scotland. It is another reason in favour of Home Rule for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-24a.2000.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-25", "file": "debates1927-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f37d7d35947af46d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-25a.2076.0", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUCTIONS (BIDDING AGREEMENTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GADIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GADIE", "preceding_text": "man merely winked and the auctioneer took his bid. That is done in order that another man who may be competing shall not know he is bidding. That is quite legitimate where there is bidding in fair competition. There are all kinds of forms of that kind, some of them very amusing forms, practised by men going into the auction room. I could tell hot. Members some amusing auction-room incidents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-25a.2076.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-25", "file": "debates1927-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f37d7d35947af46d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-25a.2096.0", "colnum": "2096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUCTIONS (BIDDING AGREEMENTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMB", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMB", "preceding_text": "o go into Committee points. It is most unwise for this House to set up a Committee to deal with a subject and then to do here in this House work which ought to be done in Committee. If the House will give the Bill a Second Reading, I believe that in Committee upstairs necessary alterations can be made. No Bill has ever received a Second Reading which did not receive and did not require alteration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-25a.2096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-25", "file": "debates1927-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f37d7d35947af46d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-25a.2125.2", "colnum": "2125", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT FRANCHISE (EXTENSION TO MERCANTILE CORPORATIONS AND COMPANIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Bill be now read a Second time.\" For the information of hon. Members I will explain that this Bill has the support of a number of important authorities and bodies. It is supported by the London County Council, the City Corporation, various London Borough Councils, the London Chamber of Commerce, the Federation of British Industries, and the Glasgow Citizens' Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-25a.2125.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-25", "file": "debates1927-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f37d7d35947af46d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-25a.2133.5", "colnum": "2133", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT FRANCHISE (EXTENSION TO MERCANTILE CORPORATIONS AND COMPANIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. PENNEFATHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. PENNEFATHER", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member suggests that, because I am progressive, I should go over there, but I should regard that as a reactionary step. I very much appreciate the compliment that the hon. and gallant Member has paid me in desiring me to come and strengthen the weakness of his case, but I am getting perhaps too old for that, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-25a.2133.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-25", "file": "debates1927-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f37d7d35947af46d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-25a.2134.0", "colnum": "2134", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT FRANCHISE (EXTENSION TO MERCANTILE CORPORATIONS AND COMPANIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "preceding_text": "to put it forward as one of those Measures about which we are all agreed, that it really does not do very much, that it only enfranchises one or two of the more unfortunate joint stock companies, and will not interfere with the proletariat or any persons of that kind, I want to describe this as one of the biggest examples of an attempt at class legislation that has been introduced into this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-25a.2134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-25", "file": "debates1927-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f37d7d35947af46d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-25a.2138.3", "colnum": "2138", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT FRANCHISE (EXTENSION TO MERCANTILE CORPORATIONS AND COMPANIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "preceding_text": "I know a good many companies who are anxious that there should be a fine system of transport in their area, and they do not mind how much is paid out of the rates for that purpose, but they have a strong objection when it is a question of paying public money that is going to benefit the poorer sections of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-25a.2138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-25", "file": "debates1927-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f37d7d35947af46d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-25a.2138.3", "colnum": "2138", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT FRANCHISE (EXTENSION TO MERCANTILE CORPORATIONS AND COMPANIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "preceding_text": "ld be a fine system of transport in their area, and they do not mind how much is paid out of the rates for that purpose, but they have a strong objection when it is a question of paying public money that is going to benefit the poorer sections of the community. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] They have a very strong objection to paying money out of the rates on behalf of child welfare and maternity welfare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-25a.2138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-25", "file": "debates1927-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f37d7d35947af46d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-25a.2138.3", "colnum": "2138", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT FRANCHISE (EXTENSION TO MERCANTILE CORPORATIONS AND COMPANIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "preceding_text": "on of paying public money that is going to benefit the poorer sections of the community. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] They have a very strong objection to paying money out of the rates on behalf of child welfare and maternity welfare. [Hon. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] They have a very strong objection to anything which is going to benefit persons who are down and out and who are the poorest members of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-25a.2138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-25", "file": "debates1927-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f37d7d35947af46d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-25a.2138.3", "colnum": "2138", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT FRANCHISE (EXTENSION TO MERCANTILE CORPORATIONS AND COMPANIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "preceding_text": "mpanies are to be still further handicapped by having the dice loaded against them in regard to votes for a municipal corporation. I said at the beginning that this was one of the greatest pieces of class legislation that has ever been introduced. It is really an attempt to say that money's worth is to be the deciding factor in regard to the organisation of the work of citizenship of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-25a.2138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-28", "file": "debates1927-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "9a76dc177fc12586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-28a.90.0", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland)", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland)", "preceding_text": "in this matter. The second, that the Labour Government put their hand to the plough, and that the present Conservative Government have drawn it back. And in the third place, we have had the more or less usual statement that we have neglected our moral obligations under the Washington Convention of 1919; that we ought to stand in a white sheet, and that we compare unfavourably with other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-28a.90.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-28", "file": "debates1927-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "9a76dc177fc12586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-28a.97.3", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Standing still.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "No, that is really not the case. If hon. Members opposite think that they can have an upheaval for six months and more, like that of last year, and that they can treat it exactly as if nothing had happened, they are turning their backs on the reality of events. I say candidly that the way we have gone forward is the only suitable and proper way to go forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-28a.97.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-02-28", "file": "debates1927-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "9a76dc177fc12586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-28a.100.7", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK", "preceding_text": "I do not see why the right hon. Gentleman should be grossly offensive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-28a.100.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-02-28", "file": "debates1927-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "9a76dc177fc12586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-28a.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ember thinks that my remark was offensive, I withdraw it absolutely. I never wish to say anything which is offensive to him. But let me put this point to the hon. Member. I have been trying to reach agreement. I have tried to get down to the facts as no other Minister of Labour has yet tried to do. I have tried to get down to the facts as regards interpretation and the fact as regards enforcement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-28a.101.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-28", "file": "debates1927-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "9a76dc177fc12586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-28a.137.0", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Great Britain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "preceding_text": "refer to that point later on. My point, for the moment, is that we are to-day probably, with the exception of America, the premier industrial nation in the world with regard to hours, wages, and conditions of labour, and we have for some years been able to compete and hold our own against the nations of the world in very severe competition. Who is going to benefit if this Treaty is to be ratified?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-28a.137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-28", "file": "debates1927-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "9a76dc177fc12586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-28a.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": "is not done, even in Belgium, where the proposal has been more or less ratified. There is a certain amount of elasticity about, shall I say, the morals of some of these Continental countries which it is extraordinarily difficult to pin down, and a 48-hours week might quite well expand to 55 hours and even to more. So I feel that in spite of what some of our Conservative Socialists have said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-28a.142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-02-28", "file": "debates1927-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "9a76dc177fc12586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-28a.162.3", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRIGHT", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRIGHT", "preceding_text": "nges have taken place and are taking place day by day. Sir William Ashley in his \"Economic History,\" speaking of the rapid development of machinery in the iron and engineering trade, says: Thus it has been reckoned that while there were about four times as many blast furnaces in 1900 as in 1800, the average 'make' per furnace had increased well-nigh 15 times. The \"Daily News\" only last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-02-28a.162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-01", "file": "debates1927-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb1685284404bb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-01a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POOR LAW EMERGENCY PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "nformation is quite the contrary. A large and appreciable amount has been recovered, and is being recovered. One hon. Member said that there are people who were concerned in the 1921 dispute who are still being asked to pay; but is not that just one of the clear evidences that, in working this Measure in England, those people are given time in which to repay, and that they are not pursued harshly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-01a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-01", "file": "debates1927-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb1685284404bb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-01a.251.3", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POOR LAW EMERGENCY PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": " in Whitehall, I wonder what would have been said of it by right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite? But that such an instruction should have been issued from the Scottish Board of Health fills me, I confess, with astonishment and dismay. I must say that my first impulse—a very strong impulse—was to ask the House to defer the Third Reading of this Bill for the usual period of six months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-01a.251.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-01", "file": "debates1927-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb1685284404bb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-01a.310.0", "colnum": "310", "heading": "NECESSITOUS AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "come to the next five classes, the five classes disqualified under the Act passed in 1925 by the present Government, which affected, roughly, half the number affected by the Act passed by the right hon. Gentleman opposite, we find \"single persons residing with relatives.\" Where relatives are in a position to maintain them, quite obviously in that case there is no need for recourse to the Poor Law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-01a.310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-01", "file": "debates1927-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb1685284404bb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-01a.310.0", "colnum": "310", "heading": "NECESSITOUS AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What Christmas dismissals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "e north-west area conditions were getting worse week by week. I have in front of me the same document, which shows that on the 31st January, 1927, there were 259,293 persons in the northwest area on the live registers—a decrease of 17,804 as compared with the 24th December, 1926, which does not look like an increase week by week. And that period covers the period of the Christmas dismissals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-01a.310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-01", "file": "debates1927-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb1685284404bb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-01a.314.2", "colnum": "314", "heading": "NECESSITOUS AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "cratic behaviour of that board of guardians, but I am satisfied of this, that in West Ham there has been no distress caused by the action of the Commissioners who have been sent to supersede the board of guardians. It is perfectly evident there has been no hardship; there is no agitation amongst the people of West Ham on the subject. The hon. Member for Bedwellty gave us certain comparisons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-01a.314.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-03-02", "file": "debates1927-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "329c7136e98a62c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.351.0", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA (POSITION AT SHANGHAI).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman not realise the significance of the fact that our troops are now occupying Chinese territory, and is this House to have no explanation as to how that came about?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.350.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-02", "file": "debates1927-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "329c7136e98a62c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.364.3", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "That bears out what I said to the hon. Member—that the man was informed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.364.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-02", "file": "debates1927-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "329c7136e98a62c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.364.3", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "N. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] He was informed that his case was going to the umpire. As far as I know, the whole procedure up to now has been meeting, and, I believe, is still meeting, with general concurrence, and the umpire, when he has the full facts before him, does not necessarily require the attendance of the parties at the hearing. I understand that has been the case consistently during the past year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.364.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-02", "file": "debates1927-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "329c7136e98a62c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "ducation used to answer these questions, but at that time there were no grave questions of foreign policy. When Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was the Leader of the House he affirmed the old rule, and subsequently he said that he had stated the matter too broadly. I submit, Mr. Speaker that there ought to be some restrictions on the number of Supplementary Questions put in regard to foreign affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-02", "file": "debates1927-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "329c7136e98a62c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.409.8", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORESTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "I was pointing out that the Act of 1919, in setting up the Forestry Commission, followed these recommendations, rightly or wrongly. At all events, the Government had no better authority to go upon; they had the best advice upon which the House at that time could have acted. It may be that hon. Members opposite are greater authorities, that they are learning wisdom on the subject of forestry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.409.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-02", "file": "debates1927-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "329c7136e98a62c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORESTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. FORESTIER-WALKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Names!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. FORESTIER-WALKER", "preceding_text": " have spent the money you have given us, but we have delivered the goods, which, after all, is the most important thing. The right hon. Gentleman complains about there being only landlords on this Commission: Perhaps I may correct this impression. As a matter of fact, there are eight Commissioners at the moment, four of whom, I believe are landlords, and four are not. Therefore, it is 50–50.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-02", "file": "debates1927-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "329c7136e98a62c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.464.0", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORESTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "od timber for the use of the nation. How often do hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite tell us what a horrible thing it is that the unemployed should be living on doles, charity and Poor Law relief. We are always charged with never putting forward any concrete proposal. People like myself are told that the only thing we think about is handing out other people's mooey to people who will not work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-02", "file": "debates1927-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "329c7136e98a62c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.486.0", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "preceding_text": " possibility that, since the dispute in the coal mining industry, the desire for increased production might have brought about some reduction in the safety measures to be taken at the pits, or the amount of inspection required If there be anything in that suggestion, it will not be to his own side of the House alone that the hon. Member can look for support in putting right anything that is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-02", "file": "debates1927-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "329c7136e98a62c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.486.0", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "preceding_text": "ustry or in these other industries, which, if anything—I do not put it higher than that—have an even greater claim upon our consideration? I am one of those who believe that the powers of the Government are extremely limited, and that the things the Government can do are mostly of a negative kind. The first thing for them to do is to cease interference with trade in every possible way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-02", "file": "debates1927-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "329c7136e98a62c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.486.0", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"The Eight Hours Bill!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "preceding_text": "vernment can do are mostly of a negative kind. The first thing for them to do is to cease interference with trade in every possible way. [ Interruption. ] I agree, as I have already said, that there must be inspections and the like, but as far as interference with trade goes, I want the Government to keep as free from it as possible, even in times of dispute. Let them hold the scales evenly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-02", "file": "debates1927-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "329c7136e98a62c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.499.1", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "Hon MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "ek. I should like to follow that line in a detailed way, but I will not be taken too far off my own line. We are asking the Government to give special consideration to unemployment in the mining industry. The hon. Member for Kidderminster gave reasons for that himself. Mining is an industry by itself. A miner cannot go to any other industry. He is isolated. His son cannot go to any other industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-02", "file": "debates1927-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "329c7136e98a62c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.499.1", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Each?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": " attention to this. He is one of the architects of the misfortunes of the miners and they will not forget hire for a long time. These figures concern one of the companies that he has been particularly interested in. Here are four pay rolls. They can be examined or questioned by anyone. The output for these two men for eight days was 11 tons 13 cwt. and their wages were £2 12s. 2d. altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-02", "file": "debates1927-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "329c7136e98a62c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.499.1", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three pounds!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "e has been particularly interested in. Here are four pay rolls. They can be examined or questioned by anyone. The output for these two men for eight days was 11 tons 13 cwt. and their wages were £2 12s. 2d. altogether. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Each?\"] I say altogether, for both men for eight days. I wonder what the country will think about this, when they are paying now £2 10s. for a ton of coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-02", "file": "debates1927-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "329c7136e98a62c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS \"Have you lengthened the hours?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "try with that in the other industries mentioned in the Amendment. I would be the last to deny that where unemployment exists in the mining industry to-day it causes hardship. So it does in all the big industries, and at this moment unemployment in the mining industry is not nearly so severe as it is in the iron and steel industries, and it is not half what it is in the shipbuilding industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-02", "file": "debates1927-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "329c7136e98a62c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "0. Therefore, I am sure the mining Members in this House will be grateful that it was the Government's policy that won the day from the point of view of employment in their own industry, rather than that of their own extremist leaders. The other argument, stated quite briefly —and this one I am not going to try to traverse—was that the Government were responsible for the coal stoppage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-02a.513.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.543.7", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HARRY BRITTAIN", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.543.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.605.0", "colnum": "605", "heading": "ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "tleman's Note to the Bolshevist Government. Obviously, he was torn between the dictates of his better judgment and those of loyalty to his party, wagged as, the Tory party always is, by its Die-hard tail. He took what he thought was the line of least resistance. They are getting exasperated. They cry out, \"Are we going to put up with the Bolshevik propaganda or are we going to clear out the Reds?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.608.0", "colnum": "608", "heading": "ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The almighty dollar!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "ther hand, America, which has treated Russia as an outcast among the nations, which refuses to receive her envoy, whose Trade Union Congress rejects with contumely the idea of entering into any association with Russia, gets more trade than we do from Russia. When it comes to the grant of concessions, the citizens of America are getting far greater advantage than our citizens are getting in Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.608.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.608.0", "colnum": "608", "heading": "ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where? How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "s of endurance when I observed what was going on in connection with Russian efforts against us in China. There we have the most specific instance of their attitude, and they have made no disguise of what they were doing. We find Russian money distributed throughout China, and for what purpose? For anti-British propaganda. We find the Russian Government supplying munitions of war and arms to China.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.608.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You did tolerate it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " State? The Trade Agreement which the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Hillhead produced is being killed by the propaganda of hon. Members opposite. They first of all create trouble. They first of all embark on a most mischievous and subversive propaganda—a propaganda which, if it were conducted by the Russians against us and any of us were in office, we would not tolerate for one moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "n sent a good long time before 1927. I do not know that the Note would have been as stiff in its language as is the language used in some parts of the right hon. Gentleman's Note, but I think it would have been stiffer in substance. Let me lay down, as a first proposition, a, proposition with which we all agree, that no country can tolerate the interference of a foreign country in its own affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"What about China?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "uld have been as stiff in its language as is the language used in some parts of the right hon. Gentleman's Note, but I think it would have been stiffer in substance. Let me lay down, as a first proposition, a, proposition with which we all agree, that no country can tolerate the interference of a foreign country in its own affairs. [ Interruption. ] I think we are the only party that can say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "hout joining issue. I will say a few words about the attitude of the Soviet Government itself. I think we are all too much inclined to assume hostility on the part of the Soviet Government. It is perfectly true—perhaps hon. Members will have the pleasure shortly of seeing it in print—that I hold the view that the Third International has not given up its hopes of a world revolution. No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "art, I congratulate him upon what he did—cut them off and put them where they were before the right hon. Gentleman came to an agreement with the Russians, and you throw open the whole world to their activities; you throw away your arm of diplomacy. I beg of you to use your arm of diplomacy. My complaint is that it has not been used enough. You have thrown it away. Hon. Members throw it away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Misrepresentation, absolutely!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I am afraid I can only say that the right hon. Gentleman, while wholly unable to justify the Soviet Government, wishes to be free to attack His Majesty's present Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Churchill and Denikin!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "rld saw what was the provocation, what the inevitability of it, and before the world was in a position to place the responsibility as the responsibility will lie, whenever this conies about, on the right shoulders, the shoulders of those who, riot content to work for the prosperity or the greatness of their own country, turn the main part of their effort in fomenting revolution in other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.634.0", "colnum": "634", "heading": "ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "d ask for facilities to buy at his shop, and then go into the street and call him a murderer, an assassin and a thief. The man who is guilty of conduct of that kind is a mental case. Just think of the speeches delivered recently by men who are pretty well known in Russia. There is the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has the Order of the Grand Cross for supplying the Red Army with munitions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.634.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "Russia. So much for the right hon. Gentleman. But what about the \"Diehards\"? What hats happened with regard to them? When they thought it was perfectly safe to urge the Government to break with Russia, and to get credit for appearing to be very brave, then they were gallant; But the moment they came face to face with the reply of the Soviet Government saying, \"Take the consequences\" they all fled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give us a chance!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "bit hutch, with their little white tails bobbing homage to Moscow. Div hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Handsworth (Commander Locker-Lampson), upon whose speech on the subject I had the pleasure of congratulating him, said the other day, \"The Government should say to Russia, Own up, pay up, shut up!'\" Now he seems to have given that order to his own friends tonight. Is he really going—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "en anything like the attacks made upon the Government. It shocked me. Such language!—by the Diehard Press, the Conservative Press: As a display of feebleness and 'funk' Sir Austen Chamberlain's long heralded Note.... will make the blood of every self-respecting Britain tingle in his veins…. We have heard a more formidable scolding given by an elderly lady to her Pekinese in Hyde Park.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.646.6", "colnum": "646", "heading": "ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": " been broken repeatedly, and broken recently; and I would say to His Majesty's Government, \"How many more times do you want it broken? How much longer are you going to leave England tied to this fraudulent partner? Has not the time come to rip up this Agreement into ribbons?\" These are my views, and, I believe, the views of more people in the country than His Majesty's Government care to remember.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.646.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.646.6", "colnum": "646", "heading": "ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "al; they had told us that capital was no good at all that it was vile and vicious; and yet, apparently, the Soviet wanted some of our British capital to carry on with. That was the suggestion of the Labour Government when they were in office. As we know, the issue went to the polls and was tested at an election which returned a large Unionist majority against the grant of any more money to Moscow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.646.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.646.6", "colnum": "646", "heading": "ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": " \"Hands off China,\" but when the Government should give us a lead and go out on a policy of \"Hands off England.\" The Prime Minister, not long ago, made a speech in defence of peace. It was a noble utterance on behalf of peace. He pleaded for peace in our time. Has that prayer been answered. I would like to point out that no prayers for peace are sufficient; if you want peace you must fight for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.646.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.650.0", "colnum": "650", "heading": "ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "nda of the Tory caucus that that proposition was defeated. He has also this afternoon given utterance to the same old statement—I was going to characterise it as something worse—that all through the election the Labour Government desired to take £100,000,000 of hard-earned British gold and to give it to the Soviet Government. Everybody knows that is an absolutely untrue statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.650.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.650.0", "colnum": "650", "heading": "ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "e to-day and talks about the brutality of other people, it is time we cleared our minds of cant and humbug and condemned ourselves for our abominable treatment of these people. There can be nothing more barbarous than to refuse medicine to those in need of it. No one can deny that that is so. I should not speak of these things if had not seen them. I was in Russia last year, and I travelled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.650.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.654.3", "colnum": "654", "heading": "ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you deny that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "to happen this Springtime in regard to war on the Polish frontier, and were terrified at what may happen if there comes once more the curse of war to their country. Everyone I spoke to thought that Great Britain is doing exactly what the right hon. Gentleman said he knew we were suspected of doing, that is, egging on the smaller nations to combine in order to stop the development of Soviet Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BO0THBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the herrings?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BO0THBY", "preceding_text": " is rather different, and we have to think what we should gain by a break with Russia. Supposing we ruptured the Trade Agreement at the present time, we should certainly increase the propaganda against us all over the world. Let there be no doubt about that. We should also lose a little trade, but that is not a very formidable argument. I do not think we should lose much, because we have not much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.675.3", "colnum": "675", "heading": "BRADFORD CORPORATION BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSDEN", "preceding_text": "rankly and without mincing words that this Bill is neither more nor less than a Socialistic Measure, and I intend to oppose it as much as I can Very important questions have to be deeded in this connection. One in particular is the question as to whether a corporation like this it to have the right to monopolise routes and to have privileges which are not granted to the owners of private vehicles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.675.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.684.0", "colnum": "684", "heading": "BRADFORD CORPORATION BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GADIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GADIE", "preceding_text": "It is quite true that I opposed this Bill strongly in the Council, but I come here to-night to ask the House to give the Bill a Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.684.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.684.0", "colnum": "684", "heading": "BRADFORD CORPORATION BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GADIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GADIE", "preceding_text": "s the hon. Member for North Bradford (Mr. Ramsden) said, run to Doncaster races. Personally, I have never got there, because I had no money to put on; but if I were going to London perhaps it would be a convenience to me to go to Doncaster. In order to show the bona fides of the Bradford Corporation I am prepared to say on their behalf that the House can have a limit of 15 miles, if it so desires.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.684.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "BRADFORD CORPORATION BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GADIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GADIE", "preceding_text": "les in the way of municipal enterprise. It may be said the trams in Bradford are obsolete. May be they are. I have an idea that before long we shall have to institute omnibus services on long tramway routes, and if that has to be done and the municipalities may not run the omnibuses, what will be the consequence? There is still a balance of £750,000 owing on the Bradford Corporation Tramways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "BRADFORD CORPORATION BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GADIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GADIE", "preceding_text": "at before long we shall have to institute omnibus services on long tramway routes, and if that has to be done and the municipalities may not run the omnibuses, what will be the consequence? There is still a balance of £750,000 owing on the Bradford Corporation Tramways. [ Interruption. ] I know that £1,500,000 was spent, and £750,000 has been paid off, and that leaves £750,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "BRADFORD CORPORATION BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GADIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GADIE", "preceding_text": "scussed in Committee upstairs. The tribunal there is representative of all sections of this House. It weighs up everything after hearing counsel and after hearing the witnesses who are put in the box. I would say again that if, after I have offered to withdraw the two Clauses to which I have referred, the House does not pass the Bill, it will be putting the Bradford Corporation to serious expense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.695.3", "colnum": "695", "heading": "BRADFORD CORPORATION BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TH0MAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is so yet!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TH0MAS", "preceding_text": "terest or a municipality. Let me consider the situation. Why did this House insist, from the very inception of railways, that before any extended power of any sort or kind or any expenditure by a railway company of a capital kind, that this House had to authorise it? It was because, I submit, the railways at that stage were very largely a monopoly. Anyone who knows history knows it was a monopoly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.695.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-03", "file": "debates1927-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e3453da96d3858b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "BRADFORD CORPORATION BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "n. Members besides myself understood the hon. Member to say what I have stated. He said that they were compelled to go through streets a distance of a mile or a mile and a half. It is not true. They have not to go a mile and a half. The hon. Member must excuse me if my understanding is at fault. His statement sounded like that, and that was the impression which he gave to the Members of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-03a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-04", "file": "debates1927-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "edba8cd836c78306", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-04a.727.2", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONEYLENDERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BURMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER. \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BURMAN", "preceding_text": "ess against moneylenders. It may be that I have led a simple life and have not come into contact with them and therefore have nit had occasion to quarrel with them. Now and then I may have trespassed on the generosity of my bankers, but so far as moneylenders are concerned I have no personal experience one way or the other. I start on the assumption that moneylenders are an honourable body of men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-04a.727.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-04", "file": "debates1927-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "edba8cd836c78306", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-04a.789.2", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONEYLENDERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"HOW?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "lonel Wedgwood) said, \"People do not commit suicide simply because they borrow money. It is because of drink and of gambling.\" I would remind the House that excessive drinking, especially among women, is brought about mainly by the worries caused to them by the terrible injustices imposed upon them by these usury associations. Many of the 1,400 registered moneylenders in Liverpool are known to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-04a.789.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-04", "file": "debates1927-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "edba8cd836c78306", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-04a.794.0", "colnum": "794", "heading": "MARRIAGE (PROHIBITED DEGREES OF RELATIONSHIP) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only one at a time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "preceding_text": "s proposing to marry her. She would be usually and normally of the same age and status as his own children, and their cousins, and so forth, and surely it is a very bad thing that, where a man is mixing on normal terms of intimacy with his wife's relations, there should be any question of a possibility that he could Never marry young girls who really could be regarded practically as his daughters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-04a.794.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-04", "file": "debates1927-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "edba8cd836c78306", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-04a.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "MARRIAGE (PROHIBITED DEGREES OF RELATIONSHIP) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BENN", "preceding_text": "I can give cases where clergymen of the Church of England have married—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-04a.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-04", "file": "debates1927-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "edba8cd836c78306", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-04a.804.0", "colnum": "804", "heading": "MARRIAGE (PROHIBITED DEGREES OF RELATIONSHIP) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEWART SANDEIVIAN", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"The Tory party!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEWART SANDEIVIAN", "preceding_text": "l. There may be occasions where there is harm but they have been very few indeed. The late Solicitor-General, I think, is slightly old-fashioned in some of his views. There is a certain line that always comes to my mind about the ancient Puritanic traditions of right and wrong. What may have been very good a hundred years ago I am certain hon. Members above the Gangway will say is not good to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-04a.804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-04", "file": "debates1927-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "edba8cd836c78306", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-04a.810.3", "colnum": "810", "heading": "MARRIAGE (PROHIBITED DEGREES OF RELATIONSHIP) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "preceding_text": "The Bill, as drafted, contains an anomaly in that it does not apply to Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-04a.810.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-07", "file": "debates1927-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "b7cea7701d051b39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-07a.816.2", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Is it not the policy of the Foreign Office to try to get justice for our people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-07a.816.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-03-07", "file": "debates1927-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "b7cea7701d051b39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-07a.998.0", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "e is one other point, and that is the action of the Secretary of State in deciding that when a deputation comes to him from a clerical association he is not prepared to receive certain people. I understand that because a somewhat strong statement was made by the secretary of one of the clerical associations in the Civil Service, the Secretary of State refuses to receive that particular individual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-07a.997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1091.0", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, there was a row!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "Government Bench and on the Front Opposition Bench, and there was no threat of any sort or kind, official or unofficial, against the Chinese. The spirit was the spirit of negotiation from beginning to end, and that spirit has prevailed throughout. We sent a force, as we ought to do and as we are entitled to do; we sent it not with ostentation nor with the blare of trumpets, but we sent it quietly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1091.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1095.3", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I do plead that we should tackle this question in a calm way. I will certainly give my authority. We have continually supported, the Northerners, who are our allies, against the Cantonese, and we are doing it now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1095.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "What are the facts? The facts are that hon. Members on the benches opposite, and hon. Members below the Gangway on this side, have between them control of nearly the whole Press of this country, and, by a perpetual misrepresentation of the facts, they thin they can deceive the people of this country. Fortunately, the people to-day are not so easily deceived.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1112.2", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "preceding_text": "e how the present Socialist policy has come about; last January, before the House met, we had speeches from one or other of the right hon. Gentlemen on the front bench opposite in support of the Government's foreign policy, from the Leader of the Opposition, the right hon. Member for Derby and the right hon. Member for Colne Valley. (Mr. Snowden), and then, as usual, the tail began to wag the dog.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1112.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1117.0", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "d for any great length of time, but since I have been listening I have heard such provocative statements from the other side that felt impelled to rise in order to give some kind of answer. The hon. and gallant Member for Warwick and Leamington (Captain Eden) said that while people were away abroad in China working for their country there were people here at home who were denouncing their country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1117.0", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "o rise in order to give some kind of answer. The hon. and gallant Member for Warwick and Leamington (Captain Eden) said that while people were away abroad in China working for their country there were people here at home who were denouncing their country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I presume he meant, and I presume those cheers mean, that the people referred to were Members of the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1117.0", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They did not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": " proof of that we could refer to the by-election which took place at Stourbridge recently. If the Labour party were the defeatists which hon. Members opposite try to represent them, if they really were the friends of every other country but their own, do hon. Members imagine that a majority of the electors of Stourbridge would record their votes in favour of the representative of the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1117.0", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "aced General making that sort of statement. It is the strongest condemnation we could have of the present Government that they have allowed matters in China to drift to such a position that it is no longer the word of the diplomat that is to decide the issue, but it is the discretion of the simple soldier. In other words, they have abdicated their position and given over the issue to the soldiers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "I cannot believe that the hon. and gallant Member's Department would ever give an inaccurate answer, and they certainly told me last year that the percentage of recruits who were unemployed was 70. I leave it at that. We on these benches, because we represent in the main the working classes of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": " to leave these people in Shanghai to their fate. The Labour party is prepared to put up an alternative proposal. If the situation were to develop—we deny that it has developed—to the point where the lives of British people in Shanghai were in serious jeopardy, then we say that the proper policy is not to send a provocative military force hot to bring away the people who are in danger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1121.0", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": "' committees were spring up everywhere. This definite' working class pressure, which the Communist party helped to foster, undoubtedly decided the terms of the Labour Amendment, forced MacDonald to soft pedal, on the patriotic dope, and encouraged the back-benchers' to call for the withdrawal of the troops. I believe that to be profoundly true, and I will produce further evidence to prove my case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1123.2", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": "bers to note carefully, because its terms are interesting and may throw some light upon the Amendment to the Address which was proposed by the party opposite, and upon the vote which Members opposite are to give to-night. I quote the resolution from the \"International Press Correspondence,\" which is the official paper of the Third International of Moscow, and the date of it is 17th February, 1927.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1123.2", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your speech did it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": "tional Press Correspondence,\" which is the official paper of the Third International of Moscow, and the date of it is 17th February, 1927. [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members laugh, but they may remember that on 6th July, 1924, I made a speech in this House on the subject of Communism and the organisation of the Third International. They laughed then, but at the following General Election they disappeared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1123.2", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": "o work for the realisation of unity and of common action.\" That is signed by \"Brockway, Davies, Bridgeman, Pollitt, MacManus, Wilkinson, Beckett, Liau Han Sin, Jawahar Lal Nehru.\" The programme laid down by them was directly inspired by Communist influence, and it is the very programme demanded by speaker after speaker from the benches opposite. I maintain that that policy is inspired from Moscow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1123.2", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": "t influence, and it is the very programme demanded by speaker after speaker from the benches opposite. I maintain that that policy is inspired from Moscow. [ Interruption. ] The marionettes of Moscow in China first of all tried to create bloodshed there. They egged on the Chinese crowd to attack our people. Then they pulled the strings and the marionettes of Moscow here cried out, Hands off China.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1125.1", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ideas of Canton, the troops and the Administration here have been able to steer an impartial and neutral course. But that neutral course may be upset at any moment, and I would urge Ministers to take the earliest possible opportunity to enter into pacific negotiations and not to allow this business to keep on. Let us get a settlement, recognising the Southern Government as the Government of China.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1132.0", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "rouble and even to war, we shall be able to break away from it in the future and that those who chose to invest their capital, or, indeed, their brains outside the bounds of the British Empire shall do so knowing that they are doing it at their own risk and that they shall not be entitled to embroil their country and the young soldiers of their country's Army in defence of their private interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1132.0", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "pport end less conditional support than those who chose to go outside the Empire. That is an aspect of the matter which might very profitably be pursued upon another occasion. We believe that the sending of these troops increases the danger of war. If fighting should begin in Shanghai, where will it end? We find now that British troops are outside the limits of the international concession —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1132.0", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "sh life and property in three of the principal towns. In these circumstances, His Majesty's Government judged it their duty to order His Majesty's ship \"Colombo\" to proceed at Once, to Corinto, to serve as a base of refuge for. British refugees if need arose.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 2nd March, 1927; col. 354, Vol. 203.] Is that \"scuttle\"? Is that undignified? Is that damaging to British prestige?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1132.0", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "h refugees if need arose.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 2nd March, 1927; col. 354, Vol. 203.] Is that \"scuttle\"? Is that undignified? Is that damaging to British prestige? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"] Then put down a Vote of Censure upon the Foreign Secretary and have the courage of your convictions. The position is exactly parallel except in regard to the scale of the danger which is said to be apprehended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1132.0", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "ing, and I hold unjustifiably imperilling, the lives of British troops. Reference was made earlier by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Platting (Mr. Clynes) to the activities of the camera- men. I saw in the illustrated papers pictures of the departure of these forces and pictures of the British soldiers, many of them young lads, kissing their wives and sweethearts good-bye as they set out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1132.0", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "atting (Mr. Clynes) to the activities of the camera- men. I saw in the illustrated papers pictures of the departure of these forces and pictures of the British soldiers, many of them young lads, kissing their wives and sweethearts good-bye as they set out. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] I notice the older some hon. Members are the greater the interest they take in what are, to them, salacious details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1132.0", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "most prominent on the lips of people who are not quite sure of their own position. It is a term that always disgusts me when it is used in this connection, because it is generally used as an emotional cloak, a false sentimental cloak, for objects and purposes that cannot be defended without such artificial aid. I was speaking only yesterday to a young Englishman recently returned from China—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1132.0", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "bly low level to which our policy had plunged it was the gallant restraint of the Marines at Hankow under very difficult circumstances, when they did not fire, in spite of being placed under very grave temptation to do so. He said another thing, which impressed me very much, and which I believe to he exceedingly true. He said we had allowed the Russians in the last few years to steal our prestige.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1143.0", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A boost.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "ut you must be prepared to pay the losses with your lives, and do not ask the British Empire to protect you.\" I am delighted that the hon. Gentleman interrupted. I am glad he made clear the policy of the Labour party. The other complaint was with regard to the troops that have gone out—that there was a too-full employment of the camera and the Press, and that it was a military demonstration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1152.0", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENNISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENNISON", "preceding_text": "rades which were examined by the various Committees set up during the War. We have had the Balfour Committee dealing with Trade and Industry for something like two years. They have examined some of the most expert witnesses on various trades and industries. They have collected most valuable evidence and tabulated statistics which must be of tremendous value to the country. What has become of them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1156.0", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "preceding_text": "ch are beyond the ordinary lay caps city to grasp. What are the ordinary economic facts of the day? At the beginning of this year there were. 200,000 more people out of employment than on the corresponding day of last year. To-day, in round figures, there are only, and I say \"only\" advisedly, 50,000 more people out of employment than on the corresponding day of last year. With such an improvement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1156.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1163.2", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Where and when?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "preceding_text": "I speak under correction, but I thought the right hon. Gentleman did not say it, he wrote it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1163.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1163.4", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Take it back.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "preceding_text": "I think it was in \"Reynolds.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1163.6", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEOFFREY PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEOFFREY PETO", "preceding_text": " to the birth-rate, to provide for the workers of the future. I wish it was the case. Unfortunately, we see very much the reverse. Not only that, but there is throughout the country a large body of Socialists who are opposed both to capital and profits—profits which, after all, are the only way by which capital can be accumulated. They hold that the destroying of capital will help Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1163.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1176.0", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": " and the powers of the Imperial Economic Committee were strengthened, because it has in its power to do pioneer work in this direction which would be of inestimable value to the country. I would urge the Government not to be led away from the consideration of this great problem of stabilising prices by the cry of Socialism. What does it matter if it is Socialism or not, provided the end is gained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1176.0", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "see on all sides to-day the rise of the great combines; the great horizontal combines and trusts. You will see their successful development in the United States, and you will see it also in Germany. The industrial history of Germany in the last five years is a most fascinating story They have tried vertical trusts but they have been a failure. They have tried Socialism and that has been a failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1182.0", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROSE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who says so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROSE", "preceding_text": "George), who has been giving us some statistics, said in the course of his remarks that the estimate of unemployment prior to the War was an underestimate. He was quite right. I am sometimes surprised to hear people talking about the \"abnormal unemployment\" that exists to-day. There is no abnormal unemployment to-day, and that is the tragedy of it. Trade and employment to-day are perfectly normal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-08", "file": "debates1927-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f98f8b6e89ae7fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1201.0", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINESE NATIONALS (VISAS REFUSED).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman in one part of his statement took pains to state that it was only to interview certain people in this country that these two Chinese citizens were asking to be allowed to come here. He knows, or he ought to have been told, that they were invited here by the London Trades Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-08a.1201.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-03-09", "file": "debates1927-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "54d72cc178a5597b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-09a.1240.0", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Move the Adjournment of the House.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "nd the guardians at Chester-le-Street. It was in print, but I am not suggesting that anybody in particular may have given this information away. All can say is that it is not safe to make such deductions as the hon. Member has suggested. With regard to the newspapers which published it, the hon. Member seems to be paying a tribute to the enterprise of certain newspapers. I can give no explanation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-09a.1239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-09", "file": "debates1927-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "54d72cc178a5597b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-09a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL AND PARLIAMENTARY TITLES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'NEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'NEILL", "preceding_text": "the cross of Saint Patrick was added to the National Flag, in addition to the cross of St. George and St. Andrew; and I think I am right in saying that, apart from the retention of the term, \"United Kingdom,\" and apart from the retention in this Parliament of Members from a part of Ireland, the Union Jack would have had to be changed, and the cross of St. Patrick in it would have had to disappear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-09a.1252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-09", "file": "debates1927-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "54d72cc178a5597b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-09a.1258.0", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL AND PARLIAMENTARY TITLES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "er might have attained a very much larger measure of success if it had really fulfilled the whole scheme of William Pitt, that is to say, if it had been accompanied at the time by a complete measure of Catholic Emancipation. Had that been the case I believe that the Irish union would have had as good a chance of success as that with Scotland. It may be said that all this is ancient history to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-09a.1258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-09", "file": "debates1927-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "54d72cc178a5597b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-09a.1327.1", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE CORPORATION BILL. (By Order.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH NALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH NALL", "preceding_text": "fies the Minister of Transport, and he is prepared to grant his consent. Where local authorities have that power and have applied to the Minister, they have been given permission to provide services. But in this particular ease the authority has acted contrary to the spirit of that general rule. They, on the one hand, have acted ultra vires and run services for which they have no authority at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-09a.1327.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-03-10", "file": "debates1927-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "5d6a3081298975cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-10a.1346.1", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why should they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon Gentleman aware that local authorities have no power to make a landlord change his position from selling to leasing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-10a.1346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-10", "file": "debates1927-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "5d6a3081298975cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-10a.1425.0", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "the picture house, the latest method of dancing the flat Charleston, what is going to win the next racing event or whatever particularly attracts their attention. You have to do something and that would be a very sound thing to do. In any case the gas masks will be needed, and it is just as essential to provide gas masks for the civil population as to provide fighting aeroplanes for the Air Force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-10a.1425.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-10", "file": "debates1927-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "5d6a3081298975cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-10a.1425.0", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Put it on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "t is going to win the next racing event or whatever particularly attracts their attention. You have to do something and that would be a very sound thing to do. In any case the gas masks will be needed, and it is just as essential to provide gas masks for the civil population as to provide fighting aeroplanes for the Air Force. [ Interruption. ] I have got mine. I have the one I had during the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-10a.1425.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-10", "file": "debates1927-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "5d6a3081298975cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-10a.1500.1", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "That is a gross misrepresentation of what I said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-10a.1500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-10", "file": "debates1927-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "5d6a3081298975cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-10a.1514.1", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member says only in cases of absence without leave. I believe it goes further than that. He is depending on his recollection, as I am. I wonder if that principle were accepted in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-10a.1514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1525.2", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain HOLT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain HOLT", "preceding_text": "not, in our view, mean that they are not without harm. Let me take an extract from a magazine or paper called \"Prolecult,\" which in this case was published in May, 1923. It gives a dialogue between a boy and a girl. The girl asks, Would not the Government suppress your effort to establish Communism? and the boy answers: Yes, I have no doubt they would, but we are preparing to meet force by force.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1533.0", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": " the President of the Board of Education. I should like to quote one other sentence from his remarks on that date: There is a constant and a conscious effort among a large section of our fellow countrymen to conduct political propaganda directly and indirectly among children. He said again on 27th January that that propaganda was quite alien to this country and invariably copied the Russian model.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1533.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1533.0", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": " puts its head up from another. I do not propose to go into the details of the movement, because it would always be asserted from the opposite side of the House that one is wrong, but I will make a few quotations from reliable sources which may fit the propaganda in whatever guise it may arise. In the first place, there is no question that this propaganda is of Russian origin and of German origin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1533.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1535.7", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": "I said there were 26 purely Communist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1535.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1537.1", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": "e British Empire Union—a vile bosses' organisation. Refuse also to sing the National Anthem or to salute the Union Jack, the emblem of suffering, low wages and slavery. People who do not like the British Empire should clear out of it. The great mass of public opinion in this country supports the Union Jack and all that the National Anthem means, and it is in favour of celebrating Empire Day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1539.0", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": "orld to save and win, In the revolution. Then there is a \"Little Comrades\" prayer, which is as follows: Down with the Kings, To Hell with the capitalists, This is the kind of teaching which is being presented surreptitiously to the children of this country, and that is what we think ought to be stopped. These children will be the next generation and we do not want to breed a lot of atheists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1539.0", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": "hildren. They are young, and they are told that these statements have been written by their own comrades when it is nothing of the sort. There are many hon. Members who I know desire to speak and I do not wish to carry the matter any further. I have here enough material for a very long speech. In my opinion the parents of this country have a right to expect that our schools shoud be neutral—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1540.0", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "ully provide for all cases of this kind. Why, then, do we need this Bill? I suggest that in the speeches to which we have listened the reason has been fully disclosed. It was well and most succinctly stated by the Duke of Atholl in the debates in another place, when he said: What we want to do is to stop those schools where Communist teaching is given and those teachers to whom it is taught. 12 n.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1540.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1542.1", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear.hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": " over into English literature and teaching them the poetry of Shelley when he broke forth into that immortal verse: Rise like lions after slumber, In unvanquishable number, Ye are many—they are few. I can well imagine that certain hon. Gentlemen opposite who might feel themselves to be among \"the few,\" could quite readily believe that my teaching in connection with that matter was seditious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1543.1", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "m to be judged at all, by a Judge and jury. Or, in the discharge of my functions as a teacher, I might direct the minds of the children to a consideration of the law of Jubilee given in the Old Testament, whereby the land at periods of 50 years was to go back to the people as a whole. I can well understand that the owners of land in this country might regard that also as a highly seditious process", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1543.1", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "ols. It is the whole question of education, and the work that goes on in our ordinary schools. They can come within the aims of this Bill if it be passed. Indeed, hon. Gentlemen, by their reference to the President of the Board of Education and his speeches, have shown quite clearly that they have in mind far more the general schools of the country than these almost undiscovered Communist schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1543.1", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "the way of hon. Members opposite. There was a case tried in the Courts in which my hon. Friend the Member for North Hammersmith (Mr. Gardner) was involved, and in which, indeed, this very charge was made, namely, that my hon. Friend had been supporting the instruction of children in blasphemous and seditious doctrines. That charge was brought against him by a friend of the hon. Gentleman opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1553.0", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "preceding_text": "derable extent. I think that is a justification of the real constitutional nature of the Socialist Sunday schools. Behind all this there is an attempt to label this party as in some remote way or another connected with sedition and blasphemy. That attempt is distinctly made in this book issued by the Unionists. They speak of poisoning the minds of youths with Socialist and anti-religious doctrine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1553.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1560.3", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "preceding_text": "Therefore, it is not correct to state, as does the Memorandum attached to this Bill, that this Bill is limited to the prevention of \"the perversion of the minds of children under 16 years of age.\" Since no-one can tell the destination of such literature, any person having in his possession such literature will be guilty of an offence, and all blasphemous writing would therefore be illegal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1560.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1562.2", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "And I am glad they did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1562.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1564.4", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: 'And the Imps!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "ntage and that the chief antidote to the evil we are considering is the Bible teaching that is so well carried out in the elementary schools. That first half hour in the morning is employed to the best advantage by a body of keen, eager, teachers, and I take this opportunity of paying my tribute to them. Another antidote is the encouragement of such organisations as the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1564.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1569.4", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNELL", "preceding_text": "on of alcohol. Is not the immoderate use of alcohol a blasphemy against child life? How many children are brutalised and ruined and wronged by the drink interests in this country, and yet we may rely absolutely upon hon. Members opposite being on the side of the brewer every time whenever that question comes up in this House. Talk about blasphemy, it is about time we began to talk about hypocrisy!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1569.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1569.4", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNELL", "preceding_text": "estion comes up in this House. Talk about blasphemy, it is about time we began to talk about hypocrisy! [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear!\"] I am glad to have aroused the interest of hon. Members opposite, but I would warn them that there are methods of defence against attacks such as they are making on our attitude this morning. One hon. Member said that a struggle was going on for the soul of the child.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1569.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1569.4", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNELL", "preceding_text": " are making on our attitude this morning. One hon. Member said that a struggle was going on for the soul of the child. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I am glad to hear that that statement finds approval. That struggle is not taking place on behalf of one party only. Are not your elementary schools to-day organised in their religious teaching in the interests of a few dominant sects in this Country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1569.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1576.0", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. PHILIPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So that is the reason?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. PHILIPSON", "preceding_text": ". Member who spoke last repeating that statement. Just as we know with what success the small minority of Communists permeated the Labour movement, so we realise the danger in our midst in this respect, and I hope that the Division List will be published with the names of all the Members throughout the country, representing not only industrial, but rural constituencies, who vote against this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1576.0", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. PHILIPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. PHILIPSON", "preceding_text": "e that there are many splendid teachers throughout the country, but I wonder what those teachers have to say in regard to the Teachers' Labour League. The Teachers' Labour League declares that no religious instruction ought to be given in the schools. It condemns Imperialistic teaching, Empire Day celebrations and schools and the use of history and other text books with an anti-working class bias.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1576.0", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. PHILIPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In the schools.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. PHILIPSON", "preceding_text": "tion ought to be given in the schools. It condemns Imperialistic teaching, Empire Day celebrations and schools and the use of history and other text books with an anti-working class bias. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Yes, the objects of the League are to teach class consciousness and oppose religious teaching, and no hon. Gentleman opposite can deny that that means religious teaching of any kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1577.1", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. PHILIPSON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. PHILIPSON", "preceding_text": "en do not realise the teaching which their children are receiving because they are ignorant of these places to which their children go and often these schools are in private houses. No hon. Gentleman opposite can deny that. I know an instance, and I have proof of it, where children were made to walk round in a circle and sing \"There is no God\" after which they were each given a piece of chocolate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1579.0", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CECIL WILSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has all been read!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CECIL WILSON", "preceding_text": "nection with one of the large public schools of this country, and this is the kind of thing to which he objects, when he says he objects to teaching in Socialist Sunday schools: Love your school fellows; help your fellow-workmen in life; love learning, which is the food of the mind; be as grateful to your teachers as to your parents; make every day holy by good and useful deeds and kindly actions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1579.2", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILSON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILSON", "preceding_text": "ood ideas, and I think that it is a very great misfortune that religious questions such as this is should be discussed in this House in the way that they are. I am reminded of the words which were uttered by the late Mr. Gladstone when he was speaking on the Bill for the removal of religious disabilities in 1891, just after the death of the late Charles Bradlaugh. What Mr. Gladstone said was this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1579.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1587.0", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which schools?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "s which they all might very well support. Surely we are all opposed to seditious teaching. The hon. Member for Motherwell (Mr. Barr) has delivered an interesting speech this afternoon, and I am ready to admit his eloquence. He is not only an asset to his Church, but also to his party, but, in my opinion, I think fie ought to be one of the first to desire to stamp out these schools in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1588.3", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "erwell ought to lie one of the very first people to come forward as a leader of religion and declare that he is going to support this Bill in the Lobby. I accuse some hon. Members opposite of being prepared to use the schools of this country When they have got a chance for their own particular faith. On a subject like this I think it is the duty of the teacher to teach the actual facts of history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1588.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1590.0", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir BASIL PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BASIL PETO", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Member aware that the right hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Snowden) wrote exactly the opposite and said that the aims and methods of the Socialists and Communists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1590.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1591.7", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER,: Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "to lay down the principle that where rates and taxes are spent on education that it is the undoubted duty of the State to determine the curriculum. But when money is raised by voluntary contributions, it is questionable whether the State is entitled to intervene. If I might quote once again from this anonymous document, and I tale it that the signatories are members of the Church of England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1591.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1594.0", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN 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": " did not quite agree with it. I think, however, that I could refute the statement, if I were so inclined, out of the mouth of the right hon. Gentleman himself, but I accept the statement as one made from the Front Opposition Bench, and also the statement that Communism and Socialism are akin. I think the hon. Member for Westhoughton went so far as to say that it was only a question of pace —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1594.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1594.0", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "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": "ld refute the statement, if I were so inclined, out of the mouth of the right hon. Gentleman himself, but I accept the statement as one made from the Front Opposition Bench, and also the statement that Communism and Socialism are akin. I think the hon. Member for Westhoughton went so far as to say that it was only a question of pace —[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] One was a very gradual method—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1594.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1596.1", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Are there any?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "d to Communism or in regard to Christianity, which is perfectly legal, and the propagation of those ideas in a certain particular manner which is illegal at the present time or may become illegal. Before finally dealing with that, may I refer for a moment to the next question, that of the proletarian Sunday School? The Proletarian Sunday Schools are at the present time, I am glad to say, very few.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1596.1", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "se ideas in a certain particular manner which is illegal at the present time or may become illegal. Before finally dealing with that, may I refer for a moment to the next question, that of the proletarian Sunday School? The Proletarian Sunday Schools are at the present time, I am glad to say, very few. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Are there any?\"] According to the latest returns that I have there are some few.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1596.1", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "t, may I refer for a moment to the next question, that of the proletarian Sunday School? The Proletarian Sunday Schools are at the present time, I am glad to say, very few. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Are there any?\"] According to the latest returns that I have there are some few. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"] I think I can give hon. Members the figures. No, the figures I have are for the Young Comrades League.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1596.1", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": ", would stand up in this House and defend that sort of thing. There is, of course, difference of view. The hon. Member who has just sat down says that it is undesirable to proceed with this Bill and that the best thing is to allow a bad thing to die of itself, and that if an idea is bad it is bound to die. There can be no doubt, however, that the teaching in these Proletarian Sunday Schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1596.1", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us of one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "of thing. There is, of course, difference of view. The hon. Member who has just sat down says that it is undesirable to proceed with this Bill and that the best thing is to allow a bad thing to die of itself, and that if an idea is bad it is bound to die. There can be no doubt, however, that the teaching in these Proletarian Sunday Schools—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"] I cannot remember.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1596.1", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERHS: \"Where is it taught?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "as just sat down says that it is undesirable to proceed with this Bill and that the best thing is to allow a bad thing to die of itself, and that if an idea is bad it is bound to die. There can be no doubt, however, that the teaching in these Proletarian Sunday Schools—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"] I cannot remember. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us of one.\"] The teaching is of a character—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1596.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1599.0", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Why the Bill?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "opposing this Bill, who has said that he wants Communist teaching, seditious teaching or blasphemous teaching given to his own children. If we go through the whole of the working classes of this country I do not think we should find one out of 10.000 of parents who would desire their children to be exposed to this kind of thing. I am quite sure they would welcome any means of putting a stop to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1606.0", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": ", in the minds of the, children, it was his duty to put the law into operation against them, whether it was clumsy or clever; and his hon. Friends below the Gangway and behind him have proved quite satisfactory this afternoon, and he himself has admitted, that during the years he has been in office as Home Secretary he has failed to do his duty in suppressing these things which he regards as evil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1606.0", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " definitely, could have been brought under the definition of sedition as laid down in this Bill. It says: For the purposes of this Act 'seditious matter' means words spoken, written, or printed with an intention— ( a ) to bring into hatred or contempt, or excite disaffection against the Crown or the Constitution of the United Kingdom. Does the right hon. Gentleman deny that he has done that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-11", "file": "debates1927-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b372c64104e95f22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1608.1", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEDITIOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING TO CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON, MEMBERS \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "s in his power to upset the Government in power if he thinks that Government is wrong, in fact he will have a perfect right to upset the whole economic structure of society if he thinks that structure is wrong. I am in that position myself. I believe the present system is bad and wrong and I am willing to go out and create ill-will and hostility amongst His Majesty's subjects for that very reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-11a.1608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-14", "file": "debates1927-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "26c68316f3c4a1ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1675.1", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIGEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIGEMAN", "preceding_text": "ge a shadow cut, and the Treasury always say that we tend to make it too small. I do not know whether my right hon. Friend would know that. It only began when the right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite were in office, but it has been continued since. So far, the Treasury have always had the luck to be right. It must have been luck. They could not have foreseen the coal stoppage of last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-14", "file": "debates1927-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "26c68316f3c4a1ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1701.0", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"1932!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "for the Admiralty to reduce their programme this year or next, but there is a point rapidly approaching in the matter of naval armaments when a new crisis will arise. When the period of the Washington Agreement has expired, there might quite easily be a fresh outburst of naval shipbuilding, and that point is not very far off. I do not recall at the moment the exact year when the agreement expires.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-14", "file": "debates1927-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "26c68316f3c4a1ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1711.0", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY,", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWOHTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWOHTHY", "preceding_text": "he Chancellor of the Exchequer has written could only have been written by people who were behind the scenes. I agree with my hon. Friend that it is unfair that the people attacked have no chance of replying, and I think the time has come when all those who are apparently debarred from replying should be given equal freedom and facility to reply. Admiral Lord Jellicoe has already written one book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-14", "file": "debates1927-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "26c68316f3c4a1ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1712.1", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY,", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "speakers in future, but it will not bear examination. The trade routes are international. We must look upon these things from the point of view of other people. They see us piling up a tremendous cruiser fleet which we shall not really require for guarding the international trade routes, and from their point of view our guarding of these trade routes is to deny those trade routes to their vessels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-14", "file": "debates1927-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "26c68316f3c4a1ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1712.1", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY,", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "mination. The trade routes are international. We must look upon these things from the point of view of other people. They see us piling up a tremendous cruiser fleet which we shall not really require for guarding the international trade routes, and from their point of view our guarding of these trade routes is to deny those trade routes to their vessels. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Most certainly it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-14", "file": "debates1927-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "26c68316f3c4a1ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1712.1", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY,", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "und of flesh from the Exchequer, he insists on enjoying the fruits of his victory of two years ago over the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and is sticking to the programme of 1925 with its £58,000,000 of new construction. What must be the-effect on our friends in other countries? They must feel that if there is to be a naval race it has been started by the right hon. Gentleman and his advisers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-14", "file": "debates1927-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "26c68316f3c4a1ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1737.1", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY,", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By America!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "preceding_text": " the age-long law of the sea. Tens of thousands of men were killed by T.N.T. manufactured in America, brought by the British Navy into port in this country, released by order of the Foreign Office and allowed to go into Germany. For two years the whole of the sinews of war made up of iron, copper, nickel and so forth poured into Germany, every ton of which could have been stopped by Lord Jellicoe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-14", "file": "debates1927-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "26c68316f3c4a1ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1749.1", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY,", "cue_speaker": "Sir BERTRAM FALLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BERTRAM FALLE", "preceding_text": "certain most necessary expenditure is going to be put off. My right hon. Friend the Member for Norwich (Mr. Hilton Young) thinks that if you got a jury together and asked them if there was any danger of war, the large majority of the jury would decide that there was none. It is possible that they would, but it is possible also to remember what Carlyle says about the great majority of human beings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-14", "file": "debates1927-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "26c68316f3c4a1ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1754.0", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY,", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "oo delicate. The hon. Member for Devonport (Mr. Hore-Belisha) started with the Empire, but he got back to Devonport. That was quite right and proper, because it is our job and our duty to do it. I want to join in the hon. Member's appeal, and I would commend this to hon. Members on the Labour benches. See what a bad employer the Government is! Private firms give their men a holiday with pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1754.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-14", "file": "debates1927-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "26c68316f3c4a1ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1757.2", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY,", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are grown up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "e hon. Member for Devonport said, but England is in the position of a mother, and when the mother educates a child and sends it out into the world she must trust that it will do the right thing by her. It is dangerous to tell them what they ought to do. We can perfectly trust to the Dominions realising the position of the Mother Country and doing a great deal more for the Navy than they are doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1757.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-14", "file": "debates1927-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "26c68316f3c4a1ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1794.1", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY,", "cue_speaker": "Sir GERALD HOHLER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERALD HOHLER", "preceding_text": "ghts, the boilermakers, the mechanics, engineers, and the like engaged in the yard, even if they can find work in the North, cannot find accommodation. I, therefore, plead most urgently with the Admiralty that they will find for us more work, which they could do. What merit is it, if work exists, in giving it to find jobs for men in the employment of private contractors, in the North or elsewhere?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-14", "file": "debates1927-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "26c68316f3c4a1ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1794.1", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY,", "cue_speaker": "Sir GERALD HOHLER", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERALD HOHLER", "preceding_text": "cumstances they allow them to go on to 61 or 62. What is the result of that? In my constituency a great number of men who are discharged at the age of 60, the great majority of them not established and, therefore, without pensions, at that age cannot get work the towns, and there is now an interval of five years before they can hope to get the benefit of the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-14", "file": "debates1927-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "26c68316f3c4a1ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1794.1", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY,", "cue_speaker": "Sir GERALD HOHLER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERALD HOHLER", "preceding_text": "normally fit for employment.\" That is true, but the Admiralty will gibe him nothing because the Treasury bar the way, and the employment exchange will give nothing because of the Regulation which says he is not normally fit for employment in the constituency I represent there are hundreds and hundreds of these men thrust out almost to starve, because of the manner with which their cases are dealt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-14", "file": "debates1927-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "26c68316f3c4a1ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1798.2", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY,", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "preceding_text": "Where does nationalisation come in? I do not follow. In my view it is not an answer as intelligent as silence would have been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1798.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-14", "file": "debates1927-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "26c68316f3c4a1ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1800.1", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GROTRIAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GROTRIAN", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the Board of Agriculture could deal with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-14", "file": "debates1927-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "26c68316f3c4a1ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1804.7", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Equality of opportunity!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "I did not say that the very poorest, perhaps, could afford the reduced fee. If you are going to carry that argument to its full length, you must give free education to everyone for every profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-14a.1804.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-15", "file": "debates1927-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9990140c2e2679bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1830.6", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "How is the right hon. Gentleman going to become aware of it? When a question is put down asking for definite information, it means, if the Department cannot give the information, that they are neglecting their duties in not being able to report on the conditions of the mines", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1830.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-15", "file": "debates1927-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9990140c2e2679bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1881.0", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL AND PARLIAMENTARY TITLES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "ly in substitution for the Great Seal of Ireland for certain purposes. In those circumstances, what ought we to do in relation to the Bill now before the Committee? I am not at all sure that, if the particular Amendment which I am proposing be not accepted, and if His Majesty's Government are not prepared to accept either of the two alternatives which i am suggesting, anything need be done at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1881.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-15", "file": "debates1927-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9990140c2e2679bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1928.3", "colnum": "1928", "heading": "WAGES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "Had the hon. Member been in the House that day, he could hardly have passed his Whips as he entered without receiving a paper upon which there was the entry of such a Motion. I am not ping to define what is a sheltered and what is an unsheltered industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1928.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-15", "file": "debates1927-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9990140c2e2679bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1928.5", "colnum": "1928", "heading": "WAGES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "I take it that that is accepted by the other side as a sheltered industry. Is Government service a sheltered industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1928.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-15", "file": "debates1927-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9990140c2e2679bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1937.1", "colnum": "1937", "heading": "WAGES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "t blameless in this connection. He was Prime Minister of the Coalition Government. Perhaps he is sorry for that now. He promised the workers a new earth. It is a good thing for us that the promise of a new Heaven was not within his ken. What did he say? He spoke for many people who now sit on the other side of the House, because this Government is the lineal descendant of the Coalition Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-15", "file": "debates1927-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9990140c2e2679bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1943.0", "colnum": "1943", "heading": "WAGES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir EDWARD ILIFFE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has nothing to do with it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir EDWARD ILIFFE", "preceding_text": "s. These American trade unions, first of all, have nothing whatever to do with politics. They concentrate on two things, and two things only—first of all on making their industries as efficient as they possibly can, and then on extracting the highest possible wages for their members from those industries, and, I say, more power to their elbow. Do our trade unions really encourage efficiency?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1943.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-15", "file": "debates1927-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9990140c2e2679bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1945.1", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "WAGES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. ILIFFE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. ILIFFE", "preceding_text": " body of workers who have brought up the largest amount of coal in a particular district, or when I see an illustration of Mr. Coppock handing a prize to a bricklayer who has laid the largest number of bricks in the country for his normal day. That, indeed, would show there was a different spirit in industry, and directly we get that different spirit we shall find the standard of living will rise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-15", "file": "debates1927-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9990140c2e2679bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1947.0", "colnum": "1947", "heading": "WAGES.", "cue_speaker": "Major ROPNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ROPNER", "preceding_text": "being a model employer. Model Ministers cannot help being model employers, therefore, so long as the present Government remain in power, that last phrase is quite unnecessary. I should like now to try to show that wages are already the first charge on industry, and to do that I will ask the House to remember that the essentials of production are land—which we may leave out of our discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1947.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-15", "file": "debates1927-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9990140c2e2679bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1954.1", "colnum": "1954", "heading": "WAGES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. POTTS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. POTTS", "preceding_text": "o the employers, and, in addition to that, they are making additional profits. The employers get 8.54d. per ton increase in profit, according to the returns for January of this year, plus the 9d. I have already mentioned, making ls. 5.54d. increased profit to the owners at the present time, while the workmen receive 7.93d. In the quarter ending March, 1996, the profit in the mining industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-15", "file": "debates1927-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9990140c2e2679bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1956.1", "colnum": "1956", "heading": "WAGES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. POTTS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The strike!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. POTTS", "preceding_text": "which includes two months of Tory Government; and I will take 1925 and 1920. In 1924, when the Labour Government was in office, our exports increased, as compared with 1923, to the extent of more than £55,000,000. When the Tories came back into office, in 1925, our exports fell in that, their first year of office, by over £13,500,000, and in 1926 they fell again by £149,000,000 odd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-15", "file": "debates1927-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9990140c2e2679bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1960.0", "colnum": "1960", "heading": "WAGES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ion if I did not refer first of all to the speeches of the Proposer and the Seconder. There is a kindred spirit in all orators, and when I listened to the hon. Member for Rochdale (Mr. Kelly) and then to the hon. Member for Newton (Mr. R. Young) I could not help thinking of Mirabeau, who always counselled audacity—audacity in the first place, audacity in the second place and always audacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-15", "file": "debates1927-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9990140c2e2679bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1962.1", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "WAGES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MA1TLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MA1TLAND", "preceding_text": "Indeed he was, and he was also adopting it as the standard of his own practice. That is what hon. Members will find if they will look up the quotation on the 15th May, 1924. I quite admit that the party opposite may have thrown over their leader once more. He has been made to toe the line over the Chinese question and I have no doubt he will be made to do it again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-15", "file": "debates1927-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9990140c2e2679bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1962.1", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "WAGES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MA1TLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MA1TLAND", "preceding_text": " of his own practice. That is what hon. Members will find if they will look up the quotation on the 15th May, 1924. I quite admit that the party opposite may have thrown over their leader once more. He has been made to toe the line over the Chinese question and I have no doubt he will be made to do it again. [ Interruption. ] I am within the knowledge of every hon. Member opposite when I say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-15", "file": "debates1927-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9990140c2e2679bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1964.1", "colnum": "1964", "heading": "WAGES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No, a white sheep!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "I am pointing out the discrepancies which the hon. Member put. These are due to actual economic reasons. Every one knows, even the one black sheep from Birmingham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-15", "file": "debates1927-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "9990140c2e2679bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1966.1", "colnum": "1966", "heading": "WAGES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What did you do last year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "Not even to support the Communists or the quasi-Communists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-15a.1966.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2000.9", "colnum": "2000", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Captain KING", "preceding_text": "That has been considered, but it is not thought to be a practical suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2000.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2039.2", "colnum": "2039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We do\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister)", "preceding_text": "admit that the strongest bonds of Empire—outside, of course, the strongest of all, the Crown—are just those intangible bonds—a common outlook, the same ideas, and the same ideals which we all share and which are expressed in a common language and a common literature. Should we be content for a moment if we depended, upon foreign literature or upon a foreign Press in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2039.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2047.1", "colnum": "2047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will they be paid?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "It will be between £4,000 and £5,000 at the outset, and that cost will be defrayed by a scale of fees so that no charge will come upon the taxpayer at all. I Propose, also, as a further measure of efficiency, speed and economy, that there should be an Advisory Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2052.3", "colnum": "2052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a false analogy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "and British industry. Take tobacco. What is the objection, if the principle of the Bill is sound, to imposing upon every tobacconist the necessity of selling at least 25 per cent. of Empire-produced tobacco to every customer who comes along? I am interested in the Empire and in the production of tobacco, but this principle, if it is sound for films, is equally sound for the products of the Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2052.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2052.3", "colnum": "2052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ducers is in a position to compel renters and exhibitors unwillingly to accept their goods, that is bad. The Bill says, \"You must not contract ahead for this particular firm's products and that particular firm's products, but you must contract ahead for a certain group of firms' products provided they are in Great Britain and conform to the conditions of this Bill.\" There you have your compulsion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2052.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2062.0", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "c, it is doomed to failure, and it is doomed to failure for economic reasons. As I understand the Bill—and it is not a very easy Bill to understand—the object is to create every year an increasingly large monopoly of British film producers. If there is to be a monopoly on which the British film producer can rely, what inducement is there left to him to improve the quality of his films?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2062.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2062.0", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "he Opposition gave one or two absurd illustrations to the House of the effect of the Bill. Many others must have occurred to hon. Members. We have only recently had one of the most remarkable picture exhibitions ever known in Europe. I refer to the Flemish pictures at the Royal Academy. Those pictures, I presume, are of the nature, though they are not in the same compartment, of the film industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2062.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2069.0", "colnum": "2069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "preceding_text": ", the Admiralty, are interested in the film Falkland,' and that the blind booking of the film has been arranged to a very large number of theatres in this country? The President of the Board of Trade said: I was not aware of that, but if the hon. Member has a question to put to the Admiralty he had better put it to the First Lord.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th November, 1926; col. 1657, Vol. 199.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2069.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2069.0", "colnum": "2069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "preceding_text": "? The reply was: It would not be in the public interest to make any statement of that kind. I also asked: Can the hon. Gentleman say if bookings have already been secured before the film has been made: And the reply from the Parliamentary Secretary was: I should like notice of that question.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 24th November, 1926; cols. 383–384, Vol. 200.] On the 1st of December—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2069.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2076.1", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Take it as read!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "preceding_text": "I quite agree. That is the reason I ask why if you are absolutely against it, you should encourage it in the Government as has been done here. The President of the Board of Trade and the First Lord of the Admiralty in December and January last in this House practically denied that there was any encouragement of blind hooking and I propose to read on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2078.1", "colnum": "2078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "preceding_text": "hen it is sent to that exhibitor, and it will be supposed to be on show there for three days. At the end of that time it does not go back to the renter to be re-registered and have all the particulars altered, but during the first three days there may have been 100 feet cut off it. Something may have happened to the film, such as a fire, or it may have been worn, and the exhibitor may have cut it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2084.0", "colnum": "2084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ed very frequently only has an opportunity of exhibiting them if at the same time he is willing to take great masses of inferior stuff, much of it nothing better than rubbish; and whether the British producer comes along with a decent film, and tries to get a market for it, he finds the theatres are booked up with masses of American rubbish forced on them by the monopoly of the American interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2084.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2084.0", "colnum": "2084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "l, describing it as a bad Bill, an iniquitous Bill, and telling us in language much more impressive than mine of the evils which exist at the present time, but not one word as to a solution came from the right hon. Gentleman, nor from the Liberal benches. What is the use of deploring the grave situation, and then attacking those who put forward a scheme when you have no alternative to put forward?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2084.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2089.0", "colnum": "2089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED BUTT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED BUTT", "preceding_text": " theatres are spread throughout the country, and I regard it as a matter of national importance that the films shown in those theatres should not be solely characteristic of the habits of foreign nations. In the interesting discussion we have had this afternoon sufficient attention has not been paid to the fact that millions of people in this country every day are compelled to witness films—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2089.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2092.0", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have a 50 per cent. quota!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": " War we were somewhat distracted in the development of the cinema, and, therefore, we were handicapped as against other countries. I should like to point out that perhaps the finest film productions in the world to-day come from the Germans—certainly the most artistic productions—and yet Germany was involved in the War. Germany had as much distraction in the War as we had, if not more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2092.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2097.1", "colnum": "2097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount SANDON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount SANDON", "preceding_text": "come by the idea that it is the duty of an Opposition to oppose. I had really thought that here was a ease where all parties would be united. There has been a great deal of talk from the other side of the House about the question of vested interests, but it seems to me that it would be an easy case for us to make that hon. Gentlemen opposite are sponsoring at least one section of vested interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2097.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2115.0", "colnum": "2115", "heading": "SHANGHAI DEFENCE FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "To make profits!", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir CLIVE MORRISON-BELL", "preceding_text": "not he obtained by surrender, and is not to be obtained by scuttle was able to vote for an Amendment containing the last sentence which I have read. It absolutely passes my comprehension, and it surely passes the comprehension of anybody who seriously thinks the matter over. I do not think our fellow countrymen and women in China, who are carrying on most useful work in Shanghai and helping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2112.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2121.0", "colnum": "2121", "heading": "SHANGHAI DEFENCE FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. MORRISON-BELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What traffic?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. MORRISON-BELL", "preceding_text": " brought about but which be might be incapable of bringing about. When the case against my Motion is put by hon. Members opposite, I hope we shall hear some better arguments than those to which we have listened previously in Debates on this point to disentangle the different arguments used by them. One of the excuses of the Leader of the Opposition for carrying on this traffic with Mr. Chen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2123.6", "colnum": "2123", "heading": "SHANGHAI DEFENCE FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL BANKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What would you have done?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL BANKS", "preceding_text": "ave been criticised as nothing loss than a humiliating surrender of British interests to force; and we should have been told that in these so-called negotiations and so-called agreements, we had given everything, gained nothing, encouraged further outbreaks and exorbitant demands and seriously damaged not only the prospects of British trade, but British reputation in China and throughout the East.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2123.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2123.6", "colnum": "2123", "heading": "SHANGHAI DEFENCE FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL BANKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How did you escape?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL BANKS", "preceding_text": "hi-Bazouk, but a very amiable well-disciplined creature, and his first impulse is to, fraternise with the other people. I may conclude by telling the House a little personal anecdote to demonstrate that proposition. During the War we occupied a town on the Euphrates and the authorities erected a large gallows in terrorum against looters and brigands. I cannot recall that anyone was executed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2123.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2131.0", "colnum": "2131", "heading": "SHANGHAI DEFENCE FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARKER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have they not done so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARKER", "preceding_text": "at way have the Government taken steps to safeguard the lives of the people in Shanghai? We have been told about troops being sent out there, but is there no other way of saving the lives of our people? Is it not the: duty of the Government to try to save lives without the use of force at all? Is it not their duty to exhaust all the methods of diplomacy to save the lives of the people in Shanghai?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2133.1", "colnum": "2133", "heading": "SHANGHAI DEFENCE FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARKER", "preceding_text": "It does not matter. That makes no difference whatever. I can give the hon. Member information about men in China to-day, in the remote recesses of China, only I do not like to talk about myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2134.1", "colnum": "2134", "heading": "SHANGHAI DEFENCE FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARKER", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Of China?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARKER", "preceding_text": "h reside inside the Settlement? As I have said, the native city is dominated by the guns of the British Fleet, and in a few hours it would he possible for that Fleet to destroy the native city without doing any damage whatever to the British Settlement. We have had a guarantee, which was ridiculed and derided, from the representatives of China, that they will not invade the Settlement at Shanghai.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2134.1", "colnum": "2134", "heading": "SHANGHAI DEFENCE FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He does not represent China!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARKER", "preceding_text": "ty is dominated by the guns of the British Fleet, and in a few hours it would he possible for that Fleet to destroy the native city without doing any damage whatever to the British Settlement. We have had a guarantee, which was ridiculed and derided, from the representatives of China, that they will not invade the Settlement at Shanghai. [HON MEMBERS: \"Of China?\"] That representative was Mr. Chen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2134.1", "colnum": "2134", "heading": "SHANGHAI DEFENCE FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not entirely to Great Britain!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARKER", "preceding_text": "perhaps with Mr. Koo as well—that is the Premiers of Peking, in the north, and of Canton, in the south—making the best possible arrangements he can for the abrogation, amendment and revision of those Treaties. Another point I want to make is that Shanghai is an International Settlement, I want to know why its defence is left entirely to Great Britain? I want an answer to that to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2134.1", "colnum": "2134", "heading": "SHANGHAI DEFENCE FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARKER", "preceding_text": "ing so nauseating as this kind of Jingoism, specimens of which we have had from the other side of the House to-night. I think negotiations should be resumed if they have been broken off both with Peking and Canton, and the Government should make an effort to settle this great question by diplomacy and not by force. Of course the idea of going to war with China is absolutely absurd and unthinkable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2144.0", "colnum": "2144", "heading": "SHANGHAI DEFENCE FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "to help China to govern itself. It is because I believe the Foreign Secretary is honestly of that opinion that I support him, but that makes it a very serious blunder, in my judgment, to raise a discussion of this kind by supporters of the Government, who have already a majority in the House of Commons, which is by no means confined to their own Members, in support of the policy of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2144.0", "colnum": "2144", "heading": "SHANGHAI DEFENCE FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "s as the bandit lord, and I think he has quite justified that name. He has attempted to levy demands of over £1.000.000 upon the merchants there; he has tried to break into our settlement with force, and, from what I saw in the \"Daily Telegraph,\" with revolvers flourished in the face of the men there. When the Durhams turned him back, he sent word to say that it was purely a misunderstanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2144.0", "colnum": "2144", "heading": "SHANGHAI DEFENCE FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "you say that, the more provocative, the more unwise and, I would say, the more foolish is a Motion of this kind, coming from behind the Government Benches—a Motion which tries to make party capital, which congratulates the Government, and which approves of their policy. That might be quite right if you were giving a peerage to somebody at the end for their very successful conduct of affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2144.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2145.0", "colnum": "2145", "heading": "SHANGHAI DEFENCE FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What would he have to pay for it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "more provocative, the more unwise and, I would say, the more foolish is a Motion of this kind, coming from behind the Government Benches—a Motion which tries to make party capital, which congratulates the Government, and which approves of their policy. That might be quite right if you were giving a peerage to somebody at the end for their very successful conduct of affairs. [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2153.0", "colnum": "2153", "heading": "SHANGHAI DEFENCE FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did remain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "We have had a most remarkable speech from the hon. and learned Member for Swindon (Mr. Banks), and what is still more remarkable is the fact that he has not remained in his place to hear the rest of the Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2153.0", "colnum": "2153", "heading": "SHANGHAI DEFENCE FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "h he has no knowledge. He has been shanghaied. What has happened is that the Foreign Secretary has been shanghaied by the die-hard elements in the Cabinet, who have rushed these troops out in defiance, on this occasion, of the much wiser Foreign Secretary. I asked a Question to-day about the very important city of Wuhu. It is a very large city, which I remember as the dirtiest city in China—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2156.2", "colnum": "2156", "heading": "SHANGHAI DEFENCE FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CHARTERIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CHARTERIS", "preceding_text": "I gather that the hon. Lady has so far altered her position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2156.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-16", "file": "debates1927-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e2ce6ae915e7758b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2156.4", "colnum": "2156", "heading": "SHANGHAI DEFENCE FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CHARTERIS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CHARTERIS", "preceding_text": "I am very glad to have tad that statement about a 12-hours day, because it was brought to my notice in this building quite recently,, by people closely connected with the mills in China, who had just come from China, that one of the difficulties which one of the firms had when they made a proposal to shorten the hours was that the workpeople themselves went on strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-16a.2156.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-17", "file": "debates1927-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "b06cf17da4cdb634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-17a.2181.3", "colnum": "2181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POOR LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, West Ham!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must be referring to some other place than West Ham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-17a.2181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-17", "file": "debates1927-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "b06cf17da4cdb634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-17a.2201.9", "colnum": "2201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The same as this Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "In the circumstances of the case, should not the Soviet Government be put down as common robbers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-17a.2201.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-17", "file": "debates1927-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "b06cf17da4cdb634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-17a.2227.6", "colnum": "2227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "when we had succeeded, we spent the subsequent eight years in straining every nerve to set Germany on her feet again. Could imbecility go further than that? I want to make it perfectly clear that I am not a \"turn-the-other-cheek pacifist.\" I am often asked: \"What would you do if a man with a knife came along and wanted to murder your wife.\" My answer is perfectly simple, \"I should knock him down.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-17a.2227.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-17", "file": "debates1927-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "b06cf17da4cdb634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-17a.2258.1", "colnum": "2258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "now we have the position emphasised by a speaker on the other side of the House that Germany is shooting ahead of all the nations in this matter of commercial aviation. What have we accomplished in those years 1914–1918? The hon. Member for Northern Lanark (Sir A. Sprat) said that the enemy did not accomplish their purpose, but what was their purpose? It was declared to be their own defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-17a.2258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-17", "file": "debates1927-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "b06cf17da4cdb634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-17a.2308.3", "colnum": "2308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sister ships.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "There is nothing in that which is at variance with what I have said. The two airships are the same weight, but they are being built to very different designs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-17a.2308.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-21", "file": "debates1927-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "02812b9ed182830a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-21a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "n of co-operation inside the League of Nations, we must persuade them by actual practice that we are really prepared to tackle the question of disarmament in a generous kind of way. There is another argument in favour of the taking up of this question in a prompt and generous spirit. While we are spending somewhere between 14s. and 15s. out of every pound of taxation we collect on armaments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-21a.98.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-21", "file": "debates1927-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "02812b9ed182830a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-21a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "LONDON, MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL. (By Order.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. NALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. NALL", "preceding_text": "And the company, as is quite clearly shown, is doing its best to carry them out, and in this particular case is endeavouring, through every means, to try and carry them out, and the local authority concerned has refused to come to any kind of agreement with the company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-21a.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-21", "file": "debates1927-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "02812b9ed182830a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-21a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "LONDON, MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL. (By Order.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "preceding_text": "is no service at all. They have a rest until it is time for them to resume in the evening. It is no wonder there is congestion on the trams and omnibuses, when we have a statutory authority with a line and railway stations who will not run a service. The reason why they do not run a service is because they have not come up to date. They send all their worst and oldest steam engines down to Poplar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-21a.167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-22", "file": "debates1927-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "114b6a0b66704209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-22a.196.7", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which friends?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Before the right hon. Gentleman replies, will he take into consideration that, when my friends come into office, and we take over the railways, we shall need a Minister of Transport?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-22a.196.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-22", "file": "debates1927-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "114b6a0b66704209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-22a.266.2", "colnum": "266", "heading": "CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. MEYER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not in this country!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. MEYER", "preceding_text": "hem abroad. The mere quota provisions will not help but rather hinder in selling films abroad. The tendency will be that Americans will be less likely to take our films, whereas lately there has been a slowly growing tendency on their part to take the better pictures we have produced. Hon. Members seem to forget that this is entirely a question of profit, and a good film will always find a market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-22a.266.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-22", "file": "debates1927-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "114b6a0b66704209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-22a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ne of those giant American locomotives dashing through the Rockies, rather than the Southern Railway express to Brighton going through Horley Station. The ordinary people who go there like to see something fresh. They do not want to see Maudie driving Dobbin down to Mudford Market, but would rather see a bronco buster riding down the Bronx and hitching up to the rail outside Morgan's office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-22a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-22", "file": "debates1927-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "114b6a0b66704209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-22a.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HOWARD-BURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So did the Germans!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HOWARD-BURY", "preceding_text": "No, but they got the start. After the War we had to put our house in order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-22a.277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-22", "file": "debates1927-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "114b6a0b66704209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-22a.320.0", "colnum": "320", "heading": "TRUSTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "preceding_text": "annery at Potsdam, book-publishing at Berlin, and also newspapers. They have three newspapers in Vienna which, of course, are very handy for the purpose of controlling and educating public opinion. Newspapers of that kind are not unknown in this country. In North Germany this trust own landed estates, in Czechoslovakia they have sugar works, in Sweden a shipyard and in Naples an aluminium factory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-22a.320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-22", "file": "debates1927-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "114b6a0b66704209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-22a.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "TRUSTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROY WILSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROY WILSON", "preceding_text": "eed to be out of it to-day. America has burned her fingers very badly over her nationalisation experiments, and has dropped them. I do not want to be provocative, but there is the case of Russia. Hon. Gentlemen opposite who know Russia and the present condition of Russia know that the efforts of the Soviet Government to nationalise everything have brought misery and penury to the people of Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-22a.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-22", "file": "debates1927-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "114b6a0b66704209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-22a.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "TRUSTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, head!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": " the great financial corporations of Germany and these industrial combines to which I have alluded. We may make up our minds that, whether we like it or not, in face of a limited world consumption and a steadily growing world production, our competitive effectiveness can only be raised to its highest level by the continuous extension under wise and careful provisions of these greater combinations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-22a.335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-22", "file": "debates1927-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "114b6a0b66704209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-22a.339.2", "colnum": "339", "heading": "TRUSTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "ther. Would it not be better for the two countries to have an understanding, get a reasonable profit out of the coal, and divide it between the people in the North of England and those in the Ruhr,, than to supply another country with coal at no profit at all? You have that sort of thing continuously happening, and I believe the sooner we can come to an understanding with our German friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-22a.339.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-24", "file": "debates1927-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a908eaec9a0e248c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.538.8", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or Tories\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "The difficulty is that the aliens who are deported are not classified in any particular list as to whether they were aliens, Communists or criminals of any particular type.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.538.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-24", "file": "debates1927-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a908eaec9a0e248c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POOR LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman think that when the lives and property of so many of our people arc- concerned", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-24", "file": "debates1927-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a908eaec9a0e248c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "ent. from the Dominions—preliminary training and passage and landing money for something between 60,000 and 80,000 settlers a year. As a matter of fact, the total number of settlers who had taken advantage of that Act up to the end of the financial year 1925–26 was 116,500. The appeal that X am going to make to my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Education is this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-24", "file": "debates1927-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a908eaec9a0e248c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.674.2", "colnum": "674", "heading": "EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "ady been made for a number of other objects which, in our judgment, would come long after. There is also one other difference. We look forward with hope to the development of a new generation which shall have profited by ampler educational opportunities than the present generation has had, to a new generation which will be more alert, more critical, more self-respecting, and less submissive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.674.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-24", "file": "debates1927-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a908eaec9a0e248c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "are some areas where I have beer unable to give that general approval, namely, those areas which have been specially hard hit by the industrial troubles of last year and where the rating position is such that I am advised by the Minister of Health that the credit of those authorities renders it necessary to go slow until their position and their assessable value are re-established in some measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-24", "file": "debates1927-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a908eaec9a0e248c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why did you withdraw it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "en a great development, and every single one of those 67,000 elementary school places sanctioned during the last year came within the four corners of Memorandum. No. 44. Hon. Members who were previously misled into misrepresenting Memorandum No. 44 are trying to renew their misrepresentations to-day. I have given them the facts, and I defy them now to continue that propaganda of misrepresentation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-24", "file": "debates1927-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a908eaec9a0e248c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It did not start there!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "l bias, beyond reminding him that the arguments that may sound well at a rural district council election in Durham do not always impress the House of Commons. I think it is only fair to the Members of my own party to say that, from the moment that I first heard of this case from my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Hitchin (Major Kindersley), when he put down a question in regard to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-24", "file": "debates1927-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a908eaec9a0e248c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.723.5", "colnum": "723", "heading": "ERRIBOL FARM (SALE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "it is certain that 43 is between four and five times nine, and, therefore, I say it is a loss of between 400 and 500 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.723.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-24", "file": "debates1927-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a908eaec9a0e248c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.725.1", "colnum": "725", "heading": "ERRIBOL FARM (SALE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "n which the estate was eventually sold. We are in the position of a landlord in this matter. The taxpayers and the people of this country owned this estate. The right hon. Gentleman opposite was in the position of our factor or agent and he sold the estate for us. He has disposed of part of our property at a loss of over 50 per cent. on his own valuation, and this took place only a few months ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-24", "file": "debates1927-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a908eaec9a0e248c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.725.1", "colnum": "725", "heading": "ERRIBOL FARM (SALE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "yers and the people of this country owned this estate. The right hon. Gentleman opposite was in the position of our factor or agent and he sold the estate for us. He has disposed of part of our property at a loss of over 50 per cent. on his own valuation, and this took place only a few months ago. [HON. MEMBERS: \"To whom?\"] I am not going into that matter, but it was sold to the present purchaser.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-24", "file": "debates1927-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a908eaec9a0e248c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "ERRIBOL FARM (SALE).", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Sir John Gilmour)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Sir John Gilmour)", "preceding_text": "ers at prices in proportion. I have sold the land, as I have said, for £10,000, and the sheep and other stock for £10,724. That, of course, is a very considerable difference. But it is a matter of opinion on the part of the valuer. I say at once that those who were responsible for the management of this farm placed a value on this stock which was far in excess of that which was received.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-24", "file": "debates1927-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a908eaec9a0e248c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.736.6", "colnum": "736", "heading": "ERRIBOL FARM (SALE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to take part in Scottish matters, but this affects not merely Scotland but all of us who represent constituents. I was always under the impression that when you placed the sale of an estate or of property of any kind in the hands of auctioneers, those auctioneers were in control of the sale, and some of us would like to know where we are in this matter,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.736.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-24", "file": "debates1927-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a908eaec9a0e248c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.736.6", "colnum": "736", "heading": "ERRIBOL FARM (SALE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "as proved it. All we have heard from the right hon. Gentleman is a series of evasive answers to questions definitely put. Here is public property absolutely sold behind the backs of the people, and up to now we do not know who the buyer is. We want to know who is this favoured person, and we shall find out, and we shall find him somewhere among the relations of the gentlemen sitting on that bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.736.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-24", "file": "debates1927-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a908eaec9a0e248c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.736.6", "colnum": "736", "heading": "ERRIBOL FARM (SALE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "d, and no question has been raised as to its accuracy, that you have sold that estate for nearly £10,000 less than you could have had for a public property. I am standing by figures presented by the people who have gone into the matter, which have not been contradicted. The Minister has not contradicted the statement made that this property was sold for less than was offered by another party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.736.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-24", "file": "debates1927-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a908eaec9a0e248c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.736.6", "colnum": "736", "heading": "ERRIBOL FARM (SALE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Hoy. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "d for less than they could have sold it for, and this Debate proves it. I know, of course, quite easily, how these things are done. Scotland is not the only place where the market is rigged in favour of private individuals. Some of us have sat on local authorities, and the best part of our time has been spent in watching these believers in private enterprise, who do not care a tinker's damn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.736.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-24", "file": "debates1927-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a908eaec9a0e248c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.736.6", "colnum": "736", "heading": "ERRIBOL FARM (SALE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ct language. I believe it is even used in Holy Scripture. So far as we on these benches are concerned, a large number of us think we ought to know all the facts connected with this transaction. We have only had one side, and the other side has been discreetly silent. The real facts have not been explained as to why public property has been sold at a price less than could have been received for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.736.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-24", "file": "debates1927-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a908eaec9a0e248c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.736.6", "colnum": "736", "heading": "ERRIBOL FARM (SALE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "rrupting me have never got up to defend their own Minister, because they know that there is something fishy about it. The House has not been taken into the confidence of the Government, and if any private individual were to commit a transaction of this character, he would find himself in a very serious position, yet here is a Minister of the Crown who is being defended by the gentlemen of England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-24a.736.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-25", "file": "debates1927-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "964336524fbeb175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-25a.758.0", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WILD BIRDS PROTECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "sion has been expressed lest there should be opposition to the Bill from various other interests. As far as I have been able to ascertain I think ail the great societies which are interested in birds in any form, with one possible exception, are heartily supporting the Bill. It is an interesting circumstance that I represent a consti- tueney which is the greatest producer of canaries in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-25a.758.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-25", "file": "debates1927-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "964336524fbeb175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-25a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WILD BIRDS PROTECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. WISE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. WISE", "preceding_text": "rliest breeders, I think. The heron and the raven come first, but the woodcock comes about third; there are generally two broods in the year. Unless we shoot that particular bird on the 12th August, he will probably have gone from this country; he will have migrated. If you make the date the 1st September, that bird will not be here. The person who will get the benefit of it will be the foreigner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-25a.792.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-28", "file": "debates1927-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "722a440ba7f13f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-28a.859.10", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA. NANKING OUTRAGES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The words you used were 'You were lying,'\" and \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "The \"Evening Standard' for one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-28a.859.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-28", "file": "debates1927-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "722a440ba7f13f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-28a.889.4", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Prices!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "he truth is that the decline is, as far as I can ascertain it, in the counties where there has been no foot-and-mouth disease —in Wales, for instance, and in the extreme North and in the North-West of England. What has brought this about must, undoubtedly, have been some very powerful economic influence, which has made the keeping and the breeding of sheep less profitable than it used to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-28a.889.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-28", "file": "debates1927-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "722a440ba7f13f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-28a.911.5", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "e active steps should be taken by the Ministry of Agriculture in England and the Board of Agriculture in Scotland to deal with the matter. We know, for example, that milk is sent 200 miles by railway from one part of Scotland to another, while other milk, 50 miles away from the first town, is sent back to that first place. What a farce! How ludicrous it all is! All this in spite of the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-28a.911.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-28", "file": "debates1927-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "722a440ba7f13f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-28a.925.2", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMB", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMB", "preceding_text": ". Reference has been made to the decrease in the number of cattle in this country. I believe I am correct in saying that the numbers of dairy cattle have increased. The fact that the farmer has found that dairy farming has been the brightest spot in agriculture in recent years has led to an increase in that class of stock. Possibly, the decrease in the other class of stock may be attributed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-28a.925.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-28", "file": "debates1927-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "722a440ba7f13f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-28a.940.3", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. SANDERS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. SANDERS", "preceding_text": "f it is that, in practice, we have tried this thing over and over again, and I do not know how many of my hon. Friends around me have burnt their fingers over it. I expect a good many have. I have myself. One after another of us has tried to help in setting up these co-operative societies, and one after another has lost his money as one after another of these societies has become insolvent—-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-28a.940.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-28", "file": "debates1927-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "722a440ba7f13f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-28a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": " these things up. That is starting at the nearest end of Scotland. The returns for last week-end show that 2,000 people from the agricultural areas left Scotland for Glasgow last weekend. I was up in West Perthshire on Friday, and that is an area that can be called a purely agricultural area. I got in touch with many people there, and in one place a farmer who was talking to me took me for a Tory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-28a.983.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1057.4", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": " Majesty's Government to the Russian Soviet Government, and I have been unable to ascertain at the Table why the question which I put in was not in order. I should be glad if you would give guidance to myself and others as to why, seeing that it is now five weeks since this Note was issued, a Member is not entitled to ask the Foreign Secretary whether the warning given in that Note has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1057.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1057.7", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "May we not know if there is any rule why we should not ask whether the warning given to a foreign Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1057.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1098.0", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "t from the attitude they adopted two years ago when I followed them in this Debate. At that time, it was the pledged policy of the party which they represent to abolish capital punishment, not only in civil cases but in Army cases. To-day, as I understand it, the united party takes a different view. They accept the policy of the capital punishment in certain cases. That is a great step in advance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1098.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1099.1", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"1923!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": " of war the ordinary civilised conditions of humanity cease to operate. These are the hard facts which nobody can doubt. A great deal was said about Field Punishment No. 1 and its abolition. It was part of my duty, along with very able officers in the War Office, to alter Field Punishment No. 1 in 1917, and it was altered very considerably. In 1921 it was decided to abolish Field Punishment No. 1.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1110.0", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "preceding_text": " himself in the train, and, when it stopped before it got to the main station in Glasgow, he got out simply because his attachment to home led him to desert. I have no doubt that in other cases there were very mixed feelings which made men take this course. There was another case in which I was interested—the case of a man whose views in regard to war itself changed when he was at the Front.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1144.3", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Use of military in connection with trade disputes.)", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "the Army. That is the position of a mercenary army, and not a citizen army such as we ought to have in a country like Great Britain. I suggest that it is not asking too much, within the extremely narrow limits of this Clause, to ask the Secretary of State for War, on behalf of the Government, to accept this proposal, which at least puts before the recruit the right to contract out at a time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1155.3", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:. \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "e Chester-le-Street Board of Guardians, they did no more than they were justly entitled to do for the poor. The guardians considered that they were responsible for seeing that every person had at least the minimum requirements in the shape of food and necessary shelter; and they acted on that. Therefore, they have no need to apologise. It is true that they gave a little preference to trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1161.0", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "orker or trade unionist in particular, I certainly say this, and the Chester-le-Street Guardians say it, that they will receive more justice and decent treatment from a court of law in this country than they will receive from the Tory Government. What are the facts connected with this business? The right hon. Gentleman is a Conservative Minister. He is Minister of Health, but he is a Conservative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1161.0", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "ute book. The OFFICIAL REPORT continues: Sir K. WOOD:…The quotations which I have made to-night in connection with the position of men in relation to their unions and matters of that kind…are quotations from the minute books of the old board of guardians.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 1st March, 1927; col. 332, Vol. 203.] As the House will see that includes the collection for the guardians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1166.2", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was not quoted.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "he Parliamentary Secretary as I have already pointed out said quite distinctly: The guardians themselves, I understand, arranged that on the occasion and at the time when people receive Poor Law relief a collection should be taken up for the Poor Law guardians themselves. Then he added: All the matters which I have quoted are quotations from the official minute books of the old board of guardians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1166.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1166.2", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "which I have quoted are quotations from the official minute books of the old board of guardians. [HON. MEMBERS: \"That was not quoted.\"] Surely hon. Members are not going to express doubt that the hon. Gentleman had in mind his general statement when he said: All the matters which 1 have quoted are quotations from the official minute books of the old board of guardians. Surely that is plain enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1166.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1166.4", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "Even the report of the appointed guardians says so, but the Parliamentary Secretary said it was in the minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1166.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1166.6", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": " paid out every Friday at the local Picture Hall in the Cooperative Society's building. When the recipients went out of the hall they had to pass near the exit a table at which sat or stood members of the local unemployed organisation (four in particular, but occasionally others). Each recipient passing was asked to remember the local guardians, and a great majority contributed money to these men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1166.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1166.6", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": " these men. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful!\"] None of the guardians who lost their employment in the mining industry during the dispute has applied for relief. 9.0 p.m. That means, if it means anything at all, that the guardians during the time of the lock-out were maintained by contributions paid by those who 9.0 p.m. were receiving relief during that period. As a matter of fact that cannot be true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1166.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1166.6", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In one day?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "pon this grave matter which has been sent abroad through all the country, and throughout the world, I am afraid to the detriment of this country, there is sufficient evidence in the statement which I make, after investigation, to justify submitting this matter to a public inquiry. That is the least that can be done. Take the question of the prosecutions. The report says they prosecuted 24 persons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1166.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1177.1", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRACE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRACE", "preceding_text": "f answering the allegations which have been made against them. Really, these charges answer themselves, because they are all contained in the minutes of the board. These guardians are convicted out of their own mouths and their own minutes convict them. If one wanted any further instances, one has only to look at the Labour guardians' case which is set out in the \"Daily Herald\" of 12th March last.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRACE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRACE", "preceding_text": "rom their trade union as much as their careful and thrifty fellows. All I can say is that, if this board had had a little more regard for the careful and thrifty ratepayers of the Chester-le-Street Union, they would not have got themselves into the fix in which they are at present. Again, why should a board of guardians interfere in the private affairs of any man who comes to them claiming relief?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1179.0", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member puts to me the question why they should be there and call out. The simple statement is that they did not do anything of the kind. They never asked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1179.1", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRACE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRACE", "preceding_text": "at there was something serious in the air. If any friends of mine who were guardians were removed, I should not like to sit still and let this cloud hang over them for eight months. It is only when the White Paper is produced, and you all realise, and the country realises, the gravity of what these people have done, when you realise the damage that has been done to your own political future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1179.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1181.0", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "I agree with him that acquisitiveness must have a demoralising influence when a millionaire will rise in this House and denounce guardians for giving to a destitute woman 15s. a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1181.0", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "the late guardians before they granted relief. We are told, as evidence in support of their indiscriminate action, that applicants were not asked to produce their cooperative books, so that the guardians would have a reasonable opportunity of judging whether there was actual destitution. I would remind the House that the guardians here, and the applicants for relief were well known to one another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1181.0", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "the poor, they are to be dismissed from office. That is to be the test of their suitability for office. They are elected because the poor believe that they will get more generous treatment from them than they would get from the Tories. If the poor did not believe that, there would be no sense in ousting the Tories and replacing them by Socialist local governors. We on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1181.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1192.3", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "Yes, but the right hon. Gentleman says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1192.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "I am surprised to learn that I charged the right hon. Gentleman with giving it to the Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You said he gave it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "I am surprised to learn that I charged the right hon. Gentleman with giving it to the Press. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You did!\"] I charged him with allowing it to get to the Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1194.1", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I have the words as written down at the time. He said that I gave it to the Tory Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1194.1", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I have the words as written down at the time. He said that I gave it to the Tory Press. [ Interruption. ] I am sufficiently satisfied after what the right hon. Gentleman has now said. No one regretted more than I did that the Report appeared in any paper before it was in the hands of hon. Members in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1197.0", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "preceding_text": "That is all very funny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1197.2", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "The Report says that there stood at the entrance to the room four individuals, representing the local unemployed organisation, who asked those who had received the relief as they went out to \"Remember the guardians.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1197.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1198.0", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ever there is a sign of independence of thought shown in that party it is promptly followed by expulsion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-29", "file": "debates1927-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f9e16aadde60b48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1216.3", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Surely, you should listen and wait until I have finished my sentence. The Minister of Health tonight was very wroth because this side of the House, he thought, did not allow him to finish his sentence, and now I am claiming the same indulgence as any Minister of the Crown. Remember the treatment meted out to me will be meted out to him on future occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-29a.1216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-30", "file": "debates1927-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "8ddf3067e6c90039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-30a.1229.0", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman what is the next step he proposes to take in this matter? Is he making representations, has a Note been sent, or what is being done?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-30a.1229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-30", "file": "debates1927-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "8ddf3067e6c90039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-30a.1239.3", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "He can find it for any old war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-30a.1239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-30", "file": "debates1927-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "8ddf3067e6c90039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-30a.1262.9", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "ole population, they will come to the conclusion that if we are afraid to deal with betting by stamping it out, if we must acknowledge that people have the right to bet, it is more reasonable and proper to face that fact and make betting as decent as we possibly can. We all know that British people will bet, whatever Governments may say. If a working man desires to bet, and I think properly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-30a.1262.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-30", "file": "debates1927-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "8ddf3067e6c90039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-30a.1307.0", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "CROWN LANDS (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "nd, states that The power to sell shall be construed to include power to grant a feu and the expression 'easement' shall mean 'servitude.' I notice a representative of Scotland on the Front Bench, and perhaps he will explain whether there is a complete balance as between these legal terms, or whether there is a difference which is against Scotland. I do not think that \"feu\" is meant by \"easement.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-30a.1307.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-30", "file": "debates1927-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "8ddf3067e6c90039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-30a.1321.1", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "CROWN LANDS (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "ominal price or rent.\" Why should Crown lands be granted at a nominal price or rent to a private railway company? It is quite true that people interested in a railway company may have a good deal of political influence, but why should they be granted land at a nominal price? They ought to pay a proper price, if they are a private company. I am sorry we are not going to divide against this Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-30a.1321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-30", "file": "debates1927-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "8ddf3067e6c90039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-30a.1322.1", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "CROWN LANDS (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And he will not speak.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "e a Second reading to this Bill we should have some indication of the extent of these Crown lands or some indication of what is regarded as the possible area of lands transferred either by purchase or by lease. So far there has been only an attempt to wrap the whole subject in mystery, to tell us it is a technical business and that only the Solicitor-General for England has any knowledge about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-30a.1322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-30", "file": "debates1927-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "8ddf3067e6c90039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-30a.1332.5", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "CROWN LANDS (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "Yes, there is some of that land in Wales. Inasmuch as the 104th Report of the Commissioners of Crown Lands will give hon. gentlemen all this information which they are so anxious to obtain, I think economy of time will make it necessary for me to refer them to this most absorbing document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-30a.1332.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-30", "file": "debates1927-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "8ddf3067e6c90039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-30a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "CROWN LANDS (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "very technical character. Some criticism has been directed against my right hon. Friend on account of the brevity with which he introduced the Bill. I am bound to say there is no pleasing some hon. Members. I think that if my right hon. Friend had spent time in a detailed and technical exposition of the various Clauses of the Bill, hon. Members would have been just as dissatisfied as they are now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-30a.1333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-30", "file": "debates1927-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "8ddf3067e6c90039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-30a.1351.2", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "RURAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CLIFTON BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Dead now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CLIFTON BROWN", "preceding_text": "things. You must see that these factories or businesses, when they are put out in the countryside, provide houses for their people as well as houses for their machinery or whatever it may be. I know it is rather an impossible thing that I ask, but I think that every industry ought to provide houses for its own people, which was always done by the old squires and by the old agricultural landowners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-30a.1351.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-31", "file": "debates1927-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "abaf9985f49779f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-31a.1413.1", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POOR LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "I wish to ask a supplementary question. I want to ask the Minister if he has considered this point—that if he does not make a sufficient allowance, over and above what is necessary for sustenance, the recipients will not be able to make any contribution to the guardians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-31a.1413.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-03-31", "file": "debates1927-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "abaf9985f49779f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-31a.1415.6", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POOR LAW.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Yes, there is!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. PETO", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that there is no demand whatever from Somerset for this Measure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-31a.1415.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-31", "file": "debates1927-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "abaf9985f49779f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-31a.1513.1", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WASHINGTON HOURS CONVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "lead poisoning through the use of white lead in paint. There are over 200 operative painters always suffering from lead poisoning. That in itself, I should imagine, ought to induce any Government, of any political colour, to help to ratify this Convention; but the Government defy the Convention; they defy all expert opinion; they do not intend to Help the working classes to a better state in life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-31a.1513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-31", "file": "debates1927-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "abaf9985f49779f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-31a.1558.0", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WASHINGTON HOURS CONVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ng up the work of the mason with the work of the quarry-man, which is entirely different. There is no danger to any mason who uses stone of this description. The danger is from getting small pieces of stone into the lungs, and that only happens amongst quarry workers who are constantly quarrying the stone. In preparing the stone for building, or in using it in building, the danger is non-existent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-31a.1558.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-31", "file": "debates1927-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "abaf9985f49779f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-31a.1567.0", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT GRANTS COMMITTEE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": " be spent to far greater advantage than in merely digging a hole and filling it up. My own constituency has had to suffer in a matter of importance. It was not a question of this Government turning it down, because the biggest disappointment I ever had in my life was when I headed a deputation from my own town, before I was a Member of the House, to the Minister of Labour in the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-31a.1567.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-03-31", "file": "debates1927-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "abaf9985f49779f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-31a.1568.0", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT GRANTS COMMITTEE.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DRUMMOND SHIELS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DRUMMOND SHIELS", "preceding_text": "with the present state of things. We cannot understand a Government with so much power and so much talent allowing this to go on. Surely they do not admit that the problem of unemployment is beyond their powers to solve. The present Government seem inclined to do nothing. They are allowing even less to be done than was done two or three years ago. Unemployment is practically as bad as ever it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-03-31a.1568.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-01", "file": "debates1927-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "a217ecd083e77370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-01a.1601.0", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRANSPORT LIGHTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Hull?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ou improve transport the better for civilisation. Special motor roads are wanted, with a special track for bicyclists at the side, and outside that a special path for pedestrians. That is your future road, a road without any speed limit, and what is more it will be lighted at night. The great trunk roads adjoining Manchester and Liverpool, Bristol and London the great arteries of the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-01a.1601.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-04", "file": "debates1927-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "7c76f1f700605aef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-04a.1692.4", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA. NANKING OUTRAGES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "With regard to the point about the Cantonese soldiers, is the right hon. Gentleman aware that Mr. Chen, the Cantonese Foreign Secretary, dealing with that specific point, has said that it was not the Cantonese soldiers, but other brigands and troops who had borrowed the Cantonese uniform?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-04a.1692.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-04", "file": "debates1927-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "7c76f1f700605aef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-04a.1693.2", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA. NANKING OUTRAGES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.'", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I do not think it is my duty, as, apparently, does the hon. Member, to disbelieve every British representative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-04a.1693.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-04", "file": "debates1927-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "7c76f1f700605aef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-04a.1749.0", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman who has just spoken twitted my right hon. Friend the Member for Norwich (Mr. Hilton Young) for what he called riding off on certain statements which he made, but the hon. Member for Doncaster (Mr. Paling) himself galloped away altogether with the question by citing the coal industry, which every thinking person knows to be an entirely separate and distinct affair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-04a.1749.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-04", "file": "debates1927-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "7c76f1f700605aef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-04a.1814.0", "colnum": "1814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "lth to pay wages with than there was before, what he is going to do with the 70 men who are displaced by that process. The problem is not one of a lack of production or a lack of wealth through the employment of five men as against 75 men, but of an actual increase in production. Is he going to advocate a lethal chamber to take away the surplus made by the scientists through increasing production?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-04a.1814.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-04", "file": "debates1927-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "7c76f1f700605aef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-04a.1825.2", "colnum": "1825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ladies smoke too!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "preceding_text": "on. Gentlemen on both sides of this House declare that the tobacco shops must always be open, so that at any time, night or day, they may be able to get their tobacco. If a woman can do her weekly marketing in the hours that are to be regulated now, surely it is not too much to ask that gentlemen should be required to remember in the morning how much tobacco they are likely to want during the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-04a.1825.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-04", "file": "debates1927-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "7c76f1f700605aef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-04a.1835.1", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " that have been made. They are the same that we have heard before. We are told that in the Unemployment Insurance system we have been cutting people off benefit; that by that means we have endeavoured to reduce the live register; that our use of discretion is not justifiable in the first place, and was used with harshness on the top of that; that we have been overriding the local committees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-04a.1835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-04", "file": "debates1927-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "7c76f1f700605aef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-04a.1835.3", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": ". Those were the four conditions in regard to extended benefit which were contained in the Act of 1924. Therefore, the shaft of the hon. Member for Bow and Bromley passed me by. In that respect he had better settle with his. right hon. Friend afterwards. When he comes to actual cases, and the charge of less sympathetic administration—I think that was the charge made by tie hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-04a.1835.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-05", "file": "debates1927-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e86156f41ff0ea11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.1892.7", "colnum": "1892", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Home Secretary!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE LISTER", "preceding_text": "I have been asked to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.1892.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-05", "file": "debates1927-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e86156f41ff0ea11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.1894.1", "colnum": "1894", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "I beg to give notice that, on this day fortnight, I will call attention to the necessity of sending the Socialist party on a trip round the British Empire —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.1894.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-05", "file": "debates1927-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e86156f41ff0ea11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.1912.1", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF lNDIA (INDIAN NAVY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "t one cannot take Indian opinion merely from Indian politicians. That is always said on occasions of this kind, and it was said when the Bill was before the House on Second Reading. The whole of vocal India is behind the political views which are expressed on this matter, and, if hon. Members opposite dispute the fact that that is the opinion of India, then I say the onus of proof rests upon them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.1912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-05", "file": "debates1927-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e86156f41ff0ea11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.1939.1", "colnum": "1939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF lNDIA (INDIAN NAVY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "—they nevertheless contributed a large sum of money to the. general cost of the War. Could the Noble Lord or, if I may say so, one of his more lucid colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.1939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-05", "file": "debates1927-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e86156f41ff0ea11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.1942.0", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF lNDIA (INDIAN NAVY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "o fight or to patrol in any other part of the world, the bill is ours and nobody else's. But the impoverished people of India are to be called upon to pay. The average income of the Indian ryot is not more than £l a year, not £l a week. There are hon. Members who get more in one year for not telling the truth in this House than the Indian native gets in 10,000 years for working honestly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.1942.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-05", "file": "debates1927-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e86156f41ff0ea11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.1945.0", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF lNDIA (INDIAN NAVY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"So we can.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "out the consent of the people who are called upon to pay. It may be argued that we have been very good to India, and that we have ruled India better than the Indians could have ruled themselves; but after all, because we think we are better rulers of somebody else, that does not give us the right to rule them. For many years, we thought we could rule Ireland better than they could rule themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.1945.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-05", "file": "debates1927-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e86156f41ff0ea11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.1986.8", "colnum": "1986", "heading": "PACIFIC CABLE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "e may say about the ownership of the land—and I will touch upon that later—the one thing which has got to be done to redeem the agricultural industry is to free the soul of the man who works on it. Unless I am mistaken, the squire and the landlord still claim the right to keep in subjection politically and sometimes in the matter of religion a goodly number of men who work on the soil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.1986.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-05", "file": "debates1927-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e86156f41ff0ea11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.1986.8", "colnum": "1986", "heading": "PACIFIC CABLE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": " are put forward. I suggest to hon. Members who have put forward those Amendments that all the remedies they now propose have been tried before and have failed to do anything for agriculture. The proposals of other parties brought before this House from time to time have included the Corn Protection Acts, the reduction of rates on agricultural holdings, the lightening of the burden of rural roads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.1986.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-05", "file": "debates1927-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e86156f41ff0ea11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.1986.8", "colnum": "1986", "heading": "PACIFIC CABLE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"HOW many of you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "law of that sort may not be carried by this House in an effort to redeem agriculture. I repeat that private landlordism has failed the farmer. Lack of security of tenure has killed his spirit. The big landlord too often treats land as an amenity, a playground, and a means of obtaining social prestige. The transfer of the land to the State would, of course, mean compensation. We admit that at once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.1986.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-05", "file": "debates1927-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e86156f41ff0ea11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.2014.0", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "PACIFIC CABLE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In collecting the rents.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDN JONES", "preceding_text": "efore that. If I may judge by the chief remedy which my hon. Friend proposes, he appears to think that the depression is due to the private ownership of land. I do not think it is anything of the kind. He described landlordism as an incubus. In my opinion landlords as a class have done their duty nobly. There are bad landlords, I admit, but, taking them as a class, they have done their duty nobly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.2014.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-05", "file": "debates1927-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e86156f41ff0ea11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.2014.0", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "PACIFIC CABLE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDN JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDN JONES", "preceding_text": " that the landlords have never regarded the ownership of land as an investment. I go further and I say that if the landlords received payment for the buildings only which are erected on the farms the price they would get for them at present cost would be far in excess of what the land and buildings would fetch if they were put in the market. They have done all they can to make their tenants happy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.2014.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-05", "file": "debates1927-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e86156f41ff0ea11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.2014.0", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "PACIFIC CABLE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Liberal land policy\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDN JONES", "preceding_text": "at if the State give full value for the farms and if they are going to get good rent and have a return on the money invested, if they are going to make any improvement, they will have to have interest on that improvement, and I say, alter having had considerable experience of small holdings in my own county, that the rents will be higher under State ownership than they are under private ownership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.2014.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-05", "file": "debates1927-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e86156f41ff0ea11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.2017.0", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "PACIFIC CABLE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NOEL BUXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NOEL BUXTON", "preceding_text": "t having been prominently before the public for many months, that our proposals and the proposals of the other parties are really quite well known, and that the general facts of the situation do not need to be dwelt on any longer? We are agreed also in a very remarkable way in regard to a diagnosis of the situation. I think I may say that all parties recognise in effect the failure of landlordism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.2017.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-05", "file": "debates1927-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e86156f41ff0ea11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.2017.0", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "PACIFIC CABLE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NOEL BUXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NOEL BUXTON", "preceding_text": "s of the situation. I think I may say that all parties recognise in effect the failure of landlordism. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"] Is it not fair to say that a characteristic proposal supported by most of the Governmental party is occupying ownership? Their burning desire is to establish more and more occupying owner-farmers, and that is a recognition of the failure of land ownership as we know it now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.2017.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-05", "file": "debates1927-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e86156f41ff0ea11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.2023.1", "colnum": "2023", "heading": "PACIFIC CABLE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": " Production gives the key. In chapter 11 there are very enlightening tables and the position is summarised by the statement that cereals and farm crops have suffered more during the past few years from falling prices than livestock, and fruit and vegetables have done much better than either. Side by side with this loading of the dice against arable cultication has been the great increase in wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.2023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-05", "file": "debates1927-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e86156f41ff0ea11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.2024.3", "colnum": "2024", "heading": "PACIFIC CABLE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are in the workhouse!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": " have been displaced. They did not give us many figures. The right hon. Gentleman founded one argument upon the fact that one of his friends had to employ two men out of the workhouse. That seemed to me rather to bear out the fact that there is no unemployment in agriculture, that there is no surplus of skilled men, but that there is a difficulty in finding enough men for the needs of the farmers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.2024.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-05", "file": "debates1927-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "e86156f41ff0ea11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.2025.1", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "PACIFIC CABLE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": " you do the position of the worker—is 42 per cent. worse off. During the last 100 years the landlord has put vast sums into the land in improvements, and I really can see no justice in the proposal that after all that he has done in the public interest, his land should be confiscated without due compensation. The other proposal is that farming should be controlled by agricultural committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-05a.2025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-06", "file": "debates1927-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c7ad3043978cf34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2051.4", "colnum": "2051", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Yes, but is it usual when you send an army to an International Settlement to send intelligence officers all over the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2051.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-06", "file": "debates1927-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c7ad3043978cf34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2099.3", "colnum": "2099", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman issued that Christmas statement and then some weeks afterwards those troops were despatched, the effect of their despatch upon the Chinese mind undoubtedly as an objective fact was to make those who were most in favour of us and those who were most friendly towards us, and most desired a complete settlement, say, \"Well, now, do we quite know what the British Government are driving at?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2099.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-06", "file": "debates1927-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c7ad3043978cf34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2101.1", "colnum": "2101", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "turbance and of up-bubbling and of chaos and of uncertainty, it is that China has discovered the effectiveness of the economic weapon. But when you have done your best and your worst the power of the Chinese boycott is going to last, and although right hon. Members opposite may feel that they are entitleld and that they have the power to pass a Trade Union Bill such as that which was issued—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-06", "file": "debates1927-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c7ad3043978cf34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2101.1", "colnum": "2101", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Always!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "gs of the revolution in Russia, or at least the early stages of the revolution in Russia, when we supported Denikin and Koltchak, and when we sent out that ill-starred and absurd expedition to Archangel, it will be all the worse. If we are going to act now in the same mind as we acted in then—though not perhaps in the same way, because history never repeats itself, or only very seldom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-06", "file": "debates1927-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c7ad3043978cf34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2108.0", "colnum": "2108", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL BANKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL BANKS", "preceding_text": "on and Peking and everywhere where the Bussian mischief or the Socialist mischief could get over the wires. Then we got the distorted history of our relations with China and those accusations of political and industrial tyranny. Propaganda, says the right hon. Gentleman opposite, is based on history, and well he knows it, so now they are engaged in making a history on which to base the propaganda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-06", "file": "debates1927-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c7ad3043978cf34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2113.1", "colnum": "2113", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BANKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Little Arthur's History?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BANKS", "preceding_text": "t might have had possibly more vigour at an earlier stage, and if I have ventured to criticise it, he occupies a situation in which he can afford to treat, with his usual urbanity and good temper, a criticism from a follower who is devotedly his admirer. May I go back for one moment to history and suggest to both sides of the House a fairly good synopsis of what British foreign policy ought to be?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2113.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-06", "file": "debates1927-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c7ad3043978cf34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2118.0", "colnum": "2118", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On their authorisation !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " suspicious paragraph which largely belies it. I notice in the \"Evening Standard\" that Chang-Tso-Lin's Northern troops have raided the Soviet Embassy in Peking, dragged out the Russians there and carried them off. That would not matter if Chang-Tso-Lin had done it on his own, but it is stated in the paper that Chang-Tso-Lin's troops have done that as a result of the orders of the Diplomatic Corps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2118.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-04-06", "file": "debates1927-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c7ad3043978cf34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2123.1", "colnum": "2123", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Chamberlain! and Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER (Mr. James Hope)", "preceding_text": "Sir Alfred Mond.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2123.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-04-06", "file": "debates1927-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c7ad3043978cf34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2123.5", "colnum": "2123", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Chamberlain!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. We are debating the policy of the Government, and we have not yet heard what it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2123.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-04-06", "file": "debates1927-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c7ad3043978cf34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2123.8", "colnum": "2123", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Chamberlain!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "I call on Sir Alfred Mond.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2123.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-06", "file": "debates1927-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c7ad3043978cf34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2123.9", "colnum": "2123", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member who has just addressed the House has brought back the Debate, at any rate in the concluding part of his speech, to the tangled history of Chinese government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2123.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-06", "file": "debates1927-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c7ad3043978cf34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2127.1", "colnum": "2127", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "g the danger of having their heads cut off by an executioner in the street if they will not take the banknotes of a bankrupt Chinese general; and that is what would happen if we did not enjoy extra-territorial rights and if British subjects were put in the same position as the Chinese. Hon. Members opposite never seem to think of that; in fact, I do not think they know very much about China—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-06", "file": "debates1927-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c7ad3043978cf34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2134.1", "colnum": "2134", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "As a matter of fact, the right hon. Gentleman and his friends regard themselves as the country; they do not include in the country the great wage-earning multitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-06", "file": "debates1927-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c7ad3043978cf34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2134.1", "colnum": "2134", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And their property, too?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "British residents, to protect British property, and to defend our national prestige. They have even gone so far as to accuse Members on this side of the House of refusing to move in the direction of protecting the lives of British residents in China. Why, we are the only people who have proposed a reasonable scheme of protection for the British residents there. We have proposed to bring them home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-06", "file": "debates1927-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c7ad3043978cf34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2137.0", "colnum": "2137", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "a Power of no consequence because we had done an obviously sensible thing in our treatment of such a powerless nation as China? Would there be any loss of prestige possible in our dealings with China? Would anyone believe that we were afraid of China? Would it not have been a great and noble act, would it not have been one likely to penetrate into the innermost hearts of these kindly people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-06", "file": "debates1927-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c7ad3043978cf34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2141.1", "colnum": "2141", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "reation of the city of Shanghai was done by the foreigner, and that it exists and prospers because of the foreigner. Why do we have these Concessions at all? Why do we talk of Treaty Ports? Because there is no equality of treatment at the present day between Chinese in England and British citizens in China. Chinamen can come here and settle in any part of our country and can be assured of justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-06", "file": "debates1927-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c7ad3043978cf34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2141.1", "colnum": "2141", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "unconditionally. The Leader of the Opposition wrote more than I have quoted. I am sorry that I cannot quote the whole of his argument. I am not quoting it to criticise it. He said: It is good neither for China nor for us that the liquidation should be done by riotous crowds. But that is what the right hon. Gentleman who has just sat down has said He said, \"Let these riotous crowds have their way.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2141.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-04-06", "file": "debates1927-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c7ad3043978cf34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2148.0", "colnum": "2148", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "How long was this ago?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "s that after a strike it became necessary for the missionaries to leave. He says that a \"close guard was placed about the hospital and no Chinese was allowed to enter. No help could be obtained for any purpose. The removal of baggage and effects was a problem. The foreigners were allowed to go in and out without being actually stopped. Each time we went outside the gate, our lives were in danger.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2146.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-06", "file": "debates1927-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c7ad3043978cf34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2148.1", "colnum": "2148", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "As long as a year ago. The head of the hospital also says, \"We heard such expressions as kill the foreigners,' 'down with the Imperialists,' 'China for the Chinese,' 'take back the hospital property,' 'kill all the Christians.'\" Do hon. Members cheer that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-06", "file": "debates1927-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c7ad3043978cf34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2148.1", "colnum": "2148", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "As long as a year ago. The head of the hospital also says, \"We heard such expressions as kill the foreigners,' 'down with the Imperialists,' 'China for the Chinese,' 'take back the hospital property,' 'kill all the Christians.'\" Do hon. Members cheer that? [ Interruption. ] I have read enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-06", "file": "debates1927-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c7ad3043978cf34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2152.3", "colnum": "2152", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So he did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I understood the hon. Gentleman to include the British Army in his charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-06", "file": "debates1927-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c7ad3043978cf34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2172.1", "colnum": "2172", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "owledge of this matter. I propose to return to it to-morrow by means of a Private Notice Question. This means the beginning of very serious events indeed. If it is right for us to protest against the outrages against our nationals on their lawful occasions in Nanking, then we must also protest against the invasion of other foreigners quartered in Peking, and especially in the diplomatic buildings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-06a.2172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-07", "file": "debates1927-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cba6901ea627bf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-07a.2240.6", "colnum": "2240", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MOTOR TRAFFIC.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman think the film referred to in this question would come within the category of a bad film?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-07a.2240.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-07", "file": "debates1927-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cba6901ea627bf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-07a.2313.1", "colnum": "2313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": ", after full consideration, considers to be one which will remedy a great many of the grievances which tenants, particularly of business premises, are under to-day. I may be attacked from both sides. Some hon. Members opposite may say: \"We want something far better than this.\" On the other hand, some hon. Members upon my own side may say: \"You are making an invasion into the old laws of the land.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-07a.2313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-07", "file": "debates1927-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cba6901ea627bf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-07a.2321.0", "colnum": "2321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": " between landlord and tenant. Another point in the Bill is that compensation shall not be paid in respect of flats and premises not used for business purposes, but surely, on the basis of the arguments adduced by the Home Secretary, and as pointed out by my hon. Friend the Member for Peckham (Mr. Dalton), goodwill may attach to a professional man just as it does to shopkeepers and to business men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-07a.2321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-07", "file": "debates1927-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cba6901ea627bf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-07a.2324.2", "colnum": "2324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "What was referred to as goodwill is the value of the goodwill created by a passing purchaser who goes into a particular shop to buy when he is going home, whereas I think the hon. Member will agree with me that there is no site goodwill attaching to a lawyer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-07a.2324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-07", "file": "debates1927-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cba6901ea627bf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-07a.2379.3", "colnum": "2379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RYE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Ex parte, of course!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RYE", "preceding_text": "way, I went to the Surveyors' Institution and asked them to tell me the names of the leading estate agents in certain of the big provincial towns. I have in my hand 22 letters that I have received in reply from the various agents, and I propose to read to the House extracts from those letters. I am not going to say that that is final, but I am going to state that the reports I have received—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-07a.2379.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-07", "file": "debates1927-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cba6901ea627bf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-07a.2400.1", "colnum": "2400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "working classes of this country at all. It has not interested the party on these benches. It has not even interested hon. Members opposite to any serious extent. I notice that the hon. Member for llford (Sir F. Wise), who can follow the driest of debates in this House with the most active interest, has only maintained his tenacious place on the benches opposite by sleeping most of the time —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-07a.2400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-08", "file": "debates1927-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2805792fbff56601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-08a.2436.1", "colnum": "2436", "heading": "ARCHITECTS (REGISTRATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "preceding_text": "ortunately, that withdrawal has not been notified to me, and, therefore, I am perfectly within my right in saying that the Bill has the support of the Royal Sanitary Institute. No doubt my hon. and gallant Friend is perfectly correct, but I think it would have been more courteous if, instead of rising in his place now, he had informed me beforehand that it had been withdrawn. In one respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-08a.2436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-08", "file": "debates1927-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2805792fbff56601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-08a.2436.1", "colnum": "2436", "heading": "ARCHITECTS (REGISTRATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "preceding_text": "ld not have happened. He would have been subject to professional control, and I think hon. Members will agree that professional control will not only be to the benefit of the employer but to the benefit of the profession and to the benefit of the public. I do not propose to go through all the Clauses of the Bill. This hon. Members can do for themselves. Doubtless many of them have done so already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-08a.2436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-08", "file": "debates1927-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2805792fbff56601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-08a.2440.0", "colnum": "2440", "heading": "ARCHITECTS (REGISTRATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I understand that the Bill is to be opposed not only by the Co-operative Gentlemen opposite but in a quarter not far from where I am standing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-08a.2440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-08", "file": "debates1927-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2805792fbff56601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-08a.2440.0", "colnum": "2440", "heading": "ARCHITECTS (REGISTRATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I know, many hon. Members on the benches opposite who can paint interesting pictures and make beautiful drawings. Opponents on this ground forget that the examinations of the Institute include a very strict examination in design. Hon. Members say, and I am sure my hon. Friend on the right will endorse the suggestion, \"What would have happened if Sir Christopher Wren had been required to register?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-08a.2440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-08", "file": "debates1927-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2805792fbff56601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-08a.2442.3", "colnum": "2442", "heading": "ARCHITECTS (REGISTRATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "preceding_text": "the House. May I assure the House that there is no desire or intention to make the profession a close profession. The Bill does nothing more and nothing less than restrict the use of the title \"architect\" and the use of the term \"architectural\" to people at present employed in the profession and to persons in the future who have attained the qualifying standing. After these few observations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-08a.2442.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-08", "file": "debates1927-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2805792fbff56601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-08a.2452.1", "colnum": "2452", "heading": "ARCHITECTS (REGISTRATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "t as in times past we have had the points of view of other middle-class professions put forward when they were seeking to secure similar privileges. The dental surgeons got a similar Bill through the House by urging that in the public interest only licensed and certified dentists should practise. We know that the result of that has been that the dental profession is closed to working-class people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-08a.2452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-08", "file": "debates1927-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2805792fbff56601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-08a.2453.1", "colnum": "2453", "heading": "ARCHITECTS (REGISTRATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have got them!\" and laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "In the same way we have had the optical practitioners urging that their profession ought to be closed, so that they may have the privilege of a limited number of people supplying the needs of the community. The auctioneers demand similar rights, the accountants demand similar rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-08a.2453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-08", "file": "debates1927-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2805792fbff56601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-08a.2481.0", "colnum": "2481", "heading": "ARCHITECTS (REGISTRATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TASKER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TASKER", "preceding_text": ", the late Norman Shaw, who was a Royal Academician and had probably a greater gift for massing stone work than any man who has ever been, not even excluding Christopher Wren might be deprived of the right to term himself an architect. Is there a general desire on the part of general public to have this Bill? Is there a desire on the part of some of our best architects? Let me read a short letter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-08a.2481.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-08", "file": "debates1927-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2805792fbff56601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-08a.2481.0", "colnum": "2481", "heading": "ARCHITECTS (REGISTRATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TASKER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TASKER", "preceding_text": "him to have a larger house because there were five children now and there were none when the house was built, but the architect said he could not help that, he the client should not do these things. I do not think the size of a man's family should be governed by the architect whom he chooses to make the design of his house. Clause 12 of the Bill closes another loophole, and as for Clause 16—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-08a.2481.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-08", "file": "debates1927-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2805792fbff56601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-08a.2485.0", "colnum": "2485", "heading": "ARCHITECTS (REGISTRATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir MURDOCH MACDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir MURDOCH MACDONALD", "preceding_text": "own of London, are mainly built on engineering plans, and they are nearly all to-day in the hands of structural engineers, who would no longer be able, under this Bill, to certify that they were the architects of those buildings. Therefore, if this Clause were left standing as it is, it would be impossible for these people to maintain the privileges which they have had from the public in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-08a.2485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-08", "file": "debates1927-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2805792fbff56601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-08a.2507.0", "colnum": "2507", "heading": "ARCHITECTS (REGISTRATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wind!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "th some scientific questions which were asked, one of which related to a monolith of certain weight and dimensions. The question was asked: \"What velocity of wind would overturn it? And the hon. and gallant Member pointed out how stupid the question was, because only a wind of 400 miles an hour could do it. When he got on to that subject, he was on a subject about which I happen to know something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-08a.2507.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-08", "file": "debates1927-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "2805792fbff56601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-08a.2507.0", "colnum": "2507", "heading": "ARCHITECTS (REGISTRATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "s a distinguished member was also given certain rights. The hon. Member is one of the most distinguished engineers in this country, and was a member, I think, of the Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and he demanded for that Institution certain rights as against the architects. I do not blame him for demanding those rights. I happen also to be a humbler member of the same Institution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-08a.2507.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-11", "file": "debates1927-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "9f4f2d198d0948d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-11a.65.3", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPENDITURE, 1927–28.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCLLOR of the EXCEQUER (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCLLOR of the EXCEQUER (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "Now I turn to the future, but, I am bound to confess, not with any special sensation of relief. The Estimates for the Supply Services of 1927 have already been laid before the House at a total of £420,490,000. I estimate the Consolidated Fund Services as follows: Debt interest, £305,000,000; Sinking Fund (for the moment), £50,000,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-11a.65.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-11", "file": "debates1927-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "9f4f2d198d0948d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-11a.65.3", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPENDITURE, 1927–28.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCLLOR of the EXCEQUER (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCLLOR of the EXCEQUER (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "Fund, 19.5 millions; Local Taxation Account, 14.3 millions; Northern Ireland Residuary Share, 5.4 millions; Other Consolidated Fund Services, 3.7 milions. That brings the total of the Consolidated Fund Services to £397,900,000, and, on the above basis, therefore, the total estimated expenditure for 1927, becomes £818,390,000. I have framed these Estimates upon a conservative basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-11a.65.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-11", "file": "debates1927-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "9f4f2d198d0948d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-11a.90.3", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MATCHES (REVISED DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Additional?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "he contents of the box. Thus the Customs Duty upon matches imported in boxes containing more than 20 but not more than 50 matches will be 4s. 4d. per gross of boxes and the countervailing Excise Duty will be 4s. 2d. The full particulars will be found in the White Paper. The proposal will come into force to-morrow, and is estimated to yield £600,000 this year, and £700,000 in a full year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-11a.90.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-11", "file": "debates1927-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "9f4f2d198d0948d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-11a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOBACCO (INCREASED DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "he Duty on imported unmanufactured tobacco shall be raised from 8s. 2d. to 8s. 10d. per pound, an increase of 8d. The rates on the other kinds of tobacco will move proportionately. This increased tax will, I estimate, produce £3,400,000 in a full year, and £3,100,000 in 1927. I may add that I have no reason to believe that the whole increase of this tax will be passed on to the consumer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-11a.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-11", "file": "debates1927-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "9f4f2d198d0948d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-11a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOBACCO (INCREASED DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We shall see.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "o shall be raised from 8s. 2d. to 8s. 10d. per pound, an increase of 8d. The rates on the other kinds of tobacco will move proportionately. This increased tax will, I estimate, produce £3,400,000 in a full year, and £3,100,000 in 1927. I may add that I have no reason to believe that the whole increase of this tax will be passed on to the consumer. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"] We shall see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-11a.93.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-04-11", "file": "debates1927-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "9f4f2d198d0948d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-11a.95.2", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BREWERS' CREDIT.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "We have now accomplished about half of our laborious climb, and perhaps it will be with a sense of refreshment that the Committee will receive my next proposal—Beer! The Committee will remember that last year I reduced the period of credit allowed to brewers for the payment of duty from three months to two. This has provided £5,200,000 for the Exchequer. It was suggested to me last year", "preceding_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "preceding_text": "Highway robbery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-11a.95.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-04-11", "file": "debates1927-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "9f4f2d198d0948d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-11a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX: SCHEDULE A.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "We are getting on. We are still some distance from the summit, but we shall now get there very quickly—in fact, shall only need to trouble the Committee for a very few minutes more. Last, but not least, I come to Income Tax. Sixpence on the Income Tax would give me all that I require for this year, but it would give us much more than we require for next year. Income Tax is bending under the ", "preceding_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "preceding_text": "burden laid upon them in two successive years. I have arranged that the extra month's duty this year may be paid in six monthly instalments, the first of which will not become due until October next. In this way I am led to believe that the burden will be imposed, at any rate, in its least onerous form, and I estimate that this reduction of the brewers' credit will produce exactly £5,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-11a.95.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-04-11", "file": "debates1927-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "9f4f2d198d0948d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-11a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINAL BALANCE SHEET.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "We have now reached the summit which we set ourselves to scale. Adding together the £5,900,000 of new Indirect Taxation, the £12,000,000 from the Road Fund Reserve, the £5,000,000 from the brewers' credit, the £14,800,000 from Schedule A, and £300,000 from rectifying the Estate Duty anomaly, we obtain a total increased revenue for 1927 of nearly £38,000,000. The prosp", "preceding_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "preceding_text": "between these dates, December and July, he dies having already paid one instalment which, under the existing system, would remain to be paid by his executors. His personal position is not therefore, through the change I am making, further damnified either in this world or in the next. The result of making this change is to bring into the Exchequer in the present year no less than £14,800,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-11a.96.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-11", "file": "debates1927-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "9f4f2d198d0948d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-11a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "AMENDMENT AS TO RELIEF FROM INCOME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " back on the land. That arrangement was never carried out. He came to an arrangement with Lord Leverhulme and that arrangement was never carried out. The present Government are doing what they can to discourage people going on to the land. What do we find in proof of my statement? Between six and seven months ago a great ball was given in Inverness and all the nobility of the Highlands were there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-11a.144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-11", "file": "debates1927-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "9f4f2d198d0948d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-11a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "AMENDMENT AS TO RELIEF FROM INCOME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "cae did not step in, in the Rajah's case; but if the Lord Advocate had been the Advocate for the people of Scotland he would have arrested the Rajah. What did he say? He said the only thing that was now required to make the Highlands of Scotland the complete pleasure ground for the rich was the introduction of a few Bengal tigers so that they would run the natives out of the Highlands of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-11a.145.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-12", "file": "debates1927-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e09d8f7d2cb01b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.278.0", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "ish the hon. Member for Thanet, or any other hon. Member who thinks that a reduction in expenditure on that sort of scale is possible, would help us by going a little further and indicating where those cuts could be made, what particular service is it they have in mind. Is it the Navy that is to be still further cut down? Are the defensive forces of the country to be still further cut down?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.278.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-12", "file": "debates1927-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e09d8f7d2cb01b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.278.0", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "hose cuts could be made, what particular service is it they have in mind. Is it the Navy that is to be still further cut down? Are the defensive forces of the country to be still further cut down?—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Is education to be largely cut down?—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Is there to be a reduction of insurance contributions and contributions to local taxation and so forth?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-12", "file": "debates1927-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e09d8f7d2cb01b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.278.0", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "ected defenders in the course of the last few hours. When the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Colne Valley speaks about the responsibility of my right hon. Friend for the growth of expenditure, and when some hon. Gentlemen opposite went further and have actually said that on my right hon. Friend rests the real and ultimate responsibility for the stoppage in the coal industry last autumn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-12", "file": "debates1927-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e09d8f7d2cb01b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "he Government. I think it is hardly generous, not to put it any higher, for the right hon. Gentleman to come down here anxious to triumph over the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Government, and obviously disappointed when he finds in spite of the difficulties which would have made him despair, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has managed by insight and ingenuity to overcome those difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-12", "file": "debates1927-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e09d8f7d2cb01b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Sir EDWARD ILIFFE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He does!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir EDWARD ILIFFE", "preceding_text": "far better to meet that expenditure to-day than to postpone it, as we must do, if the cost has come out of the current year. I should like to say a few words in connection with co-operative societies and Income Tax. I am sorry that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has not taken this opportunity of imposing upon cooperative societies the same Income Tax payments as is imposed upon their competitors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-12", "file": "debates1927-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e09d8f7d2cb01b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Sir EDWARD ILIFFE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir EDWARD ILIFFE", "preceding_text": " as these members are the heads of households, there must be something like 15,000,000 or 20,000,000 of co-operative consumers in this country which is practically one-third of the whole population. That is, truly, a great business enterprise. It shares in common with other traders the protective and social services provided by the State, and it should be asked to contribute its proper proportion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-12", "file": "debates1927-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e09d8f7d2cb01b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.303.3", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was before China!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "aid: By making modern weapons and modern organisations substitutes for old weapons and old organisations, and not mere additions, as they too often are, it should be possible, without reducing the national security in the future, to make substantial diminutions in military expenditure.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th March, 1927; cols. 294 and 295, Vol. 193.] He spoke of the Navy in the same Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-12", "file": "debates1927-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e09d8f7d2cb01b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.303.3", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "es in every branch and went far beyond the reasonable interpretation of a one-power standard—that being the standard which he himself, earlier in that speech, had established as being the proper standard. I do not know whether the Financial Secretary to the Treasury will agree that expenditure upon armaments is only to be regarded as a premium for the insurance of the safety of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-12", "file": "debates1927-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e09d8f7d2cb01b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.303.3", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "ntry. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I agree, and then it becomes important to know whether you are paying the proper premium. The prudent insurer would be as careful not to overpay as he would be not to under-pay and, in arriving at the proper premium to be paid on our insurance of national safety, the proper way is to take the amount expended upon armaments in comparison with the national income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-12", "file": "debates1927-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e09d8f7d2cb01b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member was also using an argument as to the increase in naval expenditure since 1913 and he was leaving out of his calculation the fact that the pay of the ordinary fighting man had been increased owing to the lower value of the pound sterling, which accounts in very large measure for the increase in the cost of the Navy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-12", "file": "debates1927-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e09d8f7d2cb01b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Were they locked out?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " 1920. I should like to remind the Chancellor of the Exchequer and hon. Members opposite that the coal dispute of 1926 was merely the effect of what had been taking place during the five years that preceded 1926. Those hon. Members who will carry their minds back to 1921 will remember that the miners were then locked out and compelled to suffer wage reduction amounting to £2 per week per man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-12", "file": "debates1927-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e09d8f7d2cb01b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "priating this £12,000,000. One can compliment the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the ingenuity he has displayed in his Budget scheme as a whole, and the readiness with which he applies the principle of expropriation that he is so ready to condemn in other people. I am not suggesting that any other Chancellor of the Exchequer in similar circumstances would not have adopted the same plan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.321.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-12", "file": "debates1927-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e09d8f7d2cb01b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.325.2", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "safeguarding industry welcome warmly the announcement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer that he is going to embody the safeguarding of translucent pottery or vitrified pottery, in his forthcoming Finance Bill. On this side of the House we believe in the great expansion of the application of the safeguarding policy and that it will do a great deal to find employment for the people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.325.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-12", "file": "debates1927-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e09d8f7d2cb01b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. HUDSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the reserves?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "pers who so frequently deal with this matter. There are no profits in the co-operative movement. The co-operative society as an institution is built, as the hon. Member for Tamworth admitted, upon a process of deferred payments—deferred payment of what is paid in by members of co-operative societies in the purchase of their goods. It takes the form of a return of that payment to the members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-12", "file": "debates1927-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e09d8f7d2cb01b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "AD HON. MEMBER: \"Why not now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "I was speaking in very general terms, because I cannot put myself in the position of adulation which has been adopted by previous speakers. But whoever may be Chancellor of the Exchequer, he will be in the position to take out of these reserves which the co-operative movement has developed, that part of the wealth which is needed for the general national community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-12", "file": "debates1927-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e09d8f7d2cb01b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "Indeed I am sure that the Chancellor of the Exchequer would agree with me that the main and only reason why these regular payments and these increasing payments towards the Sinking Fund should go on, is that those outside who have money to lend may be perfectly satisfied that there has been no mortgage of the country's future and that the country's financial position has been in no sense weakened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-12", "file": "debates1927-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e09d8f7d2cb01b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They get revenue.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": " the cost of a similar article in felspar china made in Germany. The chairman, who afterwards signed the majority report—only two of them signed that report—agreed that on the figures which had been submitted in camera the case was actually as stated by counsel whose words I have just read out. By this proposal to put a tax upon this commodity the Government do nothing at all to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-12", "file": "debates1927-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e09d8f7d2cb01b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Russia especially!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "maturely at that time. At the present moment the representative of the Government at Geneva, Lord Cecil, after all he has been able to do, is confronted by what practically amounts to a cul de sac; apparently no agreement is possible, and the whole of Europe is condemned to go on not merely without cutting down armaments but facing a highly probable increase of armaments during the next few years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-12a.332.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-13", "file": "debates1927-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b7e7979d4665da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.385.7", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "Instead of that, they found him in a fighting mood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.385.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-13", "file": "debates1927-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b7e7979d4665da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.385.7", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "may judge by some lucubrations in the Sunday Press, contributed by the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, the right hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Snowden), I gather he anticipated that he was going to act the part of an admonitory schoolmaster, who was to hold a terrifying rod over a trembling pupil, but instead he found that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was prepared with a complete defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.385.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-13", "file": "debates1927-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b7e7979d4665da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"She is not carrying our taxation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "rices to enable him to compete in foreign markets. That explains, amongst other reasons, the enormous development there has been in the export trade of America. It has to be remembered that those exports contain the highest wages in the world, and yet America has been able in her own industries to develop an export trade which now, for the first time in history, has exceeded that of Great Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-13", "file": "debates1927-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b7e7979d4665da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Some of them!\" and Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "the smoking of tobacco is a virtue I have not yet achieved. But, as far as I can see from what is stated in the Press, so slight is the imposition of this duty upon this enormous trade, which now not only covers the whole country, hut to which both sexes are addicted, that the tobacco manufacturers find themselves in a position in which they have already promised not to pass it on to the consumer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-13", "file": "debates1927-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b7e7979d4665da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.401.3", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "patronising to the Liberal party over this. I think, if I may say so respectfully, he might have spared his sympathy for the party that came third in the last two elections and which will probably come third in two more elections, when the obligations of honour are discharged and those elections are declared. They stand more in need of sympathy at the present moment. But when the real fight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.401.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-13", "file": "debates1927-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b7e7979d4665da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.401.3", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "r two little lapses, but they are not very serious; a very small penance would let him off. All I can say about the matter generally is that it does seem to be a little out of place and out of time to put on these fresh duties at the very moment when the present Government are sending a delegation to Geneva to persuade the Continental countries to reduce their tariffs and to remove trade barriers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.401.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-13", "file": "debates1927-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b7e7979d4665da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.401.3", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ads in order to develop the resources of the country. I shall, therefore, certainly oppose with the whole of my strength the annexing of this sum of money and putting it into a sinking fund. The best sinking fund of all is the money you spend upon development which is productive and remunerative and gives a substantial return to the business of the country. I am not going to say a word about beer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.401.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-13", "file": "debates1927-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b7e7979d4665da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.401.3", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "re are men and women, not all of them old—some of them will probably get the vote—whose sole income is practically Schedule A, and for them it is an increase of 50 per cent. in their Income Tax. The Chancellor says that will be put right on the great day. Let him try that on the Super-tax payers. Let him go to the Super-tax payers and say, \"Instead of paying two instalments pay three.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.401.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-13", "file": "debates1927-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b7e7979d4665da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "eva. First of all, we send one delegation to say that the tariff should not be raised at a moment when we are bringing forward our own proposals. We send a distinguished Minister to Geneva, I will not say to lecture the foreigners on their armaments, but that is the view they take of it, and we send that Minister to say, \"You must reduce your armaments,\" and here we are every year putting them up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-13", "file": "debates1927-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b7e7979d4665da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ed out the figures with regard to what has been spent in Germany and what Germany has had to bear in the way of national debt. At the end of the War her National Debt ran into something like our own, six or seven thousand millions of pounds. Her National Debt to-day is not one hundred and thirty millions of pounds. Her municipal debts, pre-War, have been wiped out. Inflation was practically—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-13", "file": "debates1927-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b7e7979d4665da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "hat His Majesty's Government could have driven the whole of the mining workers of this country down the pits. I do not think it is really serious politics to talk like that, but I must remind the Committee that the right hon. Member for Colne Valley has told the people that every strike of any magnitude in this country since the conclusion of the War has been inspired by, or financed from, Moscow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-13", "file": "debates1927-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b7e7979d4665da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.437.1", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Wheatley Act!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "o recognise the fact that unemployment is costing in unemployment benefits and relief, and in other ways, between £80,000,000 and £100,000,000 per annum. There is a direction in which a real saving may be achieved. The right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Health has done perhaps the most remarkable thing in the history of any country, because he has beaten all records in building houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-13", "file": "debates1927-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b7e7979d4665da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.492.3", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "oper to deduct the interest paid to the United States Government, namely, £28,000,000. That leaves, on the one hand, an Income Tax and Super-tax yield of £301,000,000, and, on the other hand, interest paid within this country amounting to £290,000,000. Consequently, practically the whole of the interest returned, either directly or indirectly, to the Income Tax and Super tax payers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.492.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-04-13", "file": "debates1927-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b7e7979d4665da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.498.0", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Yes!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "ed States Government, namely, £28,000,000. That leaves, on the one hand, an Income Tax and Super-tax yield of £301,000,000, and, on the other hand, interest paid within this country amounting to £290,000,000. Consequently, practically the whole of the interest returned, either directly or indirectly, to the Income Tax and Super tax payers. [ Interruption. ] Is that seriously denied?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.492.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-13", "file": "debates1927-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b7e7979d4665da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "se gentlemen whose qualifications and impartiality have been referred to by the hon. Gentleman, of the distribution of the National Debt throughout this country and the world. It appears, according to this, that out of £6,592,000,000 of Debt only £2,350,000,000 is held by private persons liable to Estate Duty, joint stock banks £750,000,000, and the Bank of England £70,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-13", "file": "debates1927-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b7e7979d4665da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You made it; no one else did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "rred to by the hon. Gentleman, of the distribution of the National Debt throughout this country and the world. It appears, according to this, that out of £6,592,000,000 of Debt only £2,350,000,000 is held by private persons liable to Estate Duty, joint stock banks £750,000,000, and the Bank of England £70,000,000. [ Interruption. ] That is a valuable comment on a Budget Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-13", "file": "debates1927-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b7e7979d4665da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "0,000,000 is held by private persons liable to Estate Duty, joint stock banks £750,000,000, and the Bank of England £70,000,000. [ Interruption. ] That is a valuable comment on a Budget Debate. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You made it; no one else did!\"] If my ears misled me, I withdraw my remark. I understood when I said the Bank of England held £70,000,000 that some hon. Member said \"Shame!\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-13", "file": "debates1927-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b7e7979d4665da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ling in all parts of the House —I think I am summing up the opinion held in every quarter—that the expenditure of the country ought to be vastly reduced, coupled with an equally strong determination to resist every conceivable suggestion for reducing it. I am very sorry that the right hon Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Snowden) is not here to-night, and am still more sorry for the cause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-13", "file": "debates1927-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b7e7979d4665da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ng in respect for the other institutions of the Realm. When the Government endeavour to set an example, and at some self-sacrifice—because it is very inconvenient when Ministries have to be absorbed, and valued colleagues are disturbed—what happens? Not a single speech have I listened to in the past two days in favour of the step. On every side of the House the argument has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-13", "file": "debates1927-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b7e7979d4665da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"While the subsidy is being paid!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "reat surprise to me that the sugar bounty should have reached the total of £4,500,000 this year. It only shows how these subsidies have a tendency to grow. They are talked about as if they were quite small things, but before you know where you are they have risen to very formidable heights. But, after all, the increase of the sugar-beet subsidy to this point is again a measure of its success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-13", "file": "debates1927-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b7e7979d4665da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "N. MEMBER: \"While the subsidy is being paid!\"] A great new industry has been established in this country, and it may continue long after the subsidy has been withdrawn. I will not say that this is a matter to which we were committed by right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite, but it is a matter to which they committed themselves, and it it is a policy which was never opposed on the Liberal benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-13", "file": "debates1927-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b7e7979d4665da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only in capital ships.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ion, of which personally I strongly approved, and for which I share the responsibility, but to which I should never have believed I could have been forced to subscribe—the condition of equality, the One Power standard. Before we are going to get any large reduction in Naval expenditure, Parliament and the country must decide whether they are prepared to abandon the One Power standard or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-13", "file": "debates1927-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b7e7979d4665da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "yself on making far greater road developments than ever were made by my right hon. Friend (Mr. Lloyd George). I have the figures here of the sums of money he contributed to the Road Fund in those days of which he reminded me this afternoon. In the latest year before the War, 1914–15, the right hon. Gentleman provided £1,528,000 for the roads. This year we are providing £19,500,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-13a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-14", "file": "debates1927-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2654c63c8b01ded9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-14a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "preceding_text": "alth than we do actually produce. I am quoting Sir Hugo Hirst, chairman of the General Electric Company, who states that we could, if we liked, produce 50 per cent. more wealth than we do by the full utilisation of our resources, and yet we are told that the only way in which we can restore trade and develop our foreign and home markets is for labour to accept lower wages for the time being—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-14a.615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-14", "file": "debates1927-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2654c63c8b01ded9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-14a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about production?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "preceding_text": "g point of view, because it is not capital which employs labour, but labour which employs capital, and it is the demand in the market, and particularly in the home market, that determines how far capital shall be lucratively utilised. You have to begin with your market, and it would pay the capitalist class of this country to double the wages that they pay to the workers of this country to-morrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-14a.615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-14", "file": "debates1927-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2654c63c8b01ded9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-14a.618.2", "colnum": "618", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FINBURGH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FINBURGH", "preceding_text": "loy their workmen for three days a week to enable them to keep up the high prices, and put their workmen on the dole for the remainder of the week. I hope the Government will take note of this, because it is double-edged. By keeping up high prices, they send the trade abroad. I have made personal inquiries, and were it not a bit of a trade secret, I should like to give the House information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-14a.618.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-26", "file": "debates1927-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "f57d3dbc1e225188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.654.5", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman consider the propriety in the public interest of excluding the Department of Overseas Trade from any impending legislation of this kind?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.654.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-04-26", "file": "debates1927-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "f57d3dbc1e225188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Three!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "While thanking the hon. Gentleman for his very interesting statement, will he answer one question? Is it our policy to maintain neutrality as between the two Governments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-26", "file": "debates1927-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "f57d3dbc1e225188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ages of the people of the country in taxation, and is what is taken a fair burden and one that can be borne by them without encroaching upon the standard of life and upon the command of the necessaries of life? The Colwyn Committee recommended a reduction of indirect taxation. They repudiated the idea that direct taxation, as represented by the income Tax, is a hindrance to or a burden upon trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-26", "file": "debates1927-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "f57d3dbc1e225188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Luxury taxes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "slocation. He tells us now it has always been dear to his heart to see the abolition of taxes upon food. He had an opportunity in his first Budget, and what did he do? In the three Budgets he has introduced, he has not reduced indirect taxation by a single penny, except, I believe, a few pence on chicory in one Budget. On the contrary, he has increased indirect taxation by £25,000,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-26", "file": "debates1927-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "f57d3dbc1e225188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman has not only refused to make this concession this year, but he has done a rather unusual thing and anticipated the Budget of next year by telling us he does not expect he will he able to make this concession then. Then what does this amount to? If he presents another Budget there is to be no reduction of food taxation. He will have had four Budgets. Then will come a general election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-26", "file": "debates1927-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "f57d3dbc1e225188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FREDRIC WISE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not save some?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FREDRIC WISE", "preceding_text": " that the indirect taxation that we have at the present time, although it may hit certain people rather hardly, is fair. I also feel there is a certain amount of the \"ability to pay\" in regard to the present indirect taxation. The hon. Member for Hillsborough must realise that the burden of taxation is tremendously high, and with a Budget of £833,000,000 everybody must pay as far as they can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-26", "file": "debates1927-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "f57d3dbc1e225188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FREDRIC WISE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Expenditure!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FREDRIC WISE", "preceding_text": " time, although it may hit certain people rather hardly, is fair. I also feel there is a certain amount of the \"ability to pay\" in regard to the present indirect taxation. The hon. Member for Hillsborough must realise that the burden of taxation is tremendously high, and with a Budget of £833,000,000 everybody must pay as far as they can. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not save some?\"] Save some what?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-26", "file": "debates1927-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "f57d3dbc1e225188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.727.0", "colnum": "727", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "eater the proportion of the price he pays in tax. I think there is another example of unfair incidence, and this is not only taking indirect taxes and direct taxes in general, but as between the Tea Duty and the Sugar Duty on the one hand and other indirect taxes on the other. If I am in order, I want to refer, merely as an illustration, to one part of the Income Tax. I speak as a bachelor.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-26", "file": "debates1927-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "f57d3dbc1e225188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "I am not surprised that this duty is questioned, because it is shrouded to a large extent in mystery. It is a very old duty. There is some doubt as to how far back it dates, but I believe the year before last it was stated that it dated back to the year 1783. I have a copy of the Act here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-26", "file": "debates1927-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "f57d3dbc1e225188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "I am very glad to have that explanation, because I think the right hon. Gentleman will agree that the British Medical Association, which poses as an authority in these matters, is really, in the light of recent events, a somewhat reactionary body and is inclined to regard as quack any kind of remedy which is not in its view orthodox.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-26", "file": "debates1927-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "f57d3dbc1e225188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": "8212;that an application was made for a safeguarding duty and that the application did not succeed. It is clear why that was so. The speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was of so trivial and intellectually contemptible a character that it is quite evident that no tribunal which attempted to deal with this subject in a judicial manner would recommend this duty after any kind of investigation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-26", "file": "debates1927-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "f57d3dbc1e225188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": " under any circumstances when the War is over. The experience of the War is an argument for repealing these duties altogether, and not for adding another duty to those which already exist. The Chancellor of the Exchequer used only one other argument in defending this new proposal, the argument that it would attract manufacturers to establish factories for the making of motor tyres in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-26", "file": "debates1927-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "f57d3dbc1e225188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. BAKER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or American.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. BAKER", "preceding_text": " would find he has repeatedly made statements of increased output per head of the employés. In one year that increase amounted to 30 per cent. Actually during that year, they reduced the number of their employés, and increased their output, which would suggest that the British worker must be a little more efficient, and work a little harder than the Frenchman, the German, or the Italian.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-26", "file": "debates1927-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "f57d3dbc1e225188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.796.2", "colnum": "796", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including yourself!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "mbit of the duty notwithstanding that it is not of a standard width of 1⅜ inches, the duty being calculated according to the proportion it actually bears to the standard. That is the object of the Resolution. I will not weary the House with quotations to show that this was the original intention of Mr. McKenna and the other Liberal Coalition authorities of the McKenna Duties in this respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.796.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-26", "file": "debates1927-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "f57d3dbc1e225188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.804.0", "colnum": "804", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about yourself?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "r stages, I will endeavour to give a brief answer to him. In order to understand what has been done to the wine duties, and what it is proposed to do in the present Budget, it is absolutely necessary to invoke the great name of Mr. Gladstone, a name which is received with reverence below the Gangway on the Opposition side, and with a certain amount of respect by some hon. Members who sit opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-26", "file": "debates1927-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "f57d3dbc1e225188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.808.0", "colnum": "808", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In 'sixty-two!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": "I would like to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer a question or two. I have thoroughly enjoyed what he said about Mr. Gladstone's remarks in 'eighty-four.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-26", "file": "debates1927-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "f57d3dbc1e225188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.809.1", "colnum": "809", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "rying to obtain from the right hon. Gentleman, and in which I am sure the public would be much more interested than in the very excellent disquisition on Mr. Gladstone which the right hon. Gentleman has given us. On the evening that the right hon. Gentleman announced these duties in his Budget speech, I was in the company of a gentleman who is the licensee of a place within the meaning of the Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-26", "file": "debates1927-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "f57d3dbc1e225188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.809.1", "colnum": "809", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "n a tramcar. I have since had an opportunity of inquiring further into what he said, and I find it is the general opinion of these people as to the effect of the new taxes on a bottle of what is known among the working classes as Tarragona Port, which is retailed at about half-a-crown a bottle—a kind of port which is not consumed to any extent by Members on the other side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-26", "file": "debates1927-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "f57d3dbc1e225188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.816.0", "colnum": "816", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is rhubarb fruit?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "rom fruit and sugar or from fruit or sugar mixed with any other material and which has undergone a process of fermentation in the manufacture thereof and includes British wine, made wine, mead, and megethlin. The ingredients in the manufacture of these wines are various—grape, grape must, raisins, currants, imported sugar, home-grown fruit, ginger, and on special occasions spirits are added.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.816.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-26", "file": "debates1927-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "f57d3dbc1e225188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " is appropriate that the Tobacco Duty should come on in the best period of the day. It is well that it should be discussed with the fullest possible prominence. Therefore, we are ready to close the proceedings now, but I would like to make it quite clear that we do so on the understanding that the proceedings will be brought to an end on Thursday night in good time, by which I mean about midnight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-26a.821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-27", "file": "debates1927-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "e84896e3f6b485b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.846.11", "colnum": "846", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "llor of the Exchequer made in his speech in regard to this increase. He said: I have no reason to believe that the whole increase of this tax will be passed on to the consumer.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 11th April, 1927; col. 93, Vol. 205.] That remark was greeted by some of my friends behind me with cries of \"Rubbish,\" which it would appear, in the light of later events, were completely justified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.846.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-27", "file": "debates1927-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "e84896e3f6b485b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "Even supposing that the whole of the duty were being passed on to the consumer, is there anything in that upon which to reproach the Chancellor of the Exchequer or the Government? Has anybody ever suggested that in the case of indirect taxation the tax is not supposed to be passed on to the consumer? I always understood that that was the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-27", "file": "debates1927-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "e84896e3f6b485b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"They can make them smaller!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "etween 70 and 80 per cent. of the consumption of tobacco, and if the prices of cigarettes rise or fall, as the case may be, that is the best indication of the effect upon the price of popularly smoked tobacco. I will deal first of all with the case of the Imperial Tobacco Company. They have issued a statement to the effect that they are making no change in the price or quality of their cigarettes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-27", "file": "debates1927-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "e84896e3f6b485b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.857.0", "colnum": "857", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You were called!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman concluded by saying that no doubt, in the Debate which would follow his speech, expressions of opinion upon the proposed increase in the Tobacco Duty would be given from all quarters of the House. When he sat down, however, I saw no disposition on the part of hon. Members behind him to rise in defence of this proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.857.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-27", "file": "debates1927-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "e84896e3f6b485b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "I have always said the duties upon beer and spirits stand in a special category.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-27", "file": "debates1927-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "e84896e3f6b485b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "d, they were ignored by the right hon. Gentleman. There has so far been no defence whatever of this proposed duty. May I say this, in reply to the right hon. Gentleman's argument about there having been no increase in the price of cigarettes? He referred to the Chairman of Godfrey Phillips. Did he see the speech of the Chairman of Godfrey Phillips made the day after the introduction of the Budget?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-27", "file": "debates1927-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "e84896e3f6b485b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "en no increase in the price of cigarettes? He referred to the Chairman of Godfrey Phillips. Did he see the speech of the Chairman of Godfrey Phillips made the day after the introduction of the Budget? [ Interruption. ] He did. Then he remembers that, speaking to the shareholders, the Chairman said: \"You can make up your minds that we shall pass on the duty to the consumer wherever we possibly can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-27", "file": "debates1927-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "e84896e3f6b485b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.880.0", "colnum": "880", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Nothing!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "st them 2d. a week more. The extra £3,000,000 going to the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be received mainly from the working classes. I wish to enter my protest against it. I think it is about time some of the more expensive forms of luxury were taxed instead of the working man's tobacco having an extra ½d. an ounce put on it. I wonder what it is going to mean on the price of a cigar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-27", "file": "debates1927-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "e84896e3f6b485b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.882.4", "colnum": "882", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "ply turning to this wealthy combine, to this combine that was adding wealth to wealth, to get them to bear a share of the burdens of the day. That is the general impression there was throughout the country, and if the Chancellor of the Exchequer will go across the street into one of the tobacco shops there and buy some of this tobacco and ask the man, \"Why is there this increase in price? \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.882.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-27", "file": "debates1927-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "e84896e3f6b485b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.882.4", "colnum": "882", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": ", and if the Chancellor of the Exchequer will go across the street into one of the tobacco shops there and buy some of this tobacco and ask the man, \"Why is there this increase in price? \"—[ Interruption ]—I should expect him to disguise himself a little, or he might send his Parliamentary Secretary; he could depend on his word. If he went into the shop, the shopkeeper would say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.882.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-27", "file": "debates1927-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "e84896e3f6b485b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.904.2", "colnum": "904", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruptian.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "he question of moisture in bulk, why is it that you do not fix a percentage of moisture in sales? Why have you not described to us what is the percentage of moisture in tobacco when it is sent out from the manufacturer to the wholesaler? Why do you not tell us how much of that evaporates by resting on the shelves of the wholesaler for so many days or weeks? Why is it that you do not tell us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.904.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-27", "file": "debates1927-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "e84896e3f6b485b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": "ll be shared between the retailer and the public at large. It is quite clear that the class of the community who do not intend to pay it are the great match manufacturers. I see that Messrs. Bryant and May stated on 12th April, immediately after the Budget, that the price of a dozen boxes of matches was to be raised by a halfpenny. Now this new duty amounts broadly to a halfpenny on a dozen boxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-27", "file": "debates1927-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "e84896e3f6b485b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": "ass on the price, therefore, he will, to that extent, bear the charge in the first instance. I have a letter from a retailer calculating that he will pay in increased cost as a result of this about £24 a year. But that will only be the effect in the first instance. After a certain time has elapsed, there is no doubt whatever that this increased duty will finally be paid by the general public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-27", "file": "debates1927-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "e84896e3f6b485b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": "same position as tobacco. A man with two or three pounds per week has to spend on matches a sum which is comparable with the amount spent by a man with a thousand a year; therefore, as the tax is now imposed upon the box, he will pay—the ordinary man with two or three pounds per week—during the year as much towards this new duty as the man with a thousand or ten thousand pounds a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-27", "file": "debates1927-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "e84896e3f6b485b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.947.0", "colnum": "947", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "ctor for the Northern Division, which includes my own constituency. Speaking of the year 1925, he says that of the deaths caused during that year by explosives, 67 per cent., I think it was, were due to clear breaches of the regulations; that 61 per cent. of the nonfatal cases were due to the same cause, and that 30 per cent. of the remainder could have been avoided by the exercise of due caution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.947.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-27", "file": "debates1927-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "e84896e3f6b485b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.947.0", "colnum": "947", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "g exclusively of the men but is speaking of caution all round. The seven years' figures are worse still. Ninety per cent. of the fatal accidents, and 80 per cent. of the non-fatal accidents, were due, he says, to breaches in one way or another of the Explosives in Coal Mines Orders. To me that represents a situation most appalling to contemplate. In another passage, the same Chief Inspector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.947.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-27", "file": "debates1927-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "e84896e3f6b485b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.947.0", "colnum": "947", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "me Chief Inspector—[ Interruption. ] I am not trying to take any unfair advantage; hon. Members can go and look at the Report in the Library. In another passage he deplores the lack of any real, organised co-operation in safety matters between owners and workmen. There is, he says, a tendency on the part of the workers to expect all action for protection to come from the official side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.947.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-27", "file": "debates1927-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "e84896e3f6b485b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.952.0", "colnum": "952", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "preceding_text": "to blame the failure of the Government to take any steps that might have been taken. Both the Mover and the Seconder of the Resolution have endeavoured in their speeches to cast some reflection, though not by any direct challenge, on the eight-hour shift principle which is now in force, suggesting that it is responsible for some of the increase in accidents which they say has taken place recently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.952.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-27", "file": "debates1927-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "e84896e3f6b485b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.952.0", "colnum": "952", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You ought to have been down a mine!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "preceding_text": "hat in 1925 he intimated to this House that, during the operation of the seven-hour shift, accidents, fatal and non-fatal, had accumulated all along the line. If they can accumulate under a seven-hour shift, how does he make out that they can now accumulate under an eight-hour shift? As a matter of fact, whether it is seven hours or eight hours has no bearing whatever on the question of accidents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.952.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-27", "file": "debates1927-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "e84896e3f6b485b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "preceding_text": " both underground and on the surface of 640 in 1920, 332 were due to falls of ground. These Resolutions are brought forward usually for other purposes and I know that hon. Members appreciate that there is a very big difference between legislation and administration. One can legislate but it will not have the slightest effect unless that legislation is administered and carried out by all concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-27", "file": "debates1927-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "e84896e3f6b485b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.966.0", "colnum": "966", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We will if we get the opportunity.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "preceding_text": "e 306 fatal accidents, and in an eight-hour day—all other factors remaining the same—there are 324 fatal accidents. But that does not indicate any increase in accidents owing to an eight-hour day, because there would have to be 349 accidents if the eight-hour day is to be as bad as the seven-hour day. If any hon. Member considers this a fallacious argument, I hope he will point it out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-27a.966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-28", "file": "debates1927-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "9093493c8d6e8032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1013.5", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the Minister's only objection is one of political expediency?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1013.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-28", "file": "debates1927-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "9093493c8d6e8032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1035.4", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the mugs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "s the clumsiness or want of skill of the scullerymaid; it is proverbial. In order to get over that difficulty, it has been found in the past desirable to get a special brand of pottery from France. Since the War the German has been our serious competitor, and now this foreign stuff has been imported from Germany. I have here samples of pottery. I see that my right hon. Friend has a cup beside him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1035.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-28", "file": "debates1927-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "9093493c8d6e8032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1042.2", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Throw it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "I am not going to throw this plate at my right hon. Friend, but I am assured that if I did it would not break. It is vitrified pottery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1042.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-28", "file": "debates1927-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "9093493c8d6e8032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is she over 21?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": " at any rate, should be allowed to go, but the applicants entirely refused to allow the opponents or their counsel to be shown the things they had shown the Committee without the knowledge of the opponents. That is how the matter remained to the end. I take the second point. The lady member—because, after all, it is this lady whose casting vote has decided whether there is to be a tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1054.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-04-28", "file": "debates1927-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "9093493c8d6e8032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1069.3", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "An incompetent old woman!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1069.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-28", "file": "debates1927-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "9093493c8d6e8032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "I am not aware of that. What I am aware of is that in a very large number of cases the workmen in the factories, I am told, have signed unanimous petitions in favour of this duty. I would be very much surprised if the hon. Gentleman would have a successful tour to Longton speaking in favour of Czechoslovakian and German pottery as against the pottery which they make there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-28", "file": "debates1927-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "9093493c8d6e8032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1072.2", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "Really, how ridiculous this is. Here is a claim made from the other side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1072.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-28", "file": "debates1927-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "9093493c8d6e8032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1073.3", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "a comparison on the pre-War figures alone, although even if we take the pre-War standard as absolute and compare it with the rate of import to-day, the rate of import is higher than pre-War. I am often reminded by hon. Members opposite that we must take the relative proportion in this matter—must not take merely the imports, but must see what the trade at large is doing. Let us look at that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1073.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-28", "file": "debates1927-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "9093493c8d6e8032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1086.3", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "re years. That is not the whole story. That is not what the people of the country are going to pay. Of this £200,000, perhaps some £50,000 would be the cost of collecting the duty, reducing the benefit to the Exchequer. But what we have to look at is what the community as a whole is going to pay owing to this protective tariff. Not £200,000, but more like £600,000 will be paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-28", "file": "debates1927-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "9093493c8d6e8032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1086.3", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have not done in other cases.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "what the people of the country are going to pay. Of this £200,000, perhaps some £50,000 would be the cost of collecting the duty, reducing the benefit to the Exchequer. But what we have to look at is what the community as a whole is going to pay owing to this protective tariff. Not £200,000, but more like £600,000 will be paid. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"] Because prices will rise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-28", "file": "debates1927-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "9093493c8d6e8032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is in. the Report.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "s against 360 pieces per day in this country turned out by one man by ordinary hand methods. The purpose of the paragraph is to condemn our relative efficiency, and 4,800 pieces is contrasted with 360 pieces. That is the way in which it is interpreted. In one case there are 14 people who turn out 343 pieces each per day whereas an Englishman working alone without any machinery produces 360 pieces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-28", "file": "debates1927-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "9093493c8d6e8032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Red Letter?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "f you are engaged in one of the sheltered industries you can, of course, put on a fur coat. In pre-War days when we discussed this issue the Free Traders said, \"your food will cost you more,\" and the public believed them. They won. That unsupported assertion is no longer good. We have investigated this matter by the method of experiments, and we are entitled to judge it by the experimental method.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-28", "file": "debates1927-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "9093493c8d6e8032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1118.3", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ections to the scheme, as I understand. In the first place, it is not a very sound precedent to anticipate taxation in this particular respect. It is all right as long as you have a sane and sound Conservative Government, and a Chancellor of the Exchequer who is fairly straight-laced in the matter of taxation. But there are possibilities in the remote future of other Governments and other parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1118.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-28", "file": "debates1927-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "9093493c8d6e8032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1131.2", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "al party was in office, whoever has been Chancellor of the Exchequer has always exempted this particular form of property, because as I understand it it was not a matter of the Treasury not realising that it was there. The Treasury officials know very clearly every form of exemption that has ever taken place. I seem to be the only person in the House who will protest against this form of taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1131.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-28", "file": "debates1927-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "9093493c8d6e8032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1131.4", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "I do not think I should have been drawn into an unnecessary explanation by the speech of my hon. and gallant Friend. I do not, think it was quite worthy of him to indulge in a rather cheap jibe at the expense of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who cannot after all sit in the House from three o'clock till eleven without intermission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1131.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-28", "file": "debates1927-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "9093493c8d6e8032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1139.2", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "AN. HON. MEMBER: \"The Liberal party has arrived!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "exclusively to the improvement of roads, but that they will be well and wisely spent for that end. My proposal is that the whole of the money\"— I want the House to pay attention to the word \"whole\"— should go to the improvement of roads. This tax has been imposed purely for the benefit of the roads of the country, and is no part of the general scheme of the country for raising revenue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1139.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-28", "file": "debates1927-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "9093493c8d6e8032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1147.0", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Major CARVER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not yet!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major CARVER", "preceding_text": " from a place which is practically inaccessible. I had hoped that a great deal of this money which has been laid by in the Treasury might have been used for doing away with these toll bridges. There are toll bridges in other parts of the country, but in the East Riding of Yorkshire we are particularly affected. I do not know to whom I am to look now, as the Ministry of Transport is done away with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-28", "file": "debates1927-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "9093493c8d6e8032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1152.0", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ther day making a suggestion in regard to the Budget. She said that she strongly advised a tax on bicycles—not motor bicycles, because they go at a proper pace, but the ordinary bicycles which get in the way. We have to try as far as we can to relate all these individual points of view, which are so vehemently expressed, into the common scheme of national policy; but I yield to no one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-28", "file": "debates1927-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "9093493c8d6e8032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "er everything, the bearing of old age pensions, widows' pensions and so forth, on the expenditure of local authorities, and a dozen other items would have to be considered. However, on the question of the rates versus taxes, since 1913 the rates have doubled, but the Imperial contribution to local authorities has trebled or quadrupled, and the burden on the Imperial taxpayer has nearly quintupled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-28a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-29", "file": "debates1927-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "d0053d5b59857349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-29a.1171.14", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED WOMEN (EMPLOYMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT NEWMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And factory women, too! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT NEWMAN", "preceding_text": "ion which we as individuals have to decide. In my opinion, when a woman is old enough to marry, she is old enough to decide whether or not she shall continue in her occupation. At any rate, while I often hear the argument that a woman's place is in her home, as far as I can make out, that very seldom refers to women like charwomen, who go out to earn their daily bread at a very small salary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-29a.1171.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-29", "file": "debates1927-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "d0053d5b59857349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-29a.1185.0", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED WOMEN (EMPLOYMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "rd cases which have been mentioned by the hon. Member for Leicester. It is the proper way of dealing with this matter. The difference between hon. Members opposite and hon. Members who sit on these benches is that we believe there should be as little interference as possible between employers and employed, and that the less interference there is by legislation the more likely are we to have peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-29a.1185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-29", "file": "debates1927-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "d0053d5b59857349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-29a.1200.1", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED WOMEN (EMPLOYMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Chester-le-Street.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "which, after all, is elected by the people, by men's votes and women's votes. If a local authority are foolish enough to do something with which the people in the locality disagree, the correct thing is for the inhabitants to elect other members on the local authority. What is the use of giving people home rule and local government if we here are going to tell them they shall not do this and that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-29a.1200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-29", "file": "debates1927-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "d0053d5b59857349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-29a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED WOMEN (EMPLOYMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "that was another one. I do not want to see men of that type encouraged. A man who marries ought to be in a position to set up a home and support his wife, so that she has no need to go out to work What I fear will happen is that some very clever and capable women who are able to earn a good salary will be looked up by some soft men who will marry them and live on them. It will damage married life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-29a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-29", "file": "debates1927-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "d0053d5b59857349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-29a.1201.5", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED WOMEN (EMPLOYMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "d will lead to further demands on the same lines. It may be that the Clause might be altered in such a way as to give a married woman the right to prove that her efficiency has in no way suffered through her marriage, that is, to put the burden of proof on her, or that she should show that she is not likely to be like the prolific lady referred to by the Noble Lady for Plymouth (Viscountess Astor)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-29a.1201.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-04-29", "file": "debates1927-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "d0053d5b59857349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-29a.1201.5", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED WOMEN (EMPLOYMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": " woman the right to prove that her efficiency has in no way suffered through her marriage, that is, to put the burden of proof on her, or that she should show that she is not likely to be like the prolific lady referred to by the Noble Lady for Plymouth (Viscountess Astor) [ Interruption. ] There may be some cases of speedy recovery, but fancy public offices being disorganised by events like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-04-29a.1201.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1264.6", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOOKER", "preceding_text": "The grounds on which it has been stated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1264.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1275.4", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALBANIA (ITALO-YUGOSLAV RELATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I am well aware of that. I also had some doubts about it, and I set up a Committee to determine it. I think everyone who has considered the question does feel that the Irish Free State should benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1275.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1307.0", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY SLESSER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY SLESSER", "preceding_text": "It was merely interlocutory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1307.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1307.2", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "It was not a judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1307.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1307.11", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL", "preceding_text": "The Clause as framed is declaratory of the law, because it follows the last judgment given in May last by Mr. Justice Astbury,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1307.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1307.13", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "He could not give any judgment on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1307.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1308.0", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "It decided that, in the opinion of the learned Judge, a general strike was in fact illegal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1308.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1308.1", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No! [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "It decided that, in the opinion of the learned Judge, a general strike was in fact illegal. [ Interruption. ] It is the judgment given in the National Seaman's case about a year ago on the question whether or not a general strike was illegal or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1308.1", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "preceding_text": "No!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1308.5", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ken. What happened was this. There were two grounds upon either of which Mr. Justice Astbury could have granted the application. He granted it on both grounds. One ground was that there had been a non-compliance with the rules of the trade union. The other ground was that the general strike, which the branch was calling out its members to share in, was an illegal strike and therefore acting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1308.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1308.7", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "The House, therefore, will see, as I stated just now, that this Clause is declaratory of the law as laid down in the last judgment by Mr. Justice Astbury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1308.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1308.9", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I am anxious to explain the provisions of the Bill to the House and I hope there will be ample opportunity for both sides to put forward any conflicting views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1308.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1308.9", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell the truth,\" and [ Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I am anxious to explain the provisions of the Bill to the House and I hope there will be ample opportunity for both sides to put forward any conflicting views. [ Interruption. ] I cannot think that it assists in the elucidation of the main purpose of the Bill to prevent one side being heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1308.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1308.9", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "trade unions. I say \"unhappily,\" because I think it is not only on this side of the House that we are conscious that the use of the weapon very often is apt to injure persons other than those against whom it is primarily directed; but the existence of the weapon is undoubtedly a necessity. It is a necessity in order to prevent the unfair exploitation by an employer or by a body of employers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1308.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1309.2", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is a general strike?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "And we have been careful, therefore, to preserve the right to strike. [ Interruption. ] But the general strike differs, not in degree, but in character from the industrial or genuine strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1309.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1311.1", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lock-out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "then hon. Members ought to vote against the Bill, but, if not, then the question arises whether or not it is not fully time to take steps to prevent such a catastrophe happening. It has been said that there is no real danger of such an event, but I would remind the House that 12 months ago to-day we found ourselves on the eve of the first general strike which has taken place in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1311.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1317.0", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "And we know a gentleman when we see one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1318.1", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "llegal purposes, to apply to the Court to restrain such misapplication. It has seemed to the Government, and I hope it will seem to the House, that that is not a right or proper state in which to leave the law. It is wrong for two reasons. Firstly, it is putting a very unfair burden on the individual trade unionist, and, secondly, it is unfair and wrong because the real mischief of Clause 1—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1318.3", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "The real mischief that is aimed at in Clause 1 is not the use of trade union funds to the detriment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1318.7", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose evidence?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "e. If it should appear that a general strike were really imminent it would be open to the Attorney-General of the day, and it would be his duty, to take proceedings in which he would obtain leave to serve notice of motion at the same time as he issued the writ, and within three or four days probably, or certainly within a week, the matter would be brought before the Court on proper evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1318.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1324.2", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "o fair-minded Members of this House, to whatever political party they may belong, would desire that people who desired to work should be compelled to cease from work by conduct which renders their home life impossible and the reasonable enjoyment of their existence impossible. Watching and besetting has been so defined, and it is such conduct, and such conduct only, that this Sub-section prevents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1324.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1325.1", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "aining it. It is said, on the other hand, that this is unfair, because it will cripple the conduct of the trade unions. Both those positions cannot be true. It cannot be true to say that nobody is at present subscribing except those who desire to subscribe, and, in the same breath, to say that if you limit the subscriptions to those who desire to subscribe, you will seriously diminish their funds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1325.1", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ause 4 will make practically no difference. On the other hand, those who use methods of intimidation, or raise difficulties against their members, will no doubt be affected, and may be seriously affected. But, after all, I can hardly suppose that the Parliamentary party which sits on the Opposition benches would desire to find themselves supported there by subscriptions extorted from people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1325.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1327.5", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "I am sorry you are offended with me, but I venture to suggest—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] —I am not going until I have said what I want to say. I want to say, on a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1327.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1327.12", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Divide!", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1327.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1327.13", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Let him withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "It is not fair to prevent anybody from making a speech", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1327.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1329.6", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "It is a despicable slander!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "These are not points of Order at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1329.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1330.4", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The froth blowers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " forfeit the right to benefit from a membership which was perfectly legal at the time when he undertook it. The third is that if an established civil servant happens to have an employment outside the Civil Service in his leisure time—the sort of instance I have in my mind is that an established civil servant might, for instance, be a member of an orchestra which played in the evenings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1330.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1330.4", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And get another Irish deportee lawsuit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "he evenings—[HON. MEMBERS: \"The froth blowers.\"]—he will be at liberty to belong to the appropriate trade union. I would like to tell the House why it has been thought necessary to introduce these provisions. I ought to state quite frankly at once that it would be legal at this moment for His Majesty's Government, if they thought fit, to make those Regulations without this Bill at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1330.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many members?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "The Association of Officers of Taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " it out, that other members of the union were actively engaged on the local district councils carrying on the strike, and that one at least, and I think more, of these associations sent out circulars to their members in which their members were warned not to volunteer for any duties, were instructed that if any invitation were made to them to volunteer they should consult their branch secretaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "inty of tenure. they have pensions at the end of their service and they have through the Whitley Council and through the Arbitration Agreements unrivalled opportunities of submitting their grievances. It is, of course, open to any civil servant to put forward any grievance through his Member of Parliament, and, of course, everyone of us knows that such grievances are put forward from time to time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "iated to their particular political party. In our view, it is the duty of local authorities to consider solely economy and efficiency in their administration. Of course, if it be legal, as I think it is to-day, for such conditions to be imposed by a Socialist majority, it would be equally legal, for instance, for ratepayers to insist that their employés should belong to the ratepayers' union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "is proposed that the employés of local authorities who have such vital functions to perform in the life of the community shall not be allowed to break their contracts of service, and if they do so wilfully, and so prevent the discharge of their public authorities' duties, they will be guilty of an offence under this Bill. I have already dealt with Clause 7. Clause 8 excludes Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Chuck it out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " of this Bill. I think I have now gone through every Clause of this Bill, and I have honestly tried to state fairly and dispassionately its effect. I hope that I have shown, and I believe that I have shown, that the provisions of the Bill do, carry into effect those broad propositions with which I commenced my speech, and if that be so, what ought the attitude of the House to be towards this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Go to the country!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "airly and dispassionately its effect. I hope that I have shown, and I believe that I have shown, that the provisions of the Bill do, carry into effect those broad propositions with which I commenced my speech, and if that be so, what ought the attitude of the House to be towards this Bill. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Chuck it out!\"] I know there is in the country an extremist section of the community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " we expect their uncompromising hostility, but there is represented on the benches opposite a much larger and certainly a much more moderate section of Socialist and Labour opinion. They have said in the quotations to which I have called attention that the general strike is a tragic blunder, a menace to the community and a blow against the masses of our people which spells ruin to trades unionism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are you addressing those remarks to Slesser?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "gard as so foolish and so fatal. I realise that, to a large extent, they committed themselves to uncompromising hostility to this Measure before they knew what was in it, and I realise that any departure from that attitude involves the very height of moral courage. I should like to say to them in all sincerity that, if they agree with us in desiring that the general strike should be illegal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Peace in our time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "at the Bill as drafted goes too far, that their experience detects faults in it which they are ready to direct their efforts to avoid; if they can satisfy us of that and are willing to co-operate with us in trying to remedy those deficiencies and to remove blunders and make the Bill effective to carry out its purpose, then I say that the Government will be only too glad to welcome such assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " say that the Government will be only too glad to welcome such assistance. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Peace in our time!\"] I hear a gentleman opposite referring to a familiar quotation. Let me remind the hon. Member who quoted that saying of the Prime Minister of a passage he may have heard read yesterday morning: I laboured for peace, but when I spoke to them thereof they made themselves ready for battle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "them thereof they made themselves ready for battle. [ Interruption. ] I turn for a moment to the Liberal party. I gather, from their Amendment which I see on the Paper, that the Liberal party, while, if I properly understand their Amendment, they do not dissociate themselves from those general principles which I have stated, yet do not consider the time convenient for introducing the present Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " their Amendment which I see on the Paper, that the Liberal party, while, if I properly understand their Amendment, they do not dissociate themselves from those general principles which I have stated, yet do not consider the time convenient for introducing the present Bill. [ Interruption. ] I cannot help thinking that that is putting political expediency very high, and political honesty very low.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "iples which I have stated, yet do not consider the time convenient for introducing the present Bill. [ Interruption. ] I cannot help thinking that that is putting political expediency very high, and political honesty very low. [ Interruption. ] So far as the Government are concerned, we should regard ourselves as betraying the trust which has been reposed in us by the people of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "esty very low. [ Interruption. ] So far as the Government are concerned, we should regard ourselves as betraying the trust which has been reposed in us by the people of this country—[ Interruption ]—if, after the experience of last year, and in view of the threats of a repetition of that experience, we were to leave the country unprotected against such a menace. We are confident—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Resign!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ion ]—if, after the experience of last year, and in view of the threats of a repetition of that experience, we were to leave the country unprotected against such a menace. We are confident—[ Interruption ]—that, as the details are thrashed out and made plain in discussion in this House and in Committee, explained by speeches of the Members of this House, we shall gradually—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ed out and made plain in discussion in this House and in Committee, explained by speeches of the Members of this House, we shall gradually—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Resign!\"]—I wonder if the hon. Member who interrupted, and who, perhaps, is apt to put too high a value on by-elections, is aware that, in the one by-election that has taken place since this Measure has been before the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " that, in the one by-election that has taken place since this Measure has been before the House—[ Interruption ]—in a constituency which represents the most intelligent part of what some hon. Members will regard as the most intelligent section of the country, the Government have been supported by a majority of seven to one. To pass from that digression, I would say in conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1337.0", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "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 extend to the right hon. Gentleman who has just addressed the House, necessarily at great length, our sympathy upon the unenviable and embarrassing task which he has had to undertake. I relished particularly the farcical finish of his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1337.0", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "iable and embarrassing task which he has had to undertake. I relished particularly the farcical finish of his speech—[ Interruption ]—in which he solemnly appealed to the Opposition to co-operate with the Government in the conduct of this ill-chosen task. The Government have chosen to begin a fight, the end of which will not be seen when this Bill has been placed upon the Statute Book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1337.2", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "rifice and of readiness to stand by men who were being wronged as was shown by the two or three million men who downed tools in defence of the miners. The right hon. Gentleman could not offer, in relation to this Bill, any such excuse as that it was a thing done in a hurry. It is not panic legislation; it would be more excusable if it were. It is a calculated and deliberate act of class hostility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1337.2", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "ility. [ Interruption. ] Its legal points are of very secondary, indeed, almost trumpery, importance. I shall submit to the House, as we shall submit to the country, the broader aspects of equity and fair play which are affected by its proposals. It is alleged against us that, before the Bill was introduced, and before we knew its details, we committed ourselves to uncompromising opposition to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1337.2", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "ects of equity and fair play which are affected by its proposals. It is alleged against us that, before the Bill was introduced, and before we knew its details, we committed ourselves to uncompromising opposition to it. [ Interruption. ] Before the Bill was introduced, and before hon. Gentlemen opposite knew its details, they committed themselves to uncompromising 6.0 p.m. promising support of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1337.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1343.0", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "He is an expert in treason!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": " But Lord Birkenhead, who has made an announcement, judging by the papers of this morning, said one or two more things to which I would like to draw the attention of the House. His Lordship, speaking in Manchester on Saturday, said: The Labour leaders who were parties to the general strike were guilty of the greatest, crime and treason that has ever been attempted against Parliamentary Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1344.1", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "th? Upon what ground do the Government claim the right to separate and segregate each one in a trade or industry and compel each group in that way alone to fight its battles? They do it on the ground that it is an act to coerce the Government and is, therefore, wrong. Who is to judge what is right and what is wrong? Why the Attorney-General, the representative of the Government for the time being.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1345.1", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will find it on record in one of his speeches in this House, and I am drawing attention to the fact that one of these Clauses declares that if a workman takes a step which is calculated to bring another workman into ridicule or contempt, proceedings can be taken against him. All this talk about intimidation is really very wide of what actually happens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1345.1", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is a blackleg?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": " his own kind have decided upon a certain course of action. A blackleg has no right to join in an association, take part in a ballot, to wait for the decision of members, and then, on finding that the majority is against him, claim the right to turn his back upon his mates, and, if they express their displeasure for what he has done, claim the right to get substantial money compensation from them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1345.1", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "eld that view strongly in 1913, we finally submitted to, I will not say assented to, the provision that was made to permit contracting out. Now we are asked to consent to contracting in. We say that to reduce the trade unions with regard to their political income to the level of making each man initiate the payment of contribution, without the educative effect of any prior collective action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1356.1", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "will ponder over this. say that it remains for a Tory Government, the strongest in its history, in the second quarter of the enlightened twentieth century, to say that a man may give in his notice, work honestly until the end of it, leave his pit, walk home with the easy consciousness that he has done no wrong, and in a few days he can be arrested while he is peacefully attending to his allotment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1364.1", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "And But my father into prison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1389.0", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GERALD HURST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GERALD HURST", "preceding_text": "esent Bill was brought in. I myself brought in a Bill in 1923 to repeal the Trade Disputes Act, and therefore it cannot be said that in my case, at any rate, I had no mandate from my constituents or that my constituents have afforded me no justification for the action I am taking in supporting this Bill. The reason why this Bill appeals to all law-abiding and loyal-minded trade unionists is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1389.0", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GERALD HURST", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So it does!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GERALD HURST", "preceding_text": " Lancashire, it can never be described as revolutionary. It has always been constitutional and has been run on constitutional lines. With regard to constitutional trade unionism, there is absolutely no provision in this Bill which strikes at that type of trade unionism in any way whatever. The hon. and learned Gentleman who has just spoken has said that this Bill brings about industrial servitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1389.0", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GERALD HURST", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about a sympathetic strike?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GERALD HURST", "preceding_text": "nnection with a Bill which affects the rights of trade unionists in ordinary strikes hardly to any extent whatever. The only provision which affects trade unionists in ordinary strikes between employers and employed is in relation to picketing. Apart from that provision, there is nothing in the Bill which in the slightest degree affects the ordinary strike by employés against their employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1396.1", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HURST", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For the miners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HURST", "preceding_text": ". I quoted just now from a document isued by the General Council of the Trade Union Congress during the strike. This is from the \"British Worker,\" page 2. It is headed: Civil Servants Help. Union to give miners financial aid. It says: The Union of Post Office Workers is receiving strong support from its branches in backing up the General Council. Subscriptions are flowing in. And they did flow in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1396.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1398.1", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HURST", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HURST", "preceding_text": "I should certainly, but there is no such a thing as a doctors' trade union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1398.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1400.1", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "The Red letter!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH NALL", "preceding_text": "They sent him back again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1413.1", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "plain, and in the administration of this Bill everything depends on the point of view of the Magistrate who is considering the case. If the Home Secretary were on picket duty, he would not be dealt with summarily but would have to go to the Assizes and would probably get two years. The whole thing is silly and stupid. It is not going to affect the question whether trade unions go on strike or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1413.1", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "uld have to go to the Assizes and would probably get two years. The whole thing is silly and stupid. It is not going to affect the question whether trade unions go on strike or not. [ Interruption. ] If hon. Members opposite will make their interjections intelligibly, I am prepared to answer them. I am going to fight this Bill in the country and out of the country, and I do not expect any quarter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1415.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "According to my reading of this Bill, a trade unionist will have to make his declaration every year. I would like to ask the Attorney-General if he will introduce an Amendment to make it certain that trade unionists will not have to do this every year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1415.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "o it year after year? It is not in the Bill; no Member in this House can show us where it is laid down in the Bill that they will not have to make their declaration every year. Hon. Members opposite know what will happen. If this be carried into operation, it will mean that it will be difficult for the ordinary man who has no private income to come to the House of Commons and express his opinions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1415.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": " Members opposite know what will happen. If this be carried into operation, it will mean that it will be difficult for the ordinary man who has no private income to come to the House of Commons and express his opinions. [ Interruption. ] Hon Members opposite may think so, but some of us have a different idea. Some of us have got the idea that this is definitely intended to exclude men like myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1417.0", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" It was a lock-out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "is Bill to protect trade unionism against those who are working assiduously against it, in a comparatively few years it will be the men who are behind the revolutionary movement who will be directing its policy and not the moderate men who are at the head of it at present. One of the most important things that characterised the general strike of last year and the coal strike of last year was this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1417.0", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You ought to know!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "duously against it, in a comparatively few years it will be the men who are behind the revolutionary movement who will be directing its policy and not the moderate men who are at the head of it at present. One of the most important things that characterised the general strike of last year and the coal strike of last year was this. [An HON. MEMBER:\" It was a lock-out!\"] We will call it A, lock-out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1417.0", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "sent time. I challenge any of my hon. Friends here to-night to show that the policy of the new unionism which has been thrust upon them by men of extreme thought and extreme views has excelled or even equalled in its provision the good things for the men that have been brought about by the policy which was enunciated, put before the men and adopted by Wilson, Fenwick and leaders of that character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1417.0", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have no friends here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "ence in what Mr. Cramp intended to say and what he meant, but I want to contrast that statement with the statements which are being made by other people. Only last Sunday, we had Mr. Cook telling us that he wanted people to follow him. He said, at Hammersmith, that soon there was going to be another strike. I want to put this question to my friends here: \"Who is going to lead the Labour movement?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-02", "file": "debates1927-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "e04fe8c9c672d981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1417.0", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "se should adopt provisions in legislation which will guard us against the machinations of men of that type? I believe that this House in passing this Measure, especially with the provisions relating to the general strike, is doing more good to the Labour party—I do not know whether they will allow me to hold this view—than to any other political party in the State. I will tell you why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-02a.1417.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1467.4", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": " to make a new agreement but simply to get for these men the right to return to work again. I told them in the meeting plainly—I am not making any bones about it—that I was expected by them to sacrifice myself. I told them frankly that, disbelieving in the policy of Cook and the Federation, I was quite prepared to sacrifice myself. I went the next day to the colliery, at their request.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1467.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1470.0", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SUTTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SUTTON", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1470.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1470.3", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have had £10,000 from the coalowners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "But it is not alone intimidation. Here, among hon. Members above the Gangway, is vile and diabolical misrepresentation of myself. They are going about saying that the owners financed me. There is not an atom of truth in it. From the very first when we organised in Nottinghamshire, money has come in sufficient to pay our way, and we stand now, after three months, with a bank balance of £3,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1470.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1470.3", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "wife and I sat at home and considered this thing. I told her what I thought to be the truth with regard to the economic facts of the industry, and what I thought was my duty to the men in the circumstances. I said, \"I expect we shall have to get a fresh job,\" and we agreed that I should go back to the pit and work at the pit again at some job rather than poison my own mind by perverting the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1470.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1473.0", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VARLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He knows that quite well!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VARLEY", "preceding_text": "It has paid its share.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1473.2", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VARLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VARLEY", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is addressing a question to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1473.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1474.2", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like a Masonic Lodge!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "Mr. Lloyd George) were here, because more than a year and a half ago I spoke to him about the same thing, as well as to other hon. Members. So what I am about to say now is not born out of the present Bill at all. This has been my idea with regard to political activities—that, first of all, inside the trade union movement, and inside trade union meetings, politics should be absolutely taboo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1474.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1474.2", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never!\" and \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "e persons appointed by the Labour section, the Communist section, the Liberal section and the Conservative section respectively. Thus, at least you would get perfect equality of treatment. You would rid your trade union movement from any interference with political questions. I should like to remind some of my late friends that the best secretary the Miners' Federation ever had was a Conservative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1474.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1474.2", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "on respectively. Thus, at least you would get perfect equality of treatment. You would rid your trade union movement from any interference with political questions. I should like to remind some of my late friends that the best secretary the Miners' Federation ever had was a Conservative. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Never!\" and \"Name!\"] You know who it was—the right hon. Thomas Ashton was a Conservative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1474.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1476.0", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "I do not propose to follow the hon. Member for Broxstowe (Mr. Spencer) in the speech which he has just delivered, and in which he occupied so much time referring to the domestic affairs of his late organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1476.0", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "t propose to follow the hon. Member for Broxstowe (Mr. Spencer) in the speech which he has just delivered, and in which he occupied so much time referring to the domestic affairs of his late organisation. [ Interruption. ] As was to be expected, he has spoken with all the enthusiasm of the new convert. He has found out just now, when the light has penetrated all, the evil associations of his past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1476.0", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "tion of Great Britain are concerned, I will leave him to be dealt with by responsible officials in this House. Neither he himself nor other hon. Members need expect that this issue is going to be burked. There are responsible officials of the Miners' Federation who will be able to show that the things that he has been condemning this afternoon he has been responsible for in his executive capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1476.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1483.0", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Do you not agree with that?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "m his speech delivered at Cromer on 7th January, 1927: It is essential that we should have it laid down in the Statute Book, as already pronounced in the Law Courts, that the general strike is a crime against the State, that those who indulge in it are engaged in a seditious conspiracy, and that any organisation which foments it is liable to the uttermost farthing for the losses which it involves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1483.1", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "avour, an issue was submitted, evidence was taken, not on one side, but on both sides, and someone equal, or nearly as equal as possible, to my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General was allowed on either side to argue the case. Was that done in this case? I claim that an issue was never submitted, evidence was never taken, and counsel were not engaged to state their ease or defend it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1483.2", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": " forgery. The last point of this quotation is, that anyone who foments this seditious conspiracy is liable to the uttermost farthing for the loss which it involves. I have no objection to that being applied when there is a seditious conspiracy such as is provided for in this Bill. But, as I repeat, I have never seen it. I have never seen it attempted. All that the last national stoppage was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1483.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1483.2", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "y, at the Government expense, since the local Exchange will not be able to send men out of the Port at the Government expense, knowing that there is work for them in, the Port. The expense of sending the men away will then fall entirely upon Trade Union funds. Here is another letter: Since my last communication to you I have received promises of support\"— Then follow the names of four firms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1483.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1489.0", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Sir Laming Worthington-Evans)", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Sir Laming Worthington-Evans)", "preceding_text": " that there is a doubt, surely it is all the more necessary to make it quite clear that a general strike is, in fact, illegal. I can understand those objecting to it who will defend a general strike on merits, but unless they are prepared to say that a general strike ought to be in the armoury of trade unionists, that they ought to be allowed to have a general strike whenever they think fit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1489.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1490.1", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "It is wise that the State should warn the leaders, for in the past it has been per- haps too much the case that the followers have suffered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1490.1", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "It is wise that the State should warn the leaders, for in the past it has been per- haps too much the case that the followers have suffered—[ Interruption ]—and those who have instigated the strike have got off scot free.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1490.1", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "It is wise that the State should warn the leaders, for in the past it has been per- haps too much the case that the followers have suffered—[ Interruption ]—and those who have instigated the strike have got off scot free. [ Interruption. ] Do the leaders of the Labour party justify the general strike or do they not? That is a question which has never yet been answered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1491.1", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Talk about the Bill!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "Was the general strike of May last the first of many, or was it only an exceptional thing which we need not bother about?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1491.1", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "Was the general strike of May last the first of many, or was it only an exceptional thing which we need not bother about? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Talk about the Bill!\"] The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Platting in his speech, appeared to be defending the general strike. At any rate, he said the general strike was a defensive rather than an aggressive action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1491.3", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "of guarantee against the recurrence of a general strike. My right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General yesterday quoted various Members who had condemned the general strike and some who were still apparently in favour of it. The President of the Scottish Trade Union Council, speaking the other day at Galashiels, said that in similar circumstances he was in favour of another general strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1491.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1491.3", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the lock-out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "nce or to right one wrong of any worker in the whole trade union movement. He went on to say: No Government, Labour, Conservative or any other, could permit its responsibility to the country as a whole to be torn from its grasp by a section of the community, however large, engaged in conflict with another section, however powerful. That, as it seems to me, was a condemnation of the general strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1491.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1492.1", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\" \"Humbug!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "Clause 1 refers to a strike, and the Bill defines a strike as an act of combination or a concerted act. The act the hon. and learned Gentleman was referring to was that of a single workman leaving his employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1493.1", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "I shall be very glad if he will say what he does mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1493.5", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "The Bill does not produce that result at all. It deals only with acts done in combination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1493.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1493.7", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "I do not read it to mean that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1493.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1493.10", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "I have read it very carefully. I cannot dwell upon it now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1493.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1493.10", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "I have read it very carefully. I cannot dwell upon it now. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] I give the ex-Solicitor-General this invitation. This Clause will be discussed in Committee. Let him come to this House then and explain what he meant, and if he does not adopt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1493.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1493.10", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "I have read it very carefully. I cannot dwell upon it now. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] I give the ex-Solicitor-General this invitation. This Clause will be discussed in Committee. Let him come to this House then and explain what he meant, and if he does not adopt—[ Interruption ]—the construction that I have put on it, I shall be indeed happy to be corrected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1493.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1493.11", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1493.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1495.1", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "e that curious difference in the number? There are two ways of looking at it. I am going to submit my view, and it is that some 600,000 took advantage of the secret ballot, but when it came to signing a form of open dissent from the trade union leaders then there were only 110,000. There is not the slightest doubt and hon. Members know it, that every sort of obstacle has been put in the way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1495.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1495.4", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "Therefore something like 500,000 men who voted in the secret ballot against the political levy are not relieved but are forced to pay the levy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1495.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1495.6", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Name!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "That is another lie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1495.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1496.0", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No! and interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "yment of that levy. When the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Platting says that the ballot ought to be sufficient, surely the answer is that the ballot took place in many of those unions 14 years ago, and only in nine out of nearly 300 trade unions has there been a second ballot; so that all the men who now join would find themselves pledged, whether they like it or not, to the political levy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1495.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1496.3", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "That is mean and contemptible.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "ot express myself very clearly, but let me explain. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Platting said that the Labour party's policy was that, after a ballot, the majority should rule without power to dissent. I said that would be unfair, because all those who have joined during the last 10 or 12 years, if there was no power to dissent, would be bound by the ballot which took place previously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1496.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1496.5", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "nt to digress, but there is a clear case under the Company Law where the conditions are altered on amalgamation, and where there is power for the shareholders to dissent and to be paid out. The question is really extremely simple. I would like to ask if a man ought to be compelled to subscribe against his will. Is the machinery for enabling men to dissent sufficient under the law as it now stands?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1496.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1496.5", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "ion, and where there is power for the shareholders to dissent and to be paid out. The question is really extremely simple. I would like to ask if a man ought to be compelled to subscribe against his will. Is the machinery for enabling men to dissent sufficient under the law as it now stands? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\"] We think it is not, because there are 500,000 men who are now compelled to subscribe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1496.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1497.1", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "I am not going into the details, because that has already been done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1497.3", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "In Clause 4 it is provided that Notice in writing in the form set out in the First Schedule to this Act of his willingness to contribute to that fund and has not withdrawn the notice in manner hereinafter provided, shall be given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1497.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The working class.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "I am sorry I cannot give way, because I have a lot of ground to go over. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Platting said that this Bill was a deliberate act of class hostility, and the hon. Member who has just sat down said it was intended to destroy the unity of trade unions and was an abuse of power. To what class is this Bill hostile?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The employing class.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "by a general strike and not the capitalist class. It is the working classes, the poorer classes, whose savings are reduced and the cost of whose living is increased; and yet this Bill, which is intended to protect the working class against a general strike, is said to be a Bill of class hostility. It is precisely the same with the Clauses with regard to intimidation. Who is it that is intimidated?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "ing class against a general strike, is said to be a Bill of class hostility. It is precisely the same with the Clauses with regard to intimidation. Who is it that is intimidated? [HON. MEMBERS: \"The employing class.\"] That is just where you are mistaken. They are not in the least intimidated, and, the more you deny rights to minorities in the trade unions, the more it is essential to protect them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "n it becomes a Government, no matter in what form this Bill may pass, will be to repeal the Act, I take note that the Labour party renounces all interest in amendment of this Bill. But what is the repeal that they feel obliged to support? When they go to the country they are going to say, \"Return us, for we will repeal that Bill, we will remove the protection which it gives to the community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "ll, we will remove the protection which it gives to the community—[ Interruption ]—against being starved into submission by a general strike.\" If you succeed in making the people treat you seriously, and not as mere boasters, do you think they will not do just as they did in the general strike? They will rise up and vie with each other to protect the Constitution of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": " protect the Constitution of this country—[ Interruption ]—and there are some 500,000 of them who, although they voted against a political levy, have not been relieved of the liability to contribute to party funds with which they do not agree. You are going to say to them, \"Change your allegiance, vote for the Labour party, in order that we may restore the political contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "e some 500,000 of them who, although they voted against a political levy, have not been relieved of the liability to contribute to party funds with which they do not agree. You are going to say to them, \"Change your allegiance, vote for the Labour party, in order that we may restore the political contribution—[ Interruption ]—and make you contribute once more to Socialist party funds.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "the Labour party, in order that we may restore the political contribution—[ Interruption ]—and make you contribute once more to Socialist party funds.\" [ Interruption. ] There is something else that I wish to say. I do not understand the attitude of the Labour party with regard to intimidation. No one could have listened to the moving speech made by the hon. Member for Broxstowe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "t I wish to say. I do not understand the attitude of the Labour party with regard to intimidation. No one could have listened to the moving speech made by the hon. Member for Broxstowe—[ Interruption ]—without his blood boiling at the jeers and noises with which it was received. It was a courageous speech, and, never mind whether you agree with it or not, it was an honest speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "gard to intimidation. No one could have listened to the moving speech made by the hon. Member for Broxstowe—[ Interruption ]—without his blood boiling at the jeers and noises with which it was received. It was a courageous speech, and, never mind whether you agree with it or not, it was an honest speech—[ Interruption ]—and that interruption is the evidence of intimidation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": " form of intimidation—the intimidation, not by the squire, but by the trade union boss, by the local leaders of the trade union? It is they who put obstacles in the way of men when they wish to free themselves from a political levy; it is they who urge proscription on the so-called blacklegs; it is they who organise picketing; it is they who shout down and endeavour to overawe the quiet man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "down and endeavour to overawe the quiet man. [ Interruption. ] The quiet man seldom goes to the branch of his lodge, but now he is in revolt, not against the squire, but against trade union tyranny; and this Bill will give him some protection. This Bill will restore to him his freedom and that is why all that jeering which is organised from the top is not going to save you when you get down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "e is in revolt, not against the squire, but against trade union tyranny; and this Bill will give him some protection. This Bill will restore to him his freedom and that is why all that jeering which is organised from the top is not going to save you when you get down—[ Interruption ]—to the country. Only one member of your party has left you in the House of Commons but thousands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1508.1", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": " them. He said, further, that any man who refused to take part in that strike, and had thus disobeyed the orders of the executive of his trade union, could not be deprived of any trade union benefits, and that his position would be defended by any Court of Law in the kingdom. Those were the principles enunciated by the right hon. and learned Gentleman. Those are the first two Clauses of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1508.1", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "ithout proper understanding, and they will suppose that, in fact, these lamentable proceedings are proceedings which can be justified by the Opposition in Parliament. The lamentable condition of mind of the working classes of this country in this respect was repeated by a distinguished Member who sits opposite and who solemnly asseverated, yesterday, that the general strike was not illegal at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1508.1", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has not done it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "asion when a Bill dealing with the political levy was presented by the hon. and learned Member for Argyllshire (Mr. Macquisten). The speech of the Prime Minister on that occasion required great courage. It also showed the deep humanity of the Prime Minister when he rejected an opportunity of passing that Measure and preferred to try and deal with this question in the most peaceful method possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1513.1", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "I am dealing with the general strike of last year, and hon Members opposite will appreciate my point, which is that it was the general strike that persuaded the Prime Minister, very reluctantly, to bring in legislation of this kind in order that the country might be freed from a menace to its existence and the citizens safeguarded in their common liberties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1513.1", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "ct of any trade or business, and also the provision of benefits to members. I want to ask in what respect is any one of these objects menaced by this Bill? There is not one, and so far from this Bill being an attack upon trade unions, so far from it being an attempt to render them impotent, it leaves trade unions with a power which no other organisation throughout the whole civilised world enjoys.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1513.1", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "and the officials of a trade union who procure breaches of contract a freedom from liability for these offences. So far as that right is given by the Trade Disputes Act of 1906, it entirely remains to every single trade union in this country. [HON. MEM- BERS: \"No!\"] The only curb upon them is when they take part in a thing which is known now to be absolutely illegal—namely, a general strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1513.1", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Read the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": " can be any attack upon them, or attributes a desire on the part of the Government to render them impotent? In fact, there is nothing taken away which falls within the ordinary province of trade union operations. Reference has been made to the sympathetic strike, and I hope the House understands by this time that in no case is the sympathetic strike struck at by this Bill, unless it becomes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1514.3", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "vote in complete freedom for whatever kind of government he wishes. If that is destroyed nothing is left. I heard an interjection this afternoon about the power of the majority, as if a majority has any sanctity in telling a man how he is to vote. Is it the view of hon. Members opposite that a trade union by a majority can tell one of its members whether he is to vote for one candidate or another?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1514.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1516.0", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": " view of hon. Members opposite that a trade union by a majority can tell one of its members whether he is to vote for one candidate or another? [ Interruption. ] That would be recognised as an interference with the liberty of the subject, but after you have balloted in secret to set up your political levy you then take upon yourselves the power of saying whether a man is going to subscribe or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1514.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1521.0", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir LESLIE SCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why do you not show it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir LESLIE SCOTT", "preceding_text": " Government are pushing every moderate man. I desire, in the very few remarks I shall address to the House, to make a constructive suggestion for the consideration of the Government, and I only wish to preface that suggestion by a few preliminary remarks on the main features of the Bill. I am one of those who want to see high wages in industry and an improvement in the status of every working man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1521.0", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir LESLIE SCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir LESLIE SCOTT", "preceding_text": " opposition, decided on beforehand for tactical purposes of party, is based on a misconception as to what the provisions really mean and really effect. It is also, I think—and I ask hon. Members opposite to ask themselves this question—based on the presumption that because it comes from the Conservative party it is put forward in the interests of employers and not of the employés.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1521.0", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir LESLIE SCOTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And kill it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir LESLIE SCOTT", "preceding_text": "rests of employers and not of the employés. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] The answer I have received to my suggestion is in the affirmative, and I ask therefore, for that very reason—because the Opposition says in answer to my question: \"Frankly we suspect it because of its source\"—that as fair-minded men hon. Members should consider the provisions of the Bill on its merits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1524.1", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "preceding_text": " anxious to have a secret ballot imposed by law. That is a method which I do not believe would work. I have said so in public, and I am glad to see that it is not suggested in this Bill. But the system of conciliation that I suggest is one that has actually been tried for 20 years in Canada, under the Act passed in 1907, called the Lemieux Act, and it has succeeded in Canada very remarkably—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1524.1", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "preceding_text": "thod which I do not believe would work. I have said so in public, and I am glad to see that it is not suggested in this Bill. But the system of conciliation that I suggest is one that has actually been tried for 20 years in Canada, under the Act passed in 1907, called the Lemieux Act, and it has succeeded in Canada very remarkably—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"]. Why should not we try it here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1524.1", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about your own benches?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "preceding_text": " not suggested in this Bill. But the system of conciliation that I suggest is one that has actually been tried for 20 years in Canada, under the Act passed in 1907, called the Lemieux Act, and it has succeeded in Canada very remarkably—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"]. Why should not we try it here? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I am very glad to hear support for it from the Opposition Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1534.0", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "rted the unions up to that time. No Government and no Act of Parliament could do as much damage to the unions as was done on that occasion. I do not say that this Bill is entirely due to that, for I think that this Bill was ultimately inevitable, and I will say why. I think that the Liberal party has to some extent not gone into the proper confessional position with regard to the state of the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1534.0", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "Commission to investigate the position, but they went out of office before the framing of the Bill that followed upon that inquiry. The Liberal Government of the day brought in a Bill very much on the lines of the Dunedin Report, and then threw it overboard and accepted a Labour Bill, which the Labour party never expected would be accepted, and which the Liberal party never intended to become law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1534.0", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": " over 20 years on the Home Rule issue. I think it was Thackeray who said there are only 25 Whigs in the country at one time and they feel that they ought always to be in office. To parody the words of Byron, \"Hell hath no fury like a Whig out of office.\" They deliberately brought forward the Trade Disputes Bill of 1906 in full and perfect confidence that it would be rejected by the Second Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1536.1", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "quired a great deal of control in the unions and have begun to extract money from the trade unions' coffers for political purposes. That, however, was stopped by the Osborne Judgement. Again, in 1913, as a result of a bargain over the Ulster question, trade unionists got the 1913 Act. It was an entirely unjust proceeding to take the money of Conservative working men and apply it to other purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1537.2", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "No. The Act says that no trade union shall be liable to be sued for any tort committed. It says that there is a wrong, for a tort is a wrong. It is the legal word for wrong. The law presumes a wrong has been done, in fact, the Statute says a wrong has been done, but it says that that wrong shall have no remedy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1537.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1537.2", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "No. The Act says that no trade union shall be liable to be sued for any tort committed. It says that there is a wrong, for a tort is a wrong. It is the legal word for wrong. The law presumes a wrong has been done, in fact, the Statute says a wrong has been done, but it says that that wrong shall have no remedy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it!\"] I am just looking for the section.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1537.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1538.6", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "n. Member for Platting (Mr. Clynes) or the right hon. Member for Derby (Mr. Thomas) could say, \"You cannot do that, you will come into conflict with the law.\" Now such a man has no shelter over his head. His scalp is exposed to the blows of the extremists, without the protection of any legal system. That is the ultimate thing that led to the general strike. The general strike is an old, old story.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1538.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1541.5", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Federation of British Industries?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "e company or they will be liable to be surcharged. A limited liability company has to appoint an auditor whose business it is to see that no money is spent outside the limits of the charter. There is no corresponding provision in trade union law, and that is a matter which ought to be attended to I hope it will be attended to by some future Government if not by the present Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1541.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1542.3", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Everybody knows it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "I am not making any interruptions. It seems that a mark is being made of me. The hon. Member has charged us with being in the pay of certain people and he himself is in the pay of the brewers of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1542.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1543.1", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "Or perhaps I might say a donkey! I am perfectly certain that all rational men in the trade union movement are in favour of this Bill as a right and final deliverance, notwithstanding what the leaders may say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1544.0", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And there will be lock-outs still!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "preceding_text": "on my left, said it was something in the nature of an anarchic conspiracy. An anarchic conspiracy will not, I presume, be the coercion of the Government or the intimidation of the public? Every dispute in the mining industry has been designated by the Press that influences politicians and even Governments in these days as an act to coerce the Government into purchasing and nationalising the mines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1544.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1555.0", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "d and attitude of the Attorney-General in this particular matter. He is incapable of approaching this matter impartially or fairly. He has misquoted and misrepresented the intentions of his own Bill, and when he referred to the Act of 1913 he has either overlooked it or he has done something still worse, for a man in his position, he has shown himself incapable of becoming acquainted with the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1555.0", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "ement with regard to the position of registered and unregistered trade unions under the Act of 1913 and pointed out that, contrary to what the Attorney-General said, unregistered trade unions when they desired to make a political fund had to seek registration and go to the Registrar-General. That is laid down in the 1913 Act and in order that it should be clear I will read that Section of the Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1555.0", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "ty of tenure, they have pensions at the end of their service, and they have through the Whitley Council and through the Arbitration Agreements unrivalled opportunities of submitting their grievances. It is, of course, open to any civil servant to put forward any grievance through his Member of Parliament, and, of course, every one of us knows that such grievances are put forward from time to time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1568.1", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "preceding_text": "I said before, any accusations I make here I will repeat outside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1568.3", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "preceding_text": "Anyone can contradict me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1568.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1568.5", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You interrupted every sentence!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "preceding_text": "I protest—I was a very patient listener.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1568.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1568.5", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell us the truth!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "preceding_text": "I protest—I was a very patient listener. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You interrupted every sentence!\"] Perhaps I may be allowed to go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1568.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1568.5", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "preceding_text": "I protest—I was a very patient listener. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You interrupted every sentence!\"] Perhaps I may be allowed to go on. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell us the truth!\"] I am prepared to repeat any accusation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1568.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1570.2", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "preceding_text": ". Bonar Law merely stated that a Departmental Committee would deal with the matter, and there the matter rested. But the propagandist did not leave it. They went on without restraint with their mischievous propaganda. In 1922 the Union of Post Office Workers gave £1,000 as an affiliation fee to the Labour party and £5,000 to be spent in contesting eight seats in general and by-elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1570.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1570.4", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "preceding_text": "Who said he was a Communist?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1570.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1571.3", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "That is not a point of Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ou play the game at all at any time? On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker, the hon. Gentleman earlier in his speech made a general charge against some Communist in the Civil Service. That charge applies to every single man, from the highest grade in the Civil Service to the lowest grade, and in spite of the repeated request the hon. Member absolutely refuses to give the name. Is that playing the game?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1571.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1571.10", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "preceding_text": "ng: As one of your constituents and a lifelong Conservative, it is with the greatest concern that I have followed the legislation of our Government. There were two main arguments of all Conservative speakers at the last election, economy and the Socialist peril. There does not appear to have been the slightest attempt to deal with either of these things. Russian influence is seen everywhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1571.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1578.1", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REID", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REID", "preceding_text": " political fund. The Act of 1913, to which lion. Gentlemen opposite seem to pin their faith, was based on the one principle, which was, that a right was given to use the machinery of trade unions for the purposes of political action, but it was subject to the qualification that any man who objected should be excused contributions. The machinery for excusing a man from contribution has broken down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1578.1", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REID", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REID", "preceding_text": "hinery of trade unions for the purposes of political action, but it was subject to the qualification that any man who objected should be excused contributions. The machinery for excusing a man from contribution has broken down. [ Interruption. ] There are many men in Northern Ireland who contribute at the present time because they are unable to get exemption. I am stating what I know to be a fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1587.0", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND SETTLEMENT, HARRIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LIVINGSTONE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LIVINGSTONE", "preceding_text": "it on this Government or any Government which has been in office since 1918. The case of these men has been callously ignored by Government after Government and by Scottish Minister after Scottish Minister. I hope the right hon. Gentle- man the Member for West Fife (Mr. W. Adamson), when he goes north, will explain to these men why he himself did so little to expedite their settlement on the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-03", "file": "debates1927-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "3da4d70db48ac1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1588.3", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND SETTLEMENT, HARRIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LIVINGSTONE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LIVINGSTONE", "preceding_text": "The responsibility for these men being in prison rests upon those people who encouraged and instigated them to break the law. [HOX. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"] They are unknown to me. I have an idea who they are, but I have no proof and I will give no names.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-03a.1588.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1639.4", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "ust as the Labour party before the text of the Bill was known announced that they were going to resist it line by line, so before the Bill has been examined, amended, tested, improved—and if it reaches the Committee stage it will need all these things—we should have the pledge of the Labour party, that the first object of any future Labour Government will be to repeal every line of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1639.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1639.4", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "ced that they were going to resist it line by line, so before the Bill has been examined, amended, tested, improved—and if it reaches the Committee stage it will need all these things—we should have the pledge of the Labour party, that the first object of any future Labour Government will be to repeal every line of it. [ Interruption. ] I have not stated anything which is controverted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1639.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1639.4", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": " a very fair controversialist. What I was observing was that it seems to me to be just as unfortunate to say of a Bill before you have seen its terms that you will resist it line by line as it is to say of a Bill after it is published, but before you know in what shape it will reach the Statute Book, that you are going to repeal it line by line. Frankly, I am sorry, and I am sorry for this reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1639.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1648.0", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "It cannot be done.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "And what is a 'substantial' portion of the community? Except in applications under Clause 7, the task of construing these vague expressions will, be it remembered, fall mainly on magistrates. There is no time to indict people during a general strike. It seems as little fair on the magistrates as on the accused that so little guidance as to the meaning of these terms should be afforded by the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1642.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1648.1", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are not ashamed of it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "ible for hon. Gentlemen above the Gangway to have made a really effective, collective repudiation of what had just happened. I have never gone out of my way to reproach them, because of their difficulties during the strike, but, as a matter of fact, how can we regard the situation to-day as though it was what it would have been if there had been a plain, definite repudiation of what then happened?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1648.1", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was not illegal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": " happened is really two things, and up to the present these are the two principal contributions which have been made by the Labour party since the strike of a, year ago to the very difficult situation with which we are now trying to deal. First of all, we get the intermittent and spasmodic assertion, with reference to the events of 12 months ago, that there never was a general strike at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1648.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1650.0", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Wait and see!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": " a careful review of the situation, and I extract these sentences. Said the right hon. Member for Aberavon (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald): Did not everyone notice, when the general strike was declared, that the strong case of the miners was obscured rather than brought into greater prominence? And he went on: We are not likely to hear much more of a general strike as an effective industrial weapon\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1650.3", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "That was the language which was used by the Leader of the Labour party in an article published on 22nd May, which represented, if I may say so, his moderate view, but it so happens that on the same day he wrote another article, in the paper called \"Forward,\" and in \"Forward\" this is the language used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1650.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1650.5", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Carnarvon Boroughs!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "When the Leader of the Labour party returns, he will know, at any rate. On 22nd May, 1926, he was writing: The general strike of 1926 will be a glowing point in the history of British labour. I venture to add a quotation from a right hon. Gentleman who is sitting on the Front Bench, the right hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Snowden), who had no doubt about it at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1650.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1651.3", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "ar ago a one-Clause Bill saying, in quite simple terms, something of this sort, \"That not with standing anything in the Trade Union Acts, it is declared that any combination, whether of employers or of persons employed, to coerce the Government or Parliament by means of simultaneous refusal to continue employment or work, is an unlawful conspiracy.\" I believe that would have been far better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1651.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1651.3", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": ", things having reached the pass they have, this matter could possibly be disposed of by simply withdrawing the Bill, and saying no more about it. I believe it to be quite inevitable that we should bend all our energies to dealing with every Clause of this Bill with the single purpose of making it fulfil the declarations with which the Attorney-General opened on Monday—neither more nor less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1651.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1654.2", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Eight Hours Act?\", and \"You have no mandate!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "Clynes), who told the House that, in his view, this legislation had been long conceived and long intended, and I shall try to deal, as far as I am able, with certain remarks which have been made from time to time, both in the country and in this House, that seem to imply that no Government has the authority to introduce any legislation which may amend in any direction the existing trade union law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1654.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1654.2", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who brought it on?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ter, because there were in that legislation certain seeds of trouble which developed in subsequent years. Now there has been a great change since 1906, both in the attitude and in the ground that is covered by trade unions, and I will try in two or three words to put it in, I think, a not unfair way. The emphasis has distinctly moved in the last 20 years from industrial action to political action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1654.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1654.2", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "h the fact that you have many trade unions through these years of whom the public have not heard much, because they have succeeded in composing troubles in their own industries without causing trouble to people outside£side by side with those two facts, you have the fact that in some unions you have had the power gradually getting into the hands of what to-day is called the Minority Movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1654.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1654.2", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have you not a minority movement in your own party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "rough these years of whom the public have not heard much, because they have succeeded in composing troubles in their own industries without causing trouble to people outside£side by side with those two facts, you have the fact that in some unions you have had the power gradually getting into the hands of what to-day is called the Minority Movement. [ Interruption. ] One of the troubles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1654.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1656.1", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I am not going to quote names. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] Nor shall I withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1656.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1668.1", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You were pressed by the coalowners, and you did pass one!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ly had one in the House, but for that one speech in the House there are a great many going on in the country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Go to the country!\"] I have been asked what mandate have we for this Bill. The mandate is the events of last year. Why did we not pass a Bill immediately afterwards? I was pressed to pass a Bill during the General Strike; I was pressed to pass a Bill immediately afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1668.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1676.1", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "ut this Bill being to prevent general strikes are humbug and delusions and that the Government have never had any intention of confining the matter to a general strike at all. Then, may I ask, what is meant by \"Substantial part of the community\"? The right hon. and learned Member for Spen Valley wanted to know it. I want to know it. Is it, in the agricultural village, the squire and his relatives?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1676.1", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": " it, in the agricultural village, the squire and his relatives? [ Interruption. ] Is it, in the small manufacturing town, the one large employer? Is it anybody, whether singular or plural, who dominates a bench of Magistrates? How do you expect us with our experience to pretend that we think this Bill, which has been carefully thought out, as Lord Birkenhead in one of his sober moments said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1677.0", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERSKINE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERSKINE", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Is it in order for a right hon. Gentleman to describe Lord Birkenhead in that disgraceful way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1677.4", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "In order that there may be no misunderstanding about what I meant, I now say, quite categorically, that my expression was exactly on the lines that you have mentioned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1677.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1677.6", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Always hostile.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": " contempt\"? Does that mean that all a man has to do is to go to the police and say, \"From a visit, or from certain words, or from the looks of a certain man, I have reason, to apprehend that I shall be made an object of ridicule.\"? That is all that he has to do under the wording of this Bill, and thereupon the poor trade unionist may be hauled before a Bench of Magistrates, which is hostile—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1677.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "If it was not Poplar it was somewhere in that area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1691.1", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "e told us, belongs to the Union of Post Office Workers, and I am going to quote a declaration or appeal made by that union through its official organ, \"The Post,\" in 1920. Important and Urgent. From the Executive Council to each member. Shall we support war on Russia? Your Executive recommends decisively No. The Postal Workers will be the first to say to the Prime Minister they will not go to war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1691.1", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "sia? Your Executive recommends decisively No. The Postal Workers will be the first to say to the Prime Minister they will not go to war. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Will hon. Members cheer this: The member of the U.P.W. will stand by the position of the Council of Action whatever it may be. And it is then declared that— Among the first to down tools if necessary will be the postal workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1697.1", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": "r, where a highly respected engine man, in the first two hours of the strike, had given word to his superintendent that he would work a certain mail train. I went to see him, and he said, \"I am in a cleft stick. I want to do what my union tells me, but I have given word. What should I do?\" In the first place, under this Bill my visit to that man's house would land me in gaol when this becomes law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1704.1", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Test that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentlemen opposite, and I say that I find a very keen desire on the part of trade unionists to appreciate really what is in this Bill. I believe there is no real opposition on the part of the workers against this Measure. I hope my hon. Friends opposite will not think I have been told personally, but I do believe the opposition to this Bill is engineered from the top and not from the bottom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1704.1", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who was he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "ld personally, but I do believe the opposition to this Bill is engineered from the top and not from the bottom. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Test that!\"] Hon. Members opposite, especially miners' representatives, ought to know that there have been as good Conservative trade unionists as Socialist trade unionists. One of the past presidents of the Miners' Federation was a Conservative, I think, until he died.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1704.1", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is alive now!\" and \"He was the secretary!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "on to this Bill is engineered from the top and not from the bottom. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Test that!\"] Hon. Members opposite, especially miners' representatives, ought to know that there have been as good Conservative trade unionists as Socialist trade unionists. One of the past presidents of the Miners' Federation was a Conservative, I think, until he died. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Who was he?\"] Mr. Ashton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1708.1", "colnum": "1708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VARLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VARLEY", "preceding_text": "rley would speak the following week. He put it upon the Tuesday, and on the Wednesday he had finished. I ventured to address the meeting, and the men then said, \"Having heard both these gentlemen, we will now take the ballot as to which of these men, according to the majority, shall be our leader.\" Another man, greatly daring, put up a notice to that effect, and the following week he had finished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1710.0", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Election expenses.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "May I ask one question? The hon. Member talked about £10,000, which shows the truth that he is telling, when I have drawn, as he knows, for about eight years, £250.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1711.0", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain FOXCROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FOXCROFT", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member who has just sat down has attacked the hon. Member for Broxtowe (Mr. Spencer) because he was at one time, as he said, the great apostle of political trade unionism in Nottinghamshire. I think we might very well honour him for having at last seen the error of his ways and having had the courage to own it. He has made a great sacrifice. For all he knew he might—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1711.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1711.1", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "For 30 pieces of silver!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FOXCROFT", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member who has just sat down has attacked the hon. Member for Broxtowe (Mr. Spencer) because he was at one time, as he said, the great apostle of political trade unionism in Nottinghamshire. I think we might very well honour him for having at last seen the error of his ways and having had the courage to own it. He has made a great sacrifice. For all he knew he might—[ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1712.0", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain FOXCROFT", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FOXCROFT", "preceding_text": "they have been sniping at our Bill. Now we are waiting the last charge of the Glasgow brigade. But the Bill still survives and it will survive, because denunciation does not kill. The Bill can only be killed by the keen blade of real criticism, and I do not think we have had very much real criticism of the Bill in the House. 8.0 p.m. For one moment I would like to leave the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1712.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-04", "file": "debates1927-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee44ec1d7a97b539", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1712.0", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain FOXCROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FOXCROFT", "preceding_text": "ng in the Albert Hall against this Bill—I understand that the hall was not quite half full—said that the Bill must be smashed by his party or else his party would be smashed by the Bill. I wonder in what capacity at that moment Mr. Pollit was speaking. Was he speaking as a trade unionist or was he speaking as a Communist? If he was speaking as a trade unionist, then he was quite right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-04a.1712.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1786.0", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ting law. That is what the right hon. Gentleman broadly declares the law to be, but his most severe condemnation was reserved not for the ambiguities of this Bill, but for certain declarations which have been made by the Labour party. He announced that we on this side opposed this Bill before it had been introduced into the House of Commons. Of course we did because we knew what the Bill would be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1790.2", "colnum": "1790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "I have read every word of the sentence with the exception—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1790.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1791.3", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "I gave the right hon. Gentleman five minutes", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1791.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1791.4", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman. The point is a very simple one to all who are willing to listen to it. The point is this, that, whatever may be said against the expediency of passing declaratory Clauses, when they are passed it is really quite impracticable for anybody to be proposing to repeal them. I have never for a moment supposed that the Labour party would seek to legislate that intimidation was legal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1791.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1791.5", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Inferentially\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "t, no doubt, was at the moment his real feeling and intention It may be that for the moment the right hon. Gentleman forgot that he was addressing the House of Commons, and thought he was delivering one of his familiar speeches in the Spen Valley Division. We have declared that when we become a Government we shall repeal this Act. Suppose we do. Will the repeal of this Act make intimidation legal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1791.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1791.5", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ion, but it is quite evident that he has not followed even the speeches of his own leader, because the point of the Attorney-General the other day was the same as the point made yesterday by the right hon. and learned Member for Spen Valley, that this Bill was mainly declaratory in its purpose, that it did not materially alter the existing law. Suppose we do repeal this Bill; what is the position?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1791.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "intimate, so interlocked, to-day, so are the relations of the various trade unions, and it is an utter impossibility to confine a trade dispute to what is described in this Bill as within the trade or industry. It cannot be done. If the right is taken away from the trade unions to increase the pressure, to increase coercion by sympathetic strikes, then the strike weapon becomes absolutely useless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": ", is constantly bringing pressure—coercion—upon the Government of the day to concede its demands; and the coercion is not confined to those outside the Government or outside the party of the Government. Nobody knows that better than the present Prime Minister. He confessed it yesterday. He admitted that he had been coerced into accepting a Bill with the whole of which he did not agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ing coercion to bear upon anybody—upon any organised body or upon the Government—than by men simply stopping away from work and remaining peacefully at home. As to the so-called general strike, my views are fairly well known. It is 20 years since I dealt with this question in a book I wrote, and I have never altered my view. A general strike for industrial purposes is general nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The leaders.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ment are now making. Suppose that there is an illegal general strike. What are the Government going to do? Under this Bill every man who takes part in a so-called general strike can be sent to prison for three months. He certainly will not pay the fine. Well now, suppose that 5,000,000 men stop work. How are you going to deal with them? Are you going to bring those 5,000,000 men before the Courts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "rt in such an illegal strike must be tried either by summary proceedings or by indictment in another Court. Are you going to discriminate? Are you going to take a few leaders and others, and think that by sending them to prison for three months von are going to intimidate the rest to go back to work? You have 5,000,000 men to deal with and you are going to send them all to prison for three months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "or an eight-hours day. 5.0 p.m. When the learned Attorney-General has an opportunity of replying, I would like to put a question to him. May I ask him, would a strike for a reduction of the hours of labour be a legal or an illegal strike under this Bill? How can the miners get a reduction of their hours of work except through Government legislation Government by law have fixed the hours of labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "egal strike under this Bill? How can the miners get a reduction of their hours of work except through Government legislation Government by law have fixed the hours of labour. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Yes!\"] I concede this—it does not in the least lessen the force of my argument—that one way in which the miners can get a reduction their hours of labour is by some voluntary arrangement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1796.0", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, you did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "I never said that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1796.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1797.0", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is a blackleg?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "n the course of our Debate. May I give one more? This Bill introduces a new offence-the apprehension of being held up to ridicule. If it is to be made an offence even to hold up a person to ridicule, then the whole spice and enjoyment of life have been taken away. I do not think I am grotesque in the instance I am going to give. A number of men on strike are in a public house. A blackleg comes in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1797.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1797.0", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "hat man up to ridicule; they have given what will be quite satisfactory evidence to the magistrates of causing fear of ridicule. That is what this Bill is going to do. There is nothing that you can do by an Act of Parliament to prevent men from showing, either in their faces or sometimes by their words, their contempt for men of whose conduct they disapprove. I wonder if I have time to tell—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1797.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1797.0", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame,\" and Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "t year. What, in the name of common sense, have the events of last year to do with the political levy? When the Prime Minister was speaking yesterday, he was pressed by an hon. Friend of mine to answer that question. He made no attempt to do so. He said in that memorable speech of his—it will be remembered, because it is the only memorable speech which the Prime Minister has ever made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1797.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1801.0", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT SANDERS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is true to-day!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT SANDERS", "preceding_text": "ding to that evidence, agree as to the disease. The argument has been put forward—I must say I have been rather surprised at the force with which it has been put forward, because I have always hitherto imagined that the case of the Labour party on this subject was that there is really no grievance at all—that everyone who wanted to be exempt from the political levy could be so. exempt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1805.1", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\" and \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "l the penalties which are included in the Bill. The Prime Minister said, and said quite truly, that strikes now were on a very much larger scale than they used to be. I am coming to that later on. As he put it very aptly, in the old days, they fought in battalions, then in divisions, and now they fight in great armies. That is so, but can you imagine a great strike like the miners' stoppage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1805.1", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No thanks to you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ary now. Let us examine that. What are the circumstances which have changed? Since then you have had the general strike. Let us examine that. I say, and I propose to give my reasons, that so far from the general weakening the position of the Minister two years ago it really strengthens it. Why do I say that? The general strike was a complete and humiliating failure. It was a failure within a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1805.1", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thee have already threatened it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "2;and this is rather important when you come to consider the question of the probability of its renewal? The trade union funds were bankrupted, the terms that were imposed were, to say the least, humiliating. I cannot conceive that any trade union in its senses, having regard to the experiment of last year, will ever dream of repeating it, and I feel confident that they will not. I go beyond that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1805.1", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Prevented it,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ging the strike to an end, It was not even found necessary to put the existing law into operation. In spite of that a Bill is introduced to amend the law when the powers the Government had at that time were not put into operation. I ask the Solicitor-General this question: Suppose they had all these powers in May, 1926, in what respect could they have curtailed that general strike by a single day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1805.1", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: A week\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ese powers in May, 1926, in what respect could they have curtailed that general strike by a single day? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Prevented it,\"] How could they have prevented it? That is what I want to know. There were two ways in which they could have done it, one by an injunction to prevent the unions using their funds. The miners did not have enough money to carry their fight for a single month—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1815.1", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " refer to it again. I do not know who are the workmen who are in that body, and for this purpose it does not matter, but you have there some of the greatest captains of industry, some of the largest employers of labour in this country—Sir Arthur Pease, Sir Hugh Bell, and Sir Edward Manville—who was a Member of this House, a very highly respected Conservative Member of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1816.1", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "being great feeling on the side of the Bill. But there is passionate feeling against it. How does that help the trade of the country to recover? And when the Bill is through and the agitation for it is at an end—you cannot agitate for a Measure that has been passed—the agitation against it will go on. What does that mean? It means that just as there was a new feeling creeping in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1818.0", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JEPHCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JEPHCOTT", "preceding_text": "now. Some of them, possibly, have a personal respect for an old man like me, and I will tell them that the difficulty they are in to-day arises from the fact that they gave up industrial action and took to political action. Since that period, from about 1906, the skilled organisations of this country and many of the labouring organizations—have they gained anything out of political activity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1818.0", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JEPHCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JEPHCOTT", "preceding_text": "minated me to go to election as a candidate for this House. Our executive wrote to me, and said was nominated, and they asked what were my views. I said that on trade union questions I was prepared to sign any document they submitted, and that I would loyally support the Labour party in the House of Commons on industrial points, but that on the question of the disestablishment of the Church—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1818.0", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JEPHCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JEPHCOTT", "preceding_text": "rk. But on that and other germane subjects, in which I, in my quiet way, have assisted the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) more than once, I was not allowed to be a candidate. Is that your liberty? Is that your desire, as was read in my own organisation in the reading-in years ago, to welcome \"men of all creeds and all politics\" into your trade unions? Do you do it now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1818.0", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JEPHCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JEPHCOTT", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) more than once, I was not allowed to be a candidate. Is that your liberty? Is that your desire, as was read in my own organisation in the reading-in years ago, to welcome \"men of all creeds and all politics\" into your trade unions? Do you do it now? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"] You do not. I say to some of you that men's lives are made uncomfortable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1818.0", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JEPHCOTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We can give you hundreds on the other side victimised!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JEPHCOTT", "preceding_text": "ly know a man who, in the general strike, or lock-out, or dispute a year ago, remained loyal to his employers, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, and it is only this last week that he has been to tell me, not that there is that concord which the Labour party preach, but that he can hardly pursue his occupation because of the quiet hostility of men who came out on strike when he remained in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1818.0", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JEPHCOTT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JEPHCOTT", "preceding_text": "me credit for honesty of purpose that we were prepared to give to them. The hon. Member who was driven out of office had, not on his own initiative, but on the initiative of other men, formed an organisation, I will not say that is in the true sense hostile to the Miners' Federation, but that is a new departure, a departure that this Bill is going to encourage and increase, a departure back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1818.0", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JEPHCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JEPHCOTT", "preceding_text": "ill itself, I have found by experience that many men tell tales that have no relation to what they are talking about. It is done here, it is done elsewhere; shall I do it? There was a certain lady going to elections—you send them; women have not got all that cheek to go to them, only just a very few of the straight-laced ones—who used to pursue me at every meeting at the last election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1845.2", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Liberal party!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "signed or calculated to coerce the Government, or to intimidate the community or any substantial portion of the community. It has been asked a hundred times, if once, what is a substantial portion of the community? Neither the Attorney-General, the Prime Minister nor the Secretary of State for War, nor any Government or back bench spokesman has attempted to tell us what is intended by that phrase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1845.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1850.0", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They ought to be!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "e to join in. Some did not remove their hats, but their neighbours promptly forced them to remove them. Could those people be put into prison? I do not know how far the Members opposite were guilty, but after some visionary event in my own life, I read in the newspapers that the Tory Members walked out of the House when the Member for Battersea rose to speak. Were they all to be clapped into gaol?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1866.3", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ere so much bitterness? There is bitterness because this Bill is not only inconsistent with but is a direct contradiction of everything the Prime Minister has said. We have heard a lot about the general strike, and my views have been quoted. I withdraw nothing I have said about the general strike. I believe to-day that it is not only a bad method but that it is a useless method and cannot succeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1866.3", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Hon MEMBERS: \"Why did you call it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "here, and he can tell the House—and there is a shorthand note to prove it—that nothing that has been said in condemnation of a general strike, nothing that even the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Spen Valley (Sir J. Simon) has said about the right of the community, was said more forcibly than I said it in the Prime Minister's presence a few hours before the general strike started.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1866.3", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "use, and it was accepted as giving effect to a broadcast speech the Prime Minister had made—he will remember it, a speech that was made after a discussion with the Labour leaders. The House does not know it, but the broadcast speech of the Prime Minister which said what I have quoted now, which asked the country to forget the events, was made after a joint discussion with the labour leaders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1866.3", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "] He added, \"Let us have nothing to do with them.\" There you have an illustration in practice of the Prime Minister's speech, namely, Let us forget the past; let us co-operate together; let us forget all the events. Some Members on the other side have expressed surprise at the feeling aroused, and I observe that the Press in the country is drawing attention to the rowdyism and scenes in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1866.3", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "o got in by a fraud of a letter, to use their majority to try to cripple the only bargaining power of the workers. We resent it because of the miserable humbug of Members who get up and say they are voting for this because they believe they are the friends of liberty and freedom. It would at least be decent to say that you know you are doing and that you want to curtail the liberties of these men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1869.1", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Spencer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "out of the Munitions of War Act. So impartial and so anxious to do the right thing are the Government that they took one Section out of the Munitions of War Act that applied to the workers and left out the Section that applies to the employers. The excuse is that, after all, there is no intimidation among the employers. There is a Member who sits behind me and I will give his case of intimidation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1869.1", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"What is the name of the firm?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " out most successfully. She started work and then it became known that her name was Henderson, and a letter came to say she must give the name of her father and his occupation. She put down \"Miners' leader,\" and a private letter came from the firm after she had been there a fortnight, that she was to be dismissed and no reason to be given. That is not 10 years ago; it is less than a few weeks ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1869.1", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "tion. She put down \"Miners' leader,\" and a private letter came from the firm after she had been there a fortnight, that she was to be dismissed and no reason to be given. That is not 10 years ago; it is less than a few weeks ago. [HON MEMBERS: \"What is the name of the firm?\"] I do not want to develop it ton much, because there happens to be a Member of the Government who is a director of the firm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1869.1", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All the agitators!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " inquiry about victimisation, and the present Judge Atkins was appointed arbitrator. I conducted the case for the men, and when we happened to have a private examination of the company's books, we suddenly found a number of red-ink marks alongside a number of men. We probed the matter out, and it was actually revealed that this was the company's method of marking those who took part in the strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1869.1", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " away the only bargaining power we possess. I know that all these things have to be determined by the magistrates and the Judges. You wonder why we are rather sceptical about magistrates and Judges. I suppose hon. Members are aware that there are 9,600 acting justices in this country, and only 719 of them are Labour men. That at least indicates that the bias in these cases will not be on our side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1869.1", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " in industrial disputes of this kind there is and must of necessity be bias. I will give a more concrete reason as to why we are suspicious of Judges and Magistrates. You are reversing to-day, by this Bill, the agreed Measure of 1913. That Measure was introduced as a result of what is called the Osborne Judgment. Osborne was a member of my union. Osborne was financed by members of that Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1869.1", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "o can alter it are the Government, by an Act of Parliament framed with the intention of protecting the lives both of passengers and of railwaymen. We failed to persuade them. The railwaymen say the railway companies cannot alter it; the only people who can alter it are the Government; and we have to coerce the Government and all get landed in gaol for trying to protect the lives of our own people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1869.1", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "uppose that negotiations fail, and they decide to strike on the tubes. The only people that are likely to influence their position would be those on the omnibuses and in the transport industry. Suppose the transport men say, \"We believe that the railway men's case is a good case; we believe it is a just strike; we are coming out in support.\" Is that injuring a substantial portion of the community?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1869.1", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Voluntary contributions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ny others. But the anxiety for purity, for freedom! The present Lord Younger when he was a Member of this House admitted one Friday afternoon that out of the funds, not of the workers, not on an open balance sheet, not on something that is sent to the Registrar, not anything which can be complained of so far as the public are concerned, but out of the Tory party funds, 4,000,000 were public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1869.1", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It says it should be adequate!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ionist Committee in your constituency will help you in this. No interference, no intimidation, purely disinterested! Yes. But let us read on and see how it squares with this Bill: The Registrar has power to enforce his decision upon the union, and his protection should prove adequate. The Unionist Association considers that the Registrar's protection is adequate, but the Government says, \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1869.1", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Judges?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "says it should be adequate! Then this Bill reflects on the Registrar that he does not do his duty. It is one of two things. The Registrar's Report says that there were only 13 complaints last year. The answer I get to that is that hon. Members think that the Registrar is biased. He is a public servant and cannot defend himself, and I do not believe in attacking people who cannot defend themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1869.1", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He does not need it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "e and on the hustings, with all that it means. You cannot have this conflict and let it remain as it is. You may pass this Bill, but the agitation will go on. Because I believe you are rendering a disservice to the country; because I believe you are doing harm to the country; because I believe that the only person who will benefit is the unfortunate Member, with whom I sympathised yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1878.0", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not be provocative!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "preceding_text": " And, I am bound to say, that, on the whole, if any complaint of the failure to expound the Bill were justified, the greater part of the observations which the right hon. Gentleman has just addressed to the House appear to me to have very little to do with the principles contained in the Bill. If I am allowed a freedom which former speakers did not enjoy, I may possibly be able to elucidate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1878.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1879.1", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ense agree. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Colne Valley said also earlier this afternoon that this question would be decided by the common sense of the people. We think that it will be of assistance to the common sense of the people, if they find it clearly stated in the law of the land that the general strike is to be illegal. Let me attempt to deal with the question that Clause 1—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1879.1", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "he legality or illegality of what I may call an industrial strike. The case propounded by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Ince was the case of miners, who, anxious to improve the conditions of labour in their county, decided that they must withhold their labuor from their employers. Is it possible that anybody is under the impression that a strike of that character is aimed at by Clause 1.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1879.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1882.3", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite, surely, are prepared to listen to what I am stating as the intention and the effect of the Clause. If that is not the effect of the Clause, I can say here and now that the intention on the part of the Government is that it shall have that effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1882.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1882.4", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "preceding_text": "May I ask a quesion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1882.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1882.5", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "The Solicitor-General has given way for the hon. Member. He is entitled to put his point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1882.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1883.4", "colnum": "1883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ous thing, it is human in its appeal, and we get into the habit of thinking that a sympathetic strike must be excellent because sympathy is so admirable. If we confine ourselves to the words in the Bill, and decide the cases which will come before us by reference to the language in the Bill, instead of using these fantastic epithets like \"sympathetic,\" we are likely to arrive at a safe conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1883.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1883.4", "colnum": "1883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ty,\" in senses which both they and everybody else understands, is it not legitimate for us to suppose that these words will be understood when we put them in an Act of Parliament? The word \"intimidate\" is not a new word. It has stood in the Act of 1875 for 51 years, and we have never heard any suggestion that the Act of 1875 was obscure when it referred to the intimidation which is there aimed at.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1883.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1887.0", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "I put it to you, Mr. Speaker, that the right hon. Gentleman expressly stated, a few moments ago, his intention to explain what was meant by the expression \"a substantial portion of the community,\" and before he leaves Clause 1—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1886.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1888.4", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "If there is any doubt about it, the right hon. Gentleman will see his words recorded in the OFFICIAL REPORT. He stated quite plainly that there was nothing in Clause 3 which dealt with the employer. If he refers to Clause 3 he will find that the employer is dealt with, and intimidation by the employer is prohibited just as much as intimidation by the workmen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1888.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1888.4", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Here he is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "f intimidation with which this Clause does not deal. But there are other people who are guilty of intimidation with which this Clause does not deal. I am sorry that the right hon. Member for Derby has for the moment left the House, because I have here an illustration of intimidation with which this Clause does not deal which is an answer to or opposed to the intimidation to which he was referring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1888.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1888.4", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " this Clause does not deal. I am sorry that the right hon. Member for Derby has for the moment left the House, because I have here an illustration of intimidation with which this Clause does not deal which is an answer to or opposed to the intimidation to which he was referring. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Here he is!\"] I wonder what the right hon. Gentleman thinks of this new Red letter, which is not forged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1888.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1888.4", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "r, which is not forged. [ Interruption. ] This is a statement addressed to railway non-unionists and members in arrears. It states that: The time has come when you must join and keep your contributions up to date or you should get off the job. We extend you a welcome to join before it is too late, as on May 2nd, 1927, and five following days we are having an inspection of trade union cards\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1888.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1888.4", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Law Society?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "n May 2nd, 1927, and five following days we are having an inspection of trade union cards\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] and shall have a complete record of enemies or friends. Those members in arrears are requested to clear their cards, and all nons to join up before that date, as we cannot be held responsible for any definite decisive action that may be taken to clear out all nons\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1888.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1889.3", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I am glad to hear from the right hon. Gentleman that this document is repudiated by the Council of his union. Will it satisfy hon. Members opposite if I tell them that the Government also repudiates intimidation by employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1889.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1889.3", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "s. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) asked a question which I am anxious to answer. He asked if employers' associations such as the Brewers' Association and the mineowners are involved. The answer is that they are not touched at all by this Bill. Their actions are legal or illegal under the Act of 1913, without this Bill having any effect on them at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1889.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1889.3", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ft to me I want to deal with another point. It has been said that it is an inopportune time at which to pass this legislation. The right hon. Gentleman has been scathing in his denunciation of the Prime Minister. Is it quite fair for the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs to tell the House that the Prime Minister has turned his back on the path of peace on which he had entered?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1889.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1892.0", "colnum": "1892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "the interests of a large, silent, suffering class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1892.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-05", "file": "debates1927-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb4aa89e7a05345a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1892.0", "colnum": "1892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "been swift to act. Two years ago the Prime Minister made what he described as his gesture in this House, and the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Shettleston (Mr. Wheatley) taunted the Prime Minister this evening with praying when he ought to be acting. Two years have passed. One year was spent in preparation for a struggle as disastrous as the floods which are now threatening to engulf a city.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-05a.1892.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-06", "file": "debates1927-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "601acf39943cb437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1929.1", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does the hon. Gentleman suggest that all the 400,000 continue in employment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ase of population, because we have been absorbing the arrears, and although to-day our unemployment is only about 180,000 less than it was, for example, when the present Government took office, the number of people at work is about 600,000 more. I do want Members of the House to realise that though the problem is a grave one, nevertheless a great deal has been accomplished by the normal operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-06", "file": "debates1927-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "601acf39943cb437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1931.3", "colnum": "1931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I do not doubt that in the slightest, and I would also point out that if the basis had been left unaffected, the workmen would have shared in the whole of those profits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1931.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-06", "file": "debates1927-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "601acf39943cb437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1931.3", "colnum": "1931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Three-quarters of the miners are only working two days a week.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "id drop in employment. But the real test of the coalmining industry in this country, left in an unaided condition with the seven-hour day, was the condition which prevailed at the end of June, 1924, when the coalmining industry for the first time was feeling the blast of international competition. I should not have brought in this issue if the Mover had not devoted a great deal of attention to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1931.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-06", "file": "debates1927-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "601acf39943cb437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1931.3", "colnum": "1931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Lock-out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "e-quarters only are working two days a week, their efforts must be far more remarkable than that of any coalminers in the past. After all, surely those who are connected closely with the coalmining industry have some responsibility for our present position in the matter of unemployment. I remember the dispute of 1921, which commenced on a very appropriate day, the 1st April, and ended in a strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1931.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-06", "file": "debates1927-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "601acf39943cb437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1939.1", "colnum": "1939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You bring it down to nothing!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "rkers there are eleven dependants. The idea that the economic unit consists of a man, his wife, and three children is not true. Just under one half of the people work for gain, therefore, if there are 1,150,000 out of work, the total number of persons affected by unemployment is not 5,000,000 but about 2,500,000. I think that ought to be mentioned, because there is a good deal of misunderstanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-06", "file": "debates1927-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "601acf39943cb437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1942.1", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "moment that my hon. Friend the Member for Houghton-le-Spring (Mr. R. Richardson), who asked me the question, is an employer, and that he has employed me, and we are engaged in an enterprise which yields in a year the sum of £300. Then we have an argument as to our respective shares of the profits. Does it affect the purchasing power if his share goes up by £10 and mine drops by £10?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-06", "file": "debates1927-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "601acf39943cb437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1944.0", "colnum": "1944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I beg to second the Amendment. While I have been listening to my hon. Friend, I have been filled with envy at the extent of his economic knowledge, and his familiar juggling with figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-06", "file": "debates1927-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "601acf39943cb437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1947.2", "colnum": "1947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": " There is one remark of the hon. Member for West Toxteth (Mr. Gibbins) that I should like to criticise. He was referring to a Mental Deficiency School in his constituency. He spoke of mental defectiveness produced through destitution and want. I really must protest against that. Neither destitution nor want will produce mental defectiveness. Mental defectiveness is a disease of the nervous system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1947.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-06", "file": "debates1927-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "601acf39943cb437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1947.2", "colnum": "1947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a Committee point\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ent, and that was a vicious principle. Another funny point is that probably the two most important Members in the Cabinet are not allowed to be on the Committee—the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It is true that you are to obtain from the Chancellor of the Exchequer £10,000,000 every year, but there is to be no representative of the Treasury on that Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1947.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-06", "file": "debates1927-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "601acf39943cb437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1961.0", "colnum": "1961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "They are sparser on the other side of the House.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "t is the fault of the ruling and governing classes in this country. If the industrial capital manipulators in this country take certain courses which raise the value of the National Debt and raise the value of the pound sterling and make things worse for the unemployed, that is not the fault of the unemployed and we are here to-day—or we ought to be here because our numbers are sparse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1959.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-06", "file": "debates1927-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "601acf39943cb437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1966.6", "colnum": "1966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. POWER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We know them\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. POWER", "preceding_text": "tackled the other two, and one of the remedies for unemployment, to my mind, will come when the Labour party tackle the other two. I do not mean tackle them in the fighting sense, but adopting them and endeavouring to understand what they mean. At the present time there is no constructive attempt on the part of the Labour party to understand the problems from the employers' side of the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1966.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-06", "file": "debates1927-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "601acf39943cb437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1967.1", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. POWER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. POWER", "preceding_text": "The whole object of my speech is to urge Labour to take a part in industry, and understand the problems as they affect the other parts, just as I know they understand the problems that face the worker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1967.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-06", "file": "debates1927-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "601acf39943cb437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1970.1", "colnum": "1970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "That is offensive.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "That is not fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-06", "file": "debates1927-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "601acf39943cb437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1983.0", "colnum": "1983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"It is the usual thing!;\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland)", "preceding_text": "I was deeply touched by the kind and friendly advice of the hon. Member who has just spoken that I shall father this Bill, or at any rate, take some share in forwarding its fortunes as a means for keeping my own office free from peril. It was most kind of him and I appreciate it deeply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-06", "file": "debates1927-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "601acf39943cb437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1985.0", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "oposal is to free the operations of the body created by this Bill from Treasury control. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Preston (Mr. T. Shaw) was quite explicit on this point. He said that what he objected to was the dead hand of the Treasury and he went on in the same speech to make it quite clear that the Treasury is to have no power of limitation or control over the proposed Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-06", "file": "debates1927-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "601acf39943cb437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1988.3", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "As to the questions to be dealt with, we consider that the questions which a Government can deal with are not the general questions of providing employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-06", "file": "debates1927-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "601acf39943cb437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1989.1", "colnum": "1989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Coal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member will say what other things can be justified economically, in the same way, they will be considered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-06", "file": "debates1927-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "601acf39943cb437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1998.0", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "r for Reading (0Mr. H. Williams), who was the chief apologist for the Government and for the capitalist system in this country, after minimising the problem and bringing it down to its very lowest, had to admit that, there are two and a half millions in this country to-day who are unemployed, whom the Government cannot employ, and whom the Minister tells us the Government will not offer to employ.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-06a.1998.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-09", "file": "debates1927-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c3fb67f67b67d6b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-09a.61.2", "colnum": "61", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'Who are they?'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "; col. 1592, Vol. 205.] Later on the hon. Member said: I saw those poor fellows last week. They did not know what they had been doing. I fancy when these five men get hold of their own representative they will have something to say to him about that. Then he went on to say: The responsibility for these men being in prison rests upon those people who encouraged and instigated them to break the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-09a.61.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-09", "file": "debates1927-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c3fb67f67b67d6b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-09a.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "ver certain buoys and harbours if the public authorities would maintain them afterwards; he offered grants, and got grants, for the relief of unemployment in the Highlands—the making of roads, and so on. He sent a Commission of Inquiry all round the place. He introduced a Bill, which was wildly applauded by Members on that side of the House, to rectify grievances under the Small Holders Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-09a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-09", "file": "debates1927-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c3fb67f67b67d6b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-09a.93.0", "colnum": "93", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "r, on the other, and a copy of the Arbiter's Report on the arbitration. I have done my best by questions to elicit this information on this transaction, but there are many difficulties and there are many extraordinary and unprecedented features in this transaction. The replies of the Secretary of State on this subject lack the frankness and the fullness which characterised them on other occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-09a.93.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-09", "file": "debates1927-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c3fb67f67b67d6b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-09a.120.0", "colnum": "120", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "preceding_text": "d to remind the House that the Commission which reported in 1895 said that there were no fewer than 1,782,785 acres presently devoted to sport, including some grazing, which were suitable for new holdings and for the extension of existing holdings. I think we need to realise that the spread of the sporting area is inimical to the extension of small holdings. I sometimes read sporting papers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-09a.120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-09", "file": "debates1927-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c3fb67f67b67d6b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-09a.135.2", "colnum": "135", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LIVINGSTONE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Some of them are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LIVINGSTONE", "preceding_text": "d the whole four, and then the leader. I asked him whether he realised what he had done, and that he had led these men into gaol? I told him his responsibility, and asked him what he was going to do, and as long as I live I shall never forget the tragic picture of these five men lined up at attention—they are not all ex-service men and in any event the case is quite good enough without that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-09a.135.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-09", "file": "debates1927-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c3fb67f67b67d6b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-09a.149.4", "colnum": "149", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. MACDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. MACDONALD", "preceding_text": "e for Scotland say that in the Western Islands, as far as the State was concerned, that desire had been met, and that there was very little more land available for land settlement, which means that in the Western Islands the population is probably at its maximum, and may decrease if the holdings are increased in size so as to be suitable to modern ideas of what is necessary for an adequate living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-09a.149.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-09", "file": "debates1927-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c3fb67f67b67d6b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-09a.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMES BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMES BROWN", "preceding_text": " The one is all for peace and the other all for war. Being 50–50, both Highland and Lowland, I am sometimes for war myself, but the Lowland part of me always keeps me sane. I think I can enter into the minds of these poor fellows who raided the land. The hon. Member for the Western Isles called them good, Christian Highlanders. I believe there are one or two Christians among the Highlanders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-09a.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-09", "file": "debates1927-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c3fb67f67b67d6b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-09a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are back to Scaristaveg!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": " something, which in saner moments they might not have done. In a saner moment they listened to the sweet voice of the hon. Member for the Western Isles and gave their pledge unconditionally. The hon. Member for the Western Isles is, I think, a full-blooded Highlander, and I should have expected him to have extorted something from the Secretary of State for Scotland for giving up all these rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-09a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-09", "file": "debates1927-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c3fb67f67b67d6b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-09a.177.1", "colnum": "177", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Mr. SPEAKER proceeded to Count the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-09a.177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-10", "file": "debates1927-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "d220e23c0e531752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-10a.258.2", "colnum": "258", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "wners? Lord Ashfield tried to buy them all up three weeks or a month ago, but the small proprietors were not to be bought out. They decided that they would keep on as they were. I hope, and I am sure every Member, irrespective of party politics, hopes, that in the co-ordinating proposals which, according to the Minister, have reached an advanced stage, some place may be found for the small owners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-10a.258.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-10", "file": "debates1927-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "d220e23c0e531752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-10a.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was planned 50 years ago!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "tly the kind of courageous and far-seeing town planning and town improvement of which we in London and in this country stand in need. It is a work which shows the most marvellous power of imagination, where in the middle of that great city an enormous road has been opened up, and the Boulevard Hausmann has been finished and brought into the main line of boulevards. It will have an enormous effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-10a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-10", "file": "debates1927-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "d220e23c0e531752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-10a.288.3", "colnum": "288", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sweet and refreshing!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "r their comment. I am quite sure the. Traffic Advisory Committee will lose no time in putting the proposal up to me with such remarks as they wish to make so that I can have an opportunity of considering it. Until the Advisory Committee put up these points obviously I can say no more. The hon. and gallant Member for Chelmsford dealt with a, variety of subjects. He wanted fruit trees to be planted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-10a.288.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-10", "file": "debates1927-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "d220e23c0e531752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-10a.307.4", "colnum": "307", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And then you wake up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " other things that have been said about the roads, I want to add only a plea for special tracks for cyclists. Some of the new roads have the space but the money has not been available. What is needed is a footpath beyond the hedge, then the cyclist track, then a belt of trees, amt then the wide road itself, with room for six large motor cars running abreast, to carry the traffic of the big cities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-10a.307.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-10", "file": "debates1927-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "d220e23c0e531752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-10a.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"All red!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "e we were going. There is nothing more interesting than to listen to the ramifications of the idealist who closes his eyes to harsh economic realities. I have no doubt that in this country we could have the finest roads in the world. I can visualise those roads. Being a bit of a draughtsman, I could draw them; I could put in the trees, the tracks, the traffic. It all would look very nice on paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-10a.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-10", "file": "debates1927-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "d220e23c0e531752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-10a.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "n he wanted to carry out certain improvements. In this country, hon. Members opposite have an historic deference for the old fallacy called landlordism, which makes the first charge upon any effort carried cut in the form of development. So long as we are under that stupid obsession, we shall find that this great monopoly will make road development in this country impossible, or almost impossible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-10a.328.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.370.5", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ridiculous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the very hard work is done by mechanical navvies instead of ordinary labour?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.370.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.382.5", "colnum": "382", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "With regard to the Motion on the Paper to suspend the Eleven O'clock Rule, may I ask, before it is put from the Chair, that the Prime Minister should give the House some information as to why this Motion has been put down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.382.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.406.5", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "preceding_text": "t said by way of abuse—it is a naked fact. The existing law declares that men have a right to terminate their contracts. For 100 years the Law Courts have said, over and over again, that men have the right in combination never defining the limits of combination or the size of combination, to cease their labour. I am not going to weary the Committee with all the decisions given on this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.406.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.406.5", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And what right he had to say it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "preceding_text": "general strike. I can excuse the right hon. and learned Gentleman for having, when I raised a small point of law, accused me, of all people, of attempting to intimidate the workers of this country. That I can excuse in the excitement of the moment, but now that we have reached a calm and tranquil period, surely we can now inquire dispassionately and quietly what Mr. Justice Astbury really did say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.406.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.406.5", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "preceding_text": "use and the public as to the true situation. The Government have decided to make a new law, to alter the established law of this kingdom. They may be right or they may be wrong, but they must take the responsibility for their action, and they cannot get out of it by suggesting that they are merely declaring the law as it exists. But, of course, the general strike is a small and unimportant matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.406.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "preceding_text": "I do not desire on this Amendment to traverse all the ground which the hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for South-East Leeds (Sir H. Slesser), the Mover of the Amendment, has seen fit to cover.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.416.6", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "interruption , and HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "He told the truth and you cannot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.416.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.417.2", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He said it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "As long as the hon. and learned Gentleman has that clearly in mind, then I need not trouble—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.417.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.417.2", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is as clear as mud!\" and Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "and by a strike, the Bill explains, it means the concerted action of a number of people. The hon. and learned Gentleman at least knows as well as anybody in this House the difference between an individual doing an act and a conspiracy, which is a combination of a number of people to do an act. And a conspiracy, which is a combination of a number of persons to do an act which is unlawful, is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.417.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\" and an HON.MEMBER: \"That means you cannot answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "Really, the hon. and learned Gentleman is hardly doing himself justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "d learned Gentleman cited to the Committee—and he is, therefore, quite well aware of it—the only decision which deals with the question of the last general strike. That decision, in terms, has laid it down that a general strike is illegal. I will read the passage, so that there may be no doubt about it. The so-called general strike called by the Trade Union Congress Council is illegal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "he is, therefore, quite well aware of it—the only decision which deals with the question of the last general strike. That decision, in terms, has laid it down that a general strike is illegal. I will read the passage, so that there may be no doubt about it. The so-called general strike called by the Trade Union Congress Council is illegal. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said so?\"] Mr Justice Astbury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.419.4", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "The only decision on the last general strike I know of is the decision of Mr. Justice Astbury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.419.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "You never gave me a chance of putting it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "Mr. Justice Erskine's summing-up was as favourable to the prisoner's point of view as it could possibly be, went on to say, that whereas it is perfectly lawful for workmen peaceably and without intimidation to combine to abstain from work in order to improve their wages, and I suppose to improve their conditions of employment, it is a very different matter if they combine to refuse to work at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. and learned Member will not deny that a large part of his argument was based on this proposition, but he must have overlooked an important legal Statute which was passed in the year 1563—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": " take advantage of that calm atmosphere to which the hon. and learned Member referred, in order to call his attention to what seems to me a very grave omission in his survey. There was a famous Act passed, the Statute of Artificers, which to a layman appears to contradict the statement of the hon. and learned Member. Perhaps he will allow me to quote the terms of the Statute on which I rely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "ntry, or the wage-earners in a large selection of vital trades, are going to down tools for the single purpose of turning that Government out of office. I take note of the right hon. Gentleman's statement; it was perfectly clear and candid. But I do not understand he is trying to dispute the view that there is nothing in the Trade Disputes Act which prevents that from being a seditious conspiracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "s to the judgment which people would form if they had to deal with that particular event. I do think, and I have not withdrawn my view in the least, that on a fair view the events of last May amount to this, that it was a combination which was really not addressed simply and solely to the promotion of a trade dispute. I do not with- draw that one bit, but there are people who do not agree with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "preceding_text": " The Attorney-General, no doubt, having discovered that the word \"intimidate\" in the 1875 Act meant violence or a threat of violence to some person or persons, proposes to leave out the word and merely to substitute something about causing hardship to the community, which is entirely different. The community was not intimidated by the events of last May, but a great deal of hardship was inflicted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.473.4", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "Certain hon. Members on these benches have marked out a place for themselves on this question. The hon. Member for Bridgeton (Mr. Maxton), the hon. Member for Camlachie (Mr. Stephen), and the hon. Member for myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.473.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.474.2", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is asking for guidance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.474.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.530.0", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "re present when the right hon. Gentleman answered the question this afternoon could put no other construction on his words than the one I have put on them. We are prepared to go on, but I have no hesitation in saying to the Prime Minister that I do not think it is in accord with the understanding—not an understanding as between parties, but the understanding accepted by the House as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.530.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "h I was not aware of at all—it is a misfortune which arises from the fact that recently on this Bill there has not been as frequent and regular communication with regard to business as there has been over other Bills. I hope very much that it will be possible, however hard the fight may be over this Bill, that there shall be, at any rate, that amount of concert between the two parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.535.5", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": "That is not a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.535.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-11", "file": "debates1927-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b011f9ce7af0aaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.538.4", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": " on the emergency proposition is finished when I have pointed out that the Clause does deal with many strikes of a kind with which this country has been familiar in the last few years, such, for instance, as the threatened triple alliance strike in 1920, and it might deal with the kind of strike which might reasonably be contemplated four years hence when the Eight Hours Act comes up for revision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-11a.538.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.560.0", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Both!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "Is it the view of the President that the children exist for the teachers or the teachers for the children?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.560.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.597.1", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "overnment, the people as a whole.\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, 11th May, 1926; col. 864, Vol. 195.] That is the sense in which I understand the phrase \"general strike\" is to be used. If you use it in that sense, it is obvious that the question of whether a strike is a general strike or not does not depend upon the number of people taking part in it, but upon the inevitable result of it upon industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.597.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.606.4", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": "Is it the pleasure of the Committee that the Amendment be withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.606.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.613.0", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With more authority than you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "all about this, that when you speak of that abstract thing and call it a general strike, you use the word \"general\" not because you wish to suggest that the test is that everybody is doing it, but because the thing has an object and is of a nature different from the industrial strike. The right hon. Member for Seaham (Mr. Webb), who speaks on this subject with the most exceptional authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.620.2", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL BANKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL BANKS", "preceding_text": "est to be this— if it is a strike against the employer, well and good; if it is against the Government, and the nation, then very far from good. At the same time, as I read the first Clause of the Bill, and find in it those strange familiar words Any strike having any object besides the furtherance of a trade dispute within the trade or industry, I find myself certainly in a difficulty here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.620.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.620.2", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL BANKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL BANKS", "preceding_text": "2; whether, for instance, in the case of a railway strike, the omnibus men or the men engaged on the tubes could go out in sympathy without incurring pains and penalties. Frankly, I was not able to answer him, but I said to him, \"I know this. I know the Government does not want to stop the sympathetic strike.\" I do know that because the Attorney-General said so in the clearest terms— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.620.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GERALD HOHLER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERALD HOHLER", "preceding_text": "t he proposes— it may be to reduce their wages, or some trade condition which would tend to reduce their wages or lower their standard of life— and they strike, then, as I understand the law, the whole of that trade union, the Amalgamated Engineering Union, can go out throughout the country, and there is no actionable wrong done. That is what I understand by a sympathetic strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GERALD HOHLER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERALD HOHLER", "preceding_text": "ition which would tend to reduce their wages or lower their standard of life— and they strike, then, as I understand the law, the whole of that trade union, the Amalgamated Engineering Union, can go out throughout the country, and there is no actionable wrong done. That is what I understand by a sympathetic strike— [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members laugh. Is not that a sympathetic strike?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GERALD HOHLER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then you are wrong!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERALD HOHLER", "preceding_text": "r standard of life— and they strike, then, as I understand the law, the whole of that trade union, the Amalgamated Engineering Union, can go out throughout the country, and there is no actionable wrong done. That is what I understand by a sympathetic strike— [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members laugh. Is not that a sympathetic strike? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I think it is a sympathetic strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.636.2", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "preceding_text": "iremen would not be protected under the Trade Union Act if they went out on strike in what they were pleased to call sympathy with the colliers. They are not employed by the same people; they are not in the same industry or trade; the seamen and firemen are doing nothing to create better conditions in their own trade or industry, and, in my view, that is not to be regarded as a sympathetic strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.636.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "preceding_text": "cond thing has happened. You have to show that there is evidence that the strike has not for its object merely the furtherance of a trade dispute, but that it has a further object, and is designed or calculated to coerce the Government— taking the words of the proposed Amendment— either directly or indirectly by inflicting hardship upon the community. The position is quite clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"As clear as mud!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "preceding_text": "nce that the strike has not for its object merely the furtherance of a trade dispute, but that it has a further object, and is designed or calculated to coerce the Government— taking the words of the proposed Amendment— either directly or indirectly by inflicting hardship upon the community. The position is quite clear— [ Interruption ]. I think the position is quite clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "preceding_text": "ut that it has a further object, and is designed or calculated to coerce the Government— taking the words of the proposed Amendment— either directly or indirectly by inflicting hardship upon the community. The position is quite clear— [ Interruption ]. I think the position is quite clear— [HON. MEMBERS: \"As clear as mud!\"] As I was saying, the position is quite clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.643.6", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. MITCHELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Menace.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. MITCHELL", "preceding_text": "which is directed, whether by intention or not, at the very vitals of the community. What does that mean in terms of law, industry and political science? What are the vitals of the community? Where does a strike which is directed, whether by intention or not, at the very vitals of the community differ from the strike which the right hon. and learned Gentleman said may bring death to the community?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.643.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.643.6", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. MITCHELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not in every case.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. MITCHELL", "preceding_text": "galities of Parliament. But it was a secondary thing. What preceded it? A declaration by the mineowners that they would lock out all their men? They declared that the men whom they employed should only continue in their employment subject to one of two conditions. The first was that they should accept lower wages. That was a dispute in an instant. The second was that they should work longer hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.643.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.663.2", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are reasonable people?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": ": \"While on the one hand one thing, yet on the other another.\" But there is this double answer. First of all, I do not believe that a Clause of this sort, even if you could put it in the best possible shape, is going to be the subject matter of constant litigation in the Courts. That is not really the object which I should think reasonable people, who want to have a declaratory Clause, would have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.663.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.678.1", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "preceding_text": "er they do not, we are going to extract it, either by painful or painless dentistry, before we have finished with this Bill. Do they, or do they not, agree that this Measure is limited to purely political strikes, such as receive the condemnation of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Platting (Mr. Clynes) and the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Derby (Mr. Thomas)? We cannot get an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "han the furtherance of a trade dispute in the industry in which the primary strikers are engaged, then, of course, it is perfectly safe, because it has not satisfied one of the two conditions and therefore it cannot be illegal. But he is mistaken in that view. The sympathetic strike, obviously, very often, at any rate, is a strike which is in a different trade or industry from that in which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "It is impossible to answer that by a direct negative, for the very simple reason that some such sympathetic strikes are illegal to-day and some are not. That depends upon whether or not— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.700.4", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY GENERAL", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is stating his view. May I state not my opinion, because that, apparently is not acceptable to him or his friends, but may I quote, I have done it before, the views expressed by Liberal lawyers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.700.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "What Lord Oxford and Asquith said was this: What distinguishes a general strike from all others is this, that it is a blow not struck by one combatant at the other but directed, whether in intention or not, by its inevitable results at the very vitals of the whole community. What is that but saying in other language \"is calculated to coerce the Government\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "distinguishes a general strike from all others is this, that it is a blow not struck by one combatant at the other but directed, whether in intention or not, by its inevitable results at the very vitals of the whole community. What is that but saying in other language \"is calculated to coerce the Government\"? [ Interruption. ] The right hon. and learned Member for Spen Valley (Sir J. Simon)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "uption. ] The right hon. and learned Member for Spen Valley (Sir J. Simon)— [ Interruption ]— gave this definition of a general strike: So that the result of what you do, whether you mean it or not, must be that you are putting pressure on the community, the Government, the people as a whole. That is his definition of a general strike which is unlawful, and it is my view— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "8212; gave this definition of a general strike: So that the result of what you do, whether you mean it or not, must be that you are putting pressure on the community, the Government, the people as a whole. That is his definition of a general strike which is unlawful, and it is my view— — [ Interruption. ] Three or four specific questions have been put to me by the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.701.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "Are we to understand that you received your instructions from the Attorney-General and then acted upon them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.706.3", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "The dispute is one as to conditions of labour between employers and workmen, and in furtherance of that trade dispute, they want to get the load line altered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.706.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "It is obvious to every Member of the Committee, I am sure, that we now know what the intentions of the Government are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": " to take away what has been understood to be the inalienable right of British working men for hundreds of years. They are now claiming the right, no matter what a man's conditions of service may be, and they are putting a Bill on the Statute Book, to refuse to British workmen the right to withdraw their labour after having terminated the contracts into which they have entered with their employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.733.4", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": " can do that at any time he likes with perfect impunity. But if he commits an act which is intended to coerce the Government and the community, it does not matter of what that particular act consists, that act ab initio is bad as against the interests of the State. It is not merely an argument in this particular Debate to say that this is an attempt to prevent a man terminating his contract—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.733.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.758.2", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLETON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLETON", "preceding_text": "nsidered as coming out in a sympathetic strike, not in the trade or industry, or will they be coming out within the trade or industry? What will be the position of the Union if these men, after they come out on strike, and it is found they are not within the trade or industry, have been paid strike pay? My Amendment makes all this perfectly clear; it leaves all these questions exactly as they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.758.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "ions are working together on the same job, how are you going to say that one is a primary strike and the other a secondary strike? You cannot do it. This Clause means that a sympathetic strike is illegal. Cannot we have a definite declaration that the sympathetic strike is not illegal? Will the hon. Gentlemen on the benches opposite, who get more money in a year than I get in a onth— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.772.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-12", "file": "debates1927-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d6bb580e85e914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.789.4", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will they commandeer your salary also?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "The Motion to report Progress means that a large number of us, the poorer Members of this House, will be stranded for about three hours. I would like to ask hon. Gentlemen opposite if they really mean business in that connection? Our turn will come yet, and we may commandeer their motor cars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-12a.789.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-13", "file": "debates1927-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "4c44e758b0eccbd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-13a.865.4", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "preceding_text": "er lost its sturdy character, there were riots, and Daniel Defoe said that Scotland had gone mad against the Measure. Plato says that there is a certain divine madness and I believe that it was such madness which existed then. We lost the Parliament by wholesale bribery. A sum of £ 20,000 was paid to the Members of the Scottish Parliament. It is a humiliation to confess that they accepted it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-13a.865.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-13", "file": "debates1927-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "4c44e758b0eccbd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-13a.874.0", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And is still!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "ndone, and we are still suffering for it to this day. He did not meet with success in the northern part of this island. In fact he created such hostility and prejudice as accounted to a great extent for the divisions which existed between Scotland and England down through the centuries. Prior to the Scottish wars of independence, Scotland was the educated and civilised part of Great Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-13a.874.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-13", "file": "debates1927-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "4c44e758b0eccbd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-13a.877.1", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Divide!", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Sir PATRICK FORD rose — —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-13a.877.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-16", "file": "debates1927-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "c10944e10e17576c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-16a.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — (3) Third Beading.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "hankfulness that a term is set to our labours and that we need not be sitting up all night. There is one more thing. After all these years nothing is more present in my memory than this, and I commend it to hon. Members who have not had my experience. When the Government bring in a Resolution like this, the Opposition in the atmosphere of this House feel that our liberties are being trampled upon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-16a.941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-16", "file": "debates1927-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "c10944e10e17576c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-16a.945.1", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — (3) Third Beading.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "inned 35 times, according to the Prime Minister. I did not think I was quite as bad as that—but very few people do. I only recall being personally responsible for one, and that was the Insurance Bill. I cannot, at the moment, recall whether there was a Guillotine for the Old Age Pensions Bill. Perhaps someone who was in the House at the time may reinforce my memory. I do not think there was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-16a.945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.995.3", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "In view of this ruthless exploitation of the tenants by private enterprise, will the hon. and gallant Member take some step—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.995.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1011.7", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "preceding_text": "itting the expression \"a substantial portion.\" With regard to the words \"the same trade or industry,\" we are satisfied that to define them would be unfair to the workmen, because any language used by way of definition would almost certainly exclude something which would necessarily in ordinary parlance seem to be included. But I think I might mention now, in order to make it clear once more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1011.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "preceding_text": "ave been directly and indirectly coerced by Conservative Associations to produce this monstrosity. Nevertheless, in spite of that fact, we do ask the Attorney-General to realise that, just as he has abandoned his first draft, so his second is not a whit better, and, if anything, he is more confused that he was. He has now got to the point where we wish to give him every credit for sincerity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "e to a widespread industrial disturbance of this class, a disturbance which has for its object the improvement of the lot of a section of organised labour, but a disturbance leading to a strike in which other allied and friendly organisations are disposed to give their sympathetic aid, still purely for the purpose of assisting in the improvement of the conditions of life of those who first struck?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did you do last year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "ther allied and friendly organisations are disposed to give their sympathetic aid, still purely for the purpose of assisting in the improvement of the conditions of life of those who first struck? [ Interruption. ] This is a real point, and I do not think hon. Members above the Gangway are assisting any cause if they try to use every occasion for the purpose of raising purely controversial matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1027.3", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, that question would not arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1028.0", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "That is a lengthy, but I do not regard it as an adequate answer to my question. Must we not assume that in the event of the mineowners being unwilling to agree to a reduction in the working hours of the men that can only take place by a change in the Act of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1028.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1029.0", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "p what my hon. Friend the Member for Platting has said in his question. I understand that the answer of the Attorney-General is that if the miners themselves were engaged in a dispute for a reduction of hours, never mind whether it involves legislation or not, that would be a trade dispute and would not be illegal under this Bill. I understand that is the substance of the Attorney-General's reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1029.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1029.4", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "That is a plain question to which I can give quite a plain answer. The strike of the transport workers or the railwaymen, in the case which has been put to me, could obviously not be a strike to put pressure upon the employers or the miners. It could only be a strike which was designed to put pressure upon the Government to compel them to act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1029.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1030.3", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "If there were a general strike of the miners under the conditions which have been discussed for the purpose of enforcing a reduction of hours, then there could not be under the Bill a sympathetic strike in their aid?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1030.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1033.1", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has quite unwittingly proved my contention. The responsibility of the Government of the day—whatever Government it may be—is to the electors of this country and to their declared will as expressed in a general election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1033.1", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "ention. The responsibility of the Government of the day—whatever Government it may be—is to the electors of this country and to their declared will as expressed in a general election. [ Interruption. ] When the right hon. Gentleman says that a strike to supersede the Government would be a seditious conspiracy he is condemning the very thing which he was trying to support in his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "ouse to pass it by the tyranny of a general strike, or any other type of strike, you are superseding free government by the electors of this country by something which is known purely and simply to revolutionary law. In those circumstances I venture to say that I was right when I said a few moments ago that the right hon. Gentleman had said one thing in this House and another thing in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I must be accurate on these things. The question, as framed, I am bound to answer, but this is another question, and says, \"Supposing the railwayman give notice that they are going to cease their work will it be illegal.\" If the effect of that would be, as I think it would be, to inflict hardship on the community to such an extent as to coerce the Government to intervene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1054.0", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is a real one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "ions every point put by the hon. and learned Member. I will not traverse all the arguments which have already been produced but will content myself with one or two very simple observations on matters which to me appear very clear. The whole difficulty apparently is in regard to the use of the words \"sympathetic strike.\" This Bill does not, in my opinion, touch in any way a real sympathetic strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1054.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1057.3", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": " of British Industries—who insisted upon this Measure being forced through the House, but asked that the matter should not be discussed during last autumn, but should be put off until this year. Those are the masters who are directing the Government now, Those are the employers who have made up their minds that there is going to be no friendliness between them and the workers' organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1057.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1063.0", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why this Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "far more efficient as a weapon when it had never materialised. We found when it came out that it was like some of those giants in a white sheet, that sometimes frighten females at night. When you examine one, you find that it is some individual of moderate stature holding a white sheet high over his head. It was not so much the Government, but the general mass of the community that disposed of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"From what chapter are you reading?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "restores the unions the protection of the law in this respect, it will put hon. Members opposite in a far stronger position with the community. This Clause is directed to put an end to the sort of sympathetic strike known as the general strike. The position of sympathetic strikes is very doubtful as the law stands at present. I do not know whether hon. Members are aware of what I am about to read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1069.0", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": " been followed, instead of throwing down the glove as they have done by introducing this Bill. I am opposed to the Bill from top to bottom. I will preach opposition to this Bill for all I am worth amongst the men I represent, and I will stir up as much opposition to it as I possibly can, and if the Government attempt to make it operative I will do the best I can to prevent it from being effective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1069.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. MEYER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. MEYER", "preceding_text": "ects of this Bill I had some doubts as to whether it was the right object for the Bill to endeavour to attain that sympathetic strikes should be made illegal; but since I have heard the views put forward in this Debate, principally from the Labour benches, and, to some extent, from the, Liberal benches, I have come to the conclusion that sympathetic strikes as there defined should be made illegal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1076.2", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"He is wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Merthyr was also giving his opinion of the Samuel Report, and that was his interpretation of the Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1076.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about last year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "o vote one way or the other, and I think other leaders are in exactly the same position. Whatever may be the rights or the wrongs of this system, it certainly demonstrates that the power in regard to strikes rests with the rank and file. When we come to the question of a strike, I go beyond that and I say that I have never known my executive actually sanction a strike that was not already started.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1078.2", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "with a union. Surely, such a man ought to be the best judge. My hon. Friend the Member for Whitechapel (Mr. Gosling), who spoke this afternoon, has sat with me on a committee year after year, and I have never known him fail to be condemned for his conciliatory methods. I have never known him in any other capacity. If there was an opportunity of finding a way out of the difficulty he would find it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1078.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1104.0", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "he sympathetic strike made the original and legal strike an illegal one. It is no good the Government or its representatives in the Committee suggesting that there is no difficulty. The difficulty does not lie merely with Labour Members. There is a serious difficulty as to what really the intention of the Government is in the words they have used. The Clause does make a sympathetic strike illegal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1111.0", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Birrellism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "s of the future of Communism, and if I may get back to the words of this Sub-section, it would be to point out that a governing factor in the phrase in which it is proposed to make a strike illegal are the words Designed or calculated to coerce the Government. I suggest to the Attorney-General that the word \"Government\" there is entirely out of place, and does not represent what he means to imply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1111.0", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "not represent what he means to imply. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Birrellism!\"] As a matter of fact, an Amendment on this point was handed in by myself before Mr. Birrell or anyone else had drawn attention to this; but the support of Mr. Birrell adds strength to the argument that I want to adduce, which is, that I do not think that in law or in constitutional history there is such a thing as \"the Government.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1111.0", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "pan Valley (Sir J. Simon), in an Amendment which we rejected earlier, did propose the words \"Government or Parliament,\" showing that he had some misgivings about the use of the word \"Government\" but I do not think his phrase would be adequate for the reason that the one includes the other. Of course, according to our constitutional usage Ministers must be Members of one or other of the two Houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": " when he spoke, after duly pondering the topic which he is now illuminating, I was at once alert with breathless interest; but I can assure the Noble Lord that there was no necessity for him to repeat that observation. This Bill has been deliberately badly drafted in order to enable the magistrates to do the work which the Government fear to do themselves. Now it is to be rushed through the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1118.0", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "It may be perhaps for the convenience of the Committee that I should, for a very few minutes, endeavour to deal with one or two of the real points which have emerged in this Debate. There were, as it seems to me, two fallacies which underlay a good many of the arguments which we have heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1118.0", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ere are a great many sympathetic strikes within a trade or industry. Let me give an instance. Supposing that there were a strike, let us say, in the railway industry, to take an important industry, in respect of the wages of the engine men, and supposing that other grades of railway men desired to come out in support of that strike, that would be what I understand to be a sympathetic strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1118.0", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ry, in respect of the wages of the engine men, and supposing that other grades of railway men desired to come out in support of that strike, that would be what I understand to be a sympathetic strike—[ Interruption ]—that is to say, it would be a strike by people other than the engine men, who were not striking in respect of their own conditions of labour at all, but in sympathy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1118.0", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "bvious truism, namely, that the strike, in so far as the railway men who were not engine-drivers were concerned, would not be in respect of their own conditions of labour—because we are dealing with an assumed case in which only engine-drivers' wages and conditions were affected—but in sympathy with the engine-drivers and in order to assist their case. That would be purely sympathetic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1118.0", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "212;but in sympathy with the engine-drivers and in order to assist their case. That would be purely sympathetic. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] It is no good saying \"No,\" because it would be sympathetic. Hon. Members will not be convinced, apparently, by argument, and I certainly shall not be convinced by clamour. Hon. Members sometimes seem to oscillate between the two alternatives of rowdyism and flight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "trade dispute of their own, and he asked whether, supposing other trades which related to essential services struck in sympathy that would be a prohibited strike. My answer is that, if that strike took place in an essential service, and if it were on such a, scale that it would inflict hardship on the community to an extent sufficient to coerce the Government, that, of course, would be prohibited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ry is in any way jeopardised or interfered with by the operation of this Bill is a complete fallacy based upon a complete misunderstanding of the Bill. We have heard considerable discussion as to the rights of strikers, but one has to remember, and I hope the Committee will remember, that we are considering here, not merely the rights of the strikers but the rights of the community at large—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1121.1"}
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            The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR
            (Sir Laming Worthington-Evans)
          ", "preceding_text": "I beg to move: That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty praying His Majesty to make an Order in Council under the Military Manœuvres Acts, 1897 and 1911, a draft of which was presented to this House on the 8th day of February last. This is an Address which is necessary under the Military Manœuvres Acts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1147.3", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY MANŒUVRES, 1927 (ORDER IN COUNCIL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "y circulated among the Members of the House. As I say, I have no great objection, personally, to this Order, but I understand that certain other Members have objections to it. My own belief is that if the Secretary of State for War knew his business, as he is paid for knowing it, he would have had this document properly circulated and he would thus probably have avoided any objection being raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1147.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1148.0", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY MANŒUVRES, 1927 (ORDER IN COUNCIL).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": ". We object to this expenditure on manœuvres for a number of reasons. In the first place, there have been no naval manœuvres since the War. The First Lord of the Admiralty is in his place and he knows that on the ground of economy no grand scale manœuvres of the Navy have taken place since the War, and therefore I object to this expenditure on Territorial manœuvres on dry land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1149.1", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY MANŒUVRES, 1927 (ORDER IN COUNCIL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "em we are now discussing. The problem is not at this moment whether you are to spend money and time, and worry the King, who has enough to do with all the trouble the Government are giving him, in order to have an efficient Army, but to be able to read in the newspapers how the Pink Army chased the Blue Army over Blank-shire. Anyone who has ever had any experience at all of military matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1149.1", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY MANŒUVRES, 1927 (ORDER IN COUNCIL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did you volunteer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": " him, in order to have an efficient Army, but to be able to read in the newspapers how the Pink Army chased the Blue Army over Blank-shire. Anyone who has ever had any experience at all of military matters—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"] I was learning about military matters from the bottom end when many hon. Members on the other side were wondering whether it was their job to go into the War or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1153.0", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY MANŒUVRES, 1927 (ORDER IN COUNCIL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman not going to answer some of these questions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1153.1", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY MANŒUVRES, 1927 (ORDER IN COUNCIL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "Surely the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1153.1", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY MANŒUVRES, 1927 (ORDER IN COUNCIL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The 15th June !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "common sense. I understand that these manœuvres do not commence for another month or two, and, therefore, this question might be brought up again when the Guillotine business is over, or else the right hon. Gentleman should explain clearly why this business has been brought forward to-night. If the manœuvres were starting to-morrow and it was a question of urgency, I could understand it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-17", "file": "debates1927-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "84fc79508e8ea084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1155.0", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY MANŒUVRES, 1927 (ORDER IN COUNCIL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "May I put a further question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-17a.1155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1167.6", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "What has that got to do with it? He would not go to see you, anyhow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1167.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1167.8", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that, in the year 1914, Lord Carson consulted and lunched with the Kaiser in reference to arms for Ulster?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1167.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1167.8", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that, in the year 1914, Lord Carson consulted and lunched with the Kaiser in reference to arms for Ulster? [ Interruption. ] You cannot deny it. It is absolutely true. There were shiploads of them from the Kaiser to Carson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1167.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1170.2", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH NALL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH NALL", "preceding_text": "Do the Department give any contracts for printing to a firm in Glasgow which has lad a long dispute with its employés?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1170.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1171.0", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "This is the reply which the hon. and gallant Member gave: No rigid rule is laid down, each case being considered on its merits. That is the answer which I received.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1171.2", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. and gallant Member aware that that is the reply which he gave to me? It is an evasive reply. There is nothing in it, and he now says, \"I refer the hon. Member to the reply which I gave to the hon. Member for Dumbarton Burghs.\" Surely, I am in order in giving that reply, if there is nothing in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1184.6", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "r considers that it is advisable to make that rearrangement as far as the mining industry is concerned, would he not consider now the advisability, seeing that the trouble is all over with the miners and that the miners are all back at work as far as the lock-out is concerned, of liberating the men and women who are in gaol as a result of the miners' lock-out? How did the Scottish Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1184.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1184.6", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "ent as far as the mining industry is concerned, would he not consider now the advisability, seeing that the trouble is all over with the miners and that the miners are all back at work as far as the lock-out is concerned, of liberating the men and women who are in gaol as a result of the miners' lock-out? How did the Scottish Secretary—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order !\"] They are still in gaol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1184.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1191.1", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "No, I am afraid that will not be possible. I may say for the benefit of those who have not studied the Bill that it is, so far as I know, non-contentious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1205.0", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "preceding_text": "ndertook to put down an Amendment, and they will see that I have put down an Amendment, which meets this point. If this Sub-section were substituted for the one I am proposing, I think that it would be impossible for any striker to say that he does not come within one or other of the provisions of this Amendment. The result would be, although I know it is not the intention of my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1209.3", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ing one thing and witnesses on the other saying another, it is very useful, and a great help to the Court, to have the commonsense of the jury to help it in arriving at its conclusion; but that is not the sort of question which would come before the Court of Appeal on a motion such as I am suggesting. The facts relating to a strike can scarcely be in dispute: The difficulty is to draw conclusions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1209.3", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A lock-out !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " to have the commonsense of the jury to help it in arriving at its conclusion; but that is not the sort of question which would come before the Court of Appeal on a motion such as I am suggesting. The facts relating to a strike can scarcely be in dispute: The difficulty is to draw conclusions. [ Interruption. ] I should imagine the facts cannot be disputed. If there is a strike, there is a strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1209.3", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " not to get at the facts, which are generally common ground. The difficulty will be for some tribunal to come to a conclusion as to when the hardship on the community is such that the strike becomes illegal. Also, the Court will have to determine what is meant by \"community,\" whether it is only the local community or the community as a whole. I hope nobody will think I am criticising this Section.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1218.1", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All the Bill is new and unprecedented !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " or two points of substance which are conclusive from the point of view of the average man in the street, and from the point of view of the legislator. May I briefly indicate what they are My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Basset-law (Sir E. Hume-Williams) is well aware that the jurisdiction he is seeking to confer upon the Court of Appeal is an entirely new and unprecedented jurisdiction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1220.4", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER,: \"A sym- pathetic strike !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I think that if, when a strike was in existence, someone sought to organise and incite what I will call for shortness an illegal strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1220.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1228.0", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "preceding_text": "ition is. I am going to leave it to the Magistrate.\" The question of demarcation of trades, the question of hardship or no hardship, the question of coercion or no coercion of Governments, the question of high politics and constitutional principle—all these are to be decided by the kind of benevolent gentlemen who spend their time in shooting boxes. These are the men who are going to decide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1236.1", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. MACNAGHTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. MACNAGHTEN", "preceding_text": "ney-General would have applied to the Court, for an injunction. By the time the Trade Union Council met on the Saturday, the matter would have been determined by the Judge, and if the case had been taken to the Court of Appeal, it would have been decided by the Court of Appeal on the Friday or Saturday. If it had been decided that the strike was illegal, the strike notices would not have gone out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1236.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1251.2", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "way. It seems to me that the Government lack the courage to obtain the ends which they desire by open and frank discussion and they have decided that they will not accept any Amendments which would clarify the Bill, but that they will go to the House of Commons and say, \"We wanted a Clause to define a general strike, but our Attorney-General was such a confounded fool that he could not draft one.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1265.3", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "She found that it was not true, and yet she went and broadcast and asked for money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1266.3", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was the strike declared illegal?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "The Taff Vale judgment was declared illegal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1266.3", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For the children !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "lowing the strike, even during the strike, challenged that view, and we received funds from, amongst others, D. A. Thomas. But I will come much nearer home than that. At one stage of the late miners' dispute His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, to his everlasting credit, in spite of the things that were said and the bitterness that was engendered, had the courage himself to make a contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1268.1", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Because, in any case simplicity of language—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1273.0", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "arried out the instructions of the General Council had the honour of Justice of the Peace which had been conferred upon them, taken away. Is there an answer to that? You know well enough that no one seriously intends to imprison the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Derby. How can the Prime Minister one day imprison him and the next day give presents at his daughter's wedding? It cannot be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1284.1", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel THOM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You were.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel THOM", "preceding_text": " to decide hypothetical questions, such as hon. Members have been endeavouring to put and to decide in this House during the last three or four days, but to decide questions of fact. When an illegal strike arises, there will be no difficulty at all in deciding who is the leader or who is mainly responsible for it. I ask hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite, who were mainly responsible last year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1289.0", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "preceding_text": "rike of last year, but all the same, so far as the members of his trade union are concerned, I am entitled to assume from the fact that the right hon. Gentleman raised no word against the strike, that the men in his union really believed that the right hon. Gentleman had approved it. He made no declaration against the general strike, until it had taken place; and in the meantime they had come out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1290.1", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "preceding_text": "I hope the right hon. Gentleman will believe me when I say that I had not the slightest intention of misrepresenting him in this matter. My point is that the right hon. Gentleman made no public declaration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-18", "file": "debates1927-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8e7620ea8c8ba66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1299.7", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In gaol !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "preceding_text": "ere not at all agreed in the first speeches they made on this Bill, are agreed about it. Eminent King's Counsel, the most eminent in the country, have varied almost as widely as it is possible for people to vary in their interpretations of this Bill, and when I have listened to these eminent legal men, I have wondered where we people, as ordinary trade unionists and trade union officials, come in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-18a.1299.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-19", "file": "debates1927-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "bc7a9361833b6a54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1373.2", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "rime Minister this afternoon asked us to defer the question until Thursday to enable the Foreign Minister to be present. I repeat that it cannot properly be discussed on the Home Office Vote. Nor was there anything said to tie the Opposition down to moving a Vote of Censure. Surely if we were promised time, as we were, it should be left to the Opposition to decide what form the Motion should take.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1373.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-19", "file": "debates1927-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "bc7a9361833b6a54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1427.3", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "f the Treasury one can trace the hidden hand of the big railway interests. Make no mistake about it. There are interests behind a scheme of this sort, and it is something which has come into existence quite lately, because I think nobody was more bitter in denunciation of raiding this Fund than the Financial Secretary to the Treasury last year. I think he was the hon. Member who called it larceny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1427.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-19", "file": "debates1927-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "bc7a9361833b6a54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1490.1", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAMMERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAMMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "outlined in the Bill now before the House. I have made no reference to Supplementary Estimates. It must be obvious that we must present Supplementary Estimates in respect of China. I do not wish to be pessimistic. Unemployment, after all, is a fair indication of the country's prosperity, and it is satisfactory to know that at present there are 500,000 more people employed than 12 months ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-19", "file": "debates1927-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "bc7a9361833b6a54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1499.0", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was sound finance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "y. I think if the right hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Snowden) were here to-night he would say that when he was in office as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Socialist Government he got very fair treatment from the City of London. He got treatment from the City of London without the slightest regard to anything but the merits of his finance, without any question of party feeling or interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1499.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-19", "file": "debates1927-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "bc7a9361833b6a54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1509.11", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "Is it in order when a discussion is taking place on the Finance Bill, which only starts at 4.30, and when we have had only six hours debate upon it for the Opposition to interrupt——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1509.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-19", "file": "debates1927-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "bc7a9361833b6a54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1511.2", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "May I venture, by the leave of the House, to suggest a solution of our difficulties? The hon. Gentleman has waited a long time to make his speech", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1511.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-19", "file": "debates1927-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "bc7a9361833b6a54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1511.2", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and another HON. MEMBER: \"Not one!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "May I venture, by the leave of the House, to suggest a solution of our difficulties? The hon. Gentleman has waited a long time to make his speech [ Interruption. ] I myself, by speaking in front of him, impaired his opportunity. May I now suggest that we should give him five minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1511.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-19", "file": "debates1927-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "bc7a9361833b6a54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1511.2", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "May I venture, by the leave of the House, to suggest a solution of our difficulties? The hon. Gentleman has waited a long time to make his speech [ Interruption. ] I myself, by speaking in front of him, impaired his opportunity. May I now suggest that we should give him five minutes—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and another HON. MEMBER: \"Not one!\"]—by the Clock, and then take the Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1511.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-19", "file": "debates1927-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "bc7a9361833b6a54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1511.3", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " be expected to be greater than it was last year. I would like to point out that the real improvement is something far greater than was indicated by the Member for Stockport. A year ago there were over a million miners out of work who are in work to-day, and if you add all these things together, the fact of the matter is that there are about 1,750,000 more workers usefully engaged in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-19", "file": "debates1927-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "bc7a9361833b6a54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1511.3", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ember for Stockport. A year ago there were over a million miners out of work who are in work to-day, and if you add all these things together, the fact of the matter is that there are about 1,750,000 more workers usefully engaged in this country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"] I think the Chancellor of the Exchequer is justified in assuming that next year the yield in direct taxation will expand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-19", "file": "debates1927-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "bc7a9361833b6a54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1511.3", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "xchequer is justified in assuming that next year the yield in direct taxation will expand—[ Interruption ]. I should like to make some reference to the speech made by the hon. Member for the City of London (Mr. E. C. Grenfell) who dealt with the question of the floating debt and the number of Treasury bills in circulation. He urged upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer the necessity of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-19", "file": "debates1927-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "bc7a9361833b6a54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1512.10", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I want to say a word or two on the main question raised by the hon. Member for the City of London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1512.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-19", "file": "debates1927-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "bc7a9361833b6a54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1512.10", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I want to say a word or two on the main question raised by the hon. Member for the City of London. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"] For the last five or six years the bank rate has fluctuated in a marked degree, and, frankly, I can see no financial advantage which can be gained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1512.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-19", "file": "debates1927-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "bc7a9361833b6a54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1517.0", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (SITES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "There will be no opposition, I imagine, on this side to giving a Second Reading to this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-19a.1517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-20", "file": "debates1927-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "626b0635daf77b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-20a.1531.2", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT OF DEBATES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the House generally will appreciate the care and accuracy with which the Official Reporters perform their duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-20a.1531.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-20", "file": "debates1927-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "626b0635daf77b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-20a.1549.0", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": "ubjecting them to a catechism at the end of their speeches. It is very difficult to know where to draw the line in such cases, but I would remind hon. Members that they and right hon. Gentlemen have power to speak an unlimited number of times, in Committee, and I very much deprecate the practice whereby whenever any prominent spokesman on either side makes a speech a catechism immediately follows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-20a.1549.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-20", "file": "debates1927-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "626b0635daf77b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-20a.1561.0", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "on leaders were of the type of the right hon. Gentleman there would be very little need for this Clause at all. If all the trade union leaders had done as the right hon. Gentleman and as the other real leaders did last May or June at the end of the strike, there would have been no need whatever for the last Sub-section in this Clause. But, unfortunately, they did not. There were other cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-20a.1561.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-20", "file": "debates1927-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "626b0635daf77b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-20a.1562.3", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "Any one of us could give you scores of cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-20a.1562.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-23", "file": "debates1927-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4f8db52c9957bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1658.12", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY SLESSER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY SLESSER", "preceding_text": "he law prevents intimidation, the object of this Clause must be to do something more, something other than the prevention of intimidation, and what I going to suggest to the Committee and what we are suggesting to the country is that under this Clause, just as in the case of Clause 1, under the guise of preventing intimidation, which everybody agrees it is a very real necessity to do——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1658.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-23", "file": "debates1927-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4f8db52c9957bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1658.12", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY SLESSER", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY SLESSER", "preceding_text": "w a certain price, and he has a reasonable apprehension of injury. Is not that just as much intimidation as waiting at the lodge gates, even if it is done to a great extent by correspondence? Then there have been cases in which the British Medical Association has told doctors that, if they take salaries lower than a certain rate at infirmaries, no other doctor will be allowed to consult with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1658.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-23", "file": "debates1927-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4f8db52c9957bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1679.0", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Say it again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-23", "file": "debates1927-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4f8db52c9957bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1679.0", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "[HON. MEMBERS: \"Say it again.\"] I know I am quoting probably the only line from Homer which my hon. Friends opposite remember. The last speaker apologised for being a lawyer. After his speech, I think I must apologise, too. We have heard a great deal about the rights of trade unions and what they are. There is a right to picket and to picket peacefully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-23", "file": "debates1927-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4f8db52c9957bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1679.0", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about doctors?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "re to protect those who are their victims and who are intimidated by them. Therefore, I have no hesitation is saying that my sympathies are with the men who are picketed. I do not understand the morale of picketing at all. All I can say is this, if I, personally, were being picketed, it would take a good big crowd of my fellow lawyers to carry it out with any success. I do not mind one or two men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-23", "file": "debates1927-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4f8db52c9957bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1682.6", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Would you intimidate them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "ry man in the union is right in thinking of him a renegade from the cause. That is not confined to dockers or railwaymen or colliers. It is common to human nature. If barristers, by a majority, for some advancement of their personal interests, made up their minds that something should be done and two or three said, \"We will not join in with you,\" what would the rest of us think of those two three?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1682.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-23", "file": "debates1927-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4f8db52c9957bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1682.6", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you injure the mind?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "him which would make him hit you in the nose, but do you stand him as many drinks, do you ask him as often to your house, do you look friendly at him when he is passing by, do you restrain the manifestation of your disapproval of his conduct? The law that would ask you to restrain that manifestation is a law that it is impossible to fulfil, because it is contrary to a higher law than man can make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1682.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-23", "file": "debates1927-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4f8db52c9957bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1724.1", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Suppose a man goes to a non-striker and says, \"You and I have been friends all these years. We have associated together and our wives know each other. I am fighting for another 2s. a week to keep my wife and children. I want you to join me in this strike, and if you do not I am sure my wife will never invite you to come to our house to tea again.\" Would that be intimidation under this Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-23", "file": "debates1927-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4f8db52c9957bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1727.0", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "manner, and if either two or three pickets are charged with the duty of approaching lorry drivers, they must of necessity speak to those lorry drivers, and, if possible, they must ask those lorry drivers to come to a standstill, so that the conversation could take place in a perfectly normal and sensible way. I went on, and this is what I want to draw the right hon. Gentleman's attention to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-23", "file": "debates1927-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4f8db52c9957bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1742.0", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " \"I understand that there was in the assembly that morning when this took place a man holding a very important and lofty position in the country. I want to warn him that I would have no hesitation in dealing with him as I would with any other man who is there to resist the law.\" Assume for a moment that that was a trade union strike, I would have been judged and sentenced without even being heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-23", "file": "debates1927-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4f8db52c9957bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1746.1", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "I have seen some blacklegs, and I realise that there are some people who are misled. I have heard employers refer to these people, and I have never met an employer in this country who had anything but utter contempt for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1746.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-23", "file": "debates1927-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4f8db52c9957bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1768.1", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "preceding_text": " Commission will realise that there is a very strong divergence of opinion between the views of keen trade unionists as to their rights of picketing, and the view of the rest of the community. I do not blame the hon. Member for holding the views of extreme trade unionists, but I suggest that his view is by no means universally accepted, and if this Clause is carried, as I believe it will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-23", "file": "debates1927-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4f8db52c9957bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1774.0", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WALTER GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WALTER GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "y Act, 1875, that the definition of intimidation means: to cause in the mind of a person a reasonable apprehension of injury to him or to any member of his family or of violence or damage to any person or property, and the expression 'injury' includes injury other than physical or material injury. In order to find what the effect of that is, it is necessary to look at Section 7 of the Act of 1875.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-23", "file": "debates1927-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4f8db52c9957bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1777.2", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "If he does any act likely to cause a reasonable apprehension—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1777.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-23", "file": "debates1927-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4f8db52c9957bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1781.0", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLETON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLETON", "preceding_text": ", men are not always promoted by seniority, but for other reasons. Is this sort of thing affected by the Bill? If in future a railway official calls the men into the office one by one, will that be intimidation or not? It does not say so, and we think there is very little hope of the employer being included in this Bill. Take, for example, a case with which I dealt during the miners' strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1781.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-23", "file": "debates1927-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4f8db52c9957bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1781.0", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLETON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lock-out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLETON", "preceding_text": "rike—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—lock-out last year. I am not the only one who has made a slip. I was confusing the great strike with the miners' lock-out. How some hon. Members opposite do jump at the smallest crumb. It is not worthy of them, really. But this case is that of a poor crippled girl, a typist in the City. Her father was a railwayman on strike and the employer heard of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1781.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-23", "file": "debates1927-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4f8db52c9957bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1782.2", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "ere out, they would be doing something which was injuring their fellows. My right hon. Friend the Member for Derby (Mr. Thomas) smiles. If that were not so, I should like to know whether he could avoid smiling a little when he claims the privilege of attending for the purpose of obtaining or communicating information. It seems to me that it is rather an archaic way of describing what has happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1782.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-23", "file": "debates1927-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4f8db52c9957bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1786.4", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ut he never expressed them more clearly than he has done on this Clause. Originally he said that the one support that he gave to this Bill was because it declared what was his view that a general strike was illegal, and, secondly, on the Clause that we are now discussing he forgot himself by saying that the Labour party were going to the country to declare that they were in favour of intimidation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1786.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-23", "file": "debates1927-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4f8db52c9957bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1786.4", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "er and hon. Members opposite. Therefore, what we are discussing at this moment is not merely, in the language of the right hon. and learned Gentleman, that we are merely declaring the existing law. I am at the moment engaged in negotiating a number of cases that arise out of this Clause. Last night at about this time I was speaking in Edinburgh and the speaker preceding me spoke for 12 railwaymen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1786.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-23", "file": "debates1927-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4f8db52c9957bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1788.1", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ry this afternoon gave an illustration. He said that if John Brown goes to Bill Smith and says, \"Bill, you must remember that we are on strike; play the man,\" that is perfectly legal. I think that is a fair interpretation. Then I put to him a question and I asked him if Bill Brown goes to Jack Smith and says, \"Jack, you and I have been pals for years. Your wife and I have had tea together.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-23", "file": "debates1927-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4f8db52c9957bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1788.1", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "] Supposing Bill Brown goes on to say, \"No longer will you be an honoured guest in our humble home.\" The question I put to the Home Secretary is this: If that man goes on to say, \"You will no longer be a guest, because my wife feels that you are doing something that is depriving her and her family of their legitimate rights,\" is that illegal under the Clause? That is illegal. That is intimidation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-23", "file": "debates1927-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "e4f8db52c9957bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "Well, then vote for this Clause. At present you can threaten him with anything but personal violence with impunity. Under the Clause it will be as illegal to threaten a man with driving him out of work and on to the streets and into the workhouse, and making his wife's life a misery for her, as it is to make a personal attack upon the man, and I am not ashamed of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-23a.1792.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-24", "file": "debates1927-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0c9a83825e2acc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1833.5", "colnum": "1833", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us why they should !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "Can the right, hon. Gentleman inform the House why the oath of allegiance has not to be taken by the members of this force?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1833.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-24", "file": "debates1927-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0c9a83825e2acc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1851.0", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "Certainly. That is a very reasonable request. I am answering the questions of the two right hon. Gentlemen together. We will do the best we can to produce something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-24", "file": "debates1927-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0c9a83825e2acc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1851.4", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"America !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ay Sir Robert Hodgson will be recalled from Moscow and the trade delegation and the trade agreement will be broken in this country. Are we to understand that the Diplomatic Mission and the Russian Chargé d'Affaires here will be requested to leave and be handed passports? If so, how will it be possible for British people to do business with Russia? That is tantamount to a rupture of relations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1851.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-24", "file": "debates1927-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0c9a83825e2acc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1853.13", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw !", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "It was for the information of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1853.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-24", "file": "debates1927-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0c9a83825e2acc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1854.5", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "Can the Prime Minister tell the House how he came into possession of the telegram which passed between the Soviet Charge d'Affaires and——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1854.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-24", "file": "debates1927-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0c9a83825e2acc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1874.0", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "iolence or with any material injury; but we are going to send you to Coventry and to see that no one speaks to you. We are going to see that no one will sit in the same public house with you; knowing you to be a scab all other decent men would get up and go out. We are going to see that no decent shopkeeper in the village serves you or your wife, and you will have to walk five miles\"——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1873.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-24", "file": "debates1927-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0c9a83825e2acc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1874.7", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How can you use the word 'ridicule' in this Bill? There is ridicule daily in this House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "ee. I know, from the efforts of lawmakers for so many years, that most Acts of Parliament have to be interpreted sooner or later. It is our duty to make them as clear as possible. We have in this Clause used the words \"other than material injury\" in order to provide for this particular form of subtle intimidation. A man has to prove to a Court that he is in reasonable apprehension of intimidation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1874.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-24", "file": "debates1927-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0c9a83825e2acc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1876.1", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The fact that he is a blackleg is sufficient !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members who suggest that men would swear hard are rather reflecting on our common humanity. I do not think that men so easily tell lies——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-24", "file": "debates1927-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0c9a83825e2acc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1889.1", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HURST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HURST", "preceding_text": "hrown by the mob. But however much you may believe in objecting to working people earning their living in the way they think fit at a time of industrial trouble, nobody will justify the collection of mole of 3,000 people indulging in a riot and window-breaking. In this ease the windows were broken, and that, is a clear case of intimidation and an act of coercion against which this Clause is aimed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-24", "file": "debates1927-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0c9a83825e2acc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1942.2", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "rm and the sweetness of his manners. I gather that if he always addresses the blackleg as \"old man,\" words which the Home Secretary has so continually employed, the mind of the Judge might favourably be influenced, but if the picket, in his desire still further to conform with the spirit of this legislation, gives a blackleg a kiss, I understand then that he would in fact be committing an assault.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1942.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-24", "file": "debates1927-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0c9a83825e2acc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1942.2", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "the whole history of the last decade, we find that party using these weapons to carry every Measure to which it had set itself in the country. In the War, when they were the Government of the country, did they do much to save from hatred, ridicule or contempt the conscientious objector? I took a different view from that of the conscientious objector, but, at any rate, they had this position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1942.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-24", "file": "debates1927-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0c9a83825e2acc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1947.1", "colnum": "1947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "nterests are engaged? What is the difference? The only difference is, that no man can help where he is born. No man can determine the place and position of his birth, and the men who were born Englishmen and who were made to fight in the late War did not choose the position which led them into that obligation. But a man who joins the trade union does so of his own free-will. It is a voluntary act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-24", "file": "debates1927-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0c9a83825e2acc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1947.2", "colnum": "1947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Baldwin is the only one !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL", "preceding_text": "sfield (Mr. J. Hudson). He did not give us Judas Iscariot to-night. He was very strong about him the other night. As to moral intimidation, it is a pity we get all this talk from the other side. The hon. Member for Huddersfield said, \"If there were any honesty on the other side !\" I wonder if he really believes in a statement of that kind. Does he believe that the only honest men are on that side?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1947.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-24", "file": "debates1927-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0c9a83825e2acc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1947.2", "colnum": "1947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Blacklegs !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL", "preceding_text": " the other side. The hon. Member for Huddersfield said, \"If there were any honesty on the other side !\" I wonder if he really believes in a statement of that kind. Does he believe that the only honest men are on that side? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Baldwin is the only one !\"] That is not a new remark. The right hon. Gentleman is an honest man, and I would like to hear someone say the same thing about you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1947.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-24", "file": "debates1927-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0c9a83825e2acc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1949.2", "colnum": "1949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A lockout !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL", "preceding_text": "Was it a coal strike or a lock-out? I have heard one hon. Member arguing about that. What was it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1949.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-24", "file": "debates1927-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0c9a83825e2acc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1959.1", "colnum": "1959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With Russian money !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "With the funds of the union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-24", "file": "debates1927-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0c9a83825e2acc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1962.0", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RITSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RITSON", "preceding_text": "to the colliery office, they are receiving direct the appeals of the men. I feel that this Bill, popular as you may think it is, has a very strong rising tide against it, and my fear is that, when we get back away from the lawyers and have to put the thing into practice, then is the time when the fun will begin. My last word is this: I would like to appeal, if there is any hope in an appeal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1962.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-24", "file": "debates1927-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0c9a83825e2acc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1964.0", "colnum": "1964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "The time at my disposal is short, but I make no complaint, because I think a very few minutes will be sufficient to answer any arguments which have been raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-24", "file": "debates1927-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0c9a83825e2acc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1964.2", "colnum": "1964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "er, if a trade union official attended the house of a member of his union and asked him to refrain from working, that would be an offence against the Bill. I give the hon. Member credit for thinking that if he had noticed the terms of Sub-section (1) he would have seen that it is only an offence if persons attend in such numbers or otherwise in such manner as to intimidate the person in the house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1964.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-24", "file": "debates1927-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0c9a83825e2acc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1964.2", "colnum": "1964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ber. The only other Sub-section is that which provides against watching or besetting a house, and inasmuch as watching or besetting means interference with the ordinary comfort and the ordinary enjoyment of the house beset, it would be impossible for a trade union official to offend against the provisions of Sub-section (4) of this particular Clause. I hope that answers the hon. Member's question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1964.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-24", "file": "debates1927-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0c9a83825e2acc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1966.0", "colnum": "1966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why do not you do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": ". Members opposite have reason to condemn the action of employers using methods of intimidation or victimisation, I suppose that is no reason for protesting against the action of the Government in preventing intimidation and victimisation from another quarter. It may be a reason why hon. Members should say they will supplement our efforts when they come into power by improving upon the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-24", "file": "debates1927-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0c9a83825e2acc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1966.0", "colnum": "1966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "otesting against the action of the Government in preventing intimidation and victimisation from another quarter. It may be a reason why hon. Members should say they will supplement our efforts when they come into power by improving upon the Bill—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why do not you do it?\"]—but it is hardly a reason for saying that they will repeal our Bill. I am afraid my time is exhausted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-24a.1966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.1993.6", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. BRITTAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BRITTAIN", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman agree that we all learn something as we grow older; and may I draw his attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.1993.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2049.1", "colnum": "2049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "preceding_text": "e strictly relevant when I say that that political levy was directly responsible for the confusion of mind which brought about these consequences. Therefore, it is a mistake for the right hon. Gentleman who introduced this Amendment to pretend that the men in the unsheltered trades complain of the proposed amendment of the law. I can speak for the shale miners and for the coal miners in my county.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2050.3", "colnum": "2050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "preceding_text": "olon it goes on to say: I also understand that after delivering such a notice of withdrawal I shall continue to be liable to contribute to the political fund until the next following 1st day of January. I would like hon. Members to notice that word \"until.\" It seems to me that, in conjunction with the context, the sentence can be read in a way which conveys the impression which I have just stated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2050.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2054.0", "colnum": "2054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "May I ask one question for the purpose of elucidating a point? The hon. Lady called attention to the wording of the Schedule, and suggested that the exemption form operated only for a single year. Is it not the case that the contracting-out form at present in use operates only for a single year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2054.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2055.1", "colnum": "2055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "One would almost think, from the arguments of the hon. Lady and of preceding speakers, that this \"right\" to have the political levy was something that had been hallowed by immemorial custom. Nothing of the kind. The Act was only passed in 1913, and shortly afterwards there came the War, which prevented any alteration being attempted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2061.0", "colnum": "2061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS", "preceding_text": "less regard than it has done in the past to industrial conditions. I remember that, when travelling in Australia, I met with a very forcible example, where in one great city it became impossible for any man to get employment under the municipality unless he presented a ticket from the Labour organisation. I hope it will never come to that in this country, but it could take that direction if—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2061.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2061.0", "colnum": "2061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What has this to do with the general strike?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS", "preceding_text": "et of conditions which the last general strike presented to them. If that declaration Bead been definitely made, a large number of Members on this side of the Committee would have been content to leave the future of the unions to be settled by the unions themselves, and this Clause would not have been voted for by a number of us on this side of the Committee. That declaration has never come—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2061.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2061.0", "colnum": "2061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS", "preceding_text": " industrial only, and who care very little about politics on one side or the other, but whose only interest is the interest of the workshop and the home, in so far as the home is affected by the wages and conditions in the workshop. Hon. Members on the Labour Benches are claiming today that the whole of that indeterminate mass ought to be levied by them for their own peculiar political privileges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2061.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2065.1", "colnum": "2065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "fit by one farthing as the result of a political levy. I suggest that it is the acme of meanness, and is, indeed, contemptible, for a political party which derives its funds secretly, which derives part of its funds illicitly, which in the past has sold honours as a means of filling its party coffers, and every hon. Member of which has part of his election expenses indirectly contributed to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2066.2", "colnum": "2066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "The Earl of Selborne, a member of the Conservative party, speaking on 31st August, 1917—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2066.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2066.5", "colnum": "2066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "Will the Patronage Secretary publish a full balance sheet of his party organisation, and will he allow it to be subjected to a complete audit? If so, I will withdraw every statement I have made. I will not pursue the matter further, but it is mean and contemptible for political organisations which derive their funds from the illicit subscriptions of rich men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2066.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2066.5", "colnum": "2066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Russian money?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "lish a full balance sheet of his party organisation, and will he allow it to be subjected to a complete audit? If so, I will withdraw every statement I have made. I will not pursue the matter further, but it is mean and contemptible for political organisations which derive their funds from the illicit subscriptions of rich men—[ Interruption. ] Prove it by the publication of a balance sheet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2066.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2075.0", "colnum": "2075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"An excellent speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": " Clause. If there is no compulsion now, so long as the machinery is a fair machinery, they will get exactly the same amount of contributions in the future as they have now under what we do think is a compulsion on some members of trade unions. The hon. Member for Wallsend (bliss Bondfield) did me the honour of repeating a portion of the speech with which she honoured my constituency the other day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2075.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2084.1", "colnum": "2084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Heaven only knows!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "his fund is used for only one particular party. That is perfectly true. Of course, it is. It could not be used for any other political party, because there is no other political party that looks after the interests of trade unionists. I have been in this business from the very beginning. I was a delegate to the first conference at which the Labour party was formed. Why was the Labour party formed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2090.1", "colnum": "2090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "he is entitled, whatever his political opinions may be. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Colne Valley said there was no difference between a limited company and a trade union. Hon. Members opposite know what the trade union policy is and know that there have been strikes for no other purpose than that of producing 100 per cent. membership of particular trade unions in particular industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2090.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2090.1", "colnum": "2090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": " Another suggestion made from the other side was as to the use of a political fund. I am not going to follow the hon. Member for Dundee (Mr. Johnston) into all the irrelevancies of his speech but I am going to point out why the considerations which he was putting forward are irrelevant to this discussion. We are not concerned in this Bill with the way in which the Socialist party spends its money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2090.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2093.1", "colnum": "2093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quote them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "I can refer to speech after speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2094.0", "colnum": "2094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "I understand now that the position of the right hon. Gentleman is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2094.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2094.8", "colnum": "2094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. G REAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. G REAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "ine distinctions. There is apparently a difference between saying that a person is lying and calling him a liar. There is also, apparently, a difference between,saying that a man is an industrial can idate and saying that he is a Labour candidate. I rejoice that we can go out and say in the country that when a man describes himself as a Labour candidate that means that he is not an industrial one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2094.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2095.0", "colnum": "2095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "re, there is no question of a fine distinction as to whether the Workmen's Compensation Actt is political or not. The main, broad, clear distinction is that the Labour party to-day is definitely a Socialist party, and therefore, every penny that is taken from the trade unions for that party is used for one political party, whereas the majority of trade unionists do not belong to that party at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2095.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2096.4", "colnum": "2096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members opposite had not interrupted me, I should by now have stated the effect of the present law. The law is that, if to-day a man joins a trade union in which there has been a ballot 10 years ago, he becomes by the fact of joining the trade union, liable to be levied upon for their political fund unless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2096.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2124.1", "colnum": "2124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JEPHCOTT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JEPHCOTT", "preceding_text": "n to a political party for Labour, but let it be an independent party which does not rely for its existence on trade unions. This pamphlet caricatures the Prime Minister as one who is anxious to destroy the lives or the liberties or the uplifting of the workers. What the right hon. Gentleman aims for is what we aim for. We do not aim for hon. Members opposite because we would not have them —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2126.2", "colnum": "2126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "nd they were finally brought under a Trade Board. Case after case can be quoted where employers have defeated the workers in industry and in which the workers have later secured redress on the Floor of the House of Commons. That is why we recognise that political action ought to be part of the duty of a trade union. Clause 4, in my view, may turn out to be the most important Clause of the Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2126.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2126.2", "colnum": "2126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "would not complain in the least. If Tory leaders of the trade unions exploited the inertia of the members the other way about all would be well I suppose. There is proof of that fact, because I was a member of a trade union before the trade union movement was allowed in law to establish a political fund. I paid my contribution to that trade union when it was represented in this House by a Liberal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2126.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2126.2", "colnum": "2126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "uppose. There is proof of that fact, because I was a member of a trade union before the trade union movement was allowed in law to establish a political fund. I paid my contribution to that trade union when it was represented in this House by a Liberal. [ Interruption. ] There was no complaint from any quarter then. He was a very intelligent Liberal too, more so than some of those produced to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2126.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2132.0", "colnum": "2132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": "he representative of the Home Office, and was therefore entitled to assume the position of a judge. I would like to remind him also of the Victorian poet who prayed God give us no more great men but elevate all men, We can only put up with the judgment of the hon. Member and come to the conclusion that he agrees with the poet's prayer and that it has been answered. With regard to the Clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2132.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2133.0", "colnum": "2133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Are there any?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": "number of hon. Members who think there is a passionate desire on the part of the bulk of the people to subscribe to these funds, whereas hon. Members opposite seem to think that every trade unionist who is not a Socialist is being intimidated into subscribing to the levy. I have here a letter from a Liberal trade unionist from Wales. He says: I am a Liberal, but we are all agreed down here\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2133.1", "colnum": "2133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Can the hon. Member inform the House how he knows that his correspondent is a Liberal trade unionist? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "fund to enable it to fulfil its purpose of protecting the interests of its members. We do not desire to be exempted from paying to the political fund of our trade unions and for the following reasons: (1) Having agreed to the necessity for a political fund, it would be unfair and in many respects cowardly to shirk our responsibility for contributing towards that fund. That is the trade union view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2133.1", "colnum": "2133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is it William Brace?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "hey quote Conservative trade unionists I can vouch personally for this particular trade unionist because I have spoken to him in Cardiff. There is a real live branch in Cardiff of the Liberal trade unionist movement, and their view is that they regret that their party is not uppermost in trade union counsels, but they do not desire to have the system altered from contracting out to contracting in,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2133.1", "colnum": "2133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "nd will continue to pay it whether their own party comes uppermost or not. More than that there are many ordinary trade unionists who may not agree with the Labour party who willingly pay their contributions. I was in Leicestershire the other day and I am going there again to-morrow. In Leicestershire I met a typical trade unionist who does not say much in public, but talks a good deal in private.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2133.1", "colnum": "2133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "al organisations, will involve alterations of the rules in many organisations, and will undoubtedly not achieve the object which hon. Members opposite say they want to achieve, namely, to prevent intimidation. It must be obvious if the arguments of hon. Members opposite that there is widespread intimidation in the unions are founded on fact, if intimidation in the trade unions is widespread—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2133.1", "colnum": "2133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "oubtedly not achieve the object which hon. Members opposite say they want to achieve, namely, to prevent intimidation. It must be obvious if the arguments of hon. Members opposite that there is widespread intimidation in the unions are founded on fact, if intimidation in the trade unions is widespread—[ Interruption. ] May I ask whether hon. Members outside the bar are entitled to interrupt?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2133.1", "colnum": "2133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "opposite that there is widespread intimidation in the unions are founded on fact, if intimidation in the trade unions is widespread—[ Interruption. ] May I ask whether hon. Members outside the bar are entitled to interrupt? [ Interruption. ] I do not mind interjections from any Member inside the House, but I think members outside the House should certainly observe the decencies of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2133.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2137.8", "colnum": "2137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major HARVEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major HARVEY", "preceding_text": "I think the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Derby is anxious to get the name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2137.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-25", "file": "debates1927-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "13ede7dfa7d27f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2138.1", "colnum": "2138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So do you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "preceding_text": "f the present Prime Minister, and it is now the headquarters of the Labour party. That is an indication of the future fate of this Government. The hon. Member, who claimed that he has been returned to this House by moneys from the rich, ought to remember the old English adage that \"He who pays the piper calls the tune.\" The hon. Member plays the tune that he is expected to do by those who pay him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-25a.2138.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2180.7", "colnum": "2180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Cardiff.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "What about Glasgow?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2180.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2195.1", "colnum": "2195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "e should be examined, and a verdict given after adequate inquiry. It is the common practice in Britain not to asume guilt until adequate proof has been offered and accepted, and our view is that a decision so grave as this, affecting internal and external affairs, should not take effect until there has been an impartial and sufficient inquiry into the charges alleged against the Soviet Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2195.1", "colnum": "2195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "breach on the part of the Russian Government of any agreement or understanding reached between the two coutries. We will not excuse wrong-doing, and we demand on the part of the Government that their pledge should be binding and honourably observed. In the course we are taking this afternoon we have no partisan motive; the Labour party can reap no political advantage from the course we are taking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2195.1", "colnum": "2195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "in this or any other country. I present those arguments, believing that there is a case for investigation, and that so solemn a step as this ought not to be taken without the proof we demand. We are immensely concerned in this matter from the standpoint of work, trade relations, and the improvement of business. We say that the class which in a special degree we may justly claim to represent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2195.1", "colnum": "2195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about America?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": " the Prime Minister that business men have been intensely busy in the last day or two in endeavours to find out how the Prime Minister can make that assurance good. I should like to have some statement made in the interest of trade which might be, at least, some consolation for men in business, as to how they may hope that trade may be in a normal condition when these extreme measures take effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2200.7", "colnum": "2200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. TURTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. TURTON", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the right hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2200.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2201.0", "colnum": "2201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"You cannot face the facts!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "Evidently the House prefers that I should proceed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2201.3", "colnum": "2201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption and an HON. MEMBER: \"Do not you want the trade!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "So far had that agreement gone, and so ripe was the understanding in relation to it, that I have here a, list showing the different classes of work in which that £10,000,000 would have been spent. It is as follows: Machine tools, £800,000; textile equipment, £2,100,000; electrical equipment, £2,500,000; instruments, £500,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2201.3", "colnum": "2201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Orders?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "ndustry equipment, £750,000; tools, £500,000; wire, £200,000; railway equipment, £1,000,000 agricultural machinery, £200,000. These figures make up a total slightly in excess of £10,000,000, but they are estimates. They have been submitted as round figures by those who were parties to the arrangement. All these orders have necessarily been stopped because of the raid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2201.3", "colnum": "2201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "secure what is called a White Paper. I think it might be more aptly described as a bright, diverting, comic publication, for which I did not think any Government in the world would have become responsible. When I pressed for documentary evidence, the Prime Minister replied in these words: We will do the best we can to produce something.\"£[OFFICIAL REPORT, 24th May, 1927; col. 1859, Vol. 206.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2201.3", "colnum": "2201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "utocratic instead of representing Communist doctrines, would the attitude of His Majesty's Government towards it have been the same as the attitude which they are now adopting? We move this Motion with as great concern for the composure and welfare of our country as anybody can entertain in any part of the House, but we will not take sides for a policy, whether that policy be right or wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2205.3", "colnum": "2205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "difficulties that they met in their operations. What became of all those millions? When they were no longer required as an instrument of policy, they vanished into space, and no orders were ever placed. But trade is not dependent upon the Trade Agreement; trade is not dependent upon diplomatic representation. The United States of America have done about as much trade with Soviet Russia as we have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2205.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2218.0", "colnum": "2218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "spatch of 1921. That demonstrated clearly that within six months after this solmen engagement had been entered into it was being infringed. I have no doubt about the evidence, none. It is no use talking about forgeries. Those of us who know how the evidence comes in, and I quite understand it is impossible for the Government altogether to give away all the methods by which information is obtained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2222.3", "colnum": "2222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "en done. I may be asked, \"What would you have done?\" I am going to answer that. I agree that, once the hands of the Foreign Office and of the Prime Minister were forced by the action of the Home Office, once you had called the attention, not merely of this country, but of the whole of Europe, by a most dramatic act, to what you were doing, you were bound to do something if you discovered anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2222.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2222.3", "colnum": "2222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " altogether, those steps ought to have been taken first. What are they? First of all, we ought to have kept the Trade Agreement ourselves before we broke off relations with Russia on the ground of their infringement of it. For instance, one of the Clauses of the Trade Agreement is that, if there is any complaint, you must communicate with the other party and give them an opportunity of explaining.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2222.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2225.1", "colnum": "2225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "he gravest things that have been done in this country, short of embarking upon war, to rupture diplomatic relations with a Power with a population of 100,000,000, occupying an enormous tract of territory in Europe and in Asia, and coming in contact with us at so many points. I think it was one of the riskiest and most hazardous decisions ever taken by a Government, and before they took that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2225.1", "colnum": "2225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "here; we will give them no more immunity.\" I can understand your deporting everybody who has been engaged in infringing the Agreement. I can understand your deporting the man who, although you could not bring it home to him personally, was responsible for controlling that office. But what is your object in complete rupture? Is the object to diminish propaganda? You have doubled and intensified it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2225.1", "colnum": "2225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "as the Government have been rushed into to-day, upon evidence just as convincing, just as overwhelming, and I think just as unchallengeable—because I have not challenged the evidence at all—what did he say? I make no apology for reading it to the House, because it is so utterly apt. In June, 1926, he said: I am not at all sure that we ought ever to have gone into relations with Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2227.2", "colnum": "2227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "That was in June, 1926. There was the same evidence, and stronger evidence, at that time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2227.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2227.2", "colnum": "2227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "xtiles and £11,000,000 worth of machinery ordered in this country. I do not know the details of the £10,000,000 transaction. I have heard that it is not a guarantee to Russia but to the traders here who are supplying goods to Russia. I understand that is upon actual orders which have been given and for the purpose of furnishing long credits to enable these goods to be supplied to Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2227.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2231.3", "colnum": "2231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Kenworthy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ile, there was a devastated Europe. For whom are you waiting to give you a word? Mr. Tchitcherin? You cannot take him; he has signed these documents, and is broken and has failed. Mr. Litvinoff's signature you cannot take. Stalin's signature you cannot take. Trotsky you certainly cannot. You cannot be looking to Zinovieff. Whose word in Russia are you going to take in order to resume negotiations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2231.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2231.3", "colnum": "2231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not as bad as you got into!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "of negotiations will embarrass Europe, he will realise that it is a case, at any rate, to be considered with the gravity becoming this great House of Commons. I ask him again, whose word will they take? The fact of the matter is, it is not a miscalculation. There was no calculation at all. I think they slipped into it without consideration. It is a mess into which they have got, and a serious one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2231.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2243.0", "colnum": "2243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "subject before the House with little homilies to hon. Members sitting on these benches as to how they should conduct themselves. It entered partly into the speech of the hon. Member who has just sat down, but not to the same extent as in that of the Mover of the Amendment. He suggests to us that hon. Members on these benches are always prepared to believe every other country rather than their own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2243.0", "colnum": "2243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "My local patriotism and that of my hon. Friends around me has been so obtrusive in this House that hon. Members opposite are now objecting to it. I love my country and the particular bit of it which I represent. I love the people round about me. I know them. I know whether they are worthy of my affection, and they know whether I am worthy of theirs. That is more than hon. Members opposite can say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2244.4", "colnum": "2244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ts whose names cannot be revealed, who are pursuing one of the most dishonest and dirty trades in which a man could engage, and that their word is to be taken, the word of professional paid liars, to justify this House and this Government in making a, complete rupture with a country with whom relations during the last few years have been reasonably good, as far as trade and commerce are concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2244.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2246.3", "colnum": "2246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member does not merely disclose his lack of knowledge of Parliamentary affairs which is always obvious, but he also discloses his complete lack of knowledge of commercial affairs in Russia. I thought he knew something of business matters, but this proves he does not. I have in my hand a statement by the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2246.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2249.1", "colnum": "2249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ed like dirt. After all, the one serious charge which you can bring against the Russian Government, and I am prepared to bring it against them, is that as the first working-class Government to achieve effective power in the world they ought to have said, \"We have finished with all the dirty, lying diplomacy that has marked capitalist government; we are going to lead a life that is open and clear.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2253.2", "colnum": "2253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "ld succeed in installing themselves in our peaceful city ready to do us irreparable damage. The discovery of this warren in the heart of peaceful London explodes for ever the fetish of Soviet affection for England, and it justifies straight away the exclusion from England of the false friends who betrayed us. We ought never to have recognised the Soviet at all. We did it under a Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2253.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2264.1", "colnum": "2264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "He did not say so.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROY WILSON", "preceding_text": "urse of his speech, he clearly stated that it was his opinion, and it was within his own knowledge, that our accredited representatives abroad, our ambassadors or our chargés d'affaires, indulged in the same sort of lying propaganda which has been disclosed in this White Paper, and which, quite clearly, has been proved against the chargé d'affaires of the Soviet Republic in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2264.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2265.7", "colnum": "2265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILSON", "preceding_text": "Wherever the money may be spent I am certain it is not spent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2265.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2266.1", "colnum": "2266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILSON", "preceding_text": "peaking on behalf of the Midland Bank this afternoon that in all these transactions involving so-called credit with Russia the paramount and first condition has been that a substantial deposit has been put down in cash in England before the business transaction has been, entered into, and the risk thereafter is the risk of the shipper or the merchant at this end who is sending his goods to Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2266.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2267.2", "colnum": "2267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "How do you know?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROY WILSON", "preceding_text": "That question does not really arise, but wherever those documents came from they did not come from our Ambassador.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2272.0", "colnum": "2272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why support it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "istic that we can ever understand the Russian problem. Because we break off relations with Russia—and I fully support the Government in their action in that point—it does not mean that the Russian problem is solved. It does not mean that the Russian question is finished with. It merely means that the job has got more difficult and the Foreign Secretary's job is rendered more difficult.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2272.0", "colnum": "2272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "ism in this country. If we have any chance even of a tithe of the prosperity we are entitled to, Communism as an active force will be dead for ever in Great Britain. Have any of the hon. Members opposite any doubts on the subject as to whether Communism, is a danger or not. We have our Mr. Cooks, and I feel confident that with a strong Conservative Government and a courageous Home Seeretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2272.0", "colnum": "2272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"We would never have got it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "se. I have an unhappy suspicion of what we may lose. We may lose a growing trade and hand it over to others. I saw in the papers the other day that the American had cabled to Arcos or the Russian Trade Delegation within two hours of the Arcos raid, endeavouring to secure the trade which is going to be given, or was promised—which is a very different thing—under the Midland Bank scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2279.2", "colnum": "2279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": " Great Britain, and the original owners, the pre-War owners of the particular firm from which that timber was shipped, took action in the British Courts claiming that the timber belonged to them. Mr. Justice Roche, who dealt with the case, held that as the British Government had not recognised the Russian Government, that the Russian decree of nationalisation had no legal effect in British Courts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2279.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2284.3", "colnum": "2284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the docks?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "mployment of people in the factories of this country. It is a complete fallacy. Last year we shipped to Russia of our own manufactures something like £5,800,000 worth. We shipped of other people's manufactures, we being mere entrepreneurs in the matter, £14,000,000 worth, but all the employment that was given to this country is represented by something less than £6,000,000 sterling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2284.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2291.0", "colnum": "2291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Free Trade?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "ot as unfortunate as the first. With regard to the suggestion that the Russians will continue to send their exports here, I think there is no one in this House who would not welcome them. We are not going to lose, are we, if they send their exports here? What we shall deplore is that we have not any exports to send to them in return, for the simple reason that we shall not have their orders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2292.1", "colnum": "2292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": " He said he had done everything in his power to get into touch with the Foreign Secretary—and I think the Foreign Secretary yesterday admitted that he left the office at about seven o'clock, and this was about eight o'clock, as I have already said—or with any official at the Foreign Office, and he had failed to do so. He then said that, as they had had no warning about this raid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2294.3", "colnum": "2294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why ask for it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "You would have to wait and see about that. The right, hon. Gentleman has been too long in this House to expect me to accept in advance the decision of a majority of a Committee who are against us from the start.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2294.3", "colnum": "2294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": " prepared to say that a certain number of things go on. What is so unfortunate in our own country is that we are such hypocrits. We Britishers are the Simon Pures of international life. Everybody can do the thing that is wrong, but we can do no wrong. Let me give an illustration of what I mean. I remember, some years after the War, some of us who had done our little best in the great crisis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2298.0", "colnum": "2298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is your proof?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "preceding_text": "particular munition of war which is kept secret in this country. That is the kind of thing all countries have to take the risk of, but it is quite different when a trade delegation comes over here for a different purpose, and has a complete organisation in touch with itself endeavouring to find out every single question of importance with regard to the Navy, Army and the Air Force of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2307.2", "colnum": "2307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "I pass over the next sentence, which is a reference to myself, and take the following. It is: The evidence is that the Tory party would reap greater benefit from forged documents than from trying to find them. I ask him, quite frankly, what does he mean?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2307.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2307.3", "colnum": "2307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": " said has been further confirmed by the admission of the right hon. Gentleman, the Foreign Secretary, in his speech to-day, in which he said that the Cabinet Committee which dealt with the matter of the Red Letter had never seen the original, and had only had copies to deal with. I am further convinced that that letter was a forgery; but great electoral profit was reaped by the Tory party from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2307.4", "colnum": "2307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "I can only say that I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on having the courage to say in this House what he said at Manchester.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2307.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2307.5", "colnum": "2307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman has any further congratulations to extend, let him extend them to the Prime Minister on the mendacity of the language he has used in the letter he has sent to the Conservative candidate at Bosworth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2307.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2307.6", "colnum": "2307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman would like to make any more remarks of that character I will gladly give way to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2307.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2307.6", "colnum": "2307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman would like to make any more remarks of that character I will gladly give way to him. [ Interruption. ] Perhaps the House will now allow me to return to the speech of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2307.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2309.2", "colnum": "2309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "As long as this disorder goes on I am debarred from dealing with things of that kind. Hon. Members must, first of all, keep silent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2309.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-26", "file": "debates1927-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc6954b287fd41d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2309.5", "colnum": "2309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSO-BRITISH RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "That is worse.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GRANT MORDEN", "preceding_text": "It is alleged that I made an allegation against the party as a whole. I do withdraw if it is understood in that way, but I did not mean it as against the Opposition as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-26a.2309.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2328.3", "colnum": "2328", "heading": "PERSONAL EXPLANATION.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GRANT MORDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GRANT MORDEN", "preceding_text": " angered by an insulting and unjustifiable remark made by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Platting (Mr. Clynes) against my leader the Prime Minister. I said that the Socialist party was in the pay of the Soviet Government. I realise that a wholesale charge of that kind is unjustified, but while there are individual members of the Socialist party who are under the influence of Moscow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2328.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2333.8", "colnum": "2333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "preceding_text": "members? How are we to collect in that way? Are we to in crease the contributions by 1s. a year? We have no desire to do that; we simply desire to go on in the same way as hitherto. Even if Sub-section (1) of this Clause be passed, which provides for contracting in and for members saying that they give their consent, we know that our members will give their consent, and we shall see to that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2333.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2340.2", "colnum": "2340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What society?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "924, sent in their forms for exemption. At the end of the year, too late to rectify the mistake, all these forms were returned and objected to because they were signed in pencil. The Secretary said, \"These are illegal; I cannot accept them,\" and for 12 months those people were not allowed to claim exemption from subscribing to the political levy. I shall be pleased to give particulars of the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2340.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2340.2", "colnum": "2340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ther eases in exactly the same position, and I took it up with the Registrar, and said, \"Can you issue a general instruction to the Secretary that he is to allow all these fees back? He said, \"No, I can only act upon specific complaints,\" and it meant that every man in the Union who wished to reclaim would have to write specifically, making a definite Complaint, before the money could be returned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2340.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2342.1", "colnum": "2342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "mall amount, and the cost of collecting that sum is more than it is worth, and so a large number of people say, \"I am not going to pay 3d. or 4d. for a tram ride in order to draw 2½d.\" This simply means that the money is left in the fund. I would like the Committee to understand that certain local officials do sometimes make it a little difficult for people to obtain the refund of their money", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2343.3", "colnum": "2343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "t?\" \"Oh, simply, 'Are you willing to pay the political levy'?\" The man will sign, innocently or otherwise, and the unions will get a certain number of signatures. Ultimately, the agent will come to the class of people who have not the courage to object, and he, perhaps, will go to their houses, because they have rather a funny system in Lancashire of collecting subscriptions at the workers' house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2343.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2346.2", "colnum": "2346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "g. That is my feeling. I am not concerned that the Bill will affect trade unions, because if a man believes in the political levy, you cannot stop him paying to that political levy. We shall carry forward with greater enthusiasm than ever before. I say to hon. Members opposite that they are trying to stop this particular form of levy for ulterior motives. That is our strong feeling in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2346.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2356.2", "colnum": "2356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or every four years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. and learned Member not aware that according to their respective constitutions some unions only have meetings for the revision of their rules every three years or every two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2356.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2357.1", "colnum": "2357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, by a majority,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "In that case, the rules of the club by which every member would be bound, would lay down the amount of the subscription, and they could not increase that subscription without the consent of the members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2360.4", "colnum": "2360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "nes) is also a member, so also is the hon. Member for Silvertown (Mr. J. Jones), and I believe, also, the hon. Member for West Nottingham (Mr. Hayday). In the particulars of this union as filed with the Registrar of Friendly Societies we find that in 1925 the total income was £367,000, and the amount paid in salaries and allowances to the officers of the union amounted to £l23,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2360.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2361.4", "colnum": "2361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "The argument I am using is that, when this Sub-section is passed, the funds of the unions will have to be divided between their industrial and their political objects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2361.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2361.4", "colnum": "2361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "The argument I am using is that, when this Sub-section is passed, the funds of the unions will have to be divided between their industrial and their political objects. [HON. MEMBERS: \"They are now.\"]. At the present moment salaries are paid, and expenses in elections are paid out of the general fund—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2361.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2361.4", "colnum": "2361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": ". At the present moment salaries are paid, and expenses in elections are paid out of the general fund—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] If I am allowed to proceed I will give the figures concerning this particular union in the year 1925. In that year, in which £123,000 was paid in salaries to officers, including Members of this House, and their election expenses, and the expenses of fighting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2361.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2361.7", "colnum": "2361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Let him go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "It is mean and contemptible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2361.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2362.0", "colnum": "2362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LINDLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You will get the rest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LINDLEY", "preceding_text": "On a further point of Order. Is the hon. Member in order in deceiving the Committee by giving us a statement which is only partly true?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2363.0", "colnum": "2363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "ative party, could not afford to hold 10 meetings. One would not mind if it were not for the fact that, very largely, the money is subscribed by men and women in other unions, who are also subscribing 1s. a year to the National Unionist Association in one form or another. There is no doubt in any reasonable man's mind that they are absolutely forced and intimidated into paying this political levy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2363.0", "colnum": "2363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Will you give the name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "Union. One member of that union, who was a Conservative and had the misfortune to have all his teeth out, was entitled to benefit from the union. When he went to the union, he was told that no benefit was available for him, yet in the same week that union had given a subscription of £l,000 to the \"Daily Herald,\" and had paid £250 for the expenses of one candidate standing for Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2364.5", "colnum": "2364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Put it the other way\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "er postponed for a minute longer. I have no doubt whatever that it has been from the bottom ranks of the Conservative party that this Bill has been brought to the light of day. My impression in my own constituency is that if there is a class war in this country and enmity against anybody, that enmity is not on the part of the workmen against the employers, but it is against the trade union leaders", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2364.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2398.2", "colnum": "2398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "r the procedure proposed. [HON-MEMBERS: \"He said, 'could be'.\"] He said \"would be.\" He corrected himself afterwards. He said it would be as possible under the procedure proposed by the Bill as under the present procedure, and one of his colleagues underlined that remark by saying that it would be worse. That shows that hon. Members know perfectly well there is intimidation under the present system", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2398.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2400.0", "colnum": "2400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": " really the reason for this Clause. The hon. Member knows very well that we have every reason to object to the whole of this Bill and the whole of this Clause. Let the House remember that the four grounds were, first, that it was to prevent a general strike, and not to interfere with the ordinary or sympathetic strike. We know now that is not true. It has been admitted from the Government Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2404.0", "colnum": "2404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": " The only evidence that has been brought forward here in support of this Clause has been a few obscure cases. We have heard a good deal from the lawyers about this, that and the other, but no evidence has been brought forward. And now we have the lamentable ignorance of the trade union movement capped—and I am very emphatic upon the lamentable ignorance as compared with our knowledge —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2406.1", "colnum": "2406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are all voluntary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "-General or the Government will tell us what is the political fund that is going to be established by employers' associations. It was very interesting to hear my right hon. Friend the Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Snowden) read the balance-sheet, which I read some time ago, of the Municipal party in Sheffield, showing the contributions that were made for political objects by employers' federations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2409.0", "colnum": "2409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Who says he does; do you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " of exemption which has been so often illustrated during the Debate of the last two days, no doubt to the extent to which that exists there will be a diminution of the funds, and although the hon. Gentleman who has just sat down said he was proud to be kept by the contributions of the poor, I doubt whether he would be proud of accepting from the poor contributions which they do not desire to give.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2411.1", "colnum": "2411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "A lawyer has exactly the same right to ask for forms and send them in to the union as, for instance, a shop steward will have the right under this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-27", "file": "debates1927-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa5641d83a06a782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2419.1", "colnum": "2419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAW OF LIBEL AMENDMENT BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "You have ruled, Mr. Speaker, that it is in order for the House to discuss whether the Lords Message relating to the appointment of a Joint Committee to consider the Law of Libel (Amendment) Bill should be now considered. If that be in order, I oppose the Motion on several grounds, and one is that the Law of Libel does not need amendment in the particular direction which this Bill proposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-27a.2419.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-30", "file": "debates1927-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "dae61b64d12e4166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "esponsible to it. For instance, according to this doctrine which Mr. Brown put forward, if he had his way with the unions of civil servants, he and his friends would have been entitled to have formed their own opinion in regard to the sending of troops to Shanghai, as to whether or not the necessary order should be transmitted from the Government and as to whether that order should be carried out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-30", "file": "debates1927-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "dae61b64d12e4166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.73.0", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has no right to charge me with cowardice or with doing things in obscurity. I ask him to read the late Sir Henry Wilson's biography in the \"Sunday Times\" which has proved that military men have shown the workers exactly where their devoted allegiance will lead them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.73.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-30", "file": "debates1927-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "dae61b64d12e4166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.73.4", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "They were not continuous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.73.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-30", "file": "debates1927-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "dae61b64d12e4166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.81.4", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why,?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "I must ask the hon. Member to confine himself to what was said in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.81.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-30", "file": "debates1927-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "dae61b64d12e4166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.81.5", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "preceding_text": " aware that the hon. Member for North Camberwell is sincere in his desire to reform conditions in the Civil Service, and that he and his colleagues have made it part of their life work to do so; but I ask him to give me credit for the same sincere solicitude for the welfare of the Civil Service; and I think I have this advantage over him. He, on his own confession, has an axe to grind. I have not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.81.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-30", "file": "debates1927-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "dae61b64d12e4166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.89.0", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With her mop!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "preceding_text": "s been declared to-day that they are allied to one political party. Therefore, the Government come along with this Clause to prevent that great onward, forward movement. I will not liken the Government to King Canute sitting on the shore, because his attitude was passive; nor will I liken them to the excellent Mrs. Partington, who sat with her apron seeking to stop the waves of the Atlantic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.89.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-30", "file": "debates1927-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "dae61b64d12e4166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.115.0", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I think it might be convenient now if the Committee were to come to a decision on this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-30", "file": "debates1927-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "dae61b64d12e4166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HARRY FOSTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not improve it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HARRY FOSTER", "preceding_text": "the Civil Service. There is no locus penitentiæ for him at all. I do not think the wording can be intended to cut him off from all possible remedy and we should see to it that, if a man commits only a very slight contravention, he should not therefore cease to be a member of the Civil Service without any discretionary power to deal with his case being given to the Treasury or to anybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-30", "file": "debates1927-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "dae61b64d12e4166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.133.2", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "As I listened to the Chancellor of the Exchequer this afternoon, I was amazed at the many inaccuracies to which we had to sit and listen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-30", "file": "debates1927-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "dae61b64d12e4166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.133.2", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "hem as untruth, you can do so. One of the statements he made was that this Clause will make no difference, and yet he was compelled to admit at a later stage that when men are established it is his intention that they shall have no hand or part in membership of a trade union. If that last statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer be true—and I suppose he claims to be a truthful man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-30", "file": "debates1927-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "dae61b64d12e4166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.133.2", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "n the Navy—I think the gallant Admiral the Member for Eastbourne (Sir R. Hall) knows it—and I know of men in the Air Force who are members of the various trade unions of this country at the present time. Is there no harm then in the soldier, the sailor and the airman being a member of a trade union, and yet it is a crime on the part of the civil servant to be a member of a trade union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-30", "file": "debates1927-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "dae61b64d12e4166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": " Woolwich (Mr. Snell), who asked whether the men in the ordnance factories would be affected, the right hon. Gentleman, out of his knowledge—I do not know whether he had consulted anybody—said that this would not affect the ordnance factories. I hope that whoever is in charge will make further inquiries, because I have here a document, and I am told that it is a Cabinet document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-30", "file": "debates1927-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "dae61b64d12e4166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.147.0", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "We could not accept this Amendment. It virtually invites us to remodel the Clause. It asks us to sacrifice a well-conceived scheme for another, a very laborious and rather ineffective method. It is quite true that we do not think that Civil Service trade unions ought to bring the idea of a strike into their purview.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-30", "file": "debates1927-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "dae61b64d12e4166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.147.0", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not like yours\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " to the right to strike in the Civil Service. Broadly speaking, the right to strike in the Civil Service is governed to a very large extent by the very obvious fact that any man who goes on strike jeopardises his position, and in the established Civil Service, where years of pensionable service are in question, and where permanent employment, or what is called an everlasting job, is assured—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-30", "file": "debates1927-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "dae61b64d12e4166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "preceding_text": "163;3 or £4 a week. They engage in politics, and quite reasonably so. Is it because they have engaged in politics on one of the three sides and not on another, or perhaps not on two of the three sides, that the right hon. Gentleman now comes forward and says it is improper for them collectively to engage in politics while he says it is quite proper for them individually to engage in politics?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-30", "file": "debates1927-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "dae61b64d12e4166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "preceding_text": "ights individually, publicly and effectively, and, therefore, without being able quite to exercise all the reserve which I think it would be better that they should exercise in the circumstances, that henceforth individual political action is to be preferred to collective political action. In fact, by the action of the Government, collective political action by the civil servant is to be debarred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-30", "file": "debates1927-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "dae61b64d12e4166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.157.2", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "tes in which to say them. The right hon. Gentleman is a great authority on all these matters, and I am sure he will agree that we ought not to discuss them from the point of view of what is to the advantage of any political party. The idea that we should look at whether this or that group of civil servants support the Tory party or the Liberal party or the Labour party ought not to be put forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.157.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-30", "file": "debates1927-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "dae61b64d12e4166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.157.2", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "e whole core and substance of the Bill. The right hon. Gentleman who has just sat down delivered a speech which in parts was a strong eulogy and support of the Bill, as far as I could make out, especially in what he said about trying to keep the Civil Service clear of anything like the spoils' system which prevailed at one time in America and at one time in Italy and at the present time in Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-30a.157.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-31", "file": "debates1927-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "7a0984697737dff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.227.5", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "f the Minister of Health, because he was one of the men in this country who helped to found what is called \"municipal Socialism,\" and will be remembered as the founder of what extremists like myself have dubbed \"gas and water Socialism.\" It is strange that his son should now be the Minister to bring in and support a Measure to take from municipalities the powers which this House has given to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.227.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-31", "file": "debates1927-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "7a0984697737dff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.227.5", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " collectors and that sort of people. We also had a very close corporation called the Freemasons. There were fire or six of them out of 24, and when any man was to be employed by the board, we knew perfectly well the person who would get the job. It was evident that the person who would get the job would be a member of the Freemasons. Invariably they were members or friends of the local Tory party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.227.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-31", "file": "debates1927-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "7a0984697737dff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.227.5", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " prove that we have injured in some way, by carrying out this policy, the interests of the district which we represent. There is this other point of view. I know hon. and right hon. Gentlemen will probably violently dissent from what I am going to say, but I maintain very strongly indeed that where you have Labour in power or even in control of a local authority there is practically no corruption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.227.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-31", "file": "debates1927-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "7a0984697737dff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.227.5", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "head of the Local Government Board. I should not have mentioned that if it were the only case. But from where does the right hon. Gentleman get his inspectors, these rich young men without any experience at all who are going round to the workhouses to be trained in their jobs, a son of one man and a nephew of another? They have no examination, Out they are lucky enough to be sons of their parents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.227.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-31", "file": "debates1927-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "7a0984697737dff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "That is exactly to what I am coming. You must take into account the fact that there was a very long controversy in which the Minister has been concerned, and which is now beginning in another form in this Clause. It has all been round the question of wages paid and of trade unionists being employed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-31", "file": "debates1927-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "7a0984697737dff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or of the Law Society.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "preceding_text": "nment by the people for the people is the only form of democratic government that can be recognised. When you oppose this Clause, you proceed upon the assumption that a minority can dictate to the majority. That is how it works out. I put my case even to this height, that a local authority should be as unconscious of the existence of a trade union as it is of the existence of a body of Freemasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.239.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-31", "file": "debates1927-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "7a0984697737dff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.251.5", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "It is not true.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "rm of employment, because it has much greater security than employment in private service, and in various ways it is what one may call the plum employment in any particular occupation. The hon. Gentleman considers it perfectly legitimate for a local authority, on which his friends have obtained a majority, to say, \"We will find employment for all the people who are supporting our political party.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.251.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-05-31", "file": "debates1927-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "7a0984697737dff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Untrue!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "st said, and as hon. Members seem to be nettled at my observations, may I point out that I was not hinting at what the hon. Gentleman suggests. If hon. Members will only give me an opportunity, I think I can make good what I have said. I did not say that the hon. Member wished to confine employment to those who supported his views. What I said was those who contributed to the support of his views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-31", "file": "debates1927-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "7a0984697737dff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.253.6", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On that case!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "put this question to him Will the right hon. Gentleman answer my question? Does he think it fair and equitable to deprive a firm of the contract merely because one or two of its men do not belong to a trade union? To that the right hon. Gentleman replied: Had I not considered it fair and equitable I should not have made that decision.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 3rd March, 1924; col. 1389, Vol. 170.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.253.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-31", "file": "debates1927-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "7a0984697737dff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.256.10", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Twenty!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "There is never such intolerance as is to be found among hon. Members opposite towards anybody who does not agree with them. The idea that it is impossible to carry on the duties of a local authority properly unless every employeé is a trade unionist is demonstrably false. The hon. Member for Stratford himself said that very few local authorities had passed such a resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.256.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-31", "file": "debates1927-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "7a0984697737dff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Liberty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "I cannot be expected to remember the particulars of the case. I have forgotten about the case. But if an employer is paying the same standard, if he is granting the same conditions to his employeés, what possible reason can he have for refusing to man his workshop with trade union labour?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-31", "file": "debates1927-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "7a0984697737dff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBRS: \"What about yourself?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": " presides will be in the hands of the people he is now insulting, and he is setting a very bad example, even from his own point of view, in adopting the attitude that he has adopted this afternoon. It is he who believes in the policy of the spoils of office. One of the spoils of office to the Tory party is the liberty to insult their opponents, as is so frequently done by the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-31", "file": "debates1927-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "7a0984697737dff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.272.5", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For lawyers also?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "there is a distinction, and a vital distinction, between the public authority, as an employer, and a private employer. The public authority is in the position of trustees for people holding very different and divergent views, and the one test of employment, as far as a public authority is concerned, must surely be this: Is the person employed efficient for the service he is called upon to perform?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.272.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-31", "file": "debates1927-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "7a0984697737dff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.309.3", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "That is what I call fantastic instances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.309.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-31", "file": "debates1927-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "7a0984697737dff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Kingsley Wood!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "d. I had no idea I had descended so low down as Grimsby. But this is a serious business, as far as the municipal employeés are concerned, very serious indeed and it is one of the Clauses of this Bill that will be defied if it gets on the Statute Book. Just fancy a Clause in a Bill of a character like this which calls for statements made by statesmen of the very highest character in the world!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.323.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-31", "file": "debates1927-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "7a0984697737dff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. POTTS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. POTTS", "preceding_text": "No, he has no contract with any public authority, but he has drafted a Bill which seeks to impose upon people who work for corporations conditions that cannot be carried out. He is responsible for it and he is in the service of the Government. He and his party are returned by the people to pass laws in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.332.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-05-31", "file": "debates1927-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "7a0984697737dff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.347.7", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that we are discussing this Clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-05-31a.347.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-01", "file": "debates1927-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "5eb387574ede2f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-01a.365.6", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "May I explain that French firms, like English firms, have lost money as the result of trading operations where the debts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-01a.365.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-01", "file": "debates1927-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "5eb387574ede2f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-01a.371.6", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You know that is not so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, there is no truth in it whatsoever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-01a.371.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-01", "file": "debates1927-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "5eb387574ede2f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-01a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "Is not the position this, that in the past the House of Commons has relied upon the honour of individual Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-01a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-01", "file": "debates1927-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "5eb387574ede2f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-01a.432.8", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "Did I not say that? Those were my very words. I cannot sit here and allow the right hon. Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-01a.432.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-01", "file": "debates1927-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "5eb387574ede2f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-01a.434.8", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not a point of Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Can it be said that a good deal of latitude is given to one hon. Member by another hon. Member? I take it that you have the giving of latitude. I assert, and you must have heard it, Captain FitzRoy, that I challenged the Attorney-General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-01a.434.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-01", "file": "debates1927-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "5eb387574ede2f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-01a.434.8", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No point of Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "must have heard it, Captain FitzRoy, that I challenged the Attorney-General—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Not a point of Order!\"] I am rising to a distinct point of Order. It is this. If the Attorney-General is challenged to answer a question, is he at liberty to answer questions that were not put to him, and to refuse to answer the question that was put? The question I put again and again was this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-01a.434.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-01", "file": "debates1927-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "5eb387574ede2f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-01a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Is this a quotation from Mr. Baldwin's speech?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": " by the provisions we are now adopting. I will proceed with my quotations from the article in \"Reynolds' Illustrated News\": We have now the confession that, to him, the miners' struggle has not been for a decent standard of living but for the establishment of the Union of Soviet Republics throughout the world, and to lead us from the present blackness to the brightness of Communism and Bolshevism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-01a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-01", "file": "debates1927-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "5eb387574ede2f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-01a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": ". If this Clause had been in existence last year it would have prevented many of those discreditable happenings which hon. Members opposite now disown and which they say will never happen again. I have not heard any responsible Labour leader who has not condemned the general strike after it came to an end, and this specially applies to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Platting (Mr. Clynes).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-01a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-01", "file": "debates1927-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "5eb387574ede2f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-01a.447.3", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "ry organisations, but they have got to make the Attorney-General practically an honorary member of every trade union, of every one of those voluntary associations, in order to see that they use their funds properly. He is to be the judge, and is to act on the instructions of his Government. There is a legal principle that the person concerned in an action must come into the Court with clean hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-01a.447.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-01", "file": "debates1927-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "5eb387574ede2f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-01a.475.3", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "t. I always thought that with English justice the two sides would be heard before any Judge came to a decision. Here only one statement is to be submitted, and that by the Attorney-General. No other side is to be represented in Court. There will be only those representing the Government of the day, with whatever bias it has. The side of the strikers will not be heard. They are not asked to attend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-01a.475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-01", "file": "debates1927-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "5eb387574ede2f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-01a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST EVANS", "preceding_text": " \"The Government taking part,\" and \"The Government stepping in.\" There could be no more mischievous thing in the industrial world than to have the impression created among millions of trade unionists that the Government is stepping in with regard to the matter which, after all, is a question of internal policy, because when this Bill is passed an illegal strike is illegal without any doubt at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-01a.484.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-06-02", "file": "debates1927-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "b74b9d8c96395584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-02a.524.3", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALIENS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "\"He has answered that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Obviously it is better to raise it now while it is fresh in the public mind. What I want to ask the Home Secretary is why the chief of the spy organisation, as the right hon. Gentleman described this man, was allowed to remain in this country for six years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-02a.524.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-02", "file": "debates1927-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "b74b9d8c96395584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-02a.546.6", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak for yourself !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "xample of short holidays. The holiday now proposed is too long. Hon. Members opposite will expect their workpeople to come back the day after Whit Monday and I submit that it is not a good example for the House to adjourn for this length of time. After all we only work five days a week, and in many cases hon. Members took yesterday off, being Derby Day, and will probably take the rest of the week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-02a.546.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-06-02", "file": "debates1927-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "b74b9d8c96395584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-02a.548.6", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "Seeing that we have made our protest, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-02a.548.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-02", "file": "debates1927-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "b74b9d8c96395584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-02a.611.3", "colnum": "611", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "idered a trial. He says that they charged him with helping in the manufacture of explosives and taking part in conspiracies to murder officials and so on, but no evidence was called in the prison. No evidence was nut to Mr. Bose. He was not allowed to call any evidence, and for exactly the same reason that he is not put on trial. If Mr. Bose could be told who were the informants against him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-02a.611.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-02", "file": "debates1927-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "b74b9d8c96395584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-02a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bosworth did not think so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "ed be no unemployed in Lancashire if we would only insist that, instead of importing cotton goods into this home of cotton production the goods should be produced in Lancashire. No one who knows the hosiery trade will deny that we could employ all the out-of work hosiery hands in Nottingham and Leicestershire—in the Bosworth Division—if we preserved our home markets for our own people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-02a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-02", "file": "debates1927-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "b74b9d8c96395584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-02a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are not whole-hearted about anything.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "way even though she knows she is a very good thing. What I and some of my hon. Friends cannot understand is why the Government, having proved the success of their policy, do not extend it to other industries, as far as they can do so within the terms of the pledge of the Prime Minister at the last General Election. Sometimes we wonder whether the Government are really whole-hearted in their views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-02a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-02", "file": "debates1927-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "b74b9d8c96395584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-02a.633.1", "colnum": "633", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "the fact that ladies will wear short skirts, and the fact that women economise in the material they use? Are they not spending more on stockings, and less on dress materials? Are they not spending more on knitted goods instead of on woven goods? Is not that the cause of the depression in Yorkshire much more than the fact of a certain amount of imports coming into this country? They always come in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-02a.633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-02", "file": "debates1927-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "b74b9d8c96395584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-02a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "llant Friend would be the last to expect me in this Debate to make an announcement of any departure of policy. We gave our pledges and by them we abide on the positive as well as the negative side. It is not enough for hon. Members who criticise to rely only on the negative side of what we are not to do. We gave positive pledges of what we would do, and we propose to implement them up to the full.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-02a.641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-13", "file": "debates1927-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79087b2e894b8c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.689.2", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "t public works and with regard to Bills which are passing through this House. Will these bodies be compelled to return the amounts which they expend upon political effort. One may also ask whether this proposal will apply to the employers in the cotton trade, who may not finance candidates for this House, but who, nevertheless, expend considerable money upon political effort in various ways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.689.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-13", "file": "debates1927-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79087b2e894b8c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.689.2", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not politics!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "d to return the amounts which they expend upon political effort. One may also ask whether this proposal will apply to the employers in the cotton trade, who may not finance candidates for this House, but who, nevertheless, expend considerable money upon political effort in various ways—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]——either in the promotion or prevention of a Factories Bill, for instance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.689.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-13", "file": "debates1927-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79087b2e894b8c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.691.2", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Much worse!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "ubt, upon legal expenses. They expended money on the deputations which were brought to London to meet the Government, and if they decide to tackle the work in that form rather than be at the expense of particular candidates for the House of Commons, surely that is political expenditure just as much as paying the expense of a candidate, or financing him, or finding him his salary when in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.691.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-13", "file": "debates1927-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79087b2e894b8c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.700.2", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "icularly interesting argument from an hon. Member on the Labour benches, because during the discussion of Clause 4 of the Bill I gathered that his party took a completely different view, and that the member of a trade union who objected to his money being used for political purposes of which he did not approve was, I think they said, a Judas, a blackleg, and a most undesirable person in every way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.700.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-13", "file": "debates1927-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79087b2e894b8c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "rgo, and they can do just what they like. The employers can vote sums of money to any political party, and I challenge the legal representative of this Bill to tell us what the great capitalist concerns of this country have voted towards the funds of his party. In such cases the shareholders are never asked whether they agree to vote the money; the directors have a free cheque and do as they like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-13", "file": "debates1927-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79087b2e894b8c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about a sympathetic strike?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "nnected with the employment or non-employment or the terms of the employment, and with the conditions of lahour, of persons in that trade or industry, so that an ordinary strike which is taking place within an industry, having for its object the improvement of the conditions of labour in that industry, is not touched by this Clause. It has to be a strike having an ulterior object altogether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-13", "file": "debates1927-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79087b2e894b8c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "bout that. I took a tremendous risk in doing it. I risked my own position and authority and job, and I carried the railway men with me, but the same people who agreed ultimately to endorse my action, saying, \"Very wells you have done it, we are going to stand by you,\" are now turning round and saying, \"No, when the Government attempt to impose that restriction upon us we are not going to have it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-13", "file": "debates1927-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79087b2e894b8c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ated to by you or anybody else. That is the psychology of the matter. If I were to pursue that point, I am afraid I should be driven into arguments that would be calculated to be outside the scope of the Amendment, and I will not get out of order. I will say this as my last word to the Attorney-General. The Guillotine falls at 10.30, and there are a number of further Amendments on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-13", "file": "debates1927-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79087b2e894b8c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.754.0", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "\"HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "epresenting what the Bill really does. If within the limits of order I could read to the Committee some of the things which I have seen in official pamphlets published by what is called the Trade Union Defence Committee, Eccleston Square, we should have a very full explanation of why some people may be disturbed in their minds about the Bill, and we might also have a rather glaring exposure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.754.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-13", "file": "debates1927-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79087b2e894b8c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. BAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the name of the firm?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. BAKER", "preceding_text": "le the practice in the trade is one month. He said he did not care what was happening in the trade; he was managing the works, and he dismissed two men, who had worked for 20 years and 15 years for the firm. Our men expostulated, and he said, \"I am manager here. I am to employ any man I like, when I like and where I like.\" That is the frame of mind the Bill is building up in the employing classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-13", "file": "debates1927-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79087b2e894b8c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.801.3", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You do not understand the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "Then obviously the question is answered. I do not know whether their wages are determined by the same conciliation board. It is not because I do not desire to answer the questions put to me, but because I cannot usefully do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.801.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-13", "file": "debates1927-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79087b2e894b8c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.804.0", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "They can cause unlimited trouble by attacks upon trade union funds, upon their organisations, and upon all the attempts that are made to preserve the standards of life and conditions of the workers. I believe, and I speak the mind of my friends on this side of the Committee, that this Bill is based upon an unfettered detestation of working-class organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-13", "file": "debates1927-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79087b2e894b8c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.804.0", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " this side of the Committee, that this Bill is based upon an unfettered detestation of working-class organisations. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] It is part of the class war which you are generally waging, and we read your utterances and know that behind your suavity in this House there is an utter disregard and an abhorent hatred and detestation of every organisation of the working class in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-13", "file": "debates1927-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "79087b2e894b8c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.804.0", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "s war which you are generally waging, and we read your utterances and know that behind your suavity in this House there is an utter disregard and an abhorent hatred and detestation of every organisation of the working class in this country. [ Interruption. ] The fact that hon. Gentlemen are attempting to stop me making these statements is proof that they do not like statements of this description.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-13a.804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-14", "file": "debates1927-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a48dc733ba1b90e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-14a.860.0", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And penalties!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": " any more than obstruction of traffic would be allowed by brawling in the middle of the road. That being so, surely we ought to advance. I do not abandon my hope that some day we will accept compulsory arbitration, such as has been accepted in Australia, but I am not going to push my own views on this occasion. Our proposal provides for delay, consideration, attempt at conciliation, and publicity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-14a.860.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-14", "file": "debates1927-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a48dc733ba1b90e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-14a.873.0", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "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": " themselves arrive at an agreement, and they are impelled to go on because, not wanting industrial trouble, they do not know whether they may not be landed into it. At the present moment I have a discretionary power of intervention by setting up a court of inquiry. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Platting says that sometimes I have not used it, and I have carefully refrained from using it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-14a.873.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-14", "file": "debates1927-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a48dc733ba1b90e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-14a.877.1", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "trial world are never mentioned in the daily Press. These disputes are settled peaceably by negotiation, and because they are settled peaceably by negotiation, no one knows about them. They are the cases in which the ordinary normal voluntary machinery has acted successfully, and, again, I would submit to the Committee that disputes like the coal dispute of last year are absolutely abnormal cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-14a.877.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-06-14", "file": "debates1927-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a48dc733ba1b90e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-14a.903.0", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "nd in those circumstances conciliation machinery is perfectly fair and just. What is the effect of the Bill? It is true that in terms the restrictive Clauses are made equally applicable both to lockouts and strikes, but, in fact, it is and will be, most unequal in its operation. You say to the men, \"In 60 or 70 per cent. of the cases where you now can legitimately strike, you no longer can do so.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-14a.902.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-14", "file": "debates1927-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a48dc733ba1b90e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-14a.936.0", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "preceding_text": "d he was careful to describe what benefits are, for such purposes as payments to sick people, and the like—shall not be misapplied to other purposes, yet the Government do not find themselves able to accept it. The first reason is that we have been most anxious, throughout the drafting of this Bill, to abstain as far as possible from interference with the internal management of trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-14a.936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-14", "file": "debates1927-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a48dc733ba1b90e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-14a.936.0", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "preceding_text": "hat fund which was available for strike benefit in the course of time accumulated, as it might, a very large surplus, it would at any rate be a temptation to some of the wilder and less responsible spirits in the trade unions to encourage a strike with the knowledge that they have this large fund available for the purpose—a fund which they could utilise by strike means and by no other means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-14a.936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-14", "file": "debates1927-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a48dc733ba1b90e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-14a.955.0", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "important Clauses that has been moved, and, if the Attorney-General thinks that we on this side are prepared to withdraw the Clause as his own followers meekly did, he is making a mistake. It has been shown beyond any shadow of doubt that intimidation is rampant throughout the country by large associations. We have had specific instances. Unless you sell your bread at a, penny a loaf dearer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-14a.955.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-14", "file": "debates1927-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a48dc733ba1b90e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-14a.958.2", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "e that one or two hon. Members on the other side have got so excited that they have written to the \"Morning Post\" about it. When a Member writes to the \"Morning Post\" he is in a bad way. One of the Members on the opposite side writes to the \"Morning Post\" this morning to say: Sir,—The decision of the co-operative societies to submit to the authority of the Socialist leaders in Russia\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-14a.958.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-14", "file": "debates1927-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a48dc733ba1b90e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-14a.974.2", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FANCY JEWELLERY (STANDARD TRADE DESCRIPTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Not the whole of it. I have had correspondence, and other Members of the House have had correspondence, with important sections of that trade in Birmingham, in which they express strong objection to this legislation. Its object is a perfectly simple one. It is to restrict imports of foreign jewellery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-14a.974.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-06-15", "file": "debates1927-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9f2a0af906be8ce7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.979.5", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "What a lie!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.979.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-06-15", "file": "debates1927-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9f2a0af906be8ce7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.979.8", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Buchanan.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "I do not know who made that observation——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.979.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-06-15", "file": "debates1927-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9f2a0af906be8ce7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.979.11", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "— but it is a grossly improper interruption and must be withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.979.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-15", "file": "debates1927-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9f2a0af906be8ce7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUDIT (LOCAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "d all you are doing is to make for a new crisis in local government as the Labour party becomes stronger on our local authorities. The Bill is not going to improve relations between the Minister and the local authorities. It is going to embitter relations, and the policy is not merely retrograde but almost indescribably mean. I should like to read again the words of the \"Local Government Journal.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-15", "file": "debates1927-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9f2a0af906be8ce7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.1105.0", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUDIT (LOCAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who decides?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "preceding_text": " amend the law with respect to the effect of surcharges by district auditors. It does not alter the law. It has to deal with certain results which may flow from illegal acts. As we have been reminded this afternoon, the members of a local authority should discharge their duties under Section 62 of the Act of 1885 in a reasonable manner and in good faith. If that be so, what objection can there be?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.1105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-15", "file": "debates1927-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9f2a0af906be8ce7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUDIT (LOCAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "I understand that the answer to the hon. Member's question is, that if the local authority disagree with the discretion exercised by the auditor in a case of that sort, and with the auditor's interpretation of his duty, they have an appeal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-15", "file": "debates1927-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9f2a0af906be8ce7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUDIT (LOCAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "I understand that the answer to the hon. Member's question is, that if the local authority disagree with the discretion exercised by the auditor in a case of that sort, and with the auditor's interpretation of his duty, they have an appeal. [HON. MEMBERS: \"To whom?\"] To the Court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-15", "file": "debates1927-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9f2a0af906be8ce7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.1113.0", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUDIT (LOCAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RYE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Make it for life!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RYE", "preceding_text": " living of our employés as we consider reasonable and necessary.\" I am very pleased to think that the Government—particularly the Minister of Health—have had the courage to bring in this very proper Measure, and I hope when it goes to Committee it will be strengthened. I think it should be strengthened particularly in regard to the disqualification of any person who is surcharged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.1113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-15", "file": "debates1927-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9f2a0af906be8ce7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.1113.0", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUDIT (LOCAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RYE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RYE", "preceding_text": "t the disqualification will continue. That, I think, would be only right and proper. I also want to know why, under Sub-section (2) of Clause 1, there is no alternative penalty. The Clause provides that if any person acts as a member of any local authority when disqualified, he shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding —20. What is the good of that? The gentleman will not pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.1113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-15", "file": "debates1927-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9f2a0af906be8ce7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.1134.3", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUDIT (LOCAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I have no wish to charge the right hon. Gentleman with doing anything that he has not done. If he tells me he has not had any negotiations, direct or indirect, with the Municipal Alliance, or anyone connected with them, I am bound to accept his word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.1134.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-15", "file": "debates1927-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9f2a0af906be8ce7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.1137.3", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUDIT (LOCAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "It has always been the attitude of my right hon. Friend in no way to take any part with the Poplar authorities or anyone else in the fixing of wages. That is a matter for them. It was expressly stated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.1137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-15", "file": "debates1927-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9f2a0af906be8ce7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.1137.3", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUDIT (LOCAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "in the fixing of wages. That is a matter for them. It was expressly stated—[ Interruption. ] That is why it is so essential to deal with the hon. Gentleman and his friends in writing. It is expressly stated in both these communications that the Minister of Health will not be responsible for any arrangements the hon. Gentleman may make, and, in fact, no agreements have been made——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.1137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-15", "file": "debates1927-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9f2a0af906be8ce7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.1137.3", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUDIT (LOCAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about discretion?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "rs of local authorities will have to administer the law as it is and not as they wish it to be. The Amendment shows some confusion of thought. Local authorities are subject to the law just as anyone else is. All their duties are laid down by Statute, and all that the district auditor has to do is to see whether the members have complied with those laws or not. If they have not, he surcharges them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-15a.1137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-16", "file": "debates1927-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "cf6b7cbf3bdfddea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-16a.1300.1", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Incorporation of Commissioners of Crown Lands).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " that there is a point of some considerable constitutional importance here—you have got three Commissioners to-day charged with the task of looking after Crown Lands. There is an argument for three Commissioners and there is an argument for one Commissioner, but there certainly is no argument for two Commissioners. That is the one possible number that is quite useless. That point is obvious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-16a.1300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-16", "file": "debates1927-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "cf6b7cbf3bdfddea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-16a.1304.1", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Incorporation of Commissioners of Crown Lands).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "benefit of humanity in general, because it appears there are some Labour men who are quite friendly disposed towards this Bill. But it is not the first time that because of the generous spirit that prevails in this House among Labour men we have been let down. We are not going to be let down so easily on this occasion, I hope, because the Solicitor-General is sitting there on his seat quite tight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-16a.1304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-16", "file": "debates1927-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "cf6b7cbf3bdfddea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-16a.1310.6", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Incorporation of Commissioners of Crown Lands).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "Section 4! This is not quite so bad. By exercising a fair amount of elasticity the Minister could, I admit quite frankly, under this Section claim that he had the right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-16a.1310.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-16", "file": "debates1927-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "cf6b7cbf3bdfddea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-16a.1330.3", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 3.—(Regulations respecting sales.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "stimate the hon. Member's angling abilities correctly it will be far better for him to get his salmon in the dining room of this House rather than go fishing for it in Scotland. Here you have a valuable salmon fishing let for 25 years at 5s. per annum. Do any of the sporting Members on the other side of the House believe that it is justifiable that the Crown should get 5s. a week in this instance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-16a.1330.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-16", "file": "debates1927-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "cf6b7cbf3bdfddea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-16a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 3.—(Regulations respecting sales.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ar of the utterances of hon. Members opposite on the platform that they do not believe that anybody in the public service working for the community can give as good or as energetic service as can be given by those who are looking after personal property. Their idea is that only the goal of personal property and personal gain makes a man put forward his best, most honest and most efficient service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-16a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-06-17", "file": "debates1927-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "669d9894c61cfb29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-17a.1401.3", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "'Oh!'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": " not here to blackguard the white population in Bombay and defend the Parsees. Indians who have been influenced by the British capitalist system are just as much a curse to the working-class population of Bombay as the British capitalist himself. The Parsee capitalist class is just as abominable and as much to be avoided as the class to which the hon. Member and his friends belong in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-17a.1401.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-17", "file": "debates1927-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "669d9894c61cfb29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-17a.1401.4", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PILCHER", "cue_text": "An HON.MEMBER: \"400 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PILCHER", "preceding_text": "rchant in Bombay took so great an interest in the moral and material progress of that city. That is absurd on the face of it. I know how the hon. Member for Kidderminster worked in that city. The hon. Member for North Battersea is the very heir of the industrial system which he attacks. Some three or four years ago, one of the mills belonging to his own firm paid a dividend of 100 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-17a.1401.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-17", "file": "debates1927-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "669d9894c61cfb29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-17a.1426.0", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel APPLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For how long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel APPLIN", "preceding_text": "oreditch (Mr. Thurtle) has fallen. He has talked constantly of punishment without trial, but I would venture to point out that people who are being detained are not being punished in any way at all. These men are being detained, and they are being detained in precisely the same way in which we detain men and women in this country. We arrest them without a warrant, and we detain them without trial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-17a.1426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-17", "file": "debates1927-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "669d9894c61cfb29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-17a.1426.0", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel APPLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose fault is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel APPLIN", "preceding_text": " tyranny and misery than any other land in the world. For that reason only we, having put our hands to the plough, cannot look back until we see clearly that the people of India are prepared to govern themselves. We have heard hon. Members speak of the people of India. What are the people of India? The people of India have no voice in the government of India at. They have no voice in India at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-17a.1426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-17", "file": "debates1927-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "669d9894c61cfb29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-17a.1426.0", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel APPLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"John Company!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel APPLIN", "preceding_text": "voice in the government of India at. They have no voice in India at all. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose fault is that?\"] It is not a fault at all. It is nature. They are people who have lived on the land and have never received any form of education. They have always been the slaves of those who have swept down from the North and the East and the West and used them as hewers of wood and drawers of water.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-17a.1426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-17", "file": "debates1927-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "669d9894c61cfb29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-17a.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "moments more—I want to say something about the question which has become a controversy of long standing between two or three hon. Gentlemen opposite—the hon. Member for Bow and Bromley and the hon. Member for Shoreditch (Mr. Thurtle) and myself. It is an interesting controversy in this way, that the vast majority of the House, I think, knows nothing about it and cares nothing about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-17a.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-17", "file": "debates1927-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "669d9894c61cfb29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-17a.1455.0", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "names and dates and all sorts of information, which I am certainly not prepared to do—I am not prepared to endanger people's lives, and subject them to possible assassination—to say that there was a terrorist conspiracy is a malicious and slanderous fabrication. If the hon. Member says that, he is equal charging Lord Reading and Lord Olivier with a malicious and slanderous fabrication.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-17a.1455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-20", "file": "debates1927-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "e0b319e223720194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1463.1", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "I think that the same circumstances occur in certain industries in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-20", "file": "debates1927-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "e0b319e223720194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1487.6", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"why\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "Has the right, hon. Gentleman ruled out entirely the desirability of prohibiting horse-drawn vehicles using certain streets at certain hours of the day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1487.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-06-20", "file": "debates1927-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "e0b319e223720194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1490.5", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ACLAND-TROYTE", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman consider that very often voluntary men do the work better than paid workers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1490.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-20", "file": "debates1927-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "e0b319e223720194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1509.8", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": " by Parliament, and which have some specific duties and responsibilities towards the public. I am aware that within the last few weeks a decision has been taken in regard to the Co-operative Wholesale Societies in which they expressed their desire to join their fortunes to that of the Socialist party. I realise that it would be out of order on this occasion to offer any observations on that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1509.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-06-20", "file": "debates1927-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "e0b319e223720194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1510.0", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "You raised it!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "sire to join their fortunes to that of the Socialist party. I realise that it would be out of order on this occasion to offer any observations on that point. [An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not true!\"] It is commonly believed that that is the case. I realise that it would be out of order to offer any observations upon it, and therefore I will not follow the red herring which has been drawn across my path.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1509.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-20", "file": "debates1927-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "e0b319e223720194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1510.2", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "I understand that the Co-operative Conference passed a resolution to that effect. I think this decision makes it all the more desirable that the Government should adopt this Clause, because, if and when hon. Members opposite sit on this side of the House and form a Government, surely the Co-operative Wholesale Society will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1510.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-20", "file": "debates1927-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "e0b319e223720194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1510.2", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "the more desirable that the Government should adopt this Clause, because, if and when hon. Members opposite sit on this side of the House and form a Government, surely the Co-operative Wholesale Society will—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—the Co-operative movement, if I may say so, will be a kind of glorified Government Department, and its employés will be the equivalent of civil servants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1510.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-20", "file": "debates1927-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "e0b319e223720194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1510.2", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They ought to have joined before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "allow them to pay these additional wages. Some of these men have worked on this estate for 20 or 30 years. The other day they received notice to the effect that, unless they joined a trade union—the Agricultural Workers' Union—they would be dismissed from the service of the Co-operative Wholesale Society. As I have said, some of these men have worked 20 or 30 years on the estate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1510.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-20", "file": "debates1927-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "e0b319e223720194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1520.1", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not use that illustration,\" and \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "nd says. \"We will not allow affiliation to be given\"? I wonder what hon. Members opposite would say to the one analogy which naturally occurs to anyone who thinks of the subject. Supposing the coalowners were to say, \"We will not only encourage any person who works for us to join the union which is at present led by the hon. Member for Broxtowe (Mr. Spencer), but we will stipulate that he does so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-20", "file": "debates1927-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "e0b319e223720194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1520.1", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "t present led by the hon. Member for Broxtowe (Mr. Spencer), but we will stipulate that he does so. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not use that illustration,\" and \"Why not?\"] Can any hon. Member on the other side produce evidence that there has been a definite stipulation that any of the miners in the employ of the coal-owners should join the union of which the hon. Member for Broxtowe is an official—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-20", "file": "debates1927-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "e0b319e223720194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1523.4", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "That is to say, if they have no objection to enjoying those advantages you have enumerated. Not one of them objects to that. Not one of them says: \"No; it is brought about by a trade union.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1523.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-20", "file": "debates1927-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "e0b319e223720194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1529.1", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "more and more, because the great trouble of present-day civilisation is that the producer at the one end is rooked by the big combines and the consumers at the other end is also rooked, and neither get justice. If we can bring the producer and consumer face to face, in co-operation, we shall have solved the great problem of civilisation, and that is what I hope to see the co-operative movement do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-20", "file": "debates1927-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "e0b319e223720194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1585.2", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "strike, and practically all stoppages of work, may be declared illegal. Really, I think the hon. Member for Smethwick must have composed some of this. That is the sort of thing which has been circulated by the thousand up and down the country. The right hon. Gentleman himself told us that, if a workman was asked to read the Bill, he would not be able, after he had read it, to tell its real effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1585.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-20", "file": "debates1927-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "e0b319e223720194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1615.4", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BAKER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BAKER", "preceding_text": "titude of the workers of this country towards this Bill. I addressed a meeting a week yesterday in South Wales, and when I said that I was not a believer in the general strike I was almost howled down. A resolution was carried at that meeting demanding a general strike immediately. In the afternoon I addressed a meeting where the audience was variously estimated at between 5,000 and 20,000 people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1615.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-20", "file": "debates1927-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "e0b319e223720194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1621.3", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "d us is that the railwaymen can come out on strike in the circumstances mentioned; that there is nothing to prevent them, but that on the following morning, they will be hauled before the Courts on the ground that they have committed an illegal act. That is the reasoning of the right hon. and learned Gentleman in connection with these two conditions. I would like to ask him still another question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1621.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-20", "file": "debates1927-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "e0b319e223720194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1621.3", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "nion organisation? If the Attorney-General answers that question, I think he will help us considerably in the administration of this Bill when it becomes an Act. I have another grave objection to this Clause It is going to enhance the reputations and fill the coffers of the lawyers of this country. When it becomes law, a trade union will hardly venture upon a strike without consulting the lawyers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1621.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-20", "file": "debates1927-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "e0b319e223720194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1626.0", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who made that swerve?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": " is quite certain that the Trade Union Congress General Council never intended for a moment that the general strike should take place; in fact one of the most prominent members, and certainly the most intelligent member of that body, thought he himself personally could again make his celebrated swerve on the edge of the precipice and that he and his friends would not be precipitated over the edge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-20", "file": "debates1927-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "e0b319e223720194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1631.2", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "ssued circulars to our people on what we thought it meant, and he draws the attention of the House to how misleading we were to the public. If we were misleading the public, the Attorney-General certainly misled the House of Commons in the Second Reading Debate. The Attorney-General this afternoon wanted to say that he had had a number of letters from trade unionists giving support to the Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-20a.1631.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-21", "file": "debates1927-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d360196a963cd33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1712.4", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to know that the hon. and learned Gentleman disclaims thus the accusations that have been so freely repeated from his side of the House, and the attacks on the impartiality of the law. I am glad to have his authority for saying that these accusations are entirely baseless and unfounded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1712.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-21", "file": "debates1927-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d360196a963cd33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1734.0", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was moved from the other side!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "preceding_text": "If my recollection be accurate, my hon. Friends either moved or supported on the Committee stage an Amendment with reference to this word \"calculated.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-21", "file": "debates1927-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d360196a963cd33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1753.0", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "preceding_text": "I only wish to say that coy hon. Friends and I are very grateful to the Attorney-General for his offer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1753.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-06-21", "file": "debates1927-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d360196a963cd33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1753.2", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "Is it the pleasure of the House that the Amendment should be withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-21", "file": "debates1927-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d360196a963cd33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1760.1", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "he person who is often called—I never could understand why—the \"man in the street,\" the Government does mean the Government of the day. It sometimes, I believe, means even the present Prime Minister. I observe that a gentleman who has acquired a certain amount of notoriety in this country said the other day that he owed more allegiance to the Russian Soviet than he does to Mr. Baldwin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-21", "file": "debates1927-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d360196a963cd33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1760.1", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "oriety in this country said the other day that he owed more allegiance to the Russian Soviet than he does to Mr. Baldwin. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Name.\"] Well, I think that was exceedingly foolish language, but may I suggest that Mr. Cook owes no allegiance whatsoever to Mr. Baldwin, in the strict sense of the term, nor in the strict sense of the term do any of us owe any allegiance to the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-21", "file": "debates1927-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d360196a963cd33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1792.2", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": " the unfortunate leader of the strike within Clause 1 or Clause 8 and hold up his funds and send him to jail, but you cannot bring an employer within the Clause, because if he comes within Clause 1 he cannot come within Clause 8, and if he comes within Clause 8 he cannot come within Clause 1. The Attorney-General laughs a good-natured laugh. We had some heated words between us the other day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1792.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-21", "file": "debates1927-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d360196a963cd33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1799.1", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "preceding_text": "so to Sub-section (1) of Section two of the Emergency Powers Act, 1920, apply to any act done in contemplation or furtherance of a strike or lock-out which is by this Act declared to be illegal, and any such act shall not be deemed for the purposes of any enactment to be done in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute. One would have thought a student of the Bar could have understood that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-21", "file": "debates1927-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d360196a963cd33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1806.0", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir LESLIE SCOTT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir LESLIE SCOTT", "preceding_text": " provisions of Section 46 of the Housing Act and be coloured red so as to get the reduced scale of compensation. I have that undertaking direct from the Town Clerk, and I trust the Minister of Health, in confirming any scheme for housing in that area, will take great care to see that Clause 94 of this Bill is not used in any way so as to treat any of the owners within that district with injustice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1806.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-21", "file": "debates1927-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d360196a963cd33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1806.0", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir LESLIE SCOTT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir LESLIE SCOTT", "preceding_text": "and I trust the Minister of Health, in confirming any scheme for housing in that area, will take great care to see that Clause 94 of this Bill is not used in any way so as to treat any of the owners within that district with injustice. [ Interruption. ] I say that because to my own knowledge there are a number of owners in that district whose whole fortune is invested in the houses they own there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1806.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-21", "file": "debates1927-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d360196a963cd33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1806.0", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir LESLIE SCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Widows!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir LESLIE SCOTT", "preceding_text": "ousing in that area, will take great care to see that Clause 94 of this Bill is not used in any way so as to treat any of the owners within that district with injustice. [ Interruption. ] I say that because to my own knowledge there are a number of owners in that district whose whole fortune is invested in the houses they own there. [ Interruption. ] Many of them are small people, not rich people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1806.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-21", "file": "debates1927-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d360196a963cd33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1811.2", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. FOSTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"An open field?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. FOSTER", "preceding_text": "for the Exchange Division of Liverpool said, I was calling attention to certain serious provisions, and I quoted the experience we have had in Portsmouth, which resulted in two grave injustices. In one case, a man whose property was worth £850, a poor man, was tendered the sum of £90 by the corporation. In another case, a man whose open field was admittedly worth a substantial sum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1811.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-21", "file": "debates1927-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9d360196a963cd33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1821.0", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. PENNEFATHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. PENNEFATHER", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member, in order that some points might be considered, blocked the Bill. None of us on our side have gone so far as that. Our object is that the Bill should be passed, and it is suggested that certain points might be considered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-21a.1821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-22", "file": "debates1927-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5ee8982dbaed39c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-22a.1835.2", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister going to take any action in order to try and find these men work, because that is what the Employment Exchange was instituted for? Surely, that arises out of this question. He should be made to answer the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-22a.1835.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-22", "file": "debates1927-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5ee8982dbaed39c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-22a.1835.2", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister going to take any action in order to try and find these men work, because that is what the Employment Exchange was instituted for? Surely, that arises out of this question. He should be made to answer the question. [ Interruption. ] Is that what the Employment Exchange was started for? Are they going to get their money for nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-22a.1835.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-22", "file": "debates1927-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5ee8982dbaed39c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-22a.1887.0", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "THE WORKERS' CHARTER OF FREEDOM.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "k, and I went along a whole row of miners' cottages. The miners showed me pay sheets for weeks and weeks previous to the stoppage. They were on short time and there was not one pay sheet that showed more than £1 a week for a man with wife and family. If the hon. Gentleman does not believe me, those pay sheets are still there, and we will go back to the same village and interview those people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-22a.1887.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-22", "file": "debates1927-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5ee8982dbaed39c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-22a.1954.3", "colnum": "1954", "heading": "THE WORKERS' CHARTER OF FREEDOM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I have already given way to the hon. Member, I think, live times in rapid succession, and I am endeavouring to address myself to the remarks which he made with some asperity in those interruptions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-22a.1954.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-22", "file": "debates1927-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5ee8982dbaed39c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-22a.1962.1", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "THE WORKERS' CHARTER OF FREEDOM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TOWNEND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He promised it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TOWNEND", "preceding_text": "egard to the possible developments under Clause 5, and bearing in mind the chameleon-like qualities of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. One need not carry one's mind back to 1911 to find the Chancellor of the Exchequer voicing certain principles. It may be within the recollection of certain Members of this House that, when he was wooing Dundee in 1918, he advocated nationalisation of the railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-22a.1962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-22", "file": "debates1927-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "5ee8982dbaed39c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-22a.1977.0", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "THE WORKERS' CHARTER OF FREEDOM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "ed a coveted position! Is that the height to which our people have got at this time, that they look upon £3 a week with permanent employment as a coveted position? We have been told in this Debate that they have continuous employment and that the chance of being able to work for 48 or 49 weeks in the year is something which you should be thankful for and something that is an advantage to you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-22a.1977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2030.0", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "Does the Noble Lady deny that data obtained by investigation in that Department is not of commercial value. This is rather an important question in view of the statement made by the Noble Lady when the subject of fuel research was discussed recently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2030.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2077.3", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "preceding_text": "I have wondered sometimes how the Socialist party squares its opinions upon this particular Clause with its conception of a Socialist State. In another country of which we have heard so much, if a civil servant dared to differ from the Soviet Government, there would be a swift solution of the divided allegiance which that civil servant felt. We do not propose to adopt drastic methods of that sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2077.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2077.3", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why do not you bring them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "preceding_text": "n. Member opposite, if he wishes to know the facts, visit one or two of the corners where those instances have occurred. Let him visit a corner of Durham, which I visited a week or two ago, and he will find plenty of men who can produce documents which show the difficulties in which they have been placed within recent years in obtaining the facilities which the Act of 1913 was intended to provide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2077.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2077.3", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "preceding_text": "r intention of reintroducing serfdom under that Clause. The provision, as they know perfectly well, is that any strike however widespread, however coercive in its effect upon the Government, is legal so long as it is connected with a dispute within the strikers' own industry. That gives freedom for strikes of a character which some hon. Members on our side of the House think ought to be prevented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2077.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2084.1", "colnum": "2084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " facility, there is no reason why they should not be able to distinguish between a legal and an illegal strike. Whether, however, it is difficult or not to discern a general strike, let me observe how impossible it is that a general strike can ever benefit labour. The general strike is bound to fail. The ordinary strike may quite possibly, if it is in a good cause, have public opinion on its side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2084.1", "colnum": "2084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Primrose League!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " the ruin of the financial stability of the unions. We are doing no great disservice to trade unions if we prohibit an adventure in which the savings of the trade unions are squandered. We leave unfettered the right of any trade union to engage in a strike to improve their conditions of labour. The one strike we prohibit is the one that can never attain its only object. Ladies and Gentlemen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2090.3", "colnum": "2090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Inept!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "d there never had been a Bill so carefully considered, that had had more attention, or was more perfectly drafted to meet its object. The Attorney-General, when he moved the Second Reading, said he did not want it to be assumed that the Government had not thought of including the lock-out, but that it had been deliberately excluded because they thought it was useless and unnecessary to include it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2090.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2091.1", "colnum": "2091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Of course, the Chancellor of the Exchequer is an authority on appreciation by the people of the country, because, if he cannot get it one way, he gets it in another way. He is in a much better position to estimate appreciation than is the hon. and learned Gentleman, who has not yet had so much political experience. For the moment I want to examine the last four by-elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2091.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2098.0", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why change the law?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "r party's funds; and the other argument is that nobody in this country is being coerced or in any way subjected to undue influence in connection with the political levy. It is perfectly obvious that those two arguments are totally contradictory. If all the people who are contributing to the political levy to-day are doing so willingly then they will continue to contribute under the new conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2098.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2110.2", "colnum": "2110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "Certainly— but at the same time be equipping itself with other weapons for use in the sphere of reason, so that the use of the strike may by-and-by be altogether unnecessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2127.1", "colnum": "2127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By economic facts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ty of policy and not tried to put the clock back. Within the last 12 months we have seen a change come over the Conservative party, and they have become frankly reactionary. They are seeking to make things worse. I do not lay very much stress upon the Eight Hours Act of last year, though that was a move in a retrograde direction. Their hands were forced by powers more powerful than the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2132.0", "colnum": "2132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDMUND WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDMUND WOOD", "preceding_text": " events of last year, do believe that a Bill something on these lines is necessary both for the safety of the community and for the liberty of the individual trade unionist. With regard to the second question, I will not weary the House by repeating the four points laid down by the Attorney-General, as they are familiar to every hon. Member, and have been accepted by the general public as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2139.4", "colnum": "2139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUMLEY", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2139.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2139.4", "colnum": "2139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So it is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUMLEY", "preceding_text": "humble contribution to the 2,000,000 odd words that have already been expended on this Bill in this House. I will limit myself to 10 minutes. There are two views on this Bill, which are not founded on the provisions of the Bill. In the first place, there is the view of hon. Members opposite. We are all now familiar with the terms of this Bill. In their view this Bill is aimed against trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2139.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2139.4", "colnum": "2139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUMLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where does that come into the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUMLEY", "preceding_text": "at a piece of legislation by itself cannot prevent anything. If a large body of people in the country are determined to break the law, they will break it, but I hope that the very fact that it has now been made quite clear that a general strike is illegal, will help to prevent a recurrence of such a strike, and, therefore, that some service will have been done by the Bill to protect the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2139.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2151.5", "colnum": "2151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is absolutely true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "ple like the hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for South-East Leeds (Sir H. Slesser) and another hon. and learned Gentleman on the Liberal Benches, the Member for South Shields (Mr. Harney). The hon. and learned Member for South-East Leeds has described this Bill as a slave Bill, as designed to destroy the whole estate and liberty of the trade unionists of the country. That is entirely untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2151.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2161.1", "colnum": "2161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "etings in some districts because these workers are told that if they are seen at a Labour meeting they will be dismissed from their work. Why, only last week one of my hon. Friends had this experience in an agricultural district. An indoor meeting had been advertised at which he was to speak and a request was made to him that he should wait until it was dark and then speak to them in the open air.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2165.3", "colnum": "2165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why worry, then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "accepted a compromise. That compromise has been in operation up to the present time. We object to the change, because it upsets a practice which has worked very well. It will put trade unions to a great deal of inconvenience, but, if hon. Members opposite think that this change is going to destroy or even to injure the political activities of the Labour party, they are living in a fool's paradise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2165.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2169.1", "colnum": "2169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "l the Trade Disputes Bill, and that If they have any regard to what they have said on the present Bill they are bound to make proposals on the following lines. What are the proposals? In the first place, the Bill is to be enacted by and with the advice and consent of the Socialist party, the General Council of the Trades Union Congress and the Executive Committee of the Third International.…", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2171.0", "colnum": "2171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " very fluent, not too long, but still ample, packed with hard words and bitter thoughts and sharp expressions and injurious epithets. We have put up with that very well. He and his Friends will, I hope, extend similar liberty of debate and latitude to me in the time that remains for me, and will endeavour to rival in fortitude the exhibition which hon. Members on this side of the House have given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2171.0", "colnum": "2171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do you not tell us what happened on the Sunday night?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "rdinated action in defence of the miners. The railwaymen received this telegram: Executive Committee instruct all our members not to take duty after Monday next, arrangements to be made locally so that all men will finish their term of duty at their home station on Tuesday morning. (Signed) CRAMP. 10 p.m. There, Sir, is the last and final provocation which has led to the presentation of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2171.0", "colnum": "2171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the sooner they crumble the better, if this is the means!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "cult for any organisation of Government, that if there was a breakdown, large tracts of the country might be faced with famine and anarchy. If we failed we had the certainty of knowing that undoubtedly, whether you intended it or not, Parliamentary institutions would fall. It would have been quite impossible for any Government to have survived if they had been unable to weather the general strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2174.1", "colnum": "2174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ur exports may be declining, our balance of trade may be turning against us, and our saving capacity may be diminishing, but there is one thing in which we have undoubted primacy, and that is the number of days' work lost through industrial disputes. No country can compare with us in our output of strikes, quarrels and industrial stoppages of one kind and another. Have we deserved it as a country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2178.1", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ch, obviously, he has not hesitated to go contrary to every calculation of political self-interest. While one is paying a tribute to the right hon. Gentleman for his speech, I think, after what has occurred to-day, that the majority of the House at least will feel that, at this closing moment of these discussions, some tribute of admiration and respect should be paid to the Attorney-General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2180.0", "colnum": "2180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CONNOLLY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CONNOLLY", "preceding_text": "Chance of coming back!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2180.3", "colnum": "2180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "It is quite within the power of hon. Members to prevent me from saying what I wish to say, and, certainly, I do not wish to cast my pearls before those who do not want them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2180.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2180.3", "colnum": "2180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Eight Hours Act!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " my pearls before those who do not want them. [ Interruption. ] I do not think that any Member who votes for this Measure will feel himself at a disadvantage with his constituents, or weakened in his political life, by the vote which he is going to give, and of this I am quite sure, that, if at the next election you inscribe upon your party programme the determination to repeal this Measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2180.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2181.0", "colnum": "2181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Divide!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2180.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2181.1", "colnum": "2181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I suppose we can do the same thing. We can cry \"Divide\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2185.6", "colnum": "2185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POOR LAW BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "preceding_text": "I want to enter an emphatic protest —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2185.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-23", "file": "debates1927-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a61860079b2596c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2185.6", "colnum": "2185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POOR LAW BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "preceding_text": "I want to enter an emphatic protest — [ Interruption. ] — against taking this Measure at this hour of the evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-23a.2185.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-24", "file": "debates1927-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2f910dc858451fe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-24a.2209.0", "colnum": "2209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Certain bidding agreements to be illegal.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Who are we?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "s illustration is apposite, because I am certain that the promoters of the Bill—while I concede that they have tried to make it fairly general in its application to trade—are moved by the prime motive of doing something for the agricultural interests. To the central market where the cattle auctions take place buyers go from different butcheries, and we have had experience——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-24a.2209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-24", "file": "debates1927-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2f910dc858451fe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-24a.2231.4", "colnum": "2231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Certain bidding agreements to be illegal.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Up to £100!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "That is the penalty in the Bill as it stands. We have been discussing this at great length, and it is perfectly plain to me that the people who spoke for the Bill in Committee thought that it gave protection to the legitimate business man. The hon. and gallant Member for Cardiff (Captain A. Evans) seemed to imagine that you can put implicit trust in a Bench of Magistrates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-24a.2231.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-24", "file": "debates1927-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2f910dc858451fe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-24a.2231.4", "colnum": "2231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Certain bidding agreements to be illegal.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What was he liable to be fined?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "he opening of licensed cinemas on Good Friday. There are 19 cinemas, and 18 of them are open on Good Friday by permission. The nineteenth is also open but has not obtained permission. The proprietor is fined £10 for opening it on Good Friday, but, so vindictive is the Bench of Magistrates that afterwards, when he comes to apply to have his licence continued, the Bench refuses the application.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-24a.2231.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-24", "file": "debates1927-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2f910dc858451fe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-24a.2242.0", "colnum": "2242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Certain bidding agreements to be illegal.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "This Amendment is quite obnoxious to the very persons for whom I have been speaking. The people who are really interested in putting this Bill through are those who represent the agricultural interests. In drawing up the Bill they have tried to cover other interests as well, but they know perfectly well that in the majority of cases of agricultural produce such an arrangement could hardly be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-24a.2242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-24", "file": "debates1927-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2f910dc858451fe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-24a.2245.0", "colnum": "2245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Certain bidding agreements to be illegal.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GADIE", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: \"And Scotland\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GADIE", "preceding_text": " buyer and the seller. In any amount of eases the auctioneer holds the deposit. He is the stake holder acting for the man who has bought and the man who has sold. I have spoken of the happy relations usually existing between the auctioneer and his audience. People go there to buy something at a reasonable price, and as low as possible in Yorkshire. That remark applies to other parts of the country", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-24a.2245.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-24", "file": "debates1927-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2f910dc858451fe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-24a.2260.0", "colnum": "2260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Certain bidding agreements to be illegal.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I beg to second the Amendment. With the object of the Bill, as my hon. Friend has said, we on this side have a good deal of sympathy. But this Bill only touches the fringe of a very large problem. It is partly the result of the pressure of the farmers of 180 agricultural constituencies who were so misguided at the last election as to return Conservative Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-24a.2260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-27", "file": "debates1927-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ff29ab444769e0fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-27a.20.5", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain HACKING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain HACKING", "preceding_text": "I am afraid it is too late to do anything in relation to the present scheme in St. Stephen's entrance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-27a.20.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-06-27", "file": "debates1927-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ff29ab444769e0fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-27a.29.4", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that these six collieries belong to Baldwin's, Limited, cannot the hon. Member ask the Prime Minister whether he can use his influence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-27a.29.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-06-27", "file": "debates1927-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ff29ab444769e0fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-27a.125.2", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Red Letter!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "It is a forgers' Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-27a.125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-27", "file": "debates1927-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ff29ab444769e0fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-27a.172.3", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "nity. That is perfectly true. To the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Health and the Parliamentary Secretary, as well as the large mass of hon. Members on the other side, to be poor is to be a criminal. On both sides of the House we agree that poverty is a crime. We believe that poverty is a crime, but right hon. and hon. Members opposite seem to think that the individual pauper is a criminal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-27a.172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-27", "file": "debates1927-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ff29ab444769e0fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-27a.172.3", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "both sides of the House we agree that poverty is a crime. We believe that poverty is a crime, but right hon. and hon. Members opposite seem to think that the individual pauper is a criminal. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"] It is true. The action of the right hon. Gentleman and the Parliamentary Secretary in their legislation and their administration goes to prove that they have a contempt for the poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-27a.172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-27", "file": "debates1927-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ff29ab444769e0fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-27a.172.3", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much did they borrow?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "The Parliamentary Secretary draws a distinction between taking a loan and not paying what you owe. I suggest they are both the same thing and that, were the old board of guardians still in existence, they would presumably have been borrowing some money, but they would have been repaying to some extent capital and interest just as in the last half-year of Their operations they repaid £127,297.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-27a.172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-27", "file": "debates1927-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ff29ab444769e0fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-27a.172.3", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ing what you owe. I suggest they are both the same thing and that, were the old board of guardians still in existence, they would presumably have been borrowing some money, but they would have been repaying to some extent capital and interest just as in the last half-year of Their operations they repaid £127,297. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How much did they borrow?\"] I am not saying they did not borrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-27a.172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-27", "file": "debates1927-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ff29ab444769e0fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-27a.172.3", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More money!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ons they repaid £127,297. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How much did they borrow?\"] I am not saying they did not borrow. [ Laughter. ] I wish hon. Gentlemen would not be so frivolous on a serious matter. I do not suppose I shall be able to make them understand my argument, but I will try to do so, if they will allow me. Had the old board of guardians continued they would probably have been borrowing money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-27a.172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-28", "file": "debates1927-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a9125fad032c68a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-28a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go onexcl; \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "n there is a great number of additional articles, under which, I understand, the right hon. Gentleman takes refuge. It is the Section at the end of the long list of articles on the four pages referred to. It reads as follows: And also all other pills, powders, lozenges, tinctures, potions, cordials, electuaries and so on\"— I do not want to weary the Committee by mentioning all of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-28a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-28", "file": "debates1927-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a9125fad032c68a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-28a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I do not propose to follow the hon. Gentleman into the realms of occult science or in regard to the wording of an Act of Parliament of 1812. I have no doubt that past history rather than looking forward to the future may be of more interest to his party than it is, possibly, to my party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-28a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-28", "file": "debates1927-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a9125fad032c68a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-28a.277.0", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": " very minimum of courtesy for the Financial Secretary to tell us for what reason it is impossible for the Government to accept this Amendment. There is a great deal to be said in favour of it, apart from the arguments which have been advanced by the hon. Member for South-West Bethnal Green (Mr. Harris). I consider that in the interest of the health of the nation it would be a splendid thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-28a.277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-28", "file": "debates1927-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a9125fad032c68a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-28a.291.2", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HILTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HILTON", "preceding_text": "ussions and taken part in them for the last 17 years, and I have not heard anything new. I should like to devote myself not to the general application of Free Trade principles as regards this matter, but to its actual application to the manufacture of tyres. I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for West Swansea (Mr. Runciman) is not in his place, because he is very keen on shipping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-28a.291.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-28", "file": "debates1927-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a9125fad032c68a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-28a.297.2", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "We have had a very full reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-28a.297.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-28", "file": "debates1927-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a9125fad032c68a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-28a.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "the corresponding home article? May I state in a word or two what our view of that matter is? The object of protection is to encourage home industries. The means by which you attain that object is that you so arrange import duties that the prices obtained in those industries are increased. If industries are encouraged it is by raising prices. That, in a nutshell, is Protection properly understood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-28a.303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-28", "file": "debates1927-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a9125fad032c68a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-28a.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "I wish to add a very few words to those which have fallen from the right hon. Gentleman opposite. He thought it was necessary to record the opinion of himself and his friends that there should be no element in this preference system of gratitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-28a.319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-28", "file": "debates1927-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a9125fad032c68a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-28a.361.5", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They get Tory gas.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "preceding_text": "doing our best to see that all the people get light in our district. I should like to say that this is another imposition of indirect, taxation upon the poorest people of the country. As the hon. Member for Keighley (Mr. Lees-Smith) has said, the agricultural labourer gets very poor wages, and up to the present time he has not, in many instances, even got gas. They still use the old tallow candle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-28a.361.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-28", "file": "debates1927-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a9125fad032c68a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-28a.367.3", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "his argument. I have here a box of matches imported from Finland and made by co-operators in Finland. We buy large quantities of them. We also buy large quantities of the matches which are more familiar to the hon. and gallant Member for Ripon (Major Hills) from the firm of Bryant and May. But the import of these matches is as important to the British worker as the purchase of the British matches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-28a.367.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-28", "file": "debates1927-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a9125fad032c68a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-28a.368.6", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "urers. They are getting plenty of money. Patriotic Tariff Reformers will be able to make higher dividends on their capital than if they invested it in the British match industry. They are always patriots when it is a matter of getting votes. When it is a question of getting dividends they do not care a tinker's curse whether it is the Chinaman, the Belgian, the Flemish or the Finnish worker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-28a.368.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-28", "file": "debates1927-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a9125fad032c68a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-28a.369.3", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": ". I am a match for most of them. If it were merely a question of protecting the workers of England we should have various views expressed but this is a matter of raising revenue for the State. From whom are you going to get the revenue? The Government are always playing upon the worker. When in doubt, play upon the worker! It is a jolly fine game played slow; but it is about time we said \"tip it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-28a.369.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-29", "file": "debates1927-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "445cacfbd2c25e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-29a.413.8", "colnum": "413", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are already divided.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "dation which they desire in a new house, because it is altogether beyond their means. I myself, am not in favour of lowering the standard of housing, but it is no use to blink facts, and while it is very easy to be eloquent about the difference between the houses occupied by the rich or the poor, as a matter of fact you cannot divide the population by a sharp line into two categories of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-29a.413.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-29", "file": "debates1927-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "445cacfbd2c25e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-29a.413.8", "colnum": "413", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "ent about the difference between the houses occupied by the rich or the poor, as a matter of fact you cannot divide the population by a sharp line into two categories of that kind. [An HON. MEMBER: \"They are already divided.\"] No. they are not divided into two categories. There is every possible gradation between the rich and the poor, and each category must adapt its methods of life to its means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-29a.413.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-29", "file": "debates1927-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "445cacfbd2c25e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-29a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Deaths?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "This is England and Wales, including London; it does not include Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-29a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-29", "file": "debates1927-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "445cacfbd2c25e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-29a.464.0", "colnum": "464", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nationalisation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "preceding_text": "rt time I found my private patients coming to me and saving they would rather be vaccinated with Government lymph. I told them that if that were done, they might have to allow the child to be inspected later on by a Government Inspector. They said, \"We do not mind that in the least,\" and before I retired from practice every one of my vaccination patients was being vaccinated with Government lymph.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-29a.464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-29", "file": "debates1927-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "445cacfbd2c25e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-29a.464.0", "colnum": "464", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Socialism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "preceding_text": "c. No one knows when we are going to have it. A serious type of smallpox may break out tomorrow, and I would respectfully urge the Minister of Health to reconsider the question of allowing Government lymph to be supplied to private practitioners upon payment, because I am absolutely convinced that it is the best lymph in the country, and in practically every case where it is used it is successful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-29a.464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-30", "file": "debates1927-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "45c5b2665e9e9955", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-30a.610.1", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is no reason why poor people should be taxed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "That is the real test of competition which any practical person will apply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-30a.610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-30", "file": "debates1927-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "45c5b2665e9e9955", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-30a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why put on the duty then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " producer. Mr. Hayhurst, who did not agree with the duty, pointed out that there was one pottery where they were making reasonable profits, though even in that case the organisation of the factory was not all that, could be desired. I am told that the particular factory was a co-operative factory. I am fold that it is the most inefficient factory in the district and yet it made reasonable profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-30a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-30", "file": "debates1927-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "45c5b2665e9e9955", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-30a.641.3", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Gas mantles!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " to go. With regard to the question of prices, why should it be alleged that this burden is going to be cast upon the poor? Is there any justification, as far as we have experimented in this matter, for saying that the burden has been cast upon the poor? Broadly speaking, can any hon. Member opposite point to any new duty which has, in fact, made any serious addition to the price of any commodity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-30a.641.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-30", "file": "debates1927-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "45c5b2665e9e9955", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-30a.649.4", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "h London in the country, and he has always been able up to this year to give them an earthenware vitrified cup from which to drink. He was able to buy these before this year at 3d., but when he comes to this same firm to buy cups for this year's camp he is told that the price is up above the level at which they were sold before, and he has to content himself with enamel cups instead of china cups.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-30a.649.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-30", "file": "debates1927-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "45c5b2665e9e9955", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-30a.660.2", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": " what he meant by \"preparatory\" hours of labour. Mr. Faraday seemed nonplussed, but suddenly the lady in the Committee, Lady Askwith, sprang upon the Committee a very clearly defined definition of what \"preparatory\" work meant. She was asked what she meant because she was evidently quoting from a document. She said she had a private document, supplied to her by the President of the Board of Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-30a.660.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-06-30", "file": "debates1927-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "45c5b2665e9e9955", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-30a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Clause 10 (Time for payment of beer duty) ordered to stand part of the Bill.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "y this in all seriousness, because it is a very serious matter. I suggest to the Chancellor of the Exchequer that although there is no considerable amount of interest in this question at the present time, there will be a tremendous outcry about it next January and February, and it will lose thousands of votes to the Conservative party. I will tell the Committee how I think this is going to happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-06-30a.732.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-01", "file": "debates1927-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c1c7de622d394d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-01a.777.0", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONEYLENDERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Members of Parliament\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "satisfactory evidence might lead to very unfortunate results. If we eliminate the words \"satisfactory evidence,\" as the hon. and learned Member desires, and insert instead the words \"three responsible householders,\" we shall be taking away the one safeguard there is as to character. As an hon. Member has pointed out, it is possible for any man, even the most disreputable man in the district—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-01a.777.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-01", "file": "debates1927-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c1c7de622d394d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-01a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONEYLENDERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "I dare say not, but my argument is that I want to make it a direct—I do not know exactly what the word is; my difficulty is that I have to think in Welsh and speak in English, and the proper word does not readily come to my lips.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-01a.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-01", "file": "debates1927-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c1c7de622d394d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-01a.785.0", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONEYLENDERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. W. Watson)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about England? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. W. Watson)", "preceding_text": "s to happen pending an appeal is given to the inferior court that gives the sentence. In the case of the more serious crimes, the sentence comes into operation at once, but you are entitled to go to the Court of Appeal to get relief such as liberation from prison pending appeal. Undoubtedly, the present class of case falls under the minor class of cases, certainly, so far as Scotland is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-01a.785.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-04", "file": "debates1927-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "a09234a2d8e16f03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-04a.879.6", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "will be the general effect of the Clause if those Amendments are accepted; then Members can begin to make up their minds whether they will support the Clause in that amended form, which I propose to do, or whether they will still think it is necessary for them to vote against it. Of course, the most important Amendments are those, three in number, put down by the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-04a.879.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-04", "file": "debates1927-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "a09234a2d8e16f03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-04a.884.1", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "ersonally approached only a few days ago by a man concerned in the intended registration in this country of a company with a capital of several millions, intending to do all their finance in this country, build most of their factories in this country, and thus do a very great deal for employment and for the revenue. When they heard of this Clause, they practically decided to go to another country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-04a.884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-04", "file": "debates1927-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "a09234a2d8e16f03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-04a.886.0", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "rticles in the newspapers, and from Debates we are having now, undoubtedly will bring it home to vast numbers of people who were unaware of the fact before, and if the Government, having introduced these Clauses which they have regarded as their duty to pass into law, were to withdraw from this task, it would give a warrant, a charter from Parliament for the widespread adoption of those practices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-04a.886.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-04", "file": "debates1927-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "a09234a2d8e16f03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-04a.946.0", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Were they Scotsmen?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "preceding_text": "top the fraud. I was the advocate who failed in that endeavour. There was one case in which two brothers, directors of a large company, and controlling that company, had borrowed sums which, I think, aggregated to something over £100,000, from the company for two or three years, thereby avoiding the necessity for declaring dividends and, of course, the monies they so borrowed were not income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-04a.946.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-04", "file": "debates1927-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "a09234a2d8e16f03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-04a.964.2", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member can attempt to ride off on that line, but we all know perfectly well that the really serious perturbation has been due to the misrepresentation of this reasonable Clause in the Press, and to the attitude taken up by hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-04a.964.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-04", "file": "debates1927-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "a09234a2d8e16f03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-04a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "nt, or punish more effectively those who are guilty of this offence, I will support him with pleasure, but I see no penalty in this Bill that would win my admiration, after the line which this House took with regard to trade unions a few weeks ago. I am not an expert and do not pretend to be. I stand for reasonable treatment all round, and after the orgy of fraud which has gone on for years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-04a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-04", "file": "debates1927-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "a09234a2d8e16f03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-04a.1000.2", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " Revenue would be such that the investigation would go further, on the facts disclosed no one can assume for a moment that these people, who are trying to create a business like that by buying a ship, would be held to be engaged in tax avoidance. If the Special Commissioners had a hand in the matter, and if they were unconvinced by the three young men, the matter would go to the Board of Referees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-04a.1000.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-04", "file": "debates1927-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "a09234a2d8e16f03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-04a.1004.2", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ave an enormous number of Amendments on this particular Clause 29; then we have another Clause, not of very great importance; and then we have Clause 31, on which there must be considerable debate. There are one or two minor points in the other Clauses in this particular section of the Finance Bill. Then we come to the Road Fund. It is my view that we ought to get the Road Fund before we separate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-04a.1004.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-04", "file": "debates1927-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "a09234a2d8e16f03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-04a.1008.0", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "heir duty as they think fit in the circumstances. So far as next year is concerned, I should like to point out that the whole of this matter lies under the control of the House until the Financial Resolution is passed next year. Therefore, in the interval it is open to my hon. Friend who has just spoken and who made an offer in the spirit which I am sure was designed to expedite proceedings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-04a.1008.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-05", "file": "debates1927-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1d0d25ebe57738bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-05a.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 46.—(Transfer of sum from Road Fund to Exchequer.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The wrong turning!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "e; it is a question of using the money for the purposes of enabling him to get his stuff to the market more cheaply, more effectively without the intervention of the middleman. Of course, the retailer must get his profit, but there is a good deal between the farmer and the retailer, and I say that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has taken the wrong road, if I may use the phrase in this discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-05a.1111.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-05", "file": "debates1927-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1d0d25ebe57738bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-05a.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 46.—(Transfer of sum from Road Fund to Exchequer.)", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General BROWN", "preceding_text": "rom, I would submit to him that, if he will look into the extravagant way in which some of the grants in respect of the big roads are administered, he will find plenty of money for the small temporary needs of the rural district. Last year I asked the Minister of Transport how much he was going to give to the Middlesex County Council for planting trees, and he said it came to £175,000 a mile.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-05a.1138.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-07-05", "file": "debates1927-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1d0d25ebe57738bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-05a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 46.—(Transfer of sum from Road Fund to Exchequer.)", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. SANDERS", "preceding_text": "I have been told that I am ready to condone a felony if I get my price. I think I have got a little more, and, being a man of my word, I ask leave to withdraw my Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-05a.1174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-05", "file": "debates1927-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1d0d25ebe57738bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-05a.1206.0", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Repeal of Betting Duty.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is a stumer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "aker's rent is £1 per week; wages of his clerk,£5; his telephone charges, 6s., making in all six guineas for one week, as against £24 11s. for the bookmaker, going away to the racecourse for two days. The incidence of the levying of a 3½ per cent. duty against 2 per cent for the racecourse bookmaker who may run the risk of catching stumer and finding himself in the Court—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-05a.1206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-05", "file": "debates1927-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1d0d25ebe57738bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-05a.1210.5", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Repeal of Betting Duty.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. MEYER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That has been read!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. MEYER", "preceding_text": "sed it would be safer to allow for a shrinkage of betting, owing to the discouragement caused by the duty, to the amount of £50,000,000, which would leave £120,000,000, and that 5 per cent. on that would yield £6,000,000, which was the revenue he estimated. He went on to say: That is the amount which I hope to achieve, and which I am determined to achieve, if it is humanly Possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-05a.1210.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-05", "file": "debates1927-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1d0d25ebe57738bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-05a.1217.0", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Repeal of Betting Duty.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "continuing their indulgence. I have received letters from persons of both sexes, on the whole the ladies predominating, to say they intend to give up betting in view of the fact that on a very large number of transactions they have shown only a small balance, and that small balance has been absorbed by the tax collector. I have always written to those ladies or gentlemen, as the case may be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-05a.1217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-05", "file": "debates1927-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1d0d25ebe57738bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-05a.1219.2", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Repeal of Betting Duty.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The weather.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "country. Has the tax injured sport? There I think there is no doubt that no evil effects such as were prophesied have occurred. It is quite true that the attendances this year are not so good as they were in the comparable months of 1925—I do not think it would be fair to make a comparison with 1926, when everything was paralysed by the strike. The attendances are somewhat below that figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-05a.1219.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-05", "file": "debates1927-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1d0d25ebe57738bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-05a.1231.2", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Repeal of Betting Duty.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Committee has concentrated on the principal Debates and topics, and has allowed the other business to pass rapidly through. I fully recognise that in this matter the Government are in the hands of the Opposition, and not only of the Opposition but of members of the Committee on their own side in politics. It would be, I think, for the convenience of Parliament if we disposed of this Bill to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-05a.1231.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-07-06", "file": "debates1927-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb6becbfbab83b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1235.14", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Object!", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General Sir NEWTON MOORE", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That so much of Standing Order 91 as fixes Five as the quorum of the Select Committee on Standing Orders be read and suspended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1235.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-07-06", "file": "debates1927-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb6becbfbab83b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1235.16", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Object! Further consideration deferred until To-morrow.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. MOORE", "preceding_text": "This is a pro forma Motion, which is usually introduced at this time of the year. As a result of the congestion of business, it is necessary to reduce the quorum from five to three, in order to prevent the delay which very often arises as a result of that condition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1235.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-06", "file": "debates1927-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb6becbfbab83b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1279.1", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ith all its safeguards, with its First Chambers and its Second Chambers, and so on, that cannot be changed by a direct vote of the people themselves? Why, there is none such. The proposal of the Government is not a constitutional proposal; it is a makeshift, a temporary revolutionary proposal occasioned by the flutter that is in their minds as the result of by-elections. It is really nothing more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-06", "file": "debates1927-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb6becbfbab83b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1290.0", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Trade Unions Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "f the party opposite, they may not feel any necessity at all for that point which was alluded to by the Leader of the Opposition, and that is, the interposition of so much delay, and only so much, as may be needed to enable the national opinion to be given when a government brings in proposals of a very novel kind which have not been adequately before the country or examined lay the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-06", "file": "debates1927-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb6becbfbab83b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1317.0", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For life!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ernative of nomination. If it is nomination during the lifetime of a Parliament, that House is purely a replica of this House; it will be purely an executive committee nominated by the Government of the day. If, on the other hand, you have a nominated Chamber like that in Canada, where the nominations extend for 10 years, or I forget how many years, at any rate over two or three Parliaments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-06", "file": "debates1927-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb6becbfbab83b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1317.0", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "how many peers the Prime Minister suggests should constitute his new House of Lords. I take only the declaration of Lord Salisbury. Lord Salisbury's declaration was that the majority must be hereditary peers. Quite frankly, are there 200 hereditary peers who, by training, by experience or by mind, have the necessary qualifications for revising legislation that is sent up from the House of Commons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-06", "file": "debates1927-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb6becbfbab83b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1388.0", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Churchill) : It is a pity, I think, that the right hon. Gentleman should have disfigured his lengthy but well-considered constitutional oration by the use of such a disgusting metaphor as to compare the House of Lords to a cart of muck.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-06", "file": "debates1927-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb6becbfbab83b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1388.0", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER", "preceding_text": "f the taste of his supporters than is actually justified by the facts. I must begin by reminding the House of what we are going to vote upon to-night. It is not upon the reform of the House of Lords, nor upon the relations between the two Houses, but only upon whether the Government have done wrong to allow their representatives in the House of Lords to take part in a discussion upon these topics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-06", "file": "debates1927-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb6becbfbab83b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1388.0", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER", "preceding_text": " Interruption. ] To put it mildly, that is taking rather an extreme view. The question of the reform of the House of Lords may be inopportune; it may be undesirable; but it is certainly not indecent. We have often seen proposals to censure Governments for their action, or for their inaction, but this is the first time I remember any proposal to censure a Government for discussing a question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-06", "file": "debates1927-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb6becbfbab83b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1389.1", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ear ago were planning, organising, managing, or as I believe they now admit, mismanaging, the general strike. We have heard of Satan reproving sin. This Resolution speaks of a constitutional outrage. Imagine such muddle-headed political leaders suddenly posing before us as the august defenders of the Constitution and as the arbiters and judges of the niceties and perfections of constitutional law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-06", "file": "debates1927-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb6becbfbab83b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1390.1", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "rd. That is quite true. They are perfectly free to differ from those proposals. Indeed, they have logical grounds for doing so in the very text of the Preamble of the Parliament Act. But what we are now being censured for, is not for any proposals or any Bill that we have put forward. We are now being censured because we have allowed this question to be raised and to be discussed in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1390.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-07-06", "file": "debates1927-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb6becbfbab83b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1391.2", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ake the right hon. Gentleman a present of the minor peculiarities. Let me ask him this question. Assume we obliterate the minor peculiarities and make our proposals in the exact identical form with those he persuaded me to support five years ago, where does he stand? Can we count on his aid in the further exploration of this problem if we put ourselves directly in line with him and his Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-06", "file": "debates1927-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb6becbfbab83b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1392.1", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Dare you consult them on this\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ct, \"Trust to the common-sense of the British people.\" I agree with that, and I am quite sure that, on the day when the constitutional parties of this country lose faith in the common-sense and good will of the masses of the British people they will have lost all influence at home. But how does my hon. Friend know that the good sense and common-sense of the British people is going to be consulted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-06", "file": "debates1927-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb6becbfbab83b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1392.1", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much did you consult them over the Eight Hours Bill? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " country lose faith in the common-sense and good will of the masses of the British people they will have lost all influence at home. But how does my hon. Friend know that the good sense and common-sense of the British people is going to be consulted? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Dare you consult them on this\"] How much did you consult the good sense of the British people when you declared the General Strike?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-06", "file": "debates1927-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb6becbfbab83b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1400.2", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-06a.1400.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-07-07", "file": "debates1927-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a9897907b8dee071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-07a.1405.5", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General Sir NEWTON MOORE", "preceding_text": "beg to move, That so much of Standing Order 91 as fixes Five as the quorum of the Select Committee on Standing Orders be read and suspended. The object of this Motion is to expedite public business. There are two important matters down for consideration on Monday next, and, in view of the fact that many Members of the Committee are on other Committees, it is thought necessary to reduce the quorum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-07a.1405.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-07", "file": "debates1927-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a9897907b8dee071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-07a.1462.0", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was not going in your day!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "fore true when he says that the development of the policy of Imperial Preference has so far as one can see led to unemployment in this country and assisted in the financial ruin of one of the oldest industries we have. I spent my boyhood days in the ancient City of Bristol which had one of the first sugar refining factories in this country as a result of its early connections with the West Indies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-07a.1462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-07", "file": "debates1927-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a9897907b8dee071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-07a.1464.1", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did you not say so at the time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "fore at the end of 10 years if the subsidy is stopped they will have completely recouped themselves out of the taxpayers' pocket and be able to get out without any loss. If the Government do not change their policy in the meantime the British refining industry will have been ruined and be unable to restart. Some of us on these benches knew in 1925 what the result of the Government policy would be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-07a.1464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-07", "file": "debates1927-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a9897907b8dee071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-07a.1499.1", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "esents 90 per cent. of the trade in these gas mantles, is 4d. each, wholesale. In face of that, it is no good the hon. Member trying to convey the impression, though I will not say he did try to convey the impression. It is to be hoped that hon. Members opposite will not run away with the impression that, because a gas mantle can be produced to be sold at 3d., that is the price the ordinary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-07a.1499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-07", "file": "debates1927-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a9897907b8dee071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-07a.1500.3", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "Apart from that, a very remarkable statement was made by the hon. Member during the course of —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-07a.1500.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-07", "file": "debates1927-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a9897907b8dee071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-07a.1564.2", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": "Has the hon. Member the leave of the Committee to withdraw the Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-07a.1564.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-07", "file": "debates1927-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a9897907b8dee071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-07a.1569.2", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " her own sister to perform the domestic duties of the household and if she obtained the same allowance as is granted to the widow? Further, is it not the case that an unmarried male person who has got one small boy or girl dependent upon him and who may for four-fifths of his time be in an educational institution can engage a female to perform the domestic duties and obtain the £60 allowance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-07a.1569.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-07", "file": "debates1927-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a9897907b8dee071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-07a.1592.3", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.— [Description of Wine.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": "I think the Committee will agree that the right hon. Gentleman has been a little hard on my hon. and gallant Friend, because we observed the tremendous fight which the right hon. Gentleman put up against the hon. Member for West Leicester (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence) when he was considering a question which interested the consumers of the pottery in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-07a.1592.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-07", "file": "debates1927-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a9897907b8dee071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-07a.1601.0", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Matches.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": " Duty, was undertaken in order to protect the British manufacturer against the foreigner, and in order to give an advantage to the consumer, or whether the Treasury had not better go further into the details? Can he give us any information as to what the arrangement is between the Swedish Company and Messrs. Bryant & May, because we understood in previous debates the enemy was the Swedish Combine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-07a.1601.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-08", "file": "debates1927-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a97e748d3d45c94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-08a.1623.8", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Earl Winterton)", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Earl Winterton)", "preceding_text": " themselves. In these matters they have Swaraj now, and that is a fact which we should always bear in mind when we are discussing health matters, water supply and things of that kind. Let me turn to education. Education is a transferred provincial subject. It is true that it may be held that the present dyarchical system of Government provides inadequate financial stimulus for transferred subjects", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-08a.1623.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-08", "file": "debates1927-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a97e748d3d45c94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-08a.1641.1", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ave traffic congestion in the streets, difficulty in conveying workers to business during the rush hours, the disposition on the part of workers to crowd to the centre of the city because of the difficulty of getting to their work otherwise, the difficulty of open spaces, of high land values—I am told land values in Calcutta at one time were higher than they were in any town in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-08a.1641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-08", "file": "debates1927-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a97e748d3d45c94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-08a.1660.0", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANK NELSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANK NELSON", "preceding_text": "mber for Newcastle-under-Lyme has, I believe, himself said in this House that the East is no longer or should no longer be characterised as the unchanging East, but that it is changing very quickly nowadays. I can only accept that with qualified approval, because there are certain problems and aspects of Indian life which are just as much unchanged to-day as they were two or three generations ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-08a.1660.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-08", "file": "debates1927-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a97e748d3d45c94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-08a.1691.1", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "I have given my opinion, that the man who will beat another who cannot strike back is a bully and a cad. That is my opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-08a.1691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-08", "file": "debates1927-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a97e748d3d45c94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-08a.1693.4", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member accuses me of giving an untrue example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-08a.1693.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-08", "file": "debates1927-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a97e748d3d45c94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-08a.1693.4", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member accuses me of giving an untrue example. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"] I was there at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-08a.1693.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-08", "file": "debates1927-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a97e748d3d45c94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-08a.1709.0", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ten minutes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "or me to do so within the limits of Parliamentary time to-day, because he dealt with some of the most fundamental matters in connection with India that can possibly be dealt with. I have been thinking, during the two or three minutes that I have had to think—I did not realise that the right hon. Gentleman was only going to give me eight minutes—about those points with which I can deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-08a.1709.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-08", "file": "debates1927-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a97e748d3d45c94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-08a.1709.0", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "minutes!\"] There is some difference between eight minutes and ten minutes. I make no complaint of that. I was perfectly willing not to rise at all, realising that I had already taken up a good deal of time, and I thought that the right hon. Gentleman was only going to raise some question of detail, but, for such important questions as he has raised, he has not left me very long in which to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-08a.1709.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-08", "file": "debates1927-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a97e748d3d45c94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-08a.1711.5", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Friends of every country but their own!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": " but I am always angry when we have slurs and accusations of the kind that have been brought to-day against officers and servants of the Crown who are not here to defend themselves. The right hon. Gentleman distinctly stated that other instances have occurred in the past, but they are very rare indeed. If they are not rare, what is the object of mentioning an incident without bringing in the name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-08a.1711.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-11", "file": "debates1927-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "20f6f43baa193ecd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-11a.1769.1", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "(CLASS 2.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "he, unfortunately, fading laurels which he gained at Locarno. Only in that direction can some advance be made. I believe that, in Europe as it is today, there will be no change so long as we drift back into the old road. You have alarming ambition in Italy, fear in Russia, resentment in Germany, suspicion in France, danger in Poland, confusion in the Balkans, mistrust in America, and war in China.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-11a.1769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-11", "file": "debates1927-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "20f6f43baa193ecd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-11a.1769.1", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "(CLASS 2.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "fusion in the Balkans, mistrust in America, and war in China. [ Interruption. ] I quite admit that I have painted a gloomy picture, and I hope the right hon. Gentleman is going to prove that I am wrong. I shall have done some useful service if I can get a pronouncement that I am wrong. But my memory is long enough to remember the sense of false security into which we were lulled before 1914—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-11a.1769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-11", "file": "debates1927-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "20f6f43baa193ecd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-11a.1800.1", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "(CLASS 2.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": " Time and again, successive British Foreign Secretaries protested to the French Government that this step was illegal, but the only result was that the occupation continued as before. Then there is the case of China. China is a member of the League of Nations but the League has proved itself quite unable to tackle the Chinese at all. I do not want it to be thought that I am criticising the League.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-11a.1800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-11", "file": "debates1927-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "20f6f43baa193ecd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-11a.1811.1", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "(CLASS 2.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "support which we gave to Italy on the Abyssinian question, and we were so unfortunate in that policy followed in conjunction with Italy as to antagonise Turkey as well as Russia. To those two countries has now to be added renascent China, which we have already antagonised, and Japan, whose friendship we have lost to a large extent by the building of a foolish and provocative dockyard at Singapore.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-11a.1811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-11", "file": "debates1927-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "20f6f43baa193ecd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-11a.1811.1", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "(CLASS 2.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "onising the nations of the West. That was a situation envisaged by the Kaiser who actually painted a picture illustrating a war between East and West with himself standing at the head of the nations of the West in shining armour. A minor alteration has now been made in the central figure of that picture, and in place of the Kaiser in shining armour we have the Foreign Secretary in shining monocle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-11a.1811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-11", "file": "debates1927-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "20f6f43baa193ecd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-11a.1811.1", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "(CLASS 2.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": " the age-long quarrel between France and Germany was appeased. The reparations problem had been reduced to manageable proportions, although it was not entirely solved. When the right hon. Gentleman took office he found that sectional alliances and understandings were being rapidly overcome, the isolators of Russia and pariah countries was destroyed, and they were restored to the comity of Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-11a.1811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-11", "file": "debates1927-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "20f6f43baa193ecd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-11a.1811.1", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "(CLASS 2.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "tandings were being rapidly overcome, the isolators of Russia and pariah countries was destroyed, and they were restored to the comity of Nations. [ Interruption ]. Do hon. Members opposite believe that the relationship between Russia and this country was worse in 1924 than it is to-day? Are we in a more favourable position in regard to our dealings with Russia to-day than we were a few years ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-11a.1811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-11", "file": "debates1927-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "20f6f43baa193ecd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-11a.1821.1", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "(CLASS 2.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Private Secretary to the Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "He was in this House supporting it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-11a.1821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-11", "file": "debates1927-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "20f6f43baa193ecd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-11a.1827.0", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "(CLASS 2.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "ated Powers. We have been following in many cases in the wrong direction, increasing armaments rather than reducing them, in the years which have passed, particularly as regards aircraft. Next November it appears likely that Russian representatives will attend the Commission, They have been invited, and I understand have accepted. I hope they may be there, and I hope their presence may be helpful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-11a.1827.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-11", "file": "debates1927-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "20f6f43baa193ecd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-11a.1864.5", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "(CLASS 2.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CONNOLLY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CONNOLLY", "preceding_text": "asted, so far as armaments on sea and land are concerned. With regard to the general question of disarmament and who is going to lead the way to the disarmament of nations, I agree with the hon. Member for North-West Camberwell that we must protect our sea-borne trade, but I want to remind him, as I have reminded the Committee before, that we are the most bellicose nation the world has ever known.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-11a.1864.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-11", "file": "debates1927-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "20f6f43baa193ecd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-11a.1883.0", "colnum": "1883", "heading": "(CLASS 2.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Has it been proposed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "At the moment I do not think it is a practical proposition. In order that a proposition should be practical you have to find people who will agree, and at the present moment I doubt very much whether you would find the world in general willing to abolish the aerial fighting arm altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-11a.1883.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-12", "file": "debates1927-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ea2b719bd0388ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.1965.8", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VARLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VARLEY", "preceding_text": "y wage, and it is the weekly wage upon which the man has to live. I will come back to Nottinghamshire again, because there are hon. Members on this side who are simply itching to recite their experience in their own districts, and therefore I need not bother with those districts. In the largest colliery in my county—why I should assume a proprietary right to this county, I do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.1965.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-12", "file": "debates1927-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ea2b719bd0388ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.1981.1", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "ar of being left out resulted in that little attempt at something co-operative, which was almost disastrous to those who joined in and were not lucky enough to get on to the chairs in time. You can put the whole district of Yorkshire in a selling agency, and if you have not a corresponding agreement with Yorkshire and Durham not to bid in its markets these selling agencies will be no use whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.1981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-12", "file": "debates1927-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ea2b719bd0388ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.1990.0", "colnum": "1990", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "tual state of the industry as compared with the anticipations which were formed about this time last year. I well remember that when the Government had reached the conclusion that a settlement of the mining dispute of last year was impossible until the Seven Hour Act had been removed, that I was consulted by the head of the Government as to the probable effect of the increase in the hours of work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.1990.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-12", "file": "debates1927-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ea2b719bd0388ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.2020.1", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RITSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RITSON", "preceding_text": "Who said, \"Hear, hear\"? Surely of all people in the world, the hon. Member for Argyll (Mr. Macquisten) does not know anything about godliness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.2020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-12", "file": "debates1927-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ea2b719bd0388ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.2039.6", "colnum": "2039", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "The last thing I wish to do is to interfere with the hon. Gentleman getting his dinner if he wishes. My right hon. Friend the Secretary for Mines has only been out of the House for a very few moments, and he will be back almost immediately. If he had thought it the general desire that he should open the Debate he would willingly have done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.2039.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-12", "file": "debates1927-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ea2b719bd0388ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.2043.3", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with the speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "ude the Debate, but it was clear that some re-arrangement might be necessary because the Committee seemed to be impatient. I am quite prepared to weak at any time. As for the suggestion of the right hon. Gentleman that I have been a party to a manœuvre and have tried to do this in order that no one shall be able to reply to me, is really absolutely uncalled for and absolutely unworthy of him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.2043.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-12", "file": "debates1927-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ea2b719bd0388ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.2044.3", "colnum": "2044", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with the speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": " to the speeches which have been made in the Debate, I am quite in their hands. I have been prepared to speak all the evening, and it makes no difference to me whether I speak now or later on. I would much rather have done so at the end of the Debate, although it may be inconvenient to the right hon. Gentleman to stay late and would not have given him the opportunity of making his speech in reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.2044.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-12", "file": "debates1927-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ea2b719bd0388ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.2049.1", "colnum": "2049", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the value?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "ere was an increase of 597,000 tons in June this year as compared with June, 1925. That shows that there is a very great demand for British coal, and also that, in spite of all that is said, there is a certain amount of energy in the industry. Whatever hon. Members opposite may say about giving coal away, we have been successful in getting back to a large extent the export trade of previous years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.2049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-12", "file": "debates1927-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ea2b719bd0388ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.2051.1", "colnum": "2051", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "My information is that 1.51 is the amount of time lost on the average throughout that coalfield, and that means that the men are working on an average four days. The average number of days lost in Scotland is 0.66 for the four weeks ended 20th June this year. The average figure in Yorkshire for the last four weeks is 1.03 days lost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.2051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-12", "file": "debates1927-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ea2b719bd0388ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.2052.1", "colnum": "2052", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "It means that there are 81,000 fewer unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.2052.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-12", "file": "debates1927-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ea2b719bd0388ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.2053.6", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "ne further, and have laid down in the Act that the Government are to have a report at the end of the second year on the extent to which amalgamations are proceeding. We have provided that, not only should amalgamations and absorptions be possible, but that even one man should be able to coerce a number of others and bring them into a scheme which seems, in the opinion of the Court to be desirable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.2053.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-12", "file": "debates1927-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ea2b719bd0388ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.2055.1", "colnum": "2055", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "not so much the scale of wages as the number of days in which the men are able to work. When that situation improves, it will make it far more easy for weaker pits to continue and far more easy for prosperous pits to reorganise and to get together in amalgamation schemes. Meanwhile, I entirely disagree with the idea that the Committee have any justification for accusing the Government of inaction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.2055.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-12", "file": "debates1927-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ea2b719bd0388ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.2085.3", "colnum": "2085", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEANS", "preceding_text": "y hundreds of thousands of miners will be in work. The blast furnaces will be set going, more steel will be made, more employment will he given in an industry which consumes more coat than any other industry in this country. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do you not get on with it?\"] Because when we get on with it, hon. Members opposite go down to the country and tell people their food will cost them more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.2085.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-12", "file": "debates1927-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ea2b719bd0388ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.2086.1", "colnum": "2086", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEANS", "preceding_text": "duced, but of this I am quite certain, that if the miners can raise a leader like the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Derby (Mr. J. H. Thomas), who will instil the idea that peace is to be had in the industry not necessarily by fighting but by fair negotiations, they will have gone a long way towards restoring prosperity. What they want is not men, as Napoleon said, but a man. We want one man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-12a.2086.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-14", "file": "debates1927-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "31fc343289a0072e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2404.1", "colnum": "2404", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You said dishonest!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "The exigencies of his public position, employing, as he does, a collection of men who are paid to be dishonest—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] If I am going to be out of order on this subject, what can I say without being out of order?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2404.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-14", "file": "debates1927-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "31fc343289a0072e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2463.3", "colnum": "2463", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "What is the date of that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-14", "file": "debates1927-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "31fc343289a0072e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2463.5", "colnum": "2463", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "The next case is one of a man called Clawson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2463.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-14", "file": "debates1927-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "31fc343289a0072e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2463.8", "colnum": "2463", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "preceding_text": "Socialists can rule as well as donkeys.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2463.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-14", "file": "debates1927-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "31fc343289a0072e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2467.5", "colnum": "2467", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is what you have been doing!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must realise that in these figures of infantile mortality it is not sufficient to take separate months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2467.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-07-14", "file": "debates1927-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "31fc343289a0072e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2470.0", "colnum": "2470", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Where?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "nd had practically become content to go on doing nothing. Much as I condemn them I blame more those who had made it possible to receive more for doing nothing than for doing a hard day's work, and I do not think there is anything more satisfactory in the Report of the new guardians than the fact that in eight months they have been able to bring down the numbers of the able-bodied unemployed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2469.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-07-14", "file": "debates1927-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "31fc343289a0072e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2470.3", "colnum": "2470", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "No, Sir; but I think we may take it that a large number of them have found work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2470.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-14", "file": "debates1927-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "31fc343289a0072e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2471.0", "colnum": "2471", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is going down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ny wage the boss likes to offer them. That is the basis of the policy of the new board of guardians. They are drawing their thirty quid a week, but the ordinary man who applies for relief has to be forced by sheer starvation to accept any price the employers care to offer. And what has happened? Where relief has been refused, overcrowding has taken place, and the infantile mortality is increasing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-14", "file": "debates1927-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "31fc343289a0072e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2471.0", "colnum": "2471", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": " Dr. Stopes. There is no trouble in that respect. Remember that, so far as you are concerned, we in West Ham claim the same right as the people in Birmingham, the right to elect our own representatives. When these guardians were appointed, they were given a blank of £300,000 on loan to begin with. Only a fortnight before, the same Ministry refused a loan of £300,000 to the old guardians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-14", "file": "debates1927-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "31fc343289a0072e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2473.1", "colnum": "2473", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "Oh, they borrowed to pay their debts! What a marvellous piece of business! The old guardians levied a rate to pay the interest and the capital back, in proportion to the amount of money they agreed to pay back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-14", "file": "debates1927-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "31fc343289a0072e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2473.1", "colnum": "2473", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why are you sorry?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "y Member of this House to prove that the old board of guardians did not fulfil their responsibilities, and make the rates of West Ham and the district surrounding it. I am very sorry that West Ham is always used in this connection, because the rates of districts outside West Ham are involved. West Ham is a county borough, and one of the biggest parts of the union area, but there is East Ham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-14", "file": "debates1927-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "31fc343289a0072e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2473.5", "colnum": "2473", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "nance. What is your policy? To starve them into work. You are teaching the people of West Ham to learn how to begin to work. Marvellous—the people from Kensington telling the people of West Ham how to work! Imagine the Lord Tom-noddies and the MacGregors who never did a day's work in their life, and the workers of West Ham, who have forgotten more about work than you have ever learnt.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2473.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-14", "file": "debates1927-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "31fc343289a0072e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2473.5", "colnum": "2473", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much have you got\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "en more about work than you have ever learnt.—[ Interruption ]. I can understand interruption coming from the hon. Member for Leyton because as soon as he left off work and began to forget it he became rich. When he was an ordinary workman he was poor. When he got other mugs to work for him he began to get rich. It is the only way you can get rich, to get other people to work for you.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2473.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-14", "file": "debates1927-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "31fc343289a0072e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2473.5", "colnum": "2473", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "biggest criminal in the country can get a trial in a court of justice. Our offence is that we belong to the working class. We have done our best to get over the trouble but we have not had much assistance from you. As far as poor law administration is concerned, we have to bear more than our fair share of trouble. I know very well that as far as some hon. Members of this House are concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2473.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-14", "file": "debates1927-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "31fc343289a0072e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2475.0", "colnum": "2475", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUNNICO", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUNNICO", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Very insolent remarks are being uttered from these benches accusing the hon. Gentleman of having had too much beer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-14", "file": "debates1927-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "31fc343289a0072e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2475.3", "colnum": "2475", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "I understand I shall have to cut my remarks short, because this Debate will possibly terminate not later than Twelve o'clock. I can assure You, Mr. Speaker, that during the last ten minutes it has been very difficult for me to restrain myself in consequence of dirty observations from hon. Members on my left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-14a.2475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-15", "file": "debates1927-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "bfcb057b4d84d887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-15a.2503.0", "colnum": "2503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHERIFF COURTS AND LEGAL OFFICERS (SCOTLAND) (MONEY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like the Road Fund.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "n. The fees were raised, and the fund was at the disposal, one would suppose, of these officials. Like all other funds, it got into the hands of the British Treasury, and from that moment the object with which it was raised, and the nature of the fund, were entirely and absolutely forgotten, and it went into the maw of the British Treasury as successfully as an animal goes into the maw of a snake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-15a.2503.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-15", "file": "debates1927-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "bfcb057b4d84d887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-15a.2504.0", "colnum": "2504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHERIFF COURTS AND LEGAL OFFICERS (SCOTLAND) (MONEY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": " glaring example of the way in which government should not be conducted, and it applies to both sides of the House. My last observation is going to be made by a Unionist who believes that on the whole the Union between England and Scotland has been fruitful. There are differing views on the Union, though many of them are based on complete ignorance or disregard all history and things of that sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-15a.2504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-15", "file": "debates1927-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "bfcb057b4d84d887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-15a.2506.0", "colnum": "2506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHERIFF COURTS AND LEGAL OFFICERS (SCOTLAND) (MONEY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "learned Member for Argyll (Mr. Macquisten) is the fact that both of them have been consistent Conservatives to-day. Both speakers were against the Money Resolution, and they will be consistent, as the Members of the Conservative party always are in connection with subjects of this kind, when the Division is taken. Though they delivered speeches against the Motion, they will, no doubt, vote for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-15a.2506.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-07-18", "file": "debates1927-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f1e538b82b1587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-18a.29.8", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Buy British goods!", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "preceding_text": "From anywhere abroad?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-18a.29.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-18", "file": "debates1927-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f1e538b82b1587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-18a.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A chance for the Liberal party!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "uld induce women to decorate themselves with this charming lace; not all the blandishments of the Safeguarding of Industries Act can do it. We have heard of the sumptuary duties, which came into force to prevent the use of luxuries by women, but I think we ought to have a new kind of legislation, compelling women to wear Nottingham lace, compelling householders to hang up Nottingham lace curtains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-18a.69.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-18", "file": "debates1927-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f1e538b82b1587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-18a.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "e of this character. This lace is largely used in women's garments that are sold, not only in this country, but all over the world. The garment trade in the East End of London, and in the West End, is of considerable importance, and this particular lace is attached to the garment for decorative purposes, but when exported it is impossible, owing to the vagaries of the Customs, to get the drawback.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-18a.69.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-18", "file": "debates1927-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f1e538b82b1587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-18a.78.4", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For what periods?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ng duties. His article was written to a very great extent to justify the imposition of these duties. In regard to the wages what does he say? On 30th September, 1925, that is, just after the duty had been imposed, he says the average of wages and salaries was £27 15s. l1d., but that after 12 months' further experience of safeguarding wages and salaries had fallen to an average of £26 7s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-18a.78.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-18", "file": "debates1927-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f1e538b82b1587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-18a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "I apologise, but there is plenty to say about this committee. We are not satisfied that in this instance the right hon. Gentleman has not appointed to this committee people who are notoriously biased in one direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-18a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-18", "file": "debates1927-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f1e538b82b1587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-18a.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir BASIL PETO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BASIL PETO", "preceding_text": "ost precisely the people you set out to benefit, therefore, you should repeal or rather not enact this Clause at all. I ask the House to consider this further point. This is a Clause which has been in operation for a month or two, and we have no evidence yet as to how it is going to work. We have evidence as to how every other Safeguarding Duty has operated in improving employment in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-18a.153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-18", "file": "debates1927-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f1e538b82b1587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-18a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "preceding_text": "f in rather an unusual position in supporting an Amendment of this kind, moved by the hon. Gentleman the Member for South-West Bethnal Green (Mr. Harris), but I do so differing entirely from him and from the arguments which he has used. I understood him to say—I hope I am not misquoting him—that this particular wrapping-paper is one of the ingredients used in confectionery manufacture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-18a.167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-18", "file": "debates1927-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "9f1e538b82b1587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-18a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "preceding_text": "substantiated, then the consumption of British-made confectionery would go down. I want to refer, however, to some other directions in which the import duty on wrapping-paper has operated as a tax on raw material in certain of our industries. I think it is universally accepted in all parts of the House that the Government's policy of safeguarding, taken as a whole, has been an unqualified success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-18a.167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-19", "file": "debates1927-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "2c26a3b09183053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-19a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "OFFICE OF WORKS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "dly needed peace in those days—and our cattle trade benefited, but our nascent industries were ruined. As Professor Scott, who writes an essay in the volume published in connection with the bi-centenary of the Union by the \"Glasgow Herald\" says: Our nascent industries were ruined as a result of the Incorporating Union. Our taxation increased. We shoulder a share of the English National Debt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-19a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-19", "file": "debates1927-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "2c26a3b09183053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-19a.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "OFFICE OF WORKS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMES BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMES BROWN", "preceding_text": "do to say that there was no bribery. There was. As has been very well said, everybody concerned received money. The Provost of my own native town got £100; better than some of them. My Lord of Banff got £11, and, besides that paltry sum, he had to give up his religion. He was a good Catholic, and he became a Protestant in order to get his vote in, and all he got was this paltry £11.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-19a.316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-19", "file": "debates1927-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "2c26a3b09183053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-19a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "OFFICE OF WORKS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "f Parliaments and the home of all that could be learned about how to conduct a country through Parliamentary methods. She was not slow to learn. Since the Union no fewer than eight Scotsmen have been Prime Ministers. But I believe the fact that it was an incorporated Union, that Scotsmen who desired to take part in public and Parliamentary life came and learned their business at the fountain head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-19a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-19", "file": "debates1927-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "2c26a3b09183053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-19a.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "OFFICE OF WORKS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Captain Hacking)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Daily Herald'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Captain Hacking)", "preceding_text": "6th January, 1926. I have here many cuttings of the announcement, and this particular picture which is questioned to-day was described as \"Queen Anne giving the Royal Assent to the Act of Union with Scotland, 1707.\" There was also placed after it the name of the artist, W. J. Munnings. This announcement appeared in the leading newspapers, the \"Times,\" the \"Morning Post,\" and the \"Daily Telegraph.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-19a.327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-19", "file": "debates1927-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "2c26a3b09183053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-19a.349.2", "colnum": "349", "heading": "OFFICE OF WORKS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "norance. If that be so, it has been done through malice. That feature was not emphasised when the Chancellor of the Exchequer opened his Budget Statement, or the subsequent Debates on the matter might have taken a different character if this had been realised earlier. The point made by the hon. Member for Tamworth is that it represents a material change and is adding to the burden of the taxpayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-19a.349.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-20", "file": "debates1927-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "f6b4ebb7a4348317", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-20a.437.1", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHERY BOARD FOR SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STUART", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STUART", "preceding_text": "The only thing with regard to the question of credits is that the hon. and gallant Gentleman said that the Secretary for Scotland in the Labour Government had introduced a scheme which, he said, he had to criticise because it was so inadequate. It was useless, he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-20a.437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-20", "file": "debates1927-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "f6b4ebb7a4348317", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-20a.437.3", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHERY BOARD FOR SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STUART", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STUART", "preceding_text": "ir failure to put the industry back into the position which it enjoyed before the War. I agree also with the hon. and gallant Gentleman that it is a tragedy for this country to see its fishing population decline. The great services which they have rendered to this country and their value to the country in times of danger are fully realised on this side of the House as well as in any other quarter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-20a.437.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-20", "file": "debates1927-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "f6b4ebb7a4348317", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-20a.437.3", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHERY BOARD FOR SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STUART", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STUART", "preceding_text": "s fishing population decline. The great services which they have rendered to this country and their value to the country in times of danger are fully realised on this side of the House as well as in any other quarter. [ Interruption. ] I will only say that I would like to see this Government or any other Government introduce some plan or scheme or policy which would resuscitate the industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-20a.437.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-20", "file": "debates1927-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "f6b4ebb7a4348317", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-20a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHERY BOARD FOR SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HAMILTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HAMILTON", "preceding_text": " for them. I said: \"Of course, people do not ask for them, because you do not put them on the menu.\" There was a little chance to advertise herring. If you do not advertise your goods you cannot expect people to ask for them, and I do suggest there is a possibility of a crusade in favour of herring. Why should our Protectionist friends opposite eat French sardines when they can get Scotch herring?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-20a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-20", "file": "debates1927-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "f6b4ebb7a4348317", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-20a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHERY BOARD FOR SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nothing!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "nment or anyone in my position can deal. As far as the policy of the Government is concerned, we are anxious to see the trade increased with Russia. We have never said anything to the contrary as far as I am aware. No responsible Minister either in this House or outside it has said anything to the contrary, and anything that we can do to stimulate and improve it we shall do. Now what are we doing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-20a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-20", "file": "debates1927-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "f6b4ebb7a4348317", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-20a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHERY BOARD FOR SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "No doubt, if the circumstances which the hon. Member indicates become a real scandal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-20a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-20", "file": "debates1927-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "f6b4ebb7a4348317", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-20a.468.0", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHERY BOARD FOR SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Send it in some other language!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "The complaints which have reached us have been on the part of some of the local fishermen in our waters, that the Dutchmen got the information. It is quite clear that if they have the wireless the information would go to the Dutchmen just as soon as it goes to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-20a.468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-20", "file": "debates1927-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "f6b4ebb7a4348317", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-20a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHERY BOARD FOR SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Commander COCHRANE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander COCHRANE", "preceding_text": "d. With some ice and a seasoning of salt they are all dumped into the hold of the ship and taken across to Germany, where they are treated in many ways which make them far more palatable than the ordinary pickled herring. In Scotland, a generation or two ago there was a considerable consumption of pickled herrings, but that has largely died out on account of the increased prosperity of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-20a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-20", "file": "debates1927-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "f6b4ebb7a4348317", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-20a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHERY BOARD FOR SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Commander COCHRANE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander COCHRANE", "preceding_text": " The other cause which I would refer to has not yet come into full value. It was mentioned by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for West Fife in a direction which I did not quite appreciate, and that was in regard to the question of immature fish. As far as I could understand him, he said that it was the wicked middleman who prevented immature fish from being sold on the markets of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-20a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-20", "file": "debates1927-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "f6b4ebb7a4348317", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-20a.500.0", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHERY BOARD FOR SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "I rise to take part in this Debate after having prepared a speech which I shall not now be able to deliver.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-20a.500.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-21", "file": "debates1927-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e19cb99647a99566", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-21a.627.0", "colnum": "627", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "Are we allowed to discuss anything?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-21a.627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-21", "file": "debates1927-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e19cb99647a99566", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-21a.627.3", "colnum": "627", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "With your permission—we have to ask your permission—I want to tell you that you are the first Chairman who has even given a ruling like that on a Scottish day. This is again proof that the sooner we get Home Rule for Scotland the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-21a.627.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-21", "file": "debates1927-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e19cb99647a99566", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-21a.627.3", "colnum": "627", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "raordinary amount of unemployment, and because, owing to the long period of years it has been in existence, it has undermined the health of the people of this country. 6.0 p.m. That is why, on this Health Vote, I considered it was permissible to bring forward this question, but you, Sir, have evidently received special training or instructions to put us down at the very first possible opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-21a.627.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-21", "file": "debates1927-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e19cb99647a99566", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-21a.627.3", "colnum": "627", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "ng to the long period of years it has been in existence, it has undermined the health of the people of this country. 6.0 p.m. That is why, on this Health Vote, I considered it was permissible to bring forward this question, but you, Sir, have evidently received special training or instructions to put us down at the very first possible opportunity. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] I will \"order\" as I like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-21a.627.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-21", "file": "debates1927-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e19cb99647a99566", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-21a.627.3", "colnum": "627", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": ", it has undermined the health of the people of this country. 6.0 p.m. That is why, on this Health Vote, I considered it was permissible to bring forward this question, but you, Sir, have evidently received special training or instructions to put us down at the very first possible opportunity. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] I will \"order\" as I like. [ Interruption .] We are just ready to go over the top", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-21a.627.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-21", "file": "debates1927-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e19cb99647a99566", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-21a.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "k the discussion of any question which he may raise. I think when the hon. Member for Dumbarton reads the OFFICIAL REPORT he will be ready to admit that he strayed somewhat from the mark in his speech. I know it is difficult for the hon. Member for Dumbarton Burghs to discuss what he wishes and to keep within the rules of Parliamentary order in the masterly manner of the hon. Member for Bridgeton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-21a.636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-21", "file": "debates1927-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e19cb99647a99566", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-21a.699.0", "colnum": "699", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "r men than their fathers ever will be, in order that their daughters may be better educated than they have ever been. These are the thoughts and ideas which inspire and carry on the women of the working class. I hear a voice coming quietly over the House, saying, \"Individual effort.\" Yes, individual effort, but you see how individual effort is requited. There they are, the mothers, starving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-21a.699.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-21", "file": "debates1927-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e19cb99647a99566", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-21a.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General CHARTERIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General CHARTERIS", "preceding_text": "st realise that in his speech there was no mental process whatever—at least no logical mental process. The idea at the bottom of his speech seemed to be, that parents were worse placed as regards educational facilities for children than the parents in previous years. But, really, to hear the hon. Member talk, one would imagine that the parents were paving for the education of their children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-21a.703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-22", "file": "debates1927-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ccb8ed8b38d666a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-22a.758.0", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAVINGS BANKS' MILLIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "normality of expenditure, perhaps it would be fair if I were to refer to the estimate the Foreign Secretary put before the House in the celebrated Treasury Paper in 1920. In that Paper, he stated that the normal Budget for a normal year might be expected to reach the sum of £880,000,000. The present Chancellor is at any rate to be congratulated on the fact that he is below that normal figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-22a.758.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-25", "file": "debates1927-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "26a2a99f74a885d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-25a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: May?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ngots and castings. In 1913, the monthly average production was 638,600 tons. In 1926, for the first four months, the average production was 697,000 tons. For the first six months of this year the average was 831,166 tons. That figure starts in January with a production of 730,000 tons, and works up to a production of nearly 950,000 tons in March, and it fell for the month of June to 747,000 tons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-25a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-25", "file": "debates1927-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "26a2a99f74a885d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-25a.893.5", "colnum": "893", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "How. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "of this great and heaven sent project for dealing with the bad state of trade by the safeguarding of industries procedure. The present Prime Minister, speaking at Sheffield in 1924, said: I have made it perfectly plain that in no circumstances at this election should Protection be the issue, nor would I employ the Safeguarding of Industries Act as the thin end of the wedge to introduce Protection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-25a.893.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-25", "file": "debates1927-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "26a2a99f74a885d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-25a.928.1", "colnum": "928", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "preceding_text": "I am going to deal with America. We have got to economise and cut down national expenditure in every way we can. Liberals, Conservatives and Socialists, alike, have failed really to economise. This Government alone has been able to reduce the burden on the taxpayers, slightly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-25a.928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-25", "file": "debates1927-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "26a2a99f74a885d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-25a.934.3", "colnum": "934", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "the League of Nations and the International Labour Office, to get a common standard of labour conditions set up, and an agreement that, if any nation, after the warning, refuses to conform to that accepted standard, or violates that standard, its goods shall be prohibited from entering into the country of every other signatory of that convention so long as there is an alternative source of supply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-25a.934.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-25", "file": "debates1927-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "26a2a99f74a885d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-25a.936.2", "colnum": "936", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "ese West Africa, but that they would encourage the growth of the cocoa bean in a British Colony by free native producers. The whole story is told in Mr. Nevinson's \"Life of George Cadbury.\" What has been the result? The result has been that we are buying our cocoa now practically entirely from a British Colony, the natives of which are prospering, and are buying more British bicycles——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-25a.936.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-25", "file": "debates1927-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "26a2a99f74a885d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-25a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"50,000,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "preceding_text": "e world. Let us keep the figures accurate. Our home market is equal to the whole foreign market. It is twice the Empire market now, and I point out that it will still be twice the Empire market a generation hence, when its importance has grown, so that, instead of being 1,000,000 people in New Zealand, there will be 2,000,000, and instead of 6,000,000 in Australia, I hope there will be 12,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-25a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-25", "file": "debates1927-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "26a2a99f74a885d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-25a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "preceding_text": "e amount that can be spent on anything else, other things being equal. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Hillhead (Sir R. Horne) described the wealth of the States and the way they were making foreign loans to the extent of £100,000,000 or £200,000,000, and I could not help reflecting that they had stopped the expenditure of several hundred million pounds a year on alcoholic drink.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-25a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-25", "file": "debates1927-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "26a2a99f74a885d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-25a.978.0", "colnum": "978", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For the first half of each year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "preceding_text": " 1925, 87,900,000 pounds in 1926 and 106.7 million pounds in 1927. It is true that the corresponding values had decreased in those years because of the great fall in the price of cotton. With regard to piece goods for the same years, in millions of square yards, I find that in 1925, 2,284 million square yards were exported, in 1926 2,040 million square yards and in 1927 2,075 million square yards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-25a.978.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-25", "file": "debates1927-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "26a2a99f74a885d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-25a.985.2", "colnum": "985", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "this country is not going to succeed merely by selling cheaply, but by restoring our productive industries, and that the vast majority of our people are producers and not consumers, and that the consumers should not be the first consideration, because there is not a consumer—not even the right hon. Gentleman himself—who would have a rag on his back but for the efforts of some producer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-25a.985.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-25", "file": "debates1927-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "26a2a99f74a885d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-25a.988.0", "colnum": "988", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members on the opposite side who have spoken in this Debate seem to have forgotten that the greatest potential market for our trade is our own country. Some of us think that that market has been largely taken away by the policy of the Conservative party in reducing wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-25a.988.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-25", "file": "debates1927-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "26a2a99f74a885d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-25a.988.0", "colnum": "988", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Vote!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "d in other industries being able to purchase the goods made in Yorkshire. I have no hesitation in asserting that the most dangerous policy that has ever been instituted in this country which has produced more unemployment, poverty and degradation among our people and created more unemployment is the policy of the reduction of £10,000,000 in wages which was instituted by hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-25a.988.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-26", "file": "debates1927-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "9caa4e38a3d24709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-26a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS IV.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How would the members be appointed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "e Quartermaster-General, I would like to see on the Board of Education an elementary school member, a secondary school member, a technical school member, a medical or public health member, a university member, and a finance member to keep all the various conflicting interests together and to keep up a comprehensive idea of what education really is. Thereby, the Minister could speak with authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-26a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-26", "file": "debates1927-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "9caa4e38a3d24709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-26a.1089.0", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS IV.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": " President of the Board whether it is not possible to make this book available in the Vote Office. Although this is one of the most interesting, striking and effective hooks on educational reform which has appeared in our time, I understand that one has to go outside to buy it—no doubt through His Majesty's Stationery Office, but I do not think it is at present obtainable in the Vote Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-26a.1089.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-26", "file": "debates1927-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "9caa4e38a3d24709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-26a.1117.3", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS IV.", "cue_speaker": "Captain EVANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain EVANS", "preceding_text": "If that be the case, I apologise most humbly to the Noble Lady, but I studied the figures yesterday, and I was under the impression that they were an increase of £1, 500, 000 on those of 1926. May I say, on behalf of my hon. Friends who placed their name to the Motion which stands on the Order Paper of the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-26a.1117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-26", "file": "debates1927-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "9caa4e38a3d24709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-26a.1117.3", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS IV.", "cue_speaker": "Captain EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain EVANS", "preceding_text": "sion that they were an increase of £1, 500, 000 on those of 1926. May I say, on behalf of my hon. Friends who placed their name to the Motion which stands on the Order Paper of the House of Commons. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are they?\"] The hon. Gentleman asks me who they are. If he studies the House of Commons Order Paper as carefully as I do, he will have no difficulty in deciphering the names.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-26a.1117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-26", "file": "debates1927-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "9caa4e38a3d24709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-26a.1117.5", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS IV.", "cue_speaker": "Captain EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain EVANS", "preceding_text": "posal, and I would remind the Committee, apart altogether from the financial cost of such a scheme, that the Noble Lord has every reason to be proud of the educational advancement for which he has been responsible since this Government took office in October, 1924. Those hon. Friends of mine who placed their names on the Order Paper share with him the just pride which he enjoys in that connection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-26a.1117.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-26", "file": "debates1927-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "9caa4e38a3d24709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-26a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS IV.", "cue_speaker": "Captain. EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain. EVANS", "preceding_text": "ect, that the reason why industry and commerce were in such a depressed state at the present time was largely because they were not in a position to call upon more educated recruits. I think the right hon. and learned Member will agree with me that the reason why industry and commerce are in such a depressed state is largely owing to the heavy burdens of taxation which they are called upon to bear", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-26a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-26", "file": "debates1927-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "9caa4e38a3d24709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-26a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS IV.", "cue_speaker": "Captain. EVANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You were one of them. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain. EVANS", "preceding_text": "e our freedom and ourselves individually and collectively as a nation with post-War departmental expenditure in which careful regard has to be had not only to expenditure but to revenue. One of the chief complaints which the country has against the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) is that in no circumstances whatsoever did he pay regard to revenue as well as expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-26a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-26", "file": "debates1927-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "9caa4e38a3d24709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-26a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS IV.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "nd Bromley (Mr. Lansbury). They also invited the hon. Member for the Mossley Division (Mr. A. Hopkinson), and they liked his original ideas so much that they invited him a second time. That is the kind of thing one wants to see—freedom in education. It must be free. One knows that a very great deal of harm has been done by the wrong teaching of history, especially in America, where it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-26a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-26", "file": "debates1927-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "9caa4e38a3d24709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-26a.1157.0", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS IV.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bogy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": " judgment, if they will allow me to say so, it is the section of opinion represented mainly by the party opposite which will prove the great obstacle to any raising of the school age in the future. The idea, the promise held out by many of them to the parents of the children that every parent whose child is to go to school will get a thumping maintenance allowance—that kind of promise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-26a.1157.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-07-27", "file": "debates1927-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "52e82d8bb50d5d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-27a.1216.3", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "What does the right hon. Gentleman mean by \"proof of being out of work\" during a period of recognised and customary holidays?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-27a.1216.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-27", "file": "debates1927-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "52e82d8bb50d5d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-27a.1280.0", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Mr. Betterton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Just under a million!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Mr. Betterton)", "preceding_text": "one or two facts, which it is absolutely essential that this House should take into consideration before arriving at a definite conclusion. The first fact is one which is obvious to everybody, but which the right hon. Gentleman did not mention, namely, that a year ago last April our unemployment figures were just about as low—they were just under or just over a million, I forget which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-27a.1280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-27", "file": "debates1927-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "52e82d8bb50d5d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-27a.1284.1", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Forty-four!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": "ent is either negligible or of very small dimensions. The right hon. Gentleman was right to point that out. One can, unfortunately, point to other parts of the country where unemployment is very rife. In Durham county, for instance, if you take the whole county, unemployment is just under 20 per cent., but there are places in Durham county where unemployment is up to 40 per cent., and even higher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-27a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-27", "file": "debates1927-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "52e82d8bb50d5d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-27a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Gentleman misapprehended me. I indicated that it might add to our difficulties. I said that it was no solution of the problem, but that it might add to it at the finish. I put it no higher than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-27a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-27", "file": "debates1927-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "52e82d8bb50d5d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-27a.1368.1", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "eguarded that fact. But, at the same time, while keeping it within its nature as an unemployment insurance system and not as a relief system, it is administered with a good deal of discretion and of compassion in those districts where the hardship is greatest. On the other hand, there is nothing to show, as far as the statistics are concerned, that people are driven from insurance on to the rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-27a.1368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-27", "file": "debates1927-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "52e82d8bb50d5d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-27a.1368.1", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "llowance, had to have an increase in the help that was given to them from the rates. Of the remaining 90 per cent. and more who had not been in receipt of poor relief before, 8 per cent., and no more, had recourse within the next fortnight to the rates. Broadly speaking, it means that of the disallowances in these test cases over 88 per cent. never went and received any more relief from the rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-27a.1368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-27", "file": "debates1927-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "52e82d8bb50d5d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-27a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "I give this test case which we had for our own information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-27a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-27", "file": "debates1927-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "52e82d8bb50d5d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-27a.1369.3", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "I may have received it though I do not remember it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-27a.1369.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-27", "file": "debates1927-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "52e82d8bb50d5d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-27a.1373.6", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "In 1924, there was an increase in weekly wages in the mining industry of £302,000 in the first six months. Those were the figures which the right hon. Gentleman gave.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-27a.1373.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-07-28", "file": "debates1927-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0eadada60e14df8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1450.0", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Wrong question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is the Under-Secretary not aware that this is a question which we have raised here time and again. These foreign trawlers can afford to pay the £100 fine, when they can get away with a cargo of the value of £1,000; consequently, they pay no attention to this matter? Can tale hon. and gallant Gentleman not devise ways and means of withdrawing the certificates in such cases?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1449.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-28", "file": "debates1927-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0eadada60e14df8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1461.9", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "May I call your attention, Mr. Speaker, to the description \"a native\" which appears on the Order Paper, and may I ask you whether it is in order to describe one of our fellow-subjects in India, as \"a native\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1461.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-28", "file": "debates1927-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0eadada60e14df8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1509.1", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Suppose your own family were there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "have paid £4,450,000 for the expedition. By the end of the year at the same rate we shall have paid £6,000,000, to say nothing of the expense of bringing the troops back, if ever we do get them back. That means that already we have spent £740 per Britisher in Shanghai whom we have been protecting. I do not know whether it would not have been better to have waited for the risk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-28", "file": "debates1927-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0eadada60e14df8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1512.1", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\" and \"Which?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "s of millions, two areas of potential trade development, either immediate or eventual; two areas which it is absolutely certain will form enormous areas of trade development, and the Foreign Secretary has managed not to be on speaking terms with the Government of either people. He has broken with Russia and he has refused to make any serious attempt to get into close relations with Chinese rulers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-28", "file": "debates1927-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0eadada60e14df8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1559.5", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME OFFICE ADMINISTRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Economy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "hing to do with the matter. That is the case, at all events so far as England is concerned; I will not answer for the position on the other side of the Border. I should like another Borstal institution, and I believe that it would be enormously to the benefit of this country if I could have one. It is merely a question of that troublesome finance which always dominates the House of Commons to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1559.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-28", "file": "debates1927-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0eadada60e14df8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME OFFICE ADMINISTRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "Here is a letter the man wrote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-28", "file": "debates1927-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0eadada60e14df8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1613.5", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONEYLENDERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENNISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENNISON", "preceding_text": "l affects a considerable proportion of the community, not necessarily moneylenders only, but it affects borrowers as well. I am speaking on behalf of both sections, not because I am going to borrow or to lend, because, as a Scotsman, I do not lend. My second reason for not lending is because I have nothing to lend. There is a great deal of difference between the word \"void\" and the word \"illegal.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1613.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-28", "file": "debates1927-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0eadada60e14df8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1616.0", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONEYLENDERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "I notice that hon. Members on the other side are very hilarious and delighted. I do not suppose that they took very much time to consider the evidence from the Select Committee or anything else in connection with this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-28", "file": "debates1927-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0eadada60e14df8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1616.5", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONEYLENDERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "Clause, in the framing of which we spent nearly two days in Committee upstairs, has been dismissed in another place and there has been substituted for it merely 12 lines, or about 50 words, with no explanation at all from the Noble Lord who moved the Amendment. To-night, for the first time, we hear two or three of the reasons why the new Clause has been substituted for the original Clause 6—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1616.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-28", "file": "debates1927-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0eadada60e14df8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1616.5", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONEYLENDERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "Lord who moved the Amendment. To-night, for the first time, we hear two or three of the reasons why the new Clause has been substituted for the original Clause 6—[ Interruption. ] If hon. Members will only be patient I will state my view very briefly. I do not propose to weary them because I know they are anxious to get away. The hon. and gallant Member might make himself intelligible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1616.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-28", "file": "debates1927-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0eadada60e14df8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1628.0", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRANSPORT LIGHTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "I do not think the House ought to allow this Bill to go through without understanding fully what it contains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-28", "file": "debates1927-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0eadada60e14df8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1637.3", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT, 1926.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "It is only fair to say that to some extent the Guardians have been relieved by the operation of the Contributory Pensions Act. I am informed that owing to that Act some £150 a week of reduction in their expenditure has been effected. No doubt also there is an improvement in the general condition of the district since the date when they took office", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-07-28", "file": "debates1927-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0eadada60e14df8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1638.1", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) ACT, 1926.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "n January had come down to £846. I think it is also interesting to note that whereas the number of unemployed on relief per 10,000 of the population was, in April, 1925, 285, and that in April, 1926, that was just before the General Strike, it had risen to 846, it is now 133, which is below the average of the whole of England and Wales. I frankly admit that economies may be too dearly bought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-07-28a.1638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-08", "file": "debates1927-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "65e66db80e1325eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-08a.27.3", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I should like to ask the Secretary of State for War whether any of these men were brought out of the workhouse, and how many of them have gone back?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-08a.27.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-08", "file": "debates1927-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "65e66db80e1325eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-08a.27.3", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I should like to ask the Secretary of State for War whether any of these men were brought out of the workhouse, and how many of them have gone back? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"] Why is there no answer to that question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-08a.27.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-08", "file": "debates1927-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "65e66db80e1325eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-08a.45.0", "colnum": "45", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "s will give one day's work to an unemployed workman, with the possible exception of the Cinematograph Films Bill, which those who have made a close study of it tell me is very doubtful in its effect on employment—it is very doubtful if it will assist British trade by finding work for British workmen. Unemployment is the crucial subject to-day. Winter is coming on with its cold and hardships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-08a.45.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-08", "file": "debates1927-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "65e66db80e1325eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-08a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "This is a Motion to take the time of private Members, and I think it is rather unbecoming that, out of more than 400 private Members on the other side of the House, not one has been found to raise his voice in protest against it. It is not as if this were the first time the rights of private Members have been assailed. So long as I have been in this House, and that is for nearly three years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-08a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-08", "file": "debates1927-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "65e66db80e1325eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-08a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": " allotted to speeches. Even on this particular Motion, which involves the rights of private Members, Front Bench Members get priority and speak for a considerably longer time than private Members on the subject. All these indications show that private Members ought to take steps to secure that these little privileges are not, one by one, taken away from us. I think it was Gladstone who said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-08a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-08", "file": "debates1927-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "65e66db80e1325eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-08a.53.0", "colnum": "53", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the paper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "entences: So we have a galaxy of Measures dealing with sleepy sickness, with the hours for the sale of tripe, with the dissemination of the dole, with cinemas, and the wearing of red lights on the tails of bicycles. But with the sleepy sickness of tax-bled industry, with the red light of growing international discord, with the tripe that is dressing their political windows, they are not concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-08a.53.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-08", "file": "debates1927-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "65e66db80e1325eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-08a.79.5", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "grammar and the geography of the situation. I was going to bring that in, as hon. Gentlemen opposite have brought in the grammar. It has a bearing on the tenant and the landlord. What is affecting us here, and what we have been sent here for, is to draw the attention of the Government to the fact that the tenants in this country are not able to pay the rents. There have been increased rents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-08a.79.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-08", "file": "debates1927-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "65e66db80e1325eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-08a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "Here we have an example of the difficulties which I pointed out at the beginning of the Debate this afternoon. The House has been asked to accept words without having had any opportunity of reading them, much less studying them. Consequently, we do not know exactly to what we are assenting. I understand that the leaders of the Opposition have had a copy of these Amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-08a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-08", "file": "debates1927-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "65e66db80e1325eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-08a.130.3", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " a full knowledge of all that it meant, of all its implications, and were quite sure as to its results.\" I cannot conceive of anyone taking exception to a situation of that kind and I am sure the Solicitor-General must feel himself embarrassed. He above everyone else has a moral, apart from a legal, responsibility. He has not the remotest notion what the hon. and learned Gentleman is going to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-08a.130.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-08", "file": "debates1927-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "65e66db80e1325eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-08a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. PILDITCH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. PILDITCH", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, I do move, subject to the suggestion I have made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-08a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-08", "file": "debates1927-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "65e66db80e1325eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-08a.147.2", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "ave moved. It is a plain and straightforward way of arriving at a decision. It is suggested to the House after very full consideration by my legal advisers, and I think it will give the benefit neither to the landlord nor to the tenant, and will be perfectly fair. There is the simple case of the pineapple and of the fruiterer who built up-quite a good business by his strict attention and industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-08a.147.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-09", "file": "debates1927-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3dd01dbee8e7270a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "The Minister has stated that it is a question of finance. We have just heard from another Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-09", "file": "debates1927-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3dd01dbee8e7270a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.184.2", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY OF HEALTH (Sir Kingsley Wood)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY OF HEALTH (Sir Kingsley Wood)", "preceding_text": "Since 1st January, 1925, 41 slum-clearance schemes, involving 4,439 properties, have been confirmed by my Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.184.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-09", "file": "debates1927-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3dd01dbee8e7270a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.203.2", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It never was!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland)", "preceding_text": "nemployed insured man a right to benefit if he satisfies certain conditions, with which I will deal in a few moments. I ask the House to mark the consequences which follow, necessarily, from setting up one unified scheme based on a statutory right. In the first place, extended benefit goes. If extended benefit goes, then the word \"dole,\" if ever it was applicable, is at least applicable no longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.203.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-09", "file": "debates1927-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3dd01dbee8e7270a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.213.2", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "de recur. On the other hand, we defer for the time being accepting the Committee's recommendations as regards reduction. The 6 per cent. figure of a normal average of unemployment is being criticised. I have taken all the extraneous expert advice I could, and I, personally, have come to the conclusion that it is at least as reasonable to take 6 per cent. for a continuing cycle as any other figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.213.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-09", "file": "debates1927-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3dd01dbee8e7270a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"720,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "peaking sincerely when you say you must take actuarial calculations and must be prudent. Where does it come in? The right hon. Gentleman said you may as well use 6 per cent. as any other figure. Has it not struck the House what that means? It means 650,000 persons permanently unemployed. There are 11,700.000 insured persons, and I do not think I am far out when I say 650,600 represents 6 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-09", "file": "debates1927-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3dd01dbee8e7270a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Eighty per cent!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "mployed. The public generally may believe that all those registered as unemployed are in receipt of benefit, but, on the average, out of every 1,000,000 returned as signing the unemployed register 820,000 only are in receipt of benefit or are having their claims investigated with a view to being admitted to benefit. At the moment, therefore, only about 8 per cent. are drawing unemployment benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-09", "file": "debates1927-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3dd01dbee8e7270a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain MACMILLAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Bill!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain MACMILLAN", "preceding_text": "ve up to now occupied the time of the House. This Debate is really of a rather academic character. Because whatever our views may be—and I wish, if I may, to be allowed to give my own views of the subject as shortly as I can a little later—about the future of unemployment insurance, or this particular Bill, this Bill must be passed into law substantially in the form in which it stands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-09", "file": "debates1927-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3dd01dbee8e7270a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "preceding_text": "ry training, which in many cases may be a very brief training. The whole ten- dency of our time shows that everyone is more and more dependent upon the results of scientific research and invention. In other words individualism is proving itself the dominant power. The crowd is becoming more and more dependent on the individual, and the individual is becoming more and more independent of the crowd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-09", "file": "debates1927-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3dd01dbee8e7270a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "but there is no more ardent fighter against piecemeal legislation than I am. Some of us on this side want a big constructive policy, and what we have against the Government in regard to the Report of the Blanesburgh Committee is that the terms of reference were so restricted that the Committee could not deal in a properly constructive way with one of the most important problems before the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-09", "file": "debates1927-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3dd01dbee8e7270a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ow that. It is going through, and we know that it will be very difficult for some members of the Opposition who realise it has got to go through, for some of the municipal elections have been fought on this Bill. It is easy enough to fight an election by telling people what you are going to do when you get in. Nobody but a lunatic has ever promised people Paradise by voting in men to run industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-09", "file": "debates1927-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3dd01dbee8e7270a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.275.0", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A scandal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": " like that, could not keep a girl on 8s. a week. I would ask the Minister to bear in mind that this is the period of life when the girl worker is most attractive. The dangers are most real if she is removed from home influence. She is faced with an appalling problem. For a girl like that to try to live on 15s. a week is an insoluble problem, and when the allowance is only 8s. it becomes a mockery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-09", "file": "debates1927-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3dd01dbee8e7270a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.285.0", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUKE THOMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUKE THOMPSON", "preceding_text": " insurance scheme. That a man who has had a period of 13 weeks, if he has a grievance, may appeal to a court of referees is, in my opinion, a very great advance on the system of the administration of the present Act regarding extended benefit. I have travelled rather further than I intended but I should like to add one word, and, if my right hon. Friend will pardon me, it is one word of criticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-09", "file": "debates1927-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3dd01dbee8e7270a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.291.4", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "r the people who were under consideration at the time. What is it that is wanted? Is it insurance? Is it to help over this period of unemployment? Is it to help our people who find themselves unemployed through no fault of their own, but through the fact that parties such as those in power and others who have been in power for lengthy periods have left us this very serious problem of unemployment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.291.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-09", "file": "debates1927-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3dd01dbee8e7270a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.309.3", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What unions go back to 1871?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ng in their unions. It is rather interesting to note the average figure of unemployment over that long period since 1871. I last worked out the figure about a year ago—if last year's unemployment returns had been included, the average would have been slightly worse—and found the average was, roughly, 4½ per cent., which is very much the same figure, curiously, as the actuary uses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.309.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-09", "file": "debates1927-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3dd01dbee8e7270a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "for Rochdale (Mr. Kelly) made an interesting speech, and he asked us to realise that some young men at the age of 19 got an adult's wage, and therefore he suggested that when out of work they should receive the full rate of benefit. The same hon. Member also told us that there were men of 19 who had the full responsibility of families placed upon them. I do not think men ought to be married at 19.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-09", "file": "debates1927-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3dd01dbee8e7270a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You did not fight.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "They were old enough to fight for you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-09", "file": "debates1927-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3dd01dbee8e7270a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name one!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " is essential. It is a matter of debate how long the waiting period should be, but that there should be a waiting period is essential. The practice of the Insurance Act is based upon the practice of those trade unions which for many years ran unemployment insurance schemes, the bulk of which, I understand, from all the information I have been able to gather, always insisted on some waiting period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-09", "file": "debates1927-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3dd01dbee8e7270a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not evidence!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "practice is universal I did not fortify myself. I am grateful to my hon. Friend who has passed me a copy of the Blanesburgh Report. On page 8, paragraph 6, it says: The general policy was to fix a maximum number of weeks for which benefit might be allowed, either continuously or within a given year; to insist that benefit should only begin after a 'waiting period'. I knew I had seen the statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-09", "file": "debates1927-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3dd01dbee8e7270a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " the Blanesburgh Report. On page 8, paragraph 6, it says: The general policy was to fix a maximum number of weeks for which benefit might be allowed, either continuously or within a given year; to insist that benefit should only begin after a 'waiting period'. I knew I had seen the statement. [An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not evidence!\"] It is not evidence, but it has the merit that it is in a document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-09a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-10", "file": "debates1927-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e61a243334c4904e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-10a.347.5", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Will you allow the right hon. Gentleman to answer that question. It is because they cannot afford to buy better milk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-10a.347.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-10", "file": "debates1927-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e61a243334c4904e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-10a.415.8", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": "The Government have always regarded extended benefit as being purely the charity of the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-10a.415.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-10", "file": "debates1927-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e61a243334c4904e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-10a.415.8", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": "overnment have always regarded extended benefit as being purely the charity of the State. [Interruption.] Any hon. Member who thinks this matter over calmly will see that extended benefit was granted owing to the circumstances of the time, and it has since been continued. That is the reason why all the insurance schemes have got into debt and the workers are now living on the charity of the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-10a.415.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-11-10", "file": "debates1927-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e61a243334c4904e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-10a.416.2", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Which country?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": "It is apparent that there are two great economic principles dividing the two sections of this House. One of them is a very important principle which has been taught by political economists for many years, and to-day it is quoted as being responsible for the great prosperity of a country some distance on the other side of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-10a.416.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-11-10", "file": "debates1927-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e61a243334c4904e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-10a.416.6", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Is it out of order to put a question asking the hon. Member to what country he referred?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members in all quarters of the House often have to listen to uncomplimentary remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-10a.416.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-10", "file": "debates1927-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e61a243334c4904e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-10a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": " for West Nottingham (Mr. Hayday) went to the uttermost limit in order to prove his case when he said or inferred that owing to the reduction of benefit for young women many of them would be tempted to become prostitutes. I say that that is a disgraceful reflection for the hon. Member to make against young women, because it amounts to saying that they have to be paid in order to keep their virtue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-10a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-10", "file": "debates1927-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e61a243334c4904e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-10a.436.2", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "hat money.\" There is an alteration which must be made in the Bill if it is to be acceptable at all. The Committee recommended that the Government should pay one-third. The Government have not done so; they pay a penny less than the others. I would like to see it provided that the Government pay not one-third but one-half. I would like to see the Government pay the whole lot, were it not for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-10a.436.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-10", "file": "debates1927-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e61a243334c4904e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-10a.436.2", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "but is bringing to absolute ruin the shopkeepers in those areas. From my own constituency I have led two deputations to the Minister of Health, and we begged him almost on our knees to authorise us to raise further overdrafts. We cannot ask the people to pay more rates and we dare not, as we are human beings, ask the guardians to refuse relief to the class of persons who are driven to seek relief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-10a.436.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-10", "file": "debates1927-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e61a243334c4904e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-10a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RITSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They never will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RITSON", "preceding_text": "e had 172,000 men employed in the mines. Some 15 months later we had 47,000 thrown out, and I would ask hon. Members to remember that not one of these men, apart from the time when we had the subsidy which brought back 22,000, has had a day's work since, and cannot possibly hope to get one. How they are going to qualify under this Bill, heaven only knows. I wish the Minister would give us an idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-10a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-10", "file": "debates1927-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e61a243334c4904e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-10a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RITSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is, that they are a trouble to keep!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RITSON", "preceding_text": "know that many of them do not believe in giving tips. None of us believe in living on a precarious thing such as a tip. To do the Committee credit I must say that after putting forward the case of this girl of 29, who had been offered 10s. a week and had been struck off because she refused the job, they did her justice. As a father of a large family I know that if there is one thing certain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-10a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-10", "file": "debates1927-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e61a243334c4904e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-10a.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "What is the evil tendency which 8s. a week will minimise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-10a.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-11", "file": "debates1927-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e51933d3281985c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-11a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. PILDITCH", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. PILDITCH", "preceding_text": " years. I suggested, and others suggested, 14 years, and on the first Division the proposal to have 14 years instead of 21 years was accepted by 18 to 16. But I would like to remind my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary of the circumstances of that particular majority. The 18 was derived from that part of the House wherein, it is well known, the common-sense of the House generally resides—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-11a.528.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-11", "file": "debates1927-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e51933d3281985c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-11a.578.3", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "preceding_text": "I had not the advantage of hearing the Home Secretary explaining the scope of this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-11a.578.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-14", "file": "debates1927-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f09dd34d28c0e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.598.4", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the Maharaja flatly contradicts this statement that he voluntarily accepted the position in which he finds himself, and is it not a fact that he has an income in excess of the Viceroy's income?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.598.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-14", "file": "debates1927-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f09dd34d28c0e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.628.6", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "nking that something which is so obviously uncivilised and unchristian should require investigation by a Committee 1 Do they not feel ashamed that in a Christian State, so-called, it should be necessary to appoint a Committee to investigate a case where men naked and with ropes round their waists are hauling boxes of coal through a mine. Is that not an uncivilised and unchristian state of affairs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.628.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-14", "file": "debates1927-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f09dd34d28c0e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.672.3", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PART I.—(Restrictions on Blind Booking and Advance Booking and Advance Booking of Films.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£20.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "nother Amendment in the name of the right hon. and gallant Gentleman, or one of his friends, dealing with the penalty Clause, and reducing the amount of penalty from £100. I have gone through the Bill carefully, and I think it would be more consistent with Clause 23 and other provisions of the Bill if the maximum penalty were reduced to £50, and I should be quite prepared to accept that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.672.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-14", "file": "debates1927-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f09dd34d28c0e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.681.4", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PART I.—(Restrictions on Blind Booking and Advance Booking and Advance Booking of Films.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "On the strength of this Bill. Therefore, as a result of the introduction of this Bill, we have the cheapest possible form of credit, namely, a willing subscription to ordinary shares without any Government guarantee behind it at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.681.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-14", "file": "debates1927-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f09dd34d28c0e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.683.0", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PART I.—(Restrictions on Blind Booking and Advance Booking and Advance Booking of Films.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "a good idea as to what will suit the public, go forward with it, but you must only engage a picture when it has been shown at some trade show. That is such a restriction upon industry that I am amazed at the Government coming forward with it. I am pleased that the President of the Board of Trade has realised that London is not the centre of the universe, and is not even the centre of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.683.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-14", "file": "debates1927-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f09dd34d28c0e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PART I.—(Restrictions on Blind Booking and Advance Booking and Advance Booking of Films.)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "preceding_text": "in advance which one has not seen and block booking is the booking of a block of films whether they have been produced or not. In many ways in Committee the right lion. Gentleman met us very fairly, but on other occasions, rather than have any opposition put up from our benches, the Closure was moved ruthlessly, and there are many points in the Bill that we did not have an opportunity of debating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-14", "file": "debates1927-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f09dd34d28c0e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PART I.—(Restrictions on Blind Booking and Advance Booking and Advance Booking of Films.)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Some very bad ones, too!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "preceding_text": "ir business. When any British film has been produced that has any merit or drawing power the exhibitors in this country have only been too glad immediately to book the film without any statutory obligation compelling them to do so. I \"do not think there is any more loyal body of citizens than the exhibitors. They have loyally shown and have done so ever since 1914 every film of a patriotic nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-14", "file": "debates1927-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f09dd34d28c0e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PART I.—(Restrictions on Blind Booking and Advance Booking and Advance Booking of Films.)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "preceding_text": "n during the past year, and that one of these films had cost half-a-million. I suggest that if the President of the Board of Trade could look back to last February and have his time over again, he would think twice before bringing in such a Bill as this. There are many evils in connection with this Bill, and one of them is the evil of the bogus cinema schools. I have just mislaid the notification.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-14", "file": "debates1927-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f09dd34d28c0e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.723.0", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 3.—(Penalty on Contraventions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Blind booking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "This is all very amusing from the point of view of legal phraseology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.723.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-14", "file": "debates1927-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f09dd34d28c0e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.738.3", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 5.—(Prohibition against exhibition of unregistered films.)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have amended it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "That is where you have made a mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.738.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-14", "file": "debates1927-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f09dd34d28c0e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 6.—(Registration of Films.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Time for leisure!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "s to the enormous work which he is putting upon the Advisory Committee, for his Amendment proposes that every single film, British or foreign, which comes to a trade show, that is 800 or 900 films in the course of a year, shall be seen by the Advisory Committee or possibly by the President of the Board of Trade. The President of the Board of Trade would not have very much time left for other work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-14", "file": "debates1927-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f09dd34d28c0e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.786.0", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 8.—(Correction of Register.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And on the Continent! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": " ask, what is the Conservative party going to do about it? I would point out that there is no question here of an obscure publication with a negligible circulation, which might very properly be ignored. The \"Daily Mail\" is a paper with the largest circulation in the country, running, I believe, into several millions, and it penetrates into practically every village and hamlet in the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-14", "file": "debates1927-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f09dd34d28c0e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.786.0", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 8.—(Correction of Register.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": " in responsible quarters and he does not bring forward a reply to that attack, then the worst is assumed. I submit that the same thing applies to the reputation of a Government. If the honour of a Government is assailed, as the honour of this Government is assailed in this instance, from a responsible quarter, and no reply is given to that charge, then I say we are justified in assuming the worst.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-14", "file": "debates1927-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f09dd34d28c0e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.786.0", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 8.—(Correction of Register.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Nothing! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "] I do not know that I have caught the interruptions aright, but certainly the Conservative Government has had a great deal to thank the \" Daily Mail \" for in the past, when we remember the Red Letter. Anyhow, my case is not an elaborate one. I have stated it. I want to know what the Government is going to do about the matter. What will the ordinary plain men and women of this country think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-14", "file": "debates1927-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f09dd34d28c0e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.788.0", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 8.—(Correction of Register.)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GIBBS (Treasurer of the Household)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GIBBS (Treasurer of the Household)", "preceding_text": "s friends have in the \"Daily Mail.\" He says we have been assailed in a responsible quarter, and that responsible quarter appears to be the \" Daily Mail.\" For my part, and for the part of my friends, I do not suppose it matters in the least what the \" Daily Mail \" says. The Prime Minister himself said on Thursday that if he were to make inquiries into all the charges that appear in the Press—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.788.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-14", "file": "debates1927-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f09dd34d28c0e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.789.0", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 8.—(Correction of Register.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I wish to add one remark to what the hon. and gallant Gentleman has told us. The quarrel now is between the \" Daily Mail \" and the Government. My hon. Friend only relied on the \"Daily Mail.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-14", "file": "debates1927-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f09dd34d28c0e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.789.0", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 8.—(Correction of Register.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \" Did you believe that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " of his speech, which is more than hon. Members did who came in late. The Government is willing now to jeer at the \" Daily Mail \" and to twit us with paying attention to what it says. At the last General Election they owed hundreds of thousands of votes to the \" Daily Mail,\" and to its influence in frightening the people. The \" Daily Mail,\" by its exposure of the so-called Zinovieff letter —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-14", "file": "debates1927-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f09dd34d28c0e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.789.0", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 8.—(Correction of Register.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You were anti-Socialist yourself! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " \" Daily Mail \" and to twit us with paying attention to what it says. At the last General Election they owed hundreds of thousands of votes to the \" Daily Mail,\" and to its influence in frightening the people. The \" Daily Mail,\" by its exposure of the so-called Zinovieff letter —[An Hon. Member: \" Did you believe that?\"]—obtained scores of thousands of votes for the present Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-14", "file": "debates1927-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f09dd34d28c0e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.789.0", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 8.—(Correction of Register.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " vote for a Conservative Government, but because of this terrible plot from Moscow. The hon. and gallant Member for Stirling and Clackmannan, Western (Captain Fanshawe), just now made a remark about trade unions. I rather think he, a Member of Parliament, is fathering a so-called non-political union among the miners in his Division, and they are getting funds from the Sailors' and Firemen's Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-14", "file": "debates1927-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f09dd34d28c0e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 8.—(Correction of Register.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Election expenses!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "be compelled to place their financial cards on the table. No man or woman in this House, and no hon. or right hon. Member would question the integrity of Lord Rosebery. He has demanded that the facts should be placed before the people. He, with his experience, points out that it is a fact that honours are being sold. There are some hon. Members of this House who have paid something for being here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-14", "file": "debates1927-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f09dd34d28c0e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 8.—(Correction of Register.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is dead !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "[HON. MEMBERS: \"Election expenses!\"] i have never had anything with which to buy a seat. I have had to buy it with the power of my own personality. I say to hon. Members opposite, \" Come and contest against me.\" With all your money thick upon you, you would not stand a cat's chance. I associate myself with the demand for an inquiry. Are you afraid of Lord Northcliffe launching charges against you?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-14", "file": "debates1927-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f09dd34d28c0e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 8.—(Correction of Register.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Do you believe them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ods they adopt and the methods we have to adopt. Our trade unions have to make an annual report to the Registrar-General of their funds and how they spend them. You believe the charges made against the trade unions by the \"Daily Mail,\" you broadcast them throughout the country and make them public on every party platform. They are used as political propaganda by hon. Members of the opposite party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-14", "file": "debates1927-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f09dd34d28c0e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 8.—(Correction of Register.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why do you believe this charge?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "de unions have to make an annual report to the Registrar-General of their funds and how they spend them. You believe the charges made against the trade unions by the \"Daily Mail,\" you broadcast them throughout the country and make them public on every party platform. They are used as political propaganda by hon. Members of the opposite party. [An HON. MEMBER: \" Do you believe them?\"] Why should I?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-14a.791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-15", "file": "debates1927-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "f0eb93e6f286d37d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-15a.828.7", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "And more drunk enness, and may I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-15a.828.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-15", "file": "debates1927-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "f0eb93e6f286d37d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-15a.833.2", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "But could not this question have gone down on the Order Paper in the usual way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-15a.833.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-15", "file": "debates1927-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "f0eb93e6f286d37d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-15a.908.2", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\" \"He may be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "summoned for not having a licence or for having forgotten it, who is a month behindhand, is not mulcted in a very heavy fine. It may be £l or £2; sometimes, possibly, £5 in the case of some benches. At any rate, the penalties are moderate and are suited to the offence, if I may put it so. Under this Clause a man who forgets for only one week to take out a licence is fined £140.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-15a.908.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-15", "file": "debates1927-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "f0eb93e6f286d37d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-15a.911.0", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is trying to find an excuse for what is not in the Bill. The words in the Bill are If any person carries on such business as aforesaid. We have included the exhibitor in this Clause. I forget what he does. Take the case of an exhibitor who has acquired a film for public exhibition in Great Britain. The exhibitor cannot possibly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-15a.911.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-15", "file": "debates1927-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "f0eb93e6f286d37d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-15a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "preceding_text": "t we have here in London. I have here another one which really states the position of the poor exhibitor in the West End of London at the present time: As a further example of the extravagant prices that British film producers are quoting for their pictures, I should like you to know that the Gaumont Film Company are asking £2,000 for a month's run of the film entitled 'The Glad Eye.' …", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-15a.924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-15", "file": "debates1927-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "f0eb93e6f286d37d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-15a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "preceding_text": "e 'Compulsory Films' Bill because they fail to see how a commercial product, which serves artistic and entertainment purposes, can be made in quality by the compulsory exhibition of a statutory quantity. If British films had the quality, we could be certain of the quantity. That has been the contention right through. The quotation is from the \"Daily Express,\" which supports the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-15a.924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-15", "file": "debates1927-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "f0eb93e6f286d37d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-15a.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "rinciple in industry. I should like to quote from an evening newspaper, tonight, the \"Evening Standard,\" in which the editor says: Scarcely any Measure introduced into Parliament of recent years has had fewer friends. Not only were its specific Clauses picked to pieces yesterday, but the whole conception of the Bill is felt to be futile. This is one of the newspapers which supports the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-15a.941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-15", "file": "debates1927-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "f0eb93e6f286d37d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-15a.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "the necessity for having British films shown to the natives of other parts of the Empire, and it struck me that there was something quite indefensible in subjecting the cinematograph exhibitors and the public of this country to what is involved by this Measure in order to protect the moral of the natives in some other parts of the British Empire. This Bill is not going to do anything of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-15a.944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-15", "file": "debates1927-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "f0eb93e6f286d37d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-15a.946.0", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "I have been conferring with my colleagues and we are prepared to make the Government an offer. If they will drop this Clause and also Clause 20 referring to the prohibition against carying on the business of an exhibitor unless licensed, we will not offer any further opposition to this Bill either during the Report Stage or on the Third Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-15a.946.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-15", "file": "debates1927-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "f0eb93e6f286d37d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-15a.956.4", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It says not exceeding £20!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "ry on the part of an individual. I understand that this is a £1 licence, and for not taking out that licence the penalty is to be £20 per day. I will not quote the motor driver, but what about the milk adulterator or the food poisoner? Here we have leniency meted out to those who practice food adulteration, but compare that with the £20 per day fine which is imposed under this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-15a.956.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-17", "file": "debates1927-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b41723aa6c1135a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-17a.1239.5", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What were you doing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " whose husbands or sons were in the trenches at that time in Flanders, so you can understand the type of individual that we had to deal with at that time in Glasgow. That was the reason why this Act was passed. The Clyde at that time stopped work, and we stopped work because the property owners were increasing the rents of the soldiers' wives while the soldiers were fighting in the trenches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-17a.1239.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-17", "file": "debates1927-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b41723aa6c1135a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-17a.1244.2", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "never satisfied. I wish it were possible for us to get hon. Members opposite really to understand what it is that is involved here. It is proposed to take off this Rent Restrictions Act, which would empower landlords to raise rents at a time when the whole tendency is towards reducing the means of those who have to pay the rents. Wages are being reduced all round. This nice, kind Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-17a.1244.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-17", "file": "debates1927-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b41723aa6c1135a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-17a.1244.2", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "—[ Laughter ]. It is no use my calling them names any more. I am tired of calling them murderers and robbers and all the rest of it. It is like pouring water on a drowned mouse. But the fact remains that this Government, composed of men who are supposed to understand, even they, with all their understanding, with all their power, the most powerful Government in the world in my opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-17a.1244.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-17", "file": "debates1927-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b41723aa6c1135a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-17a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GILLETT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And in Oxford!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GILLETT", "preceding_text": " connection with the Measure we are now considering—the Rent Restrictions Act—we can possibly think for many years to come of removing such a Measure. I am amazed at the hon. and gallant Member for Oxford (Captain Bourne). It is only charitable to him to think that the hon. and gallant Member cannot have any conception of what the housing conditions are in the centre of our great city.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-17a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-17", "file": "debates1927-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b41723aa6c1135a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-17a.1260.1", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RYE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RYE", "preceding_text": "All I am endeavouring to do is to show that the Parliamentary Secretary was acting quite properly in suggesting the Government might have brought in an amending Measure, and I was endeavouring to show in what way such a Measure was necessary. Since I have begun to raise the point, I am beginning to think I am wrong, since I have the support of hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-17a.1260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-18", "file": "debates1927-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "c3b8034c497840f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-18a.1304.0", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where did he find it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "t this Bill will lead to a general rise in rents, and give rise to suspicion in regard to the security of property. The hon. Member for Spelthorne, in language which I cannot understand and which seems to be common on the other side of the House, said that this Bill is going to interfere with the equitable arrangements between two capitalists, and one of them is the landlord who provides the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-18a.1304.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-18", "file": "debates1927-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "c3b8034c497840f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-18a.1311.0", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN POWER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN POWER", "preceding_text": "owledge beyond the general talk, which is not of very much value, as to how many authenticated cases of real hardship there have been to justify the introduction of this Bill. There may have been a great many. Personally, I do not think that there have been as many as one would think; because most of these cases of so-called hardship—I do not deny that there are real cases of hardship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-18a.1311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-18", "file": "debates1927-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "c3b8034c497840f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-18a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"It is a wash-out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "ight the case. The earnest, honest man, the small business man, will have to lose anything he has in his pocket in legal expenses. What is the use of Tory Members or Members of any party in this House boasting that this is some big Measure, some great step forward? It is nothing of the kind, and the years, as they go on, will show in your courts that it is absolutely of no advantage to the tenant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-18a.1333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-18", "file": "debates1927-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "c3b8034c497840f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-18a.1336.1", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The tenant!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "preceding_text": "imate of the cost? Has he ever ventured to go into this matter at all? One hon. Member, I forget who it was, suggested that there ought to have been some inquiry. If we were a business assembly, if we had a businesslike Government, of course there would have been an inquiry, and we should have had some figures showing what charges we shall be putting upon property. Who is going to pay the charges?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-18a.1336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-18", "file": "debates1927-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "c3b8034c497840f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-18a.1344.2", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major PRICE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major PRICE", "preceding_text": "What do you mean by Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-18a.1344.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-18", "file": "debates1927-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "c3b8034c497840f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-18a.1368.0", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "preceding_text": "That is not a true statement-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-18a.1368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-18", "file": "debates1927-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "c3b8034c497840f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-18a.1370.5", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "on of Land Act. We refused that because we thought it was undesirable to incur the expense which that course would necessitate. The hon. and learned Gentleman then asked, \"Who is going to pay these persons?\" They will be paid in precisely the same way as an arbitrator appointed under the Lands Clauses Act. He will be paid the fee which the parties either agree to pay or are directed by him to pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-18a.1370.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-18", "file": "debates1927-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "c3b8034c497840f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-18a.1371.1", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ember, with the procedure which has been invariably adopted for providing remuneration for men of integrity and ability who are accustomed to undertake the task of arbitrating in friendly proceedings between persons who are not able to agree. It is all very well to laugh and say the price is not a trade union rate, but everybody knows that arbitration is much cheaper than litigation in the Courts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-18a.1371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-21", "file": "debates1927-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "60d2b3214ba9f10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-21a.1423.5", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that in West Ham they collect this money in the first week that the patients enter. May I tell him, they do not sign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-21a.1423.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-21", "file": "debates1927-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "60d2b3214ba9f10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-21a.1449.2", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not necessarily!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "I wanted to put this point; that the words \"insured contributor\" presumes the payment of contributions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-21a.1449.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-21", "file": "debates1927-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "60d2b3214ba9f10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-21a.1470.3", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " to a total of 700,000. Then, according to the words of the other Amendments, the contributor would be entitled to receive the benefit of the provisions of the Unemployment Insurance Acts, 1920 to 1926. That would mean that the benefit under the provisions of the Unemployment Insurance Acts, 1920 to 1926, including extended benefit and the rest of it, would apply when unemployment was lower—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-21a.1470.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-21", "file": "debates1927-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "60d2b3214ba9f10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-21a.1527.0", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ion of questions in the middle of a speech makes a speech take longer than it otherwise would. That was the reason why my hon. Friend was not then able to give this information, which he fully intended to give. The charge has been made that by our present administration we are driving claimants to the guardians. All I can say is that whoever makes that statement has no justification for making it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-21a.1527.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-21", "file": "debates1927-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "60d2b3214ba9f10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-21a.1548.1", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "ve the qualifications that are demanded under this first Clause? The right hon. Member for Shettleston (Mr. Wheatley) spoke of the suggestion that has been made of these people going from gate to gate. I feel bitter many times when I hear the suggestion made that men and women should go from gate to gate asking for work in order to prove that they are complying with the statutory conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-21a.1548.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-11-22", "file": "debates1927-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "49f86a2f4d9fc4ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-22a.1645.1", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (STATUTORY COMMISSION BILL) [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, no! Only the Labour party.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "tment is unfortunate at a time when a certain book has been published. I want to suggest that such a situation and such an atmosphere have been created by that book in India and in this country, that it is most unfortunate that the proposal for the Commission should come forward at this time. Every Member of Parliament—this has been duly noted in India—has received a copy of that book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-22a.1645.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-22", "file": "debates1927-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "49f86a2f4d9fc4ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-22a.1645.2", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (STATUTORY COMMISSION BILL) [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "hich there were present a very large number of influential women called together by one of the large women's societies. I was amazed at a body like that being so bitterly anti-Indian as a result of that book. In fact, when one of the Labour women present tried to put the point of view of Indian opinion, she was actually hissed in a gathering which included one Duchess, several Viscountesses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-22a.1645.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-11-22", "file": "debates1927-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "49f86a2f4d9fc4ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-22a.1646.0", "colnum": "1646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (STATUTORY COMMISSION BILL) [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "It is an American book!", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "ld therefore suggest that the subject be treated with something like the gravity that it deserves. At that meeting, where, as I say, every kind of women's cause was represented, the atmosphere showed clearly how terrible, from the Indian point of view, have been the results of that book. There is a general feeling that the book was not written without Government connivance, to say the least of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-22a.1645.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-22", "file": "debates1927-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "49f86a2f4d9fc4ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-22a.1646.4", "colnum": "1646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (STATUTORY COMMISSION BILL) [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "I rise for the purpose of supporting briefly the Amendment, and I do so because I believe the Government have played their cards very badly indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-22a.1646.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-22", "file": "debates1927-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "49f86a2f4d9fc4ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-22a.1665.2", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the Money Resolution?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "May I submit that, if this Amendment were incorporated in the Clause, and then were read with paragraph ( b ) of Sub-section (1) of the Clause and the Second Schedule, it is perfectly clear that a charge would be imposed in respect of all persons under 18, and that that is not contemplated in the Money Resolution on which the Bill is based.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-22a.1665.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-22", "file": "debates1927-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "49f86a2f4d9fc4ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-22a.1673.3", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Separate establishments from their parents homes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "ing independently from his or her parents is whether he or she is married. If there are any young people between 18 and 21 who are married and keeping up separate establishments we have to provide for these persons. Is it seriously to be said that people between the ages of 18 and 21 who are married and are keeping up separate establishments and are unemployed should not receive adequate benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-22a.1673.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-22", "file": "debates1927-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "49f86a2f4d9fc4ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-22a.1688.3", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "nderstood because this Bill will have to be understood by the poor people who are suffering unemployment. The Minister need not try to skate off from these points with the superior air of understanding and of great insight, and he need not seek to tell us what is going to happen in the matter of industrial development a year from now. That is skating on very thin ice and is trying to fly too high.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-22a.1688.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-22", "file": "debates1927-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "49f86a2f4d9fc4ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-22a.1749.2", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Safe-guarding!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": "clined to put questions to later witnesses. I am not exaggerating when I describe that as an exercise in the gentle art of suggestion, and the Chairman of the Committee proceeded at once to act upon it, at first without success. The Committee next received evidence from the Iron and Steel Federation, and in that evidence there was no demand of this kind whatever. Then we go a little further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-22a.1749.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-23", "file": "debates1927-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f60950c28224ba4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-23a.1771.6", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "Does participation in Parliamentary elections include the right of putting questions from the body of the hall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-23a.1771.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-11-23", "file": "debates1927-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f60950c28224ba4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-23a.1772.5", "colnum": "1772", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "Will the First Lord bear in mind that the country will be very well pleased if he will drop the other cruiser from his programme this year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-23a.1772.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-23", "file": "debates1927-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f60950c28224ba4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-23a.1831.6", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (STATUTORY COMMISSION) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "tion by the Under-Secretary is that he, the Noble Lord, is representative of Indian opinion. There is at least this much to be said for the hon. Member for North Battersea. He is at least representative of Indian opinion to the extent of one, that is, himself, whereas the Noble Lord is not representative of Indian opinion even to that extent. How far are we all representative of our own Divisions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-23a.1831.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-23", "file": "debates1927-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f60950c28224ba4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-23a.1846.0", "colnum": "1846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (STATUTORY COMMISSION) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ed. I have stated that the contrary is the case, but apparently some hon. Members do not believe what I said. The hon. Member for East Middlesbrough (Miss Wilkinson) said that she did not believe the first hand evidence of my hon. Friend the Member for Penryn and Falmouth (Mr. Pilcher), who himself was a Member of the Assembly, and who has already given the sense of the Resolution that was passed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-23a.1846.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-23", "file": "debates1927-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f60950c28224ba4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-23a.1937.5", "colnum": "1937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again.\" I move this Motion on the ground that the indignation on this side of the House is such as to prevent any reasonable discussion—indignation which I venture to say, is shared by every one of us who saw the incident and heard what took place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-23a.1937.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-24", "file": "debates1927-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "613c3ba387192384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-24a.2117.3", "colnum": "2117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "er should be fully explored in a serious way. This is not merely a matter of what the Naval War Staff think. There is a political aspect which must be considered. In connection with this, the Foreign Secretary asked what country have done more for European peace than we had done with our Locarno Agreement? What do we get out of Locarno? I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman is not in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-24a.2117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-24", "file": "debates1927-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "613c3ba387192384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-24a.2117.3", "colnum": "2117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "hould ask for a maritime Locarno in return. France is building this very large number of submarines to which I have referred. Is she prepared to guarantee our trade against attack and against aggressive warfare in the future? If we agree to cut down our naval armaments below the 70 cruiser figure which the Admiralty demand, is America prepared to guarantee our shipping in the Atlantic from attack?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-24a.2117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-24", "file": "debates1927-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "613c3ba387192384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-24a.2162.1", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "preceding_text": "things in the world. The right hon. Member who has just spoken, equally with the Leader of the Opposition, seemed to lament the lingering death of the Protocol. I fail, really, to understand how it is that hon. Members opposite have such a deep sympathy with and love for the Protocol. Inevitably and essentially the Protocol means for us an extension of our commitments and greater responsibilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-24a.2162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-24", "file": "debates1927-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "613c3ba387192384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-24a.2187.1", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": " Members opposite, which are far outside the question of mere limitation of naval armaments? At any rate, if you mean by the words of your Motion that we went with out preparation ourselves, I entirely deny it. We went most carefully prepared. We thought out a very elaborate plan, and I would like to ask whether any other country which went to that Conference was as well prepared as we were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-24a.2187.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-11-24", "file": "debates1927-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "613c3ba387192384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-24a.2191.0", "colnum": "2191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "sarily vociferous section of the party opposite. I am sorry that some of them are not here to-night to applaud what I have to say. I find that on the 12th March of this year the right hon. Member for Shettleston (Mr. Wheatley), in describing in a paper called \"Forward\" the movement to which he belongs, said: We are not Imperialists in the sense that we would grab more territory for Britain\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-24a.2187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-24", "file": "debates1927-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "613c3ba387192384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-24a.2196.1", "colnum": "2196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": " were pre-War and then you have a magnificent comparison, and you can go to a League of Nations meeting and say, \"Now, see how we have reduced the aggressive strength of the British Navy.\" Taking 75 per cent. makes £85,000,000, and that is the equivalent of the amount spent in 1913–14. But this year our Estimates are £58,000,000, so that we are £27,000,000 below 1913–14.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-24a.2196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-25", "file": "debates1927-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8cfdc656d862ff43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-25a.2215.1", "colnum": "2215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ACT.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Earl Winterton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Earl Winterton)", "preceding_text": "scaped the attention of the Members of the House, if they read the Debate, that there was a very striking confirmation of that statement from a distinguished and Noble Lord who held high office in the Government of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Aberavon (Mr. MacDonald), and who was himself an ex-Viceroy of India, Lord Chelmsford. He agreed with Lord Birkenhead in the latter's view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-25a.2215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-25", "file": "debates1927-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8cfdc656d862ff43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-25a.2235.0", "colnum": "2235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HAMILTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HAMILTON", "preceding_text": "this step is, and must be, ours. That being so, I think we may be satisfied that a delegation chosen fairly and equally to represent the different bodies of opinion in this House, is one that is fully qualified to consider with a free and open mind all the views that will be put before it in India. I may say that, speaking on behalf of the party with which I have the honour to be associated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-25a.2235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-25", "file": "debates1927-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8cfdc656d862ff43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-25a.2272.0", "colnum": "2272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": " are an Asiatic people, full of religious superstition.\" I have come from a second visit to Russia, and I unhesitatingly say, I say it seriously and most earnestly, that the British people ought to go and learn from Lunacharski how in six years he has taken in hand all the Asiatic peoples of the Soviet Republic and turned illiteracy into literacy producing a good, scientific, well-educated people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-25a.2272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-25", "file": "debates1927-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8cfdc656d862ff43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-25a.2272.0", "colnum": "2272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "and all the Asiatic peoples of the Soviet Republic and turned illiteracy into literacy producing a good, scientific, well-educated people. [ Laughter .] Yes, those who are too blind to see with their eyes, those who are too deaf to hear with their ears, may laugh, but the fact remains that when the political tyranny of the Tsar was removed, and when real freedom came to the people of Russia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-25a.2272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-25", "file": "debates1927-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8cfdc656d862ff43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-25a.2289.2", "colnum": "2289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ll be put forward at that Joint Committee. Therefore, in the last resort, at the last moment, before any legislation has been framed or any scheme formulated, the voice of India will be heard clearly and on equal terms with the British Commission. I am vain enough to think that the Labour party would have managed the initial procedure much better than it has been managed by the present Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-25a.2289.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-28", "file": "debates1927-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "832399dddcd0018a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.79.3", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": " breach of regulations at his work, and that he is available for work —that ought to satisfy the machinery of an insurance scheme in order that he may be admitted to benefit. We hear a great deal of the value and virtues of insurance schemes in general, and the Minis- ter has likened this to fire insurance; but surely, when you demonstrate that the house is burnt, the insurance is met—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.79.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-28", "file": "debates1927-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "832399dddcd0018a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.85.4", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "eems to me the whole attack is directed against in some cases the officials and in others the committee. These committees consist in part of representatives of the insured persons, who are in a great many cases members of trade unions, and the persons who are in part responsible for these decisions to which hon. Members object are members of some of the very unions to which they themselves belong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.85.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-11-28", "file": "debates1927-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "832399dddcd0018a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.87.0", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What is wrong with it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "t where a man is unemployed and really has a statutory right to benefit, if he is genuinely seeking work the onus of proof should be upon those who are withholding benefits from him? I have just had put into my hand a definition. It is the decision of an Umpire: In considering whether a person is genuinely seeking work the most important fact to be ascertained is the state of the applicant's mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.86.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-11-28", "file": "debates1927-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "832399dddcd0018a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.87.2", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Finish the paragraph.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "I do not say there is anything wrong with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.87.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-28", "file": "debates1927-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "832399dddcd0018a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.87.3", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not in full!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "prefers benefit to wages, or is content, to be without work so long as she receive benefit, it may be presumed that she is not genuinely seeking work. Action is guided by desire, and whilst few people genuinely seek what they do not desire, most people genuinely seek what they really desire. Do hon. Members want any more read? Surely the extract which I have been constrained to read in full—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.87.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-28", "file": "debates1927-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "832399dddcd0018a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.87.3", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "ly seek what they really desire. Do hon. Members want any more read? Surely the extract which I have been constrained to read in full—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Not in full!\"]—-to the end of the paragraph, if it does anything at all, proves my contention that this is an exceedingly difficult thing to define. I am sure hon. Members opposite, who regard this matter with a good deal of levity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.87.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-28", "file": "debates1927-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "832399dddcd0018a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.91.1", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No one else has mentioned the second condition. You are mixing it up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "It is recognised that you must have some test, and the Debate so far has confused the two issues. \"Genuinely looking for work\" is confused with \"reasonably looking for work.\" This is distinctly another Section regulating extended benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.91.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-28", "file": "debates1927-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "832399dddcd0018a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the cases?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "I have stated that of the rank and file the great bulk of the unemployed take no advantage whatever, but I say that, taking the number of hard cases, such as have been quoted by the right hon. Member for Preston (Mr. T. Shaw), the late Minister of Labour, there is something to be said on the other side that certain people have taken advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-28", "file": "debates1927-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "832399dddcd0018a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.96.5", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.96.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-28", "file": "debates1927-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "832399dddcd0018a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain A. EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain A. EVANS", "preceding_text": "to give fair play to the insured man. There is a point which has not been dealt with so far, and it is this, that my right hon. Friend has not only a duty to the insured contributor who is out of work, but also a very grave duty to the insured contributor who is in employment. The main remarks of the right hon. Gentleman opposite and his friends are criticisms directed against the rota committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-28", "file": "debates1927-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "832399dddcd0018a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain A. EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain A. EVANS", "preceding_text": "en dealt with so far, and it is this, that my right hon. Friend has not only a duty to the insured contributor who is out of work, but also a very grave duty to the insured contributor who is in employment. The main remarks of the right hon. Gentleman opposite and his friends are criticisms directed against the rota committees. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"] A number of wild accusations have been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.104.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-28", "file": "debates1927-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "832399dddcd0018a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much higher?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "preceding_text": " the \"Labour Gazette,\" is a very serious discrepancy. Having made these variations and allowances, which I have tried to do in my own way, I cannot see how the ultimate figure of 26,000 is an adequate figure. On my basis, it should be considerably less, and the net effect of it would be that instead of 30,000 being the total number that would be disallowed, the number would be considerably higher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-28", "file": "debates1927-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "832399dddcd0018a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.145.4", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "amounts in round figures to 100,000 insured persons who I believe under the 30 contributions basis would be disallowed benefit. I am prepared, if it can be pointed out to me, to admit the inaccuracy of my calculations, but even if the figures approximate to anything like those I have quoted it is a most serious thing that we should deliberately give these people mo alternative except the Poor Law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.145.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-28", "file": "debates1927-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "832399dddcd0018a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.163.3", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": "The words he used were \"down and outs,\" and I took those words to mean that he was referring to men who have been unemployed for so long that they have reached the category of being almost described as unemployable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-28", "file": "debates1927-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "832399dddcd0018a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.163.5", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": "fferent problem. It may be that at the moment we badly need a Bill to be brought forward by the Minister of Health for the reform of the Poor Law, and it is possible that this point should be dealt with under that Bill. If we are to have an unemployment insurance scheme in the real sense of the word, we ought to avoid including in that scheme people who very probably during the coming years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.163.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-28", "file": "debates1927-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "832399dddcd0018a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.163.5", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": "bly during the coming years—[ Interruption ]—unless, of course, the country enters upon a great trade revival, in which case it will not much matter what speeches are made in this House. If that is not to be the case, I do think that those people who are described as \"down and outs\" ought not to be included in an unemployment insurance scheme but ought to be dealt with in another Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.163.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-28", "file": "debates1927-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "832399dddcd0018a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": "A great deal has been said about the distressed areas, and arguments have been advanced that men will be put upon the rates. The White Paper shows that up to date that has not been the case. The White Paper produced by the Ministry of Labour proves that at the present moment the number of people in receipt of Poor Law relief is being reduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-28", "file": "debates1927-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "832399dddcd0018a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.175.3", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lock-out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ich is my own belief, that the figure may quite well be 8 per cent, during the year that begins in April, 1929, and then a reduction of unemployment to that figure is quite possible, likely, and probable, I will gladly give the hon. Member my reasons. To start with, from the time that we really began to recover from the immediate though not the lasting effects of the coal strike up till now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.175.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-28", "file": "debates1927-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "832399dddcd0018a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are not clearing it up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "r Relief.\" If he had read it, he would not have made the speech he has just made. This document was issued from the Vote Office a few days ago. Further, if he had read the \"Ministry of Labour Gazette,\" he would have seen that the live register figures include a great number of people not in receipt of benefit. It is as well that this mistake should be cleared up, for it has been made often enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-28", "file": "debates1927-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "832399dddcd0018a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.184.2", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "uld be little more than 4½ per cent, over a trade cycle. Ha considers for reasons which he gives in his Report that the rate is perhaps too-low, and he says he is inclined to think that in adjusting the finance of the scheme a rate of 6 per cent, should be assumed for a trade cycle, and we have adopted this figure in framing our proposal. Everyone present knows what is meant by a trade cycle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.184.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-28", "file": "debates1927-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "832399dddcd0018a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.184.2", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "under exactly the same logical principles as the man who insures in a fire insurance company. He says, \"I may have to pay once, I may have to pay 30 times, but I am taking the risk of one or 30, provided that you take the risk of paying me after the first contribution or after the 30th contribution.\" In its corporate effect it works out all right for the company, and it is precisely the same here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.184.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-28", "file": "debates1927-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "832399dddcd0018a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.184.2", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They never said devils, surely!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "you are unable to say that within the last two years you have had 30 weeks of honest work, you are a loafer.\" It is a reasonable thing to say in normal times, but the Committee say, \"We do not regard it as a reasonable test to-day. We know it is an unreasonable test to-day. We know that to apply the 30 contributions rule at a time when hundreds of poor devils are walking about the streets \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-28a.184.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-29", "file": "debates1927-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "84b1168ecb6c55fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-29a.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ARTHUR EVANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ARTHUR EVANS", "preceding_text": " those of us of the Conservative party who are supporting the Government feel that that is a matter which could much better be met by any Measures which might be introduced into this House by the Ministry of Health rather than by the Ministry of Labour. If the hon. Member and his Friends achieve the object they have in view, it will result in the whole contributory insurance scheme being defeated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-29a.316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-29", "file": "debates1927-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "84b1168ecb6c55fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-29a.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ARTHUR EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ARTHUR EVANS", "preceding_text": " be introduced into this House by the Ministry of Health rather than by the Ministry of Labour. If the hon. Member and his Friends achieve the object they have in view, it will result in the whole contributory insurance scheme being defeated. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"] Because if an Amendment of this kind were carried, or if you reduced your contributions from 30 to 20, the effect would be the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-29a.316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-29", "file": "debates1927-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "84b1168ecb6c55fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-29a.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is in his place.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": " of reducing the number of contributions to 20 or 15 as against 30, which is already in the Bill. As it is nothing of the kind, I hope the hon. and gallant Member will withdraw all the observations he has made with regard to it being a wrecking Amendment of this particular Measure. I want particularly to deal with the Parliamentary Secretary who, I am sorry to say, appears to have been called out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-29a.318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-29", "file": "debates1927-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "84b1168ecb6c55fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-29a.351.2", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "nd, in that case, whether it could come from that fund. That matter may well be open to question. I myself hold quite definitely— and indeed I am convinced upon it—that when it comes to other kinds of expenditure, such as unemployment schemes of work for adults, subsidising wages and uses of that kind, the Unemployment Fund never ought in any circumstances to be used for such purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-29a.351.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-29", "file": "debates1927-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "84b1168ecb6c55fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-29a.397.2", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "han his usual occupation he has to take the rates of the job. On the other hand, when it comes to a new occupation he is safeguarded as to the proper rate of the job, but the safeguarding is given by the words at the end of paragraph (ii) of Sub-section (2). Therefore, we get to this general position under the Bill, which, on the whole, I think is more advantageous to the man than the present law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-29a.397.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-30", "file": "debates1927-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "9ddb5efaf0918e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-30a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I have tried to make that point clear. I do not know the figures, but I shall be glad if the right hon. Gentleman will look into them. I imagine that a very substantial proportion of the people who are employed are not in insurable occupations. I am sure that I am right in saying that. They are in domestic service of one kind or another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-30a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-30", "file": "debates1927-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "9ddb5efaf0918e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-30a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "get work if you can\"—we could agree with him there—but his proposal is to say, \"You must get a stamp qualification and you must always have a stamp qualification.\" Our suggestion is that these people, now engaged in insurable occupations, should be excused from a stamp qualification. It is our case that everybody should be excused from a stamp qualification in a period of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-30a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-30", "file": "debates1927-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "9ddb5efaf0918e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-30a.630.0", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"An Army Corps!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": "e had assisted very greatly in obtaining employment for these poor fellows; but immediately afterwards he said that there were to-day 17,000 or 18,000 of these men unemployed. When the right hon. Gentleman assures the Committee of the efforts that have been mad© to find employment for these people and then admits that there is practically an Army Corps of them unemployed at this moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-30a.630.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-11-30", "file": "debates1927-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "9ddb5efaf0918e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-30a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FRASER", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman allow me. I am accused of having said that these men's chances are receding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-30a.638.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-30", "file": "debates1927-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "9ddb5efaf0918e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-30a.657.1", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ied man with a family may be asked to go into a new district to take a so-called unskilled workers' job. Has he got to keep two homes, under threat of being disqualified? From the practical point of view it means you are making that man become an industrial conscript. What has become of the unskilled labourer? Where has he to go? To the workhouse! Figures cannot lie, but hon. Members opposite can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-30a.657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-30", "file": "debates1927-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "9ddb5efaf0918e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-30a.657.1", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "o? To the workhouse! Figures cannot lie, but hon. Members opposite can. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Withdraw!\"] I will withdraw that remark, and I will say instead that they can imagine things. The hon. Member who interrupted me has no doubt spent more money this evening on his personal appetite than he is willing to allow to an unemployed workman to keep him for a whole week when he goes to a transfer job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-30a.657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-30", "file": "debates1927-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "9ddb5efaf0918e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-30a.662.1", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "n the face of great difficulties, in the most admirable way in the interests of the people with whom they had to deal. In Birmingham and the Midlands, the officers of Employment Exchanges have never lost an opportunity of sympathetically and kindly and helpfully doing everything they could to provide opportunities of employment for the people who made application to them. I have never found—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-30a.662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-11-30", "file": "debates1927-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "9ddb5efaf0918e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-30a.662.1", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "ment Exchanges, of trying to use their official position to prevent people from having adequate opportunities of getting employment, and to create, as he pointed out, a trap to prevent them from having the advantage of unemployment insurance benefit. In Birmingham and the Midlands the officers of Employment Exchanges have done everything in their power, sympathetically, kindly and helpfully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-11-30a.662.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-01", "file": "debates1927-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6790e41e0c6e6bfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-01a.741.3", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL) (ALLOCATION OF TIME).", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The time is coming!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that. There were obvious reasons, which the hon. Member will, be the first to recognise, why it was rather difficult to put it into force at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-01a.741.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-01", "file": "debates1927-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6790e41e0c6e6bfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-01a.741.3", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL) (ALLOCATION OF TIME).", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"This is more controversial!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ebate it. I am always anxious to do what I can to help any party in this House. I know what a busy man the right hon. Gentleman who is going to move the Amendment is, and I think he may be glad, for the purpose of debate, to be reminded of the procedure which took place in this House under his Act of 1924. That was a Bill of 17 Clauses and 14½ pages. Our Bill is 14 Clauses and 10½ pages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-01a.741.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-01", "file": "debates1927-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6790e41e0c6e6bfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-01a.760.3", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL) (ALLOCATION OF TIME).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "a young woman to desire to be as well dressed as possible and to look her very best. No women in this country, including Prineesses or Duchesses, have any better right to be well dressed than these young women who are unemployed. Here is this Government, which pays reverences to the Royal Family, &c., and who believe that they have a right to a good living, and I believe, I honestly believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-01a.760.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-01", "file": "debates1927-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6790e41e0c6e6bfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-01a.760.3", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL) (ALLOCATION OF TIME).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "t they have a right to a good living, and I believe, I honestly believe—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"]—Mr. Deputy Speaker will tell me if I am out of order. Do not think you will put me off because you cannot. You cannot put me off to-day. I will drill you before I am finished. I will get right under your skin. You are treating my class in this fashion, and this day I am going to go for you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-01a.760.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-01", "file": "debates1927-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6790e41e0c6e6bfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-01a.763.1", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL) (ALLOCATION OF TIME).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "t perfectly well but that is why we are so anxious that the Guillotine should not operate. I think you will agree with me that it is perfectly in order to show why the Guillotine should not operate and I am busy doing so. As I was saying, I put it to any man here—I put it to the Prime Minister: \"Do you honestly believe, before God, that ten shillings a week can keep a young woman in London?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-01a.763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-01", "file": "debates1927-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6790e41e0c6e6bfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-01a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL) (ALLOCATION OF TIME).", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": " then the Debate was adjourned. The Debate was resumed on the 18th July, and was mainly occupied with hammering out a formula, and finally, after these two discussions, and after reflection by every person concerned for more than 20 years, the right hon. Member for Spen Valley struck out a formula. So happy was the formula that the House was nearly united upon it. There were very few dissentients.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-01a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-01", "file": "debates1927-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6790e41e0c6e6bfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-01a.790.0", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL) (ALLOCATION OF TIME).", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "half was consumed before we could get to a Debate of any substance whatever. The hon. Member for West Nottingham said that he was hurt very much to imagine that there had been deliberate obstruction. The answer was given a little later by the hon. Member for Dumbarton Burghs (Mr. Kirkwood), who said, \"We consider that we are here for the express purpose of worrying the life out of the Government.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-01a.790.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-02", "file": "debates1927-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a5ec6e0ec2eddfcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-02a.882.1", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "I wish the Attorney-General were here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-02a.882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-02", "file": "debates1927-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a5ec6e0ec2eddfcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-02a.883.1", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a stretch of the imagination!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "s. What is sauce for the goose is really sauce for the gander. If a workman is to get benefit when an employer breaks a general agreement, the necessary and perfectly logical counterpart, which could not in justice be refused, is that if the workmen broke their agreement their places should be offered, which they cannot be now, to other people and a refusal would be a disqualification for benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-02a.883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-02", "file": "debates1927-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a5ec6e0ec2eddfcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-02a.898.0", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "follows the law with regard to health contributions. We are only making quite certain that what has been considered to be the law shall be the law. In that case, it is only in conformity with the law with regard to health insurance. It is nothing more than that, and it does not affect the question of prosecutions. If a person received money in good faith, it could not be a question of prosecution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-02a.898.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-02", "file": "debates1927-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a5ec6e0ec2eddfcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-02a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a big problem.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "That is one of the troubles at this moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-02a.918.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-05", "file": "debates1927-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "a8885e90eca31ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-05a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "rmanently into any craft, it would be perfectly justifiable to insist, as a condition of benefit, that they should attend continuation schools, not for two or three weeks, but for three or four months—a period long enough to enable them to get industrial skill, so that when they grow up they should become part of the national system of wealth producers. That is my view, for what it is worth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-05a.1007.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-05", "file": "debates1927-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "a8885e90eca31ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-05a.1053.2", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " examination. That the cost is too high again will scarcely bear examination, and the further argument that the Commission indicated, that there should be a waiting period is not consistent with what the Commission actually say, for they definitely declare that if a person is out of work for a number of weeks the waiting period ought to be abolished and payment ought to be made from the first day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-05a.1053.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-05", "file": "debates1927-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "a8885e90eca31ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-05a.1056.0", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I did not appreciate the point. The hon. Member was accepting my remarks as far as voluntary unemployment insurance schemes are concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-05a.1056.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-05", "file": "debates1927-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "a8885e90eca31ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-05a.1097.2", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": "I do not want to go back over the arguments that have ranged from one subject to the other in this House. I want merely to ask the Minister, when he replies, to tell me whether, when the Fund approaches nearer to solvency, when its indebtedness is reduced by, say, £5,000,000 or £6,000,000, and he sees in the next year, or in the next three years, a prospect of its becoming solvent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-05a.1097.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-05", "file": "debates1927-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "a8885e90eca31ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-05a.1129.3", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "MERCHANDISE MARKS ACT, 1926.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "ns as these. I want to submit to-night that in the case of tyres quite an anomalous position arises, although I think this might also be applied to other commodities as well. Let me take the case of the Michelin Motor Tyre Company, or the Goodyear Tyre Company, or the Firestone Tyre Company, who are not only manufacturing tyres in other countries but are manufacturing them in this country as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-05a.1129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-05", "file": "debates1927-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "a8885e90eca31ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-05a.1134.0", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "MERCHANDISE MARKS ACT, 1926.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "If they do not know, they would go into bankruptcy and not into the House of Commons. We must allow even a Conservative Government a certain amount of intelligence, yet they bring forward this Measure to protect the buyer, knowing perfectly well that what they are seeking to do is to make it a little more expensive and a little more difficult to import foreign manufactured goods into this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-05a.1134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-05", "file": "debates1927-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "a8885e90eca31ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-05a.1134.0", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "MERCHANDISE MARKS ACT, 1926.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "e coffers of the Exchequer instead of imposing further difficulties and expense upon trade. The particular company whose interests I have at heart at the present moment is the Michelin Tyre Company. I know hon. Members opposite will laugh; and I must inform my friends that the capital is French. Therefore they are outside the pale. The Michelin Tyre Company have put up a factory in Stoke-on-Trent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-05a.1134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-05", "file": "debates1927-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "a8885e90eca31ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-05a.1135.1", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "MERCHANDISE MARKS ACT, 1926.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The importer pays! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " the vote of the hon. Member against this Order, because you could not have a more flagrant case of bureaucratic interference with private enterprise. Honest protection I can understand, but this sort of niggling interference with private enterprise, based on the hypothetical idea that it will make it easier for British trade by forcing people to put foreign labels on imports, I cannot understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-05a.1135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-05", "file": "debates1927-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "a8885e90eca31ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-05a.1138.3", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "MERCHANDISE MARKS ACT, 1926.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HACKING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of the Chairman!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HACKING", "preceding_text": "n of a character likely to lead to a proper judicial inquiry.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 35th July, 1927; col. 900, Vol. 209.] If these words had been used by an hon. Member on this side of the House I might not have considered it great praise, but coming from the hon. Member, who so strongly opposed this Act, I think we could not have stronger words in support of the judicial nature of the inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-05a.1138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-06", "file": "debates1927-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4a1c63756d1aede8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1210.0", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The coal dispute!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "4d. contribution from the worker, 4d. from the employer and one-fifth from the State. Benefits were then fixed for which no financial provision had been made. The State had only one-fifth obligation of the whole amount contributed. You had no sooner got into 1921 than you had to come to the House and ask for money. You had to do that, otherwise there would have been great difficulties in the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-06", "file": "debates1927-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4a1c63756d1aede8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1234.2", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ome other direction; and I am certain that the last speaker is not willing to do either. In reply to his remark that 20s. is the very lowest figure that you ought to fix, I would point out that, in 1924, 18s. was taken by the right hon. Member for Preston (Mr. T. Shaw), and that since that was fixed at 18s. in 1924 there has been a material drop in the cost of living—some 12 points, I think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1234.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-06", "file": "debates1927-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4a1c63756d1aede8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1246.1", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": " had the position been reversed, and had we at that time had a majority of 200 behind us, my right hon. Friend the Member for Preston would not have brought in such a Bill as he did in 1924. If he had done so, I am sure he would have met with a great deal of opposition from the members of his own party. On these benches we have often been accused of advocating the getting of something for nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-06", "file": "debates1927-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4a1c63756d1aede8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1249.0", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mis-quote!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "ority behind him or not. I am not going to allow it to pass when he takes the credit for having done a great deal for the unemployed people of this country. There is no doubt that the right hon. Gentleman was the greatest asset to my party at the last General Election. One had only to quote him to get the working classes to realise that their position was not safe in the hands of the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-06", "file": "debates1927-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4a1c63756d1aede8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1260.3", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ates for young women will increase from 8s. to 10s. and from 10s. to 12s. On arriving at the age of 21 they will get the adult rates. That there should be a differentiation for the ages between 18 and 20 was not only the finding of the Committee but was also, as has been expounded more than once, in accordance with the preponderating opinion of those best qualified to judge throughout the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1260.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-06", "file": "debates1927-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4a1c63756d1aede8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1260.3", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "\"Who are they?\"] The principle of it has been acknowledged by the Opposition in the Amendments they have put down on the Paper. As far as these rates are concerned, they are rates that are intermediate between the rates for boys and girls and the adult rates for men and women. I have never pretended, and I do not pretend now, that they, any more than the adult rates, are rates of full maintenance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1260.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-06", "file": "debates1927-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4a1c63756d1aede8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1327.2", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "h Schedule generally, I say at once that I do not think, so far as the Amendments to-night are concerned, that there is any Member of the Committee who will read the Schedule when it has been reprinted after to-night who will have any difficulty in understanding it—any greater difficulty in understanding it after it has been printed than he has had already in mastering it before this Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-06", "file": "debates1927-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4a1c63756d1aede8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1345.0", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "PASSPORT (MR. SAKLATVALA).", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "r stage of their lives, and on death both my parents have been buried in England. Since 1906 I have continually resided in England, except for two or three visits, 1912 and 1914, to India. My first contention is that the hon. Member's statement, unintentionally, no doubt, distinctly conveys the impression that he was going to India mainly for private business reasons and not for political reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-06", "file": "debates1927-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4a1c63756d1aede8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1347.1", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "PASSPORT (MR. SAKLATVALA).", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "and, referring to a visit he had paid to the national schools at Nagpur, he said the boys in these schools should filter into mills, factories and all avenues of labour and should unobtrusively spread Communism in preparation for civil disobedience. The meaning of civil disobedience is disobedience to law. Speaking in Calcutta, when addressing the All-Bengal Young Men's Association, he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1347.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-06", "file": "debates1927-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4a1c63756d1aede8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1347.6", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "PASSPORT (MR. SAKLATVALA).", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "n of the pamphlet. I gather from the hon. Member's speech that he denies he wrote the foreword to this pamphlet. The pamphlet is here and I am prepared, if any hon. Member wishes, to lay it as a Paper in the Library. It is called \"India and China. With a Foreword by Shapurji Saklatvala, M. P.\" Inside is the foreword: All I have to say to the people of India on this subject is 'Go and do likewise.'", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1347.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-06", "file": "debates1927-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4a1c63756d1aede8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1347.6", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "PASSPORT (MR. SAKLATVALA).", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "atement on the pamphlet itself is a forgery, why did he not deny the fact weeks and months ago when Mr. Spratt, to whom he referred in his speech, was being tried, and when both the prosecuting and defending counsel accepted as a fact that the hon. Member did write the foreword; and will he now take legal action for the unauthorised use of his name against the gentleman who published the foreword?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1347.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-06", "file": "debates1927-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4a1c63756d1aede8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1349.1", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "PASSPORT (MR. SAKLATVALA).", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "If that is so I hope the hon. Gentleman will take action against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-06", "file": "debates1927-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4a1c63756d1aede8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1349.2", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "PASSPORT (MR. SAKLATVALA).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Why do you not take action?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1349.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-06", "file": "debates1927-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4a1c63756d1aede8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1349.6", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "PASSPORT (MR. SAKLATVALA).", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No; you take action!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "Of course, I accept the hon. Gentleman's statement that the statement on this pamphlet that he wrote the foreword is untrue, and all I say is that I hope he will take action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1349.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-06", "file": "debates1927-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4a1c63756d1aede8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1349.6", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "PASSPORT (MR. SAKLATVALA).", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a quotation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "Of course, I accept the hon. Gentleman's statement that the statement on this pamphlet that he wrote the foreword is untrue, and all I say is that I hope he will take action. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No; you take action!\"] If the hon. Member is not prepared to take action against the friend who published the pamphlet with the foreword in it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1349.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-06", "file": "debates1927-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "4a1c63756d1aede8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1349.6", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "PASSPORT (MR. SAKLATVALA).", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ed to take action against the friend who published the pamphlet with the foreword in it—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a quotation!\"] It is not a quotation. Will hon. Members allow me to read it? The pamphlet is published as follows: India and China With a foreword by Shapurji Saklatvala, M.P. I will make it my business to put a copy of this pamphlet in the Library so that the whole House can see it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-06a.1349.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1385.10", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders Order Confirmation Bill [ Lords.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That they have passed a Bill, intituled \"An Act to confirm a Provisional Order, under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899, relating to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1385.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " Prime Minister, he has a personal responsibility; and this House declares that the crisis in the industry, transcending all possibilities of mere departmental action, is such as to demand an authoritative statement by the Prime Minister of the intentions of the Government as a whole. The first attempt that we made to have a discussion on the coal question was thwarted by the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1403.1", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Vicar of Bray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "nded him that the Government passed legislation, and that that legislation was passed for a specific purpose. We reminded him that the purpose of that legislation had not been fulfilled, and we reminded him that he handed himself and his Government over absolutely to the hands of the mineowners, and that they cheated him. The only parallel is to be found in our old friend the \"Vicar of Wakefield.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1403.1", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A gross or two!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "at he handed himself and his Government over absolutely to the hands of the mineowners, and that they cheated him. The only parallel is to be found in our old friend the \"Vicar of Wakefield.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"The Vicar of Bray!\"] No, on this occasion it is the \"Vicar of Wakefield,\" where Moses, going with a good horse to market, sells the horse and brings back in exchange a dozen or two spectacles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1403.1", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Green spectacles!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "of Wakefield.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"The Vicar of Bray!\"] No, on this occasion it is the \"Vicar of Wakefield,\" where Moses, going with a good horse to market, sells the horse and brings back in exchange a dozen or two spectacles. [HON. MEMBERS: \"A gross or two!\"] Gross, then—I am perfectly willing to give the Prime Minister the benefit of my mistake. A gross or two—and I emphasise the gross.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1403.1", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ng to answer that. I have got a certificate about my future, and, instead of answering for what I have done, for the mistakes I have made, the muddle I have made of the whole coal industry, I am going to ask a colleague of mine to tell you what I am going to do in days to come.\" It is really not good enough, and I must say that if ever I had painful moments in this House and I have had some—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1407.0", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "ed with the breaking off of diplomatic relations with Russia, subjects connected with a famous Circular issued by the Board of Education, subjects connected with what, as the right hon. Gentleman said, are equivalent to Votes of Censure, subjects dealt with in the King's Speech—on those occasions many times other Ministers than the Prime Minister have spoken and no objection has been raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1412.2", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "iculties or making them out to be greater than they are. I want at the outset to give the House a few facts as to the present position. I take first output. In the first 10 months of 1925, which is the last normal year, we produced 201,000,000 tons. In the corresponding period this year we had produced 210,000,000 tons. You have therefore an increase in output. You have also an increase in exports", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1412.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1412.2", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give the figures! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "want at the outset to give the House a few facts as to the present position. I take first output. In the first 10 months of 1925, which is the last normal year, we produced 201,000,000 tons. In the corresponding period this year we had produced 210,000,000 tons. You have therefore an increase in output. You have also an increase in exports [ Interruption ]—not at all at a satisfactory price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1412.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1412.2", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To the miners!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "selling price in the home market, it leaves the German coal-owners absolutely free to sell in competition with one another in the foreign and export markets and, indeed, in that part of the home market where international competition is met. I would remark that in criticising prices we should remember that it was, on the whole, good policy to cut in and recover the markets even at a dreadful cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1412.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1416.1", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "re shows-that in January to October of this year, as compared with January to October, 1925, which is our last normal year, the total exports of British goods and manufactures have not fallen but have increased by i4 per cent. If you take your figures in money to-day and re-write them into the value of 1925, you will find an export this year of £661.000,000 against £580,000,000 in 195JD.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1416.1", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "deal more. Therefore, that is an additional argument in support of what I am saying. In addition, we are, undoubtedly, doing more business in the home market. We are always expected, and I think it is a mistake, to deal with the industrial position entirely on figures of unemployment. If we take the figures of employment instead of the figures of unemployment a very different picture is presented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1416.1", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ked out by the Ministry of Labour—that year by year a very much larger number of people, both men and women, come into industry than go out of it. People live longer at one end and more come in at the other. If you take the net increase of the people employed in industry you will find that in the last three years, between July, 1924, and July, 1927, industry has absorbed 475,000 more people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1418.1", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "t this time of the day to divorce industry and politics. If I believed that that were true, I should be compelled to say: \"God help industry!\" That is the fundamental difference between us. He believes that the more you interfere with industry until such time as you can completely control it, the more is it a sound policy. We do not. We believe that the less you interfere with industry the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1418.1", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": " policy in relation to the coal industry as an industry you will increase the magnitude of your second problem, the number of people with whom you have to deal. We have been challenged. We were challenged last time, and we have been challenged again to-day on the ground that by the Eight Hours Act we have made the position of the coal industry more difficult and increased the number of unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1418.1", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have you done so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "e of wages. The reduction in wages per shift is from 10s. 5d. in 1925 to 9s. 10d. per shift in 1927, a reduction of 7d., but the total reduction in the cost per ton is 2s. 8d. A great many of the collieries I know are carrying on at a loss to-day, but can anyone tell me, that after you have reduced the cost by 2s. 8d. a ton, you are not able to sell more coal in the competing markets of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1418.1", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To what extent?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": ". in 1925 to 9s. 10d. per shift in 1927, a reduction of 7d., but the total reduction in the cost per ton is 2s. 8d. A great many of the collieries I know are carrying on at a loss to-day, but can anyone tell me, that after you have reduced the cost by 2s. 8d. a ton, you are not able to sell more coal in the competing markets of the world. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Have you done so?\"] We have, undoubtedly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1420.0", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Since when? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "he beginning of August, and in the first three months since that date 53,534 miners have been placed into vacancies in that industry and only 133 men have been brought in from outside. That is a very substantial contribution. It is not fair to say that we are doing nothing when as vacancies arise from one pit to another only 133 from outside the industry have come in and 53,000 have been absorbed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1426.5", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the cheers from your side now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "d Power Committee, we are working through the British Engineering Standards Association in sampling and analysis; and I could name other lines of action. If the right hon. Gentleman had given to the House this rather large catalogue of our activities, would he have raised cheers so freely from his own supporters by his statement that that Government had done nothing to encourage the coal industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1426.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1426.5", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whip up the cheers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ld he have raised cheers so freely from his own supporters by his statement that that Government had done nothing to encourage the coal industry? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the cheers from your side now?\"] I am concerned to state the facts, which I think are agreeable to people genuinely interested in the industry, if they are not equally agreeable to those who wish to secure some Party advantages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1426.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1431.5", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "esent situation does not rest with us alone. I think we are entitled to ask the Opposition what has been their contribution to the solution of this problem. What is the policy of the Opposition for the future? When the Labour party had a short term of office they forced an agreement upon the coal industry which brought it to the verge of bankruptcy, and the present Government had to foot the bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1431.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1436.2", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "at of France will be up by 13,000,000 tons, while that of Belgium will be up by 4,200,000 tons. In the case of the United States the figures are still more remarkable. I will take the figures for last year, because there has been a great strike there this year, so that it is not fair to take this year's figures. In 1913 they raised 514,000,000 tons, and last year their output was 663,000,000 tons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1436.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1436.2", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ing well. That is my criticism of the speech of the President of the Board of Trade as being a Departmental reply. We ought to have an answer from the man who is responsible, as head of the Government, to the House of Commons, to the country, and to these poor miners as well, as to what is going to be done. I am not blaming the President of the Board of Trade, because that is all that he could do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1436.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1443.1", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Free Trade policy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "d its own salvation. It was a very cruel policy. Ultimately, however, it succeeded, but at that time we had not the fierce competition that we have to-day. You could afford then to wait. You cannot wait today. There are others capturing our market. More than that, it was a very cruel and harsh policy. It involved a good deal of suffering for hundreds of thousands who were involved in the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1443.1", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come over here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ot wait today. There are others capturing our market. More than that, it was a very cruel and harsh policy. It involved a good deal of suffering for hundreds of thousands who were involved in the industry. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Free Trade policy.\"] I do not care whether it is Free Trade or not, not the least bit in the world. I am dealing with the facts of the situation and I am prepared to face them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1454.1", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "ything else that if at this moment the situation in the industry is bad, as it is, we are at least getting what there is in the industry, and therefore, it serves no good purpose really to turn round and condemn the owners for the present state of affairs. Everybody will admit, and they know it perfectly well, that at the moment thousands of pounds are being taken out of pockets of the coalowners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1461.1", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "ted in bringing back the industry to a standard of prosperity. Surely if we have got an agreement, apart from its local character, to the principles of which we have previously given willing consent how can we complain? Everybody knows that if there is higher prosperity and if the coalowners get a higher return on their investments that prosperity will be reflected in higher wages for the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1461.1", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "n amongst those who have been selling the coal. If we want to derive, as we ought to derive, some real advantage from our own endeavour, we have to stop the foolish and suicidal competition which is going on in the selling of coal to-day. I make no apology to the British consumer or anyone else when I say that we have a right to demand for our coal a price which will give to the investments⁁", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1461.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1466.0", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Nonsense!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "ufactured iron and steel came into this country. In 1926, that figure had increased to 2,400,000 tons, and in 1927 it went up to the alarming figure of 3,500,000 tons—an increase in the two years of 1,500,000 tons of iron and steel coming into this country. At the rate of four tons of coal to each ton, that represents an increase of 6,000,000 tons of coal indirectly coming into this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1466.2", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "oming into this country? But it is known perfectly well that you cannot prohibit goods in this way. If the Labour party were in power to-morrow, and if a case were established of goods coming into this country from Belgium or France, which had been manufactured under conditions not admitting of fair competition, hon. Members know perfectly well that they would not prohibit the entry of those good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1466.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1466.2", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "t would mean an end of friendly relations with the country whose goods were prohibited. Therefore we have to adopt some other means. Let us look at the wages of the men working in the blast furnaces. They are paid 38 pence per hour in the United States. In England, they are paid 15 pence per hour, in France 7d. per hour, and in Belgium our most serious competitor, the wages are 6½d. per hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1466.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1470.1", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VARLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"From whom is it? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VARLEY", "preceding_text": ", but it was not intended for workmen from the Lowmain Seam. We are informed that you attempted to refute certain facts and figures presented before the meeting with the intention, no doubt, of disrupting the meeting. This is not sound policy, and you will be wise to change your attitude, or we shall have to consider the advisability of further employing you at these pits. I have 17 similar cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1471.5", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain FANSHAWE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FANSHAWE", "preceding_text": "which the hon. Member for Mansfield said which attracted my attention very much, and that was, that he seemed to complain about the great profits that were being made at two pits. I cannot, for myself, see how anybody engaged in the coal-mining industry can complain about the profits, because the position in the mining industry is so arranged that where big profits are made the men get larger pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1471.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1471.5", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain FANSHAWE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FANSHAWE", "preceding_text": "because the position in the mining industry is so arranged that where big profits are made the men get larger pay. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"] We cannot get away from the fact. The hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that 85 per cent, of the profits go to the workers in the coal-mining industry. We have not got this state of affairs in any other industry as far as I know, at any rate, not by Statute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1471.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1471.5", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain FANSHAWE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FANSHAWE", "preceding_text": "lected him to his high position. What is the good now of hon. Gentlemen coming here and throwing Votes of Censure at the Government? They are throwing Votes of Censure which will rebound on themselves, and rebound on themselves in every mining village of the country. There is a great reaction going on among the miners, at any rate among the miners whom I have the honour to represent in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1471.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1471.5", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain FANSHAWE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FANSHAWE", "preceding_text": "e of the country. There is a great reaction going on among the miners, at any rate among the miners whom I have the honour to represent in this House. [ Interruption. ] These jeers and sneers of hon. Members cannot do any good. It is a serious point that I am presenting. The men that I represent, at any rate, are looking to some other form of union which will, in the first place, be non-political.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1471.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1471.5", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain FANSHAWE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Overloading ships!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FANSHAWE", "preceding_text": "s country than any other trade union leader has or probably will have, because he controls the shipping of the country. All the time hon. Gentlemen opposite were talking about a strike threat and the final realisation of the general strike, this leader, this patriotic man, stood out against them. Hon. Gentlemen opposite have abused him. The Trade Union Congress tried to disaffiliate him and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1471.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1499.1", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "urs, even after further cuts of wages and prices on our part are virtually impossible. Bad as the conditions of the coal trade are to-day, they will become worse in the near future unless the policy pursued up to the present be reversed. Bad as conditions are, however, it is not as yet too late to redeem the position if the problem be approached in the right spirit, and proper remedies be applied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1520.0", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Colonel Lane Fox)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Colonel Lane Fox)", "preceding_text": "eavy trades, particularly the iron and steel trade. There is no doubt that, if the importation of foreign steel were checked, and if there were a greater activity in the steel trade of this country, it would make an enormous difference. Questions on that subject have been asked many times in the House. The Government are debarred from taking action by the pledge given at the last General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1520.0", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Colonel Lane Fox)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Colonel Lane Fox)", "preceding_text": "is that a pledge definitely given at an election is a pledge which must be kept absolutely. There are many other points with which I have not time to deal. This is a Vote of Censure. It is an attempt on the part of hon. Members opposite to remove from themselves blame which they fully earned—to remove blame which was due to the fact that they encouraged and prolonged the coal stoppage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-07", "file": "debates1927-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "37c5038bbe07833e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1526.0", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT AND COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "stopped for seven months. I say, and say with confidence, that the blame for what has occurred since rests far more on them than on the Government. They have moved a Vote of Censure on the Prime Minister, whom we all respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-07a.1526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-08", "file": "debates1927-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "3261f96275f75442", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-08a.1707.0", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ain groups of people. Prior to 1912 it applied to no one, but I have recollection of great industrial disputes before 1912 in which unions were perfectly certain that they had a just cause for a fight. They will be in precisely the same position as they were in before 1912. Surely, trade unions possess the same general body of powers as they did then, and greater than they possessed prior to 1906.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-08a.1707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-08", "file": "debates1927-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "3261f96275f75442", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-08a.1708.1", "colnum": "1708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I agree it might have been done in the past, but you are imposing very great difficulties. If the workmen are aggrieved because of a breach of contract, the obvious remedy is the remedy of suing the employer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-08a.1708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-08", "file": "debates1927-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "3261f96275f75442", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-08a.1708.3", "colnum": "1708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You do not know the industry!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Whether the workman can sue the employer does not depend on the question of seven days, but on the terms of the agreement that are broken. If they are drawn in such a way that contravention makes it possible for employers to take advantage of the protection of the Court, the men have a remedy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-08a.1708.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-09", "file": "debates1927-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b4d35a582316986f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-09a.1745.2", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Mr. Betterton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Mr. Betterton)", "preceding_text": "exceptions, one of whom is the hon. Member for Leith (Mr. E. Brown) and the other is the hon. Member for South-West Bethnal Green (Mr. Harris). Judged by every Parliamentary test, industry, ability and assiduity, they are fully entitled to be regarded as amongst the leaders of the Liberal Party, if for no other reason than that they are the only two who have consistently attended. What do we find?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-09a.1745.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-09", "file": "debates1927-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b4d35a582316986f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-09a.1758.1", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LINDLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"That is Socialism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LINDLEY", "preceding_text": "ter who is in charge of this Bill much less than we should one industrial worker. The industrial worker does produce something, and, when all is said and done, you have to admit, whether you like it or not, that your problem is, given a country and a people, how to make the best of that country in the interests of the whole of the people, and not merely in the interests of a few privileged people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-09a.1758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-09", "file": "debates1927-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b4d35a582316986f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-09a.1811.0", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!'", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "the long proceedings in Committee and on its other stages have covered a great range of subjects. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Preston (Mr. T. Shaw) said that our discussions had been unduly curtailed, but there is no one who has been present through all the stages of this Measure who does not realise that during the early stages of the Bill there was a deliberate attempt to waste time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-09a.1811.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-09", "file": "debates1927-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b4d35a582316986f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-09a.1813.1", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheek!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " this White Paper. I wish he had taken his objections yesterday or the day before so that we could have dealt with them in detail. I will take one objection—the first which he mentioned, his great objection. Why did I make a deduction in the case of miners when the mining position to-day is worse than it ever has been before? Of all the objections that could be made that was the most absurd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-09a.1813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-09", "file": "debates1927-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b4d35a582316986f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-09a.1813.1", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "I will take one objection—the first which he mentioned, his great objection. Why did I make a deduction in the case of miners when the mining position to-day is worse than it ever has been before? Of all the objections that could be made that was the most absurd. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheek!\"] Of all the things in the White Paper that is the one which proves most conclusively that it is not cheek.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-09a.1813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-09", "file": "debates1927-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b4d35a582316986f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-09a.1814.1", "colnum": "1814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?'", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "t the people who promise the most who are the most sincere. Throughout the whole of this Bill, the position that I have always endeavoured to take up has been to try to put myself, first of all, in the position of an insured person, and afterwards to stand back and try to think about the matter calmly and reason it out. I have no particular concern to prove my case to hon. Members opposite —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-09a.1814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-12", "file": "debates1927-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3f6891a2bd4dbaa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-12a.1891.5", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUDIT (LOCAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " this Bill, I particularly asked the hon. Member to explain what he meant by the words \"and the will of the community,\" but he did not make any response. I find that I was perfectly right in my interpretation that the hon. Member and his colleagues had decided that local authorities ought to be allowed to do not only those things which Parliament has said they may do but also anything else —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-12a.1891.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-12", "file": "debates1927-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3f6891a2bd4dbaa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-12a.1942.0", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUDIT (LOCAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "t them if they are surcharged by an auditor. That is not all I have to say. The poor man who has made a mistake unintentionally, who in his doubt as to what the law was has been led into voting for, or sanctioning, or becoming responsible for, expenditure which afterwards is shown to be or is deemed to be illegal by the auditor, has not to appeal to the Courts. He has an appealing to the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-12a.1942.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-12", "file": "debates1927-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3f6891a2bd4dbaa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-12a.1942.0", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUDIT (LOCAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ally, hon. Members are getting a little unreasonable. First of all, they say it is so expensive to appeal to the Courts that a man cannot undertake it, and when I point out that he can go to the Minister, which costs him nothing at all, they apparently are still not satisfied. If he can show that he acted in the belief that his action was within the law, he can get a declaration from the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-12a.1942.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-12", "file": "debates1927-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3f6891a2bd4dbaa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-12a.1957.2", "colnum": "1957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUDIT (LOCAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "I have too much respect for the hon. Member to think that it would ever happen to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-12a.1957.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-12", "file": "debates1927-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3f6891a2bd4dbaa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-12a.1963.2", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUDIT (LOCAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Except Conservative and Liberal candidates!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ntary Secretary should take that back, because in his heart he does not put us on the same level&—even the worst of us at Poplar, myself if he likes&—as people who are willing to sell their political opinions in order to make money for themselves. No one at Poplar, or in the East End of London, has been charged with such an offence as that to which the Parliamentary Secretary referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-12a.1963.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-12", "file": "debates1927-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3f6891a2bd4dbaa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-12a.1994.3", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUDIT (LOCAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "those who are supporting the proposal, votes for it in committee. Before it comes up to the main council further information comes before him which leads him definitely to the opinion that the expenditure is illegal. Therefore, when the vote comes before the council, he votes against the proposal in favour of which he voted in committee. According to this Amendment that person would be surcharged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-12a.1994.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-12", "file": "debates1927-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3f6891a2bd4dbaa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-12a.2002.1", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUDIT (LOCAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I am rather surprised the Minister of Health will not accept this Amendment, but, of course, it is quite obvious, as far as I can see, that whether it be this Amendment or any other Amendment throughout the whole of these two or three pages, and whether it is reasonable or not the Government have made up their minds that they are not going to accept any Amendment at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-12a.2002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-12", "file": "debates1927-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3f6891a2bd4dbaa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-12a.2043.0", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUDIT (LOCAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "hat the auditor may surcharge the whole council, as the charges, jointly or severally, take from everybody according to their means, and turn them all out naked to the world with all the savings of their life stripped from them. You are doing something more. You are not merely making these people incapable of sitting on their local authority, you are making them incapable of sitting in Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-12a.2043.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-12-12", "file": "debates1927-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3f6891a2bd4dbaa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-12a.2045.2", "colnum": "2045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUDIT (LOCAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Rubbish!", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "It is perfectly true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-12a.2045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-13", "file": "debates1927-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4edffe7aee980677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2145.0", "colnum": "2145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUDIT (LOCAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HURST", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HURST", "preceding_text": "If the payment is on a ridiculous scale, it becomes unreasonable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-13", "file": "debates1927-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4edffe7aee980677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2147.2", "colnum": "2147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUDIT (LOCAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "s, of pushing them into poverty. There is a judgment day coming for this Government, just as I believe there is a judgment day coming for the individual, and when that judgment day comes they will be judged by what they have done, by the actions they have taken, to drive the working classes deeper into poverty. There is an old saying that \"Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2147.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-13", "file": "debates1927-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4edffe7aee980677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2182.1", "colnum": "2182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUDIT (LOCAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman accepts it. Splendid! I am glad to have that admission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-13", "file": "debates1927-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4edffe7aee980677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2211.1", "colnum": "2211", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or Italy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": ",000,000 to 140,000,000 of people, a country which, whatever way you may look at it, has a great many potential refugees who would like to get out of it. Are we to open the gates of this country to an unlimited influx of political refugees from Russia? Are we to open the gates of this country to the unlimited entrance of religious refugees, let us say, from Poland or Turkey or anywhere else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-13", "file": "debates1927-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4edffe7aee980677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2216.4", "colnum": "2216", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "preceding_text": "tleman and his colleagues could see their way to restore some of those liberties, and at the same time—though this has nothing to do with the right hon. Gentleman, and I say it only in passing—to reduce some of the burden of taxation, they would get a great deal more gratitude and kudos from their own supporters than from the Factory and Franchise Bills and even from the Poor Law Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2216.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-12-13", "file": "debates1927-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4edffe7aee980677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2241.3", "colnum": "2241", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman must not say that. I am talking about people working eight hours a day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2241.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-13", "file": "debates1927-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4edffe7aee980677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2242.5", "colnum": "2242", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "The fact that the girls were willing only shows to what a depth the country has sunk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2242.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-13", "file": "debates1927-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4edffe7aee980677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2243.0", "colnum": "2243", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUFF COOPER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUFF COOPER", "preceding_text": ". T. Shaw) has been very misleading. In the few moments during which I shall detain the Committee I shall try to correct some of the misstatements, though perhaps not intentional misstatements, which he has made in that speech. Anybody listening to him, but not understanding the industrial system in this country, would have thought that there were people in this country working for 16 hours a day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-13", "file": "debates1927-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4edffe7aee980677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2243.2", "colnum": "2243", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" There were just as many on this side!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "preceding_text": "e that it is a very much greater hardship to get up at five o'clock than at 11, because it is only by referring to a watch that you can find out what time of day it is. The right hon. Gentleman suggested that it would do some of us good to get up for a few weeks at five o'clock. There are some of us who would like to remind him that for more than four years there were many people who worked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2243.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-13", "file": "debates1927-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4edffe7aee980677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2243.2", "colnum": "2243", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Why make that gibe?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "preceding_text": "than at 11, because it is only by referring to a watch that you can find out what time of day it is. The right hon. Gentleman suggested that it would do some of us good to get up for a few weeks at five o'clock. There are some of us who would like to remind him that for more than four years there were many people who worked—[HON. MEMBERS:\" There were just as many on this side!\"] Very likely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2243.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-13", "file": "debates1927-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4edffe7aee980677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2243.2", "colnum": "2243", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "preceding_text": " Gentleman suggested that it would do some of us good to get up for a few weeks at five o'clock. There are some of us who would like to remind him that for more than four years there were many people who worked—[HON. MEMBERS:\" There were just as many on this side!\"] Very likely. [An HON. MEMBER:\" Why make that gibe?\"] I have no intention of making any gibe at all. It was on every side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2243.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-13", "file": "debates1927-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4edffe7aee980677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2246.1", "colnum": "2246", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ate to investigate the case. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the Industrial Council dealing with the wages and conditions of employment in this particular class of work have passed a resolution, almost unanimously, asking for the repeal of all the Orders that have been issued, and, if he is not aware of it, what have his inspectors been doing? We want to suggest to him from this side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-13", "file": "debates1927-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4edffe7aee980677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2250.3", "colnum": "2250", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RILEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RILEY", "preceding_text": "ews of the branches on agricultural policy, and agreed that the following things were necessary to meet the needs of the industry. The first thing mentioned was the exemption of agricultural land from local rates, the deficiency to be made up from the Exchequer. That means, if the view is to be pressed upon the Government and adopted by them that agricultural land will be relieved from any rating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-13", "file": "debates1927-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4edffe7aee980677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2250.3", "colnum": "2250", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RILEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the miners?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RILEY", "preceding_text": "n to enable the farmer to pay his rent to the landlord. The meaning of this undoubtedly is that owing to the operation of ordinary economic laws in the course of the last generation the owners of land have received an enormous amount of relief from the Exchequer. In this form of subsidy—and any relief of rates is a form of subsidy—£47,000,000 has been given by the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2250.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-12-13", "file": "debates1927-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4edffe7aee980677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2257.1", "colnum": "2257", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "It is only on arable land.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "ated on the part of many agriculturists to seek entire relief from rates. I should like to ask some of the hon. Gentlemen opposite, who are behind the National Citizens' Union, which has put out the programme that anyone who gets full relief from local rates shall be struck off the voting register, whether agriculturists, if they get entire exemption from rates, will take the logical consequences?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-13", "file": "debates1927-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4edffe7aee980677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2258.3", "colnum": "2258", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Votes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "rs who are oppressed by the lateness of the hour that it is not a good habit to throw out challenging remarks? The hon. Gentleman uttered what I may, without offence perhaps, call a \"taunt\" at the expense of hon. Members on this side. He said he understood we were trying to attract the attention of the agricultural interests of the country-for what purpose I have no doubt is clear in his own mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2258.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-13", "file": "debates1927-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4edffe7aee980677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2259.1", "colnum": "2259", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "condition to carry on and to give more employment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\" To hon. Members who so glibly say \"Hear, hear,\" let me point out that the same arguments would support similar assistance being given to areas like Walthamstow, where there are industries severely oppressed by rates, where unemployment is created by the rates, and where even within the last few months industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-13a.2259.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-14", "file": "debates1927-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3df3c6f9bf0ada5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2308.3", "colnum": "2308", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. HOLBROOK", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. HOLBROOK", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that if this State management paid Income Tax, Corporation Profits Tax, and Super-tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2308.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-14", "file": "debates1927-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3df3c6f9bf0ada5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2332.1", "colnum": "2332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have earned it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "I have heard of individual cases where the men have been refused reinstatement, but many of them have not yet returned, and when they do return they get one month's leave with full pay and allowances, and many of them enjoy that month's leave before seriously looking for employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-14", "file": "debates1927-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3df3c6f9bf0ada5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2333.5", "colnum": "2333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are running away from the point!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "The War Office always does its best for those who have loyally served their country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2333.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-14", "file": "debates1927-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3df3c6f9bf0ada5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2333.5", "colnum": "2333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "ved their country. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You are running away from the point!\"] I am not running away from the point, and I can say confidently that on any occasion that the record of the War Office with regard to help and assistance, and their interest generally in ex-service men, is examined it will be found to stand high in the opinion of those who have taken such a deep interest in ex-service men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2333.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-14", "file": "debates1927-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3df3c6f9bf0ada5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2341.0", "colnum": "2341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "preceding_text": "s extraordinarily true, as he says, that the demand for goods of all kinds continues to the extent it does, even in spite of the civil war, but the falling off of the exports of Lancashire goods is by no means entirely due to conditions in Shanghai or even to the civil war, but to totally different circumstances which to a large extent would have operated whether there had been a civil war or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-14", "file": "debates1927-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3df3c6f9bf0ada5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2347.1", "colnum": "2347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Occupying Shanghai!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "red first by one party and then by another. Bandits are more numerous even than regular soldiers. People are held up to ransom and tortured until their relations provide the ransom. That is going on year after year, and the British and other nations stand around the cockpit offering sometimes well-meant advice but not intervening, because intervention involves war; sympathising, but doing nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-14", "file": "debates1927-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3df3c6f9bf0ada5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2350.1", "colnum": "2350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOOKER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is your suggestion?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOOKER", "preceding_text": " and to the large Chinese community in that region with whom we have always been in a relationship of the greatest respect and esteem, to make an effort. In the name of common humanity we owe it to the vast, toiling, starving 'masses in China to see that assistance is rendered in some shape or form. What steps are the Government taking in this direction? What is the policy which they have in mind?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-14", "file": "debates1927-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3df3c6f9bf0ada5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2396.0", "colnum": "2396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": " be saved by military preparations and activities. This expedition would not have been sent out, the pretence of British lives being in danger would never have been put forward, had it not been for the smashing victories of the Communist group in China at that period. The expeditionary force did not add to the safety of British lives; it has added very greatly to the danger to British lives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-14", "file": "debates1927-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3df3c6f9bf0ada5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2424.0", "colnum": "2424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": " of an alternative crop in agriculture, nor because I was opposed in principle to a subsidy for a munificent social good, but because I believed that this was going to be an extraordinarily wasteful and uneconomic way of applying a subsidy. In principle, we are all agreed about the necessity of the subsidy on certain things. We are agreed, for example, about the necessity for a subsidy on housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-14", "file": "debates1927-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3df3c6f9bf0ada5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2424.0", "colnum": "2424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Britain for the British!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "ly and Ipswich, parcelling out some of the best land in the country. It was estimated that in October, 1925, these four factories would produce 40,000 tons, and as the cost of manufacture is £25 a ton and the net effective price with subsidy, is £42, the profit per ton is' on a conservative estimate, £17 per ton. That is to say, Mr. Van Rossum stands to make £680,000 per annum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-14", "file": "debates1927-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3df3c6f9bf0ada5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2429.0", "colnum": "2429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GODFREY COLLINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GODFREY COLLINS", "preceding_text": "ge of this subject on agricultural side which I do not profess to have, and I think it is apparent, from certain words which have been quoted by other Members, that, so far as one can humanly see, at the moment when the subsidy ends—if it will end—the farmers will not be able to grow sugar beet to compete successfully at our ports against sugar grown in the natural places of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-14", "file": "debates1927-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3df3c6f9bf0ada5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2434.0", "colnum": "2434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "uss this matter here to-night. Supposing that at this moment the vote were taken, what would happen? Hon. Members on the other side who form the Economy Committee, which is harassing and brow-beating the Government, will all pour into the Lobby without having heard one of the arguments that have been used, will all take their cue at the door, and will vote without knowing what they are voting for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-14", "file": "debates1927-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3df3c6f9bf0ada5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2434.0", "colnum": "2434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "nd this contract would not be fulfilled if I had anything to do with it. I would cut it now without any compunction. I hope from what has been said here to-night, irrespective of party, and realising the distress in the country, and also realising that in the mining areas there are people coming home, as I saw them a few days ago, after paying their back rents and current rent with 7s. 6d. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-14", "file": "debates1927-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3df3c6f9bf0ada5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2454.3", "colnum": "2454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "rovement in the land, no matter whether the industry goes on or whether it closes down, due to the subsidy by the Government and the addition which is being asked for to-night, has been created by the subsidy from the taxpayers to this supposed industry that has been estab- lished. Surely, if we are creating a value outside the industry, it ought to belong to the people who have given the subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2454.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-14", "file": "debates1927-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3df3c6f9bf0ada5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2457.5", "colnum": "2457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "or beet is reduced owing to the drop in the subsidy, the factories have obtained more than half of the contracts for which they are asking. Farmers are improving their methods so as to get a better yield and a better sugar content, and there is one factory in contemplation on a cooperative basis which is already offered contracts for over 6,000 acres on the basis of 41s. per ton of beet delivered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2457.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-12-14", "file": "debates1927-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3df3c6f9bf0ada5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2464.0", "colnum": "2464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "e if the Committee were to show any hesitation as to carrying out the obligation into which Parliament entered when it passed the Act authorising the subsidy in 1925, or if it were to do anything by setting up a Committee of inquiry to cause a feeling of insecurity and deprive the agricultural industry of the full benefit of that policy which was adopted, I think, with the approval of all parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-14", "file": "debates1927-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "3df3c6f9bf0ada5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2464.1", "colnum": "2464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thirty shillings!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "of beet sugar cultivated, there is one additional man employed for 12 months. If another root crop were grown, there would be one man less, so we have one increase for every 34 acres. The total acreage under cultivation is 230,000 acres, and 34 into 230,000 gives you roughly 7,000 additional men employed in agriculture. Now we will assume that these 7,000 are paid a wage of £3 per week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-14a.2464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-15", "file": "debates1927-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "a95c5656a66e57e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2531.1", "colnum": "2531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And right hon. Members!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "her with all the other Christian Churches, all the influence for good in this country of which it is capable. If I may sum up what I appear to myself to represent, it is the man-in-the-pew. I must admit that when I first heard about the revision of the Prayer Book, my instincts were rather against any change, but, having given it pretty careful study, which I hope all hon. Members have done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-15", "file": "debates1927-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "a95c5656a66e57e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2535.1", "colnum": "2535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman, I believe, is going to speak later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-15", "file": "debates1927-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "a95c5656a66e57e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2535.1", "colnum": "2535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman, I believe, is going to speak later.[ Interruption. ] I asked him to say it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-15", "file": "debates1927-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "a95c5656a66e57e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2535.1", "colnum": "2535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "onsists of the huge mass of moderate men and women, and their appeal should not fall on deaf ears in this broad-minded House. Some critics are inclined to say that we should adopt our disciplinary measures and fix the penalties first. This seems to me to reflect rather the spirit of the Middle Ages. You ought to pile up your wood, fix in your stake, and have someone there ready with a match—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-15", "file": "debates1927-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "a95c5656a66e57e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2535.1", "colnum": "2535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "ink anyone without their training would have been able to discover so many subjects for suspicion in such scanty material. They have fastened on various regulations and rubrics and have sought to raise suspicions against the motives of the supporters of this Measure. They say here or there is some deviation from the language of earlier regulations. There must be something more behind this. Beware!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-15", "file": "debates1927-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "a95c5656a66e57e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2537.1", "colnum": "2537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "MR. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "MR. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": " able to suppress those which cannot. It is only when this is done that discipline and order become possible. Therefore, we are asked to sanction a Measure which, while leaving it optional to retain the old form, concedes such variety as the trend of modern ideas demands. It is recommended by a huge majority of representatives of the Church, and is only opposed by the extreme parties at both ends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-15", "file": "debates1927-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "a95c5656a66e57e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2537.1", "colnum": "2537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "MR. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "MR. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "now they are not satisfied. It seems to me that their action, if I am right in interpreting it, is a desire to prevent any approach to Roman practices in the Church. I am sure that I am not wrong in saying that. If that be their desire, they are not going the right way to produce the result which they wish. If they succeed in defeating this Measure they will produce a state of chaos in the Church.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-15", "file": "debates1927-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "a95c5656a66e57e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2538.1", "colnum": "2538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": " the Church. If it is rejected, those who carry on Romish practices will be left entirely unaffected, and by throwing out this Measure the people who want to strike at the extreme ritualist section will clean miss them and will be striking a deadly blow at the vast majority of moderate people in the Church. I can imagine that those who dislike the Church of England may wish to reject this Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-15", "file": "debates1927-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "a95c5656a66e57e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2562.3", "colnum": "2562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Certainly!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL", "preceding_text": " speak with the utmost deference and respect for every other opinion firmly held, but I do believe that the best contribution that we can make to this or to any other problem is to speak our minds freely and without reserve upon the question. Does the Church of England adhere as an organised unit to the position which it took up at the Reformation against the doctrine of Transubstantiation?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2562.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-15", "file": "debates1927-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "a95c5656a66e57e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2578.0", "colnum": "2578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Lord HUGH CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord HUGH CECIL", "preceding_text": " forms of the Church. With all that great moral authority behind it, if you separate the legal sanction from the moral authority you produce absolute chaos and ruin with respect to all maintenance of order and discipline in the Church. I do appeal, in spite of the words of the right hon. Gentleman, who, I cannot help thinking, is really trying by rejecting this Measure, to disestablish the Church.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-15", "file": "debates1927-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "a95c5656a66e57e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2587.1", "colnum": "2587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "e in their Report expressly say that there is nothing that modifies the purport of the Coronation Oath. That is to say that when the King swears to maintain the Protestant reformed religion established by law, he may do so just as well after this Measure passes as before. That, undoubtedly, is the verdict of the Ecclesiastical Committee. Certainly, the Deposited Book is a Protestant reformed book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-15", "file": "debates1927-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "a95c5656a66e57e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2611.0", "colnum": "2611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel APPLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel APPLIN", "preceding_text": "es obsolete, the old Prayer Book is no-longer the Prayer Book of the Church, of England, but this Book, which I hold in my hand, will be. 9.0 p.m. Let us consider what that means to our people all over the world. They will have to do one of two things, either to adopt this Book, without a by-your-leave or with-your-leave, or to continue to use the old Prayer Book, which will be absolutely illegal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2611.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-15", "file": "debates1927-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "a95c5656a66e57e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2611.0", "colnum": "2611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel APPLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel APPLIN", "preceding_text": "longer the Prayer Book of the Church, of England, but this Book, which I hold in my hand, will be. 9.0 p.m. Let us consider what that means to our people all over the world. They will have to do one of two things, either to adopt this Book, without a by-your-leave or with-your-leave, or to continue to use the old Prayer Book, which will be absolutely illegal. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Yes, it will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2611.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-15", "file": "debates1927-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "a95c5656a66e57e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2611.0", "colnum": "2611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel APPLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel APPLIN", "preceding_text": "hout a by-your-leave or with-your-leave, or to continue to use the old Prayer Book, which will be absolutely illegal. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Yes, it will be. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I am very sorry to contradict hon. Members but I have the very best authority for saying what I have said. I have consulted the Law Officers of the Crown. The Prayer Book as it at present exists-will become illegal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2611.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-15", "file": "debates1927-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "a95c5656a66e57e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2632.2", "colnum": "2632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. MACNAGHTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. MACNAGHTEN", "preceding_text": "The Rubric, it is true, is to be found printed in the Book, but it is printed in such a place as to make it clear that it only applies to the old office and not to the new office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2632.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-15", "file": "debates1927-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "a95c5656a66e57e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2632.3", "colnum": "2632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "at can be presented by the order of a democratic constitution as expressing her will, and she has come with all her leaders pledged to do their best to remedy certain disorders which have been the despair of Christians of all denominations in this country. Is the House of Commons to-night going to say, \"We do not trust you. We told you to set your house in order, and we do not believe you\"?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2632.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-15", "file": "debates1927-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "a95c5656a66e57e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2637.0", "colnum": "2637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "preceding_text": " speeches full of information and argument. Not a single person was invited to that conference, except the members of the Assembly, none of whom knew that they would be called upon to state their side of the case. The Bishop of Newcastle addressed a conference at Newcastle and the Bishop of Durham was invited to follow him. My Noble Friend the Member for Oxford University made a third in the team.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2637.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-15", "file": "debates1927-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "a95c5656a66e57e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2637.0", "colnum": "2637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In one Book?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "preceding_text": " word to use—to misunderstand the controversy. He spoke of two great streams which the Church has always known; a double stream of opinion concerning the Sacrament, and that both schools had produced Saints and scholars in the past. Do we not all know it? Has it not been possible in the past for these two streams to flow side by side through the spacious meadows of the English Church?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2637.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-15", "file": "debates1927-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "a95c5656a66e57e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2648.0", "colnum": "2648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "The wish has been expressed that there should be a word in reply on behalf of those who are supporting this Measure, but I quite realise that the House of Commons is anxious to come to a decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-15", "file": "debates1927-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "a95c5656a66e57e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2648.0", "colnum": "2648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": " you possibly conduct a church except on the assumption that you are to repose some measure of trust in the Bishops? On their shoulders lies the terrible responsibility of having to administer the Church. They are responsible for law and order. The Home Secretary accuses them of permitting illegalities. They reply that they are unable to enforce the law and they ask us to bring the law up to date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-15", "file": "debates1927-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "a95c5656a66e57e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2650.3", "colnum": "2650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "for Consett (Mr. Dunnico) in his striking speech, demonstrated the archaisms and anachronisms that cluster around the venerable old book of 1662. It is futile for the Solicitor-General to try to persuade the House that it would be possible for us to send back to the Church Assembly this Measure and to tell the Church to bring up again a new Prayer Book leaving out the Reservation of the Sacrament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-15a.2650.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-16", "file": "debates1927-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "50bde25b80e40424", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-16a.2683.0", "colnum": "2683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN CHURCH BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Lord HUGH CECIL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord HUGH CECIL", "preceding_text": "d, at any rate so far as we are able now to foresee, there is no likelihood of any difficulty in that direction. As to the question of money, this money is not to be given, as has been suggested, to maintain the Church; it is payment for services received. Religion, like other things, has to be paid for if you want it. The State has a large number of servants in India who need these ministrations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-16a.2683.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-16", "file": "debates1927-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "50bde25b80e40424", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-16a.2711.4", "colnum": "2711", "heading": "NURSING HOMES (REGISTRATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "preceding_text": "May I suggest that we should leave out the word \"nursing\" making the phrase \"Christian Science Homes\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-16a.2711.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-12-16", "file": "debates1927-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "50bde25b80e40424", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-16a.2720.2", "colnum": "2720", "heading": "NURSING HOMES (REGISTRATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, in Boston.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "Is that the head of the Church in England?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-16a.2720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-19", "file": "debates1927-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9ade0dec2d204ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.20.2", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, I do not think that would be satisfactory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.20.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-19", "file": "debates1927-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9ade0dec2d204ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.61.6", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Non. sense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "Is it to catch votes? That is a suggestion which would never enter into the minds of hon. Members opposite. Is it to destroy industry? That again is a suggestion which, of course, would never enter into the minds of hon. Members opposite. No; but I find that the members of the executive of their party clearly regard the surtax, and the matters connected with it, as a method of destroying industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.61.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-19", "file": "debates1927-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9ade0dec2d204ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.61.6", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "alisation, because every thrust forward, every slice of national income taken from the owning class, will make capitalism less worth while. So we understand; that is the position. The idea is to tax the owning class, to increase the taxation on the owning class, and to make capitalism less worth while. If you make it less worth while you stop the expansion of industry, and the people——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.61.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-19", "file": "debates1927-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9ade0dec2d204ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.61.6", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "en still sitting on the benches opposite take rather a different view of propping up the party majority by means of that kind. They take a different view also of trying to prop up the people of this country by the use of other people's income. Some hon. Members opposite seem to think that one method of dealing with unemployment is to make it almost as profitable to be unemployed as to be employed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.61.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-19", "file": "debates1927-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9ade0dec2d204ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.61.6", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "ferent view also of trying to prop up the people of this country by the use of other people's income. Some hon. Members opposite seem to think that one method of dealing with unemployment is to make it almost as profitable to be unemployed as to be employed. [ Interruption. ] Some hon. Members opposite seem to think that it is better to make it more profitable to be unemployed than to be employed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.61.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-19", "file": "debates1927-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9ade0dec2d204ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.64.7", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "ng to do something which is not possible, because even in its own doctrine and speeches \"the house is divided against itself.\" You cannot get rid of politics in industry so long as you are trying to do those two things. One finds the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs, who now appropriates to his own party the Almighty, in order to put the coal trade again in the vortex of political warfare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.64.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-19", "file": "debates1927-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9ade0dec2d204ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.64.7", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "lted in no fewer than 41,000 new men being taken on. Silk and artificial silk have absorbed no fewer than 17,700 new employés only is that the state of affairs but even real wages are 11.5 per cent. higher at the present time than they were in October, 1926, and 6.5 per cent. higher than they were in December of last year. Then if you take the figures of unemployment in September, 1927—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.64.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-19", "file": "debates1927-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9ade0dec2d204ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.70.0", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "RAMSDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On 10s. a week?\"", "preceding_speaker": "RAMSDEN", "preceding_text": "63;27,448,900 on pensions, and £6,624,000 on the new Widows', Orphans' and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act. Incidentally, it seems to me that this scheme of contributory pensions at 65 years of age is going to carry out the desire of one of the speakers that we should remove from industry a number of those who attain the age of 65 during the course of the next year, and from thence onwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.70.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-19", "file": "debates1927-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9ade0dec2d204ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "I once, in this House, spoke on a licensing question—only once. I have never had the slightest interest in licensing or brewing or anything connected with it. I dealt with the Bill concerned with the administration of justice. The man who says that I am a brewers' advocate says something that is not only untrue, but dishonourable to himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-19", "file": "debates1927-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9ade0dec2d204ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.90.2", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member proposes the closing down of certain mills in order that there may be a possibility of working other mills full time. That is a restriction of production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.90.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-19", "file": "debates1927-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9ade0dec2d204ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.91.3", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Prove it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "se, however, to leave these natural iniquities of human nature on one side for the moment. I do not propose to say that everything would be beautiful in the garden were it not for that incompetent Government, though that would be a natural tu quoque. I believe, honestly, that the Government is not thoroughly and fundamentally bad; I believe that it is merely stupid. I propose just to——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.91.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-19", "file": "debates1927-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9ade0dec2d204ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.91.3", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " problem unparalleled in magnitude when we consider the wealth and the population of the country involved. What did they do? They went to the League of Nations and, through them, borrowed £10,000,000 from British capitalists. Then they arranged to get hold of a Scotsman. It is wonderful how these brain waves are caught by foreign statesmen, and yet His Majesty's Government cannot think of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.91.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-19", "file": "debates1927-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9ade0dec2d204ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.100.3", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "Not even the Government, nor anyone else, but if any body of men, party apart, are talking among themselves, then they say without question that the two men more predominantly responsible than anybody were the two chief leaders of the miners and those who supported them. Everyone knows that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.100.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-19", "file": "debates1927-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9ade0dec2d204ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HALL", "preceding_text": "re is want and poverty, and, unfortunately, that state of things is prevalent in every mining Division. I lay the blame entirely at the door of the Government. As regards a large percentage of the unemployment in the mining industry, I say that no one is more responsible for it than the Government and the Prime Minister, through their action in lengthening the hours of the miners during last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-19", "file": "debates1927-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9ade0dec2d204ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.158.2", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "An HoN. MEMBER: \"In the past?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "—trade has fallen off by more than half as between Russia and ourselves in the period which has elapsed. It is all very well in a moment of political passion to jeer at the Russians as being unfaithful to their contracts, but that is not true. There is not a business man in Britain who can cite a single instance where they have not been faithful to the commercial arrangements they have made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.158.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-19", "file": "debates1927-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9ade0dec2d204ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.158.2", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "tlemen opposite will get away from the bogey of Communist propaganda, which is always being raised when we might do business with Russia, we shall do much more business than we have done. I observe that the Prime Minister is here, and I ask his attention to the fact that his party in its literature and speeches assured the country at the last election that that party had a remedy for unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.158.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-12-19", "file": "debates1927-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9ade0dec2d204ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "That was before the election of 1920.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "ll get away from the bogey of Communist propaganda, which is always being raised when we might do business with Russia, we shall do much more business than we have done. I observe that the Prime Minister is here, and I ask his attention to the fact that his party in its literature and speeches assured the country at the last election that that party had a remedy for unemployment. [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.158.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-19", "file": "debates1927-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9ade0dec2d204ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Curiliffe-Lister)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Curiliffe-Lister)", "preceding_text": "evidence is there that the alternative system has given any advantage in any other country? I think that that is a very pertinent question. If it be alleged that there is better employment in any other country, if it he alleged that there is better business organisation in any other country, it certainly is not in a country where the Socialist system rules or where Socialistic ideas are practised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-19", "file": "debates1927-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9ade0dec2d204ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Curiliffe-Lister)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Curiliffe-Lister)", "preceding_text": "and in the Motion which is now before the House, to add to this system a policy of work or maintenance, and the comprehensive system which we are invited to adopt is a comprehensive system of nationalisation coupled with a great increase of taxation, such as has been advocated by nearly every speaker on that side of the House to-night, in order to provide maintenance where work is not forthcoming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-19", "file": "debates1927-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9ade0dec2d204ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much is coal?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "er trade returns came out we should find that they would show a considerable advance in our exports. I was challenged on that. What is the fact? We have now received those returns. We see an increase of 16 per cent. in value as against November two years ago. That probably means, in volume, something like 25 per cent. of improvement in exports, and that is about equal to the average month of 1913.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-19", "file": "debates1927-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9ade0dec2d204ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "rable advance in our exports. I was challenged on that. What is the fact? We have now received those returns. We see an increase of 16 per cent. in value as against November two years ago. That probably means, in volume, something like 25 per cent. of improvement in exports, and that is about equal to the average month of 1913. [An HON. MEMBER: \"How much is coal?\"] Coal is about the same as usual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-19", "file": "debates1927-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9ade0dec2d204ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not correct!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "r cent. in value as against November two years ago. That probably means, in volume, something like 25 per cent. of improvement in exports, and that is about equal to the average month of 1913. [An HON. MEMBER: \"How much is coal?\"] Coal is about the same as usual. [ Interruption. ] I wish hon. Gentlemen would allow me to make my speech. I am dealing with the charge that prospects to-day are better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-19", "file": "debates1927-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9ade0dec2d204ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What has this to do with employment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": " there is a large number of things in the key industries list when every one is putting men into work and helping subsidiary industries and increasing export trade and reducing prices. There is the glove industry, which had not been taking apprentices for years. To-day there are a thousand extra men and women at work and they are taking apprentices for the first time. I could go on with the story.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-19a.166.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.243.4", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": " the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) and other hon. Members on this side of the House have tried to bring out the facts and to bring them home to the Government, but the Minister of Agriculture has turned upon my right hon. Friend and strongly, even venomously, denounced him. Denounced him on what score? For alarming the country unnecessarily, unwarrantably and even mischievously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.243.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.243.4", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We do not see some of your people.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "and the actual manual work performed by the farmer is not charged for. The loss on these farms this year amounts to 2½ per cent. on the capital invested. Then I would refer to the opinion recently expressed by the hon. and gallant Member for Rye (Sir G. Courthope), who is the Chairman of the Conservative Agricultural Committee of the House of Commons. I am sorry I do not see him in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.243.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.248.0", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir BASIL PETO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read what is left out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BASIL PETO", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. and gallant Gentleman kindly read the whole of the quotation? He has left out vital words which entirely alter it. I think we are entitled to hear the whole of the passage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has oozed out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": " to the latest figures, the right hon. Gentleman may have later information, they have only spent £136,000. The drainage of the Ouse alone was going to cost £2,500,000. What does the Government suppose they can do with £1,000,000 spread over five years, over the whole of the country? What has happened to the Ouse drainage scheme? Has it been withdrawn? Is it going to be carried out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What things?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "he precipitate and untimely return to the gold standard, a thing which undoubtedly hit agriculture particularly hard, because it is an industry with a very long turnover period—with a very long gap between purchase and the realisation of its produce. Then there are the McKenna Duties, and the Safeguarding of Industries provisions. They put up the prices of things which the farmer has to buy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who killed them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "for capital. It needs capital for land drainage and land reclamation and adaptation and from where is the capital to come? At present, apparently, the only idea is that it should come from the State. In the old days it used to come from the landlord. It was the function of the landlords to provide the necessary capital in the industry and the landlords did it very well. There is no doubt about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, that is what the Government pays!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I have just pointed out that they have paid roughly £4,750,000 out of that sum on land alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.277.7", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "easons afford object-lessons for us. In the one case we have a contradiction of the Labour contention that men would work altruistically for the State; we are told that they will not; and the remark as to management by committees I would commend to my hon. Friends on the Liberal benches, who believe that by committees all the ills from which farming is suffering at the present moment may be cured.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.277.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.285.2", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Major PRICE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Five thousand!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major PRICE", "preceding_text": " in operation, and an extension of employment at better wages in the industries concerned, they are of assistance to the farmer to a far greater extent than will balance any little amount that he may have to pay for some specialised article which, it is suggested, he has to purchase. With regard to fertilisers, it was suggested that there were 150 or 550 different chemical items charged with duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.285.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.285.2", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Major PRICE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major PRICE", "preceding_text": " there were 150 or 550 different chemical items charged with duty. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Five thousand!\"] Whether it be 500 or 5,000, the fact remains that, according to the hon. Member's own figures, the prices of fertilisers have only gone up by 13 per cent. since 1913, and that was the only item on which, when they were closely questioned they could suggest that the farmer was really paying the duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.285.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.285.2", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Major PRICE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major PRICE", "preceding_text": "last few minutes that he suggested any alternative, and the alternative was cultivating tenure, if it meant anything at all. I am certain he will agree with me that the only suggestion he had to make was the policy adumbrated in the Green Book. That is the policy of cultivating tenure—that after a certain date all the land in the Kingdom is to be taken over by a county agricultural authority", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.285.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.285.2", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Major PRICE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major PRICE", "preceding_text": "t is the policy of cultivating tenure—that after a certain date all the land in the Kingdom is to be taken over by a county agricultural authority [An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"] I presume the hon. Member is thinking of the amendment made by a certain Liberal Resolution, that all that we were going to take over was the land that was badly farmed and badly administered and land that came up for sale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.285.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "develop doubts, showed a greater courage, but we had practically nothing from the Liberal Benches. We do not believe there is any occasion for such a proposal. The last vestige of insecurity was removed by the Agriculture Act of 1920, and that part of the Act has been retained in force. The Liberal party have proposed to sweep away the landlord and they make out that he is a most rapacious person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. SANDERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?'", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. SANDERS", "preceding_text": "eir work, and by their assistance, to bolster up agricultural co-operative societies. I wonder how many of us have lost money by it; I myself am one who has suffered. You cannot expect people who wish to help agriculture to go on doing that indefinitely. The fact is that agricultural co-operation in England is a most excellent thing in theory, but in 99 cases out of 100 it breaks down in practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRIGHT", "preceding_text": "ter himself, because in his two speeches in July and August, in Lincolnshire and in Lanarkshire—I read them carefully in the newspaper reports that came my way—there was throughout no reference whatever to the labourers, so that apparently they do not count. It is only the landlord and the farmer, in the judgment of the Conservative party, that count so far as agriculture is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRIGHT", "preceding_text": "lk a gentleman who, at the present time, from 25 acres of land, with the use of sewage, obtains five crops per annum,, and is feeding 100 people, or four persons per acre. If all the available land in this country was used as this is being used, and was brought up to that particular standard of cultivation, we should be able to sustain 200,000,000 people, and find work for 8,000,000 or 10,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRIGHT", "preceding_text": "think it is not necessary to have a standard of cultivation. There are many similar instances of a higher yield per acre than this. Take, for instance, Craigentinny where they use the sewage and get five crops per annum from the land, or the city of Milan where they get similar results, or the city of Berlin, where the use of sewage from that city produces potatoes at the rate of 40 tons per acre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.334.3", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRIGHT", "preceding_text": "Yes, I said so on the statement published in a report sent from Berlin to a gentleman, a well-known Socialist advocate, James Leatham. It is published in a little book called \"Let Glasgow Flourish.\" If you do not accept the statement, you must have it out with the gentleman who published the book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.334.3", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRIGHT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRIGHT", "preceding_text": "ackwards and forwards and spending £1 or 30s. a day in attending the market. That time is wasted in so far as the supervision of the farm is concerned. We are told by the Minister that farming is carried on at a loss. At a loss to whom? It is not carried on at a loss to the landlord who receives from £1 to 30s. per acre from 1,000 to 2,000 acres, for which he has given nothing in return.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.334.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "I did not say the Green Book. The right hon. Gentleman's record in attacking the landlords is well known to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.348.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.348.2", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "I observe that the right hon. Gentleman's ignorance is shared by hon. Members behind him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.348.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.348.2", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Limehouse!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "leman's ignorance is shared by hon. Members behind him. [ Interruption. ] I challenge the hon. Member to produce a single passage in any speech I ever delivered in this House or out of it, or any letter I ever wrote, in which I ever denounced the rural landlords of this country us rapacious—one single sentence—and he ought, as a gentleman, to apologise. I was largely responsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.348.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.348.7", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "ponsible and said it was entirely in his own interests that he was supporting this Measure and for his own purposes? Does he forget that he said: The landlords said they were not asking relief for themselves. It was the old professional beggars' trick, when they pretended to beg for others, and the moment the charitable person's back was turned, the stalwart ruffians spent the money\"——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.348.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.349.8", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was it true?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has to go back to a speech which I delivered 31 years ago in respect of a proposal which I regarded as a land- lords' endowment proposition, and upon a speech which I delivered 31 years ago he makes a charge that I accused the landlords of being a rapacious body. That shows the style of controversy adopted by the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.349.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And every ordinary agreement!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "d to give directions to farmers how they are to cultivate the land. If he had read that book, he would have known that that was untrue. We do not propose in that book to give any directions to farmers. All that we do is that we propose that there shall be the same condition with regard to farming in future as there is incorporated at the present moment in every Crown estate agreement——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "well cultivated; otherwise, the tenant can be evicted. There is no difference in the proposal we make in the Green Book and the conditions which are made on every great estate in this country at the present moment, and if the right hon. Gentleman, instead of taking leaflets on the subject issued by the Conservative office, had read the Green Book, he would have known that. what he said was untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "present it has been exclusively in rural areas where we have preached the Green Book. So when the right hon. Gentleman said that it is an agricultural policy which we have propounded in the towns, he is not approximately near the truth, but he is as near the truth as he is with regard to the rest of his speech. I come to the actual constructive proposals of the right hon. Gentleman. What are they?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ting agriculture out of its present difficulties. It is no use pretending it is a question whether the landlord is a good landlord or not. The landlord system is bankrupt. The landlord is the prime capitalist. He is the man who has the obligation to find the money for drainage, for building, for repairs, for the building of cottages. He has not got the money. You may say, Who is to blame? The War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "drain the resources that the landlord has for discharging his traditional function in agriculture. He can no longer do so. Everybody who has studied the problem knows that very well. Take the very Drainage Commission which has been appointed by the right hon. Gentleman. It is a complete acknowledgment that the landlord has not at his disposal the resources to enable him to discharge that function.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What, a subsidy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "deal with the matter quite uncontroversially. The State has to come in in two ways. The State has to come in exactly as it did in housing. There was an acknowledgment on the part of the State in 1919, and every Government that followed has adopted that policy, that it was quite impossible to build houses in this country without the State coming in to help. The same thing will apply to agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You said a subsidy was impossible!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "help. The same thing will apply to agriculture. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What, a subsidy?\"] Certainly. A grant for the purpose of—you can call it anything you like; if you prefer the word \"subsidy,\" I am not in the least afraid of it. I will certainly say that the State has to assist with regard to drainage in exactly the same way as the right hon. Gentleman proposes to do with regard to the woods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.360.2", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLUNDELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLUNDELL", "preceding_text": "andowner's job; his job has been the smaller drains, the field drains. The operations contemplated by the Royal Commission are certainly not jobs that ever fell upon the landowner's shoulders, whether he was rich or poor. Another of his misconceptions was when he referred to Denmark. Speaking for myself, I am sick and tired of hearing about Denmark. We have a very great deal to learn from Denmark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.360.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "It seems to me—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"]—that only representatives of agricultural constituencies are taking part in this Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "t only representatives of agricultural constituencies are taking part in this Debate. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"] I represent a constituency which is suffering very severely through the depression in agriculture, and I have listened to the Debate without finding in any speech from any hon. Member of the Liberal or Conservative party any policy that would deal with the present trouble in agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-20", "file": "debates1927-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "00cc58e556b86074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "n agriculture, and I have listened to the Debate without finding in any speech from any hon. Member of the Liberal or Conservative party any policy that would deal with the present trouble in agriculture. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"] It is not peculiar to this country. The present trouble in agriculture is the same in every country that has suffered from the same conditions as obtain in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-20a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-21", "file": "debates1927-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "f500951139d57ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-21a.383.8", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "me kind of negotiation that is now being carried through with this company in China was going on during the Labour Government's tenure of office, and that the Labour Government turned it down, the reason being that we have no claim on this land at all, and yet, if anything happens in China, our Forces will be sent out to defend this land, which is not ours at all, but which belongs to the Chinese.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-21a.383.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1927-12-21", "file": "debates1927-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "f500951139d57ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-21a.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 3.—(Landlord's right to object.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "preceding_text": "sidering the proposed alteration, is to have regard to the question whether it will affect the amenities or damage other property of the owner. In these circumstances, as the tribunal may do that over the head of the landlord or superior landlord, the landlord or superior landlord should be heard. I am entirely in favour of the Amendment. I am putting myself in the position of a superior landlord.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1927-12-21a.452.0"}
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