{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-27", "file": "debates1928-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "860d560f1f7e28bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-27a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "The Chairman of Ways and Means tells me that he would not ask for a decision on Tuesday night if it were understood that by giving a second evening to the discussion the group of Bills could be dealt with as the right hon. Gentleman has suggested. I think that would be for the convenience of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-27a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-27", "file": "debates1928-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "860d560f1f7e28bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-27a.93.3", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the chemical industry?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": "Office as continuous processes some 29 processes, including ironworks, metal works, enamelling works, malt works and breweries, liquorice works, sugar factories, chemical works, starch works, jam, fruit pulp, and sausage factories, water mills, gas works, etc. She has communicated a whole list of processes which under no circumstances in this country would come under the definiton of \"continuous.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-27a.93.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-27", "file": "debates1928-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "860d560f1f7e28bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-27a.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "hey will have no more faith in the honesty of our intentions in regard to a revised Convention than they now have in the word we gave in 1919. They will say that unless the revision is satisfactory to our own cir- cumstances and our own point of view, we shall say again that it is unsuitable to us in this country. What a fine picture it is! Here we have Great Britain, the Goliath of nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-27a.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-27", "file": "debates1928-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "860d560f1f7e28bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-27a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "going to escape war. The International Labour Office is an attempt to obviate the grosser cruelties and stupidities and follies of the economic war. I take it that that is the underlying purpose of the whole business. We hear a lot of talk about Czechoslovakia. We know something about British capital flowing into Czechoslovakia; we know something about factories being erected there and in Austria.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-27a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-27", "file": "debates1928-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "860d560f1f7e28bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-27a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Belgium?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "shington up till now, they have been testified to. I am not going to repeat what the Parliamentary Secretary has said. If there has been a breach of honour the right hon. Member for Preston is including in his charge every other of the nations on the Continent, none of whose record is better than our's. Our record is better than any single one who was pledged to the ratification of the Convention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-27a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-27", "file": "debates1928-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "860d560f1f7e28bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-27a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about India?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "h of honour the right hon. Member for Preston is including in his charge every other of the nations on the Continent, none of whose record is better than our's. Our record is better than any single one who was pledged to the ratification of the Convention. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Belgium?\"] Our record is equal to that of Belgium, and it is better than that of any other country on the Continent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-27a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-27", "file": "debates1928-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "860d560f1f7e28bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-27a.176.2", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was here today!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " his final opinion about this matter. We all know that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Derby is a courageous man. No one doubts his valour; but I rather think that discretion is the better part of valour when these Debates come on, as I seldom see him sitting through them and giving his adhesion to the Washington Convention and its harmony with the railway agreement of which we have heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-27a.176.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-27", "file": "debates1928-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "860d560f1f7e28bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-27a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ng those points which we had reached could not be combined with it. Any country could impugn our practice over a great part of the whole range of British industries. It was not a twopenny-half-penny point at all. I could trust the four countries who had signed it as an expression of intention, as a \"gentleman's agreement,\" as it is said, not to do so, but it was open to any other country to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-27a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-28", "file": "debates1928-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e2f68f8e9fbb7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-28a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REORGANISATION OF OFFICES (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "preceding_text": " there is a separate Parliament without dissolution. Would you, with a Secretary of State in Scotland, and under a Scottish Parliament, interject between that Secretary of State and his work anything in the nature of a board? If the hon. Member for Dundee and the hon. Member for Motherwell got Home Rule for Scotland, would they not pursue exactly the same policy that the Minister is now following?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-28a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-28", "file": "debates1928-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e2f68f8e9fbb7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-28a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REORGANISATION OF OFFICES (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Would you translate it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "preceding_text": "inish their exclusive privileges a little more. Observe what their exclusive privilege was: The sole right of practising in the Courts of Glasgow and certain Courts in the County of Lanark. I begin to suspect that Glasgow, has flourished not merely by the preaching of the word, but by observing the wholesome rule of \"keeping their ain fish guts for their ain sea maws.\" It is a very excellent rule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-28a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-28", "file": "debates1928-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e2f68f8e9fbb7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-28a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REORGANISATION OF OFFICES (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. BROWN", "preceding_text": "various Departments. I was saying just now there is to be no change in the Fishery Board. I rather think that is a mistake. There is to be a change. The chairman is not to exist as he exists at present, but it is to be a legal gentleman, and the Board is to remain there because they give their services gratuitously. I thought the chairman was in the same position, and he is a legal gentleman, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-28a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-28", "file": "debates1928-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e2f68f8e9fbb7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-28a.313.0", "colnum": "313", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "y companies, if I thought it was introduced for that purpose only, I should be inclined to withdraw my opposition to the Bill. Quite frankly, I cannot say that I consider that to be the case. Why? There is not a demand for more motor transport throughout the country as a general rule. In fact my own personal experience tells me that there is to-day too much motor bus competition on various routes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-28a.313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-28", "file": "debates1928-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e2f68f8e9fbb7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-28a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GRANT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not always!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GRANT", "preceding_text": ";s of the railway companies and others who are interested in them. In many of these communications we have been given to understand that an undue burden of rates is borne by the railway companies. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Wells told us that the railways were among the largest ratepayers in the country. Why should they not be? How are rates levied? They are levied on capacity to pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-28a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-28", "file": "debates1928-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e2f68f8e9fbb7ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-28a.375.5", "colnum": "375", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "t the position and the circumstances in which the old guardians had to be superseded. It is perfectly true that there has been a very considerable curtailment in expenditure. Out-relief for the half-year eliding 30th September, 1925, cost over £100,000, and for the half-year ending 30th September, 1926, it cost no less than £300,000. I believe that has been effected without any hardship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-28a.375.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.400.11", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "I am in this difficulty, that I realise that the question I wish to put ought to be put to the Head of the Government, and I have some difficulty in knowing who is the Head of the Government at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.400.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.480.4", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are you a Socialist?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Member deny the economic fact—it is not a question of agriculture, but of economics—that a landlord will be able to get more in rent if rates are less and less in rent if rates arc higher? Does he deny that economic law?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.480.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.484.4", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I thought the hon. and gallant Member wanted to abolish tithes, but I now gather that he only desires to abolish a portion of them. How will that help the tenant? Up to the present the relief which has been given to the farmers has gone into the pockets of the landlords who have raised the price of their land. That is how the landowners have profiteered since the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.484.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.486.1", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member not only goes in for nationalising the whole of the agricultural land of the country, but he also advocated the stabilisation of prices. Let me point out that the stabilisation of prices means the control of the whole farming industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I hope that the next time the hon. and gallant Member addresses the House he will think that policy worthy of a little more serious consideration. He said that the policy of the Liberal party is the elimination of the landowner, but, as I have already pointed out, the landowner is eliminating himself as fast as he possibly can, at the highest price he can obtain for his land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "iberal party is the elimination of the landowner, but, as I have already pointed out, the landowner is eliminating himself as fast as he possibly can, at the highest price he can obtain for his land. [ Interruption. ] He is transferring the land to the occupying farmer, with this difference, that, while the hon. and gallant Member was talking about the landowner, he was not thinking of the farmer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.487.3", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. and gallant Member seriously say that, when he referred to the elimination of the landowner, he was referring to the elimination of the owner of his own farm? Surely, he must have read the policy of the Liberal party before condemning it, and in that case he would have known—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.487.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.487.3", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. and gallant Member seriously say that, when he referred to the elimination of the landowner, he was referring to the elimination of the owner of his own farm? Surely, he must have read the policy of the Liberal party before condemning it, and in that case he would have known—[ Interruption. ] If the hon. Member has not got it, I shall be pleased to hand him a copy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.487.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.487.3", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has it now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "read the policy of the Liberal party before condemning it, and in that case he would have known—[ Interruption. ] If the hon. Member has not got it, I shall be pleased to hand him a copy. [ Interruption. ] I am talking about the policy of the Liberal party, and not what Tory Members have been describing on the platform. The policy is this: We want to obtain for the farmer security of tenure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.487.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.489.6", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": " the sale of the land by the landowner or by the caprice of the agent on account it may be of some political consideration. Hon. Members on the other side are very fond of going about the country and telling the farmers that under the Liberal policy they will be compulsorily deprived of their farms, at prices to be fixed by arbitration, and that the land will pass under the control of an official.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.489.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.517.6", "colnum": "517", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KENNEDY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KENNEDY", "preceding_text": " do so. Meantime I pass on to deal briefly with the question of the companies having free access to the roads for the collection and delivery of railway borne traffic. The companies have that right to-day. The reason why they ask for the free use of the roads in my opinion is simply this: They want a prescriptive, statutory right to get on to the roads to the complete exclusion of all competitors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.517.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.519.0", "colnum": "519", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The local authorities.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "olistic powers on their rails, which powers are restricted by various Acts of Parliament. All they ask for is the removal of a disability. At the present moment, I suppose, there is not an individual, a company, or a corporation, with the necessary money, debarred from entering into competition on the public roads without going to Parliament. The railway companies alone are debarred from doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Major GLYN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major GLYN", "preceding_text": "the terms of the Bill are sufficient to prevent the railways undertaking any competition or doing anything which will have the effect of creating a monopoly. Let me put it from the point of view of pounds, shillings and pence. I suppose everyone will admit that if you are going to try to run the vehicles of your rivals off the road you must at least have an equal number of vehicles to your rivals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Major GLYN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And municipalities!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major GLYN", "preceding_text": "ich are exercising the minds of hon. Members in various parts of the House can be dealt with in Committee. It is our business on the Second Reading to recognise the great responsibility of Parliament in the control it has over these great public utilities, and when they come to Parliament asking for these powers it is the business of Parliament to consider, in the first place, the public interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.534.0", "colnum": "534", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROSSLYN MITCHELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The stage coach!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROSSLYN MITCHELL", "preceding_text": "J. Grant) asked last night, \"Why does not the railway company stick to its job?\" What is the job of the railway company? It is not to run engines; it is to carry traffic. The purpose of a railway company is to carry goods and passengers. I agree that in its initial stage it was to carry goods and passengers on rails, because there was no other invention for carrying them on the roads at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL", "preceding_text": ". Therefore, we must take it that, as far as the railway companies are concerned, whatever alterations they may be able to make in the way of increased efficiency will not get back that traffic. But, on the other hand, as I see it—and I speak without expert knowledge—I cannot see that the railway companies can continue to exist with only long-distance traffic and heavy haulage traffic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL", "preceding_text": "ock on Monday morning—58 hours at one stretch—with no increase in his wage of 30s. a week. Is this House going to say people can carry on like that without any restriction while the great railway companies, making national agreements, have higher wages, regular hours, superannuation, continuous employment and everything we think desirable, are to be prohibited from competing with them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL", "preceding_text": " from another aspect. The passenger is a very important element when we are considering the question of transport. I could give the House numerous cases within my own experience of accidents happening to chars-a-bancs and omnibuses and claims for damages, but the omnibus is on the hire-purchase system and is not insured and you get nothing. A great accident happened in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.547.2", "colnum": "547", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "ite true that there were four against, three for, and one took a rather different attitude. He said that he wanted to nationalise everything, and, therefore, was in favour of the nationalisation of the roads. At any rate it is quite true that the Chairman, Mr. Balfour-Browne, an eminent K.C. and well known throughout the country, was the only man who did not represent an interest on the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.547.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.547.2", "colnum": "547", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": " be that they would make that part of the Bill watertight and not allow the companies, if they so wished, by these subsidiary enterprises—probably they do not—to avoid the obligations which other Clauses and other safeguards put upon them. I think hon. Members opposite are rather disturbed by the idea that the Bill, if it becomes law, would in some way hurt their municipal enterprises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.547.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.561.3", "colnum": "561", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, because I assume that Members of Parliament generally look to their corporation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.561.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.561.3", "colnum": "561", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the public!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "uestion in a few sentences. Take a short trip from here to Reading by rail. Every Member knows perfectly well that every mile of the permanent way on the railway from here to Reading is paid for and maintained wholly and solely by the shareholders' money. There is no disputing that. Everyone knows that the signal-boxes and the signalmen from here to Reading are maintained by the railway companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.561.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.561.3", "colnum": "561", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A.A.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "the House to deny that in actual travelling the simple illustration I have given is applicable all over the country, and I ask whether those who are competing, either in taking passengers or goods from London to Reading, maintain or pay for and are wholly responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of the roads? As far as the signalman is concerned on the London to Reading road he is the policeman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.561.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Divide!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.565.3", "colnum": "565", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to detain the House with any vexatious arguments. I want to make it quite clear why I have made up my mind to vote against this Bill, especially in the interests of railway workers who are being misled into believing that it is their interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.565.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.566.2", "colnum": "566", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Barrow (Mr. Bromley) and the hon. Member for Derby (Mr. Thomas) take a certain amount of pride, and perhaps rightly so, for the manner in which the wages of the railway workers are safeguarded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.566.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-02-29", "file": "debates1928-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "67c4f66a75f6bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.566.2", "colnum": "566", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "e workers are to be safeguarded, the only means at the disposal of the representatives of the working class is to see that the transport workers and the railway workers, not the railway workers and the railway directors, are brought together, and that a general movement in support of wages and hours for all transport workers formed. That is the right way for working class repre sentatives to fight", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-02-29a.566.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-01", "file": "debates1928-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "51689813bfb85e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.617.7", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1928 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, to leave out \"£110,067,000\" and to insert instead thereof \"£110,066,990.\" We have witnessed a resumption of the campaign on behalf of safeguarding, and one can hardly deal nowadays with trade depression without referring to safeguarding. It has become a burning question once again. We are told safeguarding has been an unqualified success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.617.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-01", "file": "debates1928-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "51689813bfb85e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.629.0", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1928 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "l-known proposals of the Government. In the figures we are presenting to the House to-day we have taken the year 1924, which has this advantage, that it was the year before hon. Members opposite came into power and the finances of this country were controlled by the right hon. Member for Coins Valley (Mr. Snowden). Hon. Members opposite will admit that they could scarcely have been in worse hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.629.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-01", "file": "debates1928-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "51689813bfb85e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1928 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "I am trying to find the best year for comparison, and I will start with the interruption of the hon. Member and give him the information for which he asks. My hon. Friend the Member for Anglesey took five articles which have been safeguarded, leaving out pottery, because there has not been time yet to see its effect, motor cars and silk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-01", "file": "debates1928-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "51689813bfb85e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.640.1", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1928 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are Liberals!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": " the 10 per cent. I would ask the right hon. Gentleman, quite apart from the excessive price, is it not almost inconceivable that if the 25s. had been quoted at first, that firm would not have got the contract straight away and there would have been employment for British people? It is beyond any question at all that this shipping ring has, as somebody said, got a strangle-hold upon British trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-01", "file": "debates1928-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "51689813bfb85e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1928 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "rable condition owing to the fact that since the breach with Russia we had lost £3,000,000 of trade in herrings. I was so surprised at that figure that I invited the statisticians of the Board of Trade to procure for me the exact figures of the trade. I find that in 1925 the amount of herrings exported to Russia was £164,000, in 1926 it was £10,398, and in 1927 it was £155,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-01", "file": "debates1928-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "51689813bfb85e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.667.7", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1928 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "They certainly have not made any request to the Prime Minister to pass it on to me. If they had he would have sent for me and told me to do it, and I should have done it. Until I get such a request, I should certainly be extremely foolish in acting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.667.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-01", "file": "debates1928-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "51689813bfb85e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1928 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ome of this information was collected for them, and for the purpose of that Conference, by my representatives in various foreign countries, and at the close of the inquiries, I was very glad to receive from both sides of the Joint Committee their very cordial thanks for the assistance that the Board of Trade had rendered to them. Then the hon. Gentleman the Member for Swansea went on to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-01", "file": "debates1928-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "51689813bfb85e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.693.2", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1928 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PILCHER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Consumption or production?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PILCHER", "preceding_text": "ry Secretary to the fact that last year only some three-eighths of the world's new tonnage constructed during the year was for coal, and if, while we consider those figures, we also consider these, we shall get some new light on the position in the coal industry. The total consumption of British coal in 1914 was 287,000,000 tons, and in 1927, 260,000,000 tons, a difference of just 27,000,000 tons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.693.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-01", "file": "debates1928-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "51689813bfb85e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.700.2", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1928 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ken any specific step has nothing to do with that. The trade set up a joint committee to investigate certain matters; those were investigated, and they have taken certain action on the report presented. In the report it was suggested that possibly the President of the Board of Trade might do something, but obviously it would be very stupid of him to go and butt in until he was asked to come along.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.700.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-01", "file": "debates1928-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "51689813bfb85e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1928 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman will do is to allow any given industry, which feels that it is being subjected to unfair competition, the right to apply, on its own initiative, to a Safeguarding Committee, to consider whether the conditions are such as to permit of this particular industry being examined into by a number of experts, to see whether its contention as to unfair competition is well grounded or not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-01", "file": "debates1928-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "51689813bfb85e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1928 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ed miners in South Wales, I thought that, if that is the best a British Ministry can stand for, God help the British democracy. I wonder, however, if it would not be possible for my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade to persuade the Government—for the Government is not simply a collection of more or less decorative people who draw salaries and look dignified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-01", "file": "debates1928-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "51689813bfb85e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.708.2", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1928 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "The point that I was trying to make—I was using this purely for the purposes of illustration—is that the condition of this country is very bad. Right hon. Gentlemen opposite are making a tremendous call on the working classes for greater effort and greater sacrifices. They are being told in a variety of trades that they must not make any demand for higher standards of life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.708.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-01", "file": "debates1928-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "51689813bfb85e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.718.6", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1928 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "e of the House are too docile; they take everything lying down. They are afraid to criticise their own Government. They have a greater majority than the Conservative party have ever had or will ever have again. Of course, they can make a row at Question time, but nothing happens. They are afraid of the Government, as we saw the other day on the Economy Debate, when they ran away from the Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.718.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-01", "file": "debates1928-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "51689813bfb85e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.722.0", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1928 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": "t lucidity. There is no question whatever that this Debate, as far as I have been able to follow it, has shown that there is something about which there is considerable lucidity. The remarkable thing in all the Debates about safeguarding is this, that having applied that method to a number of articles, which cannot by any stretch of the imagination be called the staple trades of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.722.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-01", "file": "debates1928-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "51689813bfb85e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.723.3", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1928 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "th all respect to other trades, are much more important to this country. In regard to agriculture, the last speaker talked about divisions in the Liberal party. He chose as an illustration one private member of the party in the City of Leicester. I would point out that there are very grave divisions, not only outside but inside this House, among Conservatives, on this very problem of safeguarding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.723.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-01", "file": "debates1928-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "51689813bfb85e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.723.3", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1928 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait and see: \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "thing to put up \"One tariff, one trade.\" The very fact that this method of safeguarding cannot be applied through the Board of Trade with regard to coal, because we do not import it, and with regard to agriculture, because this Government, though Protectionist at heart, dare not face the electors either in rural or urban constituencies on a policy of safeguarding agriculture, is proof of my point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.723.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-01", "file": "debates1928-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "51689813bfb85e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.726.3", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1928 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "e effects. It will either raise prices or it will intercept a fall in prices or it will cause—(HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"] There are some hon. Members in this House who never speak up themselves and who naturally desire that others should do so. The third possible effect is that it will produce an inferior article. With regard to hosiery, I gather that it has produced a most inferior article.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.726.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-01", "file": "debates1928-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "51689813bfb85e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.726.3", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1928 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Raised the stockings!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "n inferior article. With regard to hosiery, I gather that it has produced a most inferior article. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"] I propose to quote my authority. I read the other day a very interesting speech made by the wife of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who explained in Epping that the tax under the Safeguarding Acts on stockings had not raised the price, all it had done was to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.726.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-01", "file": "debates1928-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "51689813bfb85e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1928 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": " some of the stringencies that exist in that particular White Paper. There are big and important trades which, if they have a case at all, ought to have the privilege of making out that case before the Committee, and I think they ought to be given a chance to prove their case. I feel very strongly on this question of the iron and steel trades. It may be that nothing can be done in this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.729.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-03-01", "file": "debates1928-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "51689813bfb85e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.730.7", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1928 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "There is no Statute!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "It is a point of Order arising out of the hon. Member's speech that I wish to put. In view of, the fact that it has been held that the existing procedure for applying Safeguarding Duties cannot be applied to iron and steel without an alteration of the Statute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.730.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-01", "file": "debates1928-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "51689813bfb85e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1928 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "ncial adviser to the Government, has put it on record that if he had control of this money—I do not know what I am talking about, according to your opinion, but I reckon that Sir George knows somewhat better than the Parliamentary Secretary. He will surely allow me to introduce the name of a man of substantial credit in matters of this kind. We will allow him to speak through me, as it were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-01a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-02", "file": "debates1928-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "cf3aca981a014e9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-02a.766.3", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARCHITECTS (REGISTRATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TASKER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TASKER", "preceding_text": "ing like the Law Courts for legal purposes. That was in the period of Gothic architecture. We are now going through another stage. Personally, I think that many of the examples of the housing schemes to-day include some of the most hideous structures that have ever been built, and yet they are done by accredited architects; they are designed by members of the Royal Institute of British Architects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-02a.766.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-02", "file": "debates1928-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "cf3aca981a014e9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-02a.766.3", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARCHITECTS (REGISTRATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TASKER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And very nice some of them are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TASKER", "preceding_text": "es to-day include some of the most hideous structures that have ever been built, and yet they are done by accredited architects; they are designed by members of the Royal Institute of British Architects. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"] Everywhere. The London County Council have spent £24,000,000 on houses, everyone of which has been designed by members of the Royal Institute of British Architects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-02a.766.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-05", "file": "debates1928-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e5aff586f2399e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-05a.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REORGANISATION OF OFFICES (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "tem of dual ownership. What has been the result? The result has been that every landowner in Scotland hates the Board of Agriculture, not on its merits, but because it is administering an Act which everyone who knows about land tenure knows introduced a system not acceptable to the lowlands. Smallholders hate the Board of Agriculture because it is the vehicle which is administering a crofting Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-05a.863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-05", "file": "debates1928-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e5aff586f2399e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-05a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REORGANISATION OF OFFICES (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": " seems to give an importance to these Boards which would not exist if he were an English Cabinet Minister administering one Department. Another point which ought to have been in the mind of the Secretary of State for Scotland is that the present system unquestionably gives to Scotland a certain degree of administrative Home Rule. I am not one of those who believe in a separate Scottish Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-05a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-05", "file": "debates1928-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e5aff586f2399e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-05a.885.2", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REORGANISATION OF OFFICES (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " any of these jobs. The Tory party, who are in power at the moment by a forgery, fear the Labour party coming into power, and that the Labour party will act as they have acted by putting their friends into positions such as these. They want to deprive Labour of that opportunity. Thus the Secretary of State for Scotland has shed himself entirely of all the Scottish sentiment that he ever possessed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-05a.885.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-05", "file": "debates1928-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e5aff586f2399e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-05a.912.7", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REORGANISATION OF OFFICES (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SULLIVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SULLIVAN", "preceding_text": " is now trying to add another to the list. I hope the House will give a verdict in support of the position we take up. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for West Fife made some reference to the Liberal party. I do not share his views on that point. As far as I can see, the Liberal party does not exist in this House when Scottish business is under discussion. One Member was here a short time ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-05a.912.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-06", "file": "debates1928-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f77f7f8fda4d64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.240.5", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRAQ.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. and gallant Gentleman aware that, owing to these cases not coming under review, one of the last recipients of an ex-Cabinet Minister's pension died an extremely wealthy man—Lord Balfour of Burleigh; and is it not time that these people were called up for review, as are the old age pensioners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.240.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-06", "file": "debates1928-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f77f7f8fda4d64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.251.9", "colnum": "251", "heading": "NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Protectionist!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "preceding_text": "o carry on are well known to-day. As regards the safeguarding of industries, the position of the farmer, as I understand it, is best expressed in paragraph 7 of the pledge which the National Farmers' Union demanded from candidates for membership for this House: I will support the rescinding of the Safeguarding of Industries Act unless equality of treatment is at once given to agricultural produce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.251.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-06", "file": "debates1928-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f77f7f8fda4d64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.251.9", "colnum": "251", "heading": "NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "preceding_text": "guard key industries, and supplies on which the life of the nation depends, and small manufacturers of things like face powder can get protection, because they plead that they are supplying things on which the life of the nation depends, while nothing is done for me who produce the food of the nation.\" Judging from the membership of this House, I believe that a great many farmers are Free Traders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.251.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-06", "file": "debates1928-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f77f7f8fda4d64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.251.9", "colnum": "251", "heading": "NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "preceding_text": "er the evils of the Safeguarding of Industries Act, we now have opposed to the Act one of the greatest, best organised, and most powerful interests of the country, the agricultural interest, which recognises that the Act is partial and unjust. With the help of the agricultural interest we propose to repeal this Act. Who is going to oppose this Bill? On this side of the House sit many Free Traders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.251.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-06", "file": "debates1928-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f77f7f8fda4d64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.251.9", "colnum": "251", "heading": "NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "preceding_text": "the agricultural interest, which recognises that the Act is partial and unjust. With the help of the agricultural interest we propose to repeal this Act. Who is going to oppose this Bill? On this side of the House sit many Free Traders. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] It is to the Government side that it will look for most of its supporters. The Bill is in response to the pledge given to the Farmers' Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.251.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-06", "file": "debates1928-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f77f7f8fda4d64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "weight to attach to their attitude. My own belief is that everybody, even the hon. Member for Moseley (Mr. Hannon) and the hon. Member for Hampstead (Mr. G. Balfour), who have been the great champions of this Act, feel that the time has passed when it can be anything more than a ridiculous excess on the Statute Book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-06", "file": "debates1928-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f77f7f8fda4d64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY AND REPARATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MACDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"United front; all together!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MACDONALD", "preceding_text": "tiative taken by you, in the interests of peace and with a view to assuring the solution of the problem of reparations and security. The French, I am sorry to say, are a much weaker party. The Belgian Labour party is a very important party, but the French, owing mainly, I think, to those unfortunate squabbles that Moscow has been so anxious to spread in every Parliamentary country in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-06", "file": "debates1928-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f77f7f8fda4d64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.366.0", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY AND REPARATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Bonar Law)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Bonar Law)", "preceding_text": "t was done in Paris when the break came. There was the test case. Nothing that has happened since—I can say this with truth—differs very greatly from what I feared would happen if the French course were adopted. I not only thought so, but said so in the Conference. If, therefore, the policy that we are carrying out is wrong, that was the time when we ought to have taken another policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-06", "file": "debates1928-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f77f7f8fda4d64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY AND REPARATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the policy? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "stion for Europe, in which we are interested, and in which we shall have to have a say when the time comes. What more can I say? It is quite true, as the Leader of the Opposition said, that we have had this discussion three times. The policy of the Government cannot change to suit a different Debate every day in the week. It was the same policy in the first Amendment and it is the same policy now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-06", "file": "debates1928-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f77f7f8fda4d64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY AND REPARATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That depends on you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ose such a Committee were appointed—it requires a good deal of imagination to suppose it—but suppose it were, it would consist of the majority of this House; that is to say, I suppose it would not be very unlike the Government. And if you carry it a little further, what sort of a reception does the hon. Member think this Motion would get in the French Assembly? Is it going to be tried?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-06", "file": "debates1928-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f77f7f8fda4d64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY AND REPARATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "preceding_text": "eople who govern the affairs of this country—and surely to those who govern the affairs of a country so long allied with this country—that it would be inconceivable that such a state of affairs could arise as a war between Britain and France, and yet it has been quite apparent here to-night that there is an imminent peril of war between the French Government and the British Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-06", "file": "debates1928-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f77f7f8fda4d64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY AND REPARATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "preceding_text": "ared for giving guarantees to France against Germany. It is a very interesting admission. It is like the suggestion in the whole of this extraordinary Resolution, put forward on behalf of the Internationals of London, Vienna, and Amsterdam, to call into congress France, Belgium, and Britain—the elect of the earth, and nobody else. There is no mention of Italy. There is no mention of Holland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-06", "file": "debates1928-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f77f7f8fda4d64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITY AND REPARATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are you a Russian?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "preceding_text": "ested in the country which has the greatest area of any country in Europe. It is strange that there should be only one person who seems to be concerned with Russia. Russia is concerned, and Russia will make herself effectively concerned. There is no doubt of this, that Russia has no intention of being left out of consideration in the matter of the Ruhr any more than in the question of the Straits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-06", "file": "debates1928-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f77f7f8fda4d64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.390.0", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTHERS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "but surely it would he better to allow us a small pension, the same as the soldiers' widows, and let us bring up our children as we should, instead of leaving them to strangers. We so often hear nowadays in this House about the sanctity of the home. We are told about the terror of socialistic schools. If more children were properly brought up at home there would not be so many socialistic schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-06", "file": "debates1928-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f77f7f8fda4d64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.390.0", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTHERS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ne who has had anything to do with juvenile offenders realises how many of them are brought up away from home. The State depends on the moral and physical strength of its people. Any human being who knows anything about children knows that a mother is far and away the best influence in the world for children. I believe that this side of the House has more courage in speaking about these questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-06", "file": "debates1928-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f77f7f8fda4d64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTHERS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GERALD HURST", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Before the War, too!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GERALD HURST", "preceding_text": "to draw an analogy between conditions in England and conditions in the United States. In the United States, the State can afford to do things far beyond the powers of the State in this country. Had America taken its due share in the world War, and had it shouldered its due responsibilities after the War, instead of shirking them, it would not be able to be as generous as it is to its people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-06", "file": "debates1928-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f77f7f8fda4d64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTHERS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GERALD HURST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GERALD HURST", "preceding_text": "to do things far beyond the powers of the State in this country. Had America taken its due share in the world War, and had it shouldered its due responsibilities after the War, instead of shirking them, it would not be able to be as generous as it is to its people—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Before the War, too!\"] Before the War it was a far richer and more prosperous country than Great Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-06", "file": "debates1928-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f77f7f8fda4d64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTHERS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HURST", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HURST", "preceding_text": "s of social reform which place a greater burden upon the community. If working people took a long view and realised that their interests were bound up with the revival of trade and that that was much more important than an increased pension here or an increased dole there, they would follow the lead which was given to them by the present Government at the last Election, when no promises were made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-06", "file": "debates1928-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f77f7f8fda4d64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTHERS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": "driven into blind-alley employments, and they grow up without any useful occupation. No chance is given to the children of the bread-winner who has been taken away. They may, of course, get help occasionally from generous people and, after all, the poor are generous, but it is only the poor who help the poor. Usually speaking the people who could afford to give something never know of these cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-06", "file": "debates1928-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f77f7f8fda4d64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTHERS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM JOYNSON - HICKS (Secretary, Overseas Trade Department)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Can you imagine your mother in such circumstances?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM JOYNSON - HICKS (Secretary, Overseas Trade Department)", "preceding_text": "rs of the House on the way in which they have approached this problem. There was a certain amount of sentiment, and with a great deal of what has been said as to the value of the English home and the English mother I am in entire agreement. I have the honour myself to this day of having the benefit of a mother, and I can speak quite as feelingly as any hon. Member opposite as to what I owe to her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-06", "file": "debates1928-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f77f7f8fda4d64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTHERS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM JOYNSON - HICKS (Secretary, Overseas Trade Department)", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM JOYNSON - HICKS (Secretary, Overseas Trade Department)", "preceding_text": "aid as to the value of the English home and the English mother I am in entire agreement. I have the honour myself to this day of having the benefit of a mother, and I can speak quite as feelingly as any hon. Member opposite as to what I owe to her. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Can you imagine your mother in such circumstances?\"] I hope that on reflection the hon. Gentleman will rather regret having said that", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-06", "file": "debates1928-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f77f7f8fda4d64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.421.2", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTHERS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is worth it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "ained them morally and physically until they ate fit to be responsible citizens of this country, when she is about 45 years of age and the child is done with: \"Go back to work. We are going to take your pension. \"If that is admitted as it must be, it will be found that the amount will be £13,000,000, on those figures, which will come to well over £20,000,000 in the course of a few years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.421.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-06", "file": "debates1928-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f77f7f8fda4d64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.424.3", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTHERS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"YOU do not show it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "Many of as, sitting on the Government Benches, are just as keen that the honest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-06", "file": "debates1928-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7f77f7f8fda4d64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTHERS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You took a shilling off the Income Tax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "come. I ask the House, particularly the supporters of the Government, quite frankly to realise that they were returned here on a policy of economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-06a.426.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-03-07", "file": "debates1928-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "ce87564b699056a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-07a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I want to ask the right hon. Gentleman whether his right hon. Friend will consider that this task is one of the most terrible tasks that can be imposed upon men of weak physique and that every Commission that has inquired into the subject has always declared against such a task being inflicted upon persons whose only crime is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-07a.1136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-07", "file": "debates1928-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "ce87564b699056a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-07a.1177.1", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL NAVY (INVALIDING ANOMALIES).", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The award!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I have seen a letter which states that, \"The Commissioners hold the disease to be non-attributable,\" and for that reason a pension has been refused.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-07a.1177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-07", "file": "debates1928-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "ce87564b699056a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-07a.1183.0", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL NAVY (INVALIDING ANOMALIES).", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ng that we could say. We have pleaded, we have spoken with the tongues of angels, but, evidently, the Admiralty is not moved. We cannot do anything. We cannot threaten them. A Motion like this means nothing. It is like a little gunboat threatening a battleship for anyone to get up individually and threaten the Admiralty, and the Admiralty is always the, same, no matter what Government is in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-07a.1183.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-03-08", "file": "debates1928-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f4133bb497ccdb39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-08a.1199.6", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that one of these Chinese haunts was the Embassy Club and the other the Kit-Cat Club, and is he aware——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-08a.1199.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-08", "file": "debates1928-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f4133bb497ccdb39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-08a.1290.4", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Palestine!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "hough we want a very efficient Army, we do desire that the service which is no longer of any use should be abolished. We have in this House a number of cavalry leaders, with the idea in their minds of what a horse has done in the past, and because of that they claim that we must retain the cavalry arm. Anyone who went through the last War must realise that the horse soldier was of very little use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-08a.1290.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-08", "file": "debates1928-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f4133bb497ccdb39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-08a.1299.0", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": " this afternoon, were diverted to the saving and improving of human life rather than human destruction. I am sure if we could have a demonstration on the Floor of the House of what all this means, there would not be the same amount of applause for the providers of warlike requisites. If we could, for instance, have a demonstration on the Floor of the House of a person being bayoneted——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-08a.1299.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-08", "file": "debates1928-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f4133bb497ccdb39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-08a.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "o-day. Germany is helpless. Mussolini is our friend. We are the great admirers of Mussolini. He is the great friend of this country, and I am sure that if this country was in danger, Mussolini would be one of the men who would rally to our support. Is it that we are afraid of an attack from Russia? Why, Russia is the one country in the world that is leading us to-day into the paths of peace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-08a.1301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-08", "file": "debates1928-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f4133bb497ccdb39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-08a.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have an army of 3,000,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "t is leading us to-day into the paths of peace—[ Laughter ]——I can quite understand hon. Members opposite laughing, because the Russians have made all your speeches about disarmament the laughing-stock of the world. Your League of Nations, all your proposals for disarmament., and your professed love of peace are held up to ridicule by the simple, honest proposals of the Russians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-08a.1301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-08", "file": "debates1928-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f4133bb497ccdb39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-08a.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "ay that we cannot live on this earth, we cannot manage our daily affairs, we cannot carry on our international relations without the means of killing men, women, and children. That is the Christian doctrine. You can reject the Prayer Book, but you cannot reject Militarism. You can claim to be Christians in words, but you refuse to be Christians in deeds, and in these things it is deeds that count.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-08a.1301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-08", "file": "debates1928-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f4133bb497ccdb39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-08a.1344.3", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "anatics, of course. We do not care what you call us. We have been called all manner of names. We would rather be called those names than be them. But we are asked to be practical men, we are asked to remember that at any time in the immediate future we may be in a position to form the Government of the country, and, therefore, we should bear in mind that being so near to the power of office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-08a.1344.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-08", "file": "debates1928-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f4133bb497ccdb39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-08a.1355.1", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": " but you can find the money for so many hundreds of thousands of men to await the requisite call, and that call is never made unless in the interests of these vast financial powers that call for arms and for military force. The struggling masses of our people have passed through this machine of the Army. They have been trained to use language of a reasonable character before they go into the Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-08a.1355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-08", "file": "debates1928-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f4133bb497ccdb39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-08a.1355.1", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "d through this machine of the Army. They have been trained to use language of a reasonable character before they go into the Army. [ Interruption. ] I notice that the hon. and gallant Gentleman recognises the strength of what I am going to say. When they do go into the Army they are impelled to swear, by all that is holy or unholy, and to make a rush at some dummy figure and drive a knife into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-08a.1355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-08", "file": "debates1928-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f4133bb497ccdb39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-08a.1363.0", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": "me make it clear that I, personally—and I think I can speak for my colleagues—am not gibing at those people who have seen service and who now still cling to tradition. I regret that some of the finest instincts of mankind are used and prostituted for the purpose of warfare. I have never been a soldier, and I shall not be a soldier when you fight the next war. Make no mistake about that", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-08a.1363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-08", "file": "debates1928-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f4133bb497ccdb39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-08a.1381.3", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "e against others. The hon. Member might repeat that Commandment, \"Thou shalt not kill,\" to others. The hon. Gentleman the Member for Barrow-in-Furness (Mr. Bromley) had an argument of his own with which I propose to deal. He said that he would rather stand for humanity. I suggest that we would all rather stand for humanity. No one wants to kill. No one wants to have an army for offensive purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-08a.1381.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-08", "file": "debates1928-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f4133bb497ccdb39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-08a.1383.2", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have gone too far.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "At the present moment we have our representatives at Geneva discussing disarmament by agreement. The right hon. Gentleman's argument to-night means that we have nothing to give to the other nations in exchange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-08a.1383.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-09", "file": "debates1928-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "86fdb6c6407c5c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-09a.1399.2", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (HOURS OF CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PARK GOFF", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PARK GOFF", "preceding_text": "in producing this Bill, but I believe that it is far better to sleep over what you are going to do than to have sleepless nights over what you have done. I dare not for one moment suggest that it is a perfect Bill. No Bill was ever perfect. It has often been said that there was never an Act of Parliament made through which you could not drive a coach-and-four; otherwise, the Bar would be bankrupt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-09a.1399.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-09", "file": "debates1928-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "86fdb6c6407c5c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-09a.1399.2", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (HOURS OF CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PARK GOFF", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PARK GOFF", "preceding_text": "and notice to this matter was the case of the ex-service men, crippled and disabled, or their widows, their orphans and dependants, who had been provided by charitable institutions or philanthropic friends with a small shop or with the rent of one, for the time being. This Bill simply supplies a demand without interfering in any way with the hours of hired labour. No one is exploiting anyone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-09a.1399.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-09", "file": "debates1928-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "86fdb6c6407c5c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-09a.1404.1", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (HOURS OF CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. GOFF", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. GOFF", "preceding_text": "ate may suspend the operation of this Act during Christmas or on any other special occasion, and in the same way the local authority may suspend, but only for 7 days in the year. Clause 9 is the penalty Clause, and Clause 10 contains consequential amendments; and then there is the short Title. We sometimes hear it said \"He knows what he is talking about.\" I do not claim to come under that category", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-09a.1404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-09", "file": "debates1928-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "86fdb6c6407c5c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-09a.1406.0", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (HOURS OF CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM BULL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM BULL", "preceding_text": "see that the Home Secretary, when receiving a deputation the other day before he had heard the arguments for or against, definitely came down against Clause 2. I regard Clause 2 as one of the most valuable Clauses of the Bill. I do not think that it can be logically opposed. The inherent right of every Englishman to work as hard as he likes without doing any harm to any other person is such—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-09a.1406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-09", "file": "debates1928-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "86fdb6c6407c5c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-09a.1408.1", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (HOURS OF CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. BULL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. BULL", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am a lawyer, or try to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-09a.1408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-09", "file": "debates1928-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "86fdb6c6407c5c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-09a.1419.2", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (HOURS OF CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "preceding_text": "abortive. I have recounted this list to show what a steady pressure has been kept up, and I do not need to take up the time of the House by referring to the continuous and never-ceasing campaign of shop assist- ants' unions in order to try to get some definite regulations of the hours of labour in the distributive trade. So far all efforts have failed to give us a definite regulation of the hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-09a.1419.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-09", "file": "debates1928-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "86fdb6c6407c5c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-09a.1426.3", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (HOURS OF CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "erate prices. When this legislation came upon her, she had to close at eight o'clock. Her customers were all people who only came in between half-past nine and half-past ten. They did not come earlier in the evening, because they did not want to carry the goods about with them, and so they simply went to some big store and paid more, while this poor woman was reduced to a state of semi-starvation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-09a.1426.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-09", "file": "debates1928-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "86fdb6c6407c5c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-09a.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (HOURS OF CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give us the name of the woman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady has added discourtesy to her previous heartlessness. It is only what I expect from anyone of that type.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-09a.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-09", "file": "debates1928-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "86fdb6c6407c5c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-09a.1466.2", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (HOURS OF CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. PHILIPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. PHILIPSON", "preceding_text": "I shall be delighted to give the name and address of the Federation to the two hon. Members who have asked for it, but I do not wish to give it to the whole House. I have another letter from a working man: A point you have missed: What about the working man who is dependent on his daily wage and cannot get back home before closing time? Are he and his family to starve till morning?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-09a.1466.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-09", "file": "debates1928-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "86fdb6c6407c5c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-09a.1468.0", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (HOURS OF CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "gal profession. I would like to ask what would happen to me if I had a dispute with my neighbour and walked into a lawyer's office at 8 o'clock at night? I am sure I should not get legal advice even if I offered to pay for it, and I am sure I should have to pay for it whenever I received it. I very much doubt whether any lawyer in the land would keep his office open after 6 o'clock at night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-09a.1468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-09", "file": "debates1928-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "86fdb6c6407c5c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-09a.1474.0", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (HOURS OF CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "ay in which he did so, but for the manner in which he stuck to his pledge. He told us he was bound to put Clause 2 in the Bill, because it was an almost lifelong Parliamentary pledge on his part and he felt it his duty when bringing in a Bill on this subject to include such a Clause. I respect him for his fidelity to his pledge. We often find our pledges somewhat difficult from time to time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-09a.1474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-09", "file": "debates1928-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "86fdb6c6407c5c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-09a.1474.0", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (HOURS OF CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "hese restrictions altogether and leave, subject to regulation by the local authorities, unlimited hours for the shopkeepers in any town of the land. That, I take it, the whole House will agree is impossible, and it is impossible because during the last few years there has been, not merely a tendency, but a great awakening of public feeling in regard to hours of labour throughout the whole country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-09a.1474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-12", "file": "debates1928-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddbdc6272582a210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-12a.1550.0", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "een Oxford and Cambridge and the Air Force by providing demonstrations of this character. Two general reflections suggest themselves to me in connection with these Estimates. The first is, that one cannot but admire the tremendous progress in adventure, enterprise, and daring which is going on in regard to air communications. It is one of the most amazing things in the scientific life of this age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-12a.1550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-12", "file": "debates1928-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddbdc6272582a210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-12a.1595.1", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "gue for linking up with the East Indies, and possibly on to Australia. Except that the right hon. Gentleman always disarms us with his charming manner and is so ready to give information, I could suggest impeaching him for his neglect of the most vital need of the Empire to-day—Imperial air communication. There is no thinking staff at the Air Ministry. They are all engaged in administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-12a.1595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-12", "file": "debates1928-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddbdc6272582a210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-12a.1638.1", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. SASSOON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do you not give it a chance?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. SASSOON", "preceding_text": "to terrible realities. The disarmament question is one which applies equally to all nations. It is not a question simply of what we are prepared to do, or what Russia offers to do. All nations must act together before talk about disarmament can crystallise into anything which will bring nearer the peace of the world. We may doubt, and many certainly do doubt, the sincerity of Russia in this offer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-12a.1638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-12", "file": "debates1928-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddbdc6272582a210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-12a.1650.1", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Hull!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " order to call attention to a number of scandalous doings of the Air Minister. In spite of this being the opening year of the air age, there is not a single municipal aerodrome in Great Britain. There is not an Air Force specially provided by any great city, and yet the Air Minister has not expressed his regret at this fact. It is obvious that great cities like Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-12a.1650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-12", "file": "debates1928-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddbdc6272582a210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-12a.1651.1", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "t it would receive attention. What should be done is to establish temporary landing grounds in the South, while the main air arsenals, if I may use that term, should be in the North. A glance at the map showing the distribution of air stations in England will show that they are all clustered around London, and the first objective of an active and enterprising enemy would be to bomb them to pieces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-12a.1651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-12", "file": "debates1928-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddbdc6272582a210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-12a.1651.1", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " in which he said that what we needed to-day was the freedom of the air, and he quoted the case of Persia. I will not say anything more about that, except that, as far as I gather, the real reason for this deadlock with Persia is because a German-Russian company put up a civilian aerodrome at Teheran, and asked leave to run to Bagdad, and, for some unknown reason, our ever-wise Government refused.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-12a.1651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-12", "file": "debates1928-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddbdc6272582a210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-12a.1651.1", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "y simply through lack of push and go on the part of the right hon. Gentleman. It is his business, because the Foreign Secretary is taken up with the affairs of China and the United States and the wonderful Council of Geneva and so on. He needs pushing. He has the whole world to survey, but the right hon. Gentleman has the particular responsibility for the furthering of British aviation enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-12a.1651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-12", "file": "debates1928-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddbdc6272582a210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-12a.1660.1", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "ers go there, to see a very fine display of the best flying in the world, and I do not believe for a moment that any militarist tendencies are encouraged in any way by the attendance of men, women or children at that very fine show. We are following exactly the precedent of the Military Tournament, and, as far as I know, that Tournament has never encouraged militarist views in the mind of anybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-12a.1660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-12", "file": "debates1928-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddbdc6272582a210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-12a.1678.0", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are they? They have gone home!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "ne at Mile End or Chester-le-Street or Bedwellty! The friends of the privileged class are here voting money for their own friends. This is one of the perquisites that the rich get; the sons who cannot get earldoms themselves get another job handed to them. This is one of the things that we are told West Ham is becoming shocked over, and the Opposition is being asked to sit tamely by and let it go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-12a.1678.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-03-13", "file": "debates1928-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3843fc7dea2be952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1722.1", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "It is not a safeguarded industry.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman tell me how the Government have established the fact that this industry is subject to unfair competition without having any knowledge whatever of the conditions in the industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1722.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-13", "file": "debates1928-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3843fc7dea2be952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1771.1", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman's own memorandum. A good many of my friends here accept the principle of his memorandum. It is true that it is always possible to amend arid improve a Measure—that is the function of the House of Commons—but the principles I have mentioned are those for which the Liberal party has voted for many years. We always contended that the Poor Law was all right in 1832.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-13", "file": "debates1928-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3843fc7dea2be952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1821.0", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": " my progress was stopped by a reception which was being given to King Hallelujah and his lady Oh-be-Joyful. Their pictures appear in every evening newspaper and I suggest to the hon. Gentlemen opposite that before we part with these Royal visitors, whom we are all pleased to see—on the pictures—it will cost this country as much as the Poor Law relief of West Ham for the next 12 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-13", "file": "debates1928-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3843fc7dea2be952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1823.8", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": ", and, therefore, I am opposing this Bill, which proposes to hand over to a nominated body composed of mental and physical inefficients in the main. The Metropolitan Asylums Board is composed mainly of gentlemen who have lost their way. It is a kind of retiring home for politicians of both parties who did not know where to go, and most of them are well dressed up and do not know where to go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1823.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-13", "file": "debates1928-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3843fc7dea2be952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1829.1", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": " to grapple with the situation instead of playing with it in this miserable, perfunctory way? The whole thing is a cheating and a deluding of the people of this country, and this Government, who represent enormous power, enormous wealth and enormous influence, ought to be ashamed of the line they are taking on this question. To-day a reception is being given to His Majesty the King of Afghanistan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-13", "file": "debates1928-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3843fc7dea2be952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1857.3", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "r boroughs. Bermondsey has expended a quarter of a million of money in outdoor relief, and of this sum no less than £183,000 has been borne by the other boroughs; in other words, nearly 72 per cent. of that expenditure. Under the present arrangements, which we are seeking to alter, there is no effective supervision; there is no adequate safeguard against extravagant expenditure on this scale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1857.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-13", "file": "debates1928-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3843fc7dea2be952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1859.0", "colnum": "1859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ept that man in gaol it would have cost the country £2 13s. per week? That is the cost of maintaining a prisoner in a Scottish convict prison. The right hon. Gentleman calls £2 4s. 6d. per week lavish expenditure when probably that was the amount of money given to keep the man and his wife, and probably six children. It is disgraceful that the right hon. Gentleman should come here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1859.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-13", "file": "debates1928-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3843fc7dea2be952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1859.0", "colnum": "1859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " this man, because he has been in gaol, should be allowed to starve. I am not surprised that I get heated. The gibe is thrown at us across the Floor of the House that we do not oppose, but we are absolutely sick and tired, after four years, of listening to that confounded rubbish from the Front Government Bench. You cannot oppose nothing; it is impossible to put up an opposition to nothing at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1859.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-13", "file": "debates1928-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3843fc7dea2be952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1859.0", "colnum": "1859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ch has now lasted for nearly five years, is now being extended by the Tory Government for another five years. The right hon. Gentleman winks. The most expressive and intelligible thing that he does is that wink. I ask if this is the serious, considered view of the Cabinet after four years of Conservative Government—of that sane, stable Government that can only be obtained from Conservatives?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1859.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-13", "file": "debates1928-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3843fc7dea2be952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1864.2", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, am I at liberty to continue the discussion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1864.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-13", "file": "debates1928-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3843fc7dea2be952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1874.0", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH GUIANA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": " is the policy of the Government towards this indentured labour? The conditions are so notoriously bad that I have been informed by a deputation which called on me that the Government of India has expressed its unwillingness to allow more indentured labour to go to British Guiana. Obviously I am not speaking from first-hand information, but from information supplied to me by people who have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-13", "file": "debates1928-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3843fc7dea2be952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1876.7", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH GUIANA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "The deputation which has been to see me consists of Indians who are concerned about the conditions——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1876.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-13", "file": "debates1928-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3843fc7dea2be952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1876.9", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH GUIANA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Have they been there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "The gentlemen who came to see me are particularly interested in and concerned about the welfare of indentured Indian labour in British Guiana. They have first-hand knowledge of the conditions there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-13a.1876.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-03-14", "file": "debates1928-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7b60dc2b072f5bfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-14a.1906.1", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-14a.1906.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-14", "file": "debates1928-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7b60dc2b072f5bfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-14a.1925.2", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. May I submit that the concession you have now made, after ruling that the matter can be raised only on the Estimates, shows that you believe that a matter of urgency really does arise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-14a.1925.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-14", "file": "debates1928-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7b60dc2b072f5bfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-14a.1953.1", "colnum": "1953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "the goods produced by State assistance. Nothing big in the way of promoting and developing industry has been done by private enterprise. Both sneakers reminded the House of that. They tell us that all scientific research should be done to-day by the State, and they might have added that to-day that research is being done by the State. Private enterprise is doing nothing to assist in research work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-14a.1953.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-14", "file": "debates1928-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7b60dc2b072f5bfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-14a.2002.1", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBRRS: \"What about Denmark?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "preceding_text": "eapened production. What is the root cause of the high cost of agricultural production in this country? Weather such as we had last year had a very bad effect on agriculture, but even in the most favourable seasons, the agriculturist in this country cannot rely upon the fine dry autumn for harvesting his crop which the farmer in Canada, the Argentine or Australia looks upon almost as a birthright.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-14a.2002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-14", "file": "debates1928-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7b60dc2b072f5bfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-14a.2015.1", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "o a great national need, both in town and country. His third misconception was this: Having interpreted Liberal land policy merely in terms of the Green Book—and the hon. Member for Bilston (Mr. J. Baker) was asking if there was such a thing; there is one of them here, and I shall be pleased to present him with a, copy a little later on. It will do them all good to read the Green Book—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-14a.2015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-14", "file": "debates1928-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7b60dc2b072f5bfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-14a.2015.1", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "e suggests, namely, a policy to serve party exigencies. If it is serving party exigencies, it is serving them because this party alone in this House or in the country has had the pluck and the courage to face the problem and to put all its books on the table for the nation to read, study, and argue about. If that is serving party exigencies, I am very happy to be one of those who are serving them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-14a.2015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-14", "file": "debates1928-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7b60dc2b072f5bfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-14a.2019.1", "colnum": "2019", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "n be, and I believe the Minister will agree with that suggestion, and at any rate the right hon. Gentleman the Member for North Norfolk (Mr. Buxton), the late Minister of Agriculture, has done us the honour of bringing it down to the House to discuss it to-night, whether his attitude be congratulatory or critical. 9.0 p.m. Let me proceed to one or two other points before I come to the resolutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-14a.2019.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-03-14", "file": "debates1928-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7b60dc2b072f5bfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-14a.2026.1", "colnum": "2026", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "eal with the past policy. I fully expected the hon. and gallant Gentleman opposite to justify his reference to the Liberal policy in connection with past legislation. With all due respect, I contend that you ought not to be put into the difficult position of deciding between a Member who is so incompetent that he cannot frame his Motion in accordance with the principles of the party he represents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-14a.2026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-14", "file": "debates1928-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7b60dc2b072f5bfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-14a.2033.1", "colnum": "2033", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RILEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But not State ownership!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RILEY", "preceding_text": "alisation of the ideal of an 'efficient system of arterial drainage.' Here is the Report of a Commission, which said that, unless the State is prepared to accept the responsibility, nothing can he done. The Liberal land policy leaves the land under the Landlord and Tenant Act. Is the Liberal party in its policy going to support what the Commissioners say is necessary—State subventions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-14a.2033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-14", "file": "debates1928-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7b60dc2b072f5bfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-14a.2043.2", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "preceding_text": "I am criticising the policy of the Liberal party and I am trying to show that they do not address themselves to the real problem upon which the success of agriculture depends. Between now and the next election I hope that the Government will address themselves to this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-14a.2043.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-14", "file": "debates1928-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7b60dc2b072f5bfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-14a.2045.1", "colnum": "2045", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I am sorry if I misunderstood the right hon. Gentleman, but I take it from him that he agrees with us as far as the \"hordes of officials\" are concerned. There is another answer to the argument of the Labour party. Nationalisation has been going on in this country for 30 years—since 1892.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-14a.2045.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-03-15", "file": "debates1928-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e19d9551ea311289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-15a.2103.1", "colnum": "2103", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "May I press the Prime Minister to say whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-15a.2103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-15", "file": "debates1928-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e19d9551ea311289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-15a.2179.1", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " that party then, and therefore I can speak with detachment—for eight of these ships, and not five, which was the number that my hon. Friend the Member for North Camberwell (Mr. Ammon) had to defend when we gave him the time of his life while he was at the Admiralty? Why were eight of these ships on the stocks—I do not mean literally in the dockyards, but why had the programme gone up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-15a.2179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-15", "file": "debates1928-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e19d9551ea311289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-15a.2188.0", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the ADMIRALTY (Lieut.-Colonel Headlam)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With efficiency!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the ADMIRALTY (Lieut.-Colonel Headlam)", "preceding_text": "e again made an attack upon the Admiralty for not paying marriage allowance. He knows perfectly well that if it were left to the Admiralty the Admiralty would be only too anxious to do so. In these days of economy it is amusing to hear the hon. Member, because almost every suggestion he makes is a suggestion which will hardly bear out the policy of his party, which is, I understand, economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-15a.2188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-15", "file": "debates1928-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e19d9551ea311289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-15a.2204.1", "colnum": "2204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacNEILL-WEIR", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacNEILL-WEIR", "preceding_text": "No. My poverty but not my will consents. is a quotation from a deceased English-Gentleman, Mr. Shakespeare—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-15a.2204.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-03-15", "file": "debates1928-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e19d9551ea311289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-15a.2222.1", "colnum": "2222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Impossible.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "vernment, but, for the purpose of suggestion and exhortation, to ask them to take a bold course and give a lead in the coming Coolidge Conference at Geneva. The words my hon. Friend used were these: We want the First Lord of the Admiralty to got in first this time and to make a speech which will stagger humanity and send him down to history as one of the greatest naval revolutionists of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-15a.2222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-15", "file": "debates1928-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e19d9551ea311289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-15a.2222.2", "colnum": "2222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about submarines?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "ge of keeping your huge ironclad as it is to-day? You have already shown that you need not have your super-super-monster. Why, then, insist on your monster? If we, as the greatest naval nation, were to come forward and say we do not want at all what are now known as capital ships, the chances are that the other nations who are interested in such capital ships would only be too delighted to follow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-15a.2222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-15", "file": "debates1928-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e19d9551ea311289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-15a.2246.0", "colnum": "2246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "e efficiency of the Fleet is being reduced. But when it comes to making a super film for a private company at a ridiculous charge, out of all commercial proportion to the value of the services rendered, the whole Mediterranean fleet can go to sea to make the film \"Coronel,\" and a large military and naval force is engaged at this moment at Malta in making a film representing the Gallipoli landings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-15a.2246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-15", "file": "debates1928-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e19d9551ea311289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-15a.2262.4", "colnum": "2262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Kenworthy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "grandsons and great-grandsons of petty officers, and every facility should be given them, on their merits, to rise to commissioned rank, and instead of calling the new training home after Admiral Jervis, Lord St. Vincent, who was not our most successful admiral by any means, though it was a very glorious battle, I would rather have had the home called after Sir Cloudesley Shovel or Admiral Benbow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-15a.2262.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-15", "file": "debates1928-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e19d9551ea311289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-15a.2262.4", "colnum": "2262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "his care to reach commissioned rank. That is my principal question on the clothing. Are the boys encouraged to make their own clothes, or are we to continue this very retrograde step of issuing ready-made clothing? The other matter deals with mess traps—Subhead K, £81,000. Mess traps are the kettles, plates, dishes, bowls, cups and cutlery and everything to do with furnishing the table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-15a.2262.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-15", "file": "debates1928-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e19d9551ea311289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-15a.2262.4", "colnum": "2262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " whole ship's company divided into messes and all prepared their own food and took it to the galleys to be cooked, they needed more utensils, but now that you have the cooks under the Paymaster preparing the meals for the men in one general mess there should surely be a saving, and I think this sum of £81,000 is rather high, especially as there is an increase of some £6,000 on last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-15a.2262.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-16", "file": "debates1928-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "18f2e8d982fbbc68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-16a.2280.1", "colnum": "2280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major GLYN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the jockey?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major GLYN", "preceding_text": "on attendances. Therefore, I asked those of my friends who could, to consult with me as to what possible steps could be taken to get over that difficulty. I was prepared to go to the people whose business it is to train the race-horse. We think a great deal about the bookmaker, but let us think occasionally about the race-horse, for, after all, the horse is the predominant partner in horse-racing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-16a.2280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-16", "file": "debates1928-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "18f2e8d982fbbc68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-16a.2280.1", "colnum": "2280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major GLYN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major GLYN", "preceding_text": "h all our difficulties with the passing of the Street Betting Act, but gentlemen outside this House learned in the law have remembered that there are the Vagrancy Acts of 1868 and 1873, and without amendments we should have this absurd position, should the totalisator be established: it would be possible for everybody operating the machine or using the machine to be run-in as rogues and vagabonds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-16a.2280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-16", "file": "debates1928-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "18f2e8d982fbbc68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-16a.2286.2", "colnum": "2286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir BERKELEY SHEFFIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BERKELEY SHEFFIELD", "preceding_text": "s my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Abingdon has just explained, the totalisator will not seek patronage from any particular section of the community. On the other hand, horse owners, trainers, and race-course owners are all in favour of this Measure, and they would like to see it established. I go still further and say that a vast majority of the public would like to see this Bill passed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-16a.2286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-16", "file": "debates1928-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "18f2e8d982fbbc68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-16a.2292.0", "colnum": "2292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": " in the statements which have been sent to us that this will give work to the engineering trade. I was in conference with the engineering employers for nearly three hours yesterday on the wages problem and to suggest that the manufacture of these totalisators is with a view to giving work to the engineering trade—well I am amazed that even railway directors make that suggestion at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-16a.2292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-16", "file": "debates1928-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "18f2e8d982fbbc68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-16a.2295.1", "colnum": "2295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And others!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "preceding_text": " subsidy to one part of agriculture; but when we find that this House will not contemplate a subsidy to agriculture, and it is now proposed to place at the disposal of these racing bodies a sum of some millions, to be extracted from the public, and to be used in the main, I will not say exclusively, to cheapen the cost of keeping racehorses in training in this country for their Noble owners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-16a.2295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-16", "file": "debates1928-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "18f2e8d982fbbc68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-16a.2313.0", "colnum": "2313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "lia, as they will continue to do here. The cleansing effect exercised by the totalisator in Australia was that it did away with small men going around shouting \"Two to one, three to one, four to one,\" when, in point of fact, they could honestly have given six to one. Also you abolish the excitement of the chorus of solicitation, draw ing the unwary to make bets which otherwise they would not make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-16a.2313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-16", "file": "debates1928-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "18f2e8d982fbbc68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-16a.2313.0", "colnum": "2313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": " return to the public every penny which the public ventures upon this amusement or this excitement—less the amount necessary to pay the tax, to keep up the establishment, and to beautify the grounds and give other amenities to the public. What do bookmakers live upon? You put your money on with a bookmaker, and he lives upon what does not come back to you. Does anyone tell me that is not so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-16a.2313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-16", "file": "debates1928-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "18f2e8d982fbbc68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-16a.2345.0", "colnum": "2345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major HILLS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: 'They cannot do that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HILLS", "preceding_text": "esent either the trainers or the bookmakers, but, nevertheless, I plead for justice to the bookmakers, and I do not think they ought to be placed entirely in the hands of the Jockey Club who are their trade rivals. You are giving to the Jockey Club the power to say to the bookmakers: \"We are going to put on a tax which will drive you out of the business and put more money through the totalisator.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-16a.2345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-16", "file": "debates1928-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "18f2e8d982fbbc68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-16a.2349.1", "colnum": "2349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ds than are paid at the present time; secondly, he will lose because, undoubtedly, custom will be diverted to the mechanical totalisator which otherwise he would have; and, thirdly, he will lose because, I am sure, the money which will be invested in the totalisator will to a large extent be the money of the simple public—what is called, I am afraid, in technical parlance, the \"mug's money.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-16a.2349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-16", "file": "debates1928-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "18f2e8d982fbbc68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-16a.2349.1", "colnum": "2349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " and now, as I have had to see a great many deputations on this subject and have been brought into contact with the question from time to time through having to pass the Betting Duty, the House will perhaps grant me indulgence to say a few words on the more general issue, before we go to a Division. There is, first of all, the moral issue. There is what is called the doctrine of the unclean thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-16a.2349.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-19", "file": "debates1928-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32e22b97fbabb964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.47.2", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ZINOVIEFF LETTER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Worse still!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "to allow it to remain there? That is not all. This gentleman says that when he heard that the Foreign Office, the Home Office, the Admiralty and the War Office—may I say, parenthetically, in order that there may be no misunderstanding that these were not the political Departments of the Foreign Office, the Home Office, the Admiralty, or the War Office, but the Intelligence Departments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.47.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-03-19", "file": "debates1928-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32e22b97fbabb964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ZINOVIEFF LETTER.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "That is not true.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "of the Russian Treaty were altered after declarations had been made beforehand that no such alteration would be made. Campbell was arrested on 5th August, and on 6th August he appeared at Bow Street, and was remanded for a week. During the day that he appeared at Bow Street the Communist party circularised all the Labour Members of Parliament, urging on them that the proceedings must be abandoned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.59.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-19", "file": "debates1928-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32e22b97fbabb964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ZINOVIEFF LETTER.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ter himself in his speech at Cardiff this afternoon. I shall have a word to say on that speech by and by. But I want the House to know this: There was nothing new in the so-called Zinovieff letter. It embodied teachings with which we were all familiar, in reports of speeches from Russia, in articles in the Press; and there had broken out all over Europe at that time similar documents——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.60.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-19", "file": "debates1928-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32e22b97fbabb964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.65.2", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ZINOVIEFF LETTER.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "has been examined, fully investigated, and reported upon by the Fisher Committee, and they say in paragraph 53: We are satisfied that there is not the slightest foundation for any of the suspicions. which have in our opinion most unjustly attached to Mr. Gregory in connection with the events of 24th and 25th October, 1924, and we beg to report accordingly. I think no more need, be said about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.65.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-19", "file": "debates1928-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32e22b97fbabb964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ZINOVIEFF LETTER.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Leave him there!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "u put a question to him, and he refuses to answer, what can you do? You may commit him to the Clock Tower, if it be a Parliamentary Committee, and there are certain circumstances, if you stretched your powers, by which you might commit him to prison, probably in the second division; and you would wait for a time, a week, a fortnight or a month, and supposing he still refused to say anything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.69.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-19", "file": "debates1928-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32e22b97fbabb964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.76.6", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ZINOVIEFF LETTER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "very great financial embarrassment which had been surrounding Mr. Gregory became very greatly relieved after the date 24th October, and the suggestion we make is a much more serious one than the one on which Mr. Gregory has been condemned. All through this business my right hon. Friend has deemed it to be his duty as ex-Prime Minister, as ex-Foreign Secretary, to stand up and defend his officials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.76.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-19", "file": "debates1928-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32e22b97fbabb964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ZINOVIEFF LETTER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary shakes his head. That was the Prime Minister's statement. Negotiations were going on at midnight. My right hon. Friend the Member for Derby (Mr. Thomas) was struggling all he knew for peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-19", "file": "debates1928-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32e22b97fbabb964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ZINOVIEFF LETTER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "bone found it had none itself. The Government discovered that the \"Daily Mail\" was more powerful and more potent in the affairs of this country; they were compelled to break off the negotiations, and they plunged the country into the great General Strike. I know it has always been said by hon. Members on the other side of the House that Mr. Cook was to blame, and that he caused the General Strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.78.1"}
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            The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir
            Douglas Hogg)
          ", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has answered it\"", "preceding_speaker": "
            The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir
            Douglas Hogg)
          ", "preceding_text": " never been answered yet by the Opposition, is not whether the Leader of the Opposition meant when the election was safely over to publish the document and his note in reply to it, but whether he meant to publish it in time for the people who were going to vote at the General Election to know what was in it before they voted. I am sorry the right hon. Gentleman is not here to answer that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.87.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-19", "file": "debates1928-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32e22b97fbabb964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.91.6", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ZINOVIEFF LETTER.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend and Leader, the Prime Minister, has pointed out already to the House the futility of embarking upon such an inquiry, the impossibility of arriving at any conclusion after Mr. Marlowe has refused, as he has already refused, and as he said he will refuse, to give information. Surely, after the statement which has been read this afternoon it becomes too ridiculous even to the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.91.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-19", "file": "debates1928-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32e22b97fbabb964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.91.6", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ZINOVIEFF LETTER.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "d, as he has already refused, and as he said he will refuse, to give information. Surely, after the statement which has been read this afternoon it becomes too ridiculous even to the Opposition. [ Interruption. ] I heard one right hon. Gentleman opposite ask who is Mr. im Thurn. Mr. im Thurn is a gentleman who is very well known in the City of London. His uncle, I think it was, was Governor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.91.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-19", "file": "debates1928-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32e22b97fbabb964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.91.6", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ZINOVIEFF LETTER.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "think the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition either welcomes or endorses, an attack which accused Mr. Gregory in explicit terms of having sold himself and sold the nation for a large and pecuniary reward, an attack which, if it were made outside this House of Commons, might result in Mr. Gregory being in a different financial position if the hon. Member were able to pay the damages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.91.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-03-19", "file": "debates1928-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32e22b97fbabb964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ZINOVIEFF LETTER.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Make it outside.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "Is that a threat?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.94.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-19", "file": "debates1928-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32e22b97fbabb964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.95.0", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ZINOVIEFF LETTER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "I wish at once to withdraw anything that I have said if it can be rightly described as an attack on Mr. Gregory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.95.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-19", "file": "debates1928-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32e22b97fbabb964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.95.2", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ZINOVIEFF LETTER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You said it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "That is not true. I certainly cannot allow that to pass.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.95.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-19", "file": "debates1928-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32e22b97fbabb964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ZINOVIEFF LETTER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "We will observe, first, the significance of the answer of the Foreign Secretary. He says distinctly, \"In the midst of foreign negotiations, I would not be influenced by an election.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-19", "file": "debates1928-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32e22b97fbabb964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.98.3", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ZINOVIEFF LETTER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Lord Curzon said that he knew the document had been in my right hon. Friend's possession a month. Lord Birkenhead said that he knew the document had been in my right hon. Friend's possession three weeks. My right hon. Friend's object this afternoon was to show that that was not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.98.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-19", "file": "debates1928-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32e22b97fbabb964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ZINOVIEFF LETTER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Do you believe it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Prime Minister whether he himself can be satisfied with a situation so unsatisfactory as it is to-day. He knows perfectly well that there is a grave suspicion in the public mind, that there are men and women, even members of the Conservative party, who are not happy about the circumstances surrounding this letter, and that there is a suspicion that this was a deliberate forgery for party purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-19", "file": "debates1928-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32e22b97fbabb964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ZINOVIEFF LETTER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " occasion he sacrificed himself and his party rather than let down the Civil Service. He has had to bear all this burden and insult, and it is fair that the House and the country should know that, when my right hon. Friend first inquired why this document had been published, he received a reply to the effect that he himself had initialed it. He received that reply on the eve of his Swansea speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-19", "file": "debates1928-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32e22b97fbabb964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ZINOVIEFF LETTER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": ", nothing short of an inquiry will satisfy us. In any case, the Prime Minister has refused it to-day for reasons which I cannot understand or appreciate. He has refused it for the flimsiest of all excuses, that he is afraid Mr. Marlowe will not appear. I answer him by saying that if on an important issue like this, which affected, as he knows perfectly well, the fate of the General Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-19", "file": "debates1928-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32e22b97fbabb964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ZINOVIEFF LETTER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": ", the fate of the General Election—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—at least that was the view of the present Home Secretary who, speaking on the Saturday, that is the day on which this letter was published, said: I believe this is the most serious matter that has arisen, and I cannot help thinking that it will decide the election. Hon. Members know perfectly well that it did decide the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.104.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-03-19", "file": "debates1928-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "32e22b97fbabb964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.136.0", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "May I point out that it is not the litigant under the Clause at all. He can never go to the Court except as a party to an action. It is the Committee, if the Minister approves.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "legal profession, is a satisfactory, cheap, and convenient means, which will not put the people in- volved to considerable cost but will get principles of law quickly and easily decided. It is a scandal, in my opinion, that under the existing law it should have to depend on whether a man is prepared to go to all the cost of litigation and follow it up to the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-19a.134.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-20", "file": "debates1928-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "dea5d5bbb7c5e022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-20a.184.5", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "I do not think that is at all a fair reflection to make. If a company goes into liquidation and its assets are disposed of, it is inevitable that the machinery is sold. What is much more important is that there should be amalgamation and reconstruction in this trade, but that must come from within the trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-20a.184.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-03-20", "file": "debates1928-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "dea5d5bbb7c5e022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-20a.192.11", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "On that point, I submit that the question of the condition of the civilians employed there is a matter of importance to this House, and from my personal observation the conditions are not satisfactory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-20a.192.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-20", "file": "debates1928-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "dea5d5bbb7c5e022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-20a.224.0", "colnum": "224", "heading": "PUBLIC MEETING ACT (1908) AMENDMENT.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "mentary elections. In recent times, it has been almost impossible to hold a meeting in decent peace and order in many parts of the industrial north.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-20a.224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-20", "file": "debates1928-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "dea5d5bbb7c5e022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-20a.224.0", "colnum": "224", "heading": "PUBLIC MEETING ACT (1908) AMENDMENT.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "mentary elections. In recent times, it has been almost impossible to hold a meeting in decent peace and order in many parts of the industrial north. [An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not true!\"] It is perfectly true in my own experience in the Manchester and Salford area. What with the shouting, the screaming and the singing of the \"Red Flag\" you cannot say what you want to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-20a.224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-20", "file": "debates1928-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "dea5d5bbb7c5e022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-20a.240.4", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It brings peace!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ive in billets and how many in barracks? Are they occupying old German barracks or are they billeted? Troops billeted for a long time, my military friends tell me, lose part of their military efficiency and discipline. I can well understand it. I believe they get on so well with the civil population that many marriages are taking place between the young British soldiers and the young German women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-20a.240.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.382.2", "colnum": "382", "heading": "AGENCIES AND REGISTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAY", "preceding_text": "Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.382.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HARRY BRITTAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not a Russian!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HARRY BRITTAIN", "preceding_text": "; for, while appearing to possess some sort of deep significance, it is absolutely meaningless. I turn from that to Rapoport's \"Dictionary of Socialism,\" and between pages 36 and 41—I commend these pages to hon. Members—I find no fewer than 40 definitions of Socialism. These definitions run from that of the highly respected Leader of the Opposition to that of Comrade Bakunin of Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HARRY BRITTAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HARRY BRITTAIN", "preceding_text": "t only impatient but almost blasphemous. In fine, hon. Members opposite have not decided, and they cannot decide, what they are going to do or how they are going to do it. In other words, we are entitled to ask the question, are hon. Gentlemen opposite a party at all? With the exception of the attempt to put themselves in office, are they agreed on any policy whatsoever, constructive or otherwise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HARRY BRITTAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HARRY BRITTAIN", "preceding_text": "uld expect to get, a statement that, no matter what Government was in power, it was the duty of that Government to defend its own nationals. But notwithstanding those statements from the Front Bench, when our forces were on the way, their recall was demanded by the Socialist party and left and right voted for it. There was only one man who refused to toe the line, Dr. Haden Guest. Where is he now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.401.2", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. BRITTAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We know all that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BRITTAIN", "preceding_text": " the party, in a speech made at Ayr stated that As things were now, less than £4 a week was not a living wage. Every Member on all sides would like, of course, to see the very best wages possible paid in this country, and you know it is true. But this statement was too much for the financial conscience of one of the very ablest Members you possess—the right hon. Member for Colne Valley.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.401.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.405.3", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "Captain REID", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain REID", "preceding_text": "I was saying that it would not be fair to make such an accusation without first having examined their record. They have stated on many platforms throughout the country that they are the only party in this country which represents the real interests of the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.405.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.405.3", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "Captain REID", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was not a strike; it was a lock-out !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain REID", "preceding_text": "mined their record. They have stated on many platforms throughout the country that they are the only party in this country which represents the real interests of the workers. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I am glad that hon. Members opposite agree with that. That being so, I presume that they will agree with me when I say that the general strike which they organised a short while ago——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.405.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.421.4", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "You will get the full story by and by.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.421.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.421.6", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "his country. There was no divergence between the Communist party and the Labour party on that.subject in those days. There is divergence today. To-day, the Communist party says that during the Chinese Expedition, during the Simon Commission, during the hundred and one struggles of the workers, there ought to have been councils of action all over the country amongst the working-class organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.421.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.421.6", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "lf, and I know the Surtax is never going to be a reality. If you impose the Surtax to-day, I can vouch for it that at least one firm have got their plans ready in the City of London to have dummy shareholders in Buenos Aires, Calcutta and Hong Kong in whose names large numbers of shares will stand, and there will not be many capitalist mugs who will allow all the shares to stand in their own name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.421.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "Then comes the living wage. We would certainly agree that the living wage would be a great battle cry within a capitalist organisation inside a capitalist society, but it could only be useful to Socialism if it were used as a battle cry leading up to an industrial revolution in the end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.425.3", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come over to this side!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "inherent in human nature. How can the Labour party say that they are preaching Socialism and collecting the majority of voices in favour of Socialism when they are pursuing such a policy as I have described? The Labour party supports expeditions to China, the Colonies, and the Gold Coast ; in fact, one member of the Labour party has gone to visit one of those countries. How can those things go on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.425.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "rtainly be happier if, out of the stolen property, some provision were set aside for them. We have seen that there have been some rich criminals lately, and, when they have gone into prison, their wives and children have never had to go to the Board of Guardians or be locked up in workhouses; they were amply provided for. I wish that every burglar would steal, and first amply provide for his wife.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Time !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": " that makes a revolution inevitable. On that account we say, without any delusion, that those who demand Socialism, if they are true to their convictions, must first demand it by making it unlawful for any man to possess ally private property. If they sincerely mean to make that unlawful, then they must be prepared to back up their legislative effort by a Socialist revolution. And that is not all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "tionship of man towards man. You may consider that the Russians were mad in reorganising their Army and turning into a Red Army instead of a capitalist Army; but the Red Army, its construction, its principles and its formation, the equal rights of the soldiers to political votes, their right to select their own officers and to dismiss their own officers, the right to pay their own officers —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.432.3", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come over!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "ember for North Battersea. I entirely dissociate myself, as, I am sure, any sane Socialist on this side of the House will dissociate himself, from the tornado of grotesque nonsense that was urged by the hon. Member for North Battersea. Call that Socialism! If I thought that that was the kind of Socialism we were after and the way we ought to get it, I should cross the Floor of the House to-morrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.432.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.435.0", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Conservative party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "e not confidence in the objects for which they fight in the constituencies. I am not frightened of the peril of Socialism as practised by the right hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Snowden) and by the right hon. Member for Central Edinburgh. I do not believe that they would wreck the country, unless they tried to carry out what most of their back bench men have promised the people in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.435.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.437.1", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ide who want to change everything. The danger of this preaching is that. Socialism is made a religion. That is what I am up against. It is not a religion. It is an economic theory which most of the people who preach it do not believe in. That is really what it is. It does make it awfully hard, this cry of \"Kill capitalism\" when we know we do not want to kill capitalism. Capitalism is a good thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Member think that George Bernard Shaw is a capitalist? He has exploited his brains and made a fortune by so doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.438.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not a Socialist!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "preceding_text": "has gifts of exposition and of moderation behind which Socialism will no doubt be preached in the constituencies, but with a very different tone and very different tendency. Perhaps we should not be surprised that one whom I may describe as a Socialist with the courage of his convictions, the hon. Member for North Battersea (Mr. Saklatvala), was not selected to explain what Socialism really means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.455.5", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "licly-owned industries of this country? Are we going to relegate the control of these industries to officials or committees of officials? Is that their idea of public ownership? I hear hon. Members opposite say, \"Very nice,\" but do they tell us what the alternative is? Apart from the difficulties of the management of these industries, who is going to enjoy what I may call the spoils of ownership.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.455.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.455.5", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Naturally\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "jugated to an ideal. The final analysis of any problem reveals that grade interests are the predominant factors. So anybody knew who cared to make an examination of the prospects of this system. We know perfectly well that in every one of those State-owned industries the workers would regard themselves as the persons primarily entitled to enjoy a substantial part of the fruits of those industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.455.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.458.6", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "n the protection of individuals and communities. We neither believe in the unfettered exploitation of humanity nor in the suppression of the natural aspirations which colour and give zest. to life. Hon. Members opposite, on the other hand, do stand for that suppression. They stand for an inhibition upon the use of the powers and the talents which have been implanted in man for his own advancement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.458.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.458.6", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " has suggested that that would be a peril to the State, and they should recognise that Conservatives would apply it just as readily and gladly as they would. But the public ownership of which they are always speaking is the public ownership discussed by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Colne Valley in a memorable Debate two or three Sessions ago—public ownership of all our industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.458.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.461.0", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many are employed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "but that was the implication; and other right hon. Gentlemen, day after day, stand up there and suggest, because they can point to this little weakness in Socialist theory, or that failure to apply Socialist theory to some fantastic future situation which they visualise for themselves, that therefore they have done their whole duty to this country, while there are over 1,000,000 people unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.461.0", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERILS OF SOCIALISM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is left?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "s side of the House. I know exactly what are the differences between myself and certain right hon. Gentlemen on the Front Opposition Bench. There is no difference in this respect however. Every one of us agrees that the basis of a decent social system consists of the public ownership of land, of transport, of finance, of coal and power—those four basic things which enter into every industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "What does it all come to? It means that from being the workshop of the world and infinitely the largest supplier throughout the world, we have descended to the humiliating position of being the dumping ground of the industrial universe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.467.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.470.1", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Yes!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "Does the figure 11.1 per cent. increase apply only to those industries that have been given Safeguarding Duties under the safeguarding procedure, or to the McKenna Duties as well?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain STREATFEILD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain STREATFEILD", "preceding_text": "I was saying, we want to see wages as high as industry can afford to pay, the highest standard of living we can get. I suggest that in production the costs of labour are the largest item.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain STREATFEILD", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Where they have Protection?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain STREATFEILD", "preceding_text": "cales. How are we to counterbalance that, and to bring the scales even? The time has arrived when hon. Members on all sides of the House have got to answer this question, Are we going to get rid of the disadvantage we are suffering from through our higher standard of living by reducing that standard of living to the level prevailing abroad and thereby be able to compete with other countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.473.0", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel APPIAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There are five millions now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel APPIAN", "preceding_text": "America has always been a protected country, except when a Liberal administration came into power in 1893, lasting till 1896. That was absolutely disastrous not only to the trade of that country but to the workers. I am going to quote a trade union worker to show what he says about it. Sam Gompers said: Three million men are now idle. He was speaking two years after the introduction of Free Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.473.0", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel APPIAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel APPIAN", "preceding_text": ",600,000,000 dollars. That was the result of the experiment with Free Trade in America. The swing of the pendulum brought in McKinley, and he brought in the McKinley tariff, and we saw the immediate effects of that tariff. What did it do? It at once restored things. In July wages increased—on the average, by 15,000,000 dollars a year. The labour savings banks deposits doubled in seven years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel APPLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel APPLIN", "preceding_text": "n the other hand, we rind that. the exports of non-safeguarded goods have declined by 9 per cent. during the same period. There is another point, arid a very important one, though it is usually neglected. That is the question of revenue. We often forget, in talking of safeguarding, and the many benefits that are to be 'obtained from it, the great benefit of getting a revenue paid by the foreigner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.479.0", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ariff longer than any other of the protected industries, and, therefore, it affords a good test whether this policy has been successful. There is an unwarranted assumption that hon. Members on the other side always make. They jump to the conclusion that, if there has been an improvement in an industry which enjoys the benefit of a tariff, that improvement is wholly due to the effect of the tariff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.479.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.479.0", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about chassis?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "plication of safeguarding duties that the imposition of a duty, by securing the home market to the home manufacturer. will enable him to dump his surplus production at a very cheap rate in foreign markets, or in other words, that it would help the export trade. Let us test that again by facts in regard to the motor industry. In 1925, 11,112 motor cars were exported. Last year the number was 9,926.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.479.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "eady made a statement that employment increased more in the year during the time the duties were off than in any other year. If the hon. Member wants the figures he can have them if he takes the trouble to refer to the OFFICIAL REPORT of the 29th February, 1928, column 410. So much for motors. These facts disprove every single claim which has been made in the two speeches which have preceded mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.486.2", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In what period?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " to refer to artificial silk, etc., but I will say no more on that point. In reply to statements made in the course of this Debate, I will summarise the figures, and I will deal with the figures that were given by two hon. Members who said that there had been an increase in the exports of goods which came under the Safeguarding Duties. Take lace. There has been a decline in exports of 32 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.486.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "s. The object of Protection is to encourage home industries. The means by which it attains that object is by so arranging import duties that the prices obtained in those industries are raised. If home prices are not raised, industry is not encouraged. If industry is encouraged it is by raising prices. That is, in a nutshell, Protection properly understood. Do hon. Members agree with the statement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " will be no point in it. I make a present of that to hon. Members opposite. That is quite true. Protection is demanded so as to keep out imported goods, to prevent foreign goods from underselling home goods. The only way to keep out foreign goods is either by prohibition of imports—that is ruled out by the hon. and gallant Member who moved the Resolution—or making them too dear to buy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.491.2", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not America!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "The Resolution raises one other point with which I want to deal. The hon. and gallant Member who put forward the Resolution said that his proposal would lessen unemployment. I marvel at the audacity of Protectionists who put forward that view. It is wholly contrary to world-wide experience. The hon. Member himself admitted that wages were far lower in all protected countries —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.491.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.491.2", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course it has !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "o world-wide experience. The hon. Member himself admitted that wages were far lower in all protected countries —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Not America!\"]—with the exception of America, of course, the greatest Free Trade country in the world. But what is the state of things in the United States of America now? Has a Protective policy against foreign countries solved the unemployment problem there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.491.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you never do that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": ". Member, with profound respect to him, should take a little more care in studying the \"Labour Gazette.\" With regard to lace, the hon. Member was wrong in precisely the way in which the right hon. Gentleman opposite was wrong. The right hon. Gentleman opposite, or his friends, ask questions in this House, and they draw them in the right way so as to get the answer in the form that suits them best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.507.0", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General Sir ROBERT HUTCHISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That has nothing to do with it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General Sir ROBERT HUTCHISON", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman say what has been the reduction in the price of wheat between those years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.507.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel CLIFTON BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Free Trade\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel CLIFTON BROWN", "preceding_text": " The proposers of the Motion are entirely lacking in accuracy. The public entirely fails to realise how many articles are covered by the name of steel. Steel is going through an exceedingly difficult time, but other industries, too, have been through equally difficult times. Shipbuilding has been through just as bad a time as the steel industry is going through. Shipbuilding is getting right. Why?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.513.0", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "tisfied if he merely tells them: \"You ought to be more efficient, and that in spite of the fact that your industries are so depressed you ought to go on the market for millions of money to reconstruct your industries.\" Unless you are going to give them a breathing space, how are they to have a chance to carry out the reconstruction that he desires. I am not going to say anything about agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.517.1", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "he wall? \"and so on. Of course, it is obvious that goods are paid for by goods and services, and it is equally obvious that if you can produce goods in this country they are still paid for by British goods. In other words, if in London you are purchasing goods from Newcastle, the imports from Newcastle are paid for by the exports from London to Newcastle. I defy any economist to deny that is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-21", "file": "debates1928-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "69d8dcca7f49095b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.517.1", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": " I am going to make a request to the Liberal party. Do they deny that you must give security to British industries where there is unfair competition caused by the dumping of goods below the cost of production? I gather that hon. Members agree to that proposal. Let it be placed upon the records of the House that the Liberal party no longer challenge the right of British industry to this protection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-21a.517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-22", "file": "debates1928-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "c26123cef68462cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-22a.596.1", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Always!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Then I apologise to the hon. and gallant Member. I am very glad to hear that he is, as he ought to be, a member of the Board. One of the troubles in the past has been that the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Admiralty has not been a member of the Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-22a.596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-22", "file": "debates1928-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "c26123cef68462cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-22a.684.4", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Rear-Admiral's!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "gainst a question of this nature being raised in the House. We have a duty not only to the Admiralty but to our constituents and the country, and I consider that both the Press and this House have been extremely circumspect in what they have said and in the inquiries they have made about this case. It is, as far as can be seen, an incident without precedent—a Vice-Admiral's flag hauled down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-22a.684.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-22", "file": "debates1928-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "c26123cef68462cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-22a.684.4", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "word to the country or the House as to the cause. The whole matter is shrouded in mystery and when the result of the court-martial is published, this House will not only want to have those proceedings but will want copies of the original report which was wirelessed to the Admiralty, and in regard to which they took precautions against any leakage. I do not propose to say any more upon the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-22a.684.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-22", "file": "debates1928-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "c26123cef68462cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-22a.684.4", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "hat their navy must inevitably be of an inferior strength. I hope, in view of the failure of all these disarmament discussions—because the First Lord is not alone in his failure to achieve any progress towards disarmament; everyone who has followed the discussions of the League of Nations well knows that they have become absolutely hopeless so far as leading to any result is concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-22a.684.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-23", "file": "debates1928-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "52f5eefc05d92dd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "preceding_text": "em for that, but they must, when studying the problem, consider all its aspects. Mr. A. J. Cook last week published a book called \"The Effect of a Longer Working Day in the British Coal Mines.\" I think it could be more correctly designated \"The Effect of the Minority Movement in the British Coal-mining Industry.\" The author of this book also published a book in 1910 called \"The Miners' Next Step.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-23", "file": "debates1928-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "52f5eefc05d92dd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.723.3", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "preceding_text": "No, but they are not comparable in certain other directions. At any rate, there is the admission there that this Act of 1926 has effected a reduction in the cost of production of 2s. 2d. per ton. I ask, as quite a simple problem, if you were to revert to the seven hours arrangement, would you not obviously increase again the cost of production by 2s. 2d. per ton? That is obvious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.723.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-23", "file": "debates1928-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "52f5eefc05d92dd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.724.3", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It can happen!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "preceding_text": "from general observation that every man in the coal industry was working eight hours every day. I appreciate the point, made by the Mover and Seconder of the Motion for Second Reading, that there must be some extension of that eight hours. Obviously, if you take the first man down and count him as the last man up, you have to add the total time of going down and coming up again to his eight hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.724.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-23", "file": "debates1928-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "52f5eefc05d92dd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.724.3", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "preceding_text": " by taking the first man down in the pit and counting him as the last man up, and taking that as an average working day. As a matter of fact, out of the 950,000 men who are working in the industry, only about half are working eight hours. There are other districts that are working seven and a-half hours, and, of course, there are surface men. There are some working very much less than eight hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.724.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-23", "file": "debates1928-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "52f5eefc05d92dd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.725.1", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does the hon. Member suggest that that national figure is correct?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "preceding_text": "No, I am dealing with the national figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-23", "file": "debates1928-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "52f5eefc05d92dd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.727.0", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Thirty eight\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "preceding_text": "t us examine what those hours are. The hon. Member for Farnworth (Mr. Greenall) led us to believe that men were sometimes working nine or ten hours below ground, and he argued from the exception to try to prove the general rule. But the Samuel Commission went into the whole of these figures exhaustively, and they came to the conclusion that the aver age winding-time in this country was 30 minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-23", "file": "debates1928-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "52f5eefc05d92dd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.729.2", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "preceding_text": " the Samuel Commission, which I have not here, but I can soon get it here if the hon. Member thinks the point is worth pursuing. Hon. Members opposite said that we could bring in seven hours in the mining industry to-day without either a subsidy from the State, or without nationalisation, but it must he within the knowledge of hon. Members that last year £6,000,000 was lost in the coal trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.729.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-23", "file": "debates1928-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "52f5eefc05d92dd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.730.0", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "preceding_text": "Those profits and losses are arrived at as a result of the method of ascertainment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.730.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-23", "file": "debates1928-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "52f5eefc05d92dd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.730.5", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "preceding_text": "it is far better to have a decent wage, if you can get it, than to reduce hours irrespective of the conditions in the trade throughout the world. Do not let hon. Members say that the conditions in the coal trade have been brought about by the Eight-hours Act. It is nothing of the sort. The conditions are almost entirely due to the action of the leader and secretary of the Miners' Federation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.730.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-23", "file": "debates1928-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "52f5eefc05d92dd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.732.4", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "preceding_text": "ve done a great deal to improve the efficiency of the pits. The fact that in Great Britain we can pay a considerably higher rate per shift for all the men employed in the collieries shows that we are not behind the Continent of Europe in efficiency. Then we are often told, and I expect we shall hear it later on, that under the eight-hours day there are more accidents than with the seven-hours day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.732.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-23", "file": "debates1928-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "52f5eefc05d92dd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.735.2", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It means closing the collieries!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "preceding_text": "e me for this lot?\" Probably it will be offered at 18s. a ton, and the merchant says, \"I will give you 15s. a ton.\" The result is that these spot lots are sold at a great deal below the proper price. The only effect of selling a large amount of spot lots in times of depression is to bring down the level of the whole, and the merchant gets the chief advantage although he does not reduce his prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.735.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-23", "file": "debates1928-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "52f5eefc05d92dd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.737.0", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "g that he had none—for the way in which he handled the affair, it is nothing to the responsibility which the Government have for the way in which they handled it. There had never before been in this country a strike which was longer than three months. Whether the Government were right or wrong in the terms that they proposed—and my hon. Friends thought that we were wrong in 1921—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-23", "file": "debates1928-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "52f5eefc05d92dd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"2s. 8d. was the figure!\"", "preceding_speaker": "LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "he point mentioned by the hon. Member anti his predecessor. He says that you have succeeded by this means in reducing the cost by 2s. If you restore the seven-hours day you put on the 2s. An hon. Member pointed out in an interjection that a very large part of that is due to the reduced wages and not to the reduction in hours. Therefore, if you restore the hours, it certainly will not amount to 2s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-23", "file": "debates1928-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "52f5eefc05d92dd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ngst our rivals, and we have done that at the expense of giving a present of £8,000,000 or £10,000,000 a year on our export of coal to the foreigner. The coalmining industry itself is in a worse plight—and no one on the other side can deny it—than it has ever been in our history. For that reason, I stand by the Act of 1919, and I am glad to see hon. Members rallying round it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-23", "file": "debates1928-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "52f5eefc05d92dd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "t their house in order. If it was in order already, why did the hon. Gentleman support a Bill which called upon them to put it in order? That is the work of his own Government. And there are a great many Conservatives like the hon. Member. I am sure that Conservatives, like my hon. Friends below me, will take a very different view. Let the hon. Member look up those Acts before he speaks next time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-23", "file": "debates1928-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "52f5eefc05d92dd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "? That is the work of his own Government. And there are a great many Conservatives like the hon. Member. I am sure that Conservatives, like my hon. Friends below me, will take a very different view. Let the hon. Member look up those Acts before he speaks next time. [ Interruption. ] Yes, the Sankey Commission was signed by Mr. Justice Sankey, and the miners' representatives did not sign it at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-23", "file": "debates1928-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "52f5eefc05d92dd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.743.3", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER. \"It is not the only foolish thing that you have done.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "But that is not the only foolish thing you have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.743.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-23", "file": "debates1928-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "52f5eefc05d92dd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.743.3", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "But that is not the only foolish thing you have done. [An HON. MEMBER. \"It is not the only foolish thing that you have done.\"] I did not do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.743.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-23", "file": "debates1928-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "52f5eefc05d92dd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.744.4", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "They agree with everything in the Sankey Report except the things that they did not agree with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.744.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-23", "file": "debates1928-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "52f5eefc05d92dd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.745.3", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "I followed Sankey in all the things wherein the majority recommended a particular course, every one, and I am prepared to meet these hon. Gentlemen either here or in the constituencies on that particular issue. I have been to the miners to say so. This is an illustration of the tact with which these gentlemen have secured support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.745.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-23", "file": "debates1928-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "52f5eefc05d92dd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "The Bill became law some three to four months before the stoppage finally ceased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-23", "file": "debates1928-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "52f5eefc05d92dd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What were the conditions?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "s late as the second week in November, 1926, and were definitely turned down by the Miners' Federation and by their conferences in the districts. The Government said: \"If those district agreements are going to mean less wages for longer hours, a national tribunal shall go into those questions and carefully consider them.\" That would have been a certain guarantee against unfair reductions in wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-23", "file": "debates1928-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "52f5eefc05d92dd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We bought some of that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "That is production, but the figures of their exports are far more telling. Germany, as between 1925 and 1926 has increased her exports by 72.9 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-23", "file": "debates1928-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "52f5eefc05d92dd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.778.3", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": " take one-seventh of that figure and add it to.98 to get the figure for the eight hours. If that were done it would still make the probable accident rate for that year far higher; it would be 1.12 for 1924 as against the actual figure of 1.09 during last year. Therefore, the probable rate of increase, even with the extra hour worked, has not been experienced. I am not labouring that point, however", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-23a.778.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-26", "file": "debates1928-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "3d4b56af7f0060ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-26a.825.5", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRESS IN MINING AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Barefooted!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "people outside. I ought to have given earlier the figures of non-attendance in Blaina—and this non-attendance is largely owing to bad shoes and bad stockings. Those of us who come from families of the same sort of psychology as the families in these valleys know how much we used to kick against going to school unless we were just as respectable as the other boys and girls in our own classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-26a.825.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.233.5", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Will it be four? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "Four months ago I did not give the answer, But I can tell the bon. Member that I am perfectly prepared to guarantee that it will not be five, years before this question is settled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.233.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.271.7", "colnum": "271", "heading": "NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MIDDLETON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MIDDLETON", "preceding_text": " they do not use their return tickets. These return tickets are issued under all kinds of conditions. If you take a short railway journey the day, the return ticket is only available for the same day. In other cases a longer time is given, but in all cases the railway companies say that in the event of that ticket not being used, they will not recognise any obligation upon them to return the fare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.271.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.273.5", "colnum": "273", "heading": "NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN BUTCHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN BUTCHER", "preceding_text": "ch this Bill is directed is of the recognised Communist type, which aims at destroying the existing Constitution and order of things, by force if necessary, and the setting up in its place of a revolution on the Russian model. For this purpose, class-hatred, a rebel spirit, and hatred and disaffection against the King and the Constitution are preached. Love of country and patriotism are denounced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.273.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. BUTCHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. BUTCHER", "preceding_text": "I was not challenged to name one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER", "preceding_text": "ng will die, because truth is eternal, and will alone stand the test. of time. It therefore seems to me that some of the opposition has not been manufactured and engendered out of any desire to pre- vent sedition being taught, because there has been more sedition taught in clubs and institutions connected with organisations of hon. Gentlemen opposite than has ever been taught in any Sunday school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER", "preceding_text": "unday schools on the lines indicated by my observation just now. The first is: Love your schoolfellows who will he 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 practices. Honour the good. Be courteous to all. Bow down to none. Do not hate or speak evil of anyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER", "preceding_text": " your parents. Make every day holy by good and useful deeds and kindly practices. Honour the good. Be courteous to all. Bow down to none. Do not hate or speak evil of anyone. [ Interruption. ] Do not be revengeful, but stand up for your rights, and resist oppression. Do not be cowardly. Be a friend to the weak and love justice. Remember that all the good things of the earth are produced by labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER", "preceding_text": "these doctrines which we are teaching now. Every person who gives service is a worker. Then it says: Observe and think in order to discover the truth. Do not believe what is contrary to reason and never deceive yourself or others. Do not think that those who love their own country must hate and despise other nations, or wish for war, which is a remnant of barbarism. Look forward to the day —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.277.0", "colnum": "277", "heading": "NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER RAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER RAWSON", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.277.0", "colnum": "277", "heading": "NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER RAWSON", "cue_text": "Interruption>", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER RAWSON", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\"] This is extremely interesting, but it is not in the proletarian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.277.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about foreign competition? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "in operation wages are bound to sink once more to the subsistence level. It is to break that law that we want to deal with the unemployment question, to get behind that law, and to do away with the causes of such an economic law, which depends upon two men being after one job, without a chance of any freedom of occupation and without being in a position to bargain on equal terms with the employer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.384.0", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why don't you go? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": " a more equitable and just distribution of our population. In other words, the master key to the solution of Empire settlement, and unemployment rests first of all on the transfer of a certain section of our industrial population at home from our industry to our agriculture; secondly, the transfer of a large number of our unemployable surplus population from this country to our overseas Dominions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.384.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.384.0", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear. \".", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": " of having a Colonial Secretary, to create a Secretary for Empire Affairs, so as to bring him into collaboration with the other Secretaries of State? A great deal was said a few weeks ago by the hon. Member for Maryhill (Mr. Muir). He said it was diabolical and damnable of the Government to introduce any policy which would help migration from this country of children between the ages of 11 and 17.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.384.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.384.0", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have been there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "wn land, to people of your own blood, and under your own flag. Hon. Members have said that there is no spiritual provision made for these children. I have too much respect for the hon. Members on the Labour Benches to criticise them too severely, but I will say this much. If any of the Labour Members will take the trouble to go across the Dominion of Canada, or the Commonwealth of Australia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.384.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.401.2", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROTHERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROTHERTON", "preceding_text": "Why are you talking so much about emigration, and about sending people overseas for settlement purposes, if you do not want them to leave the country? That is what I cannot understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.401.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Nor a gamekeeper!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROTHERTON", "preceding_text": "anada, Australia, and New Zealand for British labour. There you will see the picture of a nice house with most beautiful surroundings. There you will see a large tract of land just before the harvest, thick with corn, blowing gracefully in the wind. There you will find cattle grazing on rich pastures, and there, again, you will see an orchard laden with fruit. You will not see a landlord anywhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.401.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.415.5", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Member suggest that this country is developed? Has he travelled through some parts of the country? There are miles upon miles of land in this country that await development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.415.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.415.5", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " the hon. Member suggest that this country is developed? Has he travelled through some parts of the country? There are miles upon miles of land in this country that await development. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] There are miles upon miles of land in this country that are being taken from development—land that has been ploughed, farmland. The farms have been taken in and added to game preserves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.415.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.416.3", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "And you brought Chinamen in to take the places of the dockers at Cardiff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.416.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.420.3", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " country is not a potential but an actual customer in this country. He cannot purchase outside this country, while the Australian and the Canadian can. First develop and settle our own country, and with all the agricultural implements we have, and with our knowledge of science, we shall find that this country can grow considerably more than will support a larger population than we have got to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.420.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISPOSAL BOARD.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JAMES REMNANT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JAMES REMNANT", "preceding_text": "s is where I do blame the Disposal Board that they did not see carried out the various arrangements which they, with their eyes open, had made in reference to these contracts. The British Metal Corporation came on the scene. They were not registered before the Armistice; they were registered immediately after the Armistice; and came into being. Who are the directors? I will not give the names now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISPOSAL BOARD.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JAMES REMNANT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Some of us have seen that done! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JAMES REMNANT", "preceding_text": "d per ton. We are told by some that this was only scrap brass. The ordinary man in the street thinks that scrap brass is old brass broken up, and all that sort of thing, but what will the Minister say who is going to reply when I ask him if he knew that some of it was new material which had been, under Sir Howard Frank's authority, transferred to scrap in the stores schedule at the various depots.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.454.1", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISPOSAL BOARD.", "cue_speaker": "Major BOYD-CARPENTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BOYD-CARPENTER", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that does not help my argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.457.0", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISPOSAL BOARD.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR MARSHALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Protection! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR MARSHALL", "preceding_text": "Member for Coventry. Though it is very easy to say it now, these things ought to have been dealt with in a very much more drastic way than that in which they were. The American Government hasp a much more courageous method. They did not attempt to sell them, or at least not in their own country, and only at a price which, if they were brought over, would have made them more than if bought at home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.457.0", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISPOSAL BOARD.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR MARSHALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Protection! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR MARSHALL", "preceding_text": "eir own country, and only at a price which, if they were brought over, would have made them more than if bought at home. [HON. MEMBERS \"Protection! \"] It may be protection. At any rate, it had this effect, that the American Government said they were not going to bring over a lot of unsuitable material which they could not use and throw it on the market of America quite regardless of economic laws.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-27", "file": "debates1928-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "210e3e66f19d28f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.457.0", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISPOSAL BOARD.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR MARSHALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR MARSHALL", "preceding_text": "lus and damaged vehicles if imported into this country rather than flood the market with them. It is an extraordinary case with which we are dealing. Extraordinarily unsuitable heavy types of wagon, at the very moment when we need employment in ibis country, are being foisted on the market by artificial means, at absurd cost, and without regard to the character of the employment that is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-27a.457.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1158.4", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Is there any reason why Welshmen should not learn to speak English?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": "Each application will be considered on its merits when it comes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1175.3", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "PUBLIC RIGHTS OF WAY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY COWAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We cannot hear a word!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY COWAN", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the law relating to public rights of way. The Bill which I am asking leave to introduce has for its object—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1175.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1177.0", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "PUBLIC RIGHTS OF WAY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. COWAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. COWAN", "preceding_text": "body vested with the full proprietary rights in the land and in a position to dedicate it. A tenant for life cannot do it, no one but the absolute freeholder, and the result is that very many rights of way in all parts of the country have been closed to the public because it has not been possible to satisfy our Courts that there has been any person in a position to dedicate the land to the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1193.3", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAUPER VOTES AT GUARDIANS' ELECTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARVEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARVEY", "preceding_text": "raft Bill, and in 1917, when the matter was subjected to a general discussion on the Floor of the House, there was a ridiculously thin House. Clause 8 of the old draft Bill was one that had been recommended by the Speaker's Conference, and it suggested a certain modified measure of restriction. I think I am correct in saying that a Mr. Whitehouse, who was then the Leader of the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1200.0", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAUPER VOTES AT GUARDIANS' ELECTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TASKER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Go back to the Army!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TASKER", "preceding_text": "May I give the case of a man who has been in receipt of relief since September, 1921.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAUPER VOTES AT GUARDIANS' ELECTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TASKER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TASKER", "preceding_text": " a desire growing up among certain sections of young men to get a job where the work is put out. I do not pretend that I possess a greater genius for administering the work of boards of guardians than any hon. Gentlemen opposite, but I would suggest that they should give very serious thought to the contingent of loafers who exist in London, and who, I have no doubt, exist in the provinces as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1201.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAUPER VOTES AT GUARDIANS' ELECTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TASKER", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TASKER", "preceding_text": "hey—the temporary guardians—have managed to send a lot of those idle persons back to work and considerably to reduce the expenditure which had been incurred by their predecessors. It appears to me that the reasons set forth by some of the so-called elected guardians did not possess the intelligence of a glohigerina. They are almost as idle and worthless as the men they help to support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAUPER VOTES AT GUARDIANS' ELECTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TASKER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TASKER", "preceding_text": "le persons back to work and considerably to reduce the expenditure which had been incurred by their predecessors. It appears to me that the reasons set forth by some of the so-called elected guardians did not possess the intelligence of a glohigerina. They are almost as idle and worthless as the men they help to support. [ interruption. ] These ladies and gentlemen are in possession of our purses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1201.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1219.0", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAUPER VOTES AT GUARDIANS' ELECTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Without responsibility?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "preceding_text": "ental to property. So far as we are concerned, we regard the franchise as a right, and property, to us, is the incidental thing in life. The thing that really matters is the human being, and we claim and put forward and hold with all the intensity of which we are capable that the mere fact of being born into the world gives every child the right to all that God and nature have sent into the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1219.0", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAUPER VOTES AT GUARDIANS' ELECTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "preceding_text": ", and at that time there was nothing too good for them. Ladies and other members of their class were always willing to treat them, to give them cigarettes, to pat them on the back, and to say what fine fellows they were; but to-day they are described in the terms used by the hon. Member for East Islington, as idle, thriftless. Their work is over, and they are no mere wanted now to do the fighting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1223.0", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAUPER VOTES AT GUARDIANS' ELECTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Marquess of HARTINGTON", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Or to be a candidate!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Marquess of HARTINGTON", "preceding_text": " if you are going to start on disfranchising them, I think it is extremely hard to say where you are going to stop. Our present system of government does not really rest upon the fitness of the individual to vote. I think most hon. Members in this House, towards the end of an exhausting election, would come to the conclusion that very few people indeed in the country were fit to have a vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1230.0", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAUPER VOTES AT GUARDIANS' ELECTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "preceding_text": "at there are a few sensible men still left in the stupid party. If the Government were to put on the Whips in support of this Motion it would, from our point of view, be a very good political move on their part. I was struck by the Mover of the Motion excusing himself for making so short a speech by saying that public speaking was not his job. If it is not his job he has no business in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1240.1", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAUPER VOTES AT GUARDIANS' ELECTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "preceding_text": "principle of the Labour party; the Labour party does not stand for indiscriminate Poor Law relief. On the question of excessive Poor Law relief, I would like to put forward this point of view: Nothing that has ever been brought before this House in Debate with regard to the whole question of Poor Law relief has shown anything that could from any human point of view be described as excessive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1244.0", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAUPER VOTES AT GUARDIANS' ELECTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "sion. There is no doubt that Poor Law relief since the removal of that disqualification has increased enormously. If you look at the last year before the War, 1913, when the country was prosperous, you find that 630,000 people were in receipt of Poor Law relief. In 1920, two years after the disqualification was removed, 567,000 people were in receipt of Poor Law relief and it has steadily gone up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1246.2", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAUPER VOTES AT GUARDIANS' ELECTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": " his party will agree with him there. As to excessive relief, that is obviously a question of amount on which opinion may differ, but I do not think it is fair to quote relief, to a married man with six children, of 26s. I have here a large number of scales, and there is no scale I can see of any well-known board of guardians in town or country where a man with six shildren gets anything like 26s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1246.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1246.2", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAUPER VOTES AT GUARDIANS' ELECTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "s in some larger body, I believe it will very largely get rid of this very real difficulty. What line then should I ask my hon. Friends to take, and what line do I intend to take myself in regard to this question? On the whole, if my hon. Friend who introduced the Debate, in a speech which showed much care and much thought, could see his way not to press it to a Division, I think he would be wise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1246.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1248.3", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAUPER VOTES AT GUARDIANS' ELECTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion, by leave, withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1248.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1248.6", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTORAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WIGGINS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WIGGINS", "preceding_text": "ns, figures lose their significance and become mere noughts and crosses. Let us take the last seven by-elections. The Conservatives polled 93,403 votes and secured three seats, an average of 31,134 votes per Member. The Liberals polled 69,661 votes and also secured three seats, an average of 23,220 votes per Member. Labour polled 64,182 votes, but secured only one seat—very unfair to Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1248.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1248.6", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTORAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WIGGINS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not the first time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WIGGINS", "preceding_text": "a reform of the system of election. Every party in this House, and I should imagine every Member of this House, pays, at least, lip service to democracy, and I should have thought that everybody in their heart would have agreed with the principles underlying my Motion. But I note that on the Order Paper there is an Amendment down to my Motion which proves, at any rate, that my contention is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1248.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1285.1", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTORAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount SANDON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At the next Election!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount SANDON", "preceding_text": " this direction or that there may be—and as far as unfairness is concerned the world is full of it in every direction, and we thrive on it—on the whole it is a system which has worked successfully and has given everyone his chance. It has given every party its chance, and the Socialist party for a comparatively short time has had its fling and thinks it is going to have it again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTORAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will allow me to say that I am not responsible for the speeches of my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1303.3", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTORAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are all united.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "in France. The hon. and gallant Member said, \"Look at these foreign countries. When a Bill goes through, although it may not be wanted by the mass of the people, what happens is that one group says to another, 'You come along and vote for my Bill, and I will vote for something that you want.' How does the hon. and gallant Member think his own party is made up? It is nothing but a series of groups.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1303.3", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTORAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are justifying the present system.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "mit at once that under the present system of government, not only must hon. Members who are supporting a Government vote against their opinions, but they are justified in doing so, because hon. Members will vote for one thing which they do not really want, in order to maintain in power a Government which, on the whole, they do want, and in doing so they are not doing anything discreditable at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1303.3", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTORAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "ainst the Government? No. Under the present system, you do not get a really strong Government, taking a long view of these matters, unless the Government rule as the majority of the people wish it. The hon. and gallant Member tells me that I am justifying the present system by what I am saying. Does he think the present system is justified on the ground of stability? Does any hon. Member think so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1303.3", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTORAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No fear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": " Government, of which I was not a lover, there were imposed what were called the McKenna Duties. When the Labour Government came in the right hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Snowden) removed those duties. When the present Government came in those duties were put back. Other duties have been put on by the present Government. With a change of colour in the Government, they will be taken off again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1309.5", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTORAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "That is one in two years, but we have three in two years, so it does not work out very well for the hon. and gallant Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1309.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1309.5", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTORAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "That is one in two years, but we have three in two years, so it does not work out very well for the hon. and gallant Gentleman. [ Interruption. ] Another hon. Member provides me with a further point. I agree that we have not had eight elections in 17 years, but the hon. Member must now realise that we are face to face with a position in which we have three parties in the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1309.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1311.1", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTORAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And no Liberals.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "There was an occasion only two days ago when the Conservative party was represented by two Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1311.1", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTORAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "There was an occasion only two days ago when the Conservative party was represented by two Ministers. [HON. MEMBERS: \"And no Liberals.\"] There was an occasion yesterday when the benches above the Gangway were represented by only a few Members. Nobody will contradict this, that the great majority enjoyed by the present Government has meant a bad House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-28", "file": "debates1928-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "17aae342e8297241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1311.1", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTORAL REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And a bad Opposition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "s ago when the Conservative party was represented by two Ministers. [HON. MEMBERS: \"And no Liberals.\"] There was an occasion yesterday when the benches above the Gangway were represented by only a few Members. Nobody will contradict this, that the great majority enjoyed by the present Government has meant a bad House of Commons—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—and an ineffective House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-28a.1311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-29", "file": "debates1928-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "dfb3a15459736c3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1346.0", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": " and I thought it my duty to read with the most careful scrutiny the whole of the speech to which he has referred. I may say that every Member of the House knows the right hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for New- castle-under-Lyme (Colonel Wedgwood) and the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Sir It. Hamilton) well enough to accept at once what the right hon. and gallant Gentleman has said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-29", "file": "debates1928-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "dfb3a15459736c3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1347.0", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALTER BAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALTER BAKER", "preceding_text": "rfectly clear that there is no justification whatever for the insinuations contained in the letter to the \"Times,\" nor for any of the insinuations which were uttered at the meeting of the Commonwealth Trust. I have no financial or personal interest either in this matter or in any other matter which I have ever brought before the House of Commons, and I would beg the House to accept that statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-29", "file": "debates1928-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "dfb3a15459736c3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1359.2", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) 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": "hen the character and functions of the House of Commons was to establish them on a broad, popular basis. That, I know, was agreed to and was the policy of the Liberal party at that time, and it was the policy of the Conservative party; and from then onwards both parties have, I will not say vied one with the other, but have taken their share in establishing Parliament on a broad and popular basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1359.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-29", "file": "debates1928-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "dfb3a15459736c3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1363.3", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": " the Bill will, it is estimated, add a further 200,000 second votes. I may summarise it this way. The number of men at present entitled to two votes, one for residence and one for business, is 240,000. The number of women over 30 who are at present entitled to vote for residence and who will get a second vote in respect of their husband's business—and these are in no sense young women—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1363.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-29", "file": "debates1928-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "dfb3a15459736c3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1363.3", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "register. Clause 6 deals with the application of the Act to Scotland, and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland will be able to answer any questions with regard to that Clause. Those are, quite simply, the alterations which it is proposed to make by the provisions of this Bill. I had hoped that it would have been possible to pass this Bill with the unanimous assent of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1363.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-29", "file": "debates1928-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "dfb3a15459736c3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1379.1", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. COCKERILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Masters in their own house!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. COCKERILL", "preceding_text": " and I stand here with a majority of nearly 14,000 for the point of view which I am putting to the House, and since I have tabled this Amendment, I have received, from one of the largest women's organisations in my constituency, a letter saying how much the women are at one with me in taking the point of view that men should be at least equal with women and not be put in a position of inferiority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-29", "file": "debates1928-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "dfb3a15459736c3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1389.0", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel APPLIN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel APPLIN", "preceding_text": " the revenues of the country are derived, is produced by men on the scale of 10 to 1. I have looked up the wills for last year, and I find that men left £58,000,000, whereas women left merely £6,000,000. That means that, if we are to have a majority rule by women in this country, we are handing over to them the taxable wealth of the country, to which they have contributed only one-tenth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-29", "file": "debates1928-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "dfb3a15459736c3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1406.0", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": "ter. Might I ask what has changed that reason? I might ask what has happened in the meantime to make the slightest difference to that question? It may be argued that the wives of the men have an equal right to the Vote. The majority of them have it at present, and I have not yet heard, even from the hon. Ladies who have spoken, and who are naturally in favour of the Bill, with one exception—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-29", "file": "debates1928-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "dfb3a15459736c3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1418.0", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CHARLES CRAIG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like the trade union measure?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CHARLES CRAIG", "preceding_text": " given, the Government and the party are debarred by all the rules of political usage from bringing forward this Bill. Surely, it has at all times been one of the commonplaces and one of the most elementary rules of politics in regard to parliamentary government that a change of any sort in the Constitution or a proposal of any magnitude must be put before the electors at the time of the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-29", "file": "debates1928-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "dfb3a15459736c3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1420.1", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "preceding_text": " to be added to the register, are concerned. I am convinced that the Home Secretary has no idea of benefiting the Conservative party by the Bill. It is impossible to say who will benefit. I do not know whether it will benefit my party or not, but I do know that there are a great many people in the country who will agree with me when I say that 21 is too low an age at which to give people the vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-29", "file": "debates1928-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "dfb3a15459736c3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1420.1", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They can take their degree!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "preceding_text": "y people in the country who will agree with me when I say that 21 is too low an age at which to give people the vote. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] I will do my best to tell hon. Members why. I can only judge by the people I meet and from my experience in life. Take the universities. What proportion of the youths of 21, 22 or 23 at the universities in this country take the slightest interest in politics?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-29", "file": "debates1928-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "dfb3a15459736c3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1443.0", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "wrongly, I have always believed that, as was the case prior to 1918, the country should be represented in this House by the male sex. Some hon. Members may think that is rather a surprising view to take, but that had been the practice and the recognised custom during hundreds of years of Parliamentary government, and the legislation of this country had been conducted in a very satisfactory manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1443.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-29", "file": "debates1928-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "dfb3a15459736c3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1443.0", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "ecognising the vast amount of useful work that has been done by women. No one has greater respect for women that I have, but I have yet to learn that, considering the hundreds of years that the country has been governed by men through the House of Commons, and that a vote was not given to any women previous to 1918, there has been any bad effect to this country because it has been governed by men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1443.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-29", "file": "debates1928-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "dfb3a15459736c3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1449.0", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "AnHON. MEMBER: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "en women of high moral and spiritual outlook. The coming of women into public life is not really, as our friends fear, revolution. It is simply evolution. The hon. Member who moved the rejection was most unfortunate in his Biblical references. I could have done it much better for him. If he had known as much of the women of the Bible as I do he would have gone first to the daughters of Zelophehad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1449.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-29", "file": "debates1928-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "dfb3a15459736c3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1462.0", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Lloyd George Fund!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "s there is a new provision in the law, that limit will be extended to £1,500. That becomes a serious thing for a democratic Government. I mention that because the right hon. Gentleman based his defence of the Bill on democratic grounds, but it seems to me that, unless there is an amendment of the law in another direction, you are increasing the power of the party caucus in the constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-29", "file": "debates1928-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "dfb3a15459736c3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1464.2", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "n's suffrage on the other side of the House now to create another anomaly. It would be, in my judgment, an anomaly if you lowered the age of women voters from 341 to 25, and increased the age of men voters from 21 to 25. I know the point that is made in these Debates, \"Oh, yes, but we do not intend to interfere with those young men under 25 who are already on the register.\" Well, my friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1464.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-03-29", "file": "debates1928-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "dfb3a15459736c3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1477.1", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-29a.1477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-30", "file": "debates1928-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "2086a850fd7516ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-30a.1500.1", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUBBER INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "tes.\" What a lot of rubbish! Surely this money which is spent by them comes back into their own pockets. You may pay rates and taxes, and other people benefit by them, but, in this particular instance, the people who pay the tax are the people who have the rubber, who are interested in the rubber, and it is in their own interest to pay this tax, so that they may get it back probably a hundredfold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-30a.1500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-30", "file": "debates1928-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "2086a850fd7516ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-30a.1540.1", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUBBER INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will go bankrupt.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "elieve that the Research Association can mend their own ways. They can put their own house in order, and put it in order in a way that it will give the smaller man, who has his rights though he may be in a minority, the same advantages as those enjoyed by other members. The Association can be put on a right footing and by that means enable research to go forward on terms that are beyond suspicion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-30a.1540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-30", "file": "debates1928-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "2086a850fd7516ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-30a.1557.0", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING (JUVENILE MESSENGERS) (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "edge not to gamble was reinforced by my reading of the life of Mr. Justice Grantham, who ultimately became, I think, Lord Justice Grantham. He also was a great anti-gambler, but on one occasion he was prevailed upon by a friend to put a \"fiver\" on a horse which was said to be a sure winner. Unfortunately for him the horse did not win, and he lost the first and only £5 he ever bet in his life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-30a.1557.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-03-30", "file": "debates1928-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "2086a850fd7516ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-30a.1562.1", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING (JUVENILE MESSENGERS) (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are in time for the Boat Race!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "preceding_text": " poor gambler. The rich gambler can escape scot free. He can be a member of a great club in the West End. He can even be a Member of the House of Commons and use a free telephone. I have heard some of them doing it. I am not a gambler myself. I have a shilling occasionally on a sweepstake. I had one on the Derby. I missed a chance of having one on the Grand National, because I forgot all about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-03-30a.1562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-02", "file": "debates1928-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "93dd9cce3818761a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-02a.1607.4", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Minister!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "nt years, have not been adequately maintained by the building of new vessels to replace those which have become too old for efficient service in peace or war, and considers that all practicable means should be adopted for encouraging and enabling the industry to build new vessels and maintain them in a satisfactory state of efficiency, I should like to call attention to the great importance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-02a.1607.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-02", "file": "debates1928-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "93dd9cce3818761a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-02a.1662.1", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "f us on these benches when he said Holy Week was a good week for the fishing industry, yet he has been one of the most bitter opponents of the idea behind the organisation which has Holy Week for one of its principal weeks in the year. Fish goes up in Holy Week. The price increases enormously. It is the best week in the year for the fishing industry, and the Orange men make a big profit out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-02a.1662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-02", "file": "debates1928-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "93dd9cce3818761a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-02a.1663.1", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " used to herrings except at election time. The best of everything is good enough for us. I would not go to my constituency and tell them to eat herrings. I want them to eat salmon, and not in tins. You tell us what we ought to eat and drink, how we ought to live and what we ought to do. Do it yourselves. If herrings are good enough for us they are good enough for you. I do not see you eating them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-02a.1663.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-04-02", "file": "debates1928-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "93dd9cce3818761a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-02a.1665.0", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "If the owners cannot manage it.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " the House. In the first place, I should like to say that in that part of the country to which I belong, the owners of fishing vessels very often lose their lives like the fishermen. I think it ought to be emphasised that it has been laid down clearly and definitely this afternoon by a representative speaker of the Socialist party that he wishes to nationalise the fishing industry in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-02a.1664.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-02", "file": "debates1928-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "93dd9cce3818761a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-02a.1703.1", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "ident of the Board of Trade used a harsher term. I think he used the word \"corrupt.\" It ought to be known how far that kind of corrupt practice has had its effect. It has been said that over-capitalisation has had a lot to do with the position in which the trade is to-day. If that be so, we ought to know about it. These are only statements. No one has produced what may be called definite evidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-02a.1703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-02", "file": "debates1928-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "93dd9cce3818761a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-02a.1710.1", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FINBURGH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thank goodness for that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FINBURGH", "preceding_text": "t is the reason why our banks are silent and have been prepared to tolerate a state of affairs which is not healthy for the industry, but which cannot be helped, and so they are hoping for better times to come along. I have been struck particularly with the fact that whereas eight or 10 years ago one saw a lot of foreign buyers in the streets of Manchester, unfortunately one does not see them now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-02a.1710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-02", "file": "debates1928-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "93dd9cce3818761a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-02a.1723.1", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAMMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAMMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "y useful practical opportunity for the Socialist party to put some of their theories into practice, and I will make an offer to the right hon. Member for Preston and his party whereby he can put some of his theories into practice. Without any cost, I am willing to provide, not one, two, or three, but up to 20 mills, which he can take over without cost provided he will look after their liabilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-02a.1723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-02", "file": "debates1928-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "93dd9cce3818761a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-02a.1726.1", "colnum": "1726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut-Commander ASTBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut-Commander ASTBURY", "preceding_text": "ry. You will only set up the backs of the different trades in Lancashire by having an inquiry, because, to be quite candid, they do not believe in a Government inquiry. They think the Government should keep out of industry, but I am quite sure that the time will come when these five different sections of the trade will have to combine, and produce goods as one firm, and purchase goods as one firm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-02a.1726.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-03", "file": "debates1928-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "f55a67f4e3e5df3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-03a.1900.3", "colnum": "1900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "Well, if he had not forgotten them surely he is not justified in coming to this House and making accusations against the Chancellor of the Exchequer and against our side of the House that we raided the fund, robbed the insured and diverted all this money. You are receiving to-day more than was promised in the original Act of 1911.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-03a.1900.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-04", "file": "debates1928-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "298636011150e25f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-04a.2045.2", "colnum": "2045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RURAL HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HASLAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HASLAM", "preceding_text": " their duty because they mainly consist of farmers and farmers' friends. Let me give to hon. Members a few facts regarding an exclusively rural district, the district of Spils by in Lincolnshire, which contains no large towns and has no mines or factories in its neighbourhood. Since the War, the council of this district has erected 112 houses, 54 under the Act of 1019 and 58 under the Act of 1924.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-04a.2045.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-04", "file": "debates1928-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "298636011150e25f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-04a.2056.1", "colnum": "2056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SYNDICATED PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "t imagine what this means. The \"Sunday Chronicle\" last Sunday offered £10,000 as a first prize, and it tells where readers can get expert guidance to pick the winners; they have to look at another paper, where there will be somebody picking out the likely clubs, and, by that combination, there is a chance of getting the £10,000. Much as we all like a gamble—most of us like a gamble", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-04a.2056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-04", "file": "debates1928-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "298636011150e25f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-04a.2061.0", "colnum": "2061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SYNDICATED PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLETON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They get the speeches.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLETON", "preceding_text": "spoke six columns of the OFFICIAL REPORT and the Seconder four columns. That seems to me to be very unfair. I think in matters of this kind we might take a leaf out of the book of the French people. In France, when important speeches are made in the Chamber of Deputies, they have them printed and sent round to all the municipalities to be posted up. In that case, the people at least get the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-04a.2061.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-04", "file": "debates1928-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "298636011150e25f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-04a.2065.1", "colnum": "2065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SYNDICATED PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLETON", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLETON", "preceding_text": "It may be that after all the bulk of the syndicated Press supports the party opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-04a.2065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-04", "file": "debates1928-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "298636011150e25f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-04a.2066.0", "colnum": "2066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SYNDICATED PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "RENTOUL", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Where were you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "RENTOUL", "preceding_text": " have not reached me. A more mischievous example of the way in which some Press organs to-day endeavour to represent, or misrepresent public opinion, it would be difficult to find than that, and I think that no one knows better than the political correspondent of that particular newspaper. who is responsible for that article, that the suggestions he is making have very little relation to accuracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-04a.2066.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-04", "file": "debates1928-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "298636011150e25f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-04a.2093.1", "colnum": "2093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SYNDICATED PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. SUGDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. SUGDEN", "preceding_text": "of our four or five leading national journals. What obtains there? If they find a man with a peculiar habit or a double life, some of those journals will play on that weakness for sensationalism rather than give the more necessary news, and if the editors of our papers are not always friendly to our statesmen, at any rate they do not expose the secret vices or weaknesses of our great people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-04a.2093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-04", "file": "debates1928-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "298636011150e25f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-04a.2097.0", "colnum": "2097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SYNDICATED PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Government, and I believe it. I believe Lord Beaverbrook could give the Prime Minister a good start and beat him if he had not to go before the electors; so long as he sits in the editor's chair the whole country is at his disposal, and even Napoleon was either a non-starter or an also ran. When the Government find themselves in trouble they go to Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere to help them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-04a.2097.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-04", "file": "debates1928-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "298636011150e25f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-04a.2097.0", "colnum": "2097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SYNDICATED PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about \"Answers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Roman Catholic newspaper; if you are an Orangeman, he can provide you with an Orange newspaper; if you are a Bush Baptist, he can provide you with an organ to preach Bush Baptism. It does not matter what your social, religious or political views are, you will have them from Lord Rothermere, all provided at so much a week, and \"Comic Cuts\" into the bargain, with \"Tit-Bits\" as a kind of entrée.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-04a.2097.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-05", "file": "debates1928-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "09e8d1988b5355ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-05a.2165.6", "colnum": "2165", "heading": "POOR LAW RELIEF.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very generous!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "mer and wield it in a proper manner. Here is what you feed them with. They get three meals. For supper and breakfast, men and boys 12 years old or over get bread, eight ounces; margarine or dripping, one ounce; tea or cocoa or broth or gruel, one pint. At night, they get bread, eight ounces; margarine or dripping, half an ounce; cheese, two ounces; potatoes, four ounces; salt, a sufficiency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-05a.2165.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-05", "file": "debates1928-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "09e8d1988b5355ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-05a.2192.0", "colnum": "2192", "heading": "POOR LAW RELIEF.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is wholly unable to follow the case I am making.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-05a.2192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-05", "file": "debates1928-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "09e8d1988b5355ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-05a.2192.0", "colnum": "2192", "heading": "POOR LAW RELIEF.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "pe that there are some other Members in the House who appreciate what I am saying and agree that it is absolutely the truth? There are a number of cases, it is perfectly true a limited number, of men who have very often seen better days, who have been dragged down by drink, who have been first to the Salvation Army, then to the Church Army, and then have been assisted by relatives again and again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-05a.2192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-05", "file": "debates1928-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "09e8d1988b5355ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-05a.2202.1", "colnum": "2202", "heading": "POOR LAW RELIEF.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "preceding_text": "t it means—they are sent back to the butcher and sold for human food. I want to know whether the butchers who sell the meat exhibit in their window a notice to the public that the veal they are going to buy is from calves that have been inoculated at the Government lymph factory. We are too prone to accept the general statement of medical people that vaccination is a preventive of small-pox.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-05a.2202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-10", "file": "debates1928-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "b6acf2f649ad300a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-10a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "preceding_text": "k in those Dominions unless there is capital for the development of the natural resources of the Dominions which will necessarily bring about the employment of the men whom we emigrate. Therefore, it is essential that credit should be made available for these Dominions, and these Governments are quite competent to use that capital and control it and direct it effectively for development. purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-10a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-10", "file": "debates1928-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "b6acf2f649ad300a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-10a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARKER", "preceding_text": "third of the globe. Yet we have over a million unemployed in this country. That shows that the Empire and unemployment have no relation whatever to each other. We know, too, that the Dominions will not allow our men to enter because unemployment is rife in the Dominions. If there were any serious emigration from this country the capitalists of this country would very soon be up in arms to stop it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-10a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-10", "file": "debates1928-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "b6acf2f649ad300a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-10a.1131.5", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Britain,\" and \"That is your Empire! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "as developed the land, by cheap railway freights, free land, and such thing's, takes the value which it. makes itself by the taxation of land values. I lived in Australia when Australian unemployment was far worse than it, is in England to-day. I have been in New Zealand when people were fleeing away from New Zealand at a greater rate than that at which they are trying to flee from England to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-10a.1131.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-10", "file": "debates1928-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "b6acf2f649ad300a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-10a.1133.1", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Free trade.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "Subsequently to 1896 the condition of the working classes has not been improving. It would not be in Order to discuss that at length, but since 1896—it may be a coincidence, or something to do with it—we have had a great extension of the sloppy, semi-Socialistic measures so advocated from the Labour Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-10a.1133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-10", "file": "debates1928-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "b6acf2f649ad300a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-10a.1134.2", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " Treasury comes forward and lends money to the Gold Coast Colony, or to Kenya Colony, or, possibly, to the Sudan—they have done all, more or less, some with more guarantee than others—when they come forward with these loans, the people who are going to benefit first are the people who are going to contract to do the jobs. So I think we may look with a certain amount of suspicion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-10a.1134.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-10", "file": "debates1928-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "b6acf2f649ad300a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-10a.1141.5", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member withdraws, I accept it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-10a.1141.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-10", "file": "debates1928-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "b6acf2f649ad300a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-10a.1171.4", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh,!\" \"Hear, hear!\" and Lartighter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "mpossible for the House to adjourn without any comment upon the extraordinary decision which has just been taken. I do not think, within the recollection of the oldest Parliamentarian now alive, any Government has been defeated on the question, \"That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair.\" It is a question which, decided adversely to the Government, must be fatal to that Government's existence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-10a.1171.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-10", "file": "debates1928-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "b6acf2f649ad300a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-10a.1171.4", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "ded adversely to the Government, must be fatal to that Government's existence—[HON. MEMBERS: Oh,!\" \"Hear, hear!\" and Lartighter ]. The somewhat juvenile gentlemen on the Front Bench are amused at the situation, but they are apparently unaware of the historical importance of the putting of the question, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair.\" An ordinary defeat in Supply might be set right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-10a.1171.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-10", "file": "debates1928-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "b6acf2f649ad300a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-10a.1171.4", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "e tottering to their ignominous fall, that Government were defeated on Supply. The Government were able to accept the decision and simply allow the Vote to pass, reduced by £100, as it was in Committee. But tonight, what the House has done is to take a decision that, under the auspices of this Government, this House will not go into Committee of Supply at all. Under those circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-10a.1171.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-10", "file": "debates1928-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "b6acf2f649ad300a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-10a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "ame before Supply: and what the House has decided to-night is that, owing to a grievance, in which the majority of its Members hold that the Government have come short, this House shall not go into Committee. I maintain that in these circumstances it is not simply an Adjournment for the night that is necessary. I question whether it will be possible for the Government to resume business to-morrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-10a.1173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-10", "file": "debates1928-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "b6acf2f649ad300a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-10a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear! '", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "This Government have never been volcanoes. They have been such damp squibs that they have not in any way been able to affect the tranquillity of the country. I think the House as a whole will view this decision, somewhat fortuitous as it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-10a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-10", "file": "debates1928-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "b6acf2f649ad300a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-10a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "This Government have never been volcanoes. They have been such damp squibs that they have not in any way been able to affect the tranquillity of the country. I think the House as a whole will view this decision, somewhat fortuitous as it is—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear! ']—we shall now await new combinations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-10a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1187.4", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that since, according to his own statement, the change will then have been made, the House of Commons will then have no power to go back on the decision? Can we be given an opportunity to discuss the matter before the change is made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1187.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1188.5", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yellow! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Will the uniform be red or blue in the future?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1188.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1192.2", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "But you are responsible for dealing with unemployment. Is it fair that these men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1192.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1205.6", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Hold out your hand, naughty boy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1205.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1219.1", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And of the Government! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "arvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) if it were possible, but the difficulty is this. This Debate on the Agriculture question has been awaited with great interest and anticipation for some time past. If it were postponed it is impossible now to say how soon we could give a day for it. There is no possibility of a day in the near future, and having regard to the critical position of agriculture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1247.0", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has already done so! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "Might I ask you, in order that I may myself be clear, assuming that the Question be put from the Chair to-morrow, or whenever it be put, \"That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair,\" do I understand that your view is that my hon. and learned Friend the Member for East Fife (Mr. Duncan Millar) will then have the right to rise in his place, and move the Amendment which is on the Paper in his name?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SH INWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SH INWELL", "preceding_text": "You want to claim the credit for it now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1247.5", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "After the somewhat difficult points of order which have been put and elucidated, I propose to take a very short time to consider what it is that has really happened. What actually happened is that the Government were caught napping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1247.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1247.5", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And more noisy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": " to consider what it is that has really happened. What actually happened is that the Government were caught napping. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and Interruption .] Some valuable time has been lost, and I am con-slimed myself by a certain number of chastened reflections. I have myself sat in this House so many years as a Member of a small Opposition—a much smaller Opposition than the present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1247.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1248.0", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They ran away! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": ". I had the privilege of being here, and I saw, both in the Lobby and on those benches when the Division was going on, supporters of the Government. The Government were defeated last night, not because it was a snatch vote at all, not because there was an unexpected Division. The Government were defeated last night because a certain number of their supporters refused to support them on the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1248.0", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Four! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " vote at all, not because there was an unexpected Division. The Government were defeated last night because a certain number of their supporters refused to support them on the Motion. [An HON. MEMBER: \"They ran away! \"] All I can say is, that I saw one or two faces in that. Lobby that are familiar to me sitting here and looking across the Floor. I cannot say whether there were two, three, or four.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1252.0", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON, MEMBERS \"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I had not intended to press any observations upon the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1252.0", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "er any such restraint, and I want to put it that the Government, in their proposed action, have skimmed all too lightly over the Constitutional precedents of the past. On the Government receiving a defeat, with their Whips on, of the character of that of last. night., I do not think I am going too far when I say that their easy method of getting over the defeat last night is a piece of effrontery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1254.0", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "If I am out of order in criticising this proposed method of escape from the predicament in which the Government find themselves, I beg to say, with great respect, that I am not far out of order in pointing out the obvious instability in the country as a reason for this House not permitting without some protest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1254.0", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ment in which the Government find themselves, I beg to say, with great respect, that I am not far out of order in pointing out the obvious instability in the country as a reason for this House not permitting without some protest—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide! \"]—this shilly-shallying way of escape from the retribution the Government justly deserve by their ineptitude and inefficiency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1254.0", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "vious instability in the country as a reason for this House not permitting without some protest—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide! \"]—this shilly-shallying way of escape from the retribution the Government justly deserve by their ineptitude and inefficiency. [ Interruption ]—And I could not allow the Motion to be put from the Chair by you without making these few observations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1254.0", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide! \"]—this shilly-shallying way of escape from the retribution the Government justly deserve by their ineptitude and inefficiency. [ Interruption ]—And I could not allow the Motion to be put from the Chair by you without making these few observations—[ Interruption ]—and perhaps hon. Members of the Labour party above the Gangway will sober down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1254.1", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You were not here last night,\" and Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "I desire to put a point to the Government on behalf of the ex-service men. Last night it was decided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1254.3", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "The Government will have to resign, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1254.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1255.7", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": "e will realise from the speech of the Leader of the Opposition that we wish to treat this question in a really moderate and decent spirit, and that we certainly do not wish to treat it as a joke. I think it is due to the House and due to the attitude which the Leader of the Opposition has taken that the Government should not allow this Debate to close without some speech from the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1255.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1255.7", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": ". I wish to put that forward, because I think the House will agree that we are on these benches behaving with far greater restraint than hon. Gentlemen opposite showed at. that time, and we are doing so because we wish to help the ex-service men rather than to carry on the old political practice of using these incidents merely for party purposes in the old party warfare which was played as a game.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1255.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1255.7", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": " doing so because we wish to help the ex-service men rather than to carry on the old political practice of using these incidents merely for party purposes in the old party warfare which was played as a game. [ Interruption .] The Government in 1912 was defeated on the Financial Resolution relating to the Home Rule Bill. It was a defeat not by any means on such a vital issue as has taken place now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1255.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1255.7", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Jack Jones! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": " the Leader of the Opposition to-day and the tone and attitude of the Prime Minister when he was in that position then. I use this illustration to ask once again that the Government should pay some respect to the rules of this House and the rights of the Opposition. The Leader of the Opposition has made it clear that our attitude and the restraint and decorum shown on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1255.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1259.0", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ting on conscientious grounds, voted against their party. I think it will he a bad day for England when we lose our conscience, and hand it over to the Orange Lodges. The matter which was raised last evening affects every constituency in Great Britain. We argued it, but we did not do so from a party point of view, because the Labour party have never tried to make capital out of the ex-service men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1259.0", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Divide!;'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": ". You are the manufacturers of their destiny, you are the people who sent them to their death. A million of them have left their bones to bleach on the battlefields of the world, and two million of them have come home almost too weak to get their own living and they have had to throw themselves on to the parish. No less then 800 of them are in the asylums of this country certified as being insane.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1260.6", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "All I am asking for is that we should get an honest answer to an honest question which was put honestly. The object we have in view is not to make capital out of this position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1260.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1262.4", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "am going quietly to allow this Vote to go by unless the Government does the constitutional thing. If the Government wants the House to act constitutionally, it must itself act constitutionally. The Government has been:old that this grievance has got to be rectified. We are asked to wait till to-morrow, but they have had 24 hours to think about it. If We have to wait till to-morrow, let us go home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1262.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1264.1", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Continued interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "preceding_text": "Adjourn or answer!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1264.6", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "May I appeal to hon. Members to follow the course which their Leader has suggested?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1264.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1264.6", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "May I appeal to hon. Members to follow the course which their Leader has suggested? [ Interruption .] Hon. Members have not been attending to the business, but I have declared that the \"Ayes\" had it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1264.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1264.11", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTION FOR ADJOURNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Adjourn!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "ir to accept the suggestion of the Leader of the Opposition that we should adopt an attitude somewhat different from that which is being adopted now. May I put to you this question—whether, having regard to the fact that the Government, on a very important issue last night, were defeated, they ought not to accept the consequences of that decision and give the pledge which has been asked for?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1264.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1265.2", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTION FOR ADJOURNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "We, at least, on this side of the House demand an answer from the Government now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-11", "file": "debates1928-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "d85bacac70c31775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1265.3", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTION FOR ADJOURNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRETYMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\" and \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRETYMAN", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-11a.1265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-17", "file": "debates1928-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "8702a641056eef76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-17a.40.0", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": " these points. It took years and years of hard work to abolish flogging. It has taken years of work gradually to cut down the number of offences for which the death penalty is imposed. There is a fight all the time, although all the basis of argument for retaining the death penalty has gone. We do not hear any of those old pleas made year after year from Liberal and Conservative Governments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-17a.40.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-17", "file": "debates1928-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "8702a641056eef76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-17a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON - EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON - EVANS", "preceding_text": "s wrong, and that the particular local authority had not the power which it was thought they had, and which boards of guardians have, of giving consent as if they were the boy's parents. That was a particular case, concerning a particular local authority, and a wrong view taken by a recruiting officer. As soon as the facts were made known, the mother had no difficulty in getting the boy out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-17a.107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-17", "file": "debates1928-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "8702a641056eef76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-17a.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROLEUM (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about removing a nuisance?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "preceding_text": "arge companies, with plenty of capital. Is the fact that they are large companies any reason why they should be made to pay? Are they to be made to find the money while it is being pleaded that county councils cannot find the money? In this House we cannot pass laws to lay upon private individuals or upon companies' responsibilities which did not exist at the time when they erected these stations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-17a.145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-17", "file": "debates1928-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "8702a641056eef76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-17a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROLEUM (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "I desire to reinforce the opposition which has been offered to this Amendment by the hon. Member for Westhoughton (Mr. Rhys Davies), and I sincerely trust the Home Secretary will not give way and accept it. All who have erected these filling stations have erected them, probably, in the teeth of the opposition of the county council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-17a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-17", "file": "debates1928-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "8702a641056eef76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-17a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROLEUM (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I hope the House will reject this Amendment as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-17a.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-18", "file": "debates1928-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "68b9bc967f55b375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-18a.221.1", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALEXANDER SPROT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALEXANDER SPROT", "preceding_text": "e in many quarters. It is very popular outside this House. Let me give my experience in my own constituency. On very many occasions, both at party meetings and at public meetings, I have asked for an informal show of hands upon this particular subject—\"Hands up for 25\" and \"Hands up for 21,\" and I can assure the Home Secretary that in every ease there were hardly any hands at all for the 21.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-18a.221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-18", "file": "debates1928-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "68b9bc967f55b375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-18a.221.1", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALEXANDER SPROT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALEXANDER SPROT", "preceding_text": "sk, as everybody will admit, and nobody can foresee the result of what we are now proposing. Under these circumstances, I submit that it is well for us to be prudent, and if possible we ought to limit the vote to those who have had some experience of life, and who have qualified themselves in some way to have a voice in the government of the country, and also in the Government of our great Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-18a.221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-18", "file": "debates1928-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "68b9bc967f55b375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-18a.221.1", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALEXANDER SPROT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALEXANDER SPROT", "preceding_text": "Give me the goods that belong to me,\" and he took all the goods that were assigned to him and went off into a far country. We know what was the subsequent history of the Prodigal Son, and I have no doubt that with the experience he gained between the age of 21 and 25 when he returned home he became as good a citizen as his stay-at-home brother. That is an instance of what I mean by this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-18a.221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-18", "file": "debates1928-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "68b9bc967f55b375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-18a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "preceding_text": "with regard to the supposed magic of this age of 21, I would point out in the opposite direction—it may appear that this is an argument against myself, but that is not so—that the law allows people of an even lower age than 21 to do certain things. We know, for instance, that the driving of a motor car, which is a great responsibility, is permitted to a youth or a girl 16 or 17 of age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-18a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-18", "file": "debates1928-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "68b9bc967f55b375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-18a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": "uld easily get into touch with them. How are they going to do so to-day? Most constituencies will have an average, if the Bill is passed, over the age of 21 of 60,000 or 70,000 electors, and in some cases, I believe, as many as 90,000. Even with the aid of the loud speakers and the wireless, of which a great deal too much is being made, how is a Member going to keep in touch with his constituents?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-18a.233.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-18", "file": "debates1928-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "68b9bc967f55b375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-18a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No!\"I Well, look at the papers. The papers reflect what the people want to read. [HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "ion of the robot we ought to stop. We ought to try to restore that personal vitality in politics, by which personality counted, by, which people exercised a real free choice, and by which, accordingly, the House of Commons enjoyed a wonderful reputation and respect. It is not a little remarkable that after every enlargement of the franchise the House of Commons has fallen in authority and respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-18a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-18", "file": "debates1928-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "68b9bc967f55b375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-18a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "e they feel that the deliberations of Parliament are no longer very important, and I am surprised that Members of the Labour party should dissent from what I am saying, because I thought that was the sort of thing which one read in Labour newspapers, and what was said at trade union meetings of one sort or another. I thought it was a commonplace in their ranks to say that Parliament did not count.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-18a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-18", "file": "debates1928-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "68b9bc967f55b375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-18a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Go back to 1832!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": " what was said at trade union meetings of one sort or another. I thought it was a commonplace in their ranks to say that Parliament did not count. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Well, I give the impression that I have received; but, at any rate, no one will say that that is not a danger. How can you raise the credit of democracy? How can you make people see that government by the people is again a reality?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-18a.250.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-18", "file": "debates1928-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "68b9bc967f55b375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-18a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "are in favour of putting the clock back, but they all sit for South Kensingtons. The Prime Minister, at the Albert Hall, however, said something which was not read out by my hon. Friend. He said: I will just put this to any provincial candidate at the next election\"— a provincial candidate, not a candidate for South Kensington. My hon. Friend could stand on his head and win South Kensington.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-18a.258.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-18", "file": "debates1928-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "68b9bc967f55b375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-18a.307.0", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "I hope that the expenses for boroughs will not be altered. With an increased electorate, we shall need all the money available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-18a.307.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-18", "file": "debates1928-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "68b9bc967f55b375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-18a.308.2", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT SANDERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT SANDERS", "preceding_text": "a sum for election expenses, as would happen if the rate of 7d remained unaltered, would mean that there would be a considerable sum available in regard to which there would be no expenses to meet. It may be said that you need not spend that sum, but my experience is that if your agent is worth his salt, you generally do spend the whole, or pretty nearly the whole of what you are allowed to spend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-18a.308.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-19", "file": "debates1928-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3d4ad51ca2a4e3ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-19a.408.3", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (GRADING AND MARKING) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "sumer pays for a quality of goods, he is entitled to get that quality of goods and not to have an inferior quality imposed upon him. There is also the interest of the egg trader. There is surely no party in the House that is so free from the charge that it stands for the middleman than this party, and especially that section of it, that is represented by my hon. Friend the Member for Hillsborough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-19a.408.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-19", "file": "debates1928-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3d4ad51ca2a4e3ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-19a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (GRADING AND MARKING) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "Not always. The co-operative movement is producing about £40,000,000 of goods per annum. It is the largest producer in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-19a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-19", "file": "debates1928-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3d4ad51ca2a4e3ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-19a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (GRADING AND MARKING) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "of language. What is the situation? The Legislature has passed an Act of Parliament dealing with the marking of foreign produce. It is not said that only- once is a Committee to sit upon the marking of any particular article. The whole assumption of the Labour Amendment is that, because in 1927 a Committee refused to allow the marking of foreign eggs, for the whole future no other Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-19a.421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-19", "file": "debates1928-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3d4ad51ca2a4e3ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-19a.446.6", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "engthened in that opposition by my knowledge that the society in this country which has studied this question in great detail for many years—the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene—is diametrically opposed to the passage of this Bill and believes it to be a thoroughly retrograde step. We have also the support of all the women's societies in the country with a few small exceptions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-19a.446.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-19", "file": "debates1928-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3d4ad51ca2a4e3ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-19a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DRUMMOND SHIELS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DRUMMOND SHIELS", "preceding_text": "I am rather surprised that a better case against this Bill has not so far been made out. The Mover of the rejection spoke of the defence of the Edinburgh Corporation. It is not Edinburgh Corporation which is on its defence, but those who are opposing this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-19a.472.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-04-19", "file": "debates1928-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3d4ad51ca2a4e3ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-19a.487.0", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Not at all; certainly not.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "dy, the Member for Sutton (Viscountess Astor), who is against the Bill, refusing assent to that proposition, There is a large residue of people who will refuse treatment unless it is known sooner or later that it will become compulsory. The Government in the pronouncement that we have just heard, and those who are opposed to the Bill, are quite content that nothing should be done for these people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-19a.486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-19", "file": "debates1928-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3d4ad51ca2a4e3ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-19a.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": " of the Bill but on the question of Home Rule or otherwise for Scotland. This is not a Bill that ought to be proceeded with by the Private Bill Committee. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Central Edinburgh (Mr. W. Graham), realising that there is much to be said both ways and that there is a great division of opinion in Edinburgh about the Bill, will not attempt to justify its merits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-19a.490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-19", "file": "debates1928-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3d4ad51ca2a4e3ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-19a.498.1", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three hours!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " create. I am not speaking, however, from the women's point of view. I am speaking from the point of view of the effective treatment of the disease. It seems to me that we should risk our voluntary system which has succeeded so well if we go back to the compulsory method. There are many points which I desire to make, but having waited some five hours to speak I have promised Lot to take much time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-19a.498.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-23", "file": "debates1928-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "e1b97799ac0f4212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-23a.659.0", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "other thing I would point out. The right hon. and learned Gentleman made great play of the fact that you cannot get more meetings and you cannot get more personation and so forth. In these large constituencies, you cannot get the electors into the meetings. The halls are not big enough. In many constituencies you cannot get more than about 25 or 30 per cent. of the electors to the meetings at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-23a.659.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-23", "file": "debates1928-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "e1b97799ac0f4212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-23a.675.2", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "the amount of harm which the party opposite imagined it would. We are now adding a new electorate of about 5,000,000 to the register and it is important that they should not get accustomed to these circus methods. It would be to the advantage of every party. It would be all to the advantage of the country if elections were less and less an appeal to prejudice and more and more an appeal to reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-23a.675.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-23", "file": "debates1928-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "e1b97799ac0f4212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-23a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "g which tends unduly to limit the opportunities of candidates is strengthening the chance of outside interests. Undoubtedly, if we do not as candidates have a proper chance, it must lead to greater influence, not necessarily always a wise influence, being exercised by the Press. There is a danger in such cases that the electorate may be swayed by sentiment and may be stampeded by a Press campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-23a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-23", "file": "debates1928-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "e1b97799ac0f4212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-23a.688.0", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain AUSTIN HUDSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain AUSTIN HUDSON", "preceding_text": "oment. The figure for London given by the Home Secretary when he spoke earlier in the afternoon was a very astonishing one. He stated that the amount spent at the last General Election per head on an average was 4.23d., which would mean that, if this Amendment were not accepted and the new Clause were left as it is, the London Members would have to cut down their expenditure compulsorily by 0.23d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-23a.688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-23", "file": "debates1928-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "e1b97799ac0f4212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-23a.690.0", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are plug uglies?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ions; he then talks about the hooligans at election meetings, and would have the Committee believe that they only support the Labour party. That is notoriously untrue, and the hon. and gallant Gentleman knows it. In certain constituencies the Conservative party are very glad to have the support of what are known as \"plug-uglies,\" and when this kind of thing is returned they squeal out very loudly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-23a.690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-23", "file": "debates1928-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "e1b97799ac0f4212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-23a.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. SANDERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. SANDERS", "preceding_text": "I know there was a considerable difference of opinion amongst the Conservative party on this question before the discussion took place on the Amendment. As far as I can see, the great majority of the county Members wish to have a reduction in the expenses, while a great majority of the borough Members wish to leave things as they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-23a.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-23", "file": "debates1928-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "e1b97799ac0f4212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-23a.719.5", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ovided by this Bill exists in the Ministry. He is really much too familiar with the actual powers of the Minister of Health to try to persuade this House that the Minister of Health has now power with regard to particular items of the amounts which are sought to be charged upon the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund to say that these items should be disallowed. The Minister of Health has no such power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-23a.719.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-23", "file": "debates1928-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "e1b97799ac0f4212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-23a.733.0", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "ct something better from the Government, than to suggest that a body which is going to gain experience as the time goes on is to decide as to Whether the next half-year's estimate is one that may be passed or reported to the Ministry as being extravagant. He said that they would be able to compare one union area with another, and that if the conditions in Westminster were at a certain level—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-23a.733.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-04-24", "file": "debates1928-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "9181b5b9006b0f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-24a.791.2", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is it not the duty of the Secretary for Mines to look after the interests of the miners? Surely if miners are displaced, it is his business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-24a.791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-24", "file": "debates1928-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "9181b5b9006b0f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-24a.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": ";806,195,000. This figure compares with the estimate of £833,390,000, which I made this time last year, and with £838,535,000 actually spent last year. This is a reduction of £27,000,000 from the estimated, and £32,000,000 from the realised expenditure of last year. I have, however, on numerous occasions pointed out how very misleading such figures are unless they are analysed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-24a.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-24", "file": "debates1928-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "9181b5b9006b0f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-24a.841.1", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " recollection that episode may lie, whether if we had been told that we should have achieved almost complete equipoise between what we receive and what we have to pay during the present year they would not have been frankly incredulous at such a thing. I am sure the right hon. Member for Colne Valley would have gladly rejoiced at that time if he had thought there was any prospect of such a result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-24a.841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-24", "file": "debates1928-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "9181b5b9006b0f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-24a.853.0", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have begun late!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " us, and it will be only misleading the Committee and the public to suggest that it can be accomplished more quickly. Unless Parliament is strong enough, patient enough and dignified enough to pursue over a long period of time a national object of this prime importance, it would be far better to do nothing and to admit that the capacity for designed and concerted action no longer resides among us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-24a.853.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-24", "file": "debates1928-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "9181b5b9006b0f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-24a.853.0", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ient enough and dignified enough to pursue over a long period of time a national object of this prime importance, it would be far better to do nothing and to admit that the capacity for designed and concerted action no longer resides among us. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You have begun late!\"] We have begun late. What could we have done when we were fighting the greatest industrial struggle in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-24a.853.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-24", "file": "debates1928-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "9181b5b9006b0f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-24a.853.0", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "t, what prospect is there of achieving any real advance in legislation? If I am to take, as I hope I am not to take, that intemperate and precipitate mood as an indication of the line which the Labour party is going to adopt towards this vast scheme of constructive social reform—a line of mockery, derision and scoffing—then I say that we will advance against you with the utmost vigour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-24a.853.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-24", "file": "debates1928-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "9181b5b9006b0f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-24a.853.2", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": ", the £4,239,000 surplus of last year, which by law, in the ordinary circumstances, would be devoted to the further reduction of debt. Such a step is justified, by the exceptional levels of the New Sinking Fund, both in the past year and in the present year, and by numerous respectable precedents to be found in ancient and in modern times. I have them all here, but I will not recite them now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-24a.853.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-24", "file": "debates1928-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "9181b5b9006b0f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-24a.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "t the business of refining is in no way prejudiced. Refineries will be placed in bond and the duty collected on the products as they leave the premises. All forms of home production from indigenous products will be free from any countervailing excise. That is a most important decision. Thus an undoubted stimulus will be afforded to the production of Scottish shale oil and other British oils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-24a.858.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-04-24", "file": "debates1928-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "9181b5b9006b0f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-24a.859.1", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Adjourn.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ttee to follow this, collecting the whole revenue of this year and of 1929 whereas I shall only have to pay out half of the relief in the latter year. I will return to this point later on, but I will, before I sit down, give the Committee the best estimate I have been able to make of the new revenue and of the outgoings. But there are several matters to he disposed of before that point is reached.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-24a.859.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-25", "file": "debates1928-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "988a62a3540f5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.929.2", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "crease in the total of expenditure it is due to the increased provision for the Sinking Fund. The right hon. Gentleman has not during the last three years paid the statutory sum of £50,000,000 a year to the Sinking Fund. Every year he has raided the Sinking Fund, and he has repeated the operation this year by taking the £4,000,000 surplus which, according to every honest precedent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.929.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-25", "file": "debates1928-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "988a62a3540f5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He never had any.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "also make a note of his successful efforts in economy. He might also note that. he bas burdened this country for the next 60 years with £50,000,000 of interest upon debt which ought to he paid by our Continental Allies in the late War; sufficient to reduce the Income Tax by one shilling in the pound. Having done these things, he is now trying to re-establish, shall I say, his lost popularity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-25", "file": "debates1928-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "988a62a3540f5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "er as to the terms on which conversion would he successful? The right hon. Gentleman, if he had been Chancellor of the Exchequer, would have accepted that advice at once. He would not have dared to alter it one bit, any more than the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, because he would not have dared to oppose the expert view of the Governor of the Bank of England and other financial authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-25", "file": "debates1928-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "988a62a3540f5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Monstrous! Half-baked!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "ities of the country ought to be taken up and carried out. I will leave it at that, with the hope that when we see the Bill we shall give ourselves as much freedom as the Federal Reserves Banks. Passing from that to the question of the larger policy of the right hon. Gentleman, let us try to see whether this scheme, fantastic and absurd, ridiculous, unthought-out—and other adjectives?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-25", "file": "debates1928-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "988a62a3540f5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": " be taken, but no scheme which has been brought forward, and there have been several, has met with entire support. Now for the first time the Government of the day brings forward a scheme—I am not arguing, whether it is perfect or imperfect—which is based on two big principles, one of which I have always put forward, and that is the Berating of machinery, the de-rating of improvements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-25", "file": "debates1928-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "988a62a3540f5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.944.5", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "I am talking about buildings and fixed plant which cannot be moved. I was using the term as it is understood in industry. Let me say a word about the coal industry. Is it doubted that the burden of rates on the coal industry is one of the heaviest burdens which the industry has to bear to-day? Is it not a fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.944.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-25", "file": "debates1928-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "988a62a3540f5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.949.5", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Yellow Book!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "doubt he is stating his recollection. The point which want to put to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, however, is this. Although several have been examining the ques- tion of relieving rates on industry, he has no Committee, he has no Commission, he has no body of experts that has ever recommended this particular course —not one. There are many who in examining this project have begun—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.949.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-25", "file": "debates1928-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "988a62a3540f5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.952.1", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "I can only regret that it is impossible for him to be here, but the Parliamentary Secretary might be here to explain this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.952.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-25", "file": "debates1928-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "988a62a3540f5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Exchequer will pay!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Gentleman, if I may get. his attention. Take a perfectly new factory which is set up. I take it that the same three-fourths will apply to a new factory as to an old factory. Very well. In that area the new factory will only contribute one-fourth of what it would have contributed before to the rates of the community. That means that the remaining three-fourths will be spread over the rest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.955.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-25", "file": "debates1928-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "988a62a3540f5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.965.3", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "in raising revenue, and so far from encouraging development they have stopped development and enterprise; again, whether in industry or for social purposes, what is required in building is a restoration to absolutely normal conditions as soon as possible. I am not going to arbitrate in a dispute between the two right lion. Gentlemen opposite as to whether one told the other what he proposed to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-25", "file": "debates1928-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "988a62a3540f5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.965.3", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is the producer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ng to this argument the relief is going to the owner of the premises who is the manufacturer. As a rule factories which are not freehold are held on very long leases. Who would think of engaging in a great industrial enterprise and erecting a factory on a short lease? Nobody would ever dream of doing that. Therefore the relief under our scheme will go where it ought to go, that is to the producer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-25", "file": "debates1928-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "988a62a3540f5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "If there is one subject on which industrialists and politicians are agreed—they do not agree on all subjects—it is that the rates on productive industries are excessive and ought to be relieved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-25", "file": "debates1928-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "988a62a3540f5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.970.3", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "it as soon as possible, but it is a question which involves great progressive legislation and financial preparation as well. We are now proposing our scheme to the House and we are met with the question, \"Why did you not do it before?\" Hon. Members cannot have it both ways. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Colne Valley attacked our scheme and said that it ought not to be carried out at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.970.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-25", "file": "debates1928-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "988a62a3540f5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.974.3", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who would get it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ke, mining timber, iron-stone, iron ore, manganese ore and limestone, should mean a reduction of about 8 per cent. in freights on those commodities, or more than the amount of the last increase—an increase which hon. Members will remember was felt as a very severe burden. I will put it another way. The effect on coal would be an average reduction of 4d. a ton on all coal carried on railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.974.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-25", "file": "debates1928-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "988a62a3540f5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.1020.1", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": " colours—as varied as those of Joseph's coat. In that respect history is somewhat repeating itself, because there is no doubt—I do not suppose that it was his intention, but, the fact remains—that to all appearances he has surreptitiously borrowed the clothes, with respect to rating and agriculture, of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.1020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-25", "file": "debates1928-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "988a62a3540f5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.1045.0", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "growth of Fascism or Socialism in those countries. For instance, Italy, naturally, is let off most lightly, and this country may receive the £266,000,000 referred to after some centuries, if we are alive. Then, coming to the assets which are not funded, the Chancellor of the Exchequer shows the dishonest claim of Great Britain put forward against Russia for an amount of £887,000,000 odd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-25a.1045.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-26", "file": "debates1928-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "b59df2b8ed479cfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-26a.1097.3", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": " markets in the world. I am not meaning per capita; I am meaning in the bulk. If you take Australia to-day, it is buying £65,000,000 worth of our goods in a year, and New Zealand is buying over £20,000,000 worth. I see in certain brochures from the Liberal party that it is thought that the Colonial and Dominion markets may be neglected because they have not very large populations.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-26a.1097.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-26", "file": "debates1928-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "b59df2b8ed479cfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-26a.1115.5", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "00,000 in Sinking Fund. While that made an apparent net debt reduction, he had not allowed, as he admits now, for the interest on Savings Certificates, which were not provided for out of revenue in the course of the year. That ought to have been provided for and it is going to be provided for. He admits the error and is going to make up for it. Then there was the sale of assets in those two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-26a.1115.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-26", "file": "debates1928-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "b59df2b8ed479cfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-26a.1174.0", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUBBER EXPORT RESTRICTION SCHEME.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANK NELSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANK NELSON", "preceding_text": "as a miasma of utter gloom and despondency over the whole rubber world, and waiting on the outskirts of that miasmic zone, if I. may use that term, were three or four syndicates with unlimited money behind them, of which I had personal knowledge, and I will ask the house to accept my word for it. They were waiting to buy up such plantations as had no alternative except bankruptcy in front of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-26a.1174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-26", "file": "debates1928-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "b59df2b8ed479cfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-26a.1174.0", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUBBER EXPORT RESTRICTION SCHEME.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANK NELSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANK NELSON", "preceding_text": "ed rubber. There has been an enormous amount of uninformed criticism on the subject of reclaimed rubber. Anybody who knows anything of this industry knows perfectly well that the chief uses of reclaimed rubber are such that crude rubber would not be used for them even if it were 4d. or 3d. or 2d. per lb. The degree to which reclaimed rubber is in competition with crude rubber is about 15 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-26a.1174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-26", "file": "debates1928-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "b59df2b8ed479cfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-26a.1184.9", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUBBER EXPORT RESTRICTION SCHEME.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMBPELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMBPELL", "preceding_text": " strong committee representing the various interests concerned, and I am continually taking the advantages or disadvantages of the scheme into consideration.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 10th May, 1927; col. 199, Vol. 206.] At that time evidently he did not think it was right to set up the independent Committee I suggested. The only possible Committee to set up was an absolutely independent Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-26a.1184.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-26", "file": "debates1928-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "b59df2b8ed479cfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-26a.1187.2", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUBBER EXPORT RESTRICTION SCHEME.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "AN HON MEMBER: \"The Colonial Secretary was never consulted\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "nce. I believe that there is a great measure of agreement in the City that even now it would he advisable to take it off, say, on 1st May. Naturally, one can understand that my right hon. Friend the Colonial Secretary will he averse to doing anything at present, because, whatever is done, probably there will be a great number of people who will say once again that the Government are wrong. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-26a.1187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-26", "file": "debates1928-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "b59df2b8ed479cfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-26a.1187.2", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUBBER EXPORT RESTRICTION SCHEME.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "t as soon as they heard that an inquiry was to be set up, especially when one realises that rubber is, probably, one of the most speculative articles with which anybody can deal. Nobody can deny that the market was full of people who knew nothing whatever about the article of rubber. They had been led on, as many of us have been led on, to speculate by putting in money which they never had.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-26a.1187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-26", "file": "debates1928-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "b59df2b8ed479cfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-26a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUBBER EXPORT RESTRICTION SCHEME.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "preceding_text": "urs. Having made that astronomical discovery, which has been known to every child in a first form for many generations, he then felt pained that there should be men so sordid in the United States of America as to take advantage of the marvels of the universe. But his pain was not comparable to that felt by the poor investor who found his money swept away by this blunder. I need not quote any more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-26a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-27", "file": "debates1928-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "1af469cd10b9b423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-27a.1241.0", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That should be bales!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "rested for some time in watching what is happening in some of our Colonies and Dominions. I find, according to the last published report of the Overseas Trade Department, on page 52, an appendix giving a number of the exports from Uganda. I find that from January to June, 1927, the cotton exported from Uganda went to the following destinations—£125,000 worth came to Great Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-27a.1241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-27", "file": "debates1928-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "1af469cd10b9b423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-27a.1255.0", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HOLIDAY (EMPIRE DAY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir THOMAS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "f the man who first sailed round the world, Sir Francis Drake, and bow he brought his ship up the Thames and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth. I have been knighted, but I did not go through such hardships to get it as Drake did. These are the things that attract people's attention. You can go a little further. Not long ago, I motored through Kent and passed through Westerham. What do you see there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-27a.1255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-27", "file": "debates1928-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "1af469cd10b9b423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-27a.1284.0", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HOLIDAY (EMPIRE DAY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major OWEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major OWEN", "preceding_text": "Until I heard some of the speeches which have been made in opposition to this Bill I had no intention of intervening. There is an old Welsh proverb which says: Cas gwr na charo'r wlad a'i macco.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-27a.1284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-27", "file": "debates1928-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "1af469cd10b9b423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-27a.1284.0", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HOLIDAY (EMPIRE DAY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major OWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major OWEN", "preceding_text": " an old Welsh proverb which says: Cas gwr na charo'r wlad a'i macco. [ Interruption. ] If that is the sort of Imperial feeling which is exhibited in this House, I think it is high time we had a little more Imperial history taught in our schools. It is quite uncalled for that a gibe should be made at a language spoken by a nation which has played a very considerable part in building up this Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-27a.1284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-27", "file": "debates1928-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "1af469cd10b9b423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-27a.1284.0", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HOLIDAY (EMPIRE DAY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major OWEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major OWEN", "preceding_text": " our country, first of all, to know everything that it is possible to know about their own country. If they, first of all, learn to respect their own traditions, their own achievements, the best that is in their own people, then they will be better able to appreciate what is good and worth appreciating in other nations. I have no sympathy at all with the people who preach internationalism as such.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-27a.1284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-27", "file": "debates1928-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "1af469cd10b9b423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-27a.1292.6", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HOLIDAY (EMPIRE DAY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "t sort of education from mine. I was brought up, not in an elementary day-school under the Government, but in an elementary day-school of the Church of England, and we used, once a week, to have a big map unrolled, and the parts of the British Empire were marked red and the others were in other colours. India was a great part of it, and we were taught, what was not true, that God had ordained that", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-27a.1292.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-27", "file": "debates1928-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "1af469cd10b9b423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-27a.1295.5", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HOLIDAY (EMPIRE DAY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are several!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "Member for Tewkesbury seems to be that a holiday for children is hard work. When anybody has an idea of celebrating something, what do they mean? What is a holiday? Is it not a complete change from what they are doing every day? You now propose to drag the children round to places associated with Henry VIII in order to remind children of a thing like that. I remember a story told about Henry VIII.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-27a.1295.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-27", "file": "debates1928-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "1af469cd10b9b423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-27a.1299.0", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HOLIDAY (EMPIRE DAY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "When the hon. Member for Bow and Bromley (Mr. Lansbury) sat down, I really thought that we had certain clear issues on which this Debate could proceed, but I am bound to say that the last speaker has, at any rate, succeeded in confusing me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-27a.1299.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-30", "file": "debates1928-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "34b3ceefefebb74b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-30a.1359.0", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "people who previously had very great skill in all the occupations which go to make up farming. If I might make the suggestion to the Ministry of Labour, I would propose that they should discover in the mining community the number of people who have acquaintance with agricultural work. As we all know, at the present time there is a shortage of people who are required upon the farms of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-30a.1359.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-04-30", "file": "debates1928-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "34b3ceefefebb74b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-30a.1369.5", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "HON MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "I do not believe it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-30a.1369.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-30", "file": "debates1928-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "34b3ceefefebb74b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-30a.1400.0", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What promise?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": " will they give it to us? They cannot expect people to be satisfied with a statement that when the Government's term of office has expired there will come into operation an Act which will relieve the difficulty. That is a poor way to get out of the trouble. I say to hon. Members opposite that they are bound by the promise that they gave to the people that they had really a remedy for unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-30a.1400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-30", "file": "debates1928-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "34b3ceefefebb74b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-30a.1404.0", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "preceding_text": "adepts at drawing attention to the distress, misery and poverty and all the other evil results of unemployment. Anybody can do that, but when it comes to understanding the causes of unemployment and attacking the problem at its root, they seem to be peculiarly barren of constructive suggestion. In order to approach the problem it is necessary to appreciate that unemployment is caused by bad trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-30a.1404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-30", "file": "debates1928-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "34b3ceefefebb74b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-30a.1450.1", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Half truths!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": " and made it less efficient than it would have been, not by accident but deliberately—if, by creating a better and more up-to-date system of road transport, we can help industry, I think we should be doing a great good. A few minutes ago the hon. Member for Mossley was engaged in a task which nobody enjoys more than he does. He was telling home truths to hon. Members above the Gangway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-30a.1450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-04-30", "file": "debates1928-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "34b3ceefefebb74b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-30a.1452.3", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have 4,000,000 unemployed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "when he spoke about the level of wages and the cost of production, that he was leaving out of consideration the example of that great country on the other side of the Atlantic, where, in spite not only of a high level of wages, but of a psychology among employers that leads them to desire and to pay high wages, it has been able to maintain its prosperity, and largely keep its people in employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-04-30a.1452.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-01", "file": "debates1928-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "40bbbdfa2413601b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1530.1", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (AMENDMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Australia!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": " to carry in my head all the phrases used by the official Opposition, but I would very briefly remind the House that the best conditions in the world are in the largest free trade areas of the world. If you take European countries, just as those countries are Free Trade, you will find conditions of life are high, and as they become more Protectionist, the conditions of life become worse and worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-01", "file": "debates1928-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "40bbbdfa2413601b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1564.1", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PILCHER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PILCHER", "preceding_text": " in the consumption of Java tea in these islands and this is the reason. Java tea is cheaper to produce. I do not know what, if any, arrangement the Java trade have for keeping up prices, but it seems to me that our own tea industry may be giving a very big incentive to the production of tea in Java on cheaper lines than the Indian tea industry is allowing Indian tea to be sold at in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-01", "file": "debates1928-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "40bbbdfa2413601b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1566.1", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "212;I am paraphrasing his words—and had the money to give relief, much as he would like to relieve the poor man of the 2s. 7d. per head per annum on tea, he felt that there were other taxes which would have an earlier claim for consideration. The hon. Member for South Leeds quoted the very heavy duty on tobacco, which, I think, must be admitted is no longer a luxury but is a necessity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-01", "file": "debates1928-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "40bbbdfa2413601b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1566.1", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "g from this Box and saying that that argument was not worth very much. It was said that the flat rate bore more heavily upon the poorer people, but the right hon. Gentleman said that was not so. He said that the working people had long discovered that the most economical form of buying tea was to buy the better tea, and in consequence the flat rate did not bear more heavily upon the poorer people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-01", "file": "debates1928-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "40bbbdfa2413601b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1566.1", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "at the flat rate bore more heavily upon the poorer people, but the right hon. Gentleman said that was not so. He said that the working people had long discovered that the most economical form of buying tea was to buy the better tea, and in consequence the flat rate did not bear more heavily upon the poorer people. [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members may laugh and deny it, but I have the quotation here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-01", "file": "debates1928-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "40bbbdfa2413601b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1566.1", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "eech Was made when the right hon. Gentleman was Chancellor of the Exchequer. The right hon. Gentleman said: It is a mistake to suppose that the working people of this country consume wholly cheap tea. As a matter of fact, the working people of this country have discovered that cheap tea is not economical.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 30th June, 1924; col. 962, Vol. 175] The corollary to that is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-01", "file": "debates1928-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "40bbbdfa2413601b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1568.1", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They get relief!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ion in this country of, say, 40,000,000, not more than 3,000,000 people pay direct taxation, but all the people who pay direct taxation pay indirect taxation as well. The Income Tax payer and Super tax payer drink tea and consume sugar, tobacco and alcohol. They pay largely in direct taxation by way of Income Tax and Super-tax, and they pay indirect taxation as consumers of those taxable articles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-01", "file": "debates1928-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "40bbbdfa2413601b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1578.0", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "preceding_text": "veral hon. Members opposite. I really think if any person who had not been in this country in recent years had heard them he would have got a totally erroneous impression. He would have gathered that the Conservative Government had been the one to levy this duty on tea for the first time. Hon. Members have moved to reduce it, but the present flat rate of 4d. was levied by the Socialist Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-01", "file": "debates1928-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "40bbbdfa2413601b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1578.0", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "preceding_text": "nt had been the one to levy this duty on tea for the first time. Hon. Members have moved to reduce it, but the present flat rate of 4d. was levied by the Socialist Government. [ Interruption. ] I am not talking of what it was in a previous year. If hon. Members pursue that line of argument, the Income Tax was 6s. at one time and then 5s., and the right hon. Gentleman reduced it from 5s. to 4s. 6d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-01", "file": "debates1928-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "40bbbdfa2413601b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1589.4", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "it were levied on the whole of these light hydrocarbons which are called \"whites.\" Therefore, knowing as I did—not finding out at the end of last week as the Labour Party seem to have done that kerosene was much used in the cottages of the rural districts—knowing, as I did, that this was the case, I introduced a measure of compensation which, so far as the Treasury was concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1589.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-01", "file": "debates1928-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "40bbbdfa2413601b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1589.4", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ss on the cottage domestic consumer. One-third was consumed industrially, and of the remaining two-thirds only one-half was consumed in the cottage homes. The whole matter of the duty on kerosene centralising round the mulcting of the working-class consumers of about £1,000,000 or £1,250,000 per annum, in return for which they get sugar relief, which on the average is much greater—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1589.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-01", "file": "debates1928-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "40bbbdfa2413601b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1592.0", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "When did you find this out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1592.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-01", "file": "debates1928-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "40bbbdfa2413601b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1592.3", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "trident indignation to do, and, in consequence of that, he should adjust his mind to receive, not evil things, but benefits. We have undoubtedly undergone a change, and I think that there is no doubt that the great interruptions that we have had in the supply of coal have been one of the causes of that change. I am prepared, and I say it quite frankly, to accept guidance from the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1592.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-01", "file": "debates1928-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "40bbbdfa2413601b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1593.1", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Already by Friday of last week, I had had a good many indications of the anxiety with which this duty was regarded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-01", "file": "debates1928-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "40bbbdfa2413601b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1598.1", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBERS: \"He is a reasonable man.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "—and handed them over to the Chief Whip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-01", "file": "debates1928-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "40bbbdfa2413601b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1599.4", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " who knows what it means, who knows whether it means the withdrawal of the kerosene tax or not. We have got to take it on trust. It is what the right hon. Gentleman calls a new chemical frontier and when we come to examine it, we may find it is no more of an impenetrable frontier than the one he has had to abandon. If this rigmarole does mean the withdrawal of the kerosene tax, then we welcome it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1599.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-01", "file": "debates1928-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "40bbbdfa2413601b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1642.1", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We will remember that\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "it is not handicapped by unfair taxes, it can compete with industry in any other part of the world. Here, however, the Government are deliberately going out of their way to handicap an industry which still depends to a great extent on its export trade. It is true that it is secured from foreign competition by the safeguarding machinery, as long as we have a Conservative Government in office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-01", "file": "debates1928-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "40bbbdfa2413601b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1644.5", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "I think that process is usually done in the open air. As far as I know that is so. I have seen the skins being tanned and being prepared in the open air, and I very much doubt whether the rating authorities will hold that these places where the skins go through this process in the open air will come within the definition of a factory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1644.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-01", "file": "debates1928-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "40bbbdfa2413601b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1644.5", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "prepared in the open air, and I very much doubt whether the rating authorities will hold that these places where the skins go through this process in the open air will come within the definition of a factory. [ Interruption. ] I think I am right in saying that these skins largely go through that process of manufacture in the open air. One sees these skins hanging out in the yards all round Yeovil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1644.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-01", "file": "debates1928-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "40bbbdfa2413601b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1654.1", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "o the price that will have to be paid by the Hull manufacturers. I thought I had made that clear; I hope I have done so now. I must say that I have a sneaking sympathy with the main object of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in putting on this tax. It is putting back, or attempting to put back, the hands of the economic clock, and I always admire romanticism—I always admire a romantic policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-01", "file": "debates1928-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "40bbbdfa2413601b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1655.0", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "xemptions, you will end by attempting to confine the burden of the Petrol Duty exclusively to the road user. You cannot possibly deal with cattle feeding stuffs without also dealing with dyeing and cleaning, with the manufacture of paint, with the making of gloves and all these interesting and complicated trades of which we have heard. If you did that you would, undoubtedly, have vitiated the tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-01a.1655.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1752.0", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": " if everybody is good. They say \"God is good and the devil is not so bad when you get to know him,\" and if everything turns out well, and if everybody is good, we may get some relief in 18 months' time. We are also to get a reduction of ¼ per lb. on sugar. I believe my hon. Friend the Member for the Hillsborough Division of Sheffield said it had come down. I do not know whether it has or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1752.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1752.0", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "which is not so badly off as some other industries, why have they not given some relief to the cotton trade, or the iron or shipbuilding trade, or even the woollen trade, in which I am somewhat distantly interested? It appears to me that the industry which can make the most noise in this House will get the most assistance, especially if the members of it are supporters of the party opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1752.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1757.0", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is due to the policy of your Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": ". What are the facts? The sugar refining industry in this country, which used to find employment for a large number of men, has fallen on bad days. I will give to the House the figures relating to this industry in order that hon. Members may be able to judge what has happened. Employment in the sugar refining industry has fallen considerably, and a large number of men have been thrown out of work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1757.2", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " coal, and you cannot refine sugar without using coal. If you are refining 600,000 tons more sugar in this country you must require about 180,000 tons more coal. Besides this, the coal has to be transported and this increase in volume of refined sugar also brings more business to the jute mills. It is estimated that the refining of 600,000 extra tons of sugar will require 6,000,000 more jute bags.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1757.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1761.5", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ut those engaged in the sugar industry and. about what is being done for this or that industry. We can assess all that for what it is worth, and the country will assess it for what it is worth, but the fact remains, and hon. Gentlemen opposite will have to take it into consideration when they make their speeches to their constituents, that here is an honest genuine attempt by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1761.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1762.0", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ined sugar by 600,000 tons. He must he wholly ignorant of the volume of refined sugar which is turned out in British refineries to-day, and he must be equally ignorant of the capacity of British refining plants. As a matter of fact, they turned out last year between 800,000 and 900,000 tons of sugar, and their total capacity, when they are working to the fullest extent, is only 1,000,000,000 tons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1762.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1763.0", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "One million tons, not 1,000,000,000!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "tish refineries to-day, and he must be equally ignorant of the capacity of British refining plants. As a matter of fact, they turned out last year between 800,000 and 900,000 tons of sugar, and their total capacity, when they are working to the fullest extent, is only 1,000,000,000 tons. [ Interruption. ] Therefore, if the effect of this remission of duty upon foreign imported refined sugar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1780.0", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "In order to bring the remarks of my right hon. Friend the Member for Swansea West to a definite point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1780.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1799.1", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do you object to it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "It will go on as long as the industry is in being. I should say from the figures of production and distribution that it is a very substantial advantage indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1812.5", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "almly gives away what must be at least one-quarter of the estimated revenue from this tax, in the form of a direct subsidy to a British industry. I submit to the hon. Gentleman that that is really playing fast and loose with the House of Commons. The amount of money involved may be comparatively small, but it is not a question of the sum of money involved, but a question of the principle involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1812.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1812.5", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": " really playing fast and loose with the House of Commons. The amount of money involved may be comparatively small, but it is not a question of the sum of money involved, but a question of the principle involved. [ Interruption. ] I can quite understand the views of the hon. Member for Barnstaple (Sir B. Peto), who for so many years was the shining light of the platform of the Tariff Reform League.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1812.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1812.5", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "in regard to the tax which has been imposed at the behest of the match industry. I think that the concession which is now offered ought certainly not to have been given without the permission of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in view of his previous statement, and perhaps the Financial Secretary will tell us whether he has the authority of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to make that concession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1812.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1821.4", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "I have carefully considered what has been said by the right hon. and learned Gentleman. He has not in any way convinced me. I shall stand by my declaration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1821.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1822.0", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": "or be, in any shape, rudeness. He has a very difficult task, as every Member of the House knows. There can be no question that he has a responsibility on his shoulders great enough for two pairs of shoulders, and it must be a terrible burden for him. The House, I think, would accept at once a statement from the hon. Gentleman that, under the pressure of circumstances, he had made a little mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1822.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1830.0", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Julius Cæsar!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Unused as I am to speaking upon great Constitutional issues, I hope my hon. Friends on both sides will listen to me for a few minutes while I give my reasons for supporting the Adjournment Motion. I have read a little of the history of Great Britain—a history of which most of us are proud.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1830.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1832.0", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. HUDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "upon which this new decision has been given, a protective tax has been introduced. I cannot press you, Sir, as I am assuming that you have very carefully observed the situation to which we have drifted, but I want to know from the hon. and gallant Member for Ripon (Major Hills), who so emphatically stated earlier that the whole of this taxation had nothing of a protective character about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1832.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1834.0", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "Secretary was trying to do, and the only defence he made for this duty when he was describing it as a Customs Duty was that it was being imposed for the sole reason of protecting the revenue. It was to protect the revenue on matches that the suggestion was made by the Government, or rather by the match trade, by the employers and the employed in the match trade, to the Government, who accepted it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1834.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1834.0", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": " the principles enunciated by the Prime Minister himself. I beg hon. Members opposite to listen very carefully to what the Prime Minister did pledge himself. Although I know that sometimes he is not credited with being a great political strategist, he is quite capable of gauging a political situation with great astuteness, and he is a man whose pledge, I am sure, would never be broken, by himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1834.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1837.2", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "ch some hon. Members call a waste of time. Did the Chancellor agree to the reduction of this duty? May I put it another way, perhaps a little more clearly and concisely? Did the Financial Secretary before he came into the House get from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, either at his bedside or otherwise, definite instructions that, if Protection is pleaded hard enough, the appeal must be appeased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1837.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1837.2", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "ection is pleaded hard enough, the appeal must be appeased. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"] The only assumption to which we can come from the refusal of the Financial Secretary to reply is that he had not the consent, nor was it with the knowledge of the Chancellor of the. Exchequer that he accepted the Protectionist proposal of the hon. Member for North Bradford, who, very unfortunately, represents me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1837.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1843.1", "colnum": "1843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "eep strictly within the terms of your ruling, but the submission which I am making, and which I think you will agree is in order, is that the Financial Secretary to the Treasury has departed from the policy which has been laid down by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and, therefore, that we must adjourn the Debate until we have the Chancellor of the Exchequer here to say what his policy is —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1843.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1844.0", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "ithdraw a single word he had uttered, and that what he had said was essential to the integrity of the Budget, if the Budget can be regarded as having any integrity Nevertheless, five minutes after making that statement, the Financial Secretary approaches the Box and announces to a surprised House that he is prepared to make a change. Something has been said by hon. Members on these benches —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1847.6", "colnum": "1847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Commander Eyres Monsell)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Commander Eyres Monsell)", "preceding_text": "The House seems to be wasting a good deal of time over what, after all, is really a trivial question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1847.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1847.6", "colnum": "1847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Commander Eyres Monsell)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Commander Eyres Monsell)", "preceding_text": "y to say, through illness, and for no other cause—it seems to be suggested that the Financial Secretary to the Treasury cannot speak for the Treasury. Of course, that is not so; the Financial Secretary to the Treasury does speak, and can speak, for the Treasury. As I have said, the Chancellor of the Exchequer is, unfortunately, absent through illness. When the cat is away the mice will play.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1847.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1847.6", "colnum": "1847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Commander Eyres Monsell)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Commander Eyres Monsell)", "preceding_text": "easury. As I have said, the Chancellor of the Exchequer is, unfortunately, absent through illness. When the cat is away the mice will play. [ Interruption. ] The mice on the other side of the House have had a pretty good innings. I am going to make a suggestion which I think may meet with the general convenience of the House, which, after all, is the principal thing to remember on these occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1847.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1856.1", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "ere is, any evidence that we shall be able to make British buttons for British trousers in the future under the stimulus of this duty, when, so far, evidently only one firm has been able to keep its head above water in that gallant adventure. We pass to the third grade, the pearl button, which, except in one or two cases known to my hon. Friends in East London, is not usually found on male attire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-02", "file": "debates1928-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "3da16e37375e8850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1862.1", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "tow and the buttons to which this Resolution refers. I hope he will bring the snap fastener under the same kindly umbrella as is now being supplied for the button. The Committee themselves said that they had great difficulty in deciding why the snap fastener should not receive the same consideration as the button. They say, of course, that it is not of the same substantial character as the button.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-02a.1862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-03", "file": "debates1928-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "913c139f78ce0792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-03a.1938.1", "colnum": "1938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "One or two interesting things emerge from this Debate. The first is that the hon. Member lays it down clearly that an industry which employs 3,600 people—of course, he said that, whether you took the one figure or the other, the number was a substantial one—is to be regarded as a substantial industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-03a.1938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-03", "file": "debates1928-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "913c139f78ce0792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-03a.1939.1", "colnum": "1939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "Then the hon. Member's complaint is that the people who opposed this application did so because it was injuring their business, which was British business giving employment to British people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-03a.1939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-03", "file": "debates1928-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "913c139f78ce0792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-03a.1939.1", "colnum": "1939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "ness giving employment to British people? [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member and his friends cannot run away from that responsibility. If the figures which have been introduced in this House from time to time with regard to other safeguarded industries show anything, they show that the policy pursued by the Government has very gravely injured the importing and re-exporting business in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-03a.1939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-03", "file": "debates1928-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "913c139f78ce0792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-03a.1939.1", "colnum": "1939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": " justice to the position. Then the hon. Member said another thing. He said that the indus- try is certainly suffering from abnormal unemployment, and I interrupted to ask whether he suggested that that was due to abnormal competition. He said that certainly the competition had been abnormal for a number of years. If the competition over a number of years has been abnormal, that is becoming normal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-03a.1939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-03", "file": "debates1928-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "913c139f78ce0792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-03a.1940.1", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "not go about saying that British industry cannot compete with foreigners without the protection of a tariff. We believe that the Free Trade principles which have made us the greatest industrial country in the world are capable of maintaining that position for us, and I hold that it is to us that industry is entitled to look to give it, not fair play—because it is not a question of fair play.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-03a.1940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-03", "file": "debates1928-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "913c139f78ce0792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-03a.1960.7", "colnum": "1960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the price?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-03a.1960.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-03", "file": "debates1928-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "913c139f78ce0792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-03a.1972.1", "colnum": "1972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": "Naturally, but we know that the factors which make securities go up and down are numerous. If you impose an adverse factor, that drives them down, and if they may subsequently go up, they are still lower than they would be if that adverse factor had not been applied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-03a.1972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-03", "file": "debates1928-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "913c139f78ce0792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-03a.2051.2", "colnum": "2051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE (PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then why do you object to the action?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "tter. Occasionally in this House questions are asked by hon. Members opposite who are alarmed because co-operative societies, and the members of the societies as well as the societies as organisations, are showing some indications of taking political action. This action of the Ministry of Health will be of considerable help in forcing the members of co-operative societies to take political action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-03a.2051.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-03", "file": "debates1928-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "913c139f78ce0792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-03a.2055.0", "colnum": "2055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE (PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "e a deputation? The co-operative representatives will be very glad to state their case in writing to him, but may I ask whether it is not possible to receive a deputation in order to clear away this difficulty? Whatever the hon. Gentleman may say, the effect of this Order must mean that not a single insured member in the country will be entitled in law any longer to go to any co-operative chemist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-03a.2055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-03", "file": "debates1928-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "913c139f78ce0792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-03a.2057.0", "colnum": "2057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE (PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "ry important point, because the inducements offered in these publications were special inducements to National Health Insurance patients. As I understand it, the advantages given by the co-operative movement are not special advantages given to those who happen to be National Health Insurance patients; all that they get will be the normal advantages given to any member of the co-operative movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-03a.2057.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-03", "file": "debates1928-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "913c139f78ce0792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-03a.2058.0", "colnum": "2058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE (PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "me to me very early in my career, in a transaction which I had with a co-operative society. I was not a member of the society and, having ordered a certain material during the time I was in practice, I got a bill which I thought was excessive; and, when I inquired into the matter, they said, \"Oh, but you are a member of the society, and so we charge you more, because your money pays the dividend.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-03a.2058.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-04", "file": "debates1928-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7a21ae496f9aba24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-04a.1815.2", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel SPENDER-CLAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel SPENDER-CLAY", "preceding_text": "es in recent years has been to increase the total paid by employers without any corresponding increase of liability for benefit, whereby the profits of the companies have grown in a way which was not anticipated. I think that should receive early attention from the House. Some of my hon. Friends may not agree with me here, but I think all employers ought to be compelled to insure. Most of them do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-04a.1815.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-04", "file": "debates1928-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7a21ae496f9aba24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-04a.1820.2", "colnum": "1820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOWITT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOWITT", "preceding_text": "sessed. I am glad to think that the principle is recognised that the amounts to be paid should be commensurate with the needs. That is a thoroughly sound principle, but it seems to me to be a principle which is departed from when one is considering the cases of children. If I understand rightly, if a man leaves one child of 14 or if he leaves seven children under nine the same sum exactly is paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-04a.1820.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-04", "file": "debates1928-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7a21ae496f9aba24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-04a.1824.0", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FREDERICK HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"After three years!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FREDERICK HALL", "preceding_text": "n regard to it I only offer one complaint. The Government of the day, when they appointed that Committee, pressed the Committee strongly to come to a decision and give the Government their report as soon as possible for the purpose of enabling the Government to draft a Bill in accordance with their promises. The Committee came to a decision and sent in their report and we are still without a Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-04a.1824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-04", "file": "debates1928-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7a21ae496f9aba24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-04a.1824.0", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FREDERICK HALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You signed the Minority Report!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FREDERICK HALL", "preceding_text": "ty Courts and produced many instances similar to that, because there are plenty of them on record. Honestly, I do not think there is a single Member of the House who would tolerate a system like that for a moment if they only knew the facts, and the facts are easily ascertained. I hope the Home Secretary will bring in a much stronger Bill than this. This Bill does not go as far as I want it to go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-04a.1824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-04", "file": "debates1928-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7a21ae496f9aba24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-04a.1850.0", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN COLLIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Moderation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN COLLIE", "preceding_text": "our to serve, I invariably recommend that these people shall be given work under altered conditions, so that if a workman has lost one eye he shall not again work under the conditions that resulted in the injury. But all employers of labour cannot afford to do that, or they have not the opportunity. Some may not care to do it. I am sorry that the framers of this Bill have not dealt with the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-04a.1850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-04", "file": "debates1928-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7a21ae496f9aba24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-04a.1857.2", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They cannot be worse than the present words.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman will think they are any better, but I will try to get some words which will, in my opinion, do justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-04a.1857.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-04", "file": "debates1928-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7a21ae496f9aba24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-04a.1862.3", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "nces, and I do hope the Home Secretary, when he is considering this particular Clause, will bear in mind the objections that have been urged from this side of the House against the words as they now appear in the Workmen's Compensation Act. May I make an appeal to the employers in the House. We hear a great deal nowadays of class war, and we see many expressions of it from both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-04a.1862.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-04", "file": "debates1928-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7a21ae496f9aba24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-04a.1868.1", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will the right hon. Gentleman continue that quotation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "urance. I read that, in order to put the point of view of hon. Members opposite. The Report goes on, however: On the other hand, arguments can be advanced against compulsory insurance under the present system. It was, in the first place, pressed upon us that no employer should be compelled to insure with an insurance company that is admittedly making a, profit out of the business— and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-04a.1868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-04", "file": "debates1928-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7a21ae496f9aba24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-04a.1870.1", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By labour!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "r coming from work, would be held to be an accident for which the employer was liable. It is not so long since an hon. Member of this House was run over and killed outside St. George's Hospital. No one gave him any compensation. Why should everyone be given compensation? There is no hole in the ground out of which you can dig money and hand it round. Remember that money is produced only by saving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-04a.1870.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-07", "file": "debates1928-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "8f4e9e64bbb57504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-07a.72.5", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "Because we are opposed to plural voting in any shape or form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-07a.72.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-07", "file": "debates1928-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "8f4e9e64bbb57504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-07a.72.5", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "Because we are opposed to plural voting in any shape or form. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are you?\"] If I were criticising the Amendment of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Colne Valley, I should merely criticise it on this ground, that it still omits one form of plural voter. It still leaves open plural voting so far as the University vote is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-07a.72.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-07", "file": "debates1928-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "8f4e9e64bbb57504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-07a.77.0", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KENNEDY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KENNEDY", "preceding_text": "I am glad to hear that Ruling, because, otherwise the House would have been prevented from giving its assent to an Amendment with which I think every Party in the House will readily agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-07a.77.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-07", "file": "debates1928-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "8f4e9e64bbb57504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-07a.86.4", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (EQUAL FRANCHISE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The spring!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "preceding_text": " additional argument for reduced expenditure. We shall then have our open-air meetings, and if the Conservative party honestly desire to get the opinion of the people, they will not as in past years have the Election at a time when the weather makes it impossible for aged or sick people to register their votes. Let us have the Election in the summer and in weather such as we are going through now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-07a.86.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-07", "file": "debates1928-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "8f4e9e64bbb57504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-07a.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RABBITS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "acher is not a man who goes out to exterminate game. He wants to be able to go back and get more. If you leave him alone he is naturally intelligent, and he will see that you get the right number left at all seasons. His interest as a poacher will make him do that. It seems to me absurd that the House of Commons should be trying to pass legislation while they have the natural organisation to hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-07a.121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-07", "file": "debates1928-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "8f4e9e64bbb57504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-07a.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RABBITS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Mr. Guinness)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They can do it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Mr. Guinness)", "preceding_text": "out any friction for several years. The County Agricultural Committees are reasonable bodies. There is no case for the suggestion of the hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Lewes (Read-Admiral Beamish) that they would order people to kill their rabbits at short notice during a period of the year when there is a great deal of undergrowth and when it would be impossible to carry out the order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-07a.121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-07", "file": "debates1928-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "8f4e9e64bbb57504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-07a.123.7", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RABBITS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major PRICE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major PRICE", "preceding_text": "My point really was this, that there is no opportunity for the man complained against to put his case before the county council. We know perfectly well that in many cases where the county council have a right to do something they hear an ex parte application, draw up their case and give their verdict upon that ex parte statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-07a.123.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-08", "file": "debates1928-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "92a61c36379a9152", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-08a.162.2", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "How is the House to be informed of that which it is supposed to deal with if we get answers like this? The two questions I have put down are the most simple questions that could be put to the Mines Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-08a.162.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-09", "file": "debates1928-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c76137c86b05a0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-09a.257.2", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL CREDITS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Mr. Guinness)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Mr. Guinness)", "preceding_text": "ed capital necessary to agriculture at a lower rate than it would be supplied by any other method, and we certainly have no wish to uproot that system where it exists. Unlike our opponents, we believe that nationalisation would not merely be unnecessary and undesirable but would be positively mischievous, because the control which it would involve would not be conducive to agricultural efficiency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-09a.257.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-09", "file": "debates1928-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c76137c86b05a0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-09a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL CREDITS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Midland Bank?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "generous co-operation of the great banks, led by the Bank of England, who have arranged to provide £650,000 of paid-up capital. The banks at the present time included in the scheme are the Bank of England, the Westminster Bank, Barclays Bank, Lloyds Bank, the National Provincial Bank and several of the other clearing banks, including Martin's Bank, Glyn Mills & Co. and Williams Deacon's Bank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-09a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-09", "file": "debates1928-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c76137c86b05a0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-09a.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL CREDITS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "f subsidy in the scheme which is adumbrated in this Bill, but, as one listened carefully to the remainder of his speech, one could see all the time that a subsidy was actually to be made. Let hon. Members take, for example, the question of the administrative expenses. It is provided that £10,000 a year shall be spent for fen years. That is a direct subsidy of £100,000 during that period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-09a.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-09", "file": "debates1928-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c76137c86b05a0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-09a.273.3", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL CREDITS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "ture it is only going to be in relation to one-fourth of the assessable value, but that is because we have already given the other three-fourths. There is still the increase in the contingent liability of the State. Now we propose, at any rate as a first step, a scheme under which another £5,000,000 of debentures are to be earmarked as trustee securities with the backing of a State guarantee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-09a.273.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-09", "file": "debates1928-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c76137c86b05a0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-09a.277.5", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL CREDITS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Prices!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "A little cheaper than they have been. Perhaps that description would meet the case. This correspondent refers to \"the problem of the agriculturist,\" and I take it the problem is to get sufficient credit to put the industry on a firm basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-09a.277.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-09", "file": "debates1928-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c76137c86b05a0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-09a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL CREDITS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": " provision made in this Bill for setting up in all parts of the country centres of co-operation under the guidance and direction of the right hon. Gentleman's Department and with, in the early stages, a measure of State assistance. I believe that if you did that now you would effect a great improvement. I do not want to go into the details of the proposals which we have made in another form—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-09a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-09", "file": "debates1928-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c76137c86b05a0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-09a.345.0", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL CREDITS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does he do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT THOMAS", "preceding_text": " necessary investigation, which very frequently happens in regard to statements made by my hon. Friends above the Gangway on this side of the House. The right hon. Gentleman who has just sat down (Mr. Wheatley) is one of those wealthy Socialists who believes that interest should be obtained from certain industries, but that the landlord should not get any interest. In my part of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-09a.345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-10", "file": "debates1928-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "706da76f1e2ef8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-10a.431.8", "colnum": "431", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ere was no police law at all. The Egyptian history of recent times and the history of disturbances in Egypt will be one of the most magnificent examples of how freedom brings democratic faith and trust and, instead of leading to riots, leads to peace; whereas where you have repressive legislation and where you have special police powers your riots are the worst, and the disturbances of mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-10a.431.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-10", "file": "debates1928-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "706da76f1e2ef8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-10a.431.8", "colnum": "431", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " at, but when you have slept over it you do not laugh; you discover that there is a great deal in it. If we could only get Europe, the big nations of Europe, to say: \"We eliminate war from our national policy,\" and if we could get them to say it with conviction and if we could get all other nations to believe that they have said it sincerely, 99 per cent. of our peace difficulties would be solved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-10a.431.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-10", "file": "debates1928-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "706da76f1e2ef8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-10a.431.8", "colnum": "431", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is to blame for it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "e not quite as good as they ought to be. Officially, they are perfectly good, never better, but there is an underlying anti-British feeling. You cannot take up a newspaper, especially if you go away from the Eastern States, without seeing that there is always a possibility of certain American parties, certain American sections making capital out of anti-British propaganda and anti-British feeling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-10a.431.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-05-10", "file": "debates1928-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "706da76f1e2ef8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-10a.454.0", "colnum": "454", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Never?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ar at a moment convenient to themselves, in order to solve in their favour a problem a favourable solution of which they saw no other means of attaining. There have been Governments which have provoked what has been called a preventive war. No British Government could contemplate a preventive war; no British Government could take action of that kind; and war has never been an instrument of policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-10a.453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-10", "file": "debates1928-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "706da76f1e2ef8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-10a.454.1", "colnum": "454", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "What about the South African War?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-10a.454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-10", "file": "debates1928-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "706da76f1e2ef8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-10a.503.2", "colnum": "503", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I wish she would!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "e to depart, Egypt would be left alone and independent? Her geographical position makes such a possibility extremely remote. Some few years ago—I think in 1924—there was a question as to whether we should not return our mandate in respect of Iraq to the League of Nations, and while that question was in abeyance Italy made known that if we did so she was prepared to take up the mandate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-10a.503.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-10", "file": "debates1928-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "706da76f1e2ef8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-10a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "re invited. From the appearance of the benches at present, it does not seem that much interest is being taken in this stage of the Debate. Speaking for myself, I must express a sense of disappointment that there does not seem to be very much, if any, disagreement, between the Leaders of the Government and the Opposition, according to a summarised statement of the Debate which has been given to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-10a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-10", "file": "debates1928-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "706da76f1e2ef8ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-10a.534.4", "colnum": "534", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "n account of this bogey of the first workers republic. When Great Britain makes up its mind that that workers' republic is to live; that, after mistakes and hardships, it is going to build up a new life for the workers which has not been known hitherto to the world; that it is to be an example of Socialism, then Russia is bound to be studied in all its details. It would be foolish not to study it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-10a.534.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-11", "file": "debates1928-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b406f8260ef7ab74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-11a.555.0", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOG RACING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "preceding_text": "ting; it would be folly to do so; but neither could horse racing; neither could pony racing; and, while I would not venture to say that football could not be carried on without betting, because the game of Rugby football is largely carried on without betting, I do think that Association football would lose a very large number of its supporters, and the attendances would be largely decreased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-11a.555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-11", "file": "debates1928-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b406f8260ef7ab74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-11a.555.0", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOG RACING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Because of the bettors!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "preceding_text": "BERS: \"No!\"] Hon. Members above the Gangway say \"No!\" Do they deny that an enormous amount of betting takes place on professional Association football, not only on the ground, but with street bookmakers and in coupon competitions? Do hon. Members deny that? If they do not, their whole case falls to the ground. This sport is to be singled out from all others because there is betting attached to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-11a.555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-11", "file": "debates1928-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b406f8260ef7ab74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-11a.555.0", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOG RACING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "preceding_text": " is \"a mere betting machine.\" There is a very great distinction between betting on greyhound racing and roulette. I can see no distinction between betting on greyhound racing and betting on horse racing; I say that frankly; but there is a great distinction between that and roulette. In the one case you are playing against a machine; in the other case you are, at any rate, supporting your judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-11a.555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-11", "file": "debates1928-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b406f8260ef7ab74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-11a.555.0", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOG RACING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The London County Council.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "preceding_text": "er on this matter. 12 n. I said just now that local authorities were most unsuitable bodies for dealing with this matter. Who is it who deals with the question whether licences shall be granted for the sale of drink? Is it the local authorities? No, it is the magistrates—a non-elected body. Who is it who deals with the question of giving licences for dancing halls? As a rule the magistrates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-11a.555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-11", "file": "debates1928-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b406f8260ef7ab74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-11a.555.0", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOG RACING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "preceding_text": "ulting their constituents seems to me far from democratic. Perhaps in this I may not have the sympathy of the House, but I go much further. I say in matters of the daily Life of the people, the way they amuse themselves, the way they spend their money and their time, no majority has any right to coerce a minority, unless that minority by doing what it is doing is inflicting injury on the majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-11a.555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-11", "file": "debates1928-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b406f8260ef7ab74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-11a.555.0", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOG RACING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "preceding_text": "ing up—50, 80, 100 or 200 of them. There is no need for this Bill. Economic circumstances are going to settle this matter. A great many of the tracks in existence now are not paying their way, and any promoter desirous of raising money now to start a new track would find the position very different from what it was when money was being sought in the first flush of the boom of this new sport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-11a.555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-11", "file": "debates1928-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b406f8260ef7ab74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-11a.563.0", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOG RACING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOK", "preceding_text": "o busy to enable me to pay attention to these matters, but I do protest that this is a matter which should be left to the good sense of the people. When I was a young man I was led to follow the advice of the great leader whom I much respected, Lord Beaconsfield, who always warned this country to trust the people. If we leave the matter in the hands of the people, they will see that right is done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-11a.563.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-11", "file": "debates1928-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b406f8260ef7ab74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-11a.563.0", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOG RACING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOK", "preceding_text": "eir leisure in the evenings? This is the only form of sport that they can adopt. If this sport is to be put under the control of the municipalities, why not put coursing and whippet racing in the mining districts under the control of the local authorities? Would any hon. Member opposite dare to ask this House to pass a Bill which would put whippet racing under the control of the local authorities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-11a.563.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-11", "file": "debates1928-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b406f8260ef7ab74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-11a.570.3", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOG RACING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Manchester\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member agrees, but the difference is this, that the class of people in Dulwich, and their influence and position were such that what they were able to do the people in West Ham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-11a.570.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-11", "file": "debates1928-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b406f8260ef7ab74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-11a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOG RACING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "cks. The first duty of Glasgow is to solve its deplorable housing conditions. What will be the effect of this Bill I It will place the onus of licensing on the local authority. Immediately, someone will want to build a greyhound racing track. The local residents, who are usually well-to-do, will object, because the places where the greyhound tracks have to be built are out in the well-to-do areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-11a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-11", "file": "debates1928-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b406f8260ef7ab74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-11a.614.2", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOG RACING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Saxpenny !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "with an unbiased and perfectly open mind. My only experience of greyhound racing was when a train in which I was travelling stopped at Wembley station, and the immense number of nice young lads who crowded into the carriages struck me as astonishing. When I asked what was going on they told me that they had been at the dog racing and, as far as I could make out, they had been making sixpenny bets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-11a.614.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-11", "file": "debates1928-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "b406f8260ef7ab74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-11a.614.2", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOG RACING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "t a sport had been found which would take vast masses of young working men out in the evenings—an innocent sport, that was not coupled with any cruelty at all, and an honest sport, because the great difference between horse racing and dog racing is, I should say, that there is no jockey in the case of the greyhound to sell the race. You can corrupt human beings, but you cannot corrupt clogs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-11a.614.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-05-14", "file": "debates1928-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "73fbf7f4240958c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-14a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BAKER", "preceding_text": "May I respectfully ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he remembers that I have been putting questions to him on this subject for two or three months, and the answers have been that these matters were under consideration, while the fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-14a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-14", "file": "debates1928-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "73fbf7f4240958c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-14a.734.0", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CURRENCY AND BANK NOTES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Sir Laming Worthington-Evans)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Sir Laming Worthington-Evans)", "preceding_text": "ond Reading should not be assented to by the House in the absence of any policy for putting into operation the resolutions of Genoa, and until an investigation has been made into the constitution, powers and policy of the Bank of England. Let me first deal with that part of it which relates to the resolutions at Genoa. There the hon. Gentleman who spoke last placed too high a value on my services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-14a.734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-14", "file": "debates1928-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "73fbf7f4240958c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-14a.734.0", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CURRENCY AND BANK NOTES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Sir Laming Worthington-Evans)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Sir Laming Worthington-Evans)", "preceding_text": " Amendment is based upon a desire to have an investigation into the powers and constitution and policy of the Bank of England. I ask myself what case has been made by the Opposition for such an investigation. After all, if you are going to have an investigation, the onus is upon you to say on what ground you think an investigation is necessary. Is it that the Bank of England has abused its powers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-14a.734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-14", "file": "debates1928-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "73fbf7f4240958c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-14a.739.0", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CURRENCY AND BANK NOTES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "So it was intended as a Parliamentary blanket to cover quite different opinions. Of course, when the hon. Gentleman the Member for West Leicester deals with this question, I cannot help thinking that he does not want an investigation. He cannot want an investigation, for he seems to have made up his mind long ago, and he is the financial expert, I understand, of the Independent Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-14a.739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-14", "file": "debates1928-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "73fbf7f4240958c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-14a.739.0", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CURRENCY AND BANK NOTES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "n injustice, remind him of the tenth one. He says—it is after nine lectures; this is the tenth, called, \"Constructive proposals\": One of the early actions of a Socialist Government will therefore be to secure that all decisions of the Bank of England which are of vital national concern, notably alterations in the Bank Rate, shall be subject to consultation with, and control by, the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-14a.739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-14", "file": "debates1928-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "73fbf7f4240958c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-14a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CURRENCY AND BANK NOTES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "ng fixed as the figure in the Bill. He said that, while not being an inflationist or deflationist, he thought it left no margin, and he was afraid that it would be found to be restrictive. He went on to state that any increase in the fiduciary issue must be covered by gold and that if there were an increase under Clause 8 that would lead to a scramble for gold. I am stating that correctly, I hope.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-14a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-14", "file": "debates1928-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "73fbf7f4240958c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-14a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "From the transport point of view, the Ministry must obviously support the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-14a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-14", "file": "debates1928-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "73fbf7f4240958c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-14a.775.2", "colnum": "775", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. B. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. B. SMITH", "preceding_text": "which have come from the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Sir R. Hamilton) and the hon. Member for the English Universities (Sir M. Conway). It has been argued that Hay's Wharf has a pull on the Bermondsey Borough Council. It has been asserted that the chairman of the town's meeting which considered this question was an employé of Hay's Wharf, and that he was doing something contemptible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-14a.775.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-14", "file": "debates1928-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "73fbf7f4240958c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-14a.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "CURRENCY AND BANK NOTES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "ings as you will; all your talk of what you are going to do with these marvellous manœuvrings leaves them cold. It is time that we took control of currency ourselves. It is time that the State controlled it. I am less afraid of the State than I am of private enterprise in matters of currency. I have seen the private manipulators of money for the last 100 years manipulating the currency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-14a.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-14", "file": "debates1928-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "73fbf7f4240958c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-14a.813.0", "colnum": "813", "heading": "CURRENCY AND BANK NOTES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Major Elliot)", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"And policy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Major Elliot)", "preceding_text": "urther Debate, therefore, need take place on that point. The Secretary of State for War explained what is the policy of the Government in respect of the Genoa resolutions, and the putting of the Genoa resolutions into force. There is no need for inquiry into the policy of the Government. What is asked for in the Amendment is an inquiry into the constitution and powers of the Bank of England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-14a.813.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-14", "file": "debates1928-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "73fbf7f4240958c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-14a.817.0", "colnum": "817", "heading": "CURRENCY AND BANK NOTES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "0,000,000 that the banks were afraid to advance to this derelict industry. Industrialists in the one department could not run the business efficiently, the financiers in the Bank of England would not advance them further credit, and they came to the Government and took money out of the pockets of the ratepayers, which means the rest of the working class to subsidise the mineowners of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-14a.817.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-15", "file": "debates1928-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2a2bb4e8d5a33dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-15a.899.0", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "nquiries of representative local authorities in England and Wales as to the effect of subsidies on prices, and the returns from 78 authorities were as follows: 19 local authorities reported that the price of houses had fallen, and that it was as a consequence of the reduced subsidy, but 22 local authorities, though admitting that the price of houses had fallen, were very doubtful as to the reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-15a.899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-15", "file": "debates1928-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2a2bb4e8d5a33dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-15a.941.4", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. WATTS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. WATTS", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member may say that, but he has probably never experienced an epidemic of small-pox, and, if an epidemic of small-pox did break out in his neighbourhood, probably the first thing he would do would be to rush off to be vaccinated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-15a.941.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-15", "file": "debates1928-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2a2bb4e8d5a33dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-15a.942.4", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "elp that I could give in eliciting the truth about this matter. I have here a Press report of the case, which is that of a child six years of age, named Mary Race, who had contracted diphtheria, was taken to a hospital, and there died. There was a time when diphtheria was a very serious matter, but medical gentlemen here will know that it is now nothing like so serious as it was some 20 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-15a.942.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-15", "file": "debates1928-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2a2bb4e8d5a33dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-15a.949.2", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": " carelessly those reports have been drawn up. In the figures of percentages mistakes are by no means uncommon. It is a case of \"those damned dots.\" 1.11 is put down as 11.1, and what ought to have been 11 per cent. is called 1.1 per cent. Over and over again in the records you will find \"those damned dots\" in the wrong place, which must be a reflection upon the officials of the Ministry of Health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-15a.949.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-15", "file": "debates1928-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2a2bb4e8d5a33dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-15a.978.2", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HASLAM", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HASLAM", "preceding_text": " think that is a most serious subject. This article is entirely deficient in one of the most important parts of milk, namely, the cream. It is an article which is unsuited to infants, and I should like to ask the Minister whether not only the label but the wrapper should not be so marked as to make it quite clear to the mother, when she buys this article of diet, that it is unsuitable for infants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-15a.978.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-05-15", "file": "debates1928-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2a2bb4e8d5a33dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-15a.985.4", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "How do you know?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "I do not say that is the idea of the Chairman. The idea of the Chairman was to call on Scrymgeour, and something has happened; but I see that it is 25 minutes past 10 and so, as they say in the public house, \"Time is up, gentlemen.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-15a.985.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-16", "file": "debates1928-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a6eeacda0341504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-16a.1069.5", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "en adapted at very small expense, and have proved quite effective for their purpose. I would not like to see too large an expenditure, because, once it can be suggested that nursery schools are likely to prove expensive, the Treasury will discourage their extension. I come to the question of elementary schools and the Hadow Report, which is the most tremendous document issued in the last 20 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-16a.1069.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-16", "file": "debates1928-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a6eeacda0341504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-16a.1137.0", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "ing of school children? In 1928, a Minister of Education, who has in his hands the physical, mental and moral well-being of the children of this country, 600,000 or so of them, comes to this House and says that it is sufficient for starving children to be fed with one milk meal a day, if they can get a certificate from the medical officer of health. What these children need is a round square meal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-16a.1137.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-17", "file": "debates1928-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "d10e5101640f56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1256.0", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CURRENCY AND BANK NOTES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. BAKER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. BAKER", "preceding_text": "rld's average annual production of gold did not exceed £5,000,000. As a result of those two discoveries, the average annual production had increased by 1853 to £30,700,000. From that point the average annual production began to fall away, until it reached the figure of £19,000,000 in 1S82. Then our fortune stood us in good stead once more. The Transvaal goldfield were found in 1886.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1256.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-17", "file": "debates1928-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "d10e5101640f56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1308.1", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISS SAVIDGE (POLICE INTERVIEW).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "nity being given to the girl to be assisted by a legal adviser, and without even the woman police chaperon being present. The girl was then released from what I can only describe as a third degree examination. She was taken home in a car. She was questioned going home in the car. I do not complain about the questions then—questions about her fathers income and about her fiancé's income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-17", "file": "debates1928-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "d10e5101640f56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1311.1", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISS SAVIDGE (POLICE INTERVIEW).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "o make at the earliest possible moment. May I recall to the House the manner in which this case first came before me? There was a prosecution of a gentleman who is well known to us all, who had been a colleague of mine in the House, and two police officers of perfectly good character and with a good record, one of whom had been a guardsman and left the Army with a very high character indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-17", "file": "debates1928-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "d10e5101640f56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1313.1", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISS SAVIDGE (POLICE INTERVIEW).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": " she had no opportunity of communicating with her parents or legal advisers; they expressly forbade her to communicate with anyone and she was taken to Scotland Yard and there questions were put to her over a period of five hours. If the hon. Member will allow me to say so, the suggestions he has made in his speech this evening as to the nature of the questions were not mentioned in that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-17", "file": "debates1928-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "d10e5101640f56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1313.1", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISS SAVIDGE (POLICE INTERVIEW).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "cusations which, if there is any truth at all in them, are of the most damning character to the police force of the metropolis and these officers, I sent my private secretary, my Noble Friend the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare (Lord Erskine), up to my room, where those police officers now are, and he has brought down a message from them denying altogether the statements made by the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-17", "file": "debates1928-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "d10e5101640f56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1320.0", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISS SAVIDGE (POLICE INTERVIEW).", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Home Secretary is in the dock!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "tors; who know this thing very well. I should have thought if one was going to get a statement from this young woman in the circumstances, knowing she had just had a solicitor acting for her and that she was quite a young woman, it might have been reasonable to ring him up or communicate with him in some way and it does not give one a very pleasant impression when one finds that has not been done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-17", "file": "debates1928-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "d10e5101640f56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1320.0", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISS SAVIDGE (POLICE INTERVIEW).", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are prejudging them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "ealing with a thing that had only just happened, and a thing which, right or wrong, must have been burnt into the woman's memory, and I cannot understand how it could possibly take five hours to do it. It was between one and two o'clock when she was visited and eight o'clock when she was released. We are told the officers have a good record behind them. There are other matters that they challenge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-17", "file": "debates1928-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "d10e5101640f56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1326.0", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISS SAVIDGE (POLICE INTERVIEW).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "s rather unusual case? Was he aware of the methods, or was he consulted or advised as to the methods that were to be used to obtain evidence in this inquiry or evidence on which a prosecution might be founded? It was a case of prosecuting apparently either two police officers or Sir Leo Chiozza Money and the young lady for perjury. One or other of the two parties must have been committing perjury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-17", "file": "debates1928-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "d10e5101640f56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1334.1", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISS SAVIDGE (POLICE INTERVIEW).", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Proper inquiries!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is still apparently unable to appreciate the duties either of the Director of Public Prosecutions or of the Attorney-General. The Director of Public Prosecutions—I repeat for the information of the hon. Member—has the duty of making proper inquiries into the case which is entrusted to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-17", "file": "debates1928-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "d10e5101640f56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1334.1", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISS SAVIDGE (POLICE INTERVIEW).", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ney-General. The Director of Public Prosecutions—I repeat for the information of the hon. Member—has the duty of making proper inquiries into the case which is entrusted to him. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Proper inquiries!\"] If he makes improper inquiries, or uses improper methods, that is a matter for which the Director of Public Prosecutions or any officers under him will be prepared to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-17", "file": "debates1928-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "d10e5101640f56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1334.1", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISS SAVIDGE (POLICE INTERVIEW).", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Through you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "utions—I repeat for the information of the hon. Member—has the duty of making proper inquiries into the case which is entrusted to him. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Proper inquiries!\"] If he makes improper inquiries, or uses improper methods, that is a matter for which the Director of Public Prosecutions or any officers under him will be prepared to answer. [HON. MEMBERS: \"To whom?\"] In this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1334.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-17", "file": "debates1928-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "d10e5101640f56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1355.5", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CURRENCY AND BANK NOTES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "s resist any encroachment on their time, and it would very likely be found difficult to take such a step as that. Therefore, I think there would be a very great obstacle to effecting the permanent extension of the note issue, which even the right hon. Gentleman himself realises is of profound importance if the revival of industry is not to be checked the moment is begins. Finally I put this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1355.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-17", "file": "debates1928-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "d10e5101640f56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1373.1", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CURRENCY AND BANK NOTES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "Not as I understand it. They are trying, as I understand it, to reduce a limitation by the removal of certain restrictions, and surely it is legitimate for me to reply to the arguments that were put forward by the Secretary of State for War in his attack on the Amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-17", "file": "debates1928-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "d10e5101640f56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1395.0", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 13.—(Short title, interpretation and repeal.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "Since you have ruled that my Amendment is out of order, perhaps I may be allowed to make one or two observations along the lines that I should have done if the Amendment had been in order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1395.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-05-17", "file": "debates1928-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "d10e5101640f56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1406.0", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "REORGANISATION OF OFFICES (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "To-day.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "It is impossible to continue this discussion. It might be raised at Eleven o'clock to-morrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-17a.1405.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-18", "file": "debates1928-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "096617c4f15f62c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-18a.1414.0", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WESTERN HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "ect may be generally discussed, will meet with acceptance from all quarters of the House. I am aware that this problem of transport in the Western Highlands, and the contract referred to in the Motion, have a very great interest for hon. Members, particularly those from Scotland. On a day like the present, when the weather carries us in many respects to the climate of the Western Highlands —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-18a.1414.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-18", "file": "debates1928-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "096617c4f15f62c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-18a.1419.0", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WESTERN HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "tion to the industrial centres. They describe the situation as a grave menace, and make proposals for the Government to take over the piers immediately—they say that some of the piers are becoming derelict. The denunciation of the steamer traffic in the language of this Conservative Committee is such that I would hesitate to employ in this House if I desired to secure votes for my Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-18a.1419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-18", "file": "debates1928-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "096617c4f15f62c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-18a.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WESTERN HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "ere was 6d. extra for ferry. He goes on: MacBrayne charges the same from Mallaig to Lochboisdale for hamper and bread as the other hoar charges from Glasgow. Bread costs 27s, 6d. per hamper so that the freight is 40 per cent. of the cost extra. Salt for pickled herrings cost 23 a ton, freight 28s.—46 per cent. A man bought 14 horses and it required two of them to pay the expenses of freight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-18a.1437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-18", "file": "debates1928-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "096617c4f15f62c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-18a.1481.2", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WESTERN HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": "al months' delay means a still further delay in the laying down of these new ships. I would remind the House further, that it is rather unfortunate that the House, through no fault of its own, happens to be deprived of the views of the Member of this House who, after all, is most directly interested, namely, the hon. Member for Western Isles (Mr. Livingstone). He is most directly interested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-18a.1481.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-21", "file": "debates1928-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "4c2a9b266f93f6c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-21a.1579.1", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "l work under our prison system. I put a question a little while ago to the Home Secretary, and I did not like the right hon. Gentleman's reply. I do not like all his replies, by the way. The right hon. Gentleman rather complained because I raised a point as to something, almost in the nature of a riot, which transpired at Parkhurst. I myself went to see Parkhurst in 1924. I went there as a visitor", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-21a.1579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-21", "file": "debates1928-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "4c2a9b266f93f6c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-21a.1622.2", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir V. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So much the worse!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir V. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "He resigned through a difference with the existing Governor of the prison—a natural thing to happen. It happens frequently in other walks of life, but the Governor is responsible to the Prison Commissioners and to the Home Secretary, and he has the confidence of the Prison Commissioners and of the Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-21a.1622.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-21", "file": "debates1928-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "4c2a9b266f93f6c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-21a.1642.1", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "212; he finished up by waving the Union Jack—that we had the finest prison system in the world. That is not true. One or two of the Scandinavian countries can show us a tremendous lot of things that we do not tackle. Most of the European countries, including Russia, at which the hon. and gallant Gentleman gibed, treat their political prisoners very much better than the British Government do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-21a.1642.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-22", "file": "debates1928-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d588cc134535af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-22a.1773.0", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 13.—(Short title, interpretation and repeal.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. BAKER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. BAKER", "preceding_text": "ust been said by my hon. Friend the Member for West Leicester (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence). It would be of great value to the House and to all persons who are interested in this discussion to have from the Secretary of State for War an assurance that it is the intention of the Government to call a conference of the central banks. He may have given that assurance, but it has not been given in my hearing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-22a.1773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-22", "file": "debates1928-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d588cc134535af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-22a.1828.1", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "CURRENCY AND BANK NOTES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "I understand. The hon. Member no doubt would like a national bank to sit on the safety valve. The hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Central Hull (Lieut.-Commander Kenworthy) could sit on the safety valve. What a picture!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-22a.1828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-22", "file": "debates1928-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d588cc134535af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-22a.1832.2", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "CURRENCY AND BANK NOTES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "drew a piece of paper from his pocket. He does everything so precisely that I thought it must be a letter. I thought he had fortified himself with it for greater accuracy. The point is that the Governor had authorised the Minister to say that represented the policy of the Bank. The present Governor will one day retire. New directors will be in their place. We may have a Labour Government in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-22a.1832.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-05-22", "file": "debates1928-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d588cc134535af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-22a.1835.0", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "CURRENCY AND BANK NOTES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Will he? Not with the I.L.P.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ean, as it has meant in the past—I do not want to prophesy—we are hoping, greater employment, greater prosperity, a wise dispersal of spending power, and command over more money. But the fiduciary issue has been reduced. I am not exaggerating. This is in the Bill. The Chancellor of the Exchequer—my right hon. Friend the Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Snowden) will be with us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-22a.1833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-22", "file": "debates1928-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d588cc134535af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-22a.1835.1", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "CURRENCY AND BANK NOTES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "e one case of maladministration on the part of the Bank of England in very recent times. Before the break of relations with Russia it was difficult for firms wishing to sell British Goods to Russia on credit, to obtain bank credits. The actual reason was that an attempt was being made on behalf of an association of foreign bondholders and the City generally and all those whose god is mammon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-22a.1835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-22", "file": "debates1928-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d588cc134535af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-22a.1835.1", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "CURRENCY AND BANK NOTES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "g corporation defaulting. The common knowledge, the common talk, and I can bring witnesses of repute to prove this, was that the banks, especially the smaller banks, dared not give credits to reputable British manufacturers to enable them to sell their goods of British manufacture on short term or long term to the Russian Government trading organisation, because of the veto of the Bank of England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-22a.1835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-22", "file": "debates1928-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d588cc134535af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-22a.1838.0", "colnum": "1838", "heading": "CURRENCY AND BANK NOTES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENNIS HERBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not 100,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENNIS HERBERT", "preceding_text": "of the new notes being printed by a more expensive process than that by which the Treasury notes are at present printed. The expense falls on the Government, and any profit or any saving which arises as a result of these currency arrangements goes to the Exchequer. If these notes are going to cost about a sovereign instead of 5s. 6d. for 100,000 the revenue of the country is going to be the loser.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-22a.1838.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-22", "file": "debates1928-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d588cc134535af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-22a.1844.1", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "CURRENCY AND BANK NOTES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State for War has said that we must have a body like the Governors of the Bank of England which will act impartially, quite apart from any considerations of politics, and who will be able to come to their decisions in an impartial way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-22a.1844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-22", "file": "debates1928-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d588cc134535af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-22a.1847.5", "colnum": "1847", "heading": "ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BILL, [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I think that at this late hour it is rather too much to expect the House to embark on a serious discussion of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-22a.1847.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-22", "file": "debates1928-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d588cc134535af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-22a.1847.5", "colnum": "1847", "heading": "ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BILL, [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " [ Interruption. ] I see that the Attorney-General has now returned to the House, but it seems to me that he would require at least another day to listen to the arguments if we intended to deal with the Bill. I may say that, like most other Members, I have been unable to give that minute attention to the various Clauses of this Bill which would enable me to make any intelligent contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-22a.1847.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-22", "file": "debates1928-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d588cc134535af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-22a.1848.5", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "RECONSTITUTED AND SYNTHETIC CREAM BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "What day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-22a.1848.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-23", "file": "debates1928-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9a54d2f730984bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.1921.1", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "preceding_text": "s will have to be put before the Commissioners, and, I am quite sure, they will be put quite honestly before them. Before I conclude, may I say one word with regard to the action of the police generally? This accusation which has been made against them has been, of course, very detrimental to the force as a whole. If these officers are found guilty, it will be exceedingly detrimental to the force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.1921.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-05-23", "file": "debates1928-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9a54d2f730984bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.1925.2", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Agreed!", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " we do feel that if the recommendations of the women's organisations which have been fighting so long in the country to see that women were in Scotland Yard, had been carried out, this would never have happened. We do feel that it would have been far better if the Government had seen their way to appoint a woman on the tribunal. I must, therefore, make my protest. There are women barristers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.1925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-23", "file": "debates1928-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9a54d2f730984bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.1926.0", "colnum": "1926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": "I want to say how pleased I am that this inquiry will be held, and may I express the hope that it will have its reverberations even outside the Metropolitan Police, for whom the right hon. Gentleman is somewhat responsible, because within the last few days there has been an almost similar case where a person has been tried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.1926.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-23", "file": "debates1928-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9a54d2f730984bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.1927.1", "colnum": "1927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": " the statements made by those who have pushed for many years in the country and in the House for the appointment of women police officers, that we ought to have a woman to judge the Scotland Yard methods of using the woman police officer in this particular case. The statement has been made that the woman police officer in this case was used as a cover to get Miss Savidge conveyed to Scotland Yard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.1927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-23", "file": "debates1928-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9a54d2f730984bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.1927.1", "colnum": "1927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "uld be a woman upon it. If the Home Secretary says that there is no suitable woman for this inquiry I say that there are plenty of them. There is a very distinguished magistrate, an ex-Member of this House, Mrs. Wintringham, who is as capable of.sitting on this inquiry as any Member in this House. If it is considered by those responsible that a woman with legal knowledge should be appointed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.1927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-23", "file": "debates1928-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9a54d2f730984bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.1930.3", "colnum": "1930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "omised to look into the question of the two police officers out of which this case has arisen. In fairness to those two men who have a charge of perjury hanging over their heads, and without connecting it with the tribunal which we have decided to set up, I think the Home Secretary should be a little more explicit. He told the hon. Member for Edge Hill that that matter could be safely left to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.1930.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-23", "file": "debates1928-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9a54d2f730984bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.1938.3", "colnum": "1938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "Commission, which has given very excellent advice in these matters to the Minister and the Committee, is concerned, there is no recommendation made in its favour by the Commission. Surely the right hon. Gentleman knows better than that, the most important recommendation of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance was that in favour of the partial pooling of the surpluses of all societies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.1938.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-23", "file": "debates1928-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9a54d2f730984bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.1938.3", "colnum": "1938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "to see him in difficulties: I may tell the Committee that while the hon. Gentleman who moved this Amendment refers to the Order of Rechabites, even that society is divided on that point, because we have received several resolutions from branches of the Rechabite Society protesting against the course that has been taken in this Amendment. The point at issue is, what does the society as a whole say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.1938.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-23", "file": "debates1928-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9a54d2f730984bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.1938.3", "colnum": "1938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": " membership of the same society in some of the rural areas. Consequently, it is not correct to say that the miners and the industrial workers are taking away some of the surpluses made by the poor farm labourers. It is surprising how the Tory party profess to come to the aid of the poor farm labourer on every occasion. You might imagine that they are always the guardians of the poor farm labourer!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.1938.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-23", "file": "debates1928-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9a54d2f730984bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.1955.2", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "o means all are in favour of this proposal, even if their societies' headquarters may be. I have been at some pains to make inquiries in my own constituency and to find out what is the feeling of the Independent Order of Rechabites in the local branch. There is no society whose motives I appreciate more than theirs, or one of which I am more an admirer, though, of course, I am not a member myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.1955.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-23", "file": "debates1928-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9a54d2f730984bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.1963.1", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": " finds that some branches have a surplus, and others have not a surplus, then those with the surpluses may decide by a majority of two-thirds of the whole society to help the others by a payment into a pool of 33⅓ per cent. That can only be done after a meeting of the society has decided in the manner specified in the new Clause. That would enable poorer branches to find additional benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.1963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-23", "file": "debates1928-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9a54d2f730984bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.2012.2", "colnum": "2012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lascars and others!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "e subject, and I am convinced that the right hon. Gentle- man and his Department are in this case, at any rate, violating an understanding—it may be a silent understanding—which was arrived at in connection with the Royal Commission. Up to now what is called the Lascar Fund, which is made up of contributions of shipowners in respect of lascars, who can never receive any benefits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.2012.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-23", "file": "debates1928-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "b9a54d2f730984bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.2036.0", "colnum": "2036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "r useful benefits of one kind or another. From that point of view the question is: are we using these funds aright? Look at the way in which these funds are distributed and the way in which the additional benefits are divided, and you find that the first seven of these new additional benefits are cash benefits. All the way through the cash benefits loom infinitely larger than the benefits in kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-23a.2036.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-24", "file": "debates1928-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "db823bc346d74c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-24a.2115.0", "colnum": "2115", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": " 1926 was based upon three points —the extension of the working day, an economic wage, and district settlements. Although I think that hon. Members opposite are perfectly sincere in the matter, the time has arrived to inform them and to inform this House that when they talk about the coalowners and the Government in the summer of 1926 being hand and glove together, they are totally mistaken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-24a.2115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-24", "file": "debates1928-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "db823bc346d74c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-24a.2118.0", "colnum": "2118", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "Of course it has happened, because there are dozens of other factors besides freights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-24a.2118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-24", "file": "debates1928-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "db823bc346d74c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-24a.2118.0", "colnum": "2118", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "has happened, because there are dozens of other factors besides freights. [ Interruption. ] I say that the return to the gold standard has reduced the cost of living. Anybody who has brains to apply to this subject knows that. I say that if freights are reduced, the cost of living will also be reduced, and anyone who has brains can see that. Any number of factors apply; this is merely one of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-24a.2118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-24", "file": "debates1928-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "db823bc346d74c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-24a.2118.2", "colnum": "2118", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Nottingham?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "ery difficult times indeed. I assure hon. Members opposite who happen to be officials of these unions that their difficulties are regarded with very great sympathy by those whom hitherto they were inclined to regard as their enemies. The one thing that experience in industry has taught me is that it is fatal for employers of labour to interfere in any way with the internal affairs of trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-24a.2118.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-24", "file": "debates1928-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "db823bc346d74c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-24a.2134.1", "colnum": "2134", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "deeply into the question of markets. I think the question of foreign markets was dealt with fairly thoroughly in the discussion on the Eight Hours Act. But when so much responsibility and blame is placed on the Government with regard to the present state of affairs, I do not think it is unfair to remind hon. Members that a large part of our difficulties is the result of the seven months' stoppage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-24a.2134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-24", "file": "debates1928-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "db823bc346d74c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-24a.2138.3", "colnum": "2138", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "ny year during the past 15 years. That is a limitation of production by quota. They, of course, are also seeking to get in competition, in Scandinavian and other foreign markets, by raising a levy on all coal produced and using that levy for giving a subsidy on coal sold for export. By that means they are trying to get back, as the right hon. Gentleman was saying, the markets which they have lost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-24a.2138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-24", "file": "debates1928-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "db823bc346d74c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-24a.2140.0", "colnum": "2140", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": " right direction, and when they have taken that step, surely they deserve a certain amount of sympathy and co-operation from hon. Members opposite who have been advocating this. I asked hon. Members when I started to stand back from the trees so that they could see the wood. An hon. Member here and an hon. Member there are standing underneath a great big tree and cannot see any other trees at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-24a.2140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-24", "file": "debates1928-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "db823bc346d74c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-24a.2142.0", "colnum": "2142", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "I only regret that I cannot get anything inside it, and I am afraid that he does not follow what I am saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-24a.2142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-24", "file": "debates1928-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "db823bc346d74c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-24a.2150.1", "colnum": "2150", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "preceding_text": "those committees. They are ladies and gentlemen of very great ability, who have carried out their task with much ability, but I submit that in the main they are not capable of dealing with inquiries of this kind, they have not the type of mind or the training to make them capable of sifting evidence, and if we are to have a really fair inquiry we must have a committee of a semi-judicial character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-24a.2150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-24", "file": "debates1928-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "db823bc346d74c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-24a.2168.1", "colnum": "2168", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "he hon. and gallant Member has made even more clear the misapprehension under which he is labouring. He reminds me of an hon. Member of his party who a few months ago talked about people throwing things over our back gardens. Surely hon. Members do not imagine that any merchant is foolish enough to import goods into this country unless there is a market here of British people who want to buy them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-24a.2168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-24", "file": "debates1928-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "db823bc346d74c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-24a.2171.2", "colnum": "2171", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ry favourable seasons, has not dropped below one million. I am relying upon the live register figures, which give the figures for unemployed persons whether over or under 65. Whatever the age may be and whether they are insured or not, if they are seeking employment, whether they are in benefit or out of benefit, they are included in these figures, which are published in the Press every Wednesday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-24a.2171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-05-24", "file": "debates1928-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "db823bc346d74c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-24a.2188.1", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about fishing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "e. They say: \"These lazy people will not work hard,\" whereas they themselves work only a five days' week. As to the hours, I really do not grumble about them. I think they are far too short. Many heads come too late to their offices and they leave too early in the afternoon. If they work intensively, I do not mind. But a five days' week is a scandal when they expect their workmen to work six days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-05-24a.2188.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-06-05", "file": "debates1928-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ec7b79bcfe493b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What will they get by a reduction of the rates?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " methods as those which I have described. There are many other objections to the Petrol Duty which might be urged, but T think I have said sufficient to show that it is an unsound and an unjustifiable tax. It was stated last week at the annual congress of the Co-operative Societies that the Petrol Duty would cost Co- operative Societies £250,000 a year extra for the running of their vehicles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.37.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-05", "file": "debates1928-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ec7b79bcfe493b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.49.2", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not at all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "tation in being responsible for the complete repeal of these three taxes. But about site values and land values—of course there is a lot of politics in them. Further, there are a lot of officials in them. When the valuation process was brought to an end by a later Government it was possible to retrench 4,000 officials, who would have to be replaced before this policy could be taken up again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.49.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-06-05", "file": "debates1928-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ec7b79bcfe493b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "What have you done?", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Because people turn their coats too often.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.51.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-05", "file": "debates1928-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ec7b79bcfe493b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ocal taxation which was invented in the days of Queen Elizabeth. No one has ridiculed it more than the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Now he has got from the time of Queen Elizabeth down to the time of Charles II. Let him come and join us, in the 20th century, and see what they are doing in the rest of the Empire towards getting a system of local taxation which will not throw a burden upon industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-05", "file": "debates1928-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ec7b79bcfe493b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "not be passed on to the consumer and cannot be passed on to the consumer, but that it goes straight into the pockets of the landlord. He knows also that it is not a sum of £4,500,000 only, but that the mere passing of this great Finance Bill, this wonderful constructive Measure of which we hear so much, will give the landlords, in the increased value of their land, £90,000,000 cash down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-05", "file": "debates1928-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ec7b79bcfe493b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.84.3", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then vote for it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "I want more from the hon. and learned Member now than I should have wanted two months ago. I am going to get my \"snap\" out of this Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.84.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-05", "file": "debates1928-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ec7b79bcfe493b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.84.3", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " Gentleman, animated by those magnificent principles which were imported into the 1909 Budget, which he did not understand then, because the taxes were not taxes upon land values, and which he does not understand now, because he could not reply to the speech of the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, and turned upon the unfortunate Liberals, but which he may come to understand in the dim future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.84.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-05", "file": "debates1928-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ec7b79bcfe493b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.113.0", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "froth and sound. The Chancellor had to admit that while his experts were right about the oil, he, as the expert financier, had made a mistake. The experts outside who know what fourpence is were more numerous than the experts inside and so the outside experts won. The word expert is one which I do not like, because it has been associated with things that are not nice. I am not a politician either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-05", "file": "debates1928-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ec7b79bcfe493b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.123.2", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "o the load it will break their backs. The hon. And gallant Member's view as to where wages come from is a new one. I would assure him that wages come from the same source as the profits which are paid to the shareholders, that is, out of the labour of the workpeople, and I would say that the shareholders have never given anything to any of the workpeople in any of the undertakings in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-05", "file": "debates1928-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ec7b79bcfe493b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Member for East Islington (Mr. Tasker) knows that they are able to protect their members much better than do the Architects' Association, of which, I think, he is a member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-05", "file": "debates1928-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ec7b79bcfe493b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "s side of the House when I say that we look to the extension of the Death Duties as another means of raising the necessary money for carrying out the policies for which we stand. It is intolerable that these enormous sums of money should pass on the death of their owners to people who have done nothing to earn them, and who are in many cases demoralised by such excessive additions to their wealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-05", "file": "debates1928-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ec7b79bcfe493b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "ise with what I am saying will, I am sure, be interested to know that in 1927, the last financial year but one, ten millionaires died, of whom six left between £1,000,000 and £1;500,000, one left between £1,500,000 and £2,000,000, and the remaining three each left over £3,000,000. The ten together left £25,000,000, of which the Exchequer received only £9,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-05", "file": "debates1928-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ec7b79bcfe493b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "bt in 50 years it is exceedingly unlikely that it will ever pay it off. We have had experience before of these fixed Debt charges which lasted little longer than the ink took to dry in which they were written. Whatever may happen 50 years hence, it is very clear that for next year the Chancellor of the Exchequer is laying the foundations of an electioneering Budget of a most spectacular character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-05", "file": "debates1928-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ec7b79bcfe493b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "ch richer and the poor poorer. It gives reliefs where they are least necessary, and up to date where they are least helpful in the revival of trade. I submit that no essential revival of trade followed the great reduction of Super-tax and Income Tax three years ago. Trade was worse rather than better after those reductions, plus the corresponding reductions in social expenditure, were carried out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-05", "file": "debates1928-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ec7b79bcfe493b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "dians (Default) Act, which has now put a check upon local administration. I cannot conceive of a scheme more likely to add to rather than reduce the burdens on industry than the proposal which the right hon. Gentleman makes. Of course, there is an easy way if we wanted, as someone suggested, to bribe the electorate. We need not take all this trouble. We could give doles here and doles there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-05a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-06", "file": "debates1928-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "2f655750e52bda24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-06a.196.0", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "Interruptian.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman a question. What does he mean by Poor Rate Does he mean the relief of the poor?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-06a.196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-06", "file": "debates1928-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "2f655750e52bda24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-06a.203.2", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ich is to be given to the shipbuilding industry. Will it reflect itself in a reduced price of beer? The Prime Minister, when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, reduced the Beer Duty and I believe he got an understanding from the brewers that they would reduce the price of beer by 1d. per pint. I believe they did; they reduced its specific gravity. The weaker the beer the better it will please me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-06a.203.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-06", "file": "debates1928-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "2f655750e52bda24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-06a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain MACMILLAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain MACMILLAN", "preceding_text": "The House has just listened to a speech which, I suppose, may be considered as affording that considerate co-operation which was promised from all quarters of the House when this scheme was first brought forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-06a.206.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-06", "file": "debates1928-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "2f655750e52bda24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-06a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " of the people. Let them distribute the goods which we ran produce. It is a terrible problem, the greatest problem of modern civilisation. We are trying to tackle it en these benches. We may make mistakes, but we believe that the great cure for the evils of the present time lies in an increase of the purchasing power of the masses of the people so that, they can consume the surplus of 'production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-06a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-06", "file": "debates1928-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "2f655750e52bda24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-06a.250.3", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBOOTHBY", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"What did that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "er -which I should like to refute. He said that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had stated that the price of beer would be reduced as a result of this proposal. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said no such thing. He did say that, in accordance with the inexorable working of economic law, such rate relief as was granted to the brewers would find itself expressed in definite benefit to the consumer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-06a.250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-06", "file": "debates1928-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "2f655750e52bda24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-06a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERs: \"How about the landowners?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "r the whole community, he loses sight. of the fact that in every stage of manufacture an additional 2d. or 3d of rate relief is to be added in the production of a particular commodity. We have heard a lot about the Petrol Duty and the hardship imposed on the motoring community—a community which, I maintain, is the best able of all communities in the United Kingdom to bear a tax of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-06a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-06", "file": "debates1928-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "2f655750e52bda24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-06a.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KINGSLEY GRIFFITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KINGSLEY GRIFFITH", "preceding_text": "ds necessary would not be so great. It might be considered, therefore, whether this particular form of relief could be given at an earlier date. When I come to the wider question of the relief of rates, I dissociate myself at once from what was said by the right hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Snowden) with regard to rates not being a burden. I cannot believe that he meant strictly what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-06a.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-06", "file": "debates1928-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "2f655750e52bda24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-06a.276.3", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "While I recognise that this is not really a point of Order, I would put it that an opportunity might be given to move the Adjournment of the Debate until we hear what are the Government's intentions on this matter. I should be very 10th to take that course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-06a.276.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-06", "file": "debates1928-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "2f655750e52bda24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-06a.286.0", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "l tell them why. We have a saying in my constituency—it being a fishing constituency we use illustrations from the fishing industry—that everything comes, in the long run, from the cod end. That is the part of the trawl net which contains the catch, when you get one. It is from the proceeds of the catch that you are able to pay your butcher and your baker and the wages of your friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-06a.286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-06", "file": "debates1928-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "2f655750e52bda24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-06a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "nterest of increasing production. Both the Liberal and Labour party proposals, instead of helping trade and commerce, would still further embarrass and cripple them. Our new proposals certainly strike at the root of the evil. They are certainly not palliatives, but constitute a broad-based and wisely-conceived scheme, financed, I do not hesitate to say, by an easy and practically painless process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-06a.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-06", "file": "debates1928-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "2f655750e52bda24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-06a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "root of the evil. They are certainly not palliatives, but constitute a broad-based and wisely-conceived scheme, financed, I do not hesitate to say, by an easy and practically painless process. [ Interruption. ] I say this to the House, having had some little experience of the tactics of hon. Gentlemen opposite, who, in turn, have opposed all the great Measures of reform which have been introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-06a.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-06", "file": "debates1928-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "2f655750e52bda24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-06a.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "May I say a word on the Motion for the Adjournment of the Debate? What I wanted to say was, that before the Parliamentary Secretary sat down, he should have devoted five minutes of the three-quarters of an hour to explaining the provisions of the Bill which his right hon. Friend introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-06a.307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.318.2", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Does it not give this girl a lot of cheap advertisement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.318.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.363.4", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Houses\"!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ufficient to pay their share of the directly beneficial services which the local authorities provide. With every big new development of industrial enterprises in an area, these concerns will become parasitic upon the general body of ratepayers. They will become parasitic upon them, because these new enterprises will require roads, street lighting, water supply, sewers, police, fire brigades—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.363.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.394.3", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Brewers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " burdens on the necessitous areas from one end to the other. What is still more, where the necessity was greatest, where the burden was heaviest, there would the contribution be the greatest. I do not mean to say that there would not be rich men who would get it, but if you have got a principle which applies to a whole area it is perfectly right that everybody there should have a fair share of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.394.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And impulsive.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "ill be the proper time to deal with that subject when we reach the third Bill, and it seems irrelevant at the present stage to ask for the production of a formula which does not concern the Bill we are discussing. The right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs is really in too great a hurry, and he has no reason whatever to be in a hurry, because it is only old men who are entitled to be in a hurry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.398.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.406.0", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Read on!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "rates form no burden. His words are as explicit as anything could be. It is true that a hedging speeds has been made to-day by the hon. Member for Nelson, but here is what the right hon. Gentleman said: First of all as to the burden of rates. There are few things about which more nonsense is talked than about the burden of rates. Rates are not in themselves a burden at all. I venture to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.407.0", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "he Leader of the Opposition went through his speeches during the last three years, he would find constant repetition of the statement that rates are a far greater burden than taxes in this country, and that the first thing to do is to get the rates down. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Colne Valley, no doubt, went on to say that the incidence is wrong, but how does he propose to cure that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.407.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Read!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": " three years, he would find constant repetition of the statement that rates are a far greater burden than taxes in this country, and that the first thing to do is to get the rates down. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Colne Valley, no doubt, went on to say that the incidence is wrong, but how does he propose to cure that? [ Interruption. ] I will read the passage if hon. Members desire it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.407.4", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "Am I to read all the speech?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.407.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.407.4", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "o only 3d. per ton over the whole country, and he asks how it would relieve any distress to take off three-fourths of that. That is the most fallacious way in which that question could be put, and for this reason, that, if you take the average, it means that there are some people whose rates are below 3d. per ton of coal, and others whose rates are much higher, and if you look at the higher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.407.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEAN", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member who preceded me was pleading on behalf of Scotland that we should have this relief for agriculture earlier than has been promised by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and, as an English Member, I would support him. I am one of those who fully realise the difficulties of the Government. I fully realise that had it not been for the strike in 1926 we should have got that relief earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Of course, they have not solved all the problems. They have not solved them any more in England than in countries as distant and as different in their characteristics as the United States and Russia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about assisting Courtaulds, then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " find in the iron and steel and engineering trades between 400 and 500 concerns making together a similar volume of profits. These 400 or 500 firms taken together, although they make no more in profits than the firm of Courtauld, pay 20 times the rates which are paid by Courtauld's, and under our scheme they will obtain 20 times the relief. Cases like that can be multiplied to any extent you like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "s the rates which are paid by Courtauld's, and under our scheme they will obtain 20 times the relief. Cases like that can be multiplied to any extent you like. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about assisting Courtaulds, then?\"] What is the use of suggesting that the whole of this scheme should be held up because under the application of a common principle there is one particular firm that does not need it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "stributors within those closed markets, but foreigners do not come into this country to run railways or fleets of motor cars and so forth. I say that is a distinction. Here is another difference between the two. The basic productive industries are flagging and failing, and flagging and failing in an alarming degree, and on the other hand the distributive industries as a whole are doing quite well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " whatever that the distinction that has been drawn aid which I drew in opening the Budget between the productive and the distributive trades is one which the more searchingly it is examined the more true and unshakeable it will be found. So I say that in all these respects we may claim that the result of this discussion up to the present moment has left the Government position absolutely unshaken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"As such!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "tatements that has ever fallen from the lips of an experienced politician. He also indicated that they were infinitesimal in their burden on industry—as such, no doubt. If you take a pair of opera glasses and look at an object in the ordinary way and then turn them round so that the object is diminished, you will get exactly the mental process through which the right hon. Gentleman has gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"As such!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "has gone. [An HON. MEMBER: \"As such!\"] Yes, as such. Before this scheme was broached we were told that rate relief was the most vital thing for the country. I will not read all the statements which were made—Liberal and Labour statements—but as soon as the Government introduces a proposal the right hon. Gentleman comes forward and says, \"What is this for? What is the good of all this?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "are accounted for by these industries, and they obtain three-quarters of the whole of the relief which we give to industry. That is, industries covering two-thirds of the export trade of this country receive three-quarters of the whole relief to industry. No one can doubt that that is going to be a great help to our export trade, and no one can doubt the way in which it will help the export trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "st asked, \"What is the good of all this? What about coal?\" I do not pretend that it will solve the problem of coal but, at any rate, it will be a help. I am not pretending to solve the whole problem, but I would point this out. The right hon. Member (Mr. Snowden) spoke of this relief to coal as being worth 3d. per ton. That is not so. Our calculation is that, with the railway freight relief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.455.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.462.0", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "As long as you are in office.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "giving relief to that industry as a whole as great as if we had completely eliminated mining royalties. The state of the coal trade at the present time shows, under the most recent ascertainments, in every single district throughout the country an actual loss, and yet we are extracting £3,500,000 a year from this trade in respect of rates. How long can that go on in regard to the weaker pits?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.461.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.462.2", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "and that they will have to close down. Is that not a matter which is of great consequence to industry? Is that not a matter which is of great consequence to this country? Is the fact that there are 600,000 people living on firms which are actually waterlogged not a matter of deep and earnest concern? How are our trade union leaders to get any sort of strong pressure for lifting the level of wages?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.462.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.462.2", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dundee\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "or, should be enabled to continue to keep their doors open and employ their men. Having said that in answer to the statement and suggestion of the right hon. Gentleman for Colne Valley that rates as such are no burden on industry, I have a suggestion to make to him that, dating from to-morrow, he should begin a pilgrimage about the country. I suggest that he should go to Newcastle and to Sheffield", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.462.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.462.2", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "heir men. Having said that in answer to the statement and suggestion of the right hon. Gentleman for Colne Valley that rates as such are no burden on industry, I have a suggestion to make to him that, dating from to-morrow, he should begin a pilgrimage about the country. I suggest that he should go to Newcastle and to Sheffield [HON. MEMBERS: \"Dundee\"]. I suggest that he should go to Dundee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.462.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.462.2", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To the brewer\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "row, he should begin a pilgrimage about the country. I suggest that he should go to Newcastle and to Sheffield [HON. MEMBERS: \"Dundee\"]. I suggest that he should go to Dundee—[ Interruption ]. I suggest that he should go to the rural areas and that he should say to the workmen and to the people who are managing the actual businesses by which they live, that he should say to the farmer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.462.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And would do it again!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "m not going to reproach him nor are the great bulk of those who sit on this bench. We were all in it. The great majority of those who sit on this bench followed him and the late Mr. Bonar Law in that Election, and responded to his appeal to make a common front against the common foe. It was not, in any way, a discreditable transaction. On the contrary I approved of it then and I approve of it now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ar as the complaint was concerned, it related entirely to a Bill which His Majesty's Government have undertaken to introduce in November next. All his criticisms referred to that Bill. I think when we are advancing a policy of such great complexity, admittedly open to argument on every point, we are entitled to unfold our plan stage by stage. There is nothing in what is now before the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman was good enough to invite me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman was good enough to invite me—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"]—to put to him a question that I endeavoured to submit in the course of his speech. I am obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for his courtesy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.467.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.467.2", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "on were characteristic of the opposite benches. I desire to put to him now questions—in my judgment, pertinent and legitimate questions—that were not put to him in the course of the Debate, and I invite him now to enlighten the House as to the measure of relief that he claims will be afforded to the coal industry of this country when the provisions embodied in this Measure are applied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.467.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.467.2", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": " of their views, I propose to say a few words on the general subject now before the House. Does the right hon. Gentleman imagine that we are to be fobbed off by an exposition of brilliant dialectic, such as we have had this evening? If the right hon. Gentleman had given us less raillery and more realism, there would have been less need for interruption, and possibly a greater measure of agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.467.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.467.2", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "sh industry, but we are entitled to demand that, in its direction, efficiency should be promoted, and we have had no guarantee from the right hon. Gentleman or from the Minister of Health in that respect. Are we to throw away something like £30,000,000 of public money without guarantees of any sort? We are told by the Minister of Health that these proposals could not be regarded as a subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.467.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.469.4", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": " the Continental markets we want in order to improve the coal industry; it is a higher price for coal, both inland and for export. I want a greater measure of accuracy from the right hon. Gentleman. Brilliant rhetoric, clever dialectics and raillery at right hon. Gentlemen on these Benches and below the Gangway, while it may be a fine political game, is not satisfactory to the people we represent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.469.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.469.4", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "illiant rhetoric, clever dialectics and raillery at right hon. Gentlemen on these Benches and below the Gangway, while it may be a fine political game, is not satisfactory to the people we represent. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"] I have been returned to this House recently by miners, many of whom have been out of work for the past three years through the disgraceful policy of His Majesty's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.469.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.469.4", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "en returned to this House recently by miners, many of whom have been out of work for the past three years through the disgraceful policy of His Majesty's Government. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] There are townships in my constituency where not a single pit is working at the present time, and every single miner is unemployed, and where many of those unemployed miners are receiving no measure of relief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.469.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "ial firms who are to be provided with a measure of relief. I do not propose to enter into a controversy with him as to the proprietry of such a proceeding. We can discuss that on some other occasion. But if it is good enough to provide relief for Messrs. Courtauld, why is it not good enough to provide relief for the impoverished miners in Scotland, Durham and elsewhere throughout the mining areas?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.469.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-07", "file": "debates1928-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0f0582a67c380c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.470.5", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "rs of South Wales is a matter for private charity, and the Mansion House Fund was instituted, out of which relief was to be afforded to the miners, while Messrs Courtauld, the anthracite groups in South Wales, and brewery concerns are to get relief under this Measure. I want to protest with the strength at my command against this Measure, and I am doing so in a House which I know is unsympathetic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-07a.470.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-08", "file": "debates1928-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9da891a259e4ba65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.512.5", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "atters affecting the taxation of the people of this country. While I do not for a moment suggest that either of the Ministers in charge of this Motion has been guilty of divulging information, nevertheless the Government are responsible for seeing that such information is not allowed to leak out before the matter has been dealt with by the House of Commons. The next thing that I would say is this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.512.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-08", "file": "debates1928-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9da891a259e4ba65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "6, the same Committee that has presented this Report in 1928 turned down the request for the imposition of a duty. They turned it down on three grounds, which are clearly defined under the safeguarding procedure of the Government. In the first place, they reported that the imports were not abnormal, and, secondly, that there was no serious discrepancy between the prices of home and imported goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-08", "file": "debates1928-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9da891a259e4ba65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": " [ Interruption. ] That is my reading of the Report. Thirdly, they reported that the trade as a whole was not being conducted efficiently. They reported very clearly under those three heads in 1926, but now, in 1928, in the short space of two years, the Government bung, of course, very anxious to placate the eagerness and importunities of the hon. and gallant Member for Bournemouth and his friends", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-08", "file": "debates1928-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9da891a259e4ba65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": " on a policy which says that, wherever there were certain kinds of trade during the War, it is essential in our interests, and without any regard to the ultimate effect upon the general standard of labour throughout the world, which, after all, has its effect upon our own people, we are to subsidise it on an uneconomic basis. That is a fiscal theory to which we, at any rate, can never give assent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-08", "file": "debates1928-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9da891a259e4ba65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.520.0", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "t need for a duty of this kind. In conclusion, I would say that after the famous appeal to the country in 1923—the appeal made by the Prime Minister—and after the party opposite had met a very severe defeat at the polls, they held a memorable meeting at the Hotel Cecil at which we were assured that they had buried Protection and had taken it out of their electoral programme altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-08", "file": "debates1928-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9da891a259e4ba65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "Some of them have done considerable harm, and, when we come to a general Debate on the whole question, we shall not hesitate to expose the harm that has been done. The greatest harm is very often done to the consumer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-08", "file": "debates1928-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9da891a259e4ba65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.521.3", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "d terms, and they will wake up and find that they have arrived at very much the same state as the workers in other protectionist countries, where, instead of the workers having their general standards permanently raised and their whole conditions improved, they are always generally below the standards of life and of comfort which have been for so long the possession of the workers of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.521.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-08", "file": "debates1928-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9da891a259e4ba65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "I was only using an illustration, and my excuse is that the President of the Board of Trade himself raised this issue. I will only say this, that I think we may dismiss the Coalition, and I hope the right hon. Gentleman, in his arguments on this matter in the future, will remember the story of the Welsh boy, who summed up the Coalition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-08", "file": "debates1928-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9da891a259e4ba65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.536.0", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What was the industry?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "en another suggested duty was brought before the House—I hope I shall not be infringing the rules of Debate, but it is very necessary as an illustration to show why I am supporting this proposal—I must say I hesitated very much before I voted in favour of it, because in that particular line of manufactured goods I had a very unfortunate experience during War time with the makers of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.536.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-08", "file": "debates1928-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9da891a259e4ba65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.539.3", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the need for safeguarding, then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "e of hollow-ware, china and other articles for domestic use, is sound and sensible, and, after going carefully through this report, and speaking from my own personal knowledge of the business, I think it is a right and proper thing to give this industry reasonable safeguarding. Personally, I do not anticipate for a moment that there will be any increase in the price of hollow-ware to the consumer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.539.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-08", "file": "debates1928-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9da891a259e4ba65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "rough gave a left-handed blow to the professor who signed the report and a moment afterwards he was quoting another professor with regard to the marketing of razor blades. It is rather cheap to attack a man because he happens to be a professor. The knowledge and abilities of this gentleman are so well recognised that it is hardly courteous to single him out for attack when we know he cannot reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.552.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-06-08", "file": "debates1928-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9da891a259e4ba65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.558.0", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "ustry may be regarded as of substantial importance. \"may be regarded.\" That was the position in 1926. What is the position to-day in regard to the same question? They now say: We formed the opinion at our previous inquiry that the industry might be regarded as one of substantial importance, and we adhere to that view to-day. That is a step forward. On that ground they turned down the duty in 1926.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.557.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-08", "file": "debates1928-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9da891a259e4ba65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.566.3", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "The State did not single out this industry. The industry selected itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.566.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-08", "file": "debates1928-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9da891a259e4ba65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.566.3", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "e application in 1926 because the importa- tion was not regarded as abnormal. That is quite true. But the importation since then has increased by about 20 per cent., and it is therefore 20 per cent. different from what it was in 1926, and that is one reason for granting the application. Then the hon. Member said that prices were not greatly different. I do not know on what he based that statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.566.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-08", "file": "debates1928-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9da891a259e4ba65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "This what the Report says: The applicants provided limited evidence on the subject of efficiency and economy relating only to four or five firms, but such evidence established a very fair measure of efficiency and economy in existence. We form the opinion that this could not be said of the trade as a whole. Is not that what I said earlier?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-08", "file": "debates1928-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9da891a259e4ba65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.570.7", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "e report has been rather careless, because 6¾d. is the minimum time rate for female workers and the German figure of 6d. represents the wages of skilled female labour. Surely there is all the difference in the world between an average of skilled female workers in Germany and the minimum time rate applicable to our people. I suggest that the hon. and gallant Member ought to re-read the report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.570.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-08", "file": "debates1928-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9da891a259e4ba65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.574.3", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "country are going to be told by hon. Members opposite that all that is required is greater production. We can produce a great deal more than is being produced in the country at this time. We can produce much more than has ever been spoken of by any of those who have made estimates for us. It is not a question of greater production. In the enamel ware occupation, we could produce a great deal more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.574.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-08", "file": "debates1928-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "9da891a259e4ba65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.581.2", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Paragraph 13.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "low a report made under these extraordinary circumstances. Let me take one or two things that are said. We formed the opinion at our previous inquiry that the wrought enamelled hollow-ware industry in this country might be regarded as one of substantial importance, and we adhere to that view to-day. But no one knows what the enamelled hollow-ware industry is and how many people are occupied in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-08a.581.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-11", "file": "debates1928-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "a19b6f650081bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-11a.625.10", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "Cannot the right hon. Gentleman give an approximate estimate? Are we to understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-11a.625.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-11", "file": "debates1928-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "a19b6f650081bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-11a.646.2", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Is not the main point of this being lost sight of in that certain people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-11a.646.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-11", "file": "debates1928-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "a19b6f650081bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-11a.758.0", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "ive in providing houses. I mention that because I have here a leaflet which has been circulated in my Division by the Unionist Association, entitled \"The Harvest of Houses.\" It points out that in 1924, Socialist year, the number of houses built was 9,537: in 1925, Unionist year, the number of houses built was 10,053; in 1926, Unionist year, 14,286 houses: and in 1927, Unionist year, 22,156 houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-11a.758.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-11", "file": "debates1928-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "a19b6f650081bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-11a.759.3", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "yment and so many burdens thrown upon the local authorities that there is a tendency for ever-increasing rates, and as a consequence the parish councils have been very stringent with regard to the granting of relief. Nearly every one of those parish councils has a majority of Conservative representatives, and we ail know that Conservatives are not very generous in dealing with the working classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-11a.759.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-11", "file": "debates1928-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "a19b6f650081bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-11a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "I would only point out that a reduction has been moved. It has not been moved by the hon. Member who introduced the subject, and it has been moved at a very late stage of the proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-11a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-11", "file": "debates1928-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "a19b6f650081bcd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-11a.764.3", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "drawn an undue amount of relief. We know that in fact—and hon. Members opposite complain of it as much as anyone—there is a tendency in modern life for the principle of doles and not work to be ingrained in any of us. In any of us who are subject to the temptations there is a tendency to yield to them, and hon. Members opposite know that as well as I do and have complained of it to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-11a.764.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-12", "file": "debates1928-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "2c094a7754db7938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-12a.841.1", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ith regard to trusts, he can, in the complete absence of any policy of his own, no doubt try to attack with catchwords the advice given by others, but if, in place of \"trusts,\" he would say \"the combined effort of the industry to get the most efficient results and the cheapest production and the highest wages,\" he would be putting it in a truer perspective. If I may, I will pass from that subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-12a.841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-12", "file": "debates1928-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "2c094a7754db7938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-12a.846.3", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "I had rather not commit myself to a definition as close Is that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-12a.846.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-12", "file": "debates1928-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "2c094a7754db7938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-12a.870.2", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "eapest port. There is something radically wrong with costs in this country to-day. To give an instance, let me take the Port of London. For a 7,000-tonner it will cost, in the Port of London, £1,500 or thereabouts—my hon. Friend will correct me if I am wrong—to discharge a cargo; but that same cargo from a similar sized ship can be discharged at Antwerp or Rotterdam for £500.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-12a.870.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-12", "file": "debates1928-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "2c094a7754db7938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-12a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLAMS", "preceding_text": "t the direction of demand is constantly changing and one of the causes of unemployment in all countries at all times is the change in the direction of fashion—ain I use that word in its widest sense to cover changes in Government policy. Unbalanced production is, in my opinion, one of the outstanding causes of unemployment at all times. I do not want to pursue this general economic argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-12a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-12", "file": "debates1928-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "2c094a7754db7938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-12a.914.0", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": "ive a typical case. Not long ago, the miners of South Wales sent out an appeal for assistance in the shape of clothing, boots, and shoes for men, women, and children. The collectors of these various unions in Accrington might desire to make a special journey round the town to help appeals of that kind. Under Clause 180 of this Bill, every one of those collectors would have to get a special permit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-12a.914.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-12", "file": "debates1928-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "2c094a7754db7938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-12a.920.0", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "preceding_text": "tain a permit before making such collections. It is only permissive. The most they can do is that they may require people to get permits. Following that it says a permit may be refused in any case in which the watch committee has reasonable ground for supposing the collection is not made for a bona fide charitable purpose. The Clause even lays down the only condition under which it may be refused.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-12a.920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-12", "file": "debates1928-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "2c094a7754db7938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-12a.956.4", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Rochdale asked what we were doing. I cannot argue about legislation. I would point out that whenever we propose anything the hon. Member always goes into the Lobby and votes against us. There is the rating scheme, the safeguarding of industries duties which are in operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-12a.956.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-12", "file": "debates1928-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "2c094a7754db7938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-12a.956.6", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wages!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ite clearly that there was at the moment some check in trade, and he expressed the opinion that that check would be temporary. That is not a statement of overwhelming optimism. It is a carefully considered statement that my right hon. Friend was entitled to make on the reports that he had obtained. Then the hon. Member for Rochdale wanted to know in which industry people get additional work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-12a.956.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-13", "file": "debates1928-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "664646ba57ba2ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYES", "preceding_text": "rough the City, one of the divisions of which I have the honour to represent, I was surprised—I admit it quite frankly—to find that the interest in the Prayer Book Measure was so widespread. Tramcar drivers—and I hope this will not be written down against them either in so far as their municipal duties are concerned or otherwise—even tramcar drivers when seeing their Member", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-13", "file": "debates1928-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "664646ba57ba2ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYES", "preceding_text": "House has deep regard and respect for the Prime Minister. I hope that in what I am going to say, although coming from this side of the House, it will not be felt that I am endeavouring to make any party capital at all out of it. I say, with the greatest- respect, that as Prime Minister, he should have kept himself entirely outside the question as to whether this Book should be adopted or rejected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-13", "file": "debates1928-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "664646ba57ba2ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYES", "preceding_text": "t, that as Prime Minister, he should have kept himself entirely outside the question as to whether this Book should be adopted or rejected. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] He should keep outside the question as Prime Minister. He has a perfect right—and no one will be more ready to say that he should exercise that right—as the right hon. Member for the Bewdley Division to put his point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-13", "file": "debates1928-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "664646ba57ba2ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1053.0", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Major BIRCHALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BIRCHALL", "preceding_text": "was issued by the combined Anglo-Catholic Societies and appeared in the Press at the end of last week. I can assure him that we who support this Book regard that document as quite as deplorable as he does. I would remind him that that document, in which very strong Anglo-Catholic opinions are expressed, had been published during the present regime and cannot be dealt with under the present regime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1053.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-13", "file": "debates1928-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "664646ba57ba2ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1053.0", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Major BIRCHALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BIRCHALL", "preceding_text": "appeared in the Press at the end of last week. I can assure him that we who support this Book regard that document as quite as deplorable as he does. I would remind him that that document, in which very strong Anglo-Catholic opinions are expressed, had been published during the present regime and cannot be dealt with under the present regime. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"], That is my private opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1053.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-13", "file": "debates1928-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "664646ba57ba2ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Major BIRCHALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BIRCHALL", "preceding_text": "ovince. It is not surprising, therefore, to find that the laymen of the Church of England have supported this Measure throughout the length and breadth of the country We have never claimed that it was supported by a majority of the people of the country. Why should it be? It does not apply to them. It does not refer to them. But it is supported by a majority of the laymen of the Church of England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-13", "file": "debates1928-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "664646ba57ba2ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1069.5", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BOYD-CARPENTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What practices?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOYD-CARPENTER", "preceding_text": " hon. and learned Gentle- man says so from that bench, speaking as a layman, but that is not the opinion of some of the Bishops of the Established Church. I have heard speeches and remarks of learned Bishops on this matter—Bishops who are not altogether of my opinion. The Bishop of Birmingham holds them to be illegal. Dr. Weldon, who was headmaster of Harrow, says that these practices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1069.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-13", "file": "debates1928-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "664646ba57ba2ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Page 281\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "s perpetual Reservation. I am very glad the hon. Gentleman has reminded me, because that is the very point I am trying to clear up. If you look at the beginning of the Order for Communion of the Sick in the old Book, you will find that there is a distinct—I am afraid I cannot find it. I did not know I should be interrupted. I am perfectly willing to reply to the hon. Member if I can find it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-13", "file": "debates1928-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "664646ba57ba2ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "er for Communion of the Sick in the old Book, you will find that there is a distinct—I am afraid I cannot find it. I did not know I should be interrupted. I am perfectly willing to reply to the hon. Member if I can find it. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Page 281\".] I am very much obliged. I will read it: When the Holy Communion cannot reverently or without great difficulty be\"— No, that is not it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-13", "file": "debates1928-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "664646ba57ba2ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "Book and these are the leaders of the free churches who are most in touch with the situation with regard to christian reunion and who are most near the kernel and heart of things in relation to conferences on that matter. Perhaps some of them have been to Lausanne or have seen and been in daily communication with those who have. They are the people who think it is right to let the Book go through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-13", "file": "debates1928-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "664646ba57ba2ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1112.0", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Sir MALCOLM MACNAGHTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir MALCOLM MACNAGHTEN", "preceding_text": "h the Noble Lady who has just sat down referred, there is no question at all that practically they could obtain almost universal agreement, but the controversy turns upon the Communion Service, and on that matter the Noble Lady has persuaded herself, and she has apparently persuaded other people, that the alternative Communion Service is really more Protestant than the one Cranmer himself drew up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-13", "file": "debates1928-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "664646ba57ba2ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1112.0", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Sir MALCOLM MACNAGHTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir MALCOLM MACNAGHTEN", "preceding_text": "rvice, and on that matter the Noble Lady has persuaded herself, and she has apparently persuaded other people, that the alternative Communion Service is really more Protestant than the one Cranmer himself drew up. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Be it so, but if it is more Protestant than Cranmer's Communion Service, why is it introduced at all? Who wants it? The Anglo-Catholics are said to want it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-13", "file": "debates1928-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "664646ba57ba2ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1112.0", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Sir MALCOLM MACNAGHTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir MALCOLM MACNAGHTEN", "preceding_text": "elf, and she has apparently persuaded other people, that the alternative Communion Service is really more Protestant than the one Cranmer himself drew up. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Be it so, but if it is more Protestant than Cranmer's Communion Service, why is it introduced at all? Who wants it? The Anglo-Catholics are said to want it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] The Protestants are said to want it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1112.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-06-13", "file": "debates1928-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "664646ba57ba2ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1115.7", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. MACNAGHTEN", "preceding_text": "You are forcing on me a form of Service which will make it optional for members of the Church of England to take the Roman form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1115.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-13", "file": "debates1928-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "664646ba57ba2ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1116.1", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir GEORGE COURTHOPE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir GEORGE COURTHOPE", "preceding_text": "s we are apt to forget that it is Christ's Church too. We get so keen on the relatively trifling matters of controversy upon which we differ that we are a-pt to lose sight of those far greater Christian principles upon which we are all agreed and from which High and Low alike draw their inspiration. Christ's invitation was not a narrow one. Surely His Church of England should not be narrow either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-13", "file": "debates1928-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "664646ba57ba2ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1121.0", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROSSLYN MITCHELL.", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROSSLYN MITCHELL.", "preceding_text": "n. and learned Gentleman in his argument that this Book, which gives not one single shred of power to the Bishops, which refers in no way to the authority of the Bishops, which neither arms them with new powers nor extends nor explains their existing powers—I cannot follow the argument that by granting a new Book, the powers which have not been exercised before are going to be exercised now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-13", "file": "debates1928-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "664646ba57ba2ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1124.3", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL", "preceding_text": "It is hardly, I imagine, the wish of this House that a Member of the House who is not a member of the Church of England should take it upon himself to advise the Bishops of the Church of England how to conduct the affairs of the Church. What we are concerned with is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1124.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-13", "file": "debates1928-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "664646ba57ba2ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1127.1", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL", "preceding_text": "I do not want to go into a liturgical controversy on the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-13", "file": "debates1928-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "664646ba57ba2ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL", "preceding_text": "The letters of business which were granted because of the demand on the part of the Anglo-Catholic ritualists for an extension of their powers to follow illegal doctrines and practices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-06-13", "file": "debates1928-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "664646ba57ba2ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1130.2", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, but it is not condemned by this Book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-13", "file": "debates1928-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "664646ba57ba2ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1130.5", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL", "cue_text": "HON. M1MBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL", "preceding_text": "e two reasons why Anglo-Catholics are not going to vote for this Book. One is that they rese it the House of Commons having given a decision contrary to their will. They resent the interference of the House of Commons in any matter concerning their doctrine and practice. The other reason is that in the other Book there was omitted a declaration of the Black Rubric but it is contained in this Book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-13a.1130.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-14", "file": "debates1928-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "71f6b3dc44c3bc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1146.12", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA (RUSSIAN MONEY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "I thought that that was what was announced the other day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1146.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-14", "file": "debates1928-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "71f6b3dc44c3bc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1203.1", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "[OFFICIAL REPORT , 13th June, 1928; col. 1005, Vol. 218.] I never said it would legalise, nor did my publishers say it would legalise. What they have said—and I am prepared to take responsibility for it—was that the effect of the changes in the Book would be to promote, though not by law, a kind of feeling throughout the country which would lead to a reintroduction of those ceremonies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-14", "file": "debates1928-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "71f6b3dc44c3bc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1203.1", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "t of the changes in the Book would be to promote, though not by law, a kind of feeling throughout the country which would lead to a reintroduction of those ceremonies. [ Interruption. ] Take the case of Reservation leading to Adoration. You allow Reservation, and you allow the light to be constantly burning before the Reserved Sacrament. Do you mean to tell me that that does not lead to Adoration?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1203.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-06-14", "file": "debates1928-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "71f6b3dc44c3bc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1212.0", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. ATKINSON", "preceding_text": "hod adopted has been to stir up indignation against the Bishops and to paint lurid pictures of illegalities which have been going on in the Church, with the suggestion that those illegalities will be made legal if this Book is passed. I believe myself that this campaign will go down to history as a classic example of that advocacy which utilises abuse of your opponents and misrepresentation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-14", "file": "debates1928-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "71f6b3dc44c3bc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1212.2", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATKINSON", "preceding_text": " was speaking, as I carefully explained, of the campaign against this Book. I carefully said that I did not know to what extent the right hon. Gentleman was responsible for it, and that I hoped he would believe that I made no suggestion of want of good faith or of sincerity against him, but I must repeat, and I believe, that the campaign has been based upon misrepresentation of what the Book does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1212.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-14", "file": "debates1928-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "71f6b3dc44c3bc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1248.0", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "n what he said. I do not pretend that the passage of this Prayer Book is going to fill that church, but I do believe that the passage of this Prayer Book is going to make this controversy subside and is going to allow the Church to turn its attention to things that really signify, whereas, the rejection of this Prayer Book is going to bring up this Measure again next year and again the year after.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-14", "file": "debates1928-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "71f6b3dc44c3bc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1263.0", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "any other faith or sect among the hundreds which exist side by side within the circuit of the British Empire. So far as I am aware, the large majority of the Church of England, utilising the only means of corporate expression open to them, and wishing to dwell together as a common Protestant body, ask for this widening of their spiritual liberties. Doubt is thrown upon the validity of this demand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-14", "file": "debates1928-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "71f6b3dc44c3bc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1263.0", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "t. Under the surface, things are not quite the same. Thirty years ago, I used to think that people could be ordered about as if they were a troop of dragoons, but that is not possible to-day in religious matters. In these modern times no one can deny that the vote of any lay assembly like this, which includes a large number of persons belonging to separate rival communities, are unqualified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-14", "file": "debates1928-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "71f6b3dc44c3bc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1269.1", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ritual guidance in regard to the religious body that will have to carry on the work of the Church. The Bishops will have no authority except in so far as they separate themselves from Parliamentary domination. I am not speaking for the Bishops. I have no right or claim to speak for them. I am only giving my own view. If this Measure be rejected, there will be a state of no law in the Church—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-14", "file": "debates1928-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "71f6b3dc44c3bc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1269.1", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " envy any Government that has to enter upon the disestablishment and dis-endowment of the Church of England. The Liberals will not have the power, and a very exceptional situation would be required to make it likely that either a Conservative or a Labour administration would plunge into such a controversy. My contention is that the rejection of this Measure will inaugurate a period of chaos—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-14", "file": "debates1928-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "71f6b3dc44c3bc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1290.0", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUNNICO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUNNICO", "preceding_text": "to give its vote. Those who are in favour of and those who are against this Measure will agree with me when I say that the effect of their vote will be of vital importance not only to the Church of England as a Church, but to the whole future of organised Christianity in this country. There are Members in this House who do not accept the Christian faith at all, who are free thinkers and agnostics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-14", "file": "debates1928-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "71f6b3dc44c3bc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1290.0", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUNNICO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUNNICO", "preceding_text": "h, a Church established by law, and as long as that Church is established by law, we reserve to ourselves the right as citizens to exercise our power and our discretion, either to sanction, or to refuse to sanction, decisions arrived at by that Church.\" The answer to that argument is that an Established Church by no means implies the right of the State to interfere in matters of doctrine or faith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1290.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-06-14", "file": "debates1928-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "71f6b3dc44c3bc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1292.0", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Never!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUNNICO", "preceding_text": "r what I mean. The Established Church of Scotland is a State Church, but that Church has spiritual autonomy and, notwithstanding what my hon. Friend the Member for Motherwell may say, I say, distinctly, that there is nothing in the change suggested as between the Book of Common Prayer and the revised Book, which could not take place in the Church of Scotland to-day under the terms read out by him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-14", "file": "debates1928-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "71f6b3dc44c3bc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1293.1", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUNNICO", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUNNICO", "preceding_text": "conscience who is determined he is going to do a thing he really believes in. Believe me, there are hundreds upon hundreds of clergymen in the Church of England to-day who will exercise self-denial, who will give up certain practices, who will exercise self-repression at the authority and command of the Church which they love, but they will not accept the authority of Parliament upon those things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-14", "file": "debates1928-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "71f6b3dc44c3bc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1297.3", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUNNICO", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUNNICO", "preceding_text": "ns; it has strained many friendships, but I have done it because I felt that I ought to do it. I hope that this is the last occasion the House of Commons will ever be called upon to discuss spiritual and doctrinal matters. I hope some step will be taken to relieve the Church from submitting these matters to the discussion of a House which, with all respect, is not really competent to discuss them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1297.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-14", "file": "debates1928-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "71f6b3dc44c3bc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1300.1", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": " choose the Minister has been established for three generations. Hon. Members who make these comparisons appear to want the freedom of Scotland for this purpose, but why are they not prepared to bring into the Church of England the same freedom? You cannot take this matter in parts. If you want to build the Church of England upon the Scottish motel, you must build it upon the whole Scottish model.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-14", "file": "debates1928-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "71f6b3dc44c3bc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1303.4", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "the accurate statement of her argument, but I think I am within the recollection of the House as to what was said about the freedom of the Scottish Church. The Scottish Church is able to be free to some extent, because her laity have the means of seeing that her Ministers and services will be conformable to their taste. It is said that the Episcopalian Church in Scotland has perpetual Reservation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1303.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-14", "file": "debates1928-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "71f6b3dc44c3bc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1308.1", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": " limits to every Church. I could understand my hon. Friends making this plea if they themselves were not going to impose any limits upon the religious expressions of people in the Church of England; but it is the essence of their case that they are going to impose such limits. Their whole case for appealing to the House of Commons to trust them is that they are going to repress and restrain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-14", "file": "debates1928-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "71f6b3dc44c3bc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1311.0", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Mr. DUNNICO rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-14", "file": "debates1928-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "71f6b3dc44c3bc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1312.2", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRAYER BOOK MEASURE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "ting may be, the difficulties that will face the Church, in the event of the rejection of the Bill, are infinitely more formidable. I want, before I finish, to say one word on a subject which has been mentioned by several speakers, and that is the question of Disestablishment, which, I think, has much more chance of being brought nearer again into the political sphere by the rejection of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-14a.1312.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-15", "file": "debates1928-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "23ee1c5bf5ef8b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-15a.1368.1", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (UNIVERSITY OF READING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "I am very glad that my hon. Friend has drawn my attention to the fact that Wales is so much more advanced politically than the rest of the country. If Reading were in Wales, I believe that there might, be something to be said for this Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-15a.1368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-15", "file": "debates1928-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "23ee1c5bf5ef8b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-15a.1371.1", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (UNIVERSITY OF READING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He fought again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "That hon. Member was returned because of his eminent Christian character, and the University of Wales thought it desirable that there should be at least one Christian in this House. After he had served one term, 4 himself came to the conclusion that this was not the place for him, and did not offer himself for re-election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-15a.1371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-15", "file": "debates1928-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "23ee1c5bf5ef8b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-15a.1371.1", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (UNIVERSITY OF READING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "as a special interest and a special knowledge, is adequately represented by the ordinary constituency member who comes into this House. But look at this hotchpotch, this collection of small universities. Everyone who has graduated in any one of them, right away back for 60 or 70 years, is on the voting roll and is entitled to vote in a parliamentary election and some who are not graduates as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-15a.1371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-18", "file": "debates1928-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "83d09bd402960d96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1436.1", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "t rid of this Amendment first. I am perfectly willing to fall in with the suggestion that we should only have a limited discussion on this Amendment. The only other point I would put is this. We are, through this proposed legislation, about to take a new method of valuation in order to do certain things which are entirely novel. This proposal is made with the object of relieving necessitous areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-18", "file": "debates1928-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "83d09bd402960d96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1436.1", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "sion on this Amendment. The only other point I would put is this. We are, through this proposed legislation, about to take a new method of valuation in order to do certain things which are entirely novel. This proposal is made with the object of relieving necessitous areas. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Then shall I say that it is for the purpose of assisting productive industries in the necessitous areas", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-18", "file": "debates1928-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "83d09bd402960d96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1438.2", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMREES: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": " agreement, there might be some cause for saying we should not proceed with this Amendment, but, as a matter of fact, the two alternative Oppositions to the present Government are very strongly opposed to this change in the rating system. They think that if assistance is to be given to industry, ibis is not the way in which it should be done. We are now almost at the end of the present Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1438.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-18", "file": "debates1928-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "83d09bd402960d96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "n both the necessitous and other areas, the amount paid in respect of service rates is about the same. Let me again make a comparison, taking Gateshead and Bournemouth. The full rates in Bournemouth are 8s. and the full rates in Gateshead are 23s., though for the sake of round figures I will call it 24s. This Bill will reduce the rates in Bournemouth to 2s. and the rates in Gateshead to 8s.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-18", "file": "debates1928-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "83d09bd402960d96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Six shillings!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "r himself if he were to be able to produce at all—gets off with 2s., and the rest of in pay 2s. towards the production of an article of which he gets the whole profit. In Gateshead, where the rate is reduced to 8s., the service portion of that is still 4s., so that the Gateshead manufacturer gets no relief at all towards the 4s. which enters into his cost of production and has to pay the 8s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-18", "file": "debates1928-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "83d09bd402960d96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Six shillings!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "ght to he pa d by the manufacturer himself. As I have said, in the cases I have quoted it is about 4s.; but after this Act comes into operation the Bournemouth manufacturer will have to pay only 2s. in all in rates, and therefore he gets the difference between 2s. and 4s., that is 2s., paid by the community towards his costs of production. In Gateshead, the manufacturer will have to pay 8s.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-18", "file": "debates1928-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "83d09bd402960d96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\" £17,000,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "f it. Of the £29,000,000, £3,000,000 is to be used for adjustment purposes, £5,000,000 is to be given direct to agriculture, and another £5,000,000 is to be given to the railways. That makes £13,000,000. Deduct this £13,000,000 from the £29,000,000, and it will be found that only £16,000,000 remains which can be effectively applied to the relief of industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-18", "file": "debates1928-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "83d09bd402960d96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1454.3", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "on. and learned Member also mentioned the case of Bournemouth, where the rates, according to his statement, are 8s. in the If what the hon. and learned Member has stated is true, why is it that all the manufacturers have not left Gateshead and gone to Bournemouth? The truth of the matter is that the difference in rates is not the only factor to be considered, and that there are many other factors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1454.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-18", "file": "debates1928-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "83d09bd402960d96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1462.0", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " rescue of the necessitous areas, there will be no difficulty in finding a definition. The Minister will soon find one. In fact, I am not sure that he did not. find one when he came to me four or five years ago upon this very issue He then headed a very formidable deputation from local authorities in which he urged that the Government should go first of all for the relief of the necessitous areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-18", "file": "debates1928-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "83d09bd402960d96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1465.2", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "That is quite irrelevant to this Bill.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1465.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-18", "file": "debates1928-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "83d09bd402960d96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1467.6", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "Wait and see. You have not done it yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1467.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-18", "file": "debates1928-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "83d09bd402960d96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1470.1", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way. I wish to finish my point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-18", "file": "debates1928-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "83d09bd402960d96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1516.3", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "in the Expiring Laws Continuance Act. Why did he not come forward in the House of Commons at that time, as he could have done, and say: \"This relief is wasted and is doing no good to agriculture. I denounce it. Instead of doing good, you are doing harm.\" We did not hear a word from the right hon. Gentleman at that time when he had full responsibility for the conduct of the Ministry of Agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1516.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-18", "file": "debates1928-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "83d09bd402960d96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1517.5", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "I will leave the discussion of this matter to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1517.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-18", "file": "debates1928-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "83d09bd402960d96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1518.0", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There are none!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "stries, in view of the dire need of certain groups of people in certain districts, there is no money to be given away to people who do not need it, and yet under this Bill we are going to give away to them a certain proportion of £4,750,000 or whatever the sum may be. Even if none of it were going to be given to the prosperous landowners ultimately or the prosperous farmers immediately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-18", "file": "debates1928-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "83d09bd402960d96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1550.0", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIANT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIANT", "preceding_text": "try. This is the poor man's way of getting into the country. Here is a case in point. It is true that it is an extreme case, but it is a real case. Only ten clays ago a large party of schoolboys in Kent who collect their pence—their mothers and fathers help them—in order to visit places of interest in the neighbourhood had to pay an additional five shillings because of the Petrol Duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-18", "file": "debates1928-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "83d09bd402960d96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1550.0", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIANT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Five shillings each\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIANT", "preceding_text": "e, but it is a real case. Only ten clays ago a large party of schoolboys in Kent who collect their pence—their mothers and fathers help them—in order to visit places of interest in the neighbourhood had to pay an additional five shillings because of the Petrol Duty. [HON. MEMBERS: No !\"] That is an actual fact. If any hon. Member disputes my statement I can supply documentary evidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-18", "file": "debates1928-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "83d09bd402960d96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1555.0", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And milk! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "aw material is doing. I do hope the right hon. Gentleman will see the glaring injustice of that case. With regard to differentiation, how are you to differentiate in the case of the docks? If you relieve the docks, the difficulty will be to discriminate between imports of foodstuffs and imports of raw materials. What about raw sugar? Raw sugar is carried by road transport hourly, daily, and weekly", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-18a.1555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-19", "file": "debates1928-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "e632eae765858eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-19a.1612.5", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK - LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK - LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "ble can be given in the direction in which we ask for it. The hon. and gallant Member for Louth (Lieut.-Colonel Heneage) has said that he is not going to be stampeded into voting for this Amendment on the ground that it would be electorally inadvisable to vote against it. Very good; he can do exactly what he pleases. The Amendment is put forward because it is a sound proposal for benefiting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-19a.1612.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-19", "file": "debates1928-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "e632eae765858eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-19a.1626.1", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "I will conclude by saying that when they go to some afternoon fete the Members of the Liberal party will say: \"We proposed that your public recreation ground should be exempted from rates, and the wicked Government and their supporters voted it down.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-19a.1626.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-06-19", "file": "debates1928-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "e632eae765858eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-19a.1655.1", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "We have listened to two very interesting speeches, both of which have travelled far beyond the particular Clause which we are discussing, and are concerned with the introduction of this scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-19a.1655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-19", "file": "debates1928-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "e632eae765858eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-19a.1666.2", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": " the first question, and the second question is, as it seems to me, Has any better method been proposed by which that can be done? Before the Debates on this Measure began, we were often treated to discussions by lion. Gentlemen opposite on the great advantages that would accrue to industry if certain of the fundamental social services were transferred from the local areas to the general taxpayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-19a.1666.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-19", "file": "debates1928-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "e632eae765858eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-19a.1677.0", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": " imaginary and wholly illusory line, you will require to have multitudes of officials running round trying to divide off the warehouses and the stores, so that you will be spending hundreds of thousands of pounds to do wholly unnecessary work. There is one part of the Bill which I think the Government will have to drop; that is the wholly fantastic provision with regard to the assessment of docks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-19a.1677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-19", "file": "debates1928-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "e632eae765858eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-19a.1677.0", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "ieve the worst anomalies, and you could take away from industry, from the consumer, and from the householder the monstrous and artificial burden which the follies of our rating system have put upon them. In asking that we should proceed by areas, we are doing more than the Government propose to sweep away the artificiality of the present rating system. It is no use speaking. There is the majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-19a.1677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-19", "file": "debates1928-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "e632eae765858eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-19a.1690.1", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the present scheme is based upon that principle to a very large extent. That principle was adopted by the House of Commons with almost complete unanimity—than we ought to avoid where possible, the taxation of machinery and of the tools of production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-19a.1690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-19", "file": "debates1928-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "e632eae765858eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-19a.1711.5", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "given to your Ruling. I understand you to say that you cannot admit my first Amendment which is after the word \"Act\" to insert the words \"and in the principal Acts,\" because, having looked through the various Acts of Parliament, you find that there is no principal Act in which agricultural hereditaments are defined. I may he wrong, but I have before me a copy of the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-19a.1711.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-19", "file": "debates1928-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "e632eae765858eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-19a.1711.5", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "ng of the Agricultural Rates Acts, 1896 and 1923. The Bill that we have before us, according to Clause 10, says: This Act, except in its application to Scotland,\"— that is the exception— shall be construed as one with the principal Act, and the expression 'prescribed' means prescribed by rules made under the principal Act. Therefore, we have the expression \"agricultural hereditaments.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-19a.1711.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-19", "file": "debates1928-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "e632eae765858eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-19a.1711.5", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "ral hereditaments mean, where you are dealing with purposes in connection with the 1925 Act, one thing, and, when you are dealing with purposes in connection with the 1928 Act, another thing. I therefore, do not know, when questions arise, whether I am to apply to them the definition of the 1925 Act or the definition of the 192 Act.\" I therefore wish in the most kindly and harmonious spirit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-19a.1711.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-19", "file": "debates1928-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "e632eae765858eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-19a.1717.0", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ld be any doubt about it perhaps it might be well to introduce some words which will make it perfectly clear that the intention of the Government will be carried out in this Clause. I must point out, however, that the Amendment as it is moved will go too far, because it might be interpreted to mean that any little backyard in which one or two fowls are kept should be included as agricultural land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-19a.1717.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1760.2", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, order!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "Was the hon. and gallant Gentleman's Department responsible for supplying the information that 500 new applicants had been settled in the last two years, because that was a grossly misleading statement which was made in the Prime Minister's speech in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1760.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1795.8", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Commodore Douglas King)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Commodore Douglas King)", "preceding_text": "h fatal and non-fatal accidents as compared with last year. The death-rate for the last year per 1,000 persons employed was 1.09, and for the first five months of this year it had been reduced to 1.03. The death-rate per 100,000 shifts worked, another form in which the statistics are worked out, for 1927 was 45. For the first five months of this year, it was 42. The injury rate has also decreased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1795.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1795.8", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Commodore Douglas King)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It. is the most understandable way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Commodore Douglas King)", "preceding_text": "yed was 1.09, and for the first five months of this year it had been reduced to 1.03. The death-rate per 100,000 shifts worked, another form in which the statistics are worked out, for 1927 was 45. For the first five months of this year, it was 42. The injury rate has also decreased. [ Interruption. ] The total numbers are in the Report. I will supply them to the hon. Member if he would like them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1795.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1795.8", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Commodore Douglas King)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why keep them secret?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Commodore Douglas King)", "preceding_text": "hen we compare different periods. That was the only way, in fact, in which we could compare with 1926, when there were very few men employed. It is the usual, and I think the hon. Member will agree, the best way of calculating the rate of accidents by giving it both by the numbers of men employed and by the number of shifts worked. Those two together really give you the incidence of the accidents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1795.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1795.8", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Commodore Douglas King)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Commodore Douglas King)", "preceding_text": "ht direction when the accident rates are actually decreasing. 4.0 p.m. I should like to say a word with regard to the way in which accidents occur. It appals me to see what a large proportion of accidents could really be preventable if the men themselves used due and proper care. A great many of these accidents occur from the carelessness and, in some cases, the wilful acts, of the men themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1795.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1795.8", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Commodore Douglas King)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does it prevent it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Commodore Douglas King)", "preceding_text": "posite will realise the importance of a safety-first policy. What appals me with regard to these returns of accidents is the number of accidents which occur in the case of men who, in some cases, will actually climb over the protective machinery, although strict orders have been given against such accidents, and this protective machinery is put there on purpose to prevent their becoming entangled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1795.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1803.0", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It depends on the terms of reference.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "ne into that. I have been going into the question of trying to get as representative a body as possible. I should really want information from the hon. Member to say whether a mining engineer was in his category of employer or not. I think it will be generally agreed that that is a very well qualified committee composed of men well fitted to deal with the questions which they are asked to examine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1803.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1805.0", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HALL", "preceding_text": "f the reductions in the accident rates given by the Secretary. There is one matter with which we would like him to deal more fully when he speaks on the next occasion, and that is to give us the number of accidents which he mentioned which were brought about by the carelessness of those persons who were injured, and especially those accidents which he described as being due to some wilful neglect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1835.0", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was wasted!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman must not forget the money which the Government have put into the coal industry in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1835.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1835.0", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman must not forget the money which the Government have put into the coal industry in the past. [An HON. MEMBER: \"That was wasted!\"] I am not arguing whether it was wasted or not, but certainly everybody in the coal trade got some of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1835.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1835.0", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Certainly not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": " Gentleman must not forget the money which the Government have put into the coal industry in the past. [An HON. MEMBER: \"That was wasted!\"] I am not arguing whether it was wasted or not, but certainly everybody in the coal trade got some of it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Surely, it is not going to be seriously argued that, if £22,000,000 was paid out in subsidy, a great deal was not paid in wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1835.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1835.0", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": ". MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Surely, it is not going to be seriously argued that, if £22,000,000 was paid out in subsidy, a great deal was not paid in wages. [HON. MEMBERS: Certainly not!\"] I am not concerned in this Debate to go back upon that matter and discuss whether it was right or wrong. We propose to give relief in the form of a remission of rates and lower railway freights for the coal industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1835.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1836.6", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "You do not deserve it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1836.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1836.6", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "You do not deserve it. [ Interruption. ] It is about time someone told him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1836.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1838.1", "colnum": "1838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Chemicals!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "I shall be entirely out of Order if I am drawn into a Debate on nationalisation, but I am extremely doubtful whether one syndicate for the whole of this country would be a practical proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1841.0", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "coal from us. That contract was previously held by the Westphalian Syndicate. The Lithuanian State Railways have bought their requirements from South Yorkshire; but last year they bought their coal partly from Poland and partly from Westphalia. The same is true of the contract with the Swedish State Railways. I think that did go to the six counties and not to Durham—I think it was Yorkshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1861.0", "colnum": "1861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS", "preceding_text": "ve to produce coal at those pits, which are so circumstanced that they must produce at the lowest possible price. I say advisedly at the lowest possible price. All Members, including ale mining Members, know that if you have to face international competition it is no use talking about rates of wages which govern only one country. You have to deal with international markets and international rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1861.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1866.1", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RITSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It would be a gift of £50,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RITSON", "preceding_text": "e will be a certain benefit, but it will not affect the figures that I am going to give in regard to our ascertainment for June. When there is a deficit for the month of £230,781—this is from an official document—and the whole of the rates for that month are only £50,000, one sees that if we were relieved of the whole of the rates we should have a great deficit for the month.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1869.4", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RITSON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RITSON", "preceding_text": "ed in the papers last night as being bought for £134,000, which was about £40,000 more than a great country could give to its starving miners. We are not asking for charity, but we want justice. The last act that the Government did was to send the Minister of Education up to Durham to see about the condition of the children there, and after the whole of the thing had been heralded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1869.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1869.4", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RITSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"But you should!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RITSON", "preceding_text": "could give to its starving miners. We are not asking for charity, but we want justice. The last act that the Government did was to send the Minister of Education up to Durham to see about the condition of the children there, and after the whole of the thing had been heralded—[ Interruption ]—I am not blaming the President himself. I do not blame any single Member on the Treasury Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1869.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1914.6", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "tion. At the present time, we have a capacity far in excess of the amount of coal that we can dispose of. As I pointed out just before Whitsuntide, it has been calculated in the Mines Department that, taking the actual capacity for last year as 330,000,000 tons, we have an excess capacity of something like 25 per cent. above our saleable capacity, that is to say, the amount that we can dispose of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1914.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1914.6", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "ve an excess capacity of something like 25 per cent. above our saleable capacity, that is to say, the amount that we can dispose of. [ Interruption. ] I really cannot understand how the hon. Member who, I know, gives a considerable amount of thought to these matters, can lay blame on the Government in any way whatever for the fact that our capacity is greater than the quantity we can dis- pose of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1914.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1914.6", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "which is a fair way of finding out the actual capacity, and the actual capacity exceeded our requirements practically by one-fourth. The question comes as to how one is going to deal with over-production. The President of the Board of Trade quite rightly pointed out that the most economic way to do it was to concentrate on the best pits. I think that will really be agreed by hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1914.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1914.6", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": " concentrate on. We have to try to produce coal in as economical a way as possible, because that is not only to the advantage of the coalowner but it is also to the advantage of the miners themselves. In the first place, concentrating on the best pits means that we are getting our coal cheaper and we can sell more of it, and there is no doubt whatever that by reducing the price we shall sell more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1914.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1914.6", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": " working full time. They would work the full number of shifts and would be earning full money. Another point is that the wages ascertainment in the different districts is taken over the area. It is the costly pits, those that are losing roost money, that bring the ascertainments down. If the work was concentrated on the best pits the ascertainments would go up, to the benefit of the miners' wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1914.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-21", "file": "debates1928-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "27778fca35dde103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1914.6", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "inments down. If the work was concentrated on the best pits the ascertainments would go up, to the benefit of the miners' wages. [ Interruption. ] The increase surely is for the benefit of both. I have said it is to the advantage of the coal-owner. I am trying to prove that it is not only for his benefit but to the advantage of the miners themselves. Surely the hon. Member will not object to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-21a.1914.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-22", "file": "debates1928-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1e5e3ef574010ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-22a.1933.4", "colnum": "1933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "f slaughter. I think the people who promote this Bill are not themselves very familiar with the habits and practices of dumb animals. They might not know that a sheep, above all animals, is a very difficult animal to keep stationary in order to fire a shot at its head, whereas, when it is held and the knife is used, one man can manage it. It will always take two men to operate this thing, however,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-22a.1933.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-22", "file": "debates1928-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1e5e3ef574010ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-22a.1952.1", "colnum": "1952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "preceding_text": "ied out successfully will be, under compulsion, brought to serve the common good. It is true it is voluntary at present, but, just because it has proved so successful in a voluntary way, we are introducing the element of compulsion and applying it to Scotland as a whole instead of giving power to local authorities. That is a sufficient answer to the hon. and gallant Gentleman's interruption—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-22a.1952.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-22", "file": "debates1928-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1e5e3ef574010ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-22a.1975.2", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "BETTING (JUVENILE MESSENGERS) (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER.: \"Knowingly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Of course not, but I think under this Bill the District Messenger Company in Scotland—for I presume it operates in Scotland—will come under the pains and penalties of this Bill for using a messenger under 16 to deliver a betting message.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-22a.1975.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-25", "file": "debates1928-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "0e38187a21c8091e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-25a.69.2", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer has said on more than one occasion that if he had £6,000,000 or £7,000,000 to spare he would like to see a free breakfast table of Empire foods as much as anyone, though there are other necessities, the cost of which bears heavily upon the poorer section of our fellow-citizens and to the relief of which he would rather devote that money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-25a.69.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-25", "file": "debates1928-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "0e38187a21c8091e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-25a.80.0", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": " to 4d. in the lb. and he desired to make the reduction 6d., the hon. Member for St. George's, Westminster (Mr. Erskine) said nothing then about the halfpenny a week, but went into the Lobby and voted for the further reduction believing, as we all do, that the Tea Duty, being a flat-rate duty, and tea being consumed throughout the whole community, falls with special heaviness upon the poor people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-25a.80.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-25", "file": "debates1928-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "0e38187a21c8091e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-25a.110.0", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is two-thirds.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ce, he represented this tax as one which would fall mainly upon the working classes. I do not think his figures—I will have them examined before the Report stage in detail—will in the slightest justify this contention. The proportion of the tax—I have not got it in my memory at the moment—which is paid by the omnibuses and chars-a-banc is a very small part of the total tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-25a.110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-25", "file": "debates1928-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "0e38187a21c8091e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-25a.111.0", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RILEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RILEY", "preceding_text": "May I call your attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-25a.111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-25", "file": "debates1928-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "0e38187a21c8091e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-25a.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GODFREY COLLINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GODFREY COLLINS", "preceding_text": " of the total money which he estimates his duty will bring in to the Exchequer during the coming year. One million pounds a year is the contribution which these trades will pay to the Exchequer by this duty. That is a direct tax upon productive industry. While on the one hand the Chancellor of the Exchequer is by this policy of largesse handing out large sums of money to people who do not need it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-25a.162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-25", "file": "debates1928-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "0e38187a21c8091e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-25a.173.0", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Protection?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ntitled to it. We must have some figures to go upon. How much petrol is consumed by the fishing vessels? Obviously the Government will have infor- mation of this kind. They must have some estimate, and what is this duty actually going to mean to them? I reinforce the plea made by the hon. and gallant Member for Torquay. The fishing industry to-day is suffering from very severe foreign competition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-25a.173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-25", "file": "debates1928-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "0e38187a21c8091e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-25a.173.0", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "e the plea made by the hon. and gallant Member for Torquay. The fishing industry to-day is suffering from very severe foreign competition. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Protection?\"] Neither this Government nor any other Government could put a tax on fish. There will not be a tariff on fish. I represent a port which in recent months has produced the greatest amount of fish in any port in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-25a.173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-25", "file": "debates1928-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "0e38187a21c8091e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-25a.173.0", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why complain about foreign competition?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ish in any port in the world. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It may be temporary, perhaps, but we have actually beaten Grimsby. The hon. Member for Grimsby (Mr. Womersley) will agree with me that neither in Grimsby nor in Hull do the leaders of the industry for a moment suggest that this Government or a diehard Government, and certainly no Government from the Opposition parties should put a tariff on fish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-25a.173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-25", "file": "debates1928-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "0e38187a21c8091e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-25a.182.0", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": " made as simple as possible, I do not anticipate that it will cost the Chancellor of the Exchequer very much. In view of the fact that this promise was made to the industry, it is only right that they should be given the exemption, and I hope that it will not be abused and that claims for exemption will not be made for other industries. This industry is entirely different from anything else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-25a.182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-25", "file": "debates1928-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "0e38187a21c8091e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-25a.188.2", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "or starting up. Once the tractor is started up, properly handled, it gives as satisfactory results on kerosene as on petrol. Tractors which can only run on petrol are altogether exceptional, and the makers of one of the leading kinds of tractors recommend the use of kerosene in preference to petrol. This proposal differs, it will be generally admitted, from the proposal in regard to fishing boats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-25a.188.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-26", "file": "debates1928-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe7024003f7d9d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.217.5", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker is in the Chair. We do not want half-a-dozen Speakers over there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.217.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-26", "file": "debates1928-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe7024003f7d9d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "again, I am really astonished to know that it is a crime to make purchases in advance. A trade which is serving the country with an indispensable commodity is naturally bound to buy ahead. It cannot be successful unless it does so. How can we say that any firms buying for the English market and consumer are not to be allowed to purchase in the world market on terms as advantageous as they can get?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-26", "file": "debates1928-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe7024003f7d9d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.269.1", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "e than 10 weeks' supply, had all passed into consumption before the Budget. So much for this abnormal purchase. It was bought before these matters had reached any decisive stage and was used up before the Budget and it is no good for the right hon. Gentleman opposite to smile sarcastically in face of this overwhelming reply. All these matters will be read and studied most carefully in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.269.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-26", "file": "debates1928-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe7024003f7d9d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major HILLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HILLS", "preceding_text": "er against the tax on mechanical lighters being taken off, but the matter was then regarded as of no importance. Now the imports of mechanical lighters have gone up enormously. There were very nearly 4,000,000 last year, and I see for the first quarter in 1928 they are 1,131,000, against under 800,000 for the first quarter of 1927, so that the case for some taxation by Customs and Excise is clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.297.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-26", "file": "debates1928-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe7024003f7d9d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.400.8", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "fact, we have seen in the last three or four years a progress by the Government towards Protection which has no precedent in the history of this country for 70 or 80 years. We have moved more rapidly towards a general tariff in the last three years than anybody, 20 years ago, could possibly have imagined, although hon. Members opposite may think that the rate of progress is much too slow for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.400.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-26", "file": "debates1928-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe7024003f7d9d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.402.0", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "at in certain events we would put on safeguarding duties. I have not the least doubt that if the Government had withheld from the House of Commons proposals for such duties, where those proposals have been made in the course of this Parliament, then, indeed, we should have been guilty of a breach of a pledge—a positive pledge which we gave to the country and on which the country returned us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.402.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-06-26", "file": "debates1928-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe7024003f7d9d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "How do we know that?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "the Law Courts knows that it is not what people put into the statement of claim or into the defence that counts; it is what is produced in evidence that counts, and, if the opponents had had the least chance of proving that their case was right in this respect, does not everybody suppose that they would have produced evidence? Because they knew that there was no case, they never gave any evidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-26", "file": "debates1928-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe7024003f7d9d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.403.3", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "he Trade Unions told us. I suppose a thousand more people out of work is no change at all, in the view of hon. Members opposite. There were 1,000 more men out of work, and, when the Government does something to put those people into work, I suggest that hon. Members opposite should support us instead of creating obstruction. Many thousands of men have been put into employment through Safeguarding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.403.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-26", "file": "debates1928-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe7024003f7d9d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.405.5", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "The month after the duty came in? Of course, it was very small.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.405.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-26", "file": "debates1928-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe7024003f7d9d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.409.4", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "erhampton and Glasgow. The proprietors made clear that it was due to the fact that the organisation no longer suited modern requirements and that for that reason the factory was closed down. I object to this duty because it is a tax upon the consumer. It is going to make a difference, not to the most expensive articles, but to articles at a cheaper rate, articles in general use in poor households.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.409.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-26", "file": "debates1928-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe7024003f7d9d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Mr. HARRIS rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-26", "file": "debates1928-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe7024003f7d9d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.415.4", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "e well known, it seems to me that this special minority report is probably the chief justification for the second Report of 1928. I would like to suggest that there seems to be more than an atom of justification for assuming that this Professor has been very largely the inspiration of the second Report. In the second Report, paragraph 26, hon. Members will find that the Committee have taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-26", "file": "debates1928-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe7024003f7d9d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "fessor signed a minority report in favour of Protection. He is known to be a supporter of Protection, and he is the very person who is permitted to pay visits to seven factories, and whose evidence, apparently, is the guiding influence when this second Report is drawn up. It is fair to assume that this is Professor Kirkaldy's report, that it is based on his fiscal predilections, and that no—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-26", "file": "debates1928-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe7024003f7d9d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.421.3", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "ith the firms with which he is connected. I am concerned with those firms in which he holds directorates. I am concerned with the men and women who are employed there and who have a greater concern in it, because they depend on it for their bread and butter every week. I want to see these industries prosperous for the purpose of providing wages and bread and butter for the people whom I represent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.421.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-26", "file": "debates1928-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe7024003f7d9d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.423.0", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Humbug!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "y being safeguarded when that industry has been safeguarded after the most difficult possible procedure. There are a lot of people on this side who believe that the pledges of the Government, given to the electorate before the last General Election, were definitely that any British industry which suffered unfairly from foreign competition should ipso facto be entitled to a measure of safeguarding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-26", "file": "debates1928-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe7024003f7d9d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.423.2", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "It is all very well to say \"Never.\" If hon. Members are judging their own pretences and performances by the desires of people on this side of the Committee, they do probably fail in their appreciation of our motives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.423.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-26", "file": "debates1928-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe7024003f7d9d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.478.2", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I want to lodge my protest against the manner in which the Chancellor is bringing forward this proposal that we should leave this Clause out until a later period. This Committee is evidently looked upon by the Chancellor of the Exchequer as merely a convenience to suit himself and his friends. We have been asked to wait here all through the night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.478.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-26", "file": "debates1928-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe7024003f7d9d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.478.2", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "should leave this Clause out until a later period. This Committee is evidently looked upon by the Chancellor of the Exchequer as merely a convenience to suit himself and his friends. We have been asked to wait here all through the night—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]. Oh, yes. We have been asked to wait all through the night because the Government have moved the suspension of the Eleven o'Clock Rule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.478.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-26", "file": "debates1928-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe7024003f7d9d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.489.2", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT SANDERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT SANDERS", "preceding_text": " of Trade gave an assurance earlier in the evening that we were going to take all the Clauses. I would just throw out a suggestion. Would it be possible that we should go on with these Clauses now and take them to the end of Clause 17, and the Chancellor give us an assurance that on Report stage we shall have a proper discussion on Clause 13, and that we have it at some reasonable hour of the day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.489.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-26", "file": "debates1928-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe7024003f7d9d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.489.3", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Say it again!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "important, but it was not too important to discuss articles of domestic use in working-class households at three o'clock in the morning. That was an important matter to us, and is is just as necessary that we should discuss very important matters at six o'clock in the morning. I for one am prepared to sit here all day, and make longer speeches, unless the Chancellor is prepared to report Progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-26a.489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-27", "file": "debates1928-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "fa5af8ca58f6c22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-27a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mr. SPEAKER'S RETIREMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": ", we are called upon to grant a large pension to a gentleman whom we all respect, and we respect him more for having declined a so-called honour. He has said, \"Keep it to yourselves. I prefer to remain in the company of those with whom I have been associated all my life, rather than be relegated to a position of an entirely different character.\" Speaking from the working-c ass point of view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-27a.538.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-27", "file": "debates1928-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "fa5af8ca58f6c22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-27a.542.3", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mr. SPEAKER'S RETIREMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "preceding_text": " the passing of this Amendment? Secondly, I ask the hon. and gallant Gentleman whether he will put his desire to equalise everybody into practice by immediately bringing forward a Motion, equally applicable to the rest of us as to him, that rather than we should vote for a reduced pension to the late Speaker, we should vote immediately for the reduction of the salary of every Member of Parliament?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-27a.542.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-27", "file": "debates1928-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "fa5af8ca58f6c22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-27a.614.2", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONE CLAUSE 13.—(Income Tax and Super-tax for 1928–29.)", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I think not, unless I have unintentionally misquoted them. Let me give them again. In respect of the year 1927–28 the Super-tax payer is liable to pay his tax on 1st January, 1928. That is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-27a.614.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-27", "file": "debates1928-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "fa5af8ca58f6c22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-27a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONE CLAUSE 13.—(Income Tax and Super-tax for 1928–29.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. PERRING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The dividend!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. PERRING", "preceding_text": "Many members of the co-operative movement would heartily welcome a readjustment of the incidence of taxation which would result in the cooperative societies paying their fair share, because those members are Conservative in thought, and they sympathise with what is fair to the trader. It is the allurement of the bonus which appeals to a large number of people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-27a.641.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-28", "file": "debates1928-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "2e2bff6f3d28e76c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-28a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL. (ALLOCATION OF TIME.)", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "I am trying to give my reasons why more time should be allotted. I have said that I want an hour at least for discussing the one point I have mentioned in Clause 2, and five or six hours for the word \"primarily\" in Clause 3. I want to suggest another point on which I would need two hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-28a.779.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-28", "file": "debates1928-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "2e2bff6f3d28e76c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-28a.806.0", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (GRADING AND MARKING) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "in advance of the situation arising in which they could recommend the marking of imported eggs. The hon. Member asks why we should wait for that time. The reason is obvious. If we imposed this Order, and said that cold-stored British eggs were to be marked as such, while foreign eggs could come in with no mark of origin at all, that would obviously entail a great injustice on the British producer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-28a.806.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-28", "file": "debates1928-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "2e2bff6f3d28e76c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-28a.806.2", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (GRADING AND MARKING) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "the foreign fresh egg, but, anyhow, it will not be possible for either to masquerade as a British egg. I think that, perhaps, the shortest answer to the suggestion that we are inviting the Committee to come to some decision is that an invitation of that kind would be too late, because the Committee, as has been pointed out already, have come to their decision, and their Report is already in draft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-28a.806.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-28", "file": "debates1928-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "2e2bff6f3d28e76c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-28a.828.1", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "yment as such a clerk and if he had attained the age of fifty-five years before the eighteenth day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, grant to him by way of compensation such gratuity, not exceeding twice the amount of the salary received by him during his last year of employment, as may seem to them just. Clerks who may be only 55 years of age are to be retired on double their salary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-28a.828.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-29", "file": "debates1928-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "80fa744b3f32b27d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-29a.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (HOURS OF CLOSING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That is an evening newspaper.\" The new Clause says \"daily.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "opportunity of trading in this way, because there are certain remote parts of the country where it is absolutely impossible to get the late edition of the evening newspaper from the town where it is printed to those districts before the closing hour of 8 o'clock. I might quote my own county of Lincoln. The last edition of the newspaper printed at Lincoln cannot reach the town of Louth before 8.15.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-29a.867.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-06-29", "file": "debates1928-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "80fa744b3f32b27d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-29a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "RECONSTITUTED AND SYNTHETIC CREAM BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. SUGDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. SUGDEN", "preceding_text": "hair and, with my humble experience, if the need should arise, I shall welcome your guidance, Sir. I was coming to the position in regard to cream sold in those emporiums which are patronised by the élite section of the Party above the Gangway and also those which some of we humbler members attend at luncheon time. I am seeking to emphasise the point of difference as between \"may\" or \"shall\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-06-29a.938.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-02", "file": "debates1928-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "0ec64e7d86071034", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-02a.1106.4", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 3.—(Definition of industrial hereditaments.)", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "en different classes of manufacturers you have wholesalers distributing right along from the introduction of the raw material to the finished product. Every producer undertakes, and necessarily undertakes, some of these operations; every producer is of necessity a salesman and engaged in the work of storage. That in itself complicates and discriminates entirely between one class and another class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-02a.1106.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-02", "file": "debates1928-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "0ec64e7d86071034", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-02a.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 3.—(Definition of industrial hereditaments.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "op, or mine, and having found one that answers the description of a factory, workshop, or mine, primarily used for any of the purposes ( a ) to ( f ) then we are no longer to regard it as a factory, a workshop or a mine for the purposes of the Measure. That seems to be the structure of the Clause. If the right hon. Gentleman will be good enough to refer to the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-02a.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-02", "file": "debates1928-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "0ec64e7d86071034", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-02a.1122.0", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Captain HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain HUDSON", "preceding_text": "Members and to people dwelling in, London constituencies. As regards Lambeth Bridge, I have heard that at one time we had a Bill through this House for Lambeth Bridge, and that the plans which were then passed have been very materially altered by the London County Council, and that the present plans are entirely different. I should like to hear, if the hon. Member chooses to answer, if that is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-02a.1122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-03", "file": "debates1928-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd9c7defdf49a3ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1142.5", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "It is not a case of appearing in his own defence; it is a case where a number of charges were made by him. As a matter of fact, he was not dismissed; he was given notice terminating the appointment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1142.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-03", "file": "debates1928-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd9c7defdf49a3ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1191.4", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAY", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Clause be read a Second time.\" I am afraid that, while we shall have the sympathy of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in regard to this proposed new Clause, we shall not have his support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1191.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-03", "file": "debates1928-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd9c7defdf49a3ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1191.4", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAY", "preceding_text": "f theatres and cinemas in this country. I see by the approval that is expressed by the hon. Member for Kingston-on-Thames (Mr. Penny) that, although he may not support us in the Lobby, he at least agrees with us in principle. I know that many hon. Gentlemen on the Government benches agree that the tax should be entirely abolished, because on several occasions in the Committee rooms upstairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1191.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-03", "file": "debates1928-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd9c7defdf49a3ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1206.3", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£24,000,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "the incidence of these Excise Duties falls upon the owners of the public houses, namely, the brewers. What is the position of the brewers? I gave some figures a week or two ago, when we were discussing the Second Reading of the Finance Bill, showing that since 1914 the profits of the brewing trade have risen by over 100 per cent., from about £10,000,000 a year to over £20,000,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1206.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-07-03", "file": "debates1928-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd9c7defdf49a3ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1208.1", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOOKER", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-03", "file": "debates1928-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd9c7defdf49a3ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1213.3", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "going to be given to the brewer. It will be a splendid election cry. Every brewer will give his assistance and every tied-house will be a committee room for the Tory party, and the old proposition will go round, \"Save the working man's glass of beer.\" As a matter of fact, they want to drown him in beer at the next election if it means saving their own position. I am one who drinks a glass of beer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1213.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-07-03", "file": "debates1928-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd9c7defdf49a3ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WITHERS", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to embarrass the right hon. Gentleman. What my hon. Friends want is to have this matter, which is one of substance, considered by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. We wish to give him the opportunity of considering it, and we hope that it will be raised by him again on the Report stage. I therefore beg to ask leave to withdraw the Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-03", "file": "debates1928-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd9c7defdf49a3ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1246.0", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "preceding_text": "r of the Exchequer has is that he cannot afford to lose revenue. I humbly and respectfully represent to him that he can well afford to lose revenue if he is going to impose an injustice or inequity upon any section of the community, however small. I know that we are speaking to-night for a very small section of the community, who are not likely very seriously to affect the result of a by-election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-03", "file": "debates1928-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd9c7defdf49a3ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1261.1", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. JACKSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. JACKSON", "preceding_text": "tition shall be determined by the Minister, and the Minister shall have power to make such order thereon as he thinks fit. Any order made by the Minister under this Section shall be final and binding and not subject to appeal to any Court and shall on the application of the Minister be enforceable by writ of mandamus. I therefore claim that there is an entire disappearance of the word \"mono poly.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-03", "file": "debates1928-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd9c7defdf49a3ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Colonel Ashley)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Colonel Ashley)", "preceding_text": "I promise the House that I will not detain it for any great length, because I know that the time taken up now will have to be found out of our sleeping time after 12 o'clock tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1264.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-07-03", "file": "debates1928-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd9c7defdf49a3ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BUCKINGHAM", "preceding_text": "In view of the apparent inability of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to understand the Clause, and the total disregard which he has paid to the very vital question of arithmetic, I do not think that it is fair to him to ask the Committee to divide on this Clause, and I beg to ask leave to withdraw it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1276.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-07-03", "file": "debates1928-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd9c7defdf49a3ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1279.1", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. ILIFFE", "preceding_text": "In view of the statement made by the Financial Secretary I do not propose to press this Clause. I hope he will read my speech very carefully and I hope the Government will give it consideration. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-03", "file": "debates1928-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd9c7defdf49a3ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1314.0", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "s argument on that point, because there is nothing in the Amendment which would in any way effect the object he has in view. It is, therefore, impossible to reply without being out of order. I should have thought the hon. Member, whose Parliamentary skill and ingenuity are the envy of us all, would have been able to find some method of raising the subject which would allow me to develop the theme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-03", "file": "debates1928-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd9c7defdf49a3ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1325.0", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "This proposal would involve a sacrifice of revenue so great as to bring a shudder to the heart of any member of my nationality. The sacrifice of revenue would mean £2,500,000 a year, and it is impossible for the revenue to contemplate a sacrifice of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-03a.1325.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-04", "file": "debates1928-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b11bfa5b695bfa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-04a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — METROPOLITAN POLICE (CHIEF COMMISSIONER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "two days ago he told the House that there were some exceptional conditions which necessitated the appointment of such a gentleman, and may I ask him the question which I asked him then, as to why it is that there is no person in the service of the Metropolitan Police who can be promoted to this position, without bringing in a gentleman of this age? May I also say to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-04a.1382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-04", "file": "debates1928-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b11bfa5b695bfa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-04a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — METROPOLITAN POLICE (CHIEF COMMISSIONER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ent of such a gentleman, and may I ask him the question which I asked him then, as to why it is that there is no person in the service of the Metropolitan Police who can be promoted to this position, without bringing in a gentleman of this age? May I also say to the right hon. Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—that persons who do voluntary work do not want sneers from him or anyone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-04a.1382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-04", "file": "debates1928-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b11bfa5b695bfa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-04a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — METROPOLITAN POLICE (CHIEF COMMISSIONER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I asked him then, as to why it is that there is no person in the service of the Metropolitan Police who can be promoted to this position, without bringing in a gentleman of this age? May I also say to the right hon. Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—that persons who do voluntary work do not want sneers from him or anyone else. [ Interruption .] When you have done as much as I have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-04a.1382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-04", "file": "debates1928-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b11bfa5b695bfa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-04a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — METROPOLITAN POLICE (CHIEF COMMISSIONER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "the service of the Metropolitan Police who can be promoted to this position, without bringing in a gentleman of this age? May I also say to the right hon. Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—that persons who do voluntary work do not want sneers from him or anyone else. [ Interruption .] When you have done as much as I have—[ Interruption .] He is beneath contempt, that is what I say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-04a.1382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-04", "file": "debates1928-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b11bfa5b695bfa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-04a.1383.6", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — METROPOLITAN POLICE (CHIEF COMMISSIONER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Gentleman read the latest Report issued by Sir William Horwood in reference to the condition of the police force in the metropolitan area?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-04a.1383.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-04", "file": "debates1928-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b11bfa5b695bfa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-04a.1410.1", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "ee. Why do we not agree with that argument? I am afraid on this point that I shall have to repeat an observation which I have made before, and remind the Committee that every time you enlarge the field of rating relief you increase the liability of the Exchequer, and we cannot go on indefinitely relieving one section of the community after another without imposing fresh burdens upon the taxpayers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-04a.1410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-04", "file": "debates1928-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b11bfa5b695bfa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-04a.1417.2", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including Armstrong's?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "Tyne de-rating is only 12 per cent. of the whole, because you only de-rate productive enterprises and Newcastle depends upon its distributive enterprises. The distributive enterprises of this great city of the North will get nothing. Because there is no production inside that county borough—the production is all outside—12 per cent. only of the industry of Newcastle-on-Tyne is derated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-04a.1417.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-04", "file": "debates1928-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b11bfa5b695bfa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-04a.1442.1", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "mployed, or partly employed, are wanting goods very badly, and as soon as they earn money we shall feel the benefit. Therefore, I say that we do not want to be worrying much about a little off our own rates so much as hoping that we shall get an increased turnover. A good deal of the argument on those lines has had the bottom knocked out of it by the White Paper that has been issued this week-end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-04a.1442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-04", "file": "debates1928-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b11bfa5b695bfa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-04a.1466.0", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "industries which have been protected under the Safeguarding procedure are now, in addition to that, to receive derating on precisely the same conditions as all other industries in the Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-04a.1466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-04", "file": "debates1928-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b11bfa5b695bfa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-04a.1514.1", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": " that will not pass away?\" It seems to me to have a tendency to take away from these undertakings, dock concerns and railway companies, the doing of their own work, because if it is done on their own premises they will not get the benefit of the de-rating. They will get it in the first instance, but they have to pass it on. These points have occurred to me, and I think they ought to be considered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-04a.1514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-04", "file": "debates1928-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b11bfa5b695bfa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-04a.1526.0", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "s coat, and that has increased the difficulties which the valuers have to overcome. Now in connection with the most intricate interests of all we are running on a distinction between railways, dockyards, and canals. Valuations have been for a long time the profession of a highly specialised class of persons, and difficult questions frequently arise when railways, docks and canals join one another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-04a.1526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-05", "file": "debates1928-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "ebdd692ef30d54d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-05a.1554.5", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALIENS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman refuse to be intimidated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-05a.1554.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-05", "file": "debates1928-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "ebdd692ef30d54d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-05a.1582.4", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MKMBBRS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "Is it in order to deprive private Members of an opportunity of putting supplementary questions simply by calling for the next question on the Paper?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-05a.1582.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-05", "file": "debates1928-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "ebdd692ef30d54d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-05a.1620.0", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "e between goods \"in the course of transit\" and goods \"in the course of being transported.\" I do not see any particular difference in the words, in the ordinary literary meaning. \"In the course of transit\" has been the subject of many legal definitions, and I can perfectly well see that goods \"in the course of being transported\" will be interpreted by the Judges as goods \"in the course of transit.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-05a.1620.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-05", "file": "debates1928-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "ebdd692ef30d54d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-05a.1637.2", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "preceding_text": " it a very desirable thing that on a question of drafting we should give a definition in an Act and then go on to say: and in any Act passed after the passing of this Act\"? It seems to me rather a clumsy and undesirable form of drafting, and it is an extraordinary thing that with all the years of experience of drafting that the competent draftsmen who prepare these Bills have, this is a new—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-05a.1637.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-05", "file": "debates1928-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "ebdd692ef30d54d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-05a.1638.1", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman does not know one way or the other, I think the Committee may fairly assume that there is no precedent, for if there were, I am sure we should have heard of it. I think it is a bad form of drafting, and I submit that it would be very much better if we confined the definition to the Act with which we are dealing and did not try prospectively to attach it to laws which are yet unborn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-05a.1638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-05", "file": "debates1928-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "ebdd692ef30d54d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-05a.1680.2", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "ish provisions. That is not the same as the point of whether this Bill is only rendered necessary because of other Bills which are to follow it. Unless there had been the general proposal for rating relief which will be given operative effect by the later Bills, this Bill would not be necessary. It is dealing with the valuation roll and is doing nothing more than providing separate entities there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-05a.1680.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-05", "file": "debates1928-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "ebdd692ef30d54d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-05a.1685.9", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "rst of all, he said that Clause 9 could not be applied to Scottish conditions. I cannot see why it cannot be applied quite easily, and the assessors themselves see no difficulty in applying it. He first of all referred to the question of unemployment in Scotland, which, of course, we all deplore, but that is all the more reason for hurrying on with this Bill, so that we may get to the other Bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-05a.1685.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-05", "file": "debates1928-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "ebdd692ef30d54d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-05a.1724.0", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "preceding_text": "hat they propose to do. If they had come forward and said, there are no workmen involved, no employés who are likely to suffer, we are going to take them over, we should not have been opposing the Bill. These are questions of vital importance and if we give powers to the corporation to take over these undertakings, we are entitled, in the exercise of our rights as Members of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-05a.1724.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-05", "file": "debates1928-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "ebdd692ef30d54d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-05a.1730.2", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "Municipal corporations all over the country wiped out, many months ago, the unfortunate incidents of 1926, and we are now only asking the Southampton Corporation to follow that example, whether the men are in the union at the present time or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-05a.1730.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-06", "file": "debates1928-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7d50e9d425187bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1743.4", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "re us they will find that the very first thing which has happened is visible to the eye. In the original Bill there were two Clauses—the Title Clause and the operative Clause. The operative part of the original Bill consisted of seven lines, and the total number of lines in the Bill was 17. The Bill now before us is a Bill of five Clauses. It consists of 149 lines of which 141 are operative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1743.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-07-06", "file": "debates1928-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7d50e9d425187bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1756.1", "colnum": "1756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "What about the Prayer Book?", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "preceding_text": "I think the House would desire that I should say a few words on the Motion now before the House——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1756.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-06", "file": "debates1928-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7d50e9d425187bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1756.3", "colnum": "1756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Church Assembly and the Prayer Book?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": " the merits of the Bill; all I am going to ask the House to say is, that when a Committee of its own Members have devoted all this time to producing a Bill to be considered on the Report stage, and the House is now prepared to take into consideration those Amendments and to deal with them; and to remodel them if hon. Members so desire, it would be a breach of the ordinary usage of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1756.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-06", "file": "debates1928-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7d50e9d425187bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1758.0", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Church Assembly?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I hope that hon. Members on all sides of the House, whatever may be their views on particular Clauses of the Bill, will say that in deference to the action of their own Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1758.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-06", "file": "debates1928-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7d50e9d425187bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1763.1", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He goes there now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": " question it, because I do not know that there are more doubtful characters who go to a race meeting than go to the Stock Exchange or any other great gamble or financial venture that may be on the market. A person drawing some hundreds of pounds from a machine will attract the attention of the doubtfuls, who find it is not profitable to be there now—I mean the professional pickpocket.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-06", "file": "debates1928-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7d50e9d425187bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1770.0", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Protect the bookies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "Nothing of the sort. Far from being a wrecking Amendment it is an attempt to save the Government. I will not ask you, Mr. Speaker, to protect me from innuendoes, because——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-06", "file": "debates1928-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7d50e9d425187bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1770.0", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Let them go.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": " entitled, without damaging my general principles, to give to them whatever assistance I can. Far from this being a wrecking Amendment it is a lifeline to the Government, if they will only catch hold of it. Will they let the opportunity go by; perhaps the last? We want to pull the Government Departments out of the torrents that are carrying them on to destruction. We want to pull them into safety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-06", "file": "debates1928-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7d50e9d425187bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1770.0", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": " Closure—fortunately we kept wonderful control of our tempers in the circumstances. The promoters were always watching the clock. Every time the matter came up for discussion they looked up at the clock and before the second speech was started the Closure was moved. They were afraid that if the light of discussion was allowed to penetrate the darkness that covered their efforts——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1770.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-07-06", "file": "debates1928-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7d50e9d425187bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1773.0", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Read it!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "Closure was moved. They were afraid that if the light of discussion was allowed to penetrate the darkness that covered their efforts——[ Interruption ]. If only we had been permitted to do what we wanted to do, you would not have had my right hon. Friend raising his point to-day as to the complete alteration of the whole purpose of the Bill. I have here a document which I have received.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-06", "file": "debates1928-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7d50e9d425187bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1773.1", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "s.\" Race meetings will grow from four a year to 20 a year on some of the racecourses, because of this great incentive. The document further says: The statutory authority shall be the sole authority charged with the control of bet- ting on racecourses … and shall have jurisdiction over betting only on such racecourses. There is quite a lot more of it, but I would like to put my point briefly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-06", "file": "debates1928-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7d50e9d425187bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1786.1", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "se things to be carried on, will be that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will establish in Whitehall a national State sweepstake. Then, we shall be back in the position in which France, Belgium and other countries have got in regard to this question, and our morals will be lowered to the position which I have already mentioned. I feel sure that the Home Secretary does not apprehend all the points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1786.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-07-06", "file": "debates1928-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7d50e9d425187bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1790.2", "colnum": "1790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Sub-section (2) of Clause 2.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "That shows that either the right hon. Gentleman has misread the Bill or I have done so; it just indicates, in fact, the colossal ignorance of people on the other side as to the provisions of this Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1790.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-07-06", "file": "debates1928-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7d50e9d425187bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1791.0", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "He agrees!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I understand that the hon. Member for the Park Division of Sheffield (Mr. Deans) is one of the best lawyers in the land, and hon. Members really must take my word for it that he knows more about the matter than I do. As a layman, with no knowledge of the law at all, I will venture to put as clearly as I can what I think is meant by Subsection (2) of Clause 2.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1790.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-06", "file": "debates1928-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7d50e9d425187bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1791.1", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "Yes, and consequently I do not think it is fair for the right hon. Gentleman and the promoters of the Bill to stand up here and declare that my contention was not correct when I spoke just now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-06", "file": "debates1928-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7d50e9d425187bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1799.0", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STORRY DEANS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STORRY DEANS", "preceding_text": "te receipts, or because it is said that they cannot afford sufficient prizes to make horse-racing attractive to the racing owners. The hon. Member for Westhoughton has consulted the Encyclopædia Britannica, a most excellent work. I have consulted on many occasions many Acts of Parliament relating to this subject, and I find that if you go back, for instance, as far as Henry VIII——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1799.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-06", "file": "debates1928-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7d50e9d425187bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1807.0", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "mparisons between one form of racing and another. This Bill has been so altered in Committee that it seems to me that we are now discussing a proposal that was only used in a very limited sense on the original introduction of the Bill. We have agreed that there shall be a Board of Control, which will, if this Amendment is lost, have powers solely confined to courses where horse-racing takes place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1807.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-06", "file": "debates1928-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7d50e9d425187bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1807.0", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "l, which will, if this Amendment is lost, have powers solely confined to courses where horse-racing takes place. [ Interruption .] I must not allow my hon. Friends to get me giving a description of what is a horse or what class of horse we mean. It is proposed that certain surpluses accruing shall be used for improving the breed of horses. A horse is not a horse if it is an ordinary working horse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1807.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-06", "file": "debates1928-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7d50e9d425187bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1807.0", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rats and mice!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "ace on a track, or I might like to go to see a greyhound race. As a matter of fact that does not quite appeal to me, but I have no right on that account to tell other people that it ought not to attract them. If it appeals to them, they may well say that it would be an added attraction if the application of this system to their sport would mean the development of, say, some unknown species of dog.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1807.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-06", "file": "debates1928-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7d50e9d425187bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1810.1", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are we?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": " removed from one racecourse to another, they could be collecting bets along the highroads. These are all possibilities, and it appears to me that, instead of having all these separate bodies which is possible with the word \"horse\" in the Bill, we should leave out that word and apply the Bill to all kinds of sport. The Measure is very much restricted with the word \"horse\" in it, and there you are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-06", "file": "debates1928-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7d50e9d425187bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1810.1", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACECOURSE BETTING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "hat what is proposed in the case of horse-racing is a good thing and that it is not a good thing in the case of other forms of sport? I taste a sweet. It is nice, and I want more. If what is proposed in this Bill is a good thing for horse-racing, why not take out the word \"horse\" and apply the Bill to all kinds of racing? If a thing is bad for other kinds of sport, then it is bad for horse-racing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-06a.1810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-09", "file": "debates1928-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e47d4aab941d511d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-09a.1851.9", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "If the facts are as stated, would it not have been possible in the interval to have made inquiries to see whether there was not a man out of work who would have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-09a.1851.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-09", "file": "debates1928-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e47d4aab941d511d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-09a.1853.0", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Do I understand that the increase dates from the time of the Chief Commissioner's appointment, so that he will be paid £3,000 a year for the whole period of his appointment; and he receives a nice little bonus for the cost of living?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-09a.1853.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-09", "file": "debates1928-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e47d4aab941d511d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-09a.1857.1", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PURCELL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PURCELL", "preceding_text": "Is there really no sense of decency on the part of the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-09a.1857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-09", "file": "debates1928-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e47d4aab941d511d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-09a.1860.4", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "Quite apart from the facts of this particular case, there are two verdicts on the record, namely, that of the coroner's jury finding the person concerned guilty of murder, and the verdict reversing that at the Assize Court. That reveals the illogical state of the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-09a.1860.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-09", "file": "debates1928-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e47d4aab941d511d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-09a.1882.1", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SPROT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too large!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SPROT", "preceding_text": "es take place, Scotland will be adversely affected and will not get her fair share of what is going, and Scottish agriculture will be prejudically affected as compared with England. Does the right hon. Gentleman still adhere to the fraction of one-sixth? It is rather important that we should know that, because we have been going into these figures and we are of opinion that one-sixth is too small.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-09a.1882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-09", "file": "debates1928-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e47d4aab941d511d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-09a.1891.3", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "he difficulties and the dangers that are in store for them. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State may laugh, but to-day I have received no fewer than seven letters denouncing the prospective proposals of the Government, of which this is merely a fleabite. The Government expect at the end of this year to abolish all rating authorities—parish councils, school management committees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-09a.1891.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-09", "file": "debates1928-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e47d4aab941d511d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-09a.1897.0", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "nd does not allow for expansion with every increase in the capital value of the composite subject. One of the greatest surprises which the Committee has had to-day has been the speech of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Ross and Cromarty (Mr. Macpherson), who said it has been an old-established custom in Scotland to go in for valuation of the composite subject. That is new Liberalism to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-09a.1897.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-09", "file": "debates1928-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e47d4aab941d511d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-09a.1926.0", "colnum": "1926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (APPORTIONMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL for SCOTLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL for SCOTLAND", "preceding_text": "Act, 1911, or Section forty-one of the Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act, 1872. The result is that practically every possible mine is included. The purpose of Clause 3 is to relieve industrial hereditaments, or industrial lands and heritages, and the three which have been relieved are mines, factories and workshops. The suggestion from the other side is that they do not wish mines to be included.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-09a.1926.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-09", "file": "debates1928-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e47d4aab941d511d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-09a.1961.1", "colnum": "1961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REORGANISATION OF OFFICES (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": " with fine red beard, and hair the colour of that of the Secretary of State, coming into an office with all the breezes of the countryside about him—called into consultation with some thing who has never seen more than the inside of a college, who is called an expert civil servant. This man begins to ask the man who knows some questions. I can just imagine what that friend of mine would say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-09a.1961.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-09", "file": "debates1928-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e47d4aab941d511d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-09a.1973.1", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REORGANISATION OF OFFICES (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "g affected in his pension, should be looked after. I should like to get that guarantee from the right hon. Gentleman. Apart from these adverse observations, so far as the Board of Health is concerned, I am on the whole in favour of this Bill. I think it is a Bill which is going to make for efficiency, and I think it is a Bill which, in the interests of economy and efficiency ought to be supported.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-09a.1973.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-11", "file": "debates1928-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "eae2c0b86530119e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2263.8", "colnum": "2263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Laughter , and an HON. MEMBER: \"What about Chicago?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "rly a century ago, and it cannot be said that the experience of appointing military men to the control of civil police forces has justified itself by practical experience. France is generally regarded as a highly militarised country, and there are few things in France that I would wish to see this country emulate, but, at any rate, they do these things better in Paris than they are done in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2263.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-11", "file": "debates1928-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "eae2c0b86530119e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2276.1", "colnum": "2276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is himself a military man!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "s been characterised as third degree methods. He asked for an inquiry which should be comprehensive, and said: Then probably we shall do something to restore public confidence.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 17th May, 1928; cols. 1317 and 1318, Vol. 217.] Those were the speeches made in this House by responsible Members at the time when I was endeavouring to find a successor to the present Commissioner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-11", "file": "debates1928-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "eae2c0b86530119e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2284.1", "colnum": "2284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NAYLOR", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NAYLOR", "preceding_text": "f the Commissioner, who possibly and probably would be condemned in the forthcoming Report, and in any case the Home Secretary was bound to announce the retirement later. There is no doubt about that, but surely it would have been better to wait even after the issue of the Report of the Street Offences Inquiry, which may make even more serious reflections on the administration of the police force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-11", "file": "debates1928-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "eae2c0b86530119e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2294.0", "colnum": "2294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYES", "preceding_text": "the Army and the Navy is not untinged with some desire that social status and rank should attach to the office of Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis. We have at the moment at New Scotland Yard, some eight or nine highly placed officers who have been members of the Army or the Navy, including two Generals and one Admiral—I do not know why the Admirals have come into the business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-11", "file": "debates1928-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "eae2c0b86530119e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2302.0", "colnum": "2302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "t. He is one of those rare people who are always in touch with the things that are higher, and, when he has made his arrangements, and the men are to go over the top, General Byng locks himself up and prays.\" That is the kind of militarist that Lord Byng is. The right hon. Gentleman may laugh at that, but I do not think that the people of the country will laugh; certainly the women will not laugh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-11", "file": "debates1928-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "eae2c0b86530119e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2303.1", "colnum": "2303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Opposition, and would be against a militarist in the sterner sense that he means; and I certainly should be against a tired and weary man, or against a man who was hunting for a job; but hon. Members opposite do not understand, because they want jobs. Lord Byng wants to give up a job. It is not a question of his wanting a job; he is not a job-hunter; and I think that that is a poor argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-11", "file": "debates1928-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "eae2c0b86530119e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2303.1", "colnum": "2303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " should be against a tired and weary man, or against a man who was hunting for a job; but hon. Members opposite do not understand, because they want jobs. Lord Byng wants to give up a job. It is not a question of his wanting a job; he is not a job-hunter; and I think that that is a poor argument—[ Interruption .] Hon. Members opposite think more of money but Lord Byng is thinking of service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-11", "file": "debates1928-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "eae2c0b86530119e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2305.3", "colnum": "2305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "r since women have been in public life. There is a larger and a better outlook. I congratulate the Home Secretary and the country on having secured a man like Lord Byng. There are some Members of the Opposition who are always looking for what is evil and failing to see what is good, and making it very difficult for men like Lord Byng to enter public life by making charges against their characters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2305.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-11", "file": "debates1928-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "eae2c0b86530119e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2306.0", "colnum": "2306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": " good deal of experience and I saw something, and I raised questions in the House with regard to the brutality of the police in certain areas—not the local men who knew the circumstances but the imported men—and the general feeling there that the desire of the Conservative party and of the Conservative Cabinet was to militarise the police in order to hold up the workers of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-11", "file": "debates1928-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "eae2c0b86530119e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2310.3", "colnum": "2310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Look at your own benches!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "ate, the hon. Member has had considerable experience of the police. He devoted the major portion of his speech to the question of a pension to the outgoing Commissioner, who leaves in November. That had nothing to do with the question of a Vote of Censure on the Home Secretary for appointing Lord Byng. When we look at the state of the Opposition Benches on this occasion of a vote of censure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2310.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-11", "file": "debates1928-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "eae2c0b86530119e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2325.1", "colnum": "2325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The King!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROAD", "preceding_text": "When the Home Secretary was first questioned on this decision, he said that the appointment was made by a higher authority than himself. I want to know what higher authority there is than a Minister of the Crown?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-11", "file": "debates1928-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "eae2c0b86530119e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2331.2", "colnum": "2331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "rs. I am very pleased that the number of new cases of nystagmus is apparently declining. I have looked up the figures, and I find that the old cases in 1914 were 3,215, and at the end of 1926 they had grown to 8,270; but those are old cases. It is the new cases that interest me most, and they are in fact the best indication of how far the disease is getting hold of the coal miners of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2331.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-11", "file": "debates1928-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "eae2c0b86530119e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2394.7", "colnum": "2394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "preceding_text": "st of relief or that period was £28,055. On the 26th May, 1928, after two years of the administration of the board of guardians, the number of cases was reduced from 27,853 to 9,433—a reduction of 18,420 cases. The number of persons involved was reduced from 66,116 to 21,313—a reduction of 44,803 persons involved. The total weekly cost was reduced from £28,055 to £5,769.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2394.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-11", "file": "debates1928-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "eae2c0b86530119e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2394.7", "colnum": "2394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Starvation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "preceding_text": "n of the board of guardians, the number of cases was reduced from 27,853 to 9,433—a reduction of 18,420 cases. The number of persons involved was reduced from 66,116 to 21,313—a reduction of 44,803 persons involved. The total weekly cost was reduced from £28,055 to £5,769. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I thought those figures would draw a cheer from the hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2394.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-07-11", "file": "debates1928-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "eae2c0b86530119e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2409.0", "colnum": "2409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Go on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "ounce. They used to get a little bacon in the morning. They have taken away the bacon. Is not the Ministry proud of its representatives? Bumble is a back number. Of course, I know that the chairman of these guardians is an ex-clerk of some experience, and is the person who dug up the Vagrancy Act of the last century in order to punish certain men. I am sorry we are limited for time in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2408.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-11", "file": "debates1928-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "eae2c0b86530119e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2409.2", "colnum": "2409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER \"You never will!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "not expect anything here to-night. The Government, without making the slightest attempt to cover it up, have put three Conservatives in charge of a Labour area. They have done the same in various other areas. We are not surprised, but it is a pity for this great country that that should be the spirit in which things are done. It will justify our people in showing the same spirit when we get power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2409.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-11", "file": "debates1928-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "eae2c0b86530119e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2411.1", "colnum": "2411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To go into the workhouse?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": ". There are the two cases which the hon. Member for Chester-le-Street has mentioned to-night and has put before the House many times before. The case of the child was replied to many months ago, and in the other case, of a man who said he could not get admission to the workhouse, a complete reply was made a long time ago. In the second case, about the workhouse, an offer was made to the man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-11", "file": "debates1928-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "eae2c0b86530119e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2412.2", "colnum": "2412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Do you notice, Mr. Speaker, that the right hon. Gentleman is not answering the question about 12s. a week for a woman and 2s. a week for a child?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2412.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-11", "file": "debates1928-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "eae2c0b86530119e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2414.0", "colnum": "2414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "That people who have casual work in this country are no better off than those who have no work is a new aspect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2414.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-11", "file": "debates1928-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "eae2c0b86530119e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2414.3", "colnum": "2414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "n economical and economising Minister of Health. Their primary responsibility is to the poor in their areas. Is there an hon. Member who can challenge that^ You will find in the reports of these appointed boards of guardians nothing which shows that they have any regard for their primary statutory duties. They have been put in office—dug out of their obscurity at the Tory clubs——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-11a.2414.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-12", "file": "debates1928-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "11d4a4d617a1d81c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-12a.2451.2", "colnum": "2451", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — THAMES FLOODS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I am always a little chary of interfering more than is necessary with the functions of local authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-12a.2451.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-07-12", "file": "debates1928-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "11d4a4d617a1d81c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-12a.2465.3", "colnum": "2465", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AIRSHIP \"ITALIA\" AND CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN (ASSISTANCE).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COMPTON", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the Under-Secretary gave a reply stating that no effort was made by the Air Force of this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-12a.2465.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-12", "file": "debates1928-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "11d4a4d617a1d81c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-12a.2465.4", "colnum": "2465", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AIRSHIP \"ITALIA\" AND CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN (ASSISTANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "I have here the answer given by the Under-Secretary. The hon. Member is under a misapprehension. If he will read that answer, he will see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-12a.2465.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-12", "file": "debates1928-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "11d4a4d617a1d81c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-12a.2465.4", "colnum": "2465", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AIRSHIP \"ITALIA\" AND CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN (ASSISTANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "I have here the answer given by the Under-Secretary. The hon. Member is under a misapprehension. If he will read that answer, he will see—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"] I will read it if the House wishes it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-12a.2465.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-12", "file": "debates1928-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "11d4a4d617a1d81c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-12a.2493.1", "colnum": "2493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": "ly wise or as being just to the staff, but they did answer, to the best of their ability, the question, \"If you had a free hand, how far could you cut costs?\" It is a little difficult, however, to read this from the wording of the Report, and still more from some of the glosses placed on the Report by the critics. I am very sorry still to detain the Committee, but there is so much ground to cover.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-12a.2493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-12", "file": "debates1928-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "11d4a4d617a1d81c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-12a.2515.0", "colnum": "2515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "preceding_text": "n the telegraphs is accounted for by the rates at which Press telegrams are taken by the State. I am open to correction, of course, but I do not think I am far wrong when I say that the difference between what would ordinarily be charged and what is actually charged to the newspapers of this country for the transmission of Press telegrams amounts to something approximating to £500,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-12a.2515.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-12", "file": "debates1928-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "11d4a4d617a1d81c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-12a.2515.0", "colnum": "2515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "preceding_text": " On those grounds I think that we are entitled to consider very carefully and with very important reservations the Report of that Commission. What the Commission did not point out with regard to the telegraph services of the country from a financial point of view is the fact that, apart from the vast amount that the service loses in making favourable terms with the newspapers of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-12a.2515.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-12", "file": "debates1928-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "11d4a4d617a1d81c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-12a.2530.2", "colnum": "2530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"God help them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "g we are afraid to do. How can anyone claim to be a democrat and at the same time say that the people should not have an opportunity of listening to the proceedings of the House of Commons? It is only by that process that you will ever get a real democracy in this country. In Greece and Rome, where democracy did exist, everybody could go into the market place and listen to the politicians talking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-12a.2530.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-12", "file": "debates1928-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "11d4a4d617a1d81c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-12a.2552.4", "colnum": "2552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON, MIDLAND, AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY (ROAD TRANSPORT) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. NALL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. NALL", "preceding_text": "r Town Hall, and is worked as part of the Manchester system, is not covered, because it is used as part of the Manchester system. The Salford system, because it is separately operated, is covered. There is no justification for a perfectly absurd anomaly of that kind, and I say to my hon. Friend who was a member of the Joint Committee, that they really cannot have listened to this part of the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-12a.2552.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-07-12", "file": "debates1928-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "11d4a4d617a1d81c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-12a.2559.4", "colnum": "2559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON, MIDLAND, AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY (ROAD TRANSPORT) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. SUGDEN", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, when he was in the Chair, after ruling my Clause out of order, although I endeavoured to show him that it was vital and, to my mind, more essential to the ratepayers and to the citizens of this country than any other Amendment in the Paper——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-12a.2559.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-12", "file": "debates1928-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "11d4a4d617a1d81c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-12a.2603.0", "colnum": "2603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON, MIDLAND, AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY (ROAD TRANSPORT) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": " hinted that such powers existed and I was prevented from exercising my right as a private Member, when I wished to put in a correction of that statement. I hope the hon. and gallant Gentleman who prevented me, will remember what he did, because I shall not forget it. Every time a railway privilege is sought from this House, it will be found that any director who closures me will have to fight me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-12a.2603.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-12", "file": "debates1928-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "11d4a4d617a1d81c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-12a.2621.4", "colnum": "2621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON, MIDLAND, AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY (ROAD TRANSPORT) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "—but I should not like the discussion on this important Bill to pass with any note of discord. I can assure hon. Members opposite that it was not intended unduly to cut short the discussion——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-12a.2621.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-13", "file": "debates1928-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a0fb05b11f7c64c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-13a.2644.0", "colnum": "2644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "There has not been any previous debate in this House on the Colonial Office Vote in which we have been prohibited from discussing anything dealt with by the Colonial Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-13a.2644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-07-13", "file": "debates1928-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a0fb05b11f7c64c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-13a.2676.0", "colnum": "2676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "tting down somebody else who will thereby have to serve longer. May I say a word as to the conditions under which these officers have to work? I think the temperature in the shade in London yesterday was 84 degrees or 85 degrees. On the Gold Coast, and I believe in other West African Colonies which lie within the area known as the tropics, the temperature rarely falls below 80 to 90 degrees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-07-13a.2676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-06", "file": "debates1928-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "48d33d0d6150da5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-06a.13.0", "colnum": "13", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JEPHCOTT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JEPHCOTT", "preceding_text": "know the Opposition will support the idea—I say that if the Government only did that, and was a recipient, I should think they had done a great deal. At any rate, they have recognised in that sense their responsibility to the people who are, unfortunately for themselves, dependent on out-of-work pay for their livelihood. But that is not all. That will not relieve the problem of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-06a.13.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-06", "file": "debates1928-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "48d33d0d6150da5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-06a.13.0", "colnum": "13", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JEPHCOTT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JEPHCOTT", "preceding_text": " that those proposals are not going to bring a new heaven and a now earth in a minute—if honourably carried out, have in them the possibility of recovery for the basic industries of this country. If we can relieve industry by relieving the rates that press so heavily on industry—and we have to deal with rates, because certain gentlemen—I am among them, though I am not a gentleman", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-06a.13.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-06", "file": "debates1928-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "48d33d0d6150da5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-06a.13.0", "colnum": "13", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JEPHCOTT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JEPHCOTT", "preceding_text": " the district councils that will be put in their place. I would like to recall and to repeat the words of Macaulay who said: Then none was for a party; Then all were for the State. If, as citizens and as members of all parties, we remember that that should be the basis of our work it will be agreed that, much as they may provoke opposition, the present Government and their work will go down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-06a.13.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-06", "file": "debates1928-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "48d33d0d6150da5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-06a.18.0", "colnum": "18", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "in 1925. We were promised that it would be dealt with in 1926, and it is a remarkable fact that the King's Speech which has just been introduced does not mention this question. The Home Secretary told us that this subject was going to be part and parcel of the work of this Session, and I would like to ask whether a pledge of that kind is of an exchange value equal to a deteriorated Russian rouble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-06a.18.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-06", "file": "debates1928-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "48d33d0d6150da5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-06a.18.0", "colnum": "18", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"It is a tragedy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": ", and I am sure he will understand the deadly effect of that simile. I think the present Government have the worst record of broken promises that any party can show, and there is nothing to justify it except pressure upon the Government by certain vital interests. And so we ring up the curtain on the last act of the very sorry drama which has been played by this Government for the last four years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-06a.18.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-06", "file": "debates1928-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "48d33d0d6150da5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-06a.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "tance of industry that made us put it before everything else that we had to do. That, we felt, must be completed before the five years of this Parliament's life had elapsed, and there is literally no time for any other important legislation except the legislation that we are already providing for. There is no truth whatever that there is the pressure of any kind of interest in regard to this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-06a.32.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-06", "file": "debates1928-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "48d33d0d6150da5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-06a.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We will remember that when you are in Opposition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": " Government, although naturally opposed in turn by any Opposition, to take the time up to Christmas; but hon. Members will remember that it is only necessary for Governments to do that because the Standing Orders are left in a rather equivocal condition, and it is really not quite clear whether private Members have rights in the Autumn or whether they have not. In any case, every Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-06a.32.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-06", "file": "debates1928-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "48d33d0d6150da5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-06a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In all areas \"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "Lloyd George). It would be a discourtesy to the Liberal party to attempt to deal with it piecemeal, but, from whichever party it comes, we shall do our best to reply to it. There are no other points on which I have to detain the House to-day. The most grave ques- tion upon which the right hon. Gentleman said a few words—the question of the unemployment in certain areas in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-06a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-07", "file": "debates1928-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e6c303bf00684bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-07a.66.0", "colnum": "66", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": "Widows' Pensions). That was not an academic subject, but was one of real interest, and there was no lack of support for the proposal of the hon. Member for Wellingborough from all sides of the House. Therefore, the comment made by the hon. and gallant Member for Oxford is a reflection upon those who support the Government, whose minds are academic and out of touch with the real life of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-07a.66.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-07", "file": "debates1928-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e6c303bf00684bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-07a.71.0", "colnum": "71", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What else is added\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "on of things that exists in the country, will resist this idea, put forward by the same Government that introduced the Eight Hours' Bill for miners and forced the miners of this country to work an extra hour a day. Am I to be told that if we Members of Parliament who have £400 a year—never mind all those other things that are \"added unto you\"—if we were deprived of all that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-07a.71.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-07", "file": "debates1928-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e6c303bf00684bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-07a.79.5", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEDGWOOD BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEDGWOOD BENN", "preceding_text": "sal to abandon our resistance to the military or army side is a bargain. It has always been presented as a bargain. The idea that we could not hold the position but had to abandon it for another is not supported by the White Paper. It was first suggested in France between the Foreign Secretary and M. Briand as a bargain. It was presented as a bargain. It is, \"If you do this, then we will do that.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-07a.79.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-07", "file": "debates1928-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e6c303bf00684bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-07a.83.0", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "old position, and we are opposed to this unlimited quantity of trained men abroad\"? It is well to remember—while I would not wish to say anything to exacerbate feeling between England and France—that we are not talking about white soldiers; we are talking about black men. We are talking about niggers from Northern Africa. These are the people who are to be trained in unlimited numbers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-07a.83.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-07", "file": "debates1928-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e6c303bf00684bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-07a.83.0", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "hat rather a cryptic footnote appeared in a subsequent copy of the \"Times\" that there had been reference to Germany in his speech. I say that because it is only fair. There were these unfortunate sentences, M. Briand saying we must co-operate in our policy, and Lord Cushendun saying, \"There is no new entente with France, because the old entente persists\"—the old entente which led to the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-07a.83.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-07", "file": "debates1928-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e6c303bf00684bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-07a.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. SPENCER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "ies to maintain the prices at a standard which is sufficient to meet the requirements of trade at the present time, and it must naturally follow that, if you are going to make gold the standard or basis of your currency, unless gold is produced in ever-increasing quantities to meet the increasing volume of trade, there must be a reduction in prices for trade to meet the convenience of gold —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-07a.105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-07", "file": "debates1928-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e6c303bf00684bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-07a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" There are a good many.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": " regulations, forced that case to the Court of Referees, and it was only after appearing before that court that we were able to secure the benefit for the woman. That is the method adopted by the Government, although in the King's Speech an endeavour is made to give the appearance that they have some heart and feeling towards the unemployed. I will now deal with an omission from the King's Speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-07a.160.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-08", "file": "debates1928-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "891d60a4ccb21e3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "shire manufacturers, the heads of great firms, like Hetheringtons, Mather and Platts, Platt Brothers in Oldham, other firms, great machine shops and engineering works in that county—the pronouncements of these great commercial chiefs, all bewail the policy which, as we believe, for unworthy political purposes the Tory party followed in relation to Russia. We should be eager to sell anywhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-08", "file": "debates1928-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "891d60a4ccb21e3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "y the trade delegation from Russia—that that attitude of mind should dominate the relations between those who wanted the trade in this country and the representatives of the Russian Government. I observe that in all the pronouncements of Lancashire commercial leaders, great employers of labour, in all their references to Russia, they have said that Russia always pays. She does keep her word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-08", "file": "debates1928-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "891d60a4ccb21e3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "rkingman. The working-man has given you his answer in the latest opportunity which he has had at Ashton-under-Lyne. I say clearly that the purpose of that Bill, though it will never be successful, was to make it, if not impossible, certainly extremely difficult for the forces on this side of the House to collect sufficient money in their customary organised way to conduct their political campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-08", "file": "debates1928-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "891d60a4ccb21e3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ve ventured to try to present the issues as I see them. I will now proceed to state the practical steps, and the only practical steps, which the Government recommend to Parliament at the present time to remedy or mitigate these evils. The first and main contribution of the Government is to assist trade and employment generally by a comprehensive rating relief scheme to agriculture and to industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-08", "file": "debates1928-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "891d60a4ccb21e3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "emporised measures which can only be palliatives. That is the old sound Socialist doctrine and the necessity of expenditure for subsidising schemes in direct relief of unemployment will he judged in relation to the greater necessity for maintaining undisturbed the ordinary financial facilities and resources of trade and industry.\"— I OFFICIAL REPORT, 12th February, 1924; col. 760, Vol. 169.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.267.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-08", "file": "debates1928-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "891d60a4ccb21e3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ions in proportion to the national aid. The second extension of grants for public works arises out of the present tasks of the Ministry of Labour. My right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour, who will speak tomorrow, will deal more in detail with this part of the problem and will explain his work in moving men and women from the desolation of the depressed areas into the stream of living industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-08", "file": "debates1928-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "891d60a4ccb21e3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "As I was saying to the right hon. Gentleman, if you have a unified steel industry, which can be represented by one authoritative body, you can go to foreign countries and say, \"Instead of reducing our costs by the brutal method of reducing wages, instead of entering into that cut-throat competition which the right hon. Gentleman has described, let us have an agreed selling price.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-08", "file": "debates1928-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "891d60a4ccb21e3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.297.4", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "h they now offer. What were those measures? In the first place, the raiding of the Road Fund to the tune of£19,000,000, the reduced grant to the Unemployment Fund another£5,000,000, and the raided Health Insurance Fund another£3,000,000. There is£26,000,000 reduction of assistance to local authorities and to employment which has resulted directly in throwing men upon the rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.297.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-08", "file": "debates1928-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "891d60a4ccb21e3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.308.7", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Come over to this side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS", "preceding_text": "onsequence of that over-production a price is paid which does not pay the people who raise the food, and the result is that you have the same flow from the agricultural areas in the Colonies into the towns which you have in this country, and for the same reason, the reason being that the man who produces the food, compared with the man in the town, is not getting a fair show anywhere in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.308.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-08", "file": "debates1928-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "891d60a4ccb21e3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.327.1", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": "articularly hard for men who have, perhaps, been out of work and are not well nourished. I can quite understand, from all that I saw and heard, that there are men who would chuck it during the first three or four days, and perhaps quite naturally—one cannot blame them—but after a man had stuck it, for three or four days and got his muscles accustomed to it, then he was perfectly happy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-08", "file": "debates1928-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "891d60a4ccb21e3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HILTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Slums!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HILTON", "preceding_text": "I say that they live in compounds in Japan. Do you agree? The hon. Member must agree that this is a charge upon their industry. We have in our Lancashire towns—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-08", "file": "debates1928-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "891d60a4ccb21e3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HILTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much can you jump now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HILTON", "preceding_text": "e is far in advance of that of the Japanese. The status of our workpeople is higher than that of the Japanese or of any other country not excluding America, and our wages 'are higher. The hon. Member talks about our wages having doubled since before the War, whilst wages in other countries have quadrupled. When I was a youngster I could jump a foot. When I grew older, I could jump eighteen inches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-08", "file": "debates1928-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "891d60a4ccb21e3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HILTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HILTON", "preceding_text": "ges in other countries have quadrupled. When I was a youngster I could jump a foot. When I grew older, I could jump eighteen inches. [An HON. MEMBER: \"How much can you jump now?\"] I can jump three yards now. When my Socialist friends talk on these matters they make a great mistake. The greatest mistake they make is that they decry everything that is English and especially that which is Lancashire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-08", "file": "debates1928-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "891d60a4ccb21e3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.360.3", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "kets. I agree. Then he said in regard to Russia that our exports were£18,000,000 in 1913 and only£6,000,000 now. To be precisely accurate, he might have included the trade to the succession States. Russia is not what it used to be. A very large part of Poland was once Russia, and there are also Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland. I do not think Rumania includes any Russian territory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.360.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-08", "file": "debates1928-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "891d60a4ccb21e3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.360.3", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "e party opposite were still in office. That increase continued until the summer of 1925 when the position was temporarily restored by the granting of the coal mining subsidy. How stupid it is in these circumstances to attribute this result to a decision taken eight months after relating to a totally different subject. I am sorry these matters have been brought in because it is merely wasting time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.360.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-08", "file": "debates1928-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "891d60a4ccb21e3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ative movement, which is a wide and representative body in a good position to judge of what I call the general habits of the manual workers, that thrift in the country is increasing. More new capital is available than has been available for many years past, world harvests on the whole are fairly good, and yet in the last six months we have had a curious reaction in trade. I wish I knew why it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-08a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-09", "file": "debates1928-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "1b7bb129bbbbd8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-09a.383.6", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "sen since 1926, and have the unfortunate incidents of 1926 contributed to the aggravation of this problem? In reply to that, I would like to call the attention of the Government to one rather important fact. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, I repeat, claims that all the Government's difficulties in regard to unemployment are due to the coal crisis of 1926. What are the facts? 1925 was before 1926.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-09a.383.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-09", "file": "debates1928-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "1b7bb129bbbbd8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-09a.383.6", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "t a million houses in ten years, but that does not meet the annual need of the increased population and the houses which become unfit for habitation. They have not touched the shortage which existed ten years ago in the slightest degree. They promised to deal with the slums and they promised to deal with the housing question, and to-day 80,000 men connected with the building trade are out of work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-09a.383.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-09", "file": "debates1928-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "1b7bb129bbbbd8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-09a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ate the industrial situation, and nobody has been a greater criminal in that connection than the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself. A great deal might have been done to find useful work for the unemloyed in the improvement of our roads and the making of new necessary roads. Instead of that the right hon. Gentleman has robbed the sources of the Road Fund of something like £26,000,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-09a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-09", "file": "debates1928-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "1b7bb129bbbbd8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-09a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "inions, and neglecting the far greater possibilities in those parts of the Empire which are populated by native races. It is there that there is a far greater hope of helping trade in this country. As far, however, as I could understand the re- marks of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on this subject yesterday, the only thing that the Government are going to do is to provide cheap passages.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-09a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-09", "file": "debates1928-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "1b7bb129bbbbd8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-09a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: He competes with him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " in some mining areas. That is the first broad, general principle of humanity on which the Industrial Transference Board base their report and to which every decent understanding man would give adherence. On the other hand, I would ask hon. Members to bear in mind another point. It was said yesterday that if a man is to be transferred to one district from another he turns a man there out of a job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-09a.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-09", "file": "debates1928-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "1b7bb129bbbbd8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-09a.405.3", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " doing is not starting an artificial movement that is contrary to the natural movement. Liberals may rest comforted with that knowledge. We are taking advantage of a perfectly natural transfer that would take place in any ease to the new districts that are growing, and we are using that as a means of alleviating the trouble in the mining areas. But a great deal depends upon the capacity to absorb.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-09a.405.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-09", "file": "debates1928-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "1b7bb129bbbbd8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-09a.446.2", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or agriculture,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "st word upon this subject. I am rather doubtful whether it really is. I can hardly see the right hon. Gentleman, with the views which he honestly holds on this subject, handing over to a tribunal appointed by the President of the Board of Trade, a tribunal, probably of Protectionists, the whole question of whether a basic industry like iron and steel is going to have a high tariff Imposed upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-09a.446.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-09", "file": "debates1928-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "1b7bb129bbbbd8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-09a.446.2", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Our land!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " a railway system at the beginning of the 19th century. The rail way system dealt with a new power which had come into civilisation. The motor traffic problem is an identical one, and to take away money which had been allocated for roads is to behave in the reactionary spirit of the old landlords who at the beginning of the 19th century would not sell their land for the purpose of a railway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-09a.446.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-09", "file": "debates1928-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "1b7bb129bbbbd8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-09a.446.2", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "dvantage of them for marketing purposes. The bridges are not sufficient, apart from the roads. The roads are dangerous, and as for some of the bridges, you are not allowed to take motor lorries across them to fetch produce. I live in a district where there is a bridge which no motor lorries are allowed to cross. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Snowden) knows it very well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-09a.446.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-12", "file": "debates1928-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "706979c1a5879e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-12a.538.0", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "her places; how they would produce food there in superabundance, send it to the starving home population, and take our manufactured products in return. It all seems so charming, but it is all nonsense. The fact is, that the more food you buy from Canada the less you buy from Ayrshire and Gloucestershire, the more manufactured goods you send abroad the more you set up opposition to farmers at home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-12a.538.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-12", "file": "debates1928-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "706979c1a5879e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-12a.566.0", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. Herbert Williams)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. Herbert Williams)", "preceding_text": "My recollection is that I said —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-12a.566.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-12", "file": "debates1928-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "706979c1a5879e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-12a.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "contributions we always listen to with great interest, talking year after year the same barren, liberal, detached ideas, getting up and telling us, when the Government are being asked to explain their unemployed policy, that if they had only done this, that and the other thing how much better it would have been. What is the use of all that to-day? They have been doing that for three or four years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-12a.577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-12", "file": "debates1928-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "706979c1a5879e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-12a.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"She looked back!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "is the use of all that to-day? They have been doing that for three or four years. [ Interruption. ] If the hon. Member is satisfied with that achievement, I do not think anyone else is. Year after year we have talked about the Government standing by manfully. What do they mean by standing by? Standing by like Lot's wife when she was turned into a pillar of salt—standing by and doing nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-12a.577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-12", "file": "debates1928-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "706979c1a5879e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-12a.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "n-insurable unemployment upon the Treasury we are committing an act of financial folly. But here to-day one is tired of these pseudo-Liberal ideas, always supported by good old-fashioned Tory votes. We say the Government have falsified their pledges, and the Prime Minister agrees to that. He has said candidly that it is true. The Home Secretary has been blushing ever since the accusation was made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-12a.577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-12", "file": "debates1928-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "706979c1a5879e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-12a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "hancellor of the Exchequer explained the Government's policy and I need not go over it in detail though there are some points which I warm the House to bear in mind. There is a separate and special problem connected with employment in the coal industry. There are 200,000 up to 250,000 people in the coal industry who never can get work again in that industry. That is the consensus of opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-12a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-12", "file": "debates1928-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "706979c1a5879e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-12a.595.1", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "There are certain well defined areas in which there is no alternative employment. You cannot suggest that widening a narrow lane is a real alternative employment to coal mining. The only remedy is to transfer some of these people, or all if possible, from the area. That is a policy; it is a policy of opportunity for those who are now in distress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-12a.595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-12", "file": "debates1928-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "706979c1a5879e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-12a.595.4", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "The Unemployment Grants Committee is going to give substantial grants in areas where those men can find work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-12a.595.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-12", "file": "debates1928-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "706979c1a5879e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-12a.595.4", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "d alleviate the difficulties, and smooth the path for a policy which is your policy as much as ours.\" The Prime Minister's letter was intended to help this policy of transfer. Hon. Members opposite have scoffed at that. letter from time to time. I say. \"Do not scoff. Forget the Prime Minister for a moment, and remember the men who want work and on whose behalf the Prime Minister sent that letter.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-12a.595.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-12", "file": "debates1928-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "706979c1a5879e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-12a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "rought forward their theory of Socialism, they would be able to deal satisfactorily with the unemployment problem. Unfortunately, the next speaker, the hon. Member for Merthyr (Mr. Wallhead) spent a large part of his time in drawing attention to the unemployment in Australia. I was under the impression that a. Labour Government was in office in Australia and that Socialism was being applied there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-12a.644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-12", "file": "debates1928-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "706979c1a5879e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-12a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "our approach to the British conditions, the better we shall be able to fight competition and the fairer it will be; and if the Labour party, instead of going about the country making so many vain promises, would concentrate on the work to their hand and see that the workers abroad are brought closer to English standard's, we should very quickly overcome one of the great causes of our unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-12a.644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-12", "file": "debates1928-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "706979c1a5879e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-12a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ght closer to English standard's, we should very quickly overcome one of the great causes of our unemployment. [ Interruption. ] We have heard about the Washington Convention. The hon. Member for Dundee (Mr. Johnston) knows perfectly well that his right hon. Friend the Member for Preston (Mr. T. Shaw) does not wish the present Washington Convention to be signed, but asks that it should be altered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-12a.644.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.662.5", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Is the hon Member not aware that the export trade to-day in the majority of these industries has gone down by from 40 to 50 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.662.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.664.7", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that when the German airship arrived from America the German anthem was played in a German cafe, and just because one British soldier happened to be there, though apparently he did not object, the burgomaster was arrested and hauled before a court-martial, and the bandmaster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.664.7"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.673.2", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "Is not my right hon. Friend in a position to refute the statement that has been made that the costs in connection with this action amounted to almost the ex-gratia payment that has been made by the Government, and is it not a shame that such a statement should be made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.673.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.673.4", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. LANE MITCHELL", "preceding_text": "May I ask what were the costs that had to be paid?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.673.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.673.8", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right. hon. Gentleman what he means by taking all the circumstances into consideration w hen he admits that he does not know the costs of the defence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.673.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.721.6", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "to me to criticise the right hon. Gentleman at all, and least of all in his absence. I do not think the Government have any reason to complain of the attitude which hon. Members on these benches have adopted towards their foreign policy. Once or twice we have been critical, but, in the main, we have supported the right hon. Gentleman. We gave him assistance and support in his Chinese policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.721.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " to leave the Rhineland the moment Germany was fulfilling the obligations of the Treaty. What is the next? An increase of armaments on the part of the signatory Powers. The armaments of France have gone up since Locarno. The armaments of Italy have gone up since Locarno. Although probably the statement would be challenged I think I could demonstrate that the armaments of this country have gone up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "natory Powers. The armaments of France have gone up since Locarno. The armaments of Italy have gone up since Locarno. Although probably the statement would be challenged I think I could demonstrate that the armaments of this country have gone up. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"] Certainly they have gone up. The aerial armaments have gone up. Take the actual figures of money spent, upon the basis of 1924.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You said Great Britain!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ave gone up. The aerial armaments have gone up. Take the actual figures of money spent, upon the basis of 1924. [ Interruption. ] You asked me to prove it. If it does not interest the right hon. Gentleman opposite, I will go on with my argument. This is what has happened since Locarno. I have some ground to travel, but I am quite willing to take France and Italy alone as signatories of the Treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "oom in Paris with a point directed against the American claim. That had a very unfortunate effect upon opinion in America and deepened the disgust with which America regarded this Pact. There is one very great journalist, who does not always appeal to hon. Gentlemen opposite, but who, in the main, supports His Majesty's Government, and he has given a very fair description of the whole transaction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He supports you\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "American claim. That had a very unfortunate effect upon opinion in America and deepened the disgust with which America regarded this Pact. There is one very great journalist, who does not always appeal to hon. Gentlemen opposite, but who, in the main, supports His Majesty's Government, and he has given a very fair description of the whole transaction. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"] I refer to Mr. Garvin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "d the United States is more important, almost, than a good understanding between any two countries on earth. Our own interest and the peace of the world depend upon it, end any man who even contemplates the possibility of conflict, and any man, certainly, who advises this country to pursue a. course based on the assumption that such conflict is possible, ought to be treated as a dangerous lunatic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "pend upon it, end any man who even contemplates the possibility of conflict, and any man, certainly, who advises this country to pursue a. course based on the assumption that such conflict is possible, ought to be treated as a dangerous lunatic. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Yes, and I hope it will reach ears lower down than the hon. Members who are cheering. The United States covets no territory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "r down than the hon. Members who are cheering. The United States covets no territory. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] President Coolidge said so, and I think the whole of their history bears that out. In the Peace Treaty they refused to take a mandate—if you like to put it in that way—in respect of any of the German colonies. They have only one interest, and that interest is common with our own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"How are you going to do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "pt at disarmament in Europe. We might as well retire from the Commission. We have a solemn Treaty obligation to reduce our forces on land and sea to the lowest level consistent with safety. That was not an obligation merely on our own part. It was an obligation on behalf of the whole of the Allies, and we are bound to see that it is carried out in so far as the whole of our influence is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "now that when people talk about. Germany in the past, one recalls the intolerable arrogance with which they used their overwhelming military strength. We are rather apt to say: \"Yes, but that superciliousness is peculiar to the German nature.\" That is not historically true. Every great country in Europe that has had military predominance or naval predominance, or I would say military predominance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about blockades?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "overwhelming military strength. We are rather apt to say: \"Yes, but that superciliousness is peculiar to the German nature.\" That is not historically true. Every great country in Europe that has had military predominance or naval predominance, or I would say military predominance. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] draw this distinction between them, that with naval supremacy you cannot invade a country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"M. Poincare\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "rance even during the last 10 years. I think that he exaggerated and I am glad to think that he did. He talked about the last five or six years of our relations as being very good but said that they were strained before that. That is not correct. The Government with which I was associated had the most cordial relations with M. Briand, M. Painleve, M. Clemenceau and—I forget the fourth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ed by France's tame blacksmith, Dr. Benes. It does not help. How can it have helped in these last few weeks, when questions are always, or will be, under discussion with regard to the evacuation of the Rhineland, when he writes in the \"Neue Freie Presse\" about the scarcely veiled subservience of this country to France, and speaks about Germany's unfair and intolerable Eastern Frontier with Poland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "or will be, under discussion with regard to the evacuation of the Rhineland, when he writes in the \"Neue Freie Presse\" about the scarcely veiled subservience of this country to France, and speaks about Germany's unfair and intolerable Eastern Frontier with Poland. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right !\"] You may feel that, but, after all the right hon. Gentleman is the author of the Treaty of Versailles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.796.0", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "c what the American position is. The paragraph is so vitally important, and expresses the feeling of so many people in this country and in other countries, as well as in the United States, that I should like to read it: Much of what has been said above as to vessels in Class 3 of the Anglo-French agreement\"— I do not like that word \"agreement,\" applies with equal or greater force to Class 4.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.796.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.810.2", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "Board of Admiralty, for instance, when they are talking about their political chief, to whatever party he may belong, simply stamp and shout with laughter. So do the Army Council and the Air Force. That is well known. They know that their political chiefs are simply puppets of putty in their hands. I believe the only execution they would admit was Lord Haldane at the War Office about 15 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.810.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.810.2", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"In your time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "and the Air Force. That is well known. They know that their political chiefs are simply puppets of putty in their hands. I believe the only execution they would admit was Lord Haldane at the War Office about 15 years ago. [HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"] Hon. Members opposite know that I am saying what is perfectly true. They know the attitude of the Services to their political chiefs. It is just a huge joke.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.810.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.817.6", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "what he describes now as being the prime cause of the War. I am going to say that criticism of that kind comes very ill, and with scarcely any appearance of sincerity, from one who, whatever his position before the War, was at any rate, after the War, a member of a Government which presented military estimates exceeding those of their predecessors and started a dew naval race in building cruisers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.817.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.817.6", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": " rock on which the Pact would founder—the reservations with regard to areas of the world which were the particular concern of this country. May I say, in passing, that the difference between the American Monroe doctrine and what has been called the new British Monroe doctrine is very simple. When you talk about the American Monroe doctrine, everybody knows exactly what you are talking about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.817.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.829.3", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "r-minded people will say that in the Anglo-French gesture, while endeavouring to meet the wishes of the French, we have also gone some considerable distance towards meeting the wishes of the United States. On the other hand, if there is to be no limit to the largest type of cruisers, armed with the largest type of guns, how are you ever going to arrive at a reduction of the armaments of the world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.829.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-13", "file": "debates1928-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a49e9a0263029c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.844.0", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "d they not come forward with a grant of this amount? I should not be satisfied unless the money was given free of interest, nor do I think that that would be anything for which to thank them. This money should have been paid over without even calling upon the Insurance Fund to repay it. I wish also to ask why, seeing that they have already burdened industry with a charge of £29,000,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-13a.844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.873.3", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ARTHUR EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ARTHUR EVANS", "preceding_text": "Is it not the fact that only 5 per cent. of the employed population in London are out of employment, whereas in South Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.873.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.921.6", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS:\" Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ment, 1924, he promised a Bill. That was the first of the pledges the Prime Minister broke. No Bill was introduced. A different procedure was adopted. A White Paper laying down the conditions was issued, and the procedure in that White Paper has been the method which has had to be followed hitherto by all the industries seeking Protection. But the progress has been too slow for the Protectionists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.921.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.926.0", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Mr. Guinness)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Mr. Guinness)", "preceding_text": "Because it has only been asked for by the farmers for that purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.926.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "in office he said: Any duty in my view levied under the Safeguarding of Industries Act should be a general duty and not a particular one. If we transpose a word or two there, and use the word \"tariff\" instead of the word \"duty\" the Prime Minister's statement would be: Any tariff in my view levied under the Safeguarding of Industries Act must be a general tariff. A general tariff or a general duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What do you mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "r two there, and use the word \"tariff\" instead of the word \"duty\" the Prime Minister's statement would be: Any tariff in my view levied under the Safeguarding of Industries Act must be a general tariff. A general tariff or a general duty. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] \"Must he a general duty\" are the Prime Minister's words, \"and not a particular one.\" What does the Prime Minister mean by a general tariff?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " Tory Conference demands the immediate application of the tariff to iron and steel. Does the Prime Minister agree? If he does, then the difference between Safeguarding in its application to the iron and steel trade, and general Protection and a general tariff is the difference between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister says that the country will trust him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "He was never under any obligation to toe the line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " to be applied as has to be applied under the Covenant of the League of Nations to a State which refuses to conform, in a matter of international dispute, to the conditions laid down. That does not mean absolutely uniform conditions, but it means an international Convention ratified by all these States, and what is the use of such a ratification unless there can be some means to enforce it?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.934.2", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Sir Laming Worthington-Evans)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Prime Minister!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Sir Laming Worthington-Evans)", "preceding_text": "I told the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.934.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.939.1", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": " would point out that the procedure is applicable where importation is substantial, where employment in the United Kingdom is seriously affected, where competition arises from unfair or inferior conditions of hours or wages, where the applicant is efficient, and can increase output, and where no serious adverse effect on employment or costs of production in any other productive industry is caused.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.939.1", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "tive industry is caused. [ Interruption. ] Yes, that was in the White Paper. The right hon. Gentleman also asked what guarantee there would be against Safeguarding being used in the new Parliament to introduce Protection by a back door or a side door. These are the guarantees. Each industry has got to prove its own case; the duties have got to be imposed by a Finance Bill coming before this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.943.0", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENNISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENNISON", "preceding_text": "o show any compensating advantage which will result from Safeguarding. The organisation for which I claim to speak, and which is concerned with this particular trade, is very much concerned because this question is becoming a political issue rather than an industrial issue. Not only the workpeople but many manufacturers are very much concerned because this question is being made a political issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.943.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.949.1", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "e the standard of living of British workmen. We on this side, who have not quite such militaristic minds, but who believe rather in international agreement and arbitration, are not prepared to go quite so far as to use the British Navy to sink a merchant ship during a time of peace, but we can understand the right hon. Gentleman's feelings of wrath when he is moved to make so forcible a statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.949.1", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "week. If any workers in this country were to apply for work, and say that they were ready to work at wages of 50s., 38s., 33s. or 30s., I think both right hon. Gentlemen would say that those were sweated conditions, and that they could not allow this to take place. Am I right? Very well. These are the actual wages which are being paid at the present moment in Germany, the Saar, France and Belgium.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.949.1", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "t. of our wage level. Would hon. Gentlemen opposite allow Germans, or Frenchmen, or Luxemburgers, or Belgians, to come into this country and work at those wages? Not for one hour. And yet the right hon. Gentleman, speaking just now, gloried in the fact that the products of those workers are coming into this country and bringing this misery into the homes, of great numbers of our fellow-countrymen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are not they protected?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": ". It is not the right thing to tell our people that that can possibly happen in the near future. Nor is any country on the Continent going to commit suicide by allowing such a thing, because they know perfectly well that, if their wage level was raised to that of Great Britain, Great Britain, by her superior skill and efficiency, would secure the whole of the market within probably the third year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "he verdict of the country it was not such a very large turnover of votes in spite of what the right hon. Gentleman has said, the leaders of the Socialist party at that Protection election declared that they stood neither for Free Trade nor for Protection. It, is absurd, therefore, to claim that there was a great decision of the country against that policy, when if you add your vote to our's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is that another joke?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Gentleman has said, the leaders of the Socialist party at that Protection election declared that they stood neither for Free Trade nor for Protection. It, is absurd, therefore, to claim that there was a great decision of the country against that policy, when if you add your vote to our's—[ Interruption ]. Do not let us leave it always to the Liberal party to make these calculations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "ll carried back to the most tragic years of this country. These are things which, I know, it is always distasteful for us to mention. You, Mr. Speaker, will understand why I feel so strongly on this question if I ask the House to realise that for a prolonged period I had the honour of having a large number of these men from Northumberland and Durham, who are suffering so acutely, under my command.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did you do in the lock-out?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "suffering so acutely, under my command. [ interruption. ] What I am desirous of saying is, that if there is any man in any part of this country who knew what these men in Northumberland and Durham did in the Great War, and who is not moved by their state to-day and will not do anything in his power to improve their lot, all I can say is, that he does not realise the sacrifices that have been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "f saying is, that if there is any man in any part of this country who knew what these men in Northumberland and Durham did in the Great War, and who is not moved by their state to-day and will not do anything in his power to improve their lot, all I can say is, that he does not realise the sacrifices that have been made. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What did you do in the lock-out?\"] My appeal is this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.971.0", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman was trying to negotiate with the representative of the coalowners, Sir Adam Nimmo, and a joke that was repeated in the Lobby by Tory Members, that \"Nimmo me impune lacessit\" was the motto of the Government. Sir Adam Nimmo could compel the Government to get down on their knees and obey his instructions. They joked about it on the back benches and in the Lobbies of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.971.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.978.3", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member will allow me I will make this, my last interruption of his speech. Rates and taxes represent just a fraction of the income received or the rent paid in the one case or the other. If you are paying £50 of rent to a landlord you are perhaps paying £10 of rates and if you have an income of £10,000 you pay perhaps £1,000 in taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.978.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.978.4", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "edge given by the Prime Minister that any British industry which was affected by unfair foreign competition should have its chance of appearing before a committee and, if it proved its case, that it should be entitled to the application of a Safeguarding Duty. I may be wrong but I can only refer to the pledge which was given and the statement made in the Election Address of the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.978.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D1XEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cotton!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D1XEY", "preceding_text": "intain that if it be true—and I understand that my party and the Government believe it to be true—has a real advantage has been given to employment in the industries to which these duties have been applied, then the Government should state the position in relation to the big basic trades where the real problem lies. I take the iron and steel trade, the coal trade and the woollen trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D1XEY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D1XEY", "preceding_text": "to give you the right to go there, and you will possibly have a Duty advised by that committee; but even then the Government can come down and say that a Duty would be against public policy and an infringement of the pledge against a general tariff.\" I would plead with the Government in this matter. A large number of Members on this side if they have the courage of their convictions believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D1XEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is kidding now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D1XEY", "preceding_text": " nation to know something about the policy in regard to these industries. I am a loyal supporter of His Majesty's Government and I stand by the Prime Minister's pledge, but I would remind the Government that, after all is said and done, the Conservative party in the country have on three definite occasions passed a unanimous vote demanding the application of this Duty in respect of iron and steel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "We must all admire the candour and the courage of the hon. Member for Penrith (Mr. Dixey), who has just sat down. We have now got down to realism, and the hon. Member says he speaks for the rank and file of the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": " the hon. Member says he speaks for the rank and file of the Conservative party. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] He said, \"We are returned here for this purpose.\" We live in a time when the Conservative party do not speak very much, and I do not know whether there is anybody, save one or two, who will say that the party is not in instinct and belief a Protectionist party. Is there anybody who will say that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": " the country is because they know that, if they did they would not be returned. So, although they have that belief, they prefer their position in the House of Common to the advocacy of the policy in which they sincerely believe. I sympathise with the hon. Member for Penrith. I think it was very candid of him to say that he intended to move his Amendment on behalf of the rank and file of the party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "rd iron and steel, I am afraid I cannot follow him. I am not sure that he has realised the reaction that the safeguarding of these basic industries would have upon other commodities and other industries and trades….We are opposed to Protection. That is the Government; that is the united party. Here is the hon. Member for Penrith, speaking for the rank and file, the Yarmouth conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.996.0", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATKINSON", "preceding_text": " White Paper, which is the only one of any value, that no industry shall be safeguarded if to safeguard it will have an adverse effect upon any other industry. I take those words to mean, and they have been construed as meaning, that if by protecting an industry you are going to increase the cost of any other industry's raw material, that shall not be done. That is my view of what Safeguarding is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.996.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1001.3", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATKINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is theory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATKINSON", "preceding_text": "l. Here is steel being quoted in the Continental market at so much a ton and England is asking more, notwithstanding this condition of safeguarding, I want a licence to import.\" You have an example now with regard to dyestuffs. The Advisory Committee fixes prices for various dyestuffs and this is the rule. If producers here are asking more than these prices, a licence is at once granted to import.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1001.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1024.4", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "What about the Irish Free State?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1024.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1025.1", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "declaration is made: The failure of any nation to adopt humane conditions of labour is an obstacle in the way of other nations which desire to improve the conditions in their own country. We are asking that this country, which has a comparatively high standard, should propose to the International Labour Office at Geneva that conventions should be signed, and, when signed, should be enforced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1029.0", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "at time by any kind of back-door. I say that if the country will not give us the tools we want, we will use the tools that we can get. If you cannot get a shovel, use a trowel. We fell back on the policy which was the policy of the Coalition Government, which they had practised regarding Safeguarding. That policy became our policy in 1924. It was carrying on the policy of the Coalition Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1029.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1032.0", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "After live years!", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "House of Commons or any part of the House of Commons feels that the Government are going too near the danger point, it can raise the matter and it can fight it out, and if it can convince other people that the Government are going beyond their pledges—supposing we were in after a General Election—it would give them the finest cry in the succeeding election that they could possibly get.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1029.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1033.3", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Washington?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "sed. Difficult as it is to get opinion moving in your own country, it is incomparably more difficult to get things moving when you get a number of foreign nations, and what I want to know is, what the hon. Member proposes to do in the interval; whether he will support us until such time as he can get his International Convention? We are not going to stand in the way of an International Convention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1033.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1033.3", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For four years!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " are not going to stand in the way of an International Convention. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Washington?\"] I should like nothing better than to say something about Washington if I had the time. I am trying to do justice to the Amendment. The point I want to put to hon. Members opposite is that we have this problem of unemployment before us; we have been talking about it for the last three days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1033.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "he House to give its verdict as to whether the employment of the people in this country should or should not be protected to that extent. A question was put to the right hon. Member for Colne Valley by my right hon. Friend as to whether he was going, if returned to power, to abolish the present protective duties, whether McKenna Duties or other duties, and he said, in effect, that he did not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "is mind singe 4 o'clock. I notice that among the 63 items of policy in \"Labour and the Nation,\" there occurs the phrase: They stand for the abolition of taxes on the necessaries of life, and all protective duties. I think that settles that. So that the result is that, if hon. Members opposite are returned to power, not only will they take no steps to safeguard British labour in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1035.2", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ed. The only people who are to be protected are the people who want least Protection. We have heard about steel and iron. I will undertake to say that some of those who have spoken in defence of the steel and iron trade are themselves investors in foreign steel and iron. They get it both ways. They pretend in this House that they are friends of the British producer as against the foreign producer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1035.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1035.2", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Russia?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Belgium and in the United States—I say it without fear of contradiction—and in every other country in the world, you have got as big a proportion of unemployment as you have in this country in proportion to the population. Even in the most marvellous country of them all, the United States of America, the American bureau of statistics at Washington admits there are 4,000,000 unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1035.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "ue. If our workers are being thrown out of work by unfair competition, we are prepared to face the issue, but you are not. The goods which you tax are coming in. Who pays the tax when the goods come in? We hear about factories being established in England, but those factories are being built at 3d. an hour less than the wages paid for the erection of the same factories in England by British firms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "You say that you want to uphold the standard of British labour, but these firms are taking advantage of our unemployment problem to go below the standard rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "You say that you want to uphold the standard of British labour, but these firms are taking advantage of our unemployment problem to go below the standard rate. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] They are doing it here within three miles of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are the trade unions doing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "You say that you want to uphold the standard of British labour, but these firms are taking advantage of our unemployment problem to go below the standard rate. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] They are doing it here within three miles of this House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] At Hendon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-14", "file": "debates1928-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a2a0ab17fb6f2f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not strike?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "You say that you want to uphold the standard of British labour, but these firms are taking advantage of our unemployment problem to go below the standard rate. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] They are doing it here within three miles of this House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] At Hendon. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What are the trade unions doing?\"] The trade union rate is 1s. 3d., and they are paying 1s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-14a.1038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-15", "file": "debates1928-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63820078b703162d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-15a.1063.5", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION,", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Really, does not the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-15a.1063.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-15", "file": "debates1928-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63820078b703162d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-15a.1064.0", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "Does the Noble Lord not think that this man has been sufficiently penalised, having regard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-15a.1064.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-15", "file": "debates1928-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63820078b703162d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-15a.1064.3", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "Seeing that the Minister will not reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-15a.1064.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-15", "file": "debates1928-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63820078b703162d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-15a.1090.2", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DURHAM TEACHER'S CERTIFICATE (CANCELLATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House in order to call attention to a definite matter of urgent public importance, namely, the action of the President of the Board of Education in taking away and refusing to restore the teaching certificate of John Towers, schoolmaster, of Headley Hill, who has suffered two years of unemployment for simply caning two boys in 1926 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-15a.1090.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-15", "file": "debates1928-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63820078b703162d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-15a.1096.3", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir COOPER RAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Navy Estimates\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir COOPER RAWSON", "preceding_text": "I beg to give notice that on going into Committee of Supply on the Civil Service Estimates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-15a.1096.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-15", "file": "debates1928-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63820078b703162d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-15a.1137.6", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": "m of existence if the work is not there for them. Whoever else is responsible—you may blame Lenin, you may blame Trotsky, you may blame Cook, or blame whom you like—these men are not responsible for the conditions they are in. My people in Lancashire, some of the best and most skilful workers who ever lived, are no more responsible for what they are suffering than the benches opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-15a.1137.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-15", "file": "debates1928-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63820078b703162d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-15a.1142.0", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain MACMILLAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain MACMILLAN", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman now has to come down to the House with a Bill to amend the main Act which we passed last autumn. It is with some hesitation, that I shall continue the very few remarks I have to make. I hope I do not infringe too much upon the rights of other Members in this House, but when last I spoke, the Leader of the Opposition thought fit to make a very offensive and very personal attack upon me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-15a.1142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-15", "file": "debates1928-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63820078b703162d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-15a.1203.0", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "d let us know the basis on which he made his calculations for the purpose of this amount of money as well as for the period which is mentioned in this Bill. We have not yet had any statement from the Government as to why this is to be a figure of :10,000,000, and why the year 1930 is taken into account. I would call the attention of the supporters of the Government to the position in this Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-15a.1203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-15", "file": "debates1928-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63820078b703162d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-15a.1203.0", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shylock.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "se and justify this method of dealing with unemployment insurance. I assert that the Treasury, in their dealings with the Unemployment Insurance Fund, have acted in the same capacity as some of the worst moneylenders in London. Any moneylender in London would be prepared to lend to the Unemployment Insurance Fund not only :10,000,000 but more on better terms than are being offered by the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-15a.1203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-15", "file": "debates1928-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63820078b703162d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-15a.1213.0", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are not responsible for the administration.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "you cannot give me a job, will you sign that paper saying that I have been asking for work? \"It has come to be looked upon as quite a nuisance. I should like to see some alteration but hon. Members above the Gangway cannot get away from the fact that this condition was introduced by the Labour Government who are responsible, not only for the wording of the Act but for the construction put upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-15a.1213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-15", "file": "debates1928-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63820078b703162d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-15a.1226.3", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "If the Treasury make no profit, someone else is making a profit; otherwise, where does the 5 per cent. come in? If 5 per cent. interest is paid, a profit is made on the transaction somewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-15a.1226.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-15", "file": "debates1928-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63820078b703162d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-15a.1226.3", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "nemployed. We have come to a fine state of affairs when the financiers who lend money to the Treasury, or, for that matter, the Treasury themselves, are put in a stronger financial position because of the increase of unemployment in this country. 10.0 p.m. I make a third point. We have had no information as to whether this sum of :10,000,000 will be adequate for the purpose. How long will it last?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-15a.1226.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-20", "file": "debates1928-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "f81297232f07f352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1520.0", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MERCANTILE MARINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Member take it from me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-20", "file": "debates1928-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "f81297232f07f352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1520.1", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MERCANTILE MARINE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that every passenger liner has boat drill during every voyage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-20", "file": "debates1928-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "f81297232f07f352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1520.1", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MERCANTILE MARINE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that every passenger liner has boat drill during every voyage—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]and that the boats are put into the water during the voyage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-20", "file": "debates1928-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "f81297232f07f352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1538.6", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Member will realise that, with regard to pit-boys, it is very often the fathers who like to have their sons working with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1538.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-20", "file": "debates1928-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "f81297232f07f352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1541.1", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND RATING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Information is sought from the hon. and gallant Gentleman, and, when the reply is forthcoming, we find that the figures given by him have no relation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-20", "file": "debates1928-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "f81297232f07f352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1542.8", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND RATING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " in view of the fact that there are so many changes made by him in the Bill that he is making applicable to Scotland, due to the difference that exists in Scottish law and assessment matters, he will not reconsider the reply which he has just given and allow Scotland to discuss the matter in the Standing Committee on Scottish Bills which was set up in order to give Scotland the opportunity —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1542.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-11-20", "file": "debates1928-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "f81297232f07f352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1543.2", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND RATING.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. For your protection, Sir, but for the interruptions from the other side my question would have been ended before you rose to your feet, and if you are going to protect Members of the other side, I am going to ask you to extend the same protection to Members upon this side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-20", "file": "debates1928-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "f81297232f07f352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1543.4", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND RATING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I wish to ask the Prime Minister if it is not the case that the Secretary of State for Scotland personally went and appealed to the Prime Minister in order that he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1543.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-11-20", "file": "debates1928-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "f81297232f07f352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1550.7", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RYE LIFEBOAT DISASTER.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "What about the Navy!", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral BEAMISH", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that several Royal Commissions have given the opinion quite clearly that the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is far more efficiently run under private enterprise and under voluntary circumstances than it would be under State control?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1550.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-20", "file": "debates1928-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "f81297232f07f352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1596.2", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPERANNUATION (DIPLOMATIC SERVICE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ppeals to our sense of justice. These people for whom we are asked to provide pensions come from a particular class in society. To enter the Diplomatic Service one must have certain qualifications. One of them is the accident of birth. One must be born in a particular stratum of society before he is admitted to the Diplomatic Service, one must have a certain kind of education and a certain income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1596.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-20", "file": "debates1928-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "f81297232f07f352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1596.2", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPERANNUATION (DIPLOMATIC SERVICE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "sions come from a particular class in society. To enter the Diplomatic Service one must have certain qualifications. One of them is the accident of birth. One must be born in a particular stratum of society before he is admitted to the Diplomatic Service, one must have a certain kind of education and a certain income. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] One must have an income of not less than £400 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1596.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-20", "file": "debates1928-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "f81297232f07f352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1598.0", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPERANNUATION (DIPLOMATIC SERVICE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "e, irrespective of class, out of conditions that have been exposed before the final blow has been struck. Therefore, this afternoon I am going to support this Resolution. This is not a Resolution asking for new pensions. I am quite clear about that. It is not a Resolution asking that men shall be pensioned who in the eyes of the law and in the spirit of the law ought not to be pensioned now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1598.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-20", "file": "debates1928-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "f81297232f07f352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1609.2", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPERANNUATION (DIPLOMATIC SERVICE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "lie is going into the Lobby to show his opposition to hon. Members opposite, because he neither believes them nor trusts them, but, in doing so, he forgets that he is consciously doing an injustice to somebody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1609.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-20", "file": "debates1928-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "f81297232f07f352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1609.2", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPERANNUATION (DIPLOMATIC SERVICE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " a Labour Government, took the view that in these administrative and big positions we ought not to consider either the special social position or the politics of the individuals chosen. Then why ought we to go into the Lobby with my hon. Friend and perpetuate a system that deprives us of the opportunity of availing ourselves of the brains, even for those positions? That is what you have to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1609.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-11-20", "file": "debates1928-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "f81297232f07f352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1611.0", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPERANNUATION (DIPLOMATIC SERVICE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear£", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "nt nor unfair. Is it to be argued that we are to oppose the regularising of a pension system that is admittedly unfairly applied to-day? Can it be argued that we must do that on the ground that these people obtain a certain salary for their work, while miners or railwaymen or cotton operatives get a less salary? It is not unfair to say that the logic of that is, \"Let us all be on the same salary.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1610.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-20", "file": "debates1928-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "f81297232f07f352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1615.2", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPERANNUATION (DIPLOMATIC SERVICE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "we must start on a readjustment of these questions. When we are being asked by the Government to support a proposal of this kind we should reflect on the pitiful allowance for the old lady who makes the way smooth for Ministers and ex-Ministers in making readjustments on those carpets over which we walk. No pension there—a mere pitiful allowance. An absolute disgrace to the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1615.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-20", "file": "debates1928-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "f81297232f07f352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1615.2", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPERANNUATION (DIPLOMATIC SERVICE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "Conservative party, but who used to be a Labour Member—there are many and various kinds of Labour Members nowadays—challenged us on the point of whether we would go in for reduction of our own salaries. It was a reference in my direction. I said then, and I say now, that I am prepared to face that challenge and substantially to face it. I would be the last man to make a personal boast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1615.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-20", "file": "debates1928-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "f81297232f07f352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1624.1", "colnum": "1624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPERANNUATION (DIPLOMATIC SERVICE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "preceding_text": "o not want the question of social justice and the question of Socialism, which I am sent here to defend, to be mixed up with a mere question of dividing income or whether this particular type of person gets such and such pension and other people do not get quite as much. That will not solve the problem of poverty. That problem will not be solved by the mere redistribution of existing wealth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-20a.1624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-21", "file": "debates1928-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "dc52bc9f98b75771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-21a.1747.2", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Arthur Michael Samuel)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Arthur Michael Samuel)", "preceding_text": "me time in July last, and was debated on 2nd August. This Bill authorises the sale of the Pacific Cable undertaking, the West Indian Cable, and the two Transatlantic Cables which are in the possession of my right hon. Friend the Postmaster-General. It also provides for the dissolution of the Pacific Cable Board when the transfer of the undertakings for which that Board is responsible is completed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-21a.1747.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-21", "file": "debates1928-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "dc52bc9f98b75771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-21a.1766.6", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are giving them away!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ons from the Government or rather he had to pay the Government £160,000 for the right to prove the efficiency of the beam system and the Marconi Company were the losers by the transaction. Those same stations under this scheme before the House are leased by the Government for £250,000 a year to the merger company—a very profitable transaction for His Majesty's Government in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-21a.1766.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-21", "file": "debates1928-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "dc52bc9f98b75771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-21a.1770.8", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the consumer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "vernments in our Overseas Dominions and Colonies will be removed if we adopt this scheme. While the new enterprise is to be operated under private control, I hope the Government will take care that all those officials who have done faithful public service in the past in operating Government-owned wireless and cables, will be amply provided for. I think we are all agreed that that ought to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-21a.1770.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-21", "file": "debates1928-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "dc52bc9f98b75771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-21a.1783.0", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major HILLS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"This is not a. public utility company.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HILLS", "preceding_text": " hon. Members when they attack the Marconi Company, will not attack Senatore Marconi because I do not believe such an attack would be justified. We are all agreed that there ought to he unification and, as I say, the question is: Should it he under the State or under a public utility company? I formed from the very beginning a very strong opinion that the public utility company was the best—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-21a.1783.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-21", "file": "debates1928-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "dc52bc9f98b75771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-21a.1820.0", "colnum": "1820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PILCHER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PILCHER", "preceding_text": "r Company. The Merger Company can only come into existence if a satisfactory contract is realised, and consequently the Communications Company can only come into existence after the Merger Company. It would seem to be very difficult in a Bill authorising the sale of the Government assets to the various companies to define more clearly and closely the nature of this ultimate Communications Company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-21a.1820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-21", "file": "debates1928-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "dc52bc9f98b75771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-21a.1821.0", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PILCHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PILCHER", "preceding_text": "company, with a capital of £30,000,000, I am a little apprehensive. Will not this new service, which cost less than a quarter of a million sterling to establish in this country, tend to be rather swamped in this vast aggregation of capital? I am by no means satisfied that any alternative was possible. Certainly, the last think that I would like to see would be any form of national management.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-21a.1821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-21", "file": "debates1928-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "dc52bc9f98b75771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-21a.1862.1", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "Let me, then, take the House step by step through the reasoning which guided this Imperial Conference, and let me again emphasise that we went into that Conference with no pre-conceived notions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-21a.1862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-21", "file": "debates1928-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "dc52bc9f98b75771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-21a.1864.1", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What a joke!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "ly free to be able to purchase their requirements in the open market and in a manner which would be most efficient and most to the advantage of the general service. I want to say something about the control of the working of this Company. In the first place, there are to be two Government Directors, who are to he nominated by the Cable Company, but who must be approved by His Majesty's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-21a.1864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-21", "file": "debates1928-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "dc52bc9f98b75771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-21a.1865.3", "colnum": "1865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "They will be two out of the 12, but this is not a case of a majority. These Directors are there in order that they may be in close touch with and aware of everythting that is being done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-21a.1865.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-21", "file": "debates1928-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "dc52bc9f98b75771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-21a.1865.7", "colnum": "1865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Until when?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "esent, and which they may find necessary for their purpose. Obviously, the general business of the Government, both of the Fighting Services and the other branches of the Government service, will in the main be carried on through this large Communications Company, but that there should be certain safeguards for the Fighting Services, the House will agree. The telephone services are reserved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-21a.1865.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-22", "file": "debates1928-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "811fef0e07a8c208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-22a.1922.8", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are wrong!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. The right hon. Gentleman is telling us what is not true. I challenge the statement made by the Minister that this meat comes from the Dominions, because the Government changed it from Australia to the Argentine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-22a.1922.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-22", "file": "debates1928-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "811fef0e07a8c208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-22a.1959.3", "colnum": "1959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "der. The Mining Association pressed very strenuously for the inclusion of a flat rate. The railways, on the other hand, were equally vehement in the expression of a wish that a flat rate should not be included. I need not go into the merits of whether a fiat rate should or should not be included, but a fairly happy compromise was arrived at of 1½d. flat rate and 25 per cent. of the remainder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-22a.1959.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-22", "file": "debates1928-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "811fef0e07a8c208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-22a.1989.0", "colnum": "1989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major CARVER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major CARVER", "preceding_text": "The Minister of Transport put this case very fairly before the Committee, and I should like to support this Scheme in my position as a railway director. I have not been in that position for a very long time. This Scheme has been approved by the four great amalgamated companies and the Metropolitan Railway Company, and they have signed the Schedule to the Scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-22a.1989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-22", "file": "debates1928-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "811fef0e07a8c208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-22a.2002.3", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "ll or, as an alternative, give the colliery companies some right of appeal against the North Eastern Railway Company—a right of appeal to the Ministry of Transport or some other authority who will be able to say whether the railway company has fairly divided this charge, or whether it has taken advantage of the wording of the White Paper to make an unfair charge against the colliery company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-22a.2002.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-11-22", "file": "debates1928-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "811fef0e07a8c208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-22a.2039.2", "colnum": "2039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Controller of the Household.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "What is he?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-22a.2039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-22", "file": "debates1928-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "811fef0e07a8c208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-22a.2055.3", "colnum": "2055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "t was a reasonable proposition and that we ought to accede to it. It has been suggested by one of the speakers that in doing so we are helping the foreigners. I think that is a very superficial view. If there were really any truth in that argument would not the first people to object be the iron and steel trades of this country, who are the people who are always complaining of foreign competition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-22a.2055.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-11-22", "file": "debates1928-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "811fef0e07a8c208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-22a.2062.0", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "The cost per ton-mile?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "icial figures worked out by the Ministry of Transport and the railway companies. Therefore in connection with the private lines there can be no dispute as to the correct- ness of the figures. What, then, is the position? On the private lines the average cost is a shilling per ton. On the public railways of England to-day the average freight, with owner's wagons, is 2s. a ton for the whole country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-22a.2061.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-22", "file": "debates1928-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "811fef0e07a8c208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-22a.2078.9", "colnum": "2078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "preceding_text": "ous situation that is not necessary. Perhaps I can better illustrate the point by reminding the Committee of what took place recently. Everyone recognises that the police service as a whole does not deserve to have public suspicion cast upon it, but we know that certain incidents have occurred, certain border-line cases, which to a very large extent have destroyed public confidence in the service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-22a.2078.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-23", "file": "debates1928-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "fff972c29285a0f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-23a.2111.4", "colnum": "2111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPERANNUATION (DIPLOMATIC SERVICE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Surely it is in Order for an hon. and Gallant Member who has some experience of foreign Courts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-23a.2111.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-11-26", "file": "debates1928-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "c9ee54a007242657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-26a.14.8", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Does not the hon. Gentleman think it is amazing that British firms have not secured some part of this work, having regard to the facilities obtainable under the Trade Facilities Act? Is he aware that Ismet Pasha stated in the Turkish Assembly last week that 20,000 labourers are now at work in Turkey constructing six railways, and, independent of that, road building—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-26a.14.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-11-26", "file": "debates1928-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "c9ee54a007242657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-26a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "With all respect, Sir, I think this is a very important subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-26a.15.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-11-26", "file": "debates1928-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "c9ee54a007242657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-26a.15.3", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I am sure Mr. Speaker will keep me in order if I get out of order. We have the Trade Facilities Act for the purpose of assisting British trade, and it seems to me amazing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-26a.15.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-26", "file": "debates1928-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "c9ee54a007242657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-26a.74.1", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "or Law, that the abstraction of rateable value from the purview of local authorities s going to increase these inequalities and make it more impossible than it was before for the smaller authorities to bear it. The obvious remedy is here, as in the case of the Poor Law, to spread the area of charge. And here fortune favours the brave. It is a brave Government that puts forward such a remedy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-26a.74.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-26", "file": "debates1928-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "c9ee54a007242657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-26a.74.1", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " it is bound also to have the most profound effect upon the fortunes of all ratepayers by reducing the burden which now presses so heavily upon them of supporting their unfortunate fellows who cannot support themselves. Let us now come to the fifth and last chapter—the relations of national and local finance. I believe that here there is a considerable extent of common ground between us all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-26a.74.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-26", "file": "debates1928-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "c9ee54a007242657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-26a.74.1", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "werful and more effective than if we had to rely upon some trifling sum? I notice here what has rather surprised me, and that is the complaint of the Liberal party that we are unnecessarily mixing up the relief of burdens with local government reform. I say I am surprised at that complaint on the part of the Liberal party, because that was not always the opinion of the Leader of the Liberal party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-26a.74.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-26", "file": "debates1928-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "c9ee54a007242657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-26a.74.1", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ral facts which have to be taken into account. Then there is the second course, which is to take the local expenditure as the basis for determining what should he received from the State. I turn that. down at once, because that is the very principle which, broadly speaking, is to be found in our present system of distribution. It is the very one which has brought about the necessitous areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-26a.74.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-26", "file": "debates1928-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "c9ee54a007242657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-26a.107.0", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "n. But I must take objection to the Minister's statement that £24,000,000 is to be taken off the back of industry. That is not a fair way of putting it. Is £400,000 off breweries and distilleries taking it off the back of industry? When the right hon. Gentleman speaks of taking it off the back of industry, he means taking a burden off. There is no burden where profits are now being made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-26a.107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-26", "file": "debates1928-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "c9ee54a007242657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-26a.107.0", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "parities. None of these figures will work out like this. If you compare these tables you will find that there seems to be no apparent relation between the amount of help that local authorities get out of this scheme and the necessities of their case. There cannot be. I have worked through these tables, up and down. I have made tables of comparison of my own and the results are perfectly ludicrous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-26a.107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-26", "file": "debates1928-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "c9ee54a007242657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-26a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which is Aaron?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "tries of this country to the Promised Land and he is a happy man in this, that just as the original Moses needed two able assistants Aaron and Hur to hold up his arms in the course of the long struggle with the Amalekites in the valley, so he has to-day to do the Teal work of combating the Amalekites, an Aaron and a Hur—the two ablest men, as a team, in our judgment in the Government to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-26a.135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-26", "file": "debates1928-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "c9ee54a007242657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-26a.142.3", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "e Lord Oxford, who was Prime Minister at the time when the Poor Law Report was pub- lished, made quite clear; and certainly, if the authority to be put in their place for the handling of able-bodied poor relief is to be an authority derived at three removes from an elected body, then we can only characterise that as being utterly undemocratic in its origin. I ask myself one or two other questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-26a.142.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-26", "file": "debates1928-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "c9ee54a007242657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-26a.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "preceding_text": " Statute Book? I do not expect him to answer that question, but perhaps the hon. Member who is going to speak later for the Opposition will answer. If the arguments which are to be advanced in the country against this Measure resemble in any way the arguments which the hon. Member has just advanced, I for one shall welcome a very large number of speakers from the party opposite in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-26a.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-27", "file": "debates1928-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ca4fba5fc5ed69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MERCANTILE MARINE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "That is not quite the point which I am putting; it is that at the very last moment of emergency, when any messages received from any other ship is of no use, and it is beyond the power of the wireless operator to indicate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.205.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-11-27", "file": "debates1928-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ca4fba5fc5ed69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.226.4", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "To what extent?", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "Everyone will be much better off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.226.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-27", "file": "debates1928-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ca4fba5fc5ed69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.265.3", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "er side, to those who deny the value of this Bill for public health. The future of this Bill must depend upon the country backing it before it gets through, while it gets through and after it gets through. For that purpose, we want the help of everybody concerned, and we want publicity above all things. The best way to secure publicity for this Bill is through the British Broadcasting Corporation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-27", "file": "debates1928-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ca4fba5fc5ed69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He will not agree…\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "rateful as a landlord. What is my position? I will take one farm, I will not say where it is, which at present I let. The rates on that farm which henceforth are not to be paid by me or anybody else amount to £16 a year. It is true that my tenant for the present will get the benefit of that £16 a year, but I think lion. Members will agree that he is able to pay £16 a year more rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-27", "file": "debates1928-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ca4fba5fc5ed69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "shall be kept and, if possible, the money shall be returned to each spending authority. Now I come to the system of grants in relief. Never have I seen such a hotchpotch as is this £16,000,000 arrangement, First of all, there are the assigned revenues. I heartily agree with the Minister that nobody could possibly ad- minister the assigned revenues more absurdly than they are administered now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-27", "file": "debates1928-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ca4fba5fc5ed69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": " deal seriously with the question and give a stimulus to the new service. If the Minister wants another stimulus, there is an easy way, the way we have always taken with optional services when they have attained a certain degree of stability, and that is to make those services compulsory and to give a grant. I pass on to the Road Fund, and here I must deal with what the Minister of Transport said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-27", "file": "debates1928-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ca4fba5fc5ed69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "at is to make those services compulsory and to give a grant. I pass on to the Road Fund, and here I must deal with what the Minister of Transport said. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the Minister?\"] I know every spending Department will do the same thing. The Minister of Health himself did it. He said,\" I am taking away 4d.—I think it was—\"from Merthyr Tydvil maternity grant and giving 26d.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-27", "file": "debates1928-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ca4fba5fc5ed69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "e financial memorandum. The Minister told his officials to find a formula, and they sat down, took one thing which looked reasonable, ratable value, and put in a percentage, and then tried it on different towns. It did not fit, and so they said, \"We must have something else.\" They put in the percentage for children and tried it again. Again it did not fit. So they said, \"We must have another try.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-27", "file": "debates1928-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ca4fba5fc5ed69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General WRIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General WRIGHT", "preceding_text": " buildings have been completely de-rated. I would point out in that connection that a landlord cannot raise a sitting tenant's rent without going to arbitration, and if, rather than go to arbitration, he gives his tenant notice to quit, that tenant can not only claim payment for crops on the ground and for the unexhausted value of manures, but also a lump sum amounting to at least one year's rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-27", "file": "debates1928-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ca4fba5fc5ed69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.328.3", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "the parishes of an agricultural county to provide those buildings under the present system is asking too much, and is putting a sprag into the wheel of the Hadow port. That is another reason why we should have three years at the start, so that we may get some idea of the cost, of the new schools and of these new education proposals. My division is one of the poorest, if not the poorest in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.328.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-27", "file": "debates1928-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ca4fba5fc5ed69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. BECKETT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. BECKETT", "preceding_text": " of taxes. The right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Agriculture, whom we all respect and who, I am sure, if he was a landlord, would be a very good landlord, has not been in this House for this Debate, and I do not think he is either lazy or foolish enough not to understand the Bill, yet we find him only three weeks ago sending a circular to the Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire, District Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.335.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-27", "file": "debates1928-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ca4fba5fc5ed69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not for roads.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "ter will correct me if I am wrong—that the £2,700,000, to which he referred, comes in the £16,000,000 and has nothing whatever to do with the £5,000,000, but the £3,000,000, to which he also alluded and as to which he claimed, if I may say so, some credit for having gone to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, comes out of the Road Fund and is included in the £5,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.352.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-11-27", "file": "debates1928-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ca4fba5fc5ed69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.366.0", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Use it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMEASLEY", "preceding_text": "object of it all. Then we come to the second category I have mentioned—those who are movable but will not get a move on. I include in that category hon. Members of the Socialist and Liberal parties. I am in the habit of studying my opponents' literature very carefully, and not merely to pick out debating points. If we really can find anything worth while in our opponents' arguments we—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-27", "file": "debates1928-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "0ca4fba5fc5ed69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Take coal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "oing to make the situation worse and not better.\"—[OFFICIAL, REPORT, 26th November, 1928; col. 113, Vol. 223.] I want to examine that for a few moments, and for this purpose A does not matter what particular finished product you take of those within the classes of heavy industry with which this de-rating is particularly intended to deal. To take finished steel, that is not an argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-27a.379.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-28", "file": "debates1928-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a2a66af31ac8571d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-28a.539.5", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Stick to the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "re are masses of unemployed in the coalfields of this country, the right hon. Gentleman's inspectors can report that they have reduced the number of paupers—that they have reduced the numbers in receipt of relief. As the number of unemployed rises he can boast that by the use of the brutal power he has got under the Poor Law he has reduced the number of persons in receipt of Poor Law relief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-28a.539.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-28", "file": "debates1928-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a2a66af31ac8571d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-28a.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "hat rates as such were no burden; and in the course of this Debate the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne has gone still better and said that there is no burden where profits are being made; while a great deal of the speech of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Seaham this afternoon was devoted to the view that no decrease in the cost of production would be of any assistance at all to industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-28a.542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-28", "file": "debates1928-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a2a66af31ac8571d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-28a.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "local rates, it would be the beginning of the end of local government in this country, because no Exchequer, I do not mind who administers it, could do that without altogether superseding ordinary local government powers. They could not simply give a cheque every year to the local authorities of the country for three-fourths of their rates, without any interference or check on behalf of the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-28a.542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-28", "file": "debates1928-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a2a66af31ac8571d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-28a.553.3", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": " Member for Carnarvon Boroughs, represented the taxpayers. He stated, further, that the proposals of the deputation would have meant at that time an extra 9d. in the pound on the Income Tax. He said, also, and this is most significant—it is curious how it fits in with the proposals which the Government are making at the present time—that the most important thing was to get trade going.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-28a.553.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-28", "file": "debates1928-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "a2a66af31ac8571d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-28a.554.5", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.s", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "erned, upon some particular sum of money being spent, either by voluntary associations or by some local authority in the area. That is the present position. Really, why the maternity and child welfare services have progressed, as I think they have—and I may say, in answer to the speech of the hon. Member for Bow and Bromley, that we are spending on maternity and child welfare services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-28a.554.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-11-29", "file": "debates1928-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "7e453a2b9bdca068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-29a.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Major HILLS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The rates are too high\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Major HILLS", "preceding_text": "Certainly, I will. It is all here. The present rate in Aberdare is 24s. 2d. The final rate will be 22s. 2d., and the starting rate will be 22s. 6d. So there is a very substantial decrease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-11-29a.667.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-03", "file": "debates1928-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "3dbd9fbce0fd9fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-03a.867.5", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In some cases!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "In answer to my right hon. Friend the Member for Ross and Cromarty (Mr. Macpherson), all I have said is that, when I met the deputation from the parish councils, they admitted that the present parish boundaries were out of date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-03a.867.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-12-03", "file": "debates1928-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "3dbd9fbce0fd9fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-03a.877.0", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": ", and in an endeavour to hammer out mutually a satisfactory solution of this problem. With regard to education, I would again emphasise that in my judgment it would be a calamity if this question were left outside our great scheme. It is interesting to know that the scheme which I submit to the House to-day is the same scheme that was the original intention of those dealing with education in 1918.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-03a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-03", "file": "debates1928-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "3dbd9fbce0fd9fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-03a.881.3", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "I believe, school management committees have practically ceased to function. What will this Bill do so far as education is concerned? Will it benefit education Will it develop education? Nobody has ever alleged it. What it will do will be to reopen and extend a theological war. The right hon. Gentleman laughs, but he will laugh on the other side of his face before he has finished with this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-03a.881.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-03", "file": "debates1928-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "3dbd9fbce0fd9fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-03a.883.2", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "But not since 29th November last, when he wrote this letter to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-03a.883.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-03", "file": "debates1928-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "3dbd9fbce0fd9fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-03a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "l this growing expenditure, already contracted for, shall be met entirely by the local ratepayers, and only by a section of the local ratepayers. Tenants and shopkeepers are to face a sure and certain rent increase, a new bureaucracy arises, democracy is being strangled. The only hopeful feature about this Bill is the widespread resentment which is spreading now from Solway Sands to John o'Groats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-03a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-03", "file": "debates1928-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "3dbd9fbce0fd9fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-03a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "cy is being strangled. The only hopeful feature about this Bill is the widespread resentment which is spreading now from Solway Sands to John o'Groats. [ Laughter. ] The right hon. Gentleman and hon. Members opposite, laugh. One of his own candidates in Glasgow, at his party meeting, said that if this thing goes on Conservative candidates will disappear like a row of ninepins at the next election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-03a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-03", "file": "debates1928-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "3dbd9fbce0fd9fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-03a.896.0", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. M. WATSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. M. WATSON", "preceding_text": "s, before going out of office, to select the number necessary to serve on the Poor Law committee? It will he interesting to find exactly what the right hon. Gentleman intends with regard to that important point. He has given the House the impression that he is prepared to consider an elective scheme. If he is prepared to consider an entirely new scheme for the administration of the Poor Law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-03a.896.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-03", "file": "debates1928-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "3dbd9fbce0fd9fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-03a.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "ll take it from me that the point I am making is quite accurately expressed, the position being that, although the landward areas are to be democratically represented on the county councils, and the normal method of election is to operate there, yet within the burghs there is to be no such method, and the town councils are to appoint from among their number representatives to, the county councils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-03a.960.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1015.5", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister whether it is his intention to ask the House to take the concluding stages of this Imperial Telegraphs Bill in view of the refusal of the Treasury to give any information concerning the contract?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1015.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1026.9", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "I am glad to be able to inform the House that His Majesty the King was well enough this morning to enable a meeting of the Privy Council to be held.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1026.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1051.3", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "mploy. This in an extraordinarily vicious principle; so vicious that we should hardly tolerate it if immemorial usage did not blind our eyes to its significance. It penalises enterprise and capital development. It puts a premium on doing things in ways which require only a small plant, to the detriment of ways which require a large one. That last sentence is the key to our proposals for de-rating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1051.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, I cannot say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, I cannot say that. [ Interruption .] It is a very general question, and I am anxious not to give an answer that would either be misleading or would rule out anything. One wants to think it out a bit more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1064.9", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "Would he apply that to the universities?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1064.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1064.10", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have none to bend!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": " taken advantage of any help that was so given. It is a commonplace, not only in forensic speaking, but, I think I may suggest, in this House also, that the stronger the denunciation, and the more there are of what I may call vacuous generalities, the less potent are the arguments available to those who follow that line. I would ask hon. Members to bend their minds to help us and to help Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1064.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1075.0", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain FANSHAWE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FANSHAWE", "preceding_text": "ree Trade, do not subscribe one penny to our local taxation, although the British-made article does. Hon. Members may criticise my figures, but they cannot criticise that fact. We cannot increase employment in this country unless we increase the capacity to employ, and we cannot increase the capacity to employ unless we increase the number of purchasers in the country who are buying British goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1075.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1077.0", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FANSHAWE", "preceding_text": " of the Government or personal friends of hon. Members on this side. The hon. Member shakes his head. He said something about somebody being chairman of the Conservative party in Glasgow. I think that by that he was twitting us on helping our friends. Does he really think that the relief given to these great Glasgow firms or to firms anywhere in the country is going into the pockets of the owners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1076.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1080.5", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain FANSHAWE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FANSHAWE", "preceding_text": "ot of prejudice has been aroused in the country, and must be aroused, by the proposals in the White Paper, but it would have been very wrong if we had left this antiquated machinery of self-government to be worked by people who have given a great deal of time and service to local government. As soon as the White Paper was issued criticism was aroused at once. It was only issued to draw fire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1080.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1092.0", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "ding Debate. The sounds that came to my ear were more like the rapid firing of shots than a Debate on Second Reading, but he succeeded, I am sure, in making much more clear to the House at large what the proposals of the Government involve. I do not propose to detain the House for more than a very few minutes, because indeed nearly everything that can be said about this Bill has already been said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1092.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1092.0", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "s Measure will be to take away that opportunity of strife. I think it is a good thing that the subject of education should be taken an interest in by a very much wider body of people, and I believe from that it will receive on the whole just as adequate a treatment as it has had in the past, but in addition I feel that we shall get rid of this perpetual wrangle as between one religion and another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1092.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1101.3", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": " of the school management committee. A school management committee must have a majority of elected members on it. We asked for a return from the Secretary of State for Scotland, and that shows that in the county of Fife there are 24 school management committees. One of the committees has 27 members on it. Under the proposals of this Bill there has to be a majority of elected representatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1114.0", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "A laugh .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " the few select people, then ultimately, in the long run, the benefits will trickle down and finally reach the poorest sections of the community. I have come into this House with exactly the contrary political philosophy. I say, start with the ordinary man, the ordinary fellow. Make him right, put him in a position to live, put him in a position to spend, let him eat his way back into a job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1134.0", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "hole way through his speech, made me feel more than ever convinced of the value of the scheme. The only main charge which he brought against the Government was that it was reckless and desperate. When an hon. Member of the Socialist party on the Front Opposition Bench accuses a Conservative Government of being reckless and desperate, I can only say that a glow of pleasure comes over me personally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1135.2", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "widening of the areas of administration of local government, and the third is the substitution of the block grant for the percentage grant. I am going to try to explain to hon. Members the principles which underlie the three main proposals. The principle behind the de-rating proposals is that the tools and plant of production ought not to be taxed, but 'only the profits which arise from their use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1135.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1137.0", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interrupton .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "without exaggeration, that they have been plundered both locally and nationally by taxation and Death Duties until they have not the capital which they ought to spend upon the land they own. That this scheme will put a certain amount of money into their pockets, as I say, I do not deny; but I do not think that is a bad thing, because I believe they will be able to spend more capital upon the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1137.0", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": " and the unprosperous industries. The hon. Member for Dundee spent what seemed like half-an-hour reading through a dreary list of industries in Glasgow and Edinburgh that got some benefit from de-rating, just because they happened to be tobacconists or brewers, and the hon. and gallant Member for Caithness, I believe, challenged the principle that you should give anything to prosperous industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the electors?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "I am sure that where any case of that kind arises no hon. Member, of any party, would not admit that urgent action by the central Department was necessary. I would like to say one final word about the nomination to the county authorities on behalf of the burghs. I think it is a better system on the whole, and I think the burghs would prefer to nominate two members than to have a separate election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1143.2", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "oing to upset the local legislation of a long, long time. I pray that God will give us all patience with a Government that can compose such a Bill at such a time as this. I am not going to touch upon education, because that has been touched upon by others in a far better way than I could possibly do it, but I am very sorry that the education authorities in Scotland have agreed by a majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1143.2", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": " that working men, and working women too, are making progress in the country. That may not be in the mind of the Secretary of State for Scotland, but I know that it is in the minds of many of his sup porters. That is the real reason that lies behind it all, and I would advise the Government not to press home this Bill, but to withdraw it altogether. Let us reconstruct when we are in a calmer mood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1147.0", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Leave the baby alone!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": " their hearts they feel that the ground has been cut from under their feet. They feel the people of the country are recognising that this Bill is going to make for the prosperity of every section of the community in the country. It is easy to criticise. You can remove a feature from any face and offer a reasonable criticism of that feature, but if you put it back into its general background—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1147.0", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": " shown the true spirit of Disraeli in thinking of the future of the people and caring for the under-dog, in total disregard of what it may mean to them in the matter of votes or what may happen at the General Election. While giving my whole-hearted, my ardent and my enthusiastic support to the Government and to the general principles of this great Measure, there are just one or two features—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1147.0", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "ude; we do not want that; but if I read the derating proposals aright they are for the purpose of helping depressed industries, for the purpose of giving depressed industries a chance of expanding, developing and securing further business. Therefore, I say that if any industry is paying a dividend or is capable of paying a dividend of—take any figure—say 20 per cent. in any year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SULLIVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SULLIVAN", "preceding_text": " they are in. One of my hon. Friends wondered why they were doing this at the tail end of their term. There is only one explanation. If a man is going to be hanged for stealing a sheep he goes the whole hog. He is going to be hanged anyway. The Government may know that they are going under, at any rate, and, if they can do something to reward their friends, it may be possible to weather the storm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "nstruction Local Government Committee's Report on Transfer of Functions of Poor Law Authorities in England and Wales (MacLean Committee's Report). The guiding principle adopted by that Committee was the concentration in one local authority for each area of the administration of all expenditure from public funds\"— that is what the hon. Member for Bothwell (Mr. Sullivan) is in favour of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "Members sitting below the Gangway as having invented out of our fertile imagination, and not to have devoted that long, careful consideration and incisive attention to it which they had devoted to it. But the hon. Member for Bothwell, with his long experience, as he has himself informed me, of public authority work, detected this overlapping and called attention to it five years ago in the Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1157.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1162.0", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "They have got that now.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": ", having their members appointed from existing local authorities, they would have a very fine system of local government in Scotland. Then he went on: One thing they wanted a central authority for was the regulating of finance. It was essential, in order to get unity in local administration, that they should have one body responsible for collecting the rates and have some control at the same time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1161.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1164.3", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "overnment and if they want the workers to be represented, and that is to provide the payment for of expenses in order that working men may be members of county councils and be able to do their duties.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 26th November, 1928; col. 126, Vol. 223.] If we want to act fairly and justly, if we want to believe in democratic government, if we want the workers to be represented—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-04", "file": "debates1928-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "792fd3026cbe1840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "Of course, if hon. Members opposite do not read the Bill, I cannot help it, but I think it is a little harsh, when we have taken this step, when we have made preparations, when we have allowed for the payment of expenses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-04a.1165.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-12-05", "file": "debates1928-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "04e6bf8afd7bdfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1207.2", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "And to die!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "Is not the nature of the problem in the South Wales coalfield such that all forms of relief had best be concentrated upon the women and children, so as to leave the men free to get work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-05", "file": "debates1928-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "04e6bf8afd7bdfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "bolished or abrogated, and the dates: Austria, 1918; Belgium, 1863; Finland, 1826; Denmark, 1892; Holland, 1870; Italy, 1889; I should remark here that the re-introduction of the death penalty in Italy only applies to political crime, and not to civil crime. I resume the list: Lithuania, 1922; Norway, 1905; Portugal, 1867; Rumania, 1864; Sweden, 1921; Argentine, 1922; Brazil, 1891; Columbia, 1910.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-05", "file": "debates1928-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "04e6bf8afd7bdfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " that is the end of the matter. I suggest that it is better that 100 guilty men should escape the gallows—to undergo the greater punishment of penal servitude for life—rather than that one innocent man should be judicially murdered. I ask hon. Members are they in favour of hanging women? Are they in favour of the death penalty being applied to women? I think, generally, people are not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-05", "file": "debates1928-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "04e6bf8afd7bdfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1245.1", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " Fund, and, therefore, could not strictly be termed new money; but in any case, even allowing for that proportion, there is a very substantial sum of new money which is going to be provided for the first quinquennium and subsequent quinquennia, and which is to be used for the feeding of this General Exchequer contribution and allocation to the general purposes of the local authorities in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-05", "file": "debates1928-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "04e6bf8afd7bdfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1247.3", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ating during the transitory period from the 1st October, 1929, to the 15th May, 1930. These are estimated at £2,000,000, that is to say, five-eighths of £3,200,000. It is too intricate to work out the exact proportion of the de-rating which would be necessary to cover the transitional period, and, therefore, an estimate has been made of the sum required to cover that transitional period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1247.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-05", "file": "debates1928-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "04e6bf8afd7bdfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "al subjects by 8s. in the £, a cry of indignation would go up from the whole House and we should be told we were stifling industry. A similar cry will go up if anyone attempts in future to increase the rate by this amount. The relief that is being given here is one of the most. substantial contributions which have been made by the State towards the revival of industry certain in recent years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-05", "file": "debates1928-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "04e6bf8afd7bdfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1253.1", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "I have known rates that went up and no service was provided except the feeding of a lot of hungry men, and it was not considered by anyone in the district that that was really an advantage to industry in that district.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1253.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-05", "file": "debates1928-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "04e6bf8afd7bdfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1275.0", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier - General CHARTERIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier - General CHARTERIS", "preceding_text": "se land in the same area was being let by agencies, other than the Government, at a higher rent than the rent fixed by the Government for the land which was let by the Government. The Government, in fixing their rent, simply made the remark that they had taken this matter into account, not as an explanation of any increase of rent at all, but merely to show that the matter had not been overlooked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1275.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-05", "file": "debates1928-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "04e6bf8afd7bdfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1298.1", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": " a Resolution has been introduced into the House of Commons authorising Parliament to spend not less than a certain amount. It is not only without a precedent, but it is in fact putting us in a, ridiculous position vis-à-vis the House of Commons. Suppose that we pass this Resolution, as no doubt we shall to-night, and send it to the House of Commons, and it is reduced by the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-05", "file": "debates1928-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "04e6bf8afd7bdfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1336.0", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "ish opinion by no means in the habit of looking to the Socialist party for the expression of its thoughts. The Amendment declares that the Bill is brought forward in defiance of the emphatic protests of local governing bodies in Scotland, and that is a fact that cannot he gainsaid. That is the \"Courier and Advertiser,\" the leading Conservative newspaper in the East of Scotland, north of Edinburgh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1336.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-05", "file": "debates1928-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "04e6bf8afd7bdfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1355.3", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "DISTRESSED AREAS (RELIEF).", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "he met out of Government funds. I can think of nothing more likely to stop the flow of charity than the feeling that it is being used for other purposes than that for which it has been subscribed. Another point with which I want to deal, and which I know is frequently put forward, is that, while the conditions in the mining areas have to be met, the miners brought those conditions upon themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1355.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-05", "file": "debates1928-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "04e6bf8afd7bdfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1359.4", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "DISTRESSED AREAS (RELIEF).", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For the Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "pealing for voluntary subscriptions is the danger that people may feel that their money may do a little temporary good but that there is no end to the problem they are asked to meet; that they are only touching the fringe of the problem, and that therefore it is no good subscribing. The provision of boots and clothing for children—I want this to be realised outside—is a business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1359.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-05", "file": "debates1928-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "04e6bf8afd7bdfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1361.1", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "DISTRESSED AREAS (RELIEF).", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": " that is, the area of South Wales, Northumberland, and Durham. There are other areas, I am perfectly aware, but those are the areas to which we are dealing at the moment. In these areas, these subscriptions do enable children to pass through the school and out of the school, and get work, either in the area or outside the area, without serious physical harm during their passage through the school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-05", "file": "debates1928-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "04e6bf8afd7bdfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1362.1", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "DISTRESSED AREAS (RELIEF).", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "e may hold on that subject, we should not at this moment attempt to separate particular little bits of the problem and say, \"That little bit of the problem is something that ought to be dealt with by Government funds the rest shall be left for voluntary funds.\" You run the risk, if you do that, of taking out of your appeal for voluntary funds precisely those objects that appeal most to the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-05a.1362.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-12-06", "file": "debates1928-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f216a82f63d98990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-06a.1367.4", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL PARKS (PROSECUTIONS).", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Which park do you want?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAY", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman give us the average number of prosecutions for different parks so that we can learn in which parks the greater number of these offences took place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-06a.1367.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-06", "file": "debates1928-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f216a82f63d98990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-06a.1372.0", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "preceding_text": " colliery companies which have not insured is 476. Is it not a very serious state of affairs in the coal industry that nearly one-third of the colliery companies have not taken the necessary precaution to insure so that their workpeople, who have to risk life and limb in their behalf to produce coal and profits for the shareholders, may be safeguarded absolutely against the effects of liquidation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-06a.1372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-06", "file": "debates1928-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f216a82f63d98990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-06a.1443.2", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman made out that it is no use having a number of cable ships, because there is not enough work for them, and he insisted, therefore, that you must only have one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-06a.1443.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-06", "file": "debates1928-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f216a82f63d98990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-06a.1444.3", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "at there should be a wireless station in this country capable of communicating with the Dominions and owned and operated by the State. What has happened since 1923 to alter that view of the Chairman of the Com- mittee of Imperial Defence? I will tell the Committee what has happened. The beam wireless system was made a success. That is what has happened. Competition was felt by the cable companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-06a.1444.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-06", "file": "debates1928-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f216a82f63d98990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-06a.1493.2", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. BAKER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. BAKER", "preceding_text": "), to whom I referred earlier, does share our fears to some small extent. In these circumstances, I would plead that these assets, which are not directly referred to in the Bill, but which are intimately connected with the matter that we are discussing, should not be taken from the State by a Government which has not the confidence of the people, which never had the confidence of the people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-06a.1493.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-06", "file": "debates1928-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f216a82f63d98990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-06a.1496.6", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "I rise to support the Amendment, and to ask whether we can have some more explanation than has been given up to the present. We are being asked, on the 6th December, 1928, to approve of this merger being operative as from a date many months before the introduction of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-06a.1496.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-06", "file": "debates1928-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f216a82f63d98990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-06a.1499.0", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "if the Government would make the statement for which we are asking them. If you are going to give adequate representation to the large users of the cable service on the Advisory Committee, and if the Advisory Committee is going to have fairly adequate powers in dealing either with inefficiency of service or with the advancing of rates, my mind would be very much more at ease than it is at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-06a.1499.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-06", "file": "debates1928-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f216a82f63d98990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-06a.1517.2", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "to the question of calling Professor Eccles as a witness. An answer on that point was given by the Postmaster-General and, if the hon. and gallant Gentleman wishes me to weary the Committee by doing so, I shall try to repeat it. As far as I remember, my right hon. Friend the Postmaster-General explained that, had the Conference wished Professor Eccles to be called, he would have been called—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-06a.1517.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-06", "file": "debates1928-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f216a82f63d98990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-06a.1519.1", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "I apologise. I was making the point that, so far from our not doing what America is doing, we are following exactly what America is doing, according to the wish of the hon. Member for East Bristol (Mr. W. Baker). In the opinion of the Conference a fusion will improve and cheapen the message rates, and on top of that there is a progressive community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-06a.1519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-06", "file": "debates1928-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f216a82f63d98990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-06a.1538.1", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So you said a long time ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": " for the right hon. Gentleman's misdeeds there is not sufficient time between now and eleven o'clock to speak of them, therefore I forbear. One can understand gentlemen from the city being anxious to arrive at a useful commercial transaction. This is one. Here they are selling something which has very great prospects, according to the hon. Gentleman, for £300,000 It is clearly not sufficient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-06a.1538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-06", "file": "debates1928-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f216a82f63d98990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-06a.1538.1", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "e. Here they are selling something which has very great prospects, according to the hon. Gentleman, for £300,000 It is clearly not sufficient. [An HON. MEMBER: \"So you said a long time ago.\"] Yes, and it requires to be said more often. The fact that the hon. Member does not say it does not indicate surprising intelligence on his part. It merely reveals that he knows nothing about the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-06a.1538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-06", "file": "debates1928-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f216a82f63d98990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-06a.1544.2", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not in the Cabinet!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "approval. The third thing we know, and which we never knew before, is that the Postmaster-General gave evidence before the Committee of which the Secretary of State for Scotland was Chairman, and we cannot have any information as to the nature of his evidence. The reason, of course, is perfectly obvious. As a member of the Cabinet the Postmaster-General loyally accepts the decision of the Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-06a.1544.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-07", "file": "debates1928-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "752ff4e433d2b1c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-07a.1583.0", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Secretary of State has gone to Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "sel—which for a naval officer was a remarkable argument. The only other defence came from the Chief Whip of the Liberal party. I protest against the absence of the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Financial Secretary to the Treasury; it is not treating the House with respect that these two Ministers, who were responsible for this bargain, and made these arrangements, should be absent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-07a.1583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-07", "file": "debates1928-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "752ff4e433d2b1c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-07a.1583.0", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "shall be able to take what is being done here as a basis for that compensation. Some of my friends in my party have argued with me very stoutly, and have frequently overthrown me, on the question of compensation to private owners. I have always said, \"You must pay compensation to private owners when in the national interest you take over their property,\" and the majority of my party agree with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-07a.1583.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-12-07", "file": "debates1928-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "752ff4e433d2b1c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-07a.1591.4", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": "That is what, I gather, the Postmaster-General has answered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-07a.1591.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-07", "file": "debates1928-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "752ff4e433d2b1c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-07a.1592.2", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": " I do that everything which takes place before an Imperial Conference is private, and, therefore, I must decline to give any other answer. What the Committee are entitled to ask me, on my responsibility as Postmaster-General, and what the House is entitled to ask me when the Bill comes up for Third Reading, is whether I am satisfied, as the responsible person in whom this property is vested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-07a.1592.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-12-10", "file": "debates1928-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b871279aae358678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1698.2", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "What degree of starvation does the right hon. Gentleman think will have to be reached—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1698.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-12-10", "file": "debates1928-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b871279aae358678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1707.2", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND RATING.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "I have not asked that; the question is quite plain. The occupant of this farm requires a one-ton lorry which he uses on 365 days in the year to take milk into the city, and his average consumption of petrol is four gallons per day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-10", "file": "debates1928-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b871279aae358678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1707.3", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND RATING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "You do not want your Bill to be shown up. The tax on that, at 4d. per gallon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1707.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-10", "file": "debates1928-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b871279aae358678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1707.7", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND RATING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "Is it not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1707.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-10", "file": "debates1928-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b871279aae358678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1745.2", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEDGWOOD BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEDGWOOD BENN", "preceding_text": "There are one or two questions which I should like to ask the Financial Secretary to the Treasury about the Advisory Committee. Is the Advisory Committee to have power to say to the Communications Company, \"You shall do this,\" or is it merely to be consulted? It is not clear from the White Paper whether the Advisory Committee is to have mandatory powers or advisory powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1745.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-10", "file": "debates1928-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b871279aae358678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1787.5", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Capital of Communications Company).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GILLETT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GILLETT", "preceding_text": "Indo-European is included, with its £450,000. Then there are the Eastern and the Western Extension Companies, which have a capital of about £9,000,000, and there is the Marconi Company; and, finally, there is the Government interest, which might be represented by the figure that is going to be paid in cash—I understand, roughly about £2,500,000. If we add those together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1787.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-10", "file": "debates1928-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b871279aae358678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1801.0", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Capital of Communications Company).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "preceding_text": "0 belongs to cables and how much to beam wireless? I believe that for the first time in the whole of the Committee stage I am in order in asking a question about beam wireless. I want to know on the basis of these financial experts who advise the Postmaster-General how much of the £30,000,000 is the capitalised value of the 25 years' lease of the beam wireless? That is a very important point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1801.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-10", "file": "debates1928-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b871279aae358678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1834.3", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Duties of Chairman of Communications Company.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BAKER", "preceding_text": "Still, to a much more limited extent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1834.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-10", "file": "debates1928-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b871279aae358678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1843.0", "colnum": "1843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Duties of Chairman of Communications Company.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "are opposed to State property of a useful character being sold to private interests. Of course, we recognise at the same time that right hon. Gentlemen and hon. Gentlemen on the other side are prepared to dispose of State property of whatever character. They would sell the Post Office, lock, stock and barrel to-morrow if they could get the price they wanted, and if the opportunities were provided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-10", "file": "debates1928-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b871279aae358678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1853.1", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Duties of Chairman of Communications Company.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "e consolation that I have in this affair, and that is that the way it has been arranged and what went before it have made it far easier for the mischief done to be undone by some future Government. We have a very good precedent for what we will pay for property in the future. The fact that watered capital has been allowed as I think will be acknowledged by all who have heard the discussions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-10", "file": "debates1928-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b871279aae358678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1860.4", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Duties of Chairman of Communications Company.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "preceding_text": "nconsistency between the two arguments. The whole ease of the Opposition to this Measure has been based upon the value which has been placed upon the beam system. How can you use that argument in regard to the beam system, and in the very next breath say that the cables are still worth what they were worth when they were actually laid down? We believe that we have got very good value indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1860.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-10", "file": "debates1928-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b871279aae358678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1860.4", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Duties of Chairman of Communications Company.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "preceding_text": " whatever of the Government, and certainly it is not based upon the undervaluing of the Government assets that are being transferred. If it is based on anything, it is based on the belief that a rationalised, unified system is likely to earn larger profits and to be more efficient than a number of competing systems. But those guesses of uninformed people outside may just as well be wrong as right,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1860.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-10", "file": "debates1928-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b871279aae358678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1864.0", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Duties of Chairman of Communications Company.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Right Honourable!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "It is very remarkable that on some occasions when the Government find themselves in difficulties they call upon ex-members of the Socialist movement. I remember more than 30 years ago hearing the hon. Member who has just spoken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1864.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-10", "file": "debates1928-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b871279aae358678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1865.3", "colnum": "1865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Duties of Chairman of Communications Company.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " What will happen when this Bill passes, Heaven only knows. It will be a 20 per cent. ramp, and who will be in it? Will it be confined to Englishmen who are out for profit? Will you prevent international financiers getting control? Is there anything in the Bill which will prevent all the gentlemen who sing \"Rule Britannia\" in broken English getting control of your new services? Absolutely nothing!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1865.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-10", "file": "debates1928-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b871279aae358678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1872.2", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": " passing of the Resolution and the Bill, it will only yield £18,400. It will be seen at once that that will be a very serious thing should any new charges come upon the local authority which are not met by the general guarantees in the Bill, or if that local authority should come within the category of the three out of 10 ratepayers, whom the right hon. Gentleman the Minister admits may lose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-10a.1872.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-11", "file": "debates1928-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e27bb32a7537f36b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-11a.1971.0", "colnum": "1971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "and that is to guillotine a Finance Bill. The Budget of 1909, although a most contentious Budget, was fought through this House for a great number of days—I think 109 days—without the Guillotine. That will not persist. The next thing that will happen, based upon this precedent, will be a Socialist Finance Bill passed through this House by the Guillotine, and then see where you will be!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-11a.1971.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-11", "file": "debates1928-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e27bb32a7537f36b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-11a.1976.0", "colnum": "1976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": " and there is no blame to him at all, in that. He showed his desire to reform local government in the Committee stage of the Measure of 1925, but the country turned it down and Conservative Members were among the people who turned it down. It was only a few months ago that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, having, I fancy, read the Yellow Book, saw that there was great electoral value in de-rating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-11a.1976.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-11", "file": "debates1928-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e27bb32a7537f36b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-11a.1982.1", "colnum": "1982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "I am not proposing to discuss that, and I very much doubt whether it would be in order. The hon. Member's question seems to have absolutely no bearing on the topic I was discussing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-11a.1982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-11", "file": "debates1928-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e27bb32a7537f36b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-11a.1984.0", "colnum": "1984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME).", "cue_speaker": "Sir EDMUND TURTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir EDMUND TURTON", "preceding_text": "ed; otherwise, the schemes will be model-formed and drawn up by the Minister of Health. There must be a great deal of discussion with regard to the payment of travelling expenses of those attending county councils, and my hon. Friends opposite will, as they are perfectly entitled to do, no doubt move Amendments to provide that sustentation allowance and remuneration for lass of time shall be paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-11a.1984.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-11", "file": "debates1928-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e27bb32a7537f36b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-11a.2001.3", "colnum": "2001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Withdraw it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "While I recognise that the Secretary of State for Scotland has made some small concession, I say quite frankly that we have nothing really for which to thank him. It is altogether inadequate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-11a.2001.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-11", "file": "debates1928-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e27bb32a7537f36b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-11a.2003.1", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "If that is not in order, it strengthens my argument that the Parliamentary machine is held up, the Scottish Committee practically disbanded, and that the Scottish localised government is being undermined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-11a.2003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-11", "file": "debates1928-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e27bb32a7537f36b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-11a.2079.1", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, in line 112, to leave out the word \"One\" and to insert instead thereof the word \"Two.\" We maintain that Scotland is not receiving a fair share of consideration. I have dealt with some of the points that I thought of general interest, and if I had time I should like to deal with other details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-11a.2079.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-12-12", "file": "debates1928-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "514174a646c718fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-12a.2100.1", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "preceding_text": "Is it not the fact that the United States, in view of the fact that they built the Panama Canal, lead the world in the matter of excavation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-12a.2100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-12", "file": "debates1928-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "514174a646c718fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-12a.2157.1", "colnum": "2157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, 1924.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "he result was that many thousands of people got into their houses several months sooner than they otherwise would have done had there not been this tremendous effort in the month of September last year. There is one other point on which I must say a word. I have seen a statement that the result of the Order of 1926 has been to throw out of employment a large number of people in the building trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-12a.2157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-12", "file": "debates1928-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "514174a646c718fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-12a.2165.0", "colnum": "2165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, 1924.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "t way for the Government to deal with an otherwise difficult problem. If you can prove to yourself that the problem is not there and thus satisfy your conscience, it is very convenient. But does the Minister mean to say that, with the rate of building to-day standing at about half what it was two years ago, there are as many men employed in the building industry to-day as there were two years ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-12a.2165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-12", "file": "debates1928-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "514174a646c718fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-12a.2191.1", "colnum": "2191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, 1924.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": " eduction of the subsidy will be [...] mediate drop, as happened, accor [...] his statement, two years ago, in the cost of housing, but at any rate the Chairman of the Housing Committee of the London County Council, who was the first speaker, and who represents a borough very near to that which the Parliamentary Secretary represents, pressed for an increased subsidy for London in the central area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-12a.2191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-12", "file": "debates1928-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "514174a646c718fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-12a.2202.3", "colnum": "2202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, 1924.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "I quite agree. The question of the bottle neck still remains, and, with 8,800 people normally unemployed in the building trades of Scotland, unemployment among the real key trade of the plasterers is to-day 88, not 8,800. There are 88 plasterers registered as unemployed throughout the whole of Scotland from the Cheviots to the Pentland Firth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-12a.2202.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-12", "file": "debates1928-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "514174a646c718fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-12a.2203.1", "colnum": "2203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, 1924.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "chemes which ought by this time to have been yielding a growing increase of houses each year, the output of houses for the current year looks like being less than the output of houses for the year before. The output for the year 1928 looks like being actually less than the output for the year 1927. That cannot be put down to any failure in subsidy or to any failure of the desire of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-12a.2203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-12", "file": "debates1928-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "514174a646c718fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-12a.2203.1", "colnum": "2203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, 1924.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ratepayers, but by 100 per cent. support from the Exchequer that brought our programme over 20,000. It was a programme which enabled unemployed men to do useful work, and brought our housing programme in Scotland forward with a great rush. Hon. Gentlemen opposite can consider for themselves how much assistance the Government had from them in bringing forward that scheme. I do not wish to say more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-12a.2203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-12", "file": "debates1928-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "514174a646c718fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-12a.2231.1", "colnum": "2231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, 1924.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "the influence which bad housing conditions have upon the health of the people. He wants less money spent on housing subsidies and £50,000 or £100,000 a year spent upon certain public health services. He would spend a few thousand pounds a year in dealing with the effects of bad housing, instead of dealing with the cause of those effects. If we are going to tackle this slum problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-12a.2231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-13", "file": "debates1928-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "82c24679b41913b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-13a.2323.4", "colnum": "2323", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIGGS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Avoiding.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIGGS", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman consider the advisability of evading this cost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-13a.2323.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-13", "file": "debates1928-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "82c24679b41913b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-13a.2373.1", "colnum": "2373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the whole of it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "nd hon. Gentlemen opposite that I am endeavouring to deal with the objections that have been made by the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne to the transfer of the functions of the guardians to the larger authorities, and I want to remind the Committee that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Seaham in this Resolution—and the right hon. Gentleman can quote after me the other portions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-13a.2373.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-13", "file": "debates1928-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "82c24679b41913b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-13a.2376.3", "colnum": "2376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. NEWTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. NEWTON", "preceding_text": "hole. When it is looked at from that point of view, I feel unable to support the Amendment. There is universal consent that something has to be done, but we have had nothing of a constructive nature from the other side, and, in the absence of a better scheme, I am going to support this scheme. It is significant that as far as non-county boroughs and the municipal corporations are concerned —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-13a.2376.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-13", "file": "debates1928-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "82c24679b41913b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-13a.2390.0", "colnum": "2390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ng farm colonies, I do not think that our experience at Hollesley Bay has been such as to tempt any local authorities to imitate it. Only to-day I gave an answer to an hon. Member who asked me how many people had found employment after having resided at Hollesley Bay, and, speaking from memory, I think that, out of 1,700 people who have been through the colony, less than 200 have found employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-13a.2390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-13", "file": "debates1928-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "82c24679b41913b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-13a.2400.0", "colnum": "2400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are 100,000 men!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "ures which I have had prepared for-me. He will be able to see whether they are right or wrong. At the present time, there are about 1,300,000 people receiving poor relief—institutional, domiciliary and other relief. Of that number, there are 450,000 representing the class of unemployed of whom I am speaking, and their families. Of course, the majority of this number comprises their families.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-13a.2400.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-12-13", "file": "debates1928-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "82c24679b41913b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-13a.2474.2", "colnum": "2474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-13a.2474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-14", "file": "debates1928-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "d22406436f71053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-14a.2496.1", "colnum": "2496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "f contribution to rates? That is really the vital issue. Had the Government said, as my hon. Friend the Member for East Ham North (Miss Lawrence) has so frequently pointed out—had the Government said, \"What you lose to-day in rates we will repay to-day; what you may lose next year in rates we will repay next year; what you are going to lose 20 years hence we will repay 20 years hence\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-14a.2496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-14", "file": "debates1928-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "d22406436f71053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-14a.2496.1", "colnum": "2496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "a locality is growing owing to increased industries, the needs of the locality for additional houses, additional education, additional health services, all grow concurrently. Now comes the Minister and cuts off part of the funds of the local authority at their source, and he only pays back to it a rigid fixed amount. It cannot stop there. I believe that the Minister will find as years go by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-14a.2496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-14", "file": "debates1928-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "d22406436f71053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-14a.2508.0", "colnum": "2508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": " jump was smoothly divided. Suppose that you add £8,000,000 in the fourth year and another £8,000,000 in the ninth year. Your second general Exchequer contribution in that event would be £47,000,000, as in the table, and what you would get in the third general Exchequer contribution would be a quarter of £151,000,000, plus a quarter of £47,000,000 that is £49,500,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-14a.2508.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-14", "file": "debates1928-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "d22406436f71053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-14a.2531.2", "colnum": "2531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "he rates.\" Hon. Members opposite have no authority whatever for saying that local authorities would act in that way under this scheme. One of the benefits of this Measure, from the point of view of the local authorities, is that in regard to their local administration in the future under this Bill they will know exactly where they stand for a period of years so far as their finances are concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-14a.2531.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-14", "file": "debates1928-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "d22406436f71053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-14a.2531.2", "colnum": "2531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "almost every scheme of this character that has been brought forward during the last four or five years. Parliament will be able to examine it, and they will no doubt note the speech of the hon. Member who dealt with the subject of education, and compare it with the results. If he is right, Parliament will be in a position to say whether the contribution which they will then make in the next—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-14a.2531.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-14", "file": "debates1928-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "d22406436f71053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-14a.2531.2", "colnum": "2531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "n. Friend was so surprised that such a well-informed Member as the hon. Member for East Ham North should say this: The final General Exchequer Contribution will depend upon the total rate-borne expenditure of 1948, 1943, 1938 and 1933.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 27th November, 1928; col. 289, Vol. 223.] Of course, as the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne has said, you have to look at the fourth year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-14a.2531.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-14", "file": "debates1928-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "d22406436f71053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-14a.2560.2", "colnum": "2560", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "Yes, he knew perfectly well that when he had got people to give him threepence for the cardboard, all those with a piece of cardboard would stay. That is how he built up his audience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-14a.2560.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-14", "file": "debates1928-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "d22406436f71053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-14a.2562.1", "colnum": "2562", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "d then \"That is the other side of the building.\" You are like the man was—you are still in the same position. We are told that above the level of 100 persons per mile of road the loading factor is to be expressed as the ratio of 50 to the number of persons per mile of road, but when the number exceeds 200 persons per mile of road then you get a calculation in which you get 50 above a number.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-14a.2562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-14", "file": "debates1928-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "d22406436f71053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-14a.2576.2", "colnum": "2576", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"This is charity!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " done a great deal to worsen the chances of the ordinary rank-and-file worker in this land. We say that relief to shipyards on the Clyde is the most important step we can take for the benefit of Glasgow and the Clyde. The improvement of the industrial conditions of the Clyde is a better contribution that we can make than any amount of money given away in the form of charity of one kind or another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-14a.2576.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-14", "file": "debates1928-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "d22406436f71053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-14a.2581.4", "colnum": "2581", "heading": "SUPERANNUATION (DIPLOMATIC SERVICE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did your party do for the old age pensioners?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "then these men in the Diplomatic Service are certainly not entitled to have more benefits than other people. There are many other anomalies which require attention apart from the case of these particular men. If there is an injustice being done to these men, what about the injustice that is being done to old age pensioners? At the Tory party conference it was argued that 10s. a week is not enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-14a.2581.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-12-17", "file": "debates1928-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4f06a2801c4e0c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-17a.2611.8", "colnum": "2611", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DISTRESSED MINING AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "And Lancashire!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "hat his answer will cause great disappointment in other distressed areas? We are reluctant to interfere at all with the distress in the mining areas, but, on Thursday, on the Adjournment, a number of Members for other distressed areas, not affected by the mining situation, will desire to raise questions as to the unemployed in their areas—such as Leith, Middlesbrough and places of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-17a.2611.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-17", "file": "debates1928-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4f06a2801c4e0c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-17a.2666.0", "colnum": "2666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "union. There is Cleckheaton with 12,537 inhabitants, Eccleshill, with 10,760, North Bierley itself with 15,914, Pudsey with 14,313, and Shipley with 28,277. At the moment Cleckheaton has three representatives on the North Bierley Board of Guardians, Eccleshill has two, North Bierley four, Pudsey three, and Shipley five. How will they stand when they are only one among 31 unions administered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-17a.2666.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-17", "file": "debates1928-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4f06a2801c4e0c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-17a.2670.1", "colnum": "2670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "get adequate representation for these very small authorities. The whole consideration of the Bill has been vitiated from the beginning because the right hon. Gentleman and the Minister of Health only think in terms, of the great cities and large towns, not having given any adequate consideration to the rural parts of the country. They do not understand how distance makes an entirely fresh problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-17a.2670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-17", "file": "debates1928-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4f06a2801c4e0c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-17a.2673.1", "colnum": "2673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt many of these things will be dealt with later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-17a.2673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-17", "file": "debates1928-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4f06a2801c4e0c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-17a.2678.3", "colnum": "2678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. BANKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. BANKS", "preceding_text": " to the difference between the Amendment of my hon. Friend and the Amendment which we are now discussing. My hon. Friend's Amendment suggests that the area covered by the guardians' committees should be represented upon the public assistance committee, while the Amendment now under discussion is that the rural and urban districts should be directly represented upon the public assistance committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-17a.2678.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-17", "file": "debates1928-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4f06a2801c4e0c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-17a.2697.0", "colnum": "2697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. R. KENNEDY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. R. KENNEDY", "preceding_text": "estion arose during the discussions on the Education Act of 1902, when it was proposed in face of great opposition to abolish the school boards. That Act provided that co-option to the education committees of local authorities should be compulsory. I do not know, because I have not had sufficient experience, but I am inclined to believe that co-option on education committees has been satisfactory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-17a.2697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-17", "file": "debates1928-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4f06a2801c4e0c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-17a.2705.3", "colnum": "2705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": " a system of the government of the poor by the rich. It is entirely from that point of view that we want to express, not only in general terms, but with regard to this particular application, our strongest opposition to the principle of co-option, particularly from the point of view of the rural county areas, where at the present time the county council is hopelessly overburdened with rich people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-17a.2705.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-17", "file": "debates1928-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4f06a2801c4e0c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-17a.2732.3", "colnum": "2732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "es described as inhuman monsters, lost to all feeling, and to hearing hon. Members opposite suggest that there is no outrage which we would not commit in driving the under-dog deeper down into the mire. If we thought that hon. Members opposite believed what they were saying, some of us would be a little concerned about it. The fact is that hon. Members opposite do not believe what they are saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-17a.2732.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-17", "file": "debates1928-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4f06a2801c4e0c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-17a.2734.5", "colnum": "2734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "Members opposite go this far, that as long as a man is in receipt of relief he is to be disqualified. I should like to know what that means. Does it mean that a man who is going to receive Poor Law relief, and knows that he is to do so, shall sit upon the committee which is going to give him that relief next week 7 Under our provision he can, but I am trying to see how the principle will work out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-17a.2734.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-17", "file": "debates1928-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4f06a2801c4e0c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-17a.2739.0", "colnum": "2739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "ean on these several points. It must be recognised that no man accepts Poor Law relief unless compelled to do so by tragic circumstances which he does not and cannot control. To penalise a clean-living man who has clone his duty by the State and by the community for something which he cannot control, something which arises out of policies pursued by the House of Commons, such as Reparations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-17a.2739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-17", "file": "debates1928-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a4f06a2801c4e0c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-17a.2744.0", "colnum": "2744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. BANKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. BANKS", "preceding_text": "ceding received poor relief. One would suppose, on the face of this Clause, that it was a purely personal matter, and that it must be the man himself who was receiving relief. The Parliamentary Secretary referred us to Section 42 of the Act, and I am afraid I am still in the dark. I do not know whether, as things are at present, a man is disqualified if a member of his family receives poor relief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-17a.2744.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-12-18", "file": "debates1928-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "a7b8241366f4d56b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2800.5", "colnum": "2800", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "Collieries employing less than 30 men are not required to do it. Obviously, it would be impossible to have qualified first-aid men at these small collieries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2800.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-18", "file": "debates1928-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "a7b8241366f4d56b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2853.0", "colnum": "2853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I must protest strongly against the attitude of the Minister in his statement about the waste of time. No one can accuse any Member on this side of the House of obstructive methods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2853.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-18", "file": "debates1928-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "a7b8241366f4d56b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2853.0", "colnum": "2853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "f those progressive local authorities which have been more concerned to provide treatment than to recover money. As I understand it, the point of view of the right hon. Gentleman and many members of his party is that it is far more important to drag a few coppers out of the person who has been treated than to make certain that he secures early treatment. We utterly dissent from that point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2853.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-18", "file": "debates1928-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "a7b8241366f4d56b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2856.0", "colnum": "2856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "preceding_text": "eople of this country know, and have known for years, that they can always get medical assistance either from hospitals. Poor Law institutions or doctors without any thought of the ultimate cost. Take the case of a genera] practitioner in an industrial district—in the huge majority of cases. He does not ask a patient, \"Where is your fee, and then I will tell you what is the matter with you.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2856.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-18", "file": "debates1928-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "a7b8241366f4d56b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2856.0", "colnum": "2856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So are we!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "preceding_text": "get medical assistance either from hospitals. Poor Law institutions or doctors without any thought of the ultimate cost. Take the case of a genera] practitioner in an industrial district—in the huge majority of cases. He does not ask a patient, \"Where is your fee, and then I will tell you what is the matter with you.\" [ Interruption. ] Oh, no. Pardon me! I am speaking from actual experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2856.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-18", "file": "debates1928-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "a7b8241366f4d56b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2856.0", "colnum": "2856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "preceding_text": "he ultimate cost. Take the case of a genera] practitioner in an industrial district—in the huge majority of cases. He does not ask a patient, \"Where is your fee, and then I will tell you what is the matter with you.\" [ Interruption. ] Oh, no. Pardon me! I am speaking from actual experience. [HON. MEMBERS: \"So are we!\"] Hon. Members in the Labour party may speak from rumour or hear say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2856.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-18", "file": "debates1928-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "a7b8241366f4d56b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2856.0", "colnum": "2856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "preceding_text": "nder them in the slightest degree. It is absolutely wrong for an hon. Member on the Opposition Front Bench to make the statements we have heard this afternoon, but I will ask hon. Members and the people of the country to notice that this is the policy of the Labour party, that the destitute poor should be charged for medical attention, but that the public health authorities need not make a charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2856.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-18", "file": "debates1928-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "a7b8241366f4d56b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2893.2", "colnum": "2893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": " on the other, it is evident that more clarity is needed in connection with this Clause. The Attorney-General has just said that persons suffering from infectious diseases are required to go into institutions but what are the infectious diseases the victims of which are required to go into institutions? Does that apply to all infectious diseases? If so, we want a definition of infectious diseases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2893.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-18", "file": "debates1928-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "a7b8241366f4d56b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2950.0", "colnum": "2950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Monmouthshire\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ement with the Minister for a certain term of years? Will the Treasury have to compensate them if the ratepayers of West Ham and Bedwellty and Chester-le-Street are relieved of the responsibility of continuing their salaries? We would like an answer to that question. Further, in the case of the Durham County Council, or in the case of the council of the county in which Bedwellty is situated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2950.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-18", "file": "debates1928-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "a7b8241366f4d56b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2956.3", "colnum": "2956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "What I challenge the hon. and gallant Gentleman to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2956.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-18", "file": "debates1928-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "a7b8241366f4d56b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2956.3", "colnum": "2956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "What I challenge the hon. and gallant Gentleman to do—[ Interruption. ] Do not let hon. Members be so eager; the hon. and gallant Gentleman has given way. The only point between us is that he has not produced a single scintilla of evidence that any individual was dealt with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2956.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-18", "file": "debates1928-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "a7b8241366f4d56b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2957.1", "colnum": "2957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "preceding_text": "the fine and flowery epithets of the hon. Gentleman, and the extraordinary wave of indignation on the part of those behind him, were most misplaced. The hon. Gentleman has suggested that the Minister and the Parliamentary Secretary should read \"Sybil.\" I would suggest to him that he should take a, party upstairs into a Committee Boom on these pamphlets regarding Chester-le-Street and other places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-18", "file": "debates1928-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "a7b8241366f4d56b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2959.0", "colnum": "2959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman the Member for Merthyr (Mr. Wallhead) has been inviting my right hon. Friend and myself to make a statement as to the whole position, and we should have been in a position to have done so if hon. Gentlemen opposite, following their tactics throughout yesterday and to-day, had not wasted considerable time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-18a.2959.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-19", "file": "debates1928-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2e344493176082ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-19a.2986.7", "colnum": "2986", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHINELAND (GENEVA AGREEMENT AND LUGANO CONVERSATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "May I make an appeal to the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-19a.2986.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-19", "file": "debates1928-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2e344493176082ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-19a.2987.3", "colnum": "2987", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHINELAND (GENEVA AGREEMENT AND LUGANO CONVERSATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. It is evident that the House, Liberal and Labour Members, are not satisfied with the treatment which they are getting from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Is there no way in which we can raise this matter in order that we may get right with the right hon. Gentleman? This cannot go on. He cannot continue to treat us in this manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-19a.2987.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-12-19", "file": "debates1928-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2e344493176082ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-19a.2988.6", "colnum": "2988", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "The Empire!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "Arising out of that answer, may I ask whether the right hon. Gentleman refers to propaganda in this country or to propaganda in other parts of the world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-19a.2988.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-19", "file": "debates1928-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2e344493176082ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-19a.3127.0", "colnum": "3127", "heading": "CLAUSE 39.—(First general review by county councils.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP PILDITCH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP PILDITCH", "preceding_text": "The burden of the argument of the hon. Member for Consett (Mr. Dunnico), and also of that of the hon. Member for Pontypridd (Mr. Mardy Jones) so far as it was relevant, seemed to me to be that the county councils were not likely to he impartial bodies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-19a.3127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-19", "file": "debates1928-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2e344493176082ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-19a.3143.2", "colnum": "3143", "heading": "CLAUSE 39.—(First general review by county councils.)", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "preceding_text": " Government Department concerned. It must be remembered that even if it were necessary that there should be consultation with a Government Department the proper Government Department to consult is the Ministry of Health. You cannot have consultations with every one of the Government Departments. Each Department cannot have a finger in the pie. The business of the Government is one and indivisible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-19a.3143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-19", "file": "debates1928-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2e344493176082ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-19a.3155.0", "colnum": "3155", "heading": "CLAUSE 39.—(First general review by county councils.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. NEWTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. NEWTON", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment in view of the assurance which has been given by the Minister, which I greatly appreciate", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-19a.3155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-19", "file": "debates1928-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2e344493176082ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-19a.3156.3", "colnum": "3156", "heading": "CLAUSE 39.—(First general review by county councils.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": "county, because we think a good opportunity arises to bring to the notice of county councils, some of whom have been rather indifferent on the matter, that it is vitally important, if we are to have proper highways, that our traffic problem should be handled with a wider outlook. All kinds of problems are mixed up with that problem—the problems of life and limb, livelihood and leisure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-19a.3156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-19", "file": "debates1928-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2e344493176082ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-19a.3156.3", "colnum": "3156", "heading": "CLAUSE 39.—(First general review by county councils.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": "e often seen the reverse of that. While that is a delightful and desirable spirit, and has had a fine influence upon the national life and character, yet sometimes the love of one spot, one locality, or one county has had its drawbacks. When I speak of a county I would say that I yield to no man in my county spirit, being a Devonian and coming from what I consider to be the best county in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-19a.3156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-19", "file": "debates1928-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2e344493176082ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-19a.3162.0", "colnum": "3162", "heading": "CLAUSE 39.—(First general review by county councils.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the supporters of this Amendment quite appreciate that this Clause only deals with the general review by the counties of the districts within their areas. The proper place at which to consider the question of town planning, especially as between county councils and towns, was on Clause 33, but, unfortunately, the Opposition so frittered away and dissipated their time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-19a.3162.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1928-12-20", "file": "debates1928-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2df128931750ad6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3226.1", "colnum": "3226", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, order!", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister now insist upon taking these Clauses in half-a-day without giving the House an opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-20", "file": "debates1928-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2df128931750ad6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3271.13", "colnum": "3271", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"1921 as well!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "intment to the country. But we have to remember that whenever any serious cause, whatever it may be, affects industry, there is very often a considerable lag between the cause and the effect, and it was some years after the War before this country felt the full effect of it. Thus there was the loss of purchasing power sustained by the people in this country through the loss of wages in 1926—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3271.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-20", "file": "debates1928-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2df128931750ad6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3271.13", "colnum": "3271", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "work is yet in an early stage, to answer such questions as may be put in the course of the debate. There is only one further observation I wish to make before I sit down. I have heard in the course of the last few days from some hon. Members opposite observations which would lead me to think that they dislike very much the idea of what is called private charity being used in a matter of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3271.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-20", "file": "debates1928-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2df128931750ad6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3278.0", "colnum": "3278", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "nd industrially, 1926, with all its unfortunate incidents, was a reaction against the tendencies of 1921 and 1922. The year 1926 also had a political aspect, and if we trace out the origin of the political significance of 1926 we come back to 1924. The Government's successes in 1924 cannot be dissociated from the unfortunate conditions that arose in 1926. However, I am not going to follow that up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-20", "file": "debates1928-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2df128931750ad6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3278.0", "colnum": "3278", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Red herrings!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "of the political significance of 1926 we come back to 1924. The Government's successes in 1924 cannot be dissociated from the unfortunate conditions that arose in 1926. However, I am not going to follow that up. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I am very sorry to find that hon. Members opposite cheer me for refusing to follow their own leader by taking notice of the line of argument which he pursued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-20", "file": "debates1928-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2df128931750ad6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3278.0", "colnum": "3278", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is more than that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "principle is thoroughly absurd and absolutely unsound. Then what are the Government going to do? In the mining areas, of miners alone, it is estimated that something like 900,000 people are suffering from unemployment. I do not mean unemployed miners; I mean their wives and children and dependants generally. I did my best to get an accurate figure, and it was given to me as something like 900,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-20", "file": "debates1928-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2df128931750ad6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3278.0", "colnum": "3278", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "in which a great many of us who have gone past the time when we had to solve problems of clothing would like to help, not only as taxpayers or as ratepayers, but I think it would be very good for us to have the great pleasure and the great satisfaction of helping from our own personal and private incomes to clothe those people. It is a thing which, properly administered in that way, would be good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-20", "file": "debates1928-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2df128931750ad6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3295.0", "colnum": "3295", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "I was very interested in the speech of the Prime Minister", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-20", "file": "debates1928-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2df128931750ad6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3298.1", "colnum": "3298", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "h they were placed, and the trouble would not have arisen. The Government indicated that as the Report was contrary to the wishes of the mineowners, they would follow the mineowners and not the Report. The men, being Britishers, said: \"It is not the eight hours we mind; it is not even smaller wages that we mind, but we see that the dice is loaded against us and we will not submit to an injustice.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-20", "file": "debates1928-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2df128931750ad6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3312.0", "colnum": "3312", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "r a moment, relieve the distress. But it may be found that in two months', or six months' or a year's time, we shall have the same pressure upon us and our hearts may once more be moved in this House to say \"This is a special ease and we have to adopt special measures.\" Therefore I ask the Government to consider whether we cannot do something to provide permanent employment of a productive nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-20", "file": "debates1928-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2df128931750ad6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3312.0", "colnum": "3312", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: It is an under-statement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "er ahead in order to see how we can face the changed con- ditions of industry in our country and absorb our displaced workers into new employments. Here we find an appalling position in the mining areas. It is generally recognised that there may be 200,000 miners, or possibly more, with very little hope of ever being absorbed in the mining industry. I do not know if that figure is an exaggeration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-20", "file": "debates1928-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2df128931750ad6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3349.7", "colnum": "3349", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Major PRICE", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Major PRICE", "preceding_text": "t kind of thing have never gone into the scheme in a practical way. First of all, the holding has to be equipped. If it is a 40-acre holding, it would take from £1,200 to £1,600, as the minimum, for equipment. To say that a man on that holding, even if the capital was found for him, could make a good living, only shows that those who make that statement are utterly ignorant of the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3349.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-20", "file": "debates1928-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2df128931750ad6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3371.3", "colnum": "3371", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Red letter?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "business-like acumen and capacity of hon. Members opposite. I am sure that they are proud when they see the result of their own work. I am not proud of it when I go to my native town and see the people suffering. I do not believe in the theory that private enterprise is divine, still less do I believe that the members of the Government are divinely appointed to put right the things that are wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3371.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-20", "file": "debates1928-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2df128931750ad6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3383.1", "colnum": "3383", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "Of course, in the case of coalfields which are not so isolated, but are contained in areas of mixed industry—I give the West Riding of Yorkshire as an instance—the problem is not so easy. I do not think that the Lord Mayor's Fund could possibly undertake the relief of distress in industries which are not closely associated with and closely dependent upon the coal-mining industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1928-12-20", "file": "debates1928-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2df128931750ad6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3394.6", "colnum": "3394", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": " Nosey-Parkers and the Miserable-miserables, the Pleasant-Sunday - Afternoon - miserable - Monday - morning Brigade. They will all be called up to relieve the miseries of better people than themselves, and will put them through the moral microscope to see whether they are worthy of a dinner or a pair of boots. The thing is beyond contempt. I am not going to pass bouquets to Baldwin or anyone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1928-12-20a.3394.6"}