{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-01-22", "file": "debates1929-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "b827f82a965d8341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-22a.11.5", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, circulate it.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "If the House can spare five minutes, I am prepared to read the reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-22a.11.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-22", "file": "debates1929-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "b827f82a965d8341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-22a.37.3", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "I will endeavour to keep to your Ruling, but under it it is difficult to interpret the Amendment as, in my opinion, it ought to be interpreted. Open confession, they say, is good for the soul. I happen to be, in a sort of a small way, a landowner myself. It does not extend to three acres and a cow, but it is a bit of land.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-22a.37.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-22", "file": "debates1929-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "b827f82a965d8341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-22a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " want help is not a way out of our difficulties. We should not compromise on a matter of principle. The Government are responsible and should find a way out of our present troubles. They have not found a way out. If the Bill is carried out and, if this Amendment were made to it, I do not believe that one man more would be employed in industry. Some of us are opposed tooth and branch to the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-22a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-22", "file": "debates1929-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "b827f82a965d8341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-22a.69.8", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIGGS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIGGS", "preceding_text": "or including these three trades in this Bill. One of the greatest sections of the opposition to this Bill has come from an entirely new group in our political life. The women of this country have unanimously condemned the health Clauses of this Bill, because of their inability to increase the opportunity to develop the two services in which they are interested, namely, maternity and child welfare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-22a.69.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-22", "file": "debates1929-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "b827f82a965d8341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-22a.69.8", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIGGS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIGGS", "preceding_text": "ereby satisfy the whole of the women of this country. I fail to see any reason why the Government should not accept this Amendment. There is only one thing I can think of, and that is the Chancellor of the Exchequer thinks he has got in this Measure a perfect vessel, and that he will not alter one line of it. I suggest that that perfect vessel, which we all acknowledge is an almost perfect vessel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-22a.69.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-22", "file": "debates1929-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "b827f82a965d8341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-22a.77.0", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " Leith (Mr. E. Brown), first in the fact that he failed to get his party to give him that support in the Lobby which he might reasonably have expected from them, and also because his series of Amendments, though in my view they would have been impracticable in operation, were yet at any rate logical and consistent with the view which he had put before the Committee. The hon. Member opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-22a.77.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-22", "file": "debates1929-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "b827f82a965d8341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-22a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "y all governments, because it is to the interest of the country as a whole to do so. The hon. and gallant Member for Whitehaven (Mr. K. Hudson) said that, if we wanted to get the money back from these industries, we might put on a slight increase in the excise duty by the Budget. If the Minister had said that, that would have satisfied all of us. But I do not trust the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-22a.90.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-22", "file": "debates1929-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "b827f82a965d8341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-22a.124.2", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ou will find some property which has not. I am sure the right hon. and gallant Gentleman, if he has investigated the subject, must know that where there has been no valuation for a long time most of the property has increased in value, but that there are some properties which have not increased in value and the assessment of which has not been raised. I have instances within my personal knowledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-22a.124.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-23", "file": "debates1929-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "682b366c4427fc2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-23a.184.0", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Countess of IVEAGH", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"By the block rants?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Countess of IVEAGH", "preceding_text": "ack. Why should it be allowed only to the richer local authorities to be pioneer authorities? The poorer areas have not got now the ability to pay, but the hon. Member for North Kensington (Mr. Gates) was quite on the point when he said that, after this Bill becomes law, these poorer authorities will be in such a financial position that they will have every opportunity of developing these services", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-23a.184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-23", "file": "debates1929-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "682b366c4427fc2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-23a.189.0", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It sounds like it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "preceding_text": " or see that these services are carried on in an efficient manner. I also think that public opinion, knowing of the new money that will come into the district by means of the block grant, will begin to insist upon local authorities using it for this specific purpose, and that will have a very marked effect. As far as I can see, being a very keen supporter of maternity and child welfare work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-23a.189.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-01-23", "file": "debates1929-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "682b366c4427fc2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-23a.200.4", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "What about your sneer about the millionairess?", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "One expects that type of cheap sneer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-23a.200.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-23", "file": "debates1929-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "682b366c4427fc2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-23a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "in the normal course of events, would, at the end of six years, have had a total of £22,000,000 more to spend than they would under the present Bill. He based his argument on the assumption that there is a natural and inevitable increase in these discontinued grants, but he has no justification for imagining that what has happened in the past will necessarily continue to happen in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-23a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-23", "file": "debates1929-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "682b366c4427fc2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-23a.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "my hon. Friend the Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. Greenwood) has been subjected to a good deal of criticism from speakers opposite, but nobody has met his point, namely, that first of all it is under the percentage grant system that the toll of death has been lessened in this country during the last 10 years. Nobody, I think, can deny that the bulk of the money has been spent in very poor areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-23a.242.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-23", "file": "debates1929-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "682b366c4427fc2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-23a.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "t bring any increased amount into the General Exchequer Contribution Fund? I wish to know from the Parliamentary Secretary whether that is so or not, and whether progressive authorities may not therefore find themselves tied to reactionary ones. Is it not a fact that even when the ratio is revised at the end of the period of three years the revision will have no relation at all to the expenditure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-23a.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-23", "file": "debates1929-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "682b366c4427fc2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-23a.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "that during this period of three years not only will the rate expenditure upon health and other services be taken into account for the revision of the ratio, but that the rate-borne expenditure on education will also be taken into account? I want to know that definitely from the Parliamentary Secretary, and I want to tell him that it is no laughing matter as far as local authorities are concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-23a.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-23", "file": "debates1929-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "682b366c4427fc2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-23a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "s on account of education. The whole burden of education will have to be borne by a restricted rateable field, subject to the strict education grant. Therefore, under the scheme of the Government you are going to have large chunks of rateable value taken away from the education rate without any compensation being provided. I have some figures here. You cannot discuss this question without figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-23a.280.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-01-24", "file": "debates1929-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "6cbd46cd7ffef948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-24a.338.2", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "Will the Commissioners, in view of all these questions and answers, tell the Chancellor of the Exchequer that in Wales we have idle land and idle men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-24a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-24", "file": "debates1929-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "6cbd46cd7ffef948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-24a.410.2", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETO", "preceding_text": "ded for in the Bill. It is based on the fourth year of the previous quinquennium. But the hon. Member for the Don Valley raised his old nightmare that, the West Riding of Yorkshire will lose some £200,000 in 17 years, and we have heard the same story with regard to Somerset, which will lose £80,000 in 17 years. But that ignores the whole purpose of the Bill, which is to relieve industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-24a.410.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-24", "file": "debates1929-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "6cbd46cd7ffef948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-24a.410.2", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETO", "preceding_text": "ing to say what the Socialist party will do if they ever get into government? For anyone to be afraid to-day to vote for this Bill because their rates might go up in 1946, would be about as logical as for anyone to jump into the sea for fear that a shower of rain might wet their coat in 1946. The party opposite are pledged to put up rates, and they know it, but the whole idea of this scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-24a.410.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-24", "file": "debates1929-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "6cbd46cd7ffef948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-24a.464.0", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "iting to go into any district. The depression in industry is so great that nothing that this paltry measure of relief can do will stabilise them and put them on their feet. Therefore, the whole of that argument falls to the ground. I am free to admit that it has taken me a very long time owing to lack of the necessary education, to understand the formula and I am not sure that I understand it now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-24a.464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-25", "file": "debates1929-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ede1e4cde429fcac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-25a.508.2", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "aternity and child welfare of the country, but, as the Clause is drawn, it has two weak points. One is that it does not say anything at all about what is going to happen to those districts where there is not a maternity and child welfare committee. I am only asking for information, and a number of other people also want information on this matter. I am not putting forward captious criticism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-25a.508.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-29", "file": "debates1929-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "54e435d26d1afb09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-29a.822.2", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "y. The hon. Member for Bow and Bromley (Mr. Lansbury) has, I believe, been connected with a local authority which has thought fit to conduct a continual warfare with the Ministry of Health, and it seems to be the opinion of many of his colleagues also that that is a normal state of affairs. It is, however, a most unusual state of affairs as between the Ministry of Health and the local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-29a.822.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-29", "file": "debates1929-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "54e435d26d1afb09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-29a.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "CLAUSES 87 (Application of Exchequer grants, etc.) and 88 (Government property) ordered to stand part of the Bill.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "What does that mean? The right hon. Gentleman seeks to provide that on the appointed day the non-institutional property and liabilities are automatically to vest in the councils of the counties or county boroughs into which the union extends in proportion to the reduced rateable value of the parts of the union in the several areas. That is putting it plainly and briefly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-29a.858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-29", "file": "debates1929-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "54e435d26d1afb09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-29a.867.2", "colnum": "867", "heading": "CLAUSES 87 (Application of Exchequer grants, etc.) and 88 (Government property) ordered to stand part of the Bill.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I am not quite sure that the questions which have been put to the Government on this Amendment are strictly relevant, but perhaps they are just sufficiently connected to merit a reply if hon. Members are really anxious to have the information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-29a.867.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-29", "file": "debates1929-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "54e435d26d1afb09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-29a.867.2", "colnum": "867", "heading": "CLAUSES 87 (Application of Exchequer grants, etc.) and 88 (Government property) ordered to stand part of the Bill.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "but perhaps they are just sufficiently connected to merit a reply if hon. Members are really anxious to have the information. [ Interruption. ] Perhaps hon. Members will allow me to answer these questions in my own way. Hon. Members opposite seem to think that they have a monopoly of speech on this Bill. I cannot answer the questions which have been put unless hon. Members will listen to my reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-29a.867.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-29", "file": "debates1929-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "54e435d26d1afb09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-29a.871.1", "colnum": "871", "heading": "CLAUSES 87 (Application of Exchequer grants, etc.) and 88 (Government property) ordered to stand part of the Bill.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "preceding_text": "n the statements of the Attorney-General and of the Parliamentary Secretary. The benign manner in which the Attorney-General gave us the figure of 1s. 6d. in the £ for West Ham gives us good heart, if not good courage. When the Parliamentary Secretary gave his explanation he knocked off 50 per cent. We can well imagine when we get it in reality that a further 50 per cent. will be knocked off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-29a.871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-29", "file": "debates1929-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "54e435d26d1afb09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-29a.885.0", "colnum": "885", "heading": "CLAUSES 87 (Application of Exchequer grants, etc.) and 88 (Government property) ordered to stand part of the Bill.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ling with this question short of making these necessitous areas a national responsibility, and as I understand this Clause, it is an admission of that claim. It is all very well for the Parliamentary Secretary to rise in his place several times a day—and I have been guilty of it myself during the Debates on this Bill, and I know that hon. Members opposite are tired of hearing me speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-29a.885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-30", "file": "debates1929-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "be55685c0ab7df15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-30a.934.4", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OLIVER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OLIVER", "preceding_text": "I am afraid the Minister of Labour has not got the essence of the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-30a.934.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-30", "file": "debates1929-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "be55685c0ab7df15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-30a.993.3", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "It is not only that. The Clause says: If any difficulty arises in connection with the application of this Act to any exceptional area, or in bringing into operation any of the provisions of this Act, the Minister may do certain things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-30a.993.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-30", "file": "debates1929-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "be55685c0ab7df15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-30a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what I am saying. The hon. Member wishes the Committee to understand that although he is moving this Amendment it is not what he wants; he wants something quite different. It is an extraordinary position for the Committee. Apparently we are all agreed that this Amendment is not practicable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-30a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-30", "file": "debates1929-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "be55685c0ab7df15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-30a.1012.3", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "They are not all raw materials. For instance, there are certain agricultural articles, such as oilcake and, I think, potatoes. When we ask what it all comes down to we find it is oilcake and potatoes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-30a.1012.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-30", "file": "debates1929-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "be55685c0ab7df15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-30a.1037.1", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. TURTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. TURTON", "preceding_text": "We cannot ask the Government to deposit at the Bank of England a sufficiently large sum to make it perfectly impossible for us to be at any loss under any future legislation, but this Clause is put forward as an expression of the honour of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-30a.1037.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-30", "file": "debates1929-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "be55685c0ab7df15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-30a.1069.2", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "All the arguments which have appeared to me as differentiating the conditions in a county from those in a district or borough in respect of travelling expenses, are inapplicable when you come to deal with the question of broken time, because a man who is a member of a council in a borough or local district loses time when he is doing his public work just the same as the member of a county council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-30a.1069.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-30", "file": "debates1929-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "be55685c0ab7df15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-30a.1069.2", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In the evening.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "re inapplicable when you come to deal with the question of broken time, because a man who is a member of a council in a borough or local district loses time when he is doing his public work just the same as the member of a county council. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Surely there can be no dispute about that. A man who is doing public work cannot in the time that he is doing it be doing his private work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-30a.1069.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-30", "file": "debates1929-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "be55685c0ab7df15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-30a.1069.2", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Most of them are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "use a man who is a member of a council in a borough or local district loses time when he is doing his public work just the same as the member of a county council. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Surely there can be no dispute about that. A man who is doing public work cannot in the time that he is doing it be doing his private work. [HON. MEMBERS: \"In the evening.\"] The meetings are not all in the evenings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-30a.1069.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-01-31", "file": "debates1929-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f429598be03d0449", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-31a.1110.6", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CUSTOMS EXAMINATION (PAPERS AND DOCUMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Common sense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "Have the Customs officials any definitions to guide them as to what is subversive matter when they take action of this kind?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-31a.1110.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-31", "file": "debates1929-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f429598be03d0449", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-31a.1173.5", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "I regret that I was led away from the delightful question of babies. The fact is that babies are very important, and they will become more important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-31a.1173.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-31", "file": "debates1929-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f429598be03d0449", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-31a.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Leith\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "will say is that I was not going to vote against the Minister last time, because I did not wish to take away even a penny of the £1,200,000 from any of the areas which get it because the factors operate in their favour; but I would take away as much as I could from Surrey, Essex and the other areas which are not necessitous and give it to Gateshead, to Halifax and to West Middlesbrough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-31a.1224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-31", "file": "debates1929-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f429598be03d0449", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-31a.1229.7", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "eople better conditions, we are always told: \"You ought to think of where the money comes from. You ought to realise that if we put a tax on and take money from one industrial concern, that concern has not the money to spend in other directions.\" We have been told that hundreds of times. Yet this is the only remedy that the party which came into power with a positive remedy for unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-31a.1229.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-31", "file": "debates1929-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f429598be03d0449", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-31a.1254.6", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CECIL WILSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, 1928–29.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CECIL WILSON", "preceding_text": "nsufficient. What it really means is that we have been given some £90,000 towards what has been incurred for expenditure, namely, something like £400,000. Therefore, we are getting about 4s. 6d. in the £, and we have been anxious to get a good deal more. In connection with this formula I am rather surprised that the Government have chosen as the standard year the year 1926–27.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-31a.1254.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-31", "file": "debates1929-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f429598be03d0449", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-31a.1257.1", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "n is to count as one human being, one unemployed woman is to count for one-tenth of a human being. We are to add men and women together on that basis, so that the unemployed miner or textile worker counts for one, and his daughter or wife or sister counts for one-tenth. That is all part of the scheme which it is expected to work out. I come to the two questions which I want to put to the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-31a.1257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-31", "file": "debates1929-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f429598be03d0449", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-31a.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ent of certain grants, plus something called \"new money.\" The people really want to know what emerges from it, and what emerges from it is the formula. I do not believe it has ever been read in this Committee. Hon. Members opposite, who have committed the whole of their political future to the right hon. Gentleman and his formula, are very unfamiliar with the terms of it. Let me remind them of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-31a.1264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-31", "file": "debates1929-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f429598be03d0449", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-31a.1270.1", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "d continue the percentage grant system. I am conservative enough to realise that what is old and tried is not necessarily wrong. I think the right hon. Gentleman said that this is a great reform of the rating-system. One of the best things that could be done would be to enlarge the resources of the local authorities, resources which they can control, and I would do it by the rating of land values.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-31a.1270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-31", "file": "debates1929-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f429598be03d0449", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-31a.1273.10", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "OVERSEAS TRADE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HAMILTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HAMILTON", "preceding_text": "Conservative Member of Parliament was speaking in Scotland, and I think his words will commend themselves to every business man in the House: He could not see how any sensible person could contemplate with equanimity an indefinite breach between Great Britain and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, carrying with it an indefinite delay in the economic recovery and disarmament of the old world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-31a.1273.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-01-31", "file": "debates1929-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f429598be03d0449", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-31a.1277.0", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "OVERSEAS TRADE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST EVANS", "preceding_text": "wise I can conceive of no greater condemnation of a man occupying the position of President of the Board of Trade than that he should, on a subject which is of vital importance to a great many people who are engaged in industry, indulge in a ribald jest in allusion to the funds of the party to which we belong, which funds have been collected in precisely the same way as the funds of his own party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-01-31a.1277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-01", "file": "debates1929-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "6d4a7ae3c9a2ce4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-01a.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "part II", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "estion is particularly important in those areas because they are so far from the coal. One of the continued complaints of the German iron and steel industry has been that they are so far from supplies of coal, and that transport is, therefore, one of their problems, and one of the reasons for the superiority of the iron and steel industry in this country is that it is so near to its coal supplies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-01a.1317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-01", "file": "debates1929-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "6d4a7ae3c9a2ce4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-01a.1318.1", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "part II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "I desire to support this Amendment, even despite what has been said by the hon. Member for Leith (Mr. E. Brown). If the Amendment be carried, it will not take away from those fuels which the hon. Member mentioned anything that the Government intend to give them. It only takes away their preferential position as against other industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-01a.1318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-01", "file": "debates1929-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "6d4a7ae3c9a2ce4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-01a.1318.1", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "part II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "th (Mr. E. Brown). If the Amendment be carried, it will not take away from those fuels which the hon. Member mentioned anything that the Government intend to give them. It only takes away their preferential position as against other industries. [ Interruption. ] I am asked to say that to Messrs. Tweeddale and Smalley. I do, because under this definition I imagine the interpretation would be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-01a.1318.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-02-04", "file": "debates1929-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f4edaffce52142e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-04a.1396.4", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister give his reasons for making the last statement, that the unemployment figures have fallen? Are we to understand that the Government propose to do nothing further than they have done? Are the Government not prepared to take into consideration the revelations that were made last week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-04a.1396.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-02-04", "file": "debates1929-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f4edaffce52142e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-04a.1450.0", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "You are really abolishing them.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel SHAW", "preceding_text": " Scotland. But is this all the constructive criticism that two of the Scottish leaders of the Liberal party have to offer? As far as other Members of the Opposition are concerned, I have no doubt they will be able to produce some arguments later on, but I hope they will realise that this is not an attempt to diminish the administrative authority of small local bodies. Their authority is increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-04a.1449.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-04", "file": "debates1929-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f4edaffce52142e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-04a.1470.3", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": " these Committees are constituted to-day, but upon a new and a fresh basis. I would despair of the future progress of my country if I thought that the attitude of mind of the hon. and gallant Member for Montrose (Major-General Sir R. Hutchison) was to be adopted, that the Government should withdraw this Bill, and that no further progress is either required or desirable in this problem in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-04a.1470.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-04", "file": "debates1929-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f4edaffce52142e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-04a.1514.2", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": " are accepting the proposal to establish district councils when we have accepted this Amendment, but it is not the major Amendment. Clearly, the Parliamentary draftsmen might have given a little more thought to the preparation of this part of the Bill. It is true that we want to pass on to the details of this proposal, but we cannot discuss the details without discussing the major proposal itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-04a.1514.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-06", "file": "debates1929-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "33e38641d26bc7e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-06a.1831.0", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "The first question raised is one of voting power. I agree with my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Argyllshire (Mr. Macquisten) that their voting power is equal, although their capacity to vole on certain subjects is excluded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-06a.1831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-06", "file": "debates1929-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "33e38641d26bc7e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-06a.1847.0", "colnum": "1847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "fected by the burgh rate. To suggest that the burghal representative should not be subject to any interference by the county representative in regard to housing but that the burghal representative should be able to go over to the counly and, on a question of county housing, to alter the county rate would not make the two men equal but would make the burgh man superior. Are we all agreed upon that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-06a.1847.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-07", "file": "debates1929-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d55d0bc9af3bedde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-07a.1920.0", "colnum": "1920", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "tion affecting injuries to other classes of workers and does not relate to miners alone? Further, has the attention of the right hon. Gentleman been drawn to the White Paper issued by the Government a few weeks ago dealing with the financial aspects of this question in the Workmen's Compensation Act of last year, which revealed that 25 per cent. of the people employed are not covered by insurance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-07a.1920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-07", "file": "debates1929-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d55d0bc9af3bedde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-07a.1927.2", "colnum": "1927", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Are we to understand that, while this was going on, the right hon. Gentleman left this city for a week-end in the country, and that these matters were only brought to his attention by the hon. Baronet the Member for Anglesey (Sir R. Thomas)? How is it that the right hon. Gentleman has to have his attention drawn to such a terrible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-07a.1927.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-07", "file": "debates1929-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d55d0bc9af3bedde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-07a.1932.9", "colnum": "1932", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Previous to the Adjournment, the right hon. Gentleman informed the House that he was sending these officials specially to investigate this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-07a.1932.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-02-07", "file": "debates1929-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d55d0bc9af3bedde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-07a.1933.7", "colnum": "1933", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I have already told the hon. Gentleman that I cannot summarise the conclusions in answer to a question. I shall lay the whole Report on the Table at an early date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-07a.1933.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-02-07", "file": "debates1929-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d55d0bc9af3bedde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-07a.1934.5", "colnum": "1934", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "The general strike!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that, in spite of all that is being done by himself and by the local authorities, there are a quarter of a million more out of work to-day than there were at this time last year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-07a.1934.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-02-07", "file": "debates1929-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d55d0bc9af3bedde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-07a.2000.2", "colnum": "2000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Oh, yes, there is.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COUPER", "preceding_text": "What is the church to which the hon. Baronet refers as the Free Presbyterian Church? There is no such church to my knowledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-07a.2000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-07", "file": "debates1929-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d55d0bc9af3bedde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-07a.2009.0", "colnum": "2009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "ch were suggested for the consideration of the Secretary of State. I should have the greatest difficulty in my own home in selecting an individual to represent it in the matter of religious instruction, because one of us is a Baptist, another belongs to the Brethren, a third belongs to the Salvation Army and there is one who goes to church, so we have practically all the denominations represented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-07a.2009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-07", "file": "debates1929-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d55d0bc9af3bedde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-07a.2072.0", "colnum": "2072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": " and recognised infectious diseases, for the treatment of this disease by the public health authority, to whom these new duties are being transferred, no charge is made either to the person treated or to those responsible for the maintenance of the patient. But in a case of cancer, if a patient is taken from his home and treated in one of the Poor Law hospitals, then the persons responsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-07a.2072.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-07", "file": "debates1929-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d55d0bc9af3bedde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-07a.2082.0", "colnum": "2082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": "ildren of people presently drawing Poor Law relief, is to take place under the education code. What we are asked to do is this—in the case where the \"may\" is not acted on, where no scheme is put forward providing that that service shall take place under some other Act than the Poor Law we shall really be saying that this service shall be rendered under the Poor Law. It is an important point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-07a.2082.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-08", "file": "debates1929-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "d316ba317f60fdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-08a.2112.1", "colnum": "2112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": " enabling people to attend these meetings, and in older to meet, so far as we can, the legitimate claims of men and women, to whatever class they may belong, who are at the present time—in my judgment very properly and rightly—in increasing numbers taking an active interest in municipal and local affairs. But it is to be remembered that we are proposing very great changes in this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-08a.2112.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-11", "file": "debates1929-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e45426deae897fdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-11a.76.3", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"'Chinks' are cheaper!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HALL", "preceding_text": "s in this country to industries in Canada and expect them to find work. One would have thought that there would be work for a large number of men on the railways. West of Winnipeg most of the permanent way work is done by Orientals or Central Europeans; very few English-speaking people are employed on the permanent way work of the two great railways, the Canadian Pacific and the Canadian National.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-11a.76.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-11", "file": "debates1929-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e45426deae897fdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-11a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They will not have them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": " one of the purposes of the Government is to transfer the burden of unemployment to the Dominions. That is a mischievous statement. I do riot say that the intention is mischievous, but, if the statement were for a moment accepted in the Dominions, its effect would he mischievous to the last degree. The very last thing that we in this country desire to do is to plant unemployables on our Dominions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-11a.118.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-11", "file": "debates1929-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e45426deae897fdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-11a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"What is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": "r mistaken about the policy of my party. One hon. Member seemed to think that we are a group of dismal Desmonds. On the contrary, we are a fairly optimistic body of people, who realise that our opponents are making our case and that every development is proving that the unemployment problem is due to what we say it is due to, and that the only remedy for it is the remedy that we would apply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-11a.167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-11", "file": "debates1929-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e45426deae897fdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-11a.167.2", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rabbits!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that my readiness to give information led me to be out of order. Another hon. Gentleman said that we were like camels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-11a.167.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-11", "file": "debates1929-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e45426deae897fdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-11a.175.0", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What else have you got?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "#8212;he says that he and the party behind him are bound to go into the Lobby to-night against this Estimate, because they do not consider that it represents in any way a serious attempt to deal with the unemployment problem. That would be a perfectly possible attitude to take up it in this Estimate which we are putting forward were the whole of the Government's policy with regard to unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-11a.175.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-11", "file": "debates1929-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e45426deae897fdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-11a.184.0", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members opposite do not accept the official figures they will accept nothing that is true. [ Interruption. ] These are published figures which are beyond dispute, and to anyone who wishes to treat this problem not merely by using it for debating purposes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-11a.184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-11", "file": "debates1929-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e45426deae897fdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-11a.184.0", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quote!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "low, to see that the inflow which will come there anyhow, shall be so directed as to afford the greatest relief to the districts which are most in need? It seems to me that the case is so clear that anyone who is willing to keep his eyes open to the real needs of the situation must admit it. It was admitted by the Industrial Transference Board and by the Labour party in their official publication.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-11a.184.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-12", "file": "debates1929-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ecbe9e248b48c929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-12a.279.0", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "type of guardian is to he abolished in Bedwellty and Chester-le-Street, but is to be continued in West Ham. Why? Why cannot the people of West Ham be trusted to express an opinion upon the kind of representation they shall have? Walthamstow is to be cut away from us. All the richer parts are to be cut away and to go to the Essex County Council. We know why. Old Chawbacon is going to be in control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-12a.279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-12", "file": "debates1929-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ecbe9e248b48c929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-12a.299.0", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "preceding_text": "icious way of thinking of the responsibilities of elected persons. Not even the fact that people who commit an injustice are elected by a majority of the people to whom they are responsible can excuse that injustice, and, when the hon. Member talks of the mistakes which they have made being the funeral of the persons who elected them, he forgets that in Chester-le-Street there is a minority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-12a.299.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-12", "file": "debates1929-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ecbe9e248b48c929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-12a.348.0", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "preceding_text": "he charge. As I have mentioned before in this House when people are ill money does not count. Treatment comes first and they go to the hospitals and they are only too glad to get there. I cannot for the life me understand why Members of the Labour party should have the idea that the Government, the hospital authorities, and the guardians of the poor, are simply out to rob the poor of all they can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-12a.348.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-12", "file": "debates1929-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ecbe9e248b48c929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-12a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GILLETT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What nonsense\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GILLETT", "preceding_text": "ls have organised their charges, because such a large number of people have been taking advantage of hospital treatment without payment when they could afford to pay for their treatment. The Parliamentary Secretary has told us that people are only too glad to pay for medical treatment in the hospitals, but we all know that nobody wants to pay a doctor's bill; in fact, nobody wants to pay anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-12a.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-12", "file": "debates1929-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ecbe9e248b48c929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-12a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There will!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " public health institutions, the practice in both shall be the same. I think, with the hon. Member for Royton, that it is convenient that we should have identity of practice, and I do not believe the least little hit in the world in the view that has been presented, that in the future there will be a harsh enforcement of the powers that public authorities in the future will have entrusted to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-12a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-12", "file": "debates1929-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ecbe9e248b48c929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-12a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CORPORATION OF LONDON (BRIDGE) BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "rs who was on the Advisory Committee is also the engineer of the scheme. The only point before us is this. Shall we give the Corporation the opportunity of a further investigation during the next two years, during which they cannot possibly build the bridge, so that if possible we shall not entirely lose the money that has been spent in the initiation of the scheme and in the purchase of property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-12a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-13", "file": "debates1929-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "48933844c70dd01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-13a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH SUBJECTS (DETENTION, BELGIUM).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman explain what he means by the expression \"in certain cases\"? Are passports proposed to be issued subject to the political opinions held by those to whom they are issued, and is it too much to ask the Foreign Secretary, if possible, to put aside political prejudice in this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-13a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-13", "file": "debates1929-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "48933844c70dd01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-13a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No, not all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I think every county council has a fair wages clause in its contract.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-13a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-14", "file": "debates1929-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d2b4c7013511e2f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-14a.528.4", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LONGBOTTOM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LONGBOTTOM", "preceding_text": "l and cookery instruction rooms in elementary schools, he will send some representative of his Department to view the site and ascertain the demand in the area before he arrives at a definite decision? Secondly, as far as the construction of the swimming bath is concerned, may I ask the Noble Lord, when he is considering the report that has been submitted to him by the chief medical officer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-14a.528.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-14", "file": "debates1929-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d2b4c7013511e2f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-14a.529.4", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LONGBOTTOM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LONGBOTTOM", "preceding_text": "I am quite aware that I have not been long in the House, but I still claim that I have a right to a proper answer to a Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-14a.529.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-14", "file": "debates1929-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d2b4c7013511e2f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-14a.608.0", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GERALD HURST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GERALD HURST", "preceding_text": "dment raises. First of all, it is clearly too sweeping. The Minister has clearly established a case whereby some measure of discretion must be vested in him, and if the Amendment were carried he would have none at all. Secondly, many of us who sympathise with a good deal that has been said as to the constitutional issue involved in the Amendment, realise that the Socialist zeal is entirely a sham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-14a.608.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-14", "file": "debates1929-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d2b4c7013511e2f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-14a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "It is a great difficulty with the Government at the present time. Recent news which seems to have leaked into the House suggests that it is their chief difficulty. That does not prevent us from asking a few questions. For instance, supposing the difficulty in carrying out the Act is the formula, will the Minister be allowed to adjust the formula.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-14a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-14", "file": "debates1929-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d2b4c7013511e2f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-14a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "n which we are travelling. As far as I am concerned, I would like to see the maximum Parliamentary control retained. I believe in the House of Commons. I aim proud to think that, in my small way, I am a House of Commons man. But there are difficulties and the Minister is doing nothing to help. He is not meeting the very reasonable speech of the hon. and learned Member for the English Universities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-14a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-14", "file": "debates1929-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d2b4c7013511e2f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-14a.640.3", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "e hon. Gentleman opposite is right in saying that \"modified\" is not in. There are two possibilities. The special matter of the Order may be of so trivial and unobjectionable a nature that Parliament will not want to discuss it, and not a single Member will want to put down a Motion to discuss it. If my hon. Friend's Amendment is put in, Parliament will be compelled to debate these trivial matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-14a.640.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-14", "file": "debates1929-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d2b4c7013511e2f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-14a.654.0", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "If I may speak again by the leave of the House, I can answer the hon. and gallant Gentleman's question immediately. He has said that he wishes exactly the same provision to be made where other selected traffics are carried in order to be shipped coastwise. They will receive that benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-14a.654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-14", "file": "debates1929-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "d2b4c7013511e2f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-14a.663.0", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "order to stimulate the export trade. In answer to questions since the Committee stage, the Secretary for Mines admits, without equivocation at all, that there has been no reduction in the price. There may have been a little here, and a little increase elsewhere, but I have actual figures from Hull showing that there has been no falling off in the price. Then how can you stimulate the export trade?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-14a.663.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-15", "file": "debates1929-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "79ad47146d65a5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-15a.740.5", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLETON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLETON", "preceding_text": "I should not have risen but for the reference of the Finan- cial Secretary to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Burnley (Mr. A. Henderson). I would remind the Committee that the two cases are not parallel. Everyone knows that the right hon. Member for Burnley had to earn his living —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-15a.740.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-18", "file": "debates1929-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "73cdeae8158daec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-18a.845.0", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "ences are made to \"may have representation made\" and to \"shall pay.\" He may \"reduce the grants\" twice. He may \"make a report to the Ministry of Transport\" three times. He may \"have a grievance sent to him\" three times. He may \"have copies of agreements sent to him\" four times. He may \"sanction\" four times. He \"shall publish in one or more local newspapers\" four times. He may \"consider\" five times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-18a.845.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-18", "file": "debates1929-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "73cdeae8158daec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-18a.865.0", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major HILLS", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HILLS", "preceding_text": " advance on the existing state of things, and the local authorities are directed—let that fact he remembered—under an Amendment inserted on Report, to use the agencies outside the Poor Law wherever they can. There again the Minister has followed the lines laid down in the Prevention of Destitution Bill. Thirdly, that Bill pleaded for a national organisation to deal with the unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-18a.865.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-18", "file": "debates1929-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "73cdeae8158daec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-18a.885.0", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GILLETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Both!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GILLETT", "preceding_text": "icate that on careful examination, the blessings which are to be conferred by these Clauses are shown to be nothing like those hoped for by the hon. Member for York and the hon. and gallant Member for Stockton-on-Tees (Captain Macmillan). The difficulty about this Measure is that we have never decided whether it is purely a Measure of local government reform or a Measure for dealing with distress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-18a.885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-18", "file": "debates1929-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "73cdeae8158daec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-18a.890.0", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOOKER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOOKER", "preceding_text": "ventilation of all grievance's of this description and free discussion of them in this House, and in those circumstances I am quite content to allow this Clause to pass without further adverse criticism. In a recent Act which was passed by this House a very serious defect has been, found, relating to the scheme for compensation for slum clearances, which although acknowledged to be a defect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-18a.890.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-19", "file": "debates1929-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ebecfde679202c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.945.5", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where for?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman, when he considers the appointment in future of a postmaster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.945.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-02-19", "file": "debates1929-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ebecfde679202c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.955.7", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Major PRICE", "preceding_text": "To my personal knowledge there are many cases in which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.955.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-19", "file": "debates1929-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ebecfde679202c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.979.3", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We trust the Committee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I know you have the Committee's Report, but you have not the circumstances, data, and facts on which the Committee reported.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.979.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-19", "file": "debates1929-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ebecfde679202c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.979.3", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "that same principle to be applied when we are dealing with other sections of the community. It cannot be urged that right hon. Gentlemen sitting on the Front Bench opposite are not the friends of those whose case has been pleaded here this afternoon. That, at least, cannot be urged against the Government. I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman is going to carry his Amendment to a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.979.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-19", "file": "debates1929-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ebecfde679202c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.989.2", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "Government prepared to tell us what compensation the working man, who was thrown out of employment as the result of the troubles in Southern Ireland during the period of distress, is going to receive? I will undertake to say that he is going to receive nothing whatever. As far as I, personally, am concerned, along with the rest of my party, though I do not know what the party is going to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.989.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-19", "file": "debates1929-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ebecfde679202c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.990.0", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HARRY FOSTER", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HARRY FOSTER", "preceding_text": " for the Dominions, who seemed to me to have a tendency rather to belittle the work done by the Wood Renton Committee. Nobody could say more in praise of their work than did the right hon. Gentleman a year ago. On 23rd February he said, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer had said before him, that they were satisfied that the Wood Renton Committee had done their work carefully and properly and well", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.990.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-19", "file": "debates1929-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ebecfde679202c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who told them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "e were secretly told, without the knowledge of the House of Commons and without the knowledge of the public in this country, that the available for compensation was only £400,000. There is no suggestion that they did not do their work properly notwithstanding that statement but it is very questionable if information like this should have been given to a judicial tribunal in the circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-19", "file": "debates1929-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ebecfde679202c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Justice!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "h place which I hold. It is a, most unpleasant thing, but somewhere in the State, somewhere in this rather fluid organisation of our modern Government, there must reside a principle in the light of which we can say \"No\" when a certain point has been reached; and it is very dangerous indeed, I think, for the House, carried away by absolutely right feelings, by strong sentiments of generosity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.1002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-19", "file": "debates1929-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ebecfde679202c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£625,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "t in no way accepted an unlimited liability, and we in no way set up any tribunal or body of persons to write cheques upon the national account without limit. We said, \"All right, £400,000.\" Then it was found that £400,000 was not enough, and there was a strong and serious argument about that, and under further pressure we consented to make it £650,000, if my memory serves me right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.1002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-19", "file": "debates1929-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ebecfde679202c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.1014.0", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major HILLS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major HILLS", "preceding_text": " honour to pay the full amount which has been found to be due by the Wood Renton Committee. A very strong case was made by many of my hon. Friends, and no one can have listened unmoved to their speeches, but surely the whole charge against the Government turns on this point: Was the Wood Renton Committee, or was it not, a judicial body which could give a final decision; or was it an advisory body?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.1014.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-19", "file": "debates1929-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ebecfde679202c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.1014.0", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major HILLS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major HILLS", "preceding_text": "laimants have been paid already £700,000. Now I understand my hon. Friends wish a further £500,000 to be given to them—I suppose to this comparatively small number of claimants. Is it not a reasonable proposition that in a case of this sort we should pay the full amount to the man of small means who has lost his whole position, treating him more liberally than the more wealthy man?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.1014.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-19", "file": "debates1929-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ebecfde679202c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.1019.0", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ve been led to believe from various quarters, from the Tory Press and Tory speeches, that it is only on the Labour benches that we find a division of opinion. To-day, it has been proved otherwise, and I congratulate the back benchers on the opposite side of the House sincerely and honestly on their success. I could have wished that this uprising of the masses had been in a somewhat worthier cause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.1019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-19", "file": "debates1929-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ebecfde679202c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.1021.5", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL CREDITS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Sir John Gilmour)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Sir John Gilmour)", "preceding_text": "ish Standing Committee, having been very carefully considered by that Committee. It has returned to this House with some minor Amendments, but with practically no major alteration. I would express the hope that the Bill may be of material assistance to the agricultural community in Scotland. The House has, of course, already passed a Measure dealing with this subject in England. In Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.1021.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-19", "file": "debates1929-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ebecfde679202c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.1033.0", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (CO-ORDINATION OF PASSENGER TRAFFIC) BILL [By Order].", "cue_speaker": "Sir CYRIL COBB", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir CYRIL COBB", "preceding_text": "ain Clauses of the Bill. It is necessary, I think, to assure the House that a, Bill drawn on these lines will give security not only to the London County Council over its municipal undertakings from the financial standpoint, but also security to the public that they will have developing services, with every possible facility for travelling and that fares will be on a uniform basis in the long run.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.1033.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-19", "file": "debates1929-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ebecfde679202c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.1062.3", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (CO-ORDINATION OF PASSENGER TRAFFIC) BILL [By Order].", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. JACKSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. JACKSON", "preceding_text": "n to our inquiries, the next conclusion we arrived at was that there is quite sufficient money in the London traffic services to give the public all the service that they desire, and to give a reasonable return on capital. Finally, we were very much concerned with the growing toll of accidents in the streets. In the year 1927, no fewer than 1,056 people were killed in the Metropolitan Police area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.1062.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-19", "file": "debates1929-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ebecfde679202c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (CO-ORDINATION OF PASSENGER TRAFFIC) BILL [By Order].", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. JACKSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. JACKSON", "preceding_text": "arliament. So the two promoters decided that in view of the urgency of the problem, it was vitally important that something should be done, and the London County Council and the London Electric Railway Companies decided to promote these private Bills. What do these Bills propose to do? I say without hesitation that as regards principles there is no deviation from the principles of the Blue Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-19", "file": "debates1929-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ebecfde679202c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (CO-ORDINATION OF PASSENGER TRAFFIC) BILL [By Order].", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. JACKSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. JACKSON", "preceding_text": "gave to the railways great powers of co-ordination which are now being put into operation all over the country. I cannot resist saying that one of the most significant acts in consequence of those arrangements has been the pooling of the Sheffield Corporation's transport with the London and North Eastern Railway, and I would add that the Sheffield Corporation are dominated by a Socialist majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-19", "file": "debates1929-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ebecfde679202c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (CO-ORDINATION OF PASSENGER TRAFFIC) BILL [By Order].", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. JACKSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. JACKSON", "preceding_text": "acts in consequence of those arrangements has been the pooling of the Sheffield Corporation's transport with the London and North Eastern Railway, and I would add that the Sheffield Corporation are dominated by a Socialist majority. [ Interruption. ] The point is that the Sheffield Corporation are doing in regard to the London and North Eastern Railway what we are asking Parliament to do to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-19", "file": "debates1929-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "ebecfde679202c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.1083.0", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (CO-ORDINATION OF PASSENGER TRAFFIC) BILL [By Order].", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "t. I confess that I was a little startled to find that he described a Bill promoted by the London County Council, the present owners of tramways, as a Bill designed to destroy tramways. That is a little incomprehensible to my mind. I also heard the speech of the hon. Member for South Battersea (Mr. W. Bennett), who seconded the Amendment, and as it was his first speech in this House perhaps—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-19a.1083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-20", "file": "debates1929-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9e28e5947f5a8b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-20a.1189.0", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "hich carries great weight with himself. I say that I shall call the OFFICIAL REPORT in evidence, and that when he opens the OFFICIAL REPORT to-morrow he will find these words: The official party view of people opposite. I took them down the moment he spoke them. But, passing from that matter, I must say that I cannot understand this inveterate distrust of town councils among hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-20a.1189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-20", "file": "debates1929-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9e28e5947f5a8b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-20a.1189.2", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "Have you ever been a county councillor? I have. If you had been a town councillor you would not have so much enthusiasm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-20a.1189.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-20", "file": "debates1929-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9e28e5947f5a8b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-20a.1191.0", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rothesay in Argyllshire?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "I must say that I wish the voluntary principle had been retained. I think it would have been sounder. The compulsory system may be all very well, but it does not suit all parties. In the county of Argyll we have Dunoon and also Oban and there is also Rothesay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-20a.1191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-20", "file": "debates1929-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9e28e5947f5a8b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-20a.1198.0", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "I really do not expect that the hon. Member will press this Amendment. It certainly proposes the retention of a piece of machinery, but it is, surely, only blinding ourselves to the gravity and size of the problem to retain a piece of machinery which is not and has not been for many years in operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-20a.1198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-20", "file": "debates1929-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9e28e5947f5a8b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-20a.1222.2", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "olitics are clean. We do not have in this country any of those disgraceful things that discredit American politics. There is no Tammany in this country. We do not have the big political 'boss' who swings and sways elections and who pays bribes here and bribes there to rum-runners and bootleggers and breakers of the law.\" We pride ourselves on the cleanliness with which we run our political system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-20a.1222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-20", "file": "debates1929-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9e28e5947f5a8b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-20a.1232.2", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "t the attacks which are made upon those who have spent capital on the land. Instead of being treated as benefactors, they are treated as pariahs who ought never to be recognised in any decent society. I cast my mind back to that annus mirabilis when the Labour party was in office in 1924. The main feature of that year was the advent of the Russian delegation. What did that Russian delegation want?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-20a.1232.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-20", "file": "debates1929-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9e28e5947f5a8b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-20a.1235.3", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "The scheme which he has put before the country is based upon the fact that landlords have not sufficient money to provide the capital which the land requires, and if that be true, as I take it the Liberal party, at least, will agree —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-20a.1235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-20", "file": "debates1929-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9e28e5947f5a8b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-20a.1241.3", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "d of his speech, said something about going before a Land Court. I do not think that that is a particularly satisfactory procedure. As regards security of tenure, there is ample security of tenure in Scotland. In my long professional experience I have never known a tenant to be pushed out of his farm, and I would like to ask the hon. Baronet if he himself knows of any case of eviction in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-20a.1241.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-20", "file": "debates1929-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9e28e5947f5a8b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-20a.1244.0", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "result of this Amendment would be to take away from the owners the relief which they are getting at present to the extent of one-quarter of the valuation and leave them to be rated on the net annual value. I do not want to argue at length the question of whether a benefit like this ultimately comes to the landlord or not. My humble view is that it certainly does, and I will tell the Committee why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-20a.1244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-20", "file": "debates1929-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9e28e5947f5a8b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-20a.1257.5", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"That sum is for England!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "preceding_text": "On this particular Amendment the facts are not in dispute. The sum involved has been stated quite definitely from the Treasury Bench to be £400,000 per annum. It is admitted by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that this sum is being given to a prosperous trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-20a.1257.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-20", "file": "debates1929-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9e28e5947f5a8b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-20a.1260.0", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has rubbed them in!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "The Mover of the Amendment spoke very briefly because, I understand, he was desirous of getting on to a further Amendment, and I think it only fair that we should do our utmost to fall in with the sacrifice of time which he made by the curtailment of the Debate. The hon. Member who has just spoken has not adduced any facts which were not adduced on the corresponding stage of the English Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-20a.1260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-20", "file": "debates1929-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9e28e5947f5a8b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-20a.1267.8", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADJOURNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "n minutes to eleven, and there are on the Paper a number of private Members' Bills, in none of which, I may say, I have any particular interest. Not content with depriving private Members of all their rights, the Chief Patronage Secretary again and again moves the Adjournment of the House at this hour, and takes away this last opportunity of bringing forward Measures for the good of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-20a.1267.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-21", "file": "debates1929-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cba4af7574ccf5b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-21a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Gentleman any information as to the last part of the question? In particular, is he aware that the men who so acted did so under a law passed by this House, and therefore that the question of the hon. and gallant Member for Handsworth (Commander Locker-Lampson) does not arise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-21a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-21", "file": "debates1929-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cba4af7574ccf5b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-21a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Gentleman any information as to the last part of the question? In particular, is he aware that the men who so acted did so under a law passed by this House, and therefore that the question of the hon. and gallant Member for Handsworth (Commander Locker-Lampson) does not arise? [ Interruption ]. Parliament recognised the right of people to say whether they should be murderers or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-21a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-21", "file": "debates1929-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cba4af7574ccf5b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-21a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "stion? In particular, is he aware that the men who so acted did so under a law passed by this House, and therefore that the question of the hon. and gallant Member for Handsworth (Commander Locker-Lampson) does not arise? [ Interruption ]. Parliament recognised the right of people to say whether they should be murderers or not. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] After all, some of you were not at the Front.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-21a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-21", "file": "debates1929-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cba4af7574ccf5b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-21a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " did so under a law passed by this House, and therefore that the question of the hon. and gallant Member for Handsworth (Commander Locker-Lampson) does not arise? [ Interruption ]. Parliament recognised the right of people to say whether they should be murderers or not. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] After all, some of you were not at the Front. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it!\"] Get on with it yourself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-21a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-21", "file": "debates1929-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cba4af7574ccf5b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-21a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "use, and therefore that the question of the hon. and gallant Member for Handsworth (Commander Locker-Lampson) does not arise? [ Interruption ]. Parliament recognised the right of people to say whether they should be murderers or not. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] After all, some of you were not at the Front. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it!\"] Get on with it yourself. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\"] Who are you?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-21a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-21", "file": "debates1929-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cba4af7574ccf5b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-21a.1292.3", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I want you to keep the Chief Whip of the Government in order. If the hon. and gallant Member —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-21a.1292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-21", "file": "debates1929-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cba4af7574ccf5b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-21a.1294.4", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POOR LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "But boards of guardians are compelling men who receive —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-21a.1294.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-21", "file": "debates1929-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cba4af7574ccf5b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-21a.1294.4", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POOR LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "But boards of guardians are compelling men who receive — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"] The question I am putting to the right hon. Gentleman is that boards of guardians are compelling men who receive unemployment pay —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-21a.1294.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-21", "file": "debates1929-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cba4af7574ccf5b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-21a.1342.1", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": " reap the harvest, what does it matter whether you give part of this money to the tenant or not, because finally the landlord will stand to reap the entire benefit?\" That is true, and I want every critic of the Bill to take that back to Scotland and to tell the people of Scotland that the Lord Advocate last night not only admitted that the landlord would absorb the benefit, but again to-day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-21a.1342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-21", "file": "debates1929-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cba4af7574ccf5b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-21a.1358.0", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The landowners!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": " what my right hon. Friend the Member for Hillhead (Sir R. Horne) has said. It must not be forgotten that the agricultural community, both landlord and tenant, after this Bill passes, will be receiving relief to the tune of something over £1,500,000, and that the tenants—but not wholly as the result of the Bill—will get off seven-eighths of their rating, which means £770,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-21a.1358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-25", "file": "debates1929-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "ec07f76c2ca7c869", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-25a.1603.5", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "cified in this Bill, plus the functions which are to be devolved upon them by the county council, and which are not yet specified. There is no use in having any mystification about this. Anybody who has operated or attempted to operate the Poor Law system knows that there is a possibility of four separate systems of Poor Law administration inside the average county in Scotland. It is absurd—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-25a.1603.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-25", "file": "debates1929-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "ec07f76c2ca7c869", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-25a.1604.1", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman had better not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-25a.1604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-25", "file": "debates1929-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "ec07f76c2ca7c869", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-25a.1702.1", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "Oh. yes, indeed it does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-25a.1702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-25", "file": "debates1929-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "ec07f76c2ca7c869", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-25a.1708.7", "colnum": "1708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HAMILTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"75.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HAMILTON", "preceding_text": "It was the hon. Member himself who drafted the Amendment. He is not here to-night but he requested that it should be moved. I cannot put it higher and I leave it at that. I should like to be corrected whether it is not a fact that, on this formula, with a population of 50 per mile of road you get 37.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-25a.1708.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-25", "file": "debates1929-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "ec07f76c2ca7c869", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-25a.1728.0", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to trouble you again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-25a.1728.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1767.4", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRISH LOYALISTS (PAYMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "In view of the recent discussion, will the right hon. Gentleman consider the advisability of publishing a list of the claimants, and the amounts claimed, before asking for the Vote?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1767.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1767.9", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRISH LOYALISTS (PAYMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "It is a supplementary question, which raises entirely new issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1767.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1769.5", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say whether it is a fact that, in spite of the many well-organised opportunities for migration to the Dominions which have been offered to these men, they have persistently refused to go?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1769.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1810.2", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NORTHERN IRELAND AGREEMENT) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "labour, \"Workers of the world unite,\" and all that sort of thing? The right hon. Gentleman says: \"Workers of the world unite—but, as far as these Ulster people are concerned, I have got a down upon them.\" Then the right hon. Gentleman asks: \"Why do you bring this Measure forward when the existing Act does not expire till 1930?\" Has not his speech been a very complete answer to that question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1810.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1810.2", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NORTHERN IRELAND AGREEMENT) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "sh pet and each has got its Irish bugbear, and people are more inclined to look with severity upon the interests of those they dislike than to ensure fair and impartial administration. As far as I am concerned, I claim to be impartial. Only last week I was being scarified for taking a particular view upon an Irish matter—to which I still adhere—though I submit to the view of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1810.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1818.0", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NORTHERN IRELAND AGREEMENT) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GARDNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GARDNER", "preceding_text": " he has taken up that that is his object. I hope that I shall not be misunderstood on this question. I happen to be an Ulster man myself, and I am a native of Belfast. I am opposed to the proposal of the Government solely on the ground that I do not think the circumstances justify it. The first thing to which I want to draw attention is the fact that there are now only four Ulster Members present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1835.0", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NORTHERN IRELAND AGREEMENT) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The landlords.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "re is no part of it that can go on tap in order to assist another part. Reference has been made to the Clyde area, but the Clyde area, with all its poverty, Scotland, with all its poverty, is not to be compared with Northern Ireland, because in Scotland we have various industries that are doing fairly well, There are different sources that we can tap. What sources can they tap in Northern Ireland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1835.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1844.1", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NORTHERN IRELAND AGREEMENT) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "quite as moderate as he tries to be in these days. When the party opposite are faced with the working out of the inevitable, then they come along and talk about this little country and the economies. A large sum of money is being spent in Belfast to make a Parliament House for a Parliament which is, as I say, merely a telephone exchange which receives orders from this country and carries them out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1866.1", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "nce.\" 8.0 p.m. What are the facts? From 1897 to 1928 the total contribution from the rates to the trams has been £1,226,894. The council has paid off, provided for out of the tramways service, no less a sum than £8,752,035. In other words, there has been a net gain to the citizens of London of £7,325,141. Can the hon. Member deny that? That money has been paid into the sinking fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1869.0", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WALTER GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WALTER GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "in a public Bill, can do practically everything, but that statement is intended to convey that this Bill gets rid of the London trams. In the first place, let me point out that there is not a word from first to last in either of these Bills which in any way derogates from the duty of the London County Council to provide the services which it has undertaken to provide by the system of London trams.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1869.0", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WALTER GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WALTER GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "there is not a word from first to last in either of these Bills which in any way derogates from the duty of the London County Council to provide the services which it has undertaken to provide by the system of London trams. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"] There is not a word in this Bill which in any way affects the statutory duty of the London County Council to provide trams, and to keep those trams.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1873.1", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "turn after half-past four, and who are, after all, a very large proportion of the London population; and the position today is that they, for their necessary journeys in going to and from their business, are being used to finance people who go about merely for pleasure during the day. I do not say that everyone who goes about during the day goes about for pleasure, but it is perfectly clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1876.3", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Only the Council's employés!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "h any of the matters in Part II of the Schedule. Therefore, under that also, there is a considerable amount of public control. There was one other matter about which I found that some constituents of mine were a little anxious. That was the question of staffs. No one can say that there is not full provision under these by-laws for the compensation of any members of the staffs who may be displaced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1876.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1876.3", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The ratepayers' money!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "antly clear to every one that the provision of further traffic facilities overground is a practical and physical impossibility, and the one thing we shall get from this coordination of London traffic is the provision of three underground services which will do a very great deal to relieve the difficulties under which the people in South-East London and North-East London suffer at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1876.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1886.0", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "You will get a job all right.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "The Committee has never had it reported to them officially that Parliamentary time could not be afforded for these Bills. It is in this Report. It is not a question whether I knew it or not. It is what is done officially or un- officially, and I stand by the official thing all the time. When this is done, what is going to be the general effect?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1885.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1887.2", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "As a matter of order, I do not think that the hon. Member is out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1895.0", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STRAUSS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STRAUSS", "preceding_text": " sufficient safeguard for the public, but I cannot share that view. Anyone who has taken the trouble to study the finance of the Combine will have found some difficulty in understanding their financial arrangements, and I am credibly informed that the Combine frequently make losses by putting omnibuses on unremunerative routes, with a view to developing in the future a remunerative service.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1898.0", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "ion, but he did not say one thing which he might have done. He did not do justice to the work which he has done as a member of the London Traffic Advisory Committee in rescuing London from the congestion and the great difficulties which the traffic had to face before the Committee came into operation. They have enabled the traffic of London to make better use of the available streets and highways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1898.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1901.2", "colnum": "1901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "opposition to the Bill on these grounds needs to be carefully distinguished from opposition merely because it proposes a mixed system of public and private enterprise. The interests of the passengers on the London County Council tramways are to be safeguarded, the interests of the workers on those tramways are protected, and the value of the asset itself is protected under the Clauses of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1901.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1901.2", "colnum": "1901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "uarded, the interests of the workers on those tramways are protected, and the value of the asset itself is protected under the Clauses of the Bill. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] I think it is in Clause 5. If the opposition to these Bills be on the ground that public ownership of all the undertakings is desirable, we shall have to wait a long time before this co-ordination can be brought into operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1901.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1901.2", "colnum": "1901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "ry that through? Even if it were carried through, how do we know that the London County Council could manage these undertakings better than they are managed at present? If they were not managed well, the population of London would not gain as they do gain from the benefits of good management. The profits might go down, and probably would if one judges by nationalized management in other instances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1901.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1906.0", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For war purposes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "ide for more than a generation. These proposals mark a very important advance on anything which has preceded them, though I think it is only right to recall to the House the great advance which was made in 1915 when the Bill was passed which enabled the London General Omnibus Company and the various tube railway companies to conic together for the purposes of a common management and a common fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1906.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1906.0", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "e main lines coming in with the County Council and the Traffic Combine. If that be so, you would really have a more or less complete scheme for the whole of London. What I like about these Bills is that we have—I do not say for the first time—an outstanding example of municipal enterprise and private enterprise seeking to work together, instead of always flying at each other's throats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1906.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1912.2", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member says \"not the control of the tramways.\" The control of the tramways depends on the agreements that are entered into. Surely hon. Members can trust the Municipal Reform majority to look after that", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1912.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1915.1", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "preceding_text": "ny of the services. In this scheme public trusts are being betrayed and public property is being used for the benefit of the Combine. That large public interests are involved cannot be denied when the travelling facilities of 8,000,000 people are affected. These Bills infringed the rights of 173 local authorities, many of whom are opposed to them. The coordination of all tramway authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1915.1", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "preceding_text": "h all our Debates. Those who represent large traffic interests in London and who represent masses of people are entitled to ask Conservative Members, even if they are going into the Lobby to support these Bills, at least to have the courtesy to listen to those Members who have sat through two nights of the Debate. If they do not want to listen to the speeches, why do they not go to the Smoke Room?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1915.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1920.6", "colnum": "1920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Direct!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "May I then quote from Erskine May where it says: In the Commons it is a rule that no Member who has a direct pecuniary interest\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1920.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1922.0", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the guardians?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "s for children. In West Ham we are poor and we are told that we have not the brains possessed by these people but we have more honesty. We have paid all our debts up to now. As far as our trams are concerned we have invested in them £2,000,000 of public money and now we are beginning to understand the reason for these Bills. Ten years from now our municipal undertakings will be clear of debt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1922.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1922.0", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "at about the guardians?\"] I am not talking about the guardians, but about the trams. On these matters I do not know so much as hon. Members opposite, because they can be directors of all sorts of things that they know nothing about. I am only a common trade union official, and I only do the job I know. Hon. Members opposite can run the universe in company with God Almighty for £10,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1922.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-26", "file": "debates1929-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bd5a5625918693ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1923.1", "colnum": "1923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "orth of investments, as we are, I am sure that they would not support a Bill of this character which takes all authority away from us. I represent a population of 320,000 and under this Bill they will not be allowed to have any say about the fares. Presently we shall have to approach these people on our knees and say, \"Please may we breathe.\" Then you will consult the Lord Almighty upstairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-26a.1923.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-27", "file": "debates1929-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7ac6bb4ea225e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-27a.1977.2", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "CLEAN POLITICS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Socialist party!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "nd we think that when we discover that we shall discover many other things, too. There is a well-known maxim, compact of cynicism and sound sense, which says that the people who pay the piper call the tune. I think that is as true of politics as of anything else, and we are concerned to find out who are these mysterious paymasters, who are calling the tunes of the Liberal and Conservative parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-27a.1977.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-27", "file": "debates1929-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7ac6bb4ea225e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-27a.2049.0", "colnum": "2049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " to know from the right hon. Gentleman what he proposes to do with the development of the part of the Empire with which we are most intimately concerned—our own country. The hon. Lady, who made a very important speech, has indicated one or two directions in which something could be done. What has the Minister to say about that? At any rate he will be in charge for a few months if not longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-27a.2049.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-27", "file": "debates1929-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7ac6bb4ea225e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-27a.2072.7", "colnum": "2072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RITSON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RITSON", "preceding_text": " sure that at last we have aroused some enthusiasm, and I hope it will not die down. As regards Empire settlement I am perfectly frank about it. I do not intend, and I do not think any of my colleagues intend, to send our people out unless they have a better assurance as to the conditions than they have at present. In Durham to-day we are told the only hope we have is the Transference Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-27a.2072.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-27", "file": "debates1929-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7ac6bb4ea225e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-27a.2080.1", "colnum": "2080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "back on the register for comparatively short periods. They are, again, quite a different kind of problem from the residue at the bottom who are out for a considerable period. To deal with the problem adequately one has got to take all the different pacts. There is no conceivable way of solving the problem of unemployment in the coal trade except by the policy of transfer. That has been recognised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-27a.2080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-27", "file": "debates1929-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7ac6bb4ea225e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-27a.2080.1", "colnum": "2080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " conceivable way of solving the problem of unemployment in the coal trade except by the policy of transfer. That has been recognised. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO\"] I have given my opinion. I am not asking hon. Members to agree, but I am stating my opinion with absolute confidence. The same opinion has been reached by the Trade Union Congress, by the official Labour party, and by the official Liberal party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-27a.2080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-27", "file": "debates1929-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7ac6bb4ea225e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-27a.2100.0", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1929 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much was advance of wages and how much cost of living?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " The hon. Member will find the figures in the fourth column of the table on page 44 of this month's Ministry of Labour Gazette. He will see that I was meaning four years. I was comparing with 1924 throughout, and the figure I gave was amply justified. I was speaking from memory, and it was 8 per cent. and not 7. I was dealing with real wages, which is the important thing—what money will buy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-27a.2100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-27", "file": "debates1929-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7ac6bb4ea225e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-27a.2101.0", "colnum": "2101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1929 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "bsolute nonsense. Unemployment will exist under any form of society if the conditions which govern unemployment remain. Let us examine the position. To what is unemployment due? We must clear our minds of party politics altogether. It is due to one thing to a major extent and to another thing to a minor extent. It is due to the War primarily, and it is due to the General Strike in a lesser degree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-27a.2101.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-27", "file": "debates1929-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7ac6bb4ea225e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-27a.2109.2", "colnum": "2109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1929 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BETHEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"The Washington Convention!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BETHEL", "preceding_text": "are hit together. It is the prosperity of the country that is at stake, and the only way to get the nation's industries going on a sound foundation is to get our heavy industries started. We must persuade the Opposition in this House to use their energies in raising the standard of living and of wages in those foreign countries which are dumping in this country the produce of their sweated labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-27a.2109.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-27", "file": "debates1929-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7ac6bb4ea225e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-27a.2116.0", "colnum": "2116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1929 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HILTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HILTON", "preceding_text": "ent. Indeed, several hon. Members have spoken in a way that I could more or less have dictated to a typist. I could almost tell what they were going to say. For a complete proposition I have had to look to the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George), but what does that amount to? I represent some of the finest skilled operatives in the world, and they are proud of their Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-27a.2116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-27", "file": "debates1929-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7ac6bb4ea225e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-27a.2138.1", "colnum": "2138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1929 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Regulation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is dealing with a particular case, but I am now on the general principle with regard to the way in which this requirement is interpreted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-27a.2138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-27", "file": "debates1929-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7ac6bb4ea225e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-27a.2146.0", "colnum": "2146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED EX-SERVICE MAN'S PENSION.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of PENSIONS (Lieut.-Colonel Stanley)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is he getting a pension now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of PENSIONS (Lieut.-Colonel Stanley)", "preceding_text": "nce the accident. The hon. Member has said a great deal about the fact that we had said that it was not until some years afterwards that we heard anything more about the paralysis. That is perfectly true. We have never disputed that he has had an injury to the right knee. In accepting that, it is only fair to say that we had given him a considerable benefit of doubt, and we pensioned him for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-27a.2146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-02-27", "file": "debates1929-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3a7ac6bb4ea225e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-27a.2146.0", "colnum": "2146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED EX-SERVICE MAN'S PENSION.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of PENSIONS (Lieut.-Colonel Stanley)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"What proportion?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of PENSIONS (Lieut.-Colonel Stanley)", "preceding_text": " that it was not until some years afterwards that we heard anything more about the paralysis. That is perfectly true. We have never disputed that he has had an injury to the right knee. In accepting that, it is only fair to say that we had given him a considerable benefit of doubt, and we pensioned him for that. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Is he getting a pension now?\"] Yes, for the injury to his right leg.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-02-27a.2146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-01", "file": "debates1929-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "874343a520c81081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-01a.2354.4", "colnum": "2354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NORTHERN IRELAND AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "Is the suggestion made by the representatives of Northern Ireland that there is no money being paid by the Exchequer of this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-01a.2354.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-01", "file": "debates1929-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "874343a520c81081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-01a.2366.5", "colnum": "2366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NORTHERN IRELAND AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "overnment raises its own taxes. It can raise the money. As this point has been raised, I would like to say that I think Northern Ireland has done extraordinarily well out of the Local Government Bill. I am told we are making what is practically a free gift to Northern Ireland, especially to the farming community. They have done extraordinarily well out of it; and now we have this on the top of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-01a.2366.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-01", "file": "debates1929-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "874343a520c81081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-01a.2400.1", "colnum": "2400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are poor people!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "If there is a case for them, let the hon. and gallant Member raise it at the proper time, but not on this Vote, and if he makes out an adequate case we will act in accordance with what we feel to be right. But the cases differ toto caelo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-01a.2400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-01", "file": "debates1929-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "874343a520c81081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-01a.2401.1", "colnum": "2401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "body, or whether the members of the Committee were arbitrators or merely an advisory committee. To plain men the plain facts are these, that the Wood Renton Committee were appointed to decide whether each claim was a right claim or not. I have sat on similar tribunals. The first duty of that tribunal would be to see whether some of the claims were exaggerated—some of them certainly would be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-01a.2401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-01", "file": "debates1929-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "874343a520c81081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-01a.2407.0", "colnum": "2407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount SANDON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount SANDON", "preceding_text": "en criticising this Vote. The hon. Member for North Aberdeen (Mr. W. Benn) was most vehement in criticising the Vote, not, perhaps, on any grounds of tactics, such as we have been thinking of to-day, but on its intrinsic merits; and yet last Tuesday week all those hon. Gentlemen opposite were keen and ready to vote against the Government taking the line which they themselves are now taking to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-01a.2407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-04", "file": "debates1929-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2c36ed6636ee6bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.54.11", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "fice is a State service, and I do not think anyone is proposing that is should become anything else. I suggest that the test which we ought to apply in these discussions on the Post Office Vote is whether the Post Office is being used to serve the people in the way in which they wish to be served. May I, without, of course, committing my colleagues, though I hope that their view is the same—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.54.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-04", "file": "debates1929-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2c36ed6636ee6bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "In 1927, the figure was 5,800,000, and now the right hon. Gentleman says it is slightly more than 6,000,000,000. I understand that the cost of a reduction from 1½d. to 1d. postage for letters would be about £12,500,000. It is obvious that the reduction from ½d. to 1d. would mean a large extension in the postal trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-04", "file": "debates1929-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2c36ed6636ee6bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "ostage was raised from 1d. to 1½d., the amount of printed matter that could be sent for a ½d. was reduced in weight. I do not know if that has any necessary connection, but I know that if you reduce the postage from 1½d. to 1d. there are a large number of business people, industrial and commercial, who would use the penny postage more than they do now for circulating printed matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-04", "file": "debates1929-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2c36ed6636ee6bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "eering purposes, but I can say that the sum is very substantial, and forms a very substantial proportion of the total cost of their whole campaign. They say that in America, as in England, one of the problems which they have to consider is the increasing lack of attendance on the part of the public at political meetings, and I think we can all say that in this country we experience the same thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-04", "file": "debates1929-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2c36ed6636ee6bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "the American experience is that, if broadcasting is used, and if people can sit quietly and in comfort at home with their friends and listen to political messages broadcast over the wireless, they can get a much more sane and rational view of what is being said than if they are present in the excitement of a public meeting. Quite obviously, this party has most to gain if reason is enthroned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-04", "file": "debates1929-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2c36ed6636ee6bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Limehouse!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "hat is being said than if they are present in the excitement of a public meeting. Quite obviously, this party has most to gain if reason is enthroned—[ Interruption ]—there is no question about it—at the expense of emotion. Let me add this, that, if political messages are to be carried by the force of the personality of the speaker alone, we do not fear comparison with any party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-04", "file": "debates1929-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2c36ed6636ee6bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "what is called personality, that can be done in the case of the wireless. For the comfort of hon. Members opposite, I may say I am told on very good authority that there is nothing to prevent even an alarm bell being rung in the studio, as near to the microphone as may be necessary. The American experience is that by the Use of this new weapon, this new means of conveying political messages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-04", "file": "debates1929-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2c36ed6636ee6bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And there is no interruption!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": " fact cannot be controverted that by the use of the wireless it is possible to reach a much larger number of the electorate than can be reached through the medium of public meetings. Moreover, if their interest can be stimulated through the wireless, there is a very much greater chance of the written message being read by the elector after he has received the preliminary warning over the wireless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.64.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-03-04", "file": "debates1929-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2c36ed6636ee6bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.65.4", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "on than that. Here is a new means of transmitting news, and, surely, nothing is more important than that people should have the right to listen, as I have said, in quiet and comfort and without excitement, to political views. There are plenty of ways of doing it. It would be possible every evening to include with the ordinary programme a certain amount of politics from the political leaders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.65.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-04", "file": "debates1929-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2c36ed6636ee6bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.68.6", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " is going to be a non-party Debate. We have begun by an exchange of compliments between the first two speakers, and I am not addressing myself to the subject in any party spirit. I believe that there is room for improvement in the Post Office, and should like to make one or two constructive suggestions. In the first place, what progress has been made in providing rural postmen with motor bicycles?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.68.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-04", "file": "debates1929-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2c36ed6636ee6bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.68.6", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "a certain extent lie with the Postmaster-General. The Corporation is starved for money. It is anticipated that there will be some 3,000,000 licences, and the revenue should be £1,500,000, of which the Post Office takes £187,500 and the Treasury £415,625. Why should the Treasury take that tremendous sum, and why should the Post Office take 2s. 6d. for the service of issuing licences?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.68.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-04", "file": "debates1929-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2c36ed6636ee6bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " radio, and that by that means both parties were afforded an opportunity to present their case to that vast electorate. Ours is a smaller electorate, but only comparatively. We have 30,000,000 where they have, perhaps, 50,000,000 or 60,000,000 electors. Here you have this gigantic electorate who will not come to your meetings, who will not read your speeches, who will not read your leaflets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-04", "file": "debates1929-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2c36ed6636ee6bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.102.1", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": "al for broadcasting; but we are not going to act as arbiters.\" I have strong views on this matter, and I claim that equity and fairness demand that the Government should have an equal opportunity with each of the other parties. If we are attacked by one party, there should be one reply by the Government, and then if there is one attack by another party, there should be one reply by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-04", "file": "debates1929-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2c36ed6636ee6bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": "rds was 4½ per cent. It must further be remembered that from this increase we have to deduct the normal yearly growth which one would expect to take plaice in any case in postal traffic, and that would be something like 2 per cent. Therefore, the net growth induced by the reduction made in 1922 was about 3½ per cent. in the case of letters and 2½ per cent. in the case of post cards,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-04", "file": "debates1929-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2c36ed6636ee6bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUGH EDWARDS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The 3rd March was a Sunday!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUGH EDWARDS", "preceding_text": "ere received a bill from his grocer: \"1st March, To Groceries, so much: 2nd March, To Groceries, so much: 3rd March, To Groceries, so much\": surely, the first thing that anyone would do would be to write to the grocer and ask for particulars, and the grocer at once would reply, \"On the 1st March I supplied you with sugar, on the 2nd March with tea, on the 3rd March with something else,\" and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-04", "file": "debates1929-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2c36ed6636ee6bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDWARDS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDWARDS", "preceding_text": " the result that the next time an application was made to me for my telephone account, it was couched in very offensive terms. I was required to pay within three days, or, I suppose, the service would be disconnected; and the remarkable thing is that that curt and discourteous request was sent to me in Christmas week, when anyone would have known that a Member of Parliament would be out of London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-04", "file": "debates1929-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2c36ed6636ee6bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.157.3", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHING INDUSTRY (CREDITS).", "cue_speaker": "Major PRICE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major PRICE", "preceding_text": "It has nothing to do with credits. If the hon. Member imagines that credits are the one and only solution of the difficulties of the fishing industry, the sooner he goes fishing and learns about those difficulties the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-04", "file": "debates1929-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2c36ed6636ee6bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.158.2", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHING INDUSTRY (CREDITS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No; the Motion for Adjournment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "The fact remains that the question before the House is the question of credits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.158.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-04", "file": "debates1929-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "b2c36ed6636ee6bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHING INDUSTRY (CREDITS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "May I ask if there is any solution that the Liberal party is prepared to put forward?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-04a.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-05", "file": "debates1929-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "15f7125949b075a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-05a.214.0", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (BRITISH MIGRANTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "preceding_text": "t when the hon. and gallant Member tells us that we have to encourage farmers to get hold of the best blood and stock of this country and to train them for the cultivation of land overseas, the thing that occurs to me, and to many on these benches, is that we want our best blood and stock in this country, and that there are millions of acres of land in this country which are not cultivated at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-05a.214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-05", "file": "debates1929-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "15f7125949b075a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-05a.346.3", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARCHITECTS REGISTRATION BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH NALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH NALL", "preceding_text": "d design new buildings, the public safety will be secured and the amenities of the countryside will be safeguarded. I should profoundly disagree with that proposition. It is within the knowledge of hon. Members of this House that some of the most outrageous designs up and down the countryside have emerged from the brains of men who were already members of the Royal Institute of British Architects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-05a.346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-05", "file": "debates1929-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "15f7125949b075a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-05a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARCHITECTS REGISTRATION BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": " a short sentence or a maximum penalty of six months' imprisonment. The Statute says that a person may be fined for cruelty to children, but, if a man commits some so-called offence against this body, he is going to be punished even worse than by being detained in prison for a week or two, or fined; it is proposed to take from him the right to earn the necessary livelihood for his wife and family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-05a.349.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-05", "file": "debates1929-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "15f7125949b075a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-05a.354.7", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARCHITECTS REGISTRATION BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members on the other side know me. I have plenty of faults but there is one thing of which I cannot be accused, and that is fear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-05a.354.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-06", "file": "debates1929-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ad3fb481524e0692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-06a.382.5", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "Would it be possible to accelerate the date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-06a.382.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-06", "file": "debates1929-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ad3fb481524e0692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-06a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A citadel!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "alvation Army or any other constituted denomination have a charge in a particular area, they come within the terms of this Clause. Doubts have been raised as to this matter, however, and all the Government can undertake to do is to look carefully into it and to make sure that we are covering every one that we wish to cover. In the case of the Salvation Army, if they have a station or a post—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-06a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-06", "file": "debates1929-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ad3fb481524e0692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-06a.439.3", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMES STEWART", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMES STEWART", "preceding_text": "and learned Gentleman the Lord Advocate said, or it was said, not once but on several occasions throughout the Debate on this Bill and the Bill dealing with the same thing with regard to England, that one of the objects of the Measures was to give greater power and control to the local authorities and to take away from the central authority some of that control which they had exercised previously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-06a.439.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-03-06", "file": "debates1929-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ad3fb481524e0692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-06a.449.2", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "he Act of 1920 reads as follows: The amount by which the increased rent of a dwelling-house to which this Act applies may exceed the standard rent shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be as follows, that is to say: ( b ) An amount\"— that is to say, an amount of rent— not exceeding any increase in the amount for the time being payable by the landlord in respect of rates\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-06a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-06", "file": "debates1929-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ad3fb481524e0692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-06a.457.0", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. STEWART", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. STEWART", "preceding_text": "ow were 2s. in the £, and to-day the corporation rate, apart altogether from the parish council and education rate, is 4s. in the pound. In 1912, they collected £54,080 of rates and the commission received in connection with the same was £13,520. To-day, they are collecting £1,062,000, for which they will receive £52,900 if the sheriff permits the percentage to be doubled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-06a.457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-06", "file": "debates1929-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ad3fb481524e0692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-06a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "This is the body of men on whose behalf the hon. Member for South Edinburgh (Sir S. Chapman) and the hon. Member for Cathcart (Mr. R. MacDonald) put down the original proposal. Why did they put their names down? Why did they not put down the name of the hon. Member for Maryhill (Mr. Couper). Their names were put down—with all due respect to them—because their seats are considered safe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-06a.480.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-06", "file": "debates1929-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ad3fb481524e0692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-06a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " of State for Scotland to assure us that his Amendments will bring this Clause into conformity with the corresponding Clause in the English Statute—or, rather, Bill, because it has not yet become a Statute, and I hope very much that it will not find it way on to the Statute Book until the Clause is again and drastically amended. There may be others who de sire to speak on this subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-06a.512.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-07", "file": "debates1929-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9fbf93ca928a9b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-07a.531.7", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL ELECTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We know of no other Government policy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "I cannot be taken for a moment as assenting to the suggestion that transference is the only policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-07a.531.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-07", "file": "debates1929-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9fbf93ca928a9b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-07a.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL ELECTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "preceding_text": "ar, are being disfranchised in consequence of this state of affairs? Would it not be a simple matter to issue an Order extending to the end of March the period in which these people can apply to become absent voters, so that they can vote in their home towns, although working south of London? Unless he will do something of that kind, I think the Government are deliberately keeping these men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-07a.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-07", "file": "debates1929-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9fbf93ca928a9b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-07a.544.4", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Is the Noble Lord aware that certain education authorities are putting great pressure on students to join the Officers' Training Corps?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-07a.544.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-07", "file": "debates1929-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9fbf93ca928a9b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-07a.555.5", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY (ROYALTIES IN KIND).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "Is it not advisable, in the public interest, in view of the coming General Election, that we should be informed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-07a.555.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-07", "file": "debates1929-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9fbf93ca928a9b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-07a.598.2", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "casions the Air Force went into action, and the operations were carried out successfully, with scarcely any casualities amongst either the Air Force or the native population. In the case of the Air Force there was only one death in action during all the operations. As for the native population, they were saved long drawn out military operations with all the casualties that these inevitably entail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-07a.598.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-07", "file": "debates1929-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9fbf93ca928a9b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-07a.633.0", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMES HUDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMES HUDSON", "preceding_text": " we are providing for an extension of destruction which in the long run will make the expenditure we are incurring of practically no value at all. I hesitate to go into those questions with which some hon. Members have dealt, as to whether we should not do better, perhaps, if we transferred the ratio, as it now exists, of three, two, and one as between Navy, Army and Air Force the other way round.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-07a.633.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-07", "file": "debates1929-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9fbf93ca928a9b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-07a.641.5", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral SUETER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral SUETER", "preceding_text": "e worked for the good of the Air Service during the last five or six years. I hope that when the present Prime Minister comes into office again—which I know he will; I noticed in the Press the other day that he was coming back with a working majority of 60, but I think he is going to come back with a working majority of 120—he will not have the right hon. Gentleman as Minister for Air.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-07a.641.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-07", "file": "debates1929-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9fbf93ca928a9b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-07a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It will not be!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "preceding_text": " which I have put to the House be true, what is the use of spending it in other ways? Surely, it is better to go along an avenue which will give us real security, instead of this false security of armaments which we may not be able to keep up in the years to come. Therefore, I would ask the Secretary of State for Air to consider, if a Conservative Government be returned at the next election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-07a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-08", "file": "debates1929-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e539fbbad9746bee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-08a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL ASSURANCE AND FRIENDLY SOCIETIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ave read the Act correctly, though it is not too clear. The next question I should like to ask is how are the rights and benefits under the Bill for insured persons who are affected by it to be made known to those insured persons. This is very important indeed. I have not read the article in \"John Bull,\" and I have not had the circular that the hon. Member for Barnstaple (Sir B. Peto) referred to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-08a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-08", "file": "debates1929-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e539fbbad9746bee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-08a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL ASSURANCE AND FRIENDLY SOCIETIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "tleman who was so amused has read the evidence given before the Parmoor Committee. They went very thoroughly into the whole question of industrial assurance companies and paid a tribute to the excellence and value of the evidence that had been given by Mr. Mashford—that was before the hon. and gallant Gentleman's entry into political life—and the Committee thanked him for his services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-08a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-08", "file": "debates1929-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e539fbbad9746bee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-08a.743.0", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL ASSURANCE AND FRIENDLY SOCIETIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "not be paid, but only what is defined \"reasonable amount for funeral expenses.\" If that be so, it means that a person who is paying now under the assumption that the full amount will be paid if the insured person unfortunately dies will in that case be cheated out of his or her rights. The learned Attorney-General said rather contemptuously that persons must not regard this as a sort of gold mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-08a.743.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-08", "file": "debates1929-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e539fbbad9746bee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-08a.765.0", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT (1st March).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "preceding_text": "tution; at any rate, every time they come here they bring every kind of pressure to bear and make me, as an old-fashioned lawyer, alarmed at the irresponsibility with which they upset all our old traditions in dealing with legal principles. I have never known a worse case than this. The right hon. Gentleman himself has said that the Government had never been heard before the Wood Renton Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-08a.765.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-03-11", "file": "debates1929-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "32fe2b3d00e267e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-11a.885.0", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Not at the end of the lease.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HARRY HOPE", "preceding_text": " that half-share of the owner's rate. Let us look at that calmly and carefully. The hon. Member who spoke last said it would all go into the owner's pocket. I would point out that, under the Agricultural Holdings Act, a tenant may be awarded up to two years' rental if he is removed from his tenancy by disturbance. If his rent is £400 a year, he might be awarded £800 payable by the owner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-11a.882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-11", "file": "debates1929-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "32fe2b3d00e267e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-11a.894.0", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARCLAY-HARVEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARCLAY-HARVEY", "preceding_text": "in Scotland. In the first place, it seems to me that it is rather a curious argument to come from hon. Members opposite that age should of itself he a reason for leaving things alone. I have heard the argument used that, because an institution is ancient, therefore it is something which should not be touched, and I must confess that that sounds rather a curious argument from hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-11a.894.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-11", "file": "debates1929-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "32fe2b3d00e267e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-11a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "What the hon. Member said 20 years ago and what some hon. Members opposite said five years ago, they withdrew as soon as they came down to the discussions on this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-11a.930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-11", "file": "debates1929-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "32fe2b3d00e267e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-11a.932.5", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "g to a popularly elected body which is managing these things and which has a right to interfere. We are agreed then that it is useless in this case to try to interfere with the bureaucratic machine and I do not desire that the ambit of the bureaucratic machine shall be extended as the hon. Member for Dundee suggested it should be as one of his contributions to the constructive side of this Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-11a.932.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-11", "file": "debates1929-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "32fe2b3d00e267e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-11a.932.5", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "lingly give way, it is far from my desire to misrepresent the hon. Member, but I am in the recollection of the House and I maintain that the hon. Member said he would deal with one of the problems confronting us just now, the problem of poor relief, by having the administration of poor relief taken over by the State instead of being as it is now, to some extent a burden upon the local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-11a.932.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-11", "file": "debates1929-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "32fe2b3d00e267e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-11a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "3;. Not only would every hon. Member of this House complain but we should be told that we were strangling industry and placing upon industry a burden which it could not possibly bear. If that proposal would be piling a burden on industry, then surely by the same reasoning it follows that if you take 6s. 8d. in the £ off an industry you must be taking a burden off that industry to that extent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-11a.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-11", "file": "debates1929-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "32fe2b3d00e267e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-11a.939.1", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "in the end, in the case of some of his areas, the amount will reach no less a sum than 16s. per head of the population. The hon. Member who asked me to eschew anything in the way of a general speech will, I hope, be satisfied. I have done my utmost to deal in sequence with the objections brought forward to the Bill at this last stage. I cannot pretend to have satisfied hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-11a.939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-11", "file": "debates1929-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "32fe2b3d00e267e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-11a.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "No; they are directly elected without any relation to the town council. We propose to restore the relation of the town to the schools which was swept away by the Act of 1918.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-11a.941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-12", "file": "debates1929-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "136ed92651f4855f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-12a.1022.2", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "nsiderations applying to it have to be taken into account. We have reached a point in the Middle East where further building has become necessary. We have scrapped a number of uneconomical stations during the last few years and we can point to very big reductions in the building programme in the Middle East during the last three or four years as showing that our policy is not altogether a failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-12a.1022.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-12", "file": "debates1929-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "136ed92651f4855f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-12a.1025.9", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "preceding_text": "the experience and information gained by that flight, of which there must have been a tremendous amount, whether the flight was or was not a success, will be applied to the development of our airships here? The hon. and gallant Member for Uxbridge (Lieut.-Commander Burney), apparently, feels that the situation is serious, as I understand he is not going to contest his seat at the General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-12a.1025.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-12", "file": "debates1929-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "136ed92651f4855f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-12a.1084.4", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1928.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And pick up foreign wives as well.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "preceding_text": "f these men. They enjoy the same educational facilities as if they were at home. A branch of the educational corps is out there, and those who qualify can equally avail themselves of the facilities for lectures and vocational training. Therefore, they are not worse off in that respect than they are at home. As a matter of fact, they may have the additional advantage of learning a foreign language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-12a.1084.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-13", "file": "debates1929-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7c33107e73b2df12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-13a.1115.3", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Why cannot we have the whole of the facts? This man was actually murdered by the Regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-13a.1115.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-13", "file": "debates1929-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7c33107e73b2df12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-13a.1118.7", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE BOARDS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From this side first!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Member aware that there has been pressure from this side of the House for establishment of a Trade Board for the catering trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-13a.1118.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-13", "file": "debates1929-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7c33107e73b2df12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-13a.1164.0", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "o have no reason whatever to be sparing in the distribution of it; yet, as a matter of actual fact, we find that over a period of some months that fund has not been distributed as rapidly as we thought it would be. I ask the Committee: Does that furnish any reason for us to feel disappointed? Is it not really a reason for feeling gratified that circumstances are not so bad as we thought they were?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-13a.1164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-13", "file": "debates1929-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7c33107e73b2df12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-13a.1164.0", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "circumstances are not so bad as we thought they were? [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"] It is perfectly obvious that those who are distributing this fund are doing so in no spirit of meanness or of holding back money which is available for the relief of real distress, and, as a matter of fact, all of us have discovered during the last month or two that the necessity was not quite so bad as we feared it to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-13a.1164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-13", "file": "debates1929-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7c33107e73b2df12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-13a.1164.0", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "tput of coal in this country is equal to the full normal output week by week, and that output is being obtained by considerably less than our estimated number of men, by 950,000 men. It stands to reason that if we are to raise the standard of living of our milling population we can only do it in one way, and that is by increasing output without proportionately increasing the number of men engaged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-13a.1164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-13", "file": "debates1929-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7c33107e73b2df12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-13a.1170.0", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "preceding_text": "We have heard during this Debate a very brutal speech from the hon. Member for Mossley (Mr. Hopkinson), a speech of the type to which we are accustomed. We all understand, I think, that he would place every unemployed man, and every dependant of that unemployed man, in a lethal chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-13a.1170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-13", "file": "debates1929-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7c33107e73b2df12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-13a.1183.0", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What strike?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "rike begun than a great cry went up that the children in Wades were starving. A friend and myself could not bear to think that the children were starving, so we went down to South Wales to see for ourselves, and, much to our relief, we found that this was not true. It was an exaggeration. The children were not starving, but we found that if the strike went on they were bound to be under-nourished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-13a.1183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-13", "file": "debates1929-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7c33107e73b2df12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-13a.1183.0", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "children in Wades were starving. A friend and myself could not bear to think that the children were starving, so we went down to South Wales to see for ourselves, and, much to our relief, we found that this was not true. It was an exaggeration. The children were not starving, but we found that if the strike went on they were bound to be under-nourished. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What strike?\"] The lock-out!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-13a.1183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-14", "file": "debates1929-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "3257ae35677be7cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-14a.1274.8", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman state whether the reason for accepting the invitation was in order to give an air of international respectability to the dictatorship of General Primo de Rivera, and, further, may I ask whether the next meeting of the Council of the League will be held at Rome?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-14a.1274.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-14", "file": "debates1929-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "3257ae35677be7cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-14a.1283.22", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The FIRST LORD of the ADMIRALTY (Mr. Bridgeman)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The FIRST LORD of the ADMIRALTY (Mr. Bridgeman)", "preceding_text": "u compare the Estimates of this year and those of 1914, you find that there is apparently a difference of £4,300,000 between this year and that, but that is more than wiped out by the £5,500,000 difference in the non-effective charges, and by the £1,300,000 for the Fleet Air Arm. Actually, comparing like with like, our Estimates this year are £2,500,000 less than those of 1914.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-14a.1283.22"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-14", "file": "debates1929-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "3257ae35677be7cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-14a.1376.0", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major PRICE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are three Members.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major PRICE", "preceding_text": "port (Mr. Hore-Belisha) suggest that a concert might be given at Devonport for the benefit of the people at Pembroke Dock. I am sure that what would prove a great attraction at such a concert and ensure a full audience would be a kind of double Chairman—the two Members for Plymouth sitting side by side presiding over the concert. I do not know whether they would be able to sing a duet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-14a.1376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-14", "file": "debates1929-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "3257ae35677be7cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-14a.1396.3", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": " of the world. If that be denied by the Government, may I address to it certain questions? Are they going to leave matters where the breakdown of the Coolidge Conference or the disastrous Anglo-French Pact have left them? Are we, in the words of the American Note, going to content ourselves with stating in an even more objectionable form the principle upon which the Coolidge Conference broke down?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-14a.1396.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-14", "file": "debates1929-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "3257ae35677be7cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-14a.1396.3", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": " also a new type which started a new race. The possession of a new naval toy always seemed to outweigh every consideration of strategy. I have nothing to say against admirals and the Admiralty mind. I believe them to be honest and patriotic, but I believe on some broader considerations of policy they are profoundly mistaken men. Nevertheless, they have served this country very well and faithfully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-14a.1396.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-14", "file": "debates1929-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "3257ae35677be7cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-14a.1403.2", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "he Franco-British naval pact was a fatal piece of policy, which set America by the ears more than anything else. Although we talk very nice nothings about the almost impossibility of going to war with America, to anyone who reads the articles in the Press on either side it seems that we are in much the same position now with regard to America in which we were with regard to Germany before the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-14a.1403.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-14", "file": "debates1929-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "3257ae35677be7cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-14a.1403.2", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "y, which set America by the ears more than anything else. Although we talk very nice nothings about the almost impossibility of going to war with America, to anyone who reads the articles in the Press on either side it seems that we are in much the same position now with regard to America in which we were with regard to Germany before the War. [ Interruption. ] What is the use of talking nonsense?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-14a.1403.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-14", "file": "debates1929-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "3257ae35677be7cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-14a.1416.0", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "ore, to say now that it was all wrong may be very good party politics, but it is rather late in the day to say it, because the whole House admitted then that the policy we had advocated at Geneva, if it could have been adopted, would have been a tremendous step forward in the direction of disarmament, reduction and economy. We have heard this country blamed, and a lot of questions have been asked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-14a.1416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-18", "file": "debates1929-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc10f8f6190cf042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-18a.1531.2", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Poison gas.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": " question put by the right hon. Gentleman opposite. All that I was trying to urge upon the House and especially my right hon. Friend is the fact that the extension of this transitional period, necessary though it is at the moment, is going to break down the whole of insurance as we know it at present. Therefore it is urgent that in the course of the next 12 months some alternative should be found.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-18a.1531.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-18", "file": "debates1929-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc10f8f6190cf042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-18a.1534.2", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "preceding_text": "I am very glad to hear that, but I would like to remind the right hon. Gentleman that I was one of a deputation that waited on the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-18a.1534.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-03-19", "file": "debates1929-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "bb8edd657e0ba2c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-19a.1596.5", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman not aware of a very serious anomaly; for instance, at the Cardiff office is it not a fact that you can apply from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. for a money order, say for £7, on which the poundage is 6d. and it cannot be granted; but if you ask for seven postal orders in £1 denominations, you can get them, and the poundage is 1s. 2d.? Why should the public be inconvenienced in that way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-19a.1596.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-19", "file": "debates1929-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "bb8edd657e0ba2c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-19a.1599.5", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. POTTS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. POTTS", "preceding_text": "I am entitled to have the latter part of this question answered. Only a few nights ago, in discussing this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-19a.1599.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-19", "file": "debates1929-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "bb8edd657e0ba2c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-19a.1600.1", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. POTTS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. POTTS", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Parliamentary Secretary a further question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-19a.1600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-19", "file": "debates1929-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "bb8edd657e0ba2c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-19a.1600.1", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. POTTS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. POTTS", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Parliamentary Secretary a further question. [ Interruption. ] I will wait until I get order. Is it not a fact that, with regard to the point about where the accident happened, I have the documents in my hand, or copies of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-19a.1600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-19", "file": "debates1929-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "bb8edd657e0ba2c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-19a.1600.3", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. POTTS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. POTTS", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. It is in the question, and I am entitled to have it out on this question. The Department do not know where the information came from, and the document which I hold is a copy of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-19a.1600.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-19", "file": "debates1929-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "bb8edd657e0ba2c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-19a.1644.1", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "preceding_text": " the mates. I agree with every word that has been said on the subject by the hon. and gallant Member opposite. It is not necessary to reinforce what he said, but I hope that his words will weigh with the Admiralty in the future, when, as I anticipate, the present occupants of the Front bench are again returned with a majority. If I were a betting man I would give any man a large bet on that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-19a.1644.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-21", "file": "debates1929-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "2525bfa85aa4ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-21a.1871.18", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WASHINGTON HOURS CONVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": "h in this House, and ratified. The Prime Minister, speaking on the 2nd February, said: We shall do our utmost to secure complete agreement and understanding. If agreement is reached, then the ratification of the Washington Convention by the participating countries will be possible and we shall proceed to ratify, but we are not going to ratify until we are convinced that we all mean the same thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-21a.1871.18"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-21", "file": "debates1929-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "2525bfa85aa4ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-21a.1903.1", "colnum": "1903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WASHINGTON HOURS CONVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "entleman at Geneva seems to justify the most extreme criticism of their action, and I only hope that one result of our discussion to-day will be that the Minister will be able to show that he has learned something at Geneva, that he has a policy outside mere word splitting, and that he means to do something. If, by some freak of fortune, he should be in office next year, it is very unlikely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-21a.1903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-21", "file": "debates1929-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "2525bfa85aa4ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-21a.1930.0", "colnum": "1930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WASHINGTON HOURS CONVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give us your's!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "rly embody the principles of Washington, but a Convention that shall be clear and applicable equally to all the countries that ratify it. That is the reason why we ask for revision, and, as I hope to show a little later, we have been absolutely consistent and straightforward in our action. I have stated those principles quite clearly. Now we would like to know what is the policy of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-21a.1930.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-21", "file": "debates1929-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "2525bfa85aa4ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-21a.1931.3", "colnum": "1931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WASHINGTON HOURS CONVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "the lines which assured the ratification at Geneva.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 27th February, 1928; col. 175, Vol. 214.] Again, I want to know, in order to meet any additional points, whether in the London Agreement or in regard to other points such as I have raised, it is necessary to modify the Washington Conven- tion? Is he prepared to do it, or is he prepared to sign the Convention as it stands?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-21a.1931.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-21", "file": "debates1929-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "2525bfa85aa4ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-21a.1969.1", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE MAGISTRATES SUPERANNUATION (AMENDMENT) [CONSOLIDATED FUND].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Less Income Tax!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ore faithful sheep along with him. There are not many now, but there were only three, all on the Front Bench, for an hour and a half while the problems of the Ministry of Labour were being discussed. Now they have swollen to about 400 per cent. over that position. They are now 12, because the question under discussion is the superannuation of police magistrates with a salary of £1,500 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-21a.1969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-21", "file": "debates1929-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "2525bfa85aa4ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-21a.1970.1", "colnum": "1970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE MAGISTRATES SUPERANNUATION (AMENDMENT) [CONSOLIDATED FUND].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Less Income Tax!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "That is quite legitamate. That puts the age for starting at about 26 or 27. A man can be called to the Bar when he is 21, and five years of experience after that only makes him 26. What has he been doing—wasting his time leading a riotous life, till 52, and then he becomes a stipendiary magistrate in his old age, and says, \"Employ me and pay me £1,500 a year on this job.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-21a.1970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-21", "file": "debates1929-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "2525bfa85aa4ec92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-21a.1972.2", "colnum": "1972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE MAGISTRATES SUPERANNUATION (AMENDMENT) [CONSOLIDATED FUND].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ation at the present time. The Government, after a full 4½ years of power, have made absolutely no impression upon reducing that privation in any direction whatever. In most directions the privation has been intensified. They have been unwilling or unable to relieve the burden of the suffering masses. They are going to the country very shortly. They are not expecting to be returned to Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-21a.1972.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-22", "file": "debates1929-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "09379a11f16889f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-22a.1992.0", "colnum": "1992", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE A.—(Consultation as to the provision of hospital accommodation.)", "cue_speaker": "Major-General Sir RICHARD LUCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The guillotine.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General Sir RICHARD LUCE", "preceding_text": "I wish to say a word or two in favour of this new Clause. I regret that pressure of time prevented a similar proposal to the one we are considering being dealt with in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-22a.1992.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-22", "file": "debates1929-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "09379a11f16889f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-22a.2029.4", "colnum": "2029", "heading": "CLAUSE 123.—(Power to remove difficulties.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "I had overlooked that. I am quite satisfied. I have made a mistake. Now I want to say that this is another case where the Minister by his Guillotine and by refusing to meet reasonable criticism in this House has really degraded the House of Commons as a debating assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-22a.2029.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-25", "file": "debates1929-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ed3eeb92ac06ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2108.2", "colnum": "2108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What do you call a considerable degree? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "Those which have a considerable degree of unemployment are, as I said, going to get precisely the same terms as before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2108.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-25", "file": "debates1929-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ed3eeb92ac06ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2126.1", "colnum": "2126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "ployed in this country. No fewer than 856,857 persons, or 64.5 per cent. of the registered unemployed in December last, are employed in trades right outside the scope of any safeguarding policy. It is quite easy to define those trades. They are industries with no import problem at all, such as mining or shipbuilding, or industries in which labour is sheltered, like building and internal transport,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-25", "file": "debates1929-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ed3eeb92ac06ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2139.0", "colnum": "2139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "ere brought into the industry during the period of the coal control. They represent the men who were retained in the industry by the passing of the Seven Hours Act. They represent the men who were still further retained in the industry by the policy of the Ministry of Mines in the Labour Government in 1924. If there is one thing which is perfectly clear to those of us who have no party bias—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-25", "file": "debates1929-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ed3eeb92ac06ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2143.0", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": "he Debate has been a very remarkable one. We have had speeches from all quarters of the House, and every one of those speeches seemed to centre round the personality of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George). I am very pleased to note that, as I have no doubt will be the right hon. Gentleman when he reads the Debate to-morrow. I do not wonder that this is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-25", "file": "debates1929-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ed3eeb92ac06ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2143.0", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why is he not here? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": " House, and every one of those speeches seemed to centre round the personality of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George). I am very pleased to note that, as I have no doubt will be the right hon. Gentleman when he reads the Debate to-morrow. I do not wonder that this is so. [ Interruption. ] I have been challenged about it, and I propose to say a word or two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-25", "file": "debates1929-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ed3eeb92ac06ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2144.1", "colnum": "2144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman who was not on that bench. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Derby (Mr. Thomas), referring to the proposal of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs, says: \"They do not exist; they will not act.\" He gives away his case by referring to Maskelyne and Devant, and, like most Socialists, he is 30 years behind the times. Devant has been dead a quarter of a century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-25", "file": "debates1929-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ed3eeb92ac06ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2144.1", "colnum": "2144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rabbits!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "re Labour proposals. He asserts that, so far as the loan is concerned, that has always been argued from the Labour benches and is a policy of the Labour party. His memory of Labour politics is short. I sat in this House, four years ago, when the right hon. Member for Aberavon (Mr. MacDonald) was Prime Minister, and the right hon. Member for Preston (Mr. T. Shaw) had a chance of initiating schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-25", "file": "debates1929-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ed3eeb92ac06ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2144.1", "colnum": "2144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "ovember, 1928; cols. 391–393, Vol. 222.] Seeing that the right hon. Gentleman and hon. Members of the Labour party consistently in the country claim that they, and they alone, know how to deal with unemployment, it seems rather farcical for them to put a Motion upon the Order Paper, condemning the Government. Ever since I was returned to this House two years ago and have sat in my box—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2144.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-25", "file": "debates1929-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ed3eeb92ac06ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2157.1", "colnum": "2157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ades, all of which burn fuel. Again, take the case of transport. If I make a ton of machinery in this country, for that ton I have to bring in twice the amount of raw material. There is the transport. It is necessary to use three tons of coal and a ton of iron. It would mean six times as much transport on the railways as would otherwise be necessary. The result is shown in one trade after another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2157.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-25", "file": "debates1929-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ed3eeb92ac06ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2182.1", "colnum": "2182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "for five years, with a crushing majority, with no Opposition that could do anything to defeat it, with unlimited power. If it had had any ideas, principles or policies that were sound, it could have put them into operation with no one to say it nay. What is the result of the five years work? The Government deliberately promised to the electorate in 1924 that it had a method of curing unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-25", "file": "debates1929-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ed3eeb92ac06ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2186.3", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are not worse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "We did not promise. You asked us why in six weeks we did not cure unemployment? We ask you after five years, what have you been doing? We find that the positive result of your work is to make things worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-25", "file": "debates1929-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ed3eeb92ac06ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2188.5", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And reduced the price of houses!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": " would take steps to build houses, they should have certain guarantees of work. There are thousands of building trade workers idle now, and there are hundreds of thousands of houses needed, and the Government cut down the subsidy and prevent the rapid extension of the building of houses. That is what the Government have done—not what they said they would do, but what they have actually done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2188.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-25", "file": "debates1929-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ed3eeb92ac06ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2190.3", "colnum": "2190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was the Lloyd George Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "urkey at that time stood towards the Mohammedan faith pretty well as the Pope of Rome stands towards the Roman Catholic. The Hindus were certainly disappointed with what they got in the shape of self-government. The Mohammedans were worse, because they found that the Allies were egging on Greece to attack Turkey, and for the very things that the Mohammedans had been promised should not be touched.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-25", "file": "debates1929-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ed3eeb92ac06ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2195.0", "colnum": "2195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. MORRISON-BELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Miners' lockout!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. MORRISON-BELL", "preceding_text": " certain figures on a certain day. I will tell him why I asked him about that month, which was April, 1926. It was that, for the first time, the unemployment figures then came down to just under 1,000,000. It was the most heartening sign in this great fight against unemployment which we had seen for years. One month later those figures had risen to 1,700,000—the result of the General Strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-25", "file": "debates1929-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ed3eeb92ac06ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2198.1", "colnum": "2198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. MORRISON-BELL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. MORRISON-BELL", "preceding_text": "I know what would help unemployment, though not cure it. The best chance the working classes have in this country is in another five years of Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-25", "file": "debates1929-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ed3eeb92ac06ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2199.0", "colnum": "2199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KINGSLEY GRIFFITH", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KINGSLEY GRIFFITH", "preceding_text": "for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) is not here; and the policy that has been attacked has not been the policy of the Government, but that which has been outlined from the Liberal Benches. It is a recognition of the fact, which is coming to be recognised everywhere in the country, that the policy on unemployment is now connected with the scheme put forward by the Leader of the Liberal party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-25", "file": "debates1929-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ed3eeb92ac06ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2208.1", "colnum": "2208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "I am very glad that the Socialist party have at last discovered a wag in their midst. If I said 1814 instead of 1914 it was a mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-25", "file": "debates1929-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ed3eeb92ac06ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2215.1", "colnum": "2215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not quite.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": " the right hon. Gentleman. They pressed those questions upon his attention and urged that some preparatory work should be done to mate those schemes possible. What happened? The right hon. Gentleman may say that he was too busy getting on with the War to give special attention to it, but at the end of the War he included in his promise all the points that this party had pressed upon his attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-25", "file": "debates1929-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ed3eeb92ac06ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2220.0", "colnum": "2220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "trade in this country. Facts speak for themselves. We have got to justify our existence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-25", "file": "debates1929-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ed3eeb92ac06ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2220.0", "colnum": "2220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "trade in this country. Facts speak for themselves. We have got to justify our existence. [ Interruption. ] I agree, quite frankly, that we must go upon the improvement in industrial conditions. I am perfectly confident that if the Government have the courage to apply these duties which they have applied to smaller trades—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-25a.2220.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-03-26", "file": "debates1929-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "98a978a79c654b87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-26a.2233.5", "colnum": "2233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND (TRAWLING REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "The fact that the bylaw was not confirmed was due to the objections that were taken by the public in the Clyde area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-26a.2233.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-26", "file": "debates1929-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "98a978a79c654b87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-26a.2269.13", "colnum": "2269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "to be a brave fellow and a hero so long as we are winning the war, and we have the enemy on the run, but we have to be ready with a deterrent in case things go wrong. It means that the Army have to be ready for that kind of emergency, when somebody at the top has blundered and the men are losing their nerve, and when, in order to try and save the situation, they say, \"Let us shoot a few privates.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-26a.2269.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-26", "file": "debates1929-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "98a978a79c654b87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-26a.2315.0", "colnum": "2315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is because you were not found out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "preceding_text": "rmy from my war time experience, which is not quite the same thing as the Army in peace time, but I know from that experience that a soldier is not worth much who does not at times run the risk of figuring in the crime sheet. Although I was four years in the Army and served as a private, a non-commissioned officer, and a commissioned officer, I had, at the end of it, a perfectly clean crime sheet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-26a.2315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-26", "file": "debates1929-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "98a978a79c654b87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-26a.2352.1", "colnum": "2352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRIDGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "Yes, but not without the consent of the highway authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-26a.2352.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-26", "file": "debates1929-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "98a978a79c654b87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-26a.2396.3", "colnum": "2396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE MAGISTRATES SUPERANNUATION (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "ve old age pensions of 10s. a week to men at 65 and to widows. If the Government really want to do something, let them turn their attention to that Act, and they will be doing something worth doing. Ten shillings a week is so small that it does not enable a man to give up work. Not only did they give only 10s. a week to men of 65, but they took away far bigger benefits than the men were receiving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-26a.2396.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-27", "file": "debates1929-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "63e0f685f6acc46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-27a.2466.4", "colnum": "2466", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "he coal down to the State port, and loads it into State-owned ships. Further, the land is communally owned. What is the economic result? The first economic result is that Nigeria buys 70 per cent. of her total imports from this country. She is the best buyer per head of British goods, and her purchasing power is rising more rapidly than the purchasing power of any other part of the British Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-27a.2466.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-27", "file": "debates1929-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "63e0f685f6acc46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-27a.2471.3", "colnum": "2471", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PILCHER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PILCHER", "preceding_text": " not have referred to the matter but for the cruel and damaging charges which have been made against the Prime Minister by the hon. Member for Dundee. I was in Winnipeg myself at the time, and I know that there have been few more serious occurrences, from the point of view of the relationship between Canada and the home country, than those events in Winnipeg in which the hon. Member was concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-27a.2471.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-27", "file": "debates1929-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "63e0f685f6acc46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-27a.2473.3", "colnum": "2473", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PILCHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PILCHER", "preceding_text": "The profits that have been made during the past three or four years, since the separation of the general Budget from the railway Budget, have been perfectly genuine profits, and the interest has been paid on the capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-27a.2473.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-03-27", "file": "debates1929-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "63e0f685f6acc46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-27a.2501.3", "colnum": "2501", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What was the value of the franc?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "umber of which are successful, which exist in our Dominions and Colonies. Speaking of nationalisation as a failure or otherwise, the hon. and gallant Gentleman referred to the example of Belgium. The national railway system of Belgium before the War was the cheapest in the world. You could travel any time during the year, or anywhere you liked for five days, for the sum in English money of 9s. 5d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-03-27a.2501.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-15", "file": "debates1929-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "39632214dc222b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-15a.27.6", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REVIEW OF PAST FIVE YEARS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or deserved.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e. I thought at one time, and I so informed the House of Commons three years ago, that the finances of the Parliament would have been completely ruined by a loss to the Exchequer, which, including the coal subsidy of 1926, was certainly not less than £80,000,000. However, on a review of the past five years, I must admit that matters have worked out a good deal better than I hoped or expected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-15a.27.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-15", "file": "debates1929-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "39632214dc222b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-15a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL DEBT.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about wages?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I now come, having dealt with economy and the cost of living, to the Debt operations of the present Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-15a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-15", "file": "debates1929-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "39632214dc222b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-15a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL DEBT.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "nditions which made it redeemable at par at a fixed date, which fell in my tenure of office, and, of course, the money had to be reborrowed at the post-War rates. That involved us in an annual addition of £700,000 to the charge for the Debt. But for that, the reduction by conversions in the annual public burdens would not have been £1,500,000, but £2,250,000. In the meanwhile—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-15a.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-15", "file": "debates1929-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "39632214dc222b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-15a.40.0", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SURPLUS, 1928–9.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not for very long \"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I am not using that argument in order to plume or preen myself over the right hon. Gentleman. I am only doing it to protect myself against his future unkind-ness. I am very glad I persuaded Parliament to assent to this arrangement, and I expect anybody who occupies the position I now hold—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-15a.40.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-15", "file": "debates1929-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "39632214dc222b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-15a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REVIEW OF REVENUE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e taxation, I have brought into the revenue of these difficult years £19,000,000 from the Road Fund, £10,000,000 from the brewers' credit, £17,000,000 from the earlier collection of Schedule A, £14,000,000 from the Currency Note Account and unclaimed dividends, £60,000,000 in all. But these non-recurrent receipts are substantially less than the losses of the coal stoppage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-15a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-15", "file": "debates1929-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "39632214dc222b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-15a.47.2", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW IMPORT DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "le as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and about which I should like to say a word. I take first silk. We have had four years of the Silk Duties. Everyone can remember—if people nowadays remember anything—the long Parliamentary controversy which marked the passage of those duties. According to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs I was to be hanged in a silken halter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-15a.47.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-15", "file": "debates1929-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "39632214dc222b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-15a.49.2", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING DUTY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It damned your candidate!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Opposition. It is scarcely a year ago since the right hon. Gentleman told the country that His Majesty's Government, in deriving advantage from the duty upon betting, had become a parasite upon damnation. Scarcely a month ago the right hon. Gentleman, seduced by the spectacle of 100 bookmakers' motor cars at the Battersea election, showed himself only too ready to become a parasite upon damnation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-15a.49.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-15", "file": "debates1929-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "39632214dc222b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-15a.49.2", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING DUTY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How about the motor cars now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "t parties debased in this manner. We must not lead the weaker brethren into temptation. We must not expose a young, new, callow, half-fledged organisation to the seductions to which, in their immature state, they will infallibly succumb, and it is out of consideration largely for them, and for their reputation, that I have decided that the turnover duty upon betting should be immediately repealed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-15a.49.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-15", "file": "debates1929-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "39632214dc222b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-15a.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DE-RATING.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "But, apart from the normal growth of the revenue, there is one special additional factor on which I think I am entitled to dwell. Before the great disaster to the coal industry occurred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-15a.60.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-16", "file": "debates1929-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "b967ab91acee7350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.109.6", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ade with the sugar refiners last year. Having dealt with these things, I will pass on to other points in the right hon. Gentleman's speech. He said that he hesitated to mention economy. I do not wonder. It is a painful thing to me, loving the right hon. Gentleman as I do, to have to remind him of the pledge that he made five years ago. He was going to reduce expenditure by £15,000,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.109.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-16", "file": "debates1929-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "b967ab91acee7350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "Spending and borrowing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-16", "file": "debates1929-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "b967ab91acee7350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.117.0", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I deeply regret if I have incommoded the right hon. Gentleman, but occasionally when he makes what he considers an important and searching criticism, some comment must be passed and some comment has always been permitted between Ministers sitting on this bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.117.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-16", "file": "debates1929-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "b967ab91acee7350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.118.4", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Half-muttered!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "m sorry if I have incommoded the right hon. Gentleman. It was not on account of any want of attention to his remarks. It was on account of the closeness of the attention of the Secretary of State for War, who will presently reply, that he asked me a question, and I was following with the closest attention the speech of the right hon. Gentleman. I greatly regret if the half-muttered colloquy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.118.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-16", "file": "debates1929-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "b967ab91acee7350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "The Labour party. Certainly we did not. And we should hold ourselves open, if the circumstances arose, to repudiate the conditions of that Note.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-16", "file": "debates1929-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "b967ab91acee7350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.121.3", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ts about the reduction of the Tea Duty I hope they will, at the same time, tell them about the £38,000,000 a year of indirect taxation which has been imposed upon the people during the last five years. It is incumbent upon hon. Members opposite to do that if they tell the whole truth. Now we, of course, welcome, even when it comes from the party opposite, this reduction of the Tea Duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-16", "file": "debates1929-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "b967ab91acee7350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.122.1", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman's speech when he was speaking about the McKenna Duties and the duties on artificial silk yarns. The right hon. Gentleman thought, no doubt, that it was necessary to say something upon that matter in view of the demands which have been made by his protectionist colleagues, but I am sure that the Chancellor of the Exchequer did not believe a word of what he said on that subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-16", "file": "debates1929-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "b967ab91acee7350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "he world, we have brought down expenditure on the Army in the last four years. The expenditure of America, France, Italy, and Germany has gone up. The United States and France are both paying £20,000,000 a year more for their armies than we are. Can it be complained against us that we are not sufficiently reducing our military expenditure in these circumstances? Turn for a moment to the Navy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-16", "file": "debates1929-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "b967ab91acee7350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Reparations?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": " it was. I do not say that it is anything like approaching prosperity, but it is better than it was. There are very definite reasons why I think that this change is going to persist, and that it is founded upon considerations which are going to remain permanent. The first of these is that we are now beginning to get back a large number of the coal markets which we lost during the stoppage of 1926.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-16", "file": "debates1929-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "b967ab91acee7350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": " into those markets, and that we shall be able to keep them. I was amazed to hear the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Colne Valley talk about the Chancellor of the Exchequer returning to the gold standard, when I remember him in the House of Commons at the time supporting the return to the gold standard amidst a good deal of doubt and disaffection on the part of those who sit behind him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-16", "file": "debates1929-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "b967ab91acee7350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "inite action at that time by the termination of an Act of Parliament I would rather have seen the time extended until we had been brought to a better condition of things; but we were forced by the termination of this Act of Parliament to take the definite course of action that we did. I recall perfectly well that the right hon. Gentleman quite definitely supported the action which was being taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-16", "file": "debates1929-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "b967ab91acee7350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.187.0", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is one of your constituents, is he not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "ay I first offer my hearty congratulations to the new Member for Holland-with-Boston (Mr. Blindell), which is in my county, on his admirable speech. I can say with truth that it is one of the best maiden speeches I have heard, at any rate during this Session. Perhaps I take particular pride in it because it happens that the hon. Member and I have been close friends for something like 20 odd years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-16", "file": "debates1929-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "b967ab91acee7350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.187.0", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "iated in trade organisations for many years, and I can say with truth that I have never had any difference of opinion from him until he joined the Liberal party. I can congratulate him on this, that he has succeeded, at eight o'clock on a Tuesday night, in filling the Liberal benches. I never remember seeing the Liberal benches so full for the last four years on a Tuesday evening at eight o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-16", "file": "debates1929-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "b967ab91acee7350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir THOMAS WATTS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS WATTS", "preceding_text": " I was for 25 years Certifying Factory Surgeon in a Lancashire district, and during those 25 years it fell to my lot to examine some thousands of children every year. I remember the old days when children went to work at 12, and although I do not wish to go back to that time, I say definitely and distinctly that, from a health point of view it was far better to go to a mill at 12 than to a school,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-16", "file": "debates1929-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "b967ab91acee7350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir THOMAS WATTS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS WATTS", "preceding_text": "r. I remember the old days when children went to work at 12, and although I do not wish to go back to that time, I say definitely and distinctly that, from a health point of view it was far better to go to a mill at 12 than to a school, [ Interruption. ] I am speaking from a health point of view, because the atmosphere of a modern cotton mill is better than the atmosphere of any elementary school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-16a.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.285.0", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Films.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "e coal industry, first in the nature of the subsidy, and then the regulation of miners' hours; and we had a long range of interferences with particular industries by Safeguarding Duties—the interference with the motor industry, and the interference with the artificial silk industry. There was the interference with agriculture by the setting up of a special agricultural loan system and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "f declaring that they proposed to abolish three Ministries. I congratulate the Government, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer in particular, that the three Ministers are still there. Although they were abolished very definitely I think, two years ago, I am glad to say that they are all still there doing work very efficiently, and I hope that they will long be spared to us to carry on useful work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.289.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "out mentioning names—to some near neighbours of mine in the west of Scotland who have had a surprising death rate in their family during the last year, and have consequently thrown millions of pounds into the public Exchequer in the form of Death Duties. I assume that the reference was to the great firm of J. & P. Coats, Limited. Why they should not be mentioned by name, I cannot understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "cation of capital by boards of directors, under a capitalist system of society, with the approval of the law and with the best advice of the financial experts. While productive industries have been confiscating the capital of their shareholders, in a wild attempt to put themselves on a sound and businesslike footing, the banking combines have drawn their interest and dividends steadily every year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Bolsheviks!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "I wonder for whom we are doing it, and against whom we are doing it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "d hold ourselves\"— and this appears to be the word that has given rise to so much comment and advertisement— And we should hold ourselves open, if the circumstances arose, to repudiate the conditions of that Note.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th April, 1929; cols. 120–1, Vol. 227.] There is not a word there or a suggestion about the repudiation of the Allied debt settlements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.312.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Russians.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "through the most terrible ordeal of history. What is the use of using such a term? If any Member of a Government had used such an expression about a nation with whom we have relations, undoubtedly it would have been considered a fatal step in his career, and I think we have a right to ask of the Leader of the Opposition some similar attempt to preserve courteous relations between us and the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.318.0", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "What about the £100,000,000 you spent in Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer and to the right hon. Gentleman the Foreign Secretary for what they have said about what I did in 1924, and I should like to continue to do it, but, if the right hon. Gentleman imagines that the sort of rhetoric he has used to raise nothing but prejudice and to make a mere electioneering point, and in doing it to encourage the making of bad blood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "the sort of rhetoric he has used to raise nothing but prejudice and to make a mere electioneering point, and in doing it to encourage the making of bad blood—[ Interruption ]—between France and ourselves. The speech we have just heard is nothing but an encouragement for the making of bad blood and a situation more difficult than it is in order to advance purely partizan considerations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.350.5", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the wage-earners?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": " man to pay Super-tax unless he is in receipt of an income on that scale, and the total number of Super-tax payers in this country, out of a population of 45,000,000, is not quite 100,000—only 97,000. Let me give another figure which may interest the Committee, and that is that the total number of people in this country, out of 45,000,000, who make even £500 a year is less than 500,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.350.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.350.5", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": " £800,000, at £1,000,000, at £2,000,000, at £6,000,000, at £11,000,000, and even one at £14,000,000. What is the good of coming down here and telling us that taxation is crushing the ambition and the accumulating ability of the industrialists of this country? It is not true. Taxation practically is not touching the wealthy of this country, but it is crushing the poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.350.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "ut poverty and unemployment in a very secondary position, and perhaps in a still lower category even than that, in stating that a phrase used by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Snowden) was the most serious thing which had been uttered. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has every reason to be ashamed of himself for not having dealt with poverty and the unemployment problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.359.0", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " To my amazement, this matter has developed into high party politics, and one right hon. Gentleman—I do not know if he has a bad conscience—felt it necessary almost literally to stand up in a white sheet and say almost in the words of the sinner, \"Please, Mr. Chairman, I and my friends are not of those publicans.\" The Foreign Secretary and myself have been occupants of an office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.359.0", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "—[ Interruption. ] I hear one of the stage phrases of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, \"The hunt is on.\" I am exceedingly obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for showing his hand, and now we can appreciate what the nature of this attack means. The Foreign Secretary and myself have occupied an office where, if a man has never been taught discretion before, he is taught discretion there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.360.5", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ntly wide to represent and symbolise the difference in principle between us. Right hon. Gentlemen opposite know perfectly well that no man has a simpler or easier task to do than to fulfil the duty of stating, and being able to say, that my right hon. Friend's action requires nothing more to be said. Such a suggestion is a grave injury to my colleagues and myself who were in the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.360.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.361.0", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "This is a matter which is really of very great importance, and it ought to be discussed without any heat. I accept altogether what the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition has said, but what I invite him to do is to reconcile what he has said with these words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Twister!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "I emphatically repudiate that method of dealing with statements made in this House. What did my right hon. Friend say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.362.4", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "g the conditions of the Balfour Note, and between the quotations that he makes regarding the Balfour Note there is a long interruption by himself raising another matter. The statement of my right hon. Friend as to the Balfour Note was, as he explained this afternoon, that the conditions he had in mind which we were prepared to repudiate were conditions which did not in any way exclude negotiation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.362.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.362.4", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "regard as an electioneering advantage, but, after all, hon. Members have no business to go to the country upon statements which are not true. I say that my right hon. Friend never had in mind any condition other than those which I have just laid down, and I want to say, further, so that there may be no doubt about it, that, so long as I occupy the position that I do, there shall be no repudiation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.362.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.362.4", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "f change in that declaration. I want to say—I was interrupted in the middle of my sentence—that I am taking no credit to myself in that matter. My sentence was to finish in these words—and hon. Members can have them, and the country will have them—that, in carrying out that policy, I know perfectly well that I shall have the Hearty, loyal support of every colleague of mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.362.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.362.4", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "as the Foreign Secretary who said it—I believe it was not, and I will modify the form of the sentence I am going to utter. Someone has suggested that what my right hon. Friend had in mind, in his reference to the Balfour Note being possibly not the very last word, not a sort of unalterable Scripture, on British financial international policy, was that he had an idea of making a profit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.362.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "nanimously, which begins with these words: The Conference renews its repeated declaration. The declaration, which is apropos the suspicions and red herrings which have been raised to-day, runs as follows: That this country should adopt a generous attitude in the matter of inter-Allied debts as part of a general settlement of the reparations problem. 10.0 p.m. That has been our policy up to to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "abour party up to to-day and that will continue to be the policy of the Labour Government after the next Election. From that, I pass to a consideration of the Budget. The Budget was produced, by the consent of everyone—every newspaper, every speaker, every organ of the Tory Press—for the purpose of trying to save the fortunes of the Tory party. I am perfectly satisfied with the result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "eally, our praise must honestly be withheld, but our pity flows copiously to the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the misfortune that his great effort has produced. I should like to offer pity to the Prime Minister as well as to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. My right hon. Friend discussed the Budget the next day, and my right hon. Friend's keen anatomical genius came out in a most wonderful way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "left in those accounts. He proved that so far from strengthening national credit during the four-and-a-half or five years of his tenure of office, which the Chancellor of the Exchequer claimed to have done, he has weakened and not strengthened it, and he is handing over the evil results to his successors. That is rather a pitiable record. Into the mysteries of high finance I am not going to enter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "is tenure of office, which the Chancellor of the Exchequer claimed to have done, he has weakened and not strengthened it, and he is handing over the evil results to his successors. That is rather a pitiable record. Into the mysteries of high finance I am not going to enter. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] No. I am not qualified to do it. I am rather in the position of a second in the fight than a principal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "led to understand the feature of the railway development. From our point of view the statement of another economist is important. After having listened to the right hon. Gentleman and having been somewhat amazed by his superficial knowledge of the material that he was handling, I took the trouble to look up another economist who dealt with exactly the same situation—Professor Thorold Rogers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "t hon. Gentleman a friendly warning yesterday. I am on record in the OFFICIAL REPORT. The moment that he used this fatal word \"repudiation,\" which in 24 hours had tinkled round the globe, I rose, and he was rather reluctant to give way, but I think that I put it to him in an absolutely calm, and not an irritating manner, whether he had not better just think it over and put it a little differently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "pported by a party which happens to have a temporary majority in the House of Commons commits every other party in the State to the confirmation and the acceptance of that agreement in the future? If that be so, it is a doctrine to which I cannot subscribe.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th April, 1929; col. 121, Vol. 227.] Now I understand that is completely withdrawn by the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "rary majority in the House of Commons commits every other party in the State to the confirmation and the acceptance of that agreement in the future? If that be so, it is a doctrine to which I cannot subscribe.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th April, 1929; col. 121, Vol. 227.] Now I understand that is completely withdrawn by the Leader of the Opposition. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Well, is it or is it not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Election!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " 1929; col. 121, Vol. 227.] Now I understand that is completely withdrawn by the Leader of the Opposition. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Well, is it or is it not? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"] I am not out to press a party point against a Parliamentarian whom I admire as I do the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Colne Valley; it is too important for that. This is the vital basis of the credit of our—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "!\"]—No, you are really wrong if you think that. It is the vital foundation of our national credit. Is it to be understood that, whatever Government is in power, the honourable obligations into which this country has entered will be honoured, however inconvenient they may be, and will faithfully be carried out? That is what I understand to be the declaration of the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "dation of our national credit. Is it to be understood that, whatever Government is in power, the honourable obligations into which this country has entered will be honoured, however inconvenient they may be, and will faithfully be carried out? That is what I understand to be the declaration of the right hon. Gentleman—[ Interruption. ]—It is so? Now come, he can give an answer to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " and German reparations than our payments to the United States, we have to reduce the amount of the annuities to be received from our continental debtors. We have never subscribed, let it be remembered, to the principle of the Balfour Note. I think that was an infamous Note.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th April, 1929; cols. 120–121, Vol. 227.] I understand—and must have an answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " the Balfour Note that we are to take no more from Europe than we have to pay to the United States. Is that so, or is it not so? After all, the country and the world is going to read this discussion, and are you not going to say whether your policy is to take more from Europe than America extracts from us or not? I have never seen a situation where a great leader of a party has been unable to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "o the right hon. Gentleman directly—it is extremely important—whether or not they are going to take more from Europe than the United States take from us? Any man who takes a part in politics must be prepared to face the responsibility, and no man on those benches has the right to make a statement except on the basis that he may be responsible. I am not going to take \"No\" for an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-17", "file": "debates1929-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "39f11b81f8bbe5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABOLITION OF THE CUSTOMS DUTY ON TEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ce the responsibility, and no man on those benches has the right to make a statement except on the basis that he may be responsible. I am not going to take \"No\" for an answer. [ Interruption. ] I beg the right hon. Gentleman to give me a definite answer to the question—Is it clearly understood that the policy of the Labour party is not to take more from Europe than we have to pay to America?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-17a.376.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-18", "file": "debates1929-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "ef25852577156202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-18a.407.6", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. OMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. OMAN", "preceding_text": "May I ask the hon. Gentleman in whose name it was made, and why it is registered in the name of somebody else? They took the trouble to place \"Made in Soviet Russia\" on these matches, and is this a form of political propaganda, because one knows that these are being sold at a trifle less than corresponding matches?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-18a.407.6"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-04-18", "file": "debates1929-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "ef25852577156202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-18a.435.0", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " up a daily paper, and the first thing I saw was a blazing headline to a speech made by an hon. Gentleman opposite who had been speaking in the Devonport Division. I noticed that he used certain arguments against the return of the Labour party to office, and after dealing at considerable length with that question he said that the return of the Labour party to power would be a danger to the Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-18a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-18", "file": "debates1929-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "ef25852577156202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-18a.437.3", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "re especially Lord Balfour, who, in giving their report of the last Imperial Conference, emphasised that the great success was at least due in no small measure to the presence of the South African Premier. If there is acquiescence in those acts, if there is general agreement that we have done the right thing, what becomes of the humbug and talk about the Empire going to pieces when we take office?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-18a.437.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-18", "file": "debates1929-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "ef25852577156202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-18a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Now we are coming to agreement. In spite of strong Labour opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-18a.440.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-04-18", "file": "debates1929-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "ef25852577156202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-18a.443.5", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Twenty years!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "preceding_text": "No; 10 years before that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-18a.443.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-18", "file": "debates1929-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "ef25852577156202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-18a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Derby (Mr. Thomas) has made this Vote the occasion for an electioneering speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-18a.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-18", "file": "debates1929-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "ef25852577156202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-18a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "ont Bench can answer for those behind. Last night sympathy was much more with the rebel than with the leader, and I think that in this case which has been dealt with so fully by the right hon. Gentleman very much the same thing has happened. It is beside the point to argue from what happened in 1924. At that time, the Socialist Government were in leading strings and had not full liberty of action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-18a.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-18", "file": "debates1929-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "ef25852577156202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-18a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "n travelling through a great Dominion, and these two members of it very seriously offended public opinion in the Dominion. That was not a very wise thing to do. I go further and ask: Is the Independent Labour Party a supporter of Empire? Is the hon. Member for Bridgeton (Mr. Max ton), who is the head of the International League against Imperialism in this country, a fervid supporter of our Empire?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-18a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-18", "file": "debates1929-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "ef25852577156202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-18a.465.0", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "ernment there are spending money in opening up the country with railway lines, and there is land there capable of growing anything from wheat to vines—yet nothing is done. Whose fault is it? Hon. Members opposite cannot say that it is the fault of the Labour party though we are accused of being the only people who do not wag the flag. We have been accused here to-day of preventing migration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-18a.465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-18", "file": "debates1929-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "ef25852577156202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-18a.465.0", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "l purpose would be served by such an interview. I have never heard of such stupid methods in all my life. From one end of Canada to the other I saw only one British motor car, and the man who bought it could afford it, because it was a Rolls-Royce. Go into Sydney or any other town in Australia, and the curious thing is that while they can produce motor cycles there, they cannot produce motor cars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-18a.465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-19", "file": "debates1929-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "368cdbdff70a2a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-19a.578.3", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL RATES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HASLAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\" and \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HASLAM", "preceding_text": "There was a rise, I think, from something like 26s. to 30s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-19a.578.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-24", "file": "debates1929-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e8c8bb4589514aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-24a.945.0", "colnum": "945", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. POTTS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. POTTS", "preceding_text": "her people that there will be a change in the country before very long. Under this Government there can be no change. Consider the position as far as export trade is concerned. In 1924, my right hon. Friend the Member for Aberavon (Mr. R. MacDonald), who was at the head of affairs, made more trade by international good-feeling and fellowship and more confidence abroad than has been the case since.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-24a.945.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-04-24", "file": "debates1929-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e8c8bb4589514aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-24a.955.0", "colnum": "955", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Where?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ple of the Labour party. Now what are we doing? Some of the hon. Members opposite say that we are not transferring the men to districts where there is a fair chance of employment. According to them, it may be a very good thing in general, but each and every application of it is to be resisted. Everybody who knows this country knows that there are districts where trade is good and unemployment low.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-24a.954.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-24", "file": "debates1929-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e8c8bb4589514aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-24a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ecrease in the numbers recorded as belonging to the industry. It is because bit by bit we are doing what is the really healthy thing to do, and that is that where an industry is depressed and everybody is agreed that in no circumstances can it again employ the same number as before, the men should be transferred and absorbed into other industries which are growing, and in which they can find work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-24a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-24", "file": "debates1929-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e8c8bb4589514aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-24a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "have been trying to stop a process which they know is a right one, and for which so many of their own friends, like the Miners' Federation, have asked. This Debate has been remarkable for some things that we have not heard. There is one thing that I thought we might have heard something about today. I refer to a specific proposal of hon. Members opposite. I was interrupted when I calculated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-24a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-24", "file": "debates1929-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e8c8bb4589514aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-24a.968.2", "colnum": "968", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "fears and the desire for revenge on the part of the victorious Allies. The result has been a very large unemployment figure in Europe and in this country. Unless we change our outlook—not only we in this country but our Allies on the Continent—unless we have a change of heart towards one another, there will be no hope for the solution of the problem either in this country or in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-24a.968.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-24", "file": "debates1929-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e8c8bb4589514aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-24a.969.2", "colnum": "969", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Temporarily!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "I am not at the moment dealing with the scheme of the right hon. Gentleman for Carnarvon Boroughs—for which at any rate there is this to be said, that it provides a practical solution of a very acute problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-24a.969.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-24", "file": "debates1929-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e8c8bb4589514aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-24a.969.2", "colnum": "969", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With our money!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "ng else been proposed except temporary solutions? If the scheme provides even a temporary solution is not that a justification for it? What I was about to say was that France ought to be told plainly that we are not going to stand by and allow her to subsidise our competitors, and give them a favourable position in our markets. That is what has been happening in Europe, and it is being done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-24a.969.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-24", "file": "debates1929-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e8c8bb4589514aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-24a.982.0", "colnum": "982", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "preceding_text": "ed the Government for their attitude towards unemployment, and pleaded for more sympathetic administration as a means of relieving the hardship which unemployment entails. That, I am afraid, is the only contribution which Members on the opposite side of the House have to make. They ask for more sympathetic administration, or, in other words, a wholesale scheme of doles and bribery to the electors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-24a.982.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-04-24", "file": "debates1929-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e8c8bb4589514aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-24a.1000.1", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Where is yours?", "preceding_speaker": "Captain O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "t there are really only two angles from which we can approach this problem, and before I sit down I shall try to point out that the difference between the two angles constitutes the difference beween us and the Liberal party. But I must say that it was with a certain amount of disappointment that I did not hear from the hon. Gentleman an authentic indication of why his leader is not here to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-24a.1000.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-24", "file": "debates1929-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e8c8bb4589514aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-24a.1002.1", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Captain O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "alliative for unemployment. The right hon. Gentleman devoted half a column of the OFFICIAL REPORT to talking of the glories of the Liverpool to Manchester road, which he proposed in due course—and I say advisedly \"in due course\"—to set on foot. He was not as precipitate as the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs, who is going to set 1,000,000 people at work on the roads in a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-24a.1002.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-04-24", "file": "debates1929-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e8c8bb4589514aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-24a.1016.0", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Who issued it?", "preceding_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "preceding_text": "a distinctly severer standard than issues of new clothing and footwear made to women and children. Every effort is to continue to be made to meet the needs as far as possible from the supplies of new and partly worn clothing received as gifts, and new clothing or footwear should not be given to any man who has not been unemployed for at least six months continuously at the time of the application.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-24a.1007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-24", "file": "debates1929-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e8c8bb4589514aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-24a.1020.5", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Captain FANSHAWE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FANSHAWE", "preceding_text": "This man may go before the court of referees if the insurance officer has not allowed his claim, and surely it is a good thing for somebody to be with him at the court to present his case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-24a.1020.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-25", "file": "debates1929-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "2d9bc726ead9468a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-25a.1095.5", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": " than appears at first sight, and correspondingly their taxable capacity is very much greater also; and, in my view, there is an unanswerable case in favour of putting increased taxation upon this group of people, particularly since they have been enriched by the financial policy of the Government, the return to the gold standard, and the consequent fall in prices that followed that act of policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-25a.1095.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-25", "file": "debates1929-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "2d9bc726ead9468a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-25a.1121.0", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "preceding_text": "dments were put down, but were never carried to a Division. No one was able to suggest where you could draw the dividing line between a depressed and a prosperous industry, or a depressed and a prosperous area. As long as that was not done, unless you were going to deprive the depressed industries, and those on the border line, of that rating relief you had to give it to all productive industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-25a.1121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-25", "file": "debates1929-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "2d9bc726ead9468a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-25a.1187.3", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "Not that his speech would amount to much in any case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-25a.1187.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-04-25", "file": "debates1929-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "2d9bc726ead9468a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-25a.1189.7", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer the question!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that cement was the last thing which the hon. Member for Middleton (Mr. Sandeman) would be thinking of. It is quite obvious that hon. Members are not pleased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-25a.1189.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-25", "file": "debates1929-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "2d9bc726ead9468a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-25a.1189.10", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": " that is by the way. I do not want to transgress any more than I can help. There seems to be some surprise about that observation. I assure, you, Mr. Speaker, that so far as you yourself are concerned, it is perfectly true. As for the hon. and right hon. Gentlemen in this House who are interrupting, for them I care nothing, but for you, Sir, I have some measure of respect. I come to my conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-25a.1189.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-25", "file": "debates1929-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "2d9bc726ead9468a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-25a.1191.0", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain STREATFEILD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Amusing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain STREATFEILD", "preceding_text": "I crave the indulgence of the House for interrupting the somewhat amusing entertainment to which we have just been treated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-25a.1191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-26", "file": "debates1929-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "c3148d21d89017a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-26a.1206.0", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "a royalty has ever been recognised on any other basis than that of the produced tons of coal. I am reminded here of wayleaves, but they are quite different from the royalties on coal raised. The wayleave is an addition to the rates called royalties. The wayleave is that which is paid to another landowner when coal is being passed through or under his land, and it is quite different from a royalty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-26a.1206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-26", "file": "debates1929-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "c3148d21d89017a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-26a.1268.0", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": " the event of members of a county council being deputed to undertake work on a district council, they will be entitled to compensation. I am not putting the major point of whether members of district councils as such should be compensated, but whether members, when delegated by the county council, will be regarded as members of a committee of the county council or as members of the county council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-26a.1268.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-29", "file": "debates1929-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "04f6c5b9758031c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-29a.1350.0", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "BRIDGES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY CAUTLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY CAUTLEY", "preceding_text": "I rejoice that this Bill is about to pass the Third Reading. I would only say that I think the hon. Gentleman the Member for Burslem (Mr. MacLaren) was quite wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-29a.1350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-29", "file": "debates1929-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "04f6c5b9758031c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-29a.1350.2", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "BRIDGES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Member was not quite correct as to the cost of reconstruction. As I understand the Bill, the private owner who has a bridge reconstructed either by agreement or by order of the Minister will be expected to pay a fair share of all liabilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-29a.1350.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-29", "file": "debates1929-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "04f6c5b9758031c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-29a.1350.2", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "BRIDGES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "preceding_text": "owner who has a bridge reconstructed either by agreement or by order of the Minister will be expected to pay a fair share of all liabilities. [ Interruption. ] The Minister has to apportion a fair share as to the reconstructed cost, and the private owner will, in my opinion, gain nothing except the facility of the reconstruction being carried out which he himself would eventually have had to meet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-29a.1350.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-04-30", "file": "debates1929-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "ee9ac5f2eb7358e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-30a.1508.1", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": "h Colonial Empire turning out everybody of all these races in a sealed pattern form. I do not believe that we can do it, or that it is desirable to do it. We have all these races in their various stages. Talking of races, I know that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) sneers at the people there who ride bicycles as niggers, a term which they resent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-04-30a.1508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-01", "file": "debates1929-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "ba0b6595d6b14e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-01a.1558.1", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " no prudent local authority, seeing that prices were not stable, but day after day and week after week continued to fall, were willing to place large contracts in a falling market. They were content to place small contracts, and nothing like the enormous number of houses that were completed in September, 1927, will be completed until local authorities are satisfied that prices have touched bottom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-01a.1558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-01", "file": "debates1929-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "ba0b6595d6b14e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-01a.1573.0", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " in course of time. The song which the Minister has sung to-day is rather different from the song that he sang a year ago. House-building has failed to recover, and we attribute that almost entirely to the Government's misguided reduction of the subsidy. I do not mind how often it is repeated that the great slump in the building of working-class houses has been due to the reduction of the subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-01a.1573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-01", "file": "debates1929-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "ba0b6595d6b14e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-01a.1573.0", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ding. I have forgotten what the output would be, but the right hon. Gentleman's policy has, on the one hand, diminished house-building, and, on the other hand, has intensified the unemployment problem. It has created, whether it is large or small at this moment, unemployment in an industry which above all others needs to utilise the last man. I suppose that this will be my last word in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-01a.1573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-01", "file": "debates1929-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "ba0b6595d6b14e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-01a.1595.0", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "ment. They are things which can be cured by administration just as was done in 1920. We shall cure them by administration, just as the evils themselves have been caused by administration. There is no Act of Parliament needed to enable the Minister to reaffirm the Order of 1911 and no Act of Parliament will be necessary to revoke that Order again. These things, as I say, can be done in three weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-01a.1595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-01", "file": "debates1929-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "ba0b6595d6b14e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-01a.1607.0", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " fact that the hon. and gallant Member is now appealing for further State action in dealing with cancer and other diseases proves conclusively that in the end the only powerful society that can deal with social evils is society as a whole, and not the private charity of individuals. Further, we deny the right of any section of the community to patronise and give something to those who are in need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-01a.1607.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-01", "file": "debates1929-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "ba0b6595d6b14e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-01a.1610.5", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "s to take possession and force us into the street. Mr. Watts, the Relieving Officer, during my absence called and inspected my home. So he expects that his home will be taken and sold up. Trusting that something will be done to rectify this terrible treatment, I am Yours, and he signs his name. I read that letter, because I can multiply it by thousands and tens of thousands throughout the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-01a.1610.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-01", "file": "debates1929-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "ba0b6595d6b14e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-01a.1665.2", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (CO-ORDINATION OF PASSENGER TRAFFIC) BILL [By Order].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NAYLOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NAYLOR", "preceding_text": "the Opposition, but really the House is entitled to ask what keeps him away on such an important occasion. I do not know whether the representatives of the Government present can offer any explanation or apology for his absence. If they can, they will have respectful attention from us. What are we here for if it is not to bring our knowledge and intelligence to bear upon Bills of this description?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-01a.1665.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-02", "file": "debates1929-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "4d206f052660d953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-02a.1722.18", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Mr. Guinness)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the rate of interest?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Mr. Guinness)", "preceding_text": "ad to say to-day that the system has got very well under way. The Agricultural Mortgage Corporation have advanced loans up to £1,250,000 already, although they only started work at the beginning of the year. These loans are being distributed widely throughout the agricultural districts. The Corporation is further examining applications for other loans to the extent of another £2,250,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-02a.1722.18"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-02", "file": "debates1929-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "4d206f052660d953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-02a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "h great interest and enthusiasm. Of course, the Ministry cannot possibly move in advance of the speed at which the farmers are prepared to go. We work by co-operaiton and consultation with the industries concerned. We normally begin by investigation, and we have published a series of Economic Reports, the orange covers of which are familiar to hon. Members, and of which we have sold 70,000 copies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-02a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-02", "file": "debates1929-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "4d206f052660d953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-02a.1775.0", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PILCHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PILCHER", "preceding_text": "ered at this particular experiment in grading and marking, we were told that nothing was said at all derogatory to the broccoli trade. This is what actually was said by the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George): The Germans found their broccoli withered, and they began to think of some more equable climate. That is not a terminological inexactitude; it is a barefaced untruth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-02a.1775.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-05-02", "file": "debates1929-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "4d206f052660d953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-02a.1782.1", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "This is a maiden speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that it does not rest with the Government of the day, but with the Opposition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-02a.1782.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-02", "file": "debates1929-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "4d206f052660d953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-02a.1791.1", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who brought it in?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "of this State control; they have a voluntary system from the planting of the seed to the distribution of the produce to the consumer. The English farmers, however, wave the Union Jack, and say they want no Socialism. Let us have another look at this strange individual that is well down in John Bull's pockets. What has been done for him this year? There is sugar beet—£3,000,000 for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-02a.1791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-02", "file": "debates1929-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "4d206f052660d953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-02a.1791.1", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, your own party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "he English farmers, however, wave the Union Jack, and say they want no Socialism. Let us have another look at this strange individual that is well down in John Bull's pockets. What has been done for him this year? There is sugar beet—£3,000,000 for that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who brought it in?\"] I agree that it was originated in another place, but it was the party opposite who brought it in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-02a.1791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-02", "file": "debates1929-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "4d206f052660d953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-02a.1799.1", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (CO-ORDINATION OF PASSENGER TRAFFIC) BILL [By Order].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " in any of the companies, or in other companies of a similar character. It is only right to say, as I can from a long experience both on the London County Council and on local authorities, that, much as I sometimes disagree with auditors on matters of principle, the men who have been in charge of the auditing of municipal accounts in this Metropolis are men of the highest rank in their profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-02a.1799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-02", "file": "debates1929-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "4d206f052660d953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-02a.1799.1", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (CO-ORDINATION OF PASSENGER TRAFFIC) BILL [By Order].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ou have already men who do nothing but this complicated work in regard to tramway, electricity, and gas undertakings up and down the country. That argument will not stand for a moment. The argument that does stand is that you are going to have an agreement which many of us have never seen—this is legislation by reference with a vengeance—a scheme which will never come before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-02a.1799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-02", "file": "debates1929-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "4d206f052660d953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-02a.1830.0", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (CO-ORDINATION OF PASSENGER TRAFFIC) BILL [By Order].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GILLETT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is the whole case!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GILLETT", "preceding_text": ", and no doubt those proposals have got a financial backing that is going to float schemes upon the London money market. That is not Lord Ashfield, because the people of London will find the money. From some of the speeches which have been made it would seem that many of these things could not be carried out without these Bills. I know that we have to have an amalgamation of the traffic of London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-02a.1830.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-02", "file": "debates1929-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "4d206f052660d953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-02a.1848.2", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (CO-ORDINATION OF PASSENGER TRAFFIC) BILL [By Order].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "It has taken them nearly three years to do it, and we were going to get it done immediately. By the time that job is finished, we shall have waited about five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-02a.1848.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-03", "file": "debates1929-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "acb5b73111d43c1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-03a.1904.0", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Arthur Michael Samuel)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the date?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Arthur Michael Samuel)", "preceding_text": " do not want to use an ethical or moral argument but to take it purely on arithmetical grounds. Before I deal with it let me preface my observations by a point already mentioned by me. Financial Statement No. 84 shows clearly what is contributed by direct taxation such as Income and Super-tax, Estate Duties, Stamp and Excess Profits Duty, Land Tax and other duties. That comes to £412,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-03a.1904.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-06", "file": "debates1929-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "4401d0ef581d91ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-06a.1963.8", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister)", "preceding_text": "ndustry, we are now able to compile a quarterly index figure which covers over 70 per cent. of the industrial production of this country. That is a very great advantage, and I am grateful to those who have co-operated to make it possible. Taking these combined sources of information, the figures show a definite and very remarkable progress considering the set-back which our trade received in 1926.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-06a.1963.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-06", "file": "debates1929-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "4401d0ef581d91ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-06a.1980.1", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is a Liberal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "in any way to prejudice the maintenance and advancement of our overseas trade with foreign countries. When you come down to the actual commercial value of any particular transaction, and you have a slogan which is so very often used by the present Government, \"Buy from those who buy from us,\" I think it is perfectly true that we can agree with such a Conservative economist as Mr. Harold Cox—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-06a.1980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-06", "file": "debates1929-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "4401d0ef581d91ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-06a.2009.6", "colnum": "2009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENNETT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENNETT", "preceding_text": "e who have to cut their losses. I will call the attention of the President to the figures published in his returns to the effect that the larger proportion of the money invested by private shareholders in private enterprise has been completely lost, whereas those who have invested in co-operative societies or lent to any municipal or national or Socialist undertaking have never lost a penny piece.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-06a.2009.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-06", "file": "debates1929-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "4401d0ef581d91ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-06a.2014.1", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "The low earnings of the peasant are not wages at all, because he is a peasant proprietor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-06a.2014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-06", "file": "debates1929-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "4401d0ef581d91ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-06a.2014.1", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " contend, as the hon. Members for West Islington, Hillsborough and South Battersea have contended, that anything you do to eliminate waste and to raise the standard of production aggravates the problem before us? That argument seems to take us back before the days of Noah. Why is it that the great mass of our people have a standard of living incredibly greater than people had 600 or 700 years ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-06a.2014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-06", "file": "debates1929-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "4401d0ef581d91ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-06a.2016.1", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "It weakens your case by £8,700,000, because if the transhipments in bond had not gone up by that amount the re-exports would have been improved to that extent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-06a.2016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-09", "file": "debates1929-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "dd66627a5e057404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-09a.2311.0", "colnum": "2311", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMAN REPARATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ion of the money. Secondly, there has been in the papers an estimate by the French that this alteration would cost this country £100,000,00 in capital. I gather from the right hon. Gentleman's answer that £100,000,000 is more than he can stand, and may I ask whether there is any guarantee from the Government at present that this country will not be committed by the experts' report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-09a.2311.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-05-09", "file": "debates1929-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "dd66627a5e057404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-09a.2311.3", "colnum": "2311", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMAN REPARATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "But surely we ought to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-09a.2311.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-09", "file": "debates1929-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "dd66627a5e057404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-09a.2312.0", "colnum": "2312", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMAN REPARATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. B. SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. B. SMITH", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say if and when tentative arrangements are made, the House will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-09a.2312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-09", "file": "debates1929-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "dd66627a5e057404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-09a.2335.9", "colnum": "2335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL MERCANTILE MARINE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are these sums?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": ", or has been—I do not know whether they have been raided—a very large sum, something like £1,000,000 from the old shipping fees which every officer had to pay on signing on and on being paid off. That was the custom years ago and very large sums were accumulated. I should like to ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he can give any information about these sums. Who have had them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-09a.2335.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-09", "file": "debates1929-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "dd66627a5e057404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-09a.2383.1", "colnum": "2383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL MERCANTILE MARINE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "preceding_text": " Trade and the Board of Education have a supervisory interest. That is a most admirable establishment, and its great virtue is that the boys are sent into the service by a selective process. When I went to sea the Mercantile Marine was regarded as the last hope of a boy. It was assumed that he could do no good or that his parents could do no good with him if he was sent into the Mercantile Marine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-09a.2383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-09", "file": "debates1929-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "dd66627a5e057404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-09a.2383.1", "colnum": "2383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL MERCANTILE MARINE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "preceding_text": "ice by a selective process. When I went to sea the Mercantile Marine was regarded as the last hope of a boy. It was assumed that he could do no good or that his parents could do no good with him if he was sent into the Mercantile Marine. [ Laughter. ] Yes, but there was a motive behind it. It was said, \"Send him to sea and make a man of him\"—and they sent him to sea and it made a man of him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-09a.2383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-09", "file": "debates1929-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "dd66627a5e057404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-09a.2400.6", "colnum": "2400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL MERCANTILE MARINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "olicy of confiscation, wholesale murder and wholesale robbery, than that of an Imperialism under which one nation confiscates the land, the lives and the liberty of the people of other nations. We are engaging in it and pledging ourselves about it. With the approach of the General Election we find all the three parties standing shoulder to shoulder and saying they are going to keep up Imperialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-09a.2400.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-05-09", "file": "debates1929-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "dd66627a5e057404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-09a.2403.3", "colnum": "2403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL MERCANTILE MARINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "Perhaps so, in the present atmosphere, and I think that even when I come back with my reinforcements it will not be very proper then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-05-09a.2403.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-07-15", "file": "debates1929-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e635bfeea2928be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.21.7", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEXICO (BRITISH NATIONALS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "From the Soviet!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman tell us how the insurgents were armed? From whom did they receive their arms?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.21.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-07-15", "file": "debates1929-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e635bfeea2928be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.34.0", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERS' SALARIES.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister, in taking his decision, considering the possibility of a working man occupying his present office, and the fact that such working man could not remain solvent if he had to meet his expenses; and, surely, there is a—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.33.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-15", "file": "debates1929-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e635bfeea2928be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.74.2", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REVISION OF CONTRIBUTIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "es in the House as to the desirability of increasing the rate of building, provided, of course, you are building the right kind of house at the right price. That is just where the difference of opinion comes in; the question of price. Last December the present Chancellor of the Exchequer told us that it was more important to maintain the rate of building than it was to reduce the cost of building.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.74.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-07-15", "file": "debates1929-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e635bfeea2928be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.77.0", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REVISION OF CONTRIBUTIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Did you reduce the subsidy in Scotland?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "h we can afford to pay. Unless you can reduce the cost of building a very large part of our people, who are inadequately housed to-day, will have to give up all ideas of ever being able to occupy a new house of their own unless they choose to overcrowd it by taking in lodgers. For that reason it seems to me more important to cut down the cost of building even than to maintain the rate of building.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.74.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-15", "file": "debates1929-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e635bfeea2928be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.84.1", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REVISION OF CONTRIBUTIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SIMON", "preceding_text": " a year, of which probably 50,000 would be private enterprise houses; and if that programme is to be fulfilled, it means that we must have 150,000 subsidy houses built each year. How are we going to get this result? Obviously, not by cutting the £7 10s. subsidy to £6. That obviously would be disastrous and fatal. We are entirely in favour of maintaining the subsidy at its present figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.84.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-15", "file": "debates1929-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e635bfeea2928be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.89.0", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REVISION OF CONTRIBUTIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "Conservatives in 1926, and that he wanted to restore to health and vigour the Act of 1924. He declared himself as being very enthusiastic about that Act. He described it, in one of his speeches, as the crowning achievement of the Labour party, and, therefore, we hoped that when he would get into office we were going to have that crowning achievement restored to its early, vigorous, pristine glory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.89.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-15", "file": "debates1929-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e635bfeea2928be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.109.0", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REVISION OF CONTRIBUTIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give them a rise!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "preceding_text": "or their own houses, and you should stop this system of sub-letting at high rates. If we can do that, we shall make some progress. Now I want to refer to rural housing. There is no proposition before the Committee, even with an increased subsidy, which is going really to touch the question of housing in rural areas. What are you going to do for people who have an income of 30 odd shillings a week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.109.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-07-15", "file": "debates1929-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e635bfeea2928be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.155.3", "colnum": "155", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Is that friendly criticism?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "sire on our part to indulge in any carping criticism of the Ministry, and I want to resent very much the suggestion that there has been any carping criticism. The fact remains that the country has been looking for great things to happen with regard to Unemployment Insurance before we rise for the Summer Recess, and there has been no suggestion so far that there are going to be any such happenings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.155.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-07-15", "file": "debates1929-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e635bfeea2928be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.155.5", "colnum": "155", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Carping criticism!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "Yes, it is friendly criticism; the friendly criticism of the people whom we represent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.155.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-15", "file": "debates1929-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e635bfeea2928be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.156.0", "colnum": "156", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "n the Financial Resolution was before the House I said that it was a book-keeping business, and that is what it amounts to. If, as I hope may be the case, the Minister intends to come forward with a real Measure in accordance with the ideals and pledges of our party, then the policy which has produced the indebtedness will have to be scrapped. Our pledges amount to a very much heavier expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-15", "file": "debates1929-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e635bfeea2928be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Zambesi Bridge!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "preceding_text": "ply attacked from Labour Benches in this House. Even if the circumstances of unemployment impel the Government to do something which would not normally be done, then I affirm that conditions ought to be attached to the issue of that money. I suggest that the first condition to be applied is that money shall not be invested in industries which may compete with corresponding industries here at home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-15", "file": "debates1929-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e635bfeea2928be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.177.9", "colnum": "177", "heading": "RENT RESTRICTIONS ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "preceding_text": "housands of houses have been built at Sheffield. The tenant makes no attempt to get one, and says he does not mean to. At present this man is living in a railway house, and when he becomes 60, as it is railway property, he will, have to give it up. He has beer careful and thrifty all his life, and is now to be homeless although he has bought the house in anticipation of precisely this eventuality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.177.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-15", "file": "debates1929-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e635bfeea2928be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.177.9", "colnum": "177", "heading": "RENT RESTRICTIONS ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "preceding_text": "ood, old-fashioned house of eight rooms and the present occupier has no children. The owner has three young children and is living in a small cottage. Council houses of similar value are 16s. 4d. a week and the tenants of this man's house only pay 7s. 6d. a week. Here is another case from another part of Devonshire. It is at Exeter, where the tenant is paying 6s. 6d. a week for a six-roomed house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-15a.177.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-07-16", "file": "debates1929-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10daa73895d70cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.189.9", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "preceding_text": "I am very glad that there are 200 in Lincolnshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.189.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-16", "file": "debates1929-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10daa73895d70cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.271.2", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ry saying, \"Forgive him, because it was he who punctured me all through.\" His million scheme! As a matter of fact, for 4½ years that scheme had been urged upon him, and he would not touch it until the General Election arrived. Therefore, I am entitled to say that if we are to be criticised on the ground that we are merely adopting the late Government's scheme, I am entitled to tell the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-16", "file": "debates1929-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10daa73895d70cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.281.0", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ne would deny the Government's request. Now I am going to pay my compliment to the right hon. Gentleman the Lord Privy Seal, which I think he has de-served. I compliment him— and I am sure it will be agreed by all Members of the Committee that it is deserved— on having resisted the temptation— he has told us again to-day how he has resisted it— to be drawn into megalomania.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-16", "file": "debates1929-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10daa73895d70cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "l be true and yet quite irrelevant to the argument, because the question in all these schemes is not only the question of adopting a scheme at a particular moment before the revenues are there, but of adopting it a year later when the revenues have grown up. Our intentions were, and our public declarations were, that the whole of the money of the Road Fund, or what was left of the Road Fund—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-16", "file": "debates1929-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10daa73895d70cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.292.3", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " he is going to submit to Parliament in due course various schemes for helping the local authorities, as we did to a very large extent year after year, and encouraging them to go forward with local developments. So far as curing unemployment on this scale and dealing with this ghastly problem, which, one may say, ruined the prestige, of the Conservative administration in the last Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-16", "file": "debates1929-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10daa73895d70cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " will allow me to say so, if he had not got into trouble with his noughts— that he knew the Treasury view but that the electors had repudiated it, had pronounced against it at the election. I think that is quite true. Undoubtedly they pronounced against it. Unfortunately, on questions of economic law it does not matter at all what the electors think or vote or say. The economic laws proceed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-16", "file": "debates1929-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10daa73895d70cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ls will, in fact, produce an effective diminution of unemployment. What have we been listening to in the last two or throe days? We have been dealing with Unemployment Insurance. The Unemployment Insurance Fund is solvent if the figure of unemployment falls below 1,050,000, on the old basis. The moment the figure of unemployment falls below 1,050,000 the debt of the Fund will begin to be paid off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-16", "file": "debates1929-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10daa73895d70cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So they are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " Lloyd George) and I were found fault with by the \"Daily Herald.\" Though we were much opposed in the particular controversy, we both talked of a certain normal figure of unemployment, and I remember the indignation to which the \"Daily Herald\" was moved. They seemed to imagine that hundreds of thousands of our working people are condemned to live permanently in this hideous and miserable condition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-16", "file": "debates1929-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10daa73895d70cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " and pay a high rate of interest, it is quite prohibitive, and for that particular reason it is essential that there should be a Government guarantee in order to reduce the rate of interest and make it possible for the scheme to pay. But that could have been done under Trade Facilities. I really do not know at the present moment what is the difference between the two, unless it is a subsidy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.303.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-16", "file": "debates1929-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10daa73895d70cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.333.3", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "After all this Resolution is in the name of the Financial Secretary to the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.333.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-16", "file": "debates1929-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10daa73895d70cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.333.5", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " good deal of matter which is more or less irrelevant and the flinging of recriminations on both sides, would it not be much (better that the right hon. Gentleman or the Financial Secretary, in whose name the Resolution stands, should be present? If there is an overwhelming reason why he should not be present I am sure the Committee would accept it, but up to the present the Lord Privy Seal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.333.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-16", "file": "debates1929-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10daa73895d70cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "answer than I gave. The Financial Secretary was present when I gave it and the right hon. Gentleman must know that, since he has been out, the Financial Secretary has been here all the time. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Excuse me, but he consulted me on the bench. As a matter of fact, there was a public engagement to which he was going, and he said to me, \"May I slip away?\" and to that I answered, \"Yes.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-16", "file": "debates1929-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10daa73895d70cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "go. We know that the Financial Secretary has gone. The Lord Privy Seal says he will now fetch him back, and that he is on his way returning, and I should be ready to withdraw my Motion but for the fact that the Lord Privy Seal went on to say that when he did come back— out of a deference to the House of Commons which I cordially recognise— he could not throw any light on the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-16", "file": "debates1929-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10daa73895d70cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Vote!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "at which the Chancellor of the Exchequer would make. There are different interests and the Chancellor of the Exchequer is responsible more directly in the financial matter than the Lord Privy Seal. Therefore, as he has said that, though he will send for the Financial Secretary, the Financial Secretary can tell us nothing, I am afraid I cannot find any satisfactory ground for withdrawing my Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-16", "file": "debates1929-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10daa73895d70cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " than the Lord Privy Seal. Therefore, as he has said that, though he will send for the Financial Secretary, the Financial Secretary can tell us nothing, I am afraid I cannot find any satisfactory ground for withdrawing my Motion. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Vote!\"] There is no need for hon. Members to get excited. It is a very good thing that people should learn at the very beginning of this Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.335.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-07-16", "file": "debates1929-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10daa73895d70cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.336.7", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No:", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Now that the Financial Secretary to the Treasury has arrived and is ready to give us a statement, I am quite ready to withdraw my Motion to report Progress, and I beg to ask leave to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.336.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-16", "file": "debates1929-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10daa73895d70cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.343.0", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Major GLYN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major GLYN", "preceding_text": " the last Parliament, found Members of the Opposition anxious to see the Treasury properly represented, so what took place just now was merely an attempt on our part to see that the proper functions of Parliament as the guardian of the public purse are maintained, and I am quite sure that all on the Treasury Bench fully realise that that was the sole object of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-16", "file": "debates1929-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10daa73895d70cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Major GLYN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major GLYN", "preceding_text": "ightening documents I have ever read. If Parliament will sanction founds to enable public utility societies to go ahead providing those things which are so much needed, then we shall do something, not only to help to solve the unemployment problem, but also to solve that vexed question of how you can get for the community all it requires and how you can check profiteering which nobody wants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-16", "file": "debates1929-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10daa73895d70cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLINDELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has a perfect right to do so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLINDELL", "preceding_text": "be absolutely defined, but we are hoping for the best, and I believe the Lord Privy Seal realises, and I believe he has realised all along the line, that this is a baffling problem, and he is relying not only upon the assistance of hon. Members behind him and hon. Members on this side, because he will get that, but upon the local authorities up and down the country for all the assistance possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-16", "file": "debates1929-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10daa73895d70cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.373.0", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": " modest £25,000,000, which will not affect the actual numbers of the unemployed, but which are of some intrinsic value, and ought to be carried out, for they will leave the country better off, from a capital point of view, than it was before. To claim that this scheme will prove a final remedy for the problem of unemployment, or even that it will go a substantial way towards solving it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-16", "file": "debates1929-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10daa73895d70cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.373.0", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "they will leave the country better off, from a capital point of view, than it was before. To claim that this scheme will prove a final remedy for the problem of unemployment, or even that it will go a substantial way towards solving it— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said it?] The Lord Privy Seal claimed that it would be of great assistance and that it would go a great way towards solving this problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-16", "file": "debates1929-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "10daa73895d70cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am reading from the third interim report of the proceedings of the Unemployment Grants Committee, appendix A, page 17.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-16a.386.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-07-17", "file": "debates1929-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7589d95472b5ffab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.403.3", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Not necessarily.", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "preceding_text": "Do the Government party now realise that the sending of this expeditionary force to Shanghai was necessary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.403.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-17", "file": "debates1929-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7589d95472b5ffab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.447.0", "colnum": "447", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\" and \"Hat!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "The point I want to raise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-17", "file": "debates1929-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7589d95472b5ffab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.447.2", "colnum": "447", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hat!\" and \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I want to ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.447.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-17", "file": "debates1929-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7589d95472b5ffab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.447.2", "colnum": "447", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I want to ask—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hat!\" and \"Order!\"] There is no occasion for a hat, as the Motion has not been put. I want to ask you, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.447.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-17", "file": "debates1929-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7589d95472b5ffab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.447.2", "colnum": "447", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hat!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I want to ask—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hat!\" and \"Order!\"] There is no occasion for a hat, as the Motion has not been put. I want to ask you, Mr. Speaker—[ Interruption .] Do I understand you wish me to resume my seat? [ Resuming his seat .] I want to put to you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.447.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-17", "file": "debates1929-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7589d95472b5ffab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.505.0", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROCKWAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROCKWAY", "preceding_text": "ry much that in the development of these schemes a proportion of the expenditure—I do not think that two-thirds would be unreasonable—should be spent where SO per cent. of the population lives, and that is, in the reserved areas of the countries concerned. A third point which I wish to urge, relates to the increased value of land which will result from the development of these schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.505.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-17", "file": "debates1929-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7589d95472b5ffab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.538.3", "colnum": "538", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are all very successful, are they not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "ne concern is thoroughly wrong and unsound. Lord Ashfield already has his hands full. I have looked up the Directory of Directors and I find he is a director of no fewer than 21 companies, including the Associated Daimler company, the British and German Trust Limited, Imperial Chemical Industries, the Midland Bank Limited, all sorts of underground railway systems and the United Railways of Havana.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.538.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-17", "file": "debates1929-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7589d95472b5ffab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.538.3", "colnum": "538", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": " to exploit the traffic of London, because that, after all, is what the Bill means. It means creating a monopoly. The Blue Report is full of anomalies. One thing it was very firm about. If you were to carry through a Measure of this kind, to hand over the trams to the management of their competitor, effective public control was essential. This Bill says nothing of the kind. It is an enabling Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.538.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-17", "file": "debates1929-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7589d95472b5ffab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How can you get one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "I prefer to see the terms of the agreement, and so, I think, the House will before we part with the Bill. If this is fair dealing, we are entitled to see what the terms of the deal are. As far as the right hon. Gentleman's case, that we shall not get a tube railway unless we hand over the trams to the traffic combine, that is nothing short of blackmail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-17", "file": "debates1929-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7589d95472b5ffab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.546.3", "colnum": "546", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So it would be!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "preceding_text": " now before us are enabling Bills. That is one of the strongest objections that we can have to these Bills. Any agreement of this kind affecting a capital value of £17,000,000 as far as London trams are concerned—I think that something like £9,000,000, speaking from memory, has been paid off—should be, if it is to be entered into, made known to the public before it is signed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.546.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-17", "file": "debates1929-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7589d95472b5ffab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.546.3", "colnum": "546", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "preceding_text": " from memory, has been paid off—should be, if it is to be entered into, made known to the public before it is signed. [An HON. MEMBER: \"So it would be!\"] No. We know something about negotiations in regard to the making of agreements of this kind. We know that an agreement can be made by the London County Council and that there is no opportunity for the citizens of London to make any protest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.546.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-17", "file": "debates1929-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7589d95472b5ffab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.548.2", "colnum": "548", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not the Liberals count?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "I do not want to misinterpret the statement of the hon. Member. I do not recollect him referring to 36. If he will refer to the total number of votes east by the Conservative party and the Labour party in London, he will find that the results are very nearly identical.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.548.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-17", "file": "debates1929-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7589d95472b5ffab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.567.3", "colnum": "567", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. LANE MITCHELL", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. LANE MITCHELL", "preceding_text": "ations of that Commission was that the motor omnibus need not be considered, that it was not a practical proposition. Lord Ashfield, however, stuck to motor omnibuses and spent £100,000 on trying to develop them, and it is because of the advent of the motor omnibus that there are these tramway difficulties. If it had not been for the omnibuses running the trains nearly off their wheels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.567.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-17", "file": "debates1929-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7589d95472b5ffab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.568.2", "colnum": "568", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "Are the trams bankrupt!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.568.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-17", "file": "debates1929-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7589d95472b5ffab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.569.0", "colnum": "569", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "on the Committee, according to this Bill, and we know where the two will come from. They will come from the London County Council, and that body is simply an annexe of the Conservative Central Association. So far as Labour is concerned, we are down and out—but we are not standing it! We are down-in-here and you are not going to have it all your own way! A hundred and fifteen years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.569.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-17", "file": "debates1929-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7589d95472b5ffab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.569.0", "colnum": "569", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ls give the same facilities to enable children to get fresh air, give them a chance to get further out of London instead of living in the slums and the fœtid atmosphere in which they have to live at present. No. They want to concentrate control, and they will give us two representatives out of 20—just to show there is no ill feeling. But it is not coming off—not in these trousers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.569.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-17", "file": "debates1929-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7589d95472b5ffab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.571.2", "colnum": "571", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WALTER GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To your cost!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WALTER GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "orward in this House. On the last occasion when these Bills were before the House, we heard a great deal from Gentlemen who now occupy the benches opposite about the inevitable increase of fares which must take place if these Bills were sanctioned by Parliament. That which was said in this House by them lost nothing in the repeating to the electors of London during the last General Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.571.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-17", "file": "debates1929-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7589d95472b5ffab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.571.2", "colnum": "571", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WALTER GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did you expect it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WALTER GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "they would not have to go through the whole processes of co-ordination and systemisation which would be so necessary, and is so necessary, to the London traffic system at the present time. Frankly, I submit that, in order to gain an electoral advantage by misrepresentation, hon. Members opposite, possibly, not expecting the result which happened at the last election, have shut themselves up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.571.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-17", "file": "debates1929-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7589d95472b5ffab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.580.0", "colnum": "580", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "ntion of hon. Members to it—particularly the attention of those hon. Members who have recently come into this House. The Minister stated the Government position quite clearly, and, after I had raised my point of Order, he went on to make it even more clear. He gave a short and simple statement of the Socialist programme and policy and said that these Measures did not comply with that policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-17", "file": "debates1929-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7589d95472b5ffab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "nd not without grave anxiety, as is well known to many hon. Friends of mine on this side, whether he passed at any time just that borderline which would have compelled me, as one of his supporters, to rise and make exactly the remarks which I am making to-night. I should have done so without hesitation had he ventured to cross that borderline, but I was glad to note, grave as my anxiety was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-17", "file": "debates1929-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7589d95472b5ffab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.582.1", "colnum": "582", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I ask all hon. Members, Have we sunk to this condition so soon during the administration of hon. Members opposite, that the citizens of this country no longer need follow the procedure laid down by this House, of appearing before a tribunal upstairs, set up by His Majesty's Government of the day, to hear the evidence of both sides and give their verdict on that evidence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-17a.582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-18", "file": "debates1929-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "ca2ea49d6c67274d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-18a.601.6", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FACTORIES BILL,", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Was it not the setting up of these works councils that drove Italy into Fascism?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-18a.601.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-18", "file": "debates1929-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "ca2ea49d6c67274d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-18a.631.2", "colnum": "631", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that this was a major subject as far as the last Election was concerned, and, further, that all considerations he may have to hear do not apply to the decision that was given on the voting day in May last? Further, is he aware that the Liberal party gave no indication as to their attitude, and came to a decision only the day before yesterday?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-18a.631.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-18", "file": "debates1929-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "ca2ea49d6c67274d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-18a.700.3", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry, but we must not have this misunderstanding. I approve entirely of this report of Sir George Schuster, but I am told by the Government that he has now made a different report. Before I criticise that, I must, naturally, see it. I do not believe that he has contradicted his first report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-18a.700.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-19", "file": "debates1929-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "89ecbadfd2bd708d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-19a.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Well, \"I have been at the Treasury\"—as I have just said as a door-keeper or something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-19a.803.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-07-19", "file": "debates1929-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "89ecbadfd2bd708d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-19a.803.2", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "That is mean.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Well, \"I have been at the Treasury\"—as I have just said as a door-keeper or something. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-19a.803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-19", "file": "debates1929-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "89ecbadfd2bd708d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-19a.805.0", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "rivate secretaries. I am quite confident, as I am sure the whole House is, that the right hon. Gentleman himself has no doubt taken care to select as a Parliamentary private secretary one who is fully qualified to minister both to his social and his physical needs, but whether he and his colleagues are going to be equally successful in keeping in order all their back benchers, I am not quite sure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-19a.805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-19", "file": "debates1929-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "89ecbadfd2bd708d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-19a.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": " the House observe that we are not only dealing with what the right hon. Gentleman is going to do this time. This Measure is to go on for three years. He told us that we were to have Supplementary Estimates in the autumn. He may not always be there. This is to go on for three years. The right hon. Gentleman the First Commissioner of Works might be the generous and general authority in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-19a.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-19", "file": "debates1929-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "89ecbadfd2bd708d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-19a.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "mentary Estimates in the autumn. He may not always be there. This is to go on for three years. The right hon. Gentleman the First Commissioner of Works might be the generous and general authority in this matter. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I know that it would suit some hon. Gentle men much better if the First Com missioner of Works rather than a stricter Minister had the administration of this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-19a.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-19", "file": "debates1929-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "89ecbadfd2bd708d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-19a.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "0 is right or wrong. Personally, I do not pay any very great attention to that figure of the right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Duchy. I think the simple explanation of it is not that he was using his imagination, but that he made a mistake of a nought. There was a much abler Statesman, if I might be allowed to say so, who found himself obstructed by \"these damned dots,\" as he called them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-19a.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-19", "file": "debates1929-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "89ecbadfd2bd708d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-19a.813.2", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "tter of fact I had not a single word of conversation with the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer upon the topic; and not only that, but the line he took was a totally different line from that which I took. I had nothing whatever to do with the Motion to report Progress; the only part I took in connection with that was to try to soothe ruffled feelings, so that we might get on with the business.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-19a.813.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-19", "file": "debates1929-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "89ecbadfd2bd708d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-19a.813.2", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "his Bill is concerned. The right hon. Gentleman has put it quite distinctly; it is a very simple proposition. There are two operations contemplated by the Lord Privy Seal—I might say three, but two of them we can well treat as one proposition. The first proposal is that you should give a loan of money on public credit to public utility concerns for enterprises which would promote employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-19a.813.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-19", "file": "debates1929-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "89ecbadfd2bd708d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-19a.816.0", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Philip Snowden)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Philip Snowden)", "preceding_text": "It is vacant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-19a.816.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-19", "file": "debates1929-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "89ecbadfd2bd708d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-19a.816.1", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: You ought to know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "limitation of 50 per cent on the amount of the expenditure. Of course, that is a considerable check. If you go to an enterprise and say \"We would like you to make a railway round London or construct a tube,\" they would probably say \"Very well, if you give us the money, we will do it.\" Of course, they would do it, and that is what the right hon. Gentleman calls an inducement. Anybody would do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-19a.816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-19", "file": "debates1929-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "89ecbadfd2bd708d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-19a.819.2", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "e get through with this Bill on Monday, he should inform us what is his idea as to the extent of the commitment—not the final commitment, but the commitment between now and November before the House meets—the amount and something of the conditions. I think we are entitled to know whether this money is going to be just shovelled out to these companies without any condition at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-19a.819.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-19", "file": "debates1929-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "89ecbadfd2bd708d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-19a.821.3", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "I observe that all these interruptions come from young Members who have no experience of the limits of Parliamentary discussion. If we are not to have freedom of Parliamentary discussion in this House, it is idle to have any Parliament at all; better at once get a Soviet. I say, again, that we must know the conditions under which this money is to be given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-19a.821.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-07-22", "file": "debates1929-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "403cd4a89d8a1fd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-22a.906.8", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KEW GARDENS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "You will.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "Who will bear it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-22a.906.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-22", "file": "debates1929-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "403cd4a89d8a1fd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-22a.953.0", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REVISION OF CONTRIBUTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir KINGSLEY WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"West!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir KINGSLEY WOOD", "preceding_text": "0 and said, \"It is the wholesale prices index figure that is doing it.\" There is an hon. Gentleman here this afternoon whom I hope we shall hear in the course of the Debate who has been a builder and contractor for 20 years. He must have gone through that anxious time when we saw these prices soaring and the wholesale index figure doing all sorts of things and the nation's money going—where?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-22a.953.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-22", "file": "debates1929-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "403cd4a89d8a1fd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-22a.953.0", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REVISION OF CONTRIBUTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir KINGSLEY WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Profiteer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir KINGSLEY WOOD", "preceding_text": "in these terms: Dear Sir,—In order to meet the reduced subsidy we have brought down the price of tiles, machine-made quality, by 9s. 6d. per 1,000. It was sufficient for this gentleman to see an announcement of a reduction in the subsidy. There was no question about theories for him; no question about the wholesale index price or matters of that kind. He brought down the price straight away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-22a.953.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-22", "file": "debates1929-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "403cd4a89d8a1fd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-22a.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REVISION OF CONTRIBUTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That includes non-subsidy houses!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "account only for a reduction of £37 10s. What are the facts? So far from the local authorities having been prevented from getting on with their schemes in consequence of the wicked scheme of reducing subsidies, the result of the cutting down of the subsidy has been that the price of building a house has been reduced to £339, and we have been building houses at the rate of 166,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-22a.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-22", "file": "debates1929-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "403cd4a89d8a1fd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-22a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REVISION OF CONTRIBUTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "It is rank waste to have to spend the money we are doing caused directly by bad housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-22a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-22", "file": "debates1929-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "403cd4a89d8a1fd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-22a.1017.1", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "be the limit of the capital in respect of which guarantees are to be given, but let us leave the platform. Let us look at where we are now, in Committee of the House of Commons, with the duty to consider our expenditure and the powers to be given to the Government. The Chancellor of the Exchequer on Friday intimated that the total liability of the taxpayer in respect of grants was £5,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-22a.1017.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-22", "file": "debates1929-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "403cd4a89d8a1fd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-22a.1020.3", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "3;1,500,000 a year, or £18,000,000 or £19,000,000 in 15 years. I do not really feel that I have the slightest reason to alter the view which I have taken throughout this discussion, that this is a very moderate and circumspect proposal. There has never been in these discussions any collusion between the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) and myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-22a.1020.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-22", "file": "debates1929-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "403cd4a89d8a1fd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-22a.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Roads!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " at the statement that the right hon. Gentleman made in reply to the hon. Gentleman for Crewe (Mr. Bowen). I have always been a little afraid of the right hon. Gentleman's railway obsession. It is a very natural one and a very honourable one for him, but I have always been a little afraid that he concentrates, in regard to his projects, rather too much upon the railways, to the exclusion of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-22a.1025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-22", "file": "debates1929-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "403cd4a89d8a1fd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-22a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT (LOAN GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "I am very interested in hearing the right hon. Gentleman's story. It brings us to this point again. It would not be the Lord St. Davids Committee who would be holding this matter up. It would be the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-22a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1067.0", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Nothing.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "What is the market value of this paper now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1066.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1086.5", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "That is precisely one of the details of the scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1086.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1165.5", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All of them\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "get into the financial difficulties they did. Hon. Members opposite, with the exception of one or two, will agree that the experience in these unions has shown that the old system of these bodies giving relief to their own constituents is a system which was bound to break down. I suppose that hon. Members opposite will doubtless disagree with many of my actions when I was Minister of Health—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1165.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1165.5", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "h was bound to break down. I suppose that hon. Members opposite will doubtless disagree with many of my actions when I was Minister of Health—[An HON. MEMBER: \"All of them\"]—but I think they will agree that experience has shown how impossible it is for a body of popularly elected persons to undertake with any propriety the distribution of outdoor relief to their own constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1165.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "That is not what I said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1172.3", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1173.3", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "rrangements for giving occupational training. In the childrens' homes they have provided a new and more varied diet at additional cost, and they have changed the clothing of the children which was heavy and unsuitable for lighter and healthier clothing. They have encouraged games and outdoor exercises for the children and also encouraged them to join the local groups of boy scouts and girl guides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1173.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1175.2", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I understand that the right hon. Gentleman proposes that of these guardians four are to be nominated by West Ham, two by East Ham, one each by Wanstead and Woodford, and one, I think, by Walthamstow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1175.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1175.2", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nor Leyton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "rably less than the votes recorded for candidates on the Liberal and Conservative sides, it would appear indeed that some explanation would be required. He went on to explain: Now, they wanted to ensure— At that point there seems to have been some interruption, but he continued: Wanstead and Woodford would send one representative, and that representative would not be a Labour representative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1175.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1175.2", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "flowed down his throat. He had bitten his tongue, too. That must have been after he had made one of his old speeches. But it was left for another member of the party, Councillor Rumsey, to say: When there were any plums of office—and this plum had an extra amount of sugar with it— including, I suppose, the travelling expenses and other reasonable expenses that were to be covered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1175.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1177.1", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": ") Act. I have not infrequently heard it suggested that the stamina, the independence, the self-reliance of the people of this country is not what it used to be. I do not believe, myself, that there is any real deterioration in the character of our race—not for one moment—but I do say that, human nature being what it is, to show people that they can be maintained by somebody else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1177.1", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "8212;not for one moment—but I do say that, human nature being what it is, to show people that they can be maintained by somebody else—[ Interruption ]—in idleness, at the same standard of living as those who are doing an honest, full, week's work, is something which might, if it were carried on, undermine and weaken the fibre of the character of our people; and I have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1178.0", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "ng too mean. What about the deliberate policy of anti-Poplarism? What about the deliberate policy engineered by the right hon. Gentleman in the last three years in an entirely contrary direction? If it be true, as it well may be, that there has been lax administration and extravagance, the right hon. Gentleman has encouraged parsimony which has brought down relief to far below what it ought to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1178.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1200.3", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "What?", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "I consider that, unless the whole policy of the West Ham Board of Guardians had been corrupt, the right hon. Gentleman the late Minister of Health would never have brought in his Act. The hon. Lady knows that she would never allow the things to go on that went on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1200.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1200.6", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " Government will not dare to go back on them. We were told the other day that the present block grant was going to out down welfare centres and health services. They know perfectly well that under the system of the late Government they are going to get more spent on welfare than they would have had before. All these are things that you have to face. I am very sorry in some ways for the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1200.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1203.1", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman does one quarter of what he has promised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1203.3", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " Ministers attacked as though they were not thinking about the welfare of the people and only thinking of saving money. Our record is as good as any that has ever been before the House. Hon. Members opposite will be very proud if their record in connection with the health services is half as good as that of the late Minister of Health. I beg of them once more to do nothing to encourage corruption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1207.1", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "hey appeared to prove to have made a very great reduction in the amount that they had spent as compared with the guardians who carried on the work before they were appointed. That was the impression she left in my mind. I did not hear one word of pleading for the children who have been starving. I can prove the statement which I make when I say that children in the West Ham area have been starved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1218.1", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "and blankets and other things of that kind. There is a new kind of corruption that is not quite described as corruption. We find Members who have been elected to Parliament, as a matter of gratitude giving thousands of pounds away to make sure of their seats at the next election. That is a new form of corruption. I expect they have been to America in the meantime. What is the matter with West Ham?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1218.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1219.8", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "In order to meet the opinion of the hon. Member, I withdraw the remark \"dirty liar,\" although it is quite Biblical.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1219.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1225.0", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROCKWAY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROCKWAY", "preceding_text": " that wealth, upon the poverty and the misery of the people, and then, when they defend that kind of interest in the community, lecture the working class for being wastrels. When we hear that type of speech, and when we see the type of smile with which that kind of speech is made, it is extraordinarily difficult for us to remain quiet under that kind of attack upon our people, upon our folk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1225.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1232.5", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does the Tory party do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "certain appointments during a not very long period of administration. They appointed to jobs as receiving officers three brothers, three husbands, two sons and two sons-in-law of guardians, 15 members of the local trades and labour council, one brother of a miners' agent, five trade union officials, one member of the unemployed committee, and three members of a committee of the Miners' Federation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1232.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1232.5", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What was his salary?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "years at any rate says something, not only for his capacity, but for his tact, because anyone who has had to deal with a large staff such as that of the Ministry of Health requires, in addition to capability, a good many other qualities. This man, whose name has been so reviled in this House, went down at the instance of my right hon. Friend, and became Chairman of the West Ham Board of Guardians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1232.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1239.1", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "POOR LAW ACT, 1927.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are no cheers for that\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "at the late Minister proposed to do, and our real objection to this method of dealing with Poor Law questions however disgraceful and however wrong the conduct of any local authority may be. Several hon. Members have asked me whether we approve of irregular conduct among guardians. I hasten to say that no one more than my right hon. Friend disapproves of slackness or carelesness of administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1239.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1259.2", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "PROSECUTION, BARNSLEY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "preceding_text": "e judgment of my right hon. Friend, the case will not lend itself to the treatment which the hon. and learned Gentleman suggests. Some reference has been made to punishment, and I shall certainly be very guarded in any statement I make upon that issue. We have no complaint to-night respecting the severity of the sentence. Consequently, there is no call for the exercise of the prerogative of mercy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1259.2", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "PROSECUTION, BARNSLEY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "preceding_text": "e nature of pressure upon, a particular bench or benches of magistrates, so far as the carrying out of their duties are concerned. There appears to be some little misunderstanding respecting the powers of my right hon. Friend in connection with these matters. I therefore venture, for the benefit of those who are not perhaps so familiar as are some of us with these powers, to explain what they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1260.0", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "PROSECUTION, BARNSLEY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " and cruelty perpetrated by the strong upon the weak and the young. These matters are common ground between all parties, and I am glad that the representative of the Government on this occasion has said that he cannot let this matter rest where it is now; clearly he cannot do so. This matter has to be fought out. I have the greatest respect for the chairman of the bench of magistrates in question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1262.0", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "PROSECUTION, BARNSLEY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": "omptly and brutally assaulted her and she was turned out of her home. That was a brutal attack of the strong upon the weak for expressing what the law of this country has given her a perfect right to express—her political opinions as an individual. Unfortunately there was no protection at law for this woman unless she proceeded against her own husband, and possibly destroyed the family life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1262.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-07-23", "file": "debates1929-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740508f75da31d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1262.3", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "PROSECUTION, BARNSLEY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "What was the charge?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": "ruptions, we should get on much better. But while we are dealing with political brutality, it seems to me that, if the House is going to inquire into one case, it might as well inquire into other cases. In the case I have mentioned a few working women met this man who had assaulted his wife and expressed their opinion of him in public. They were proceeded against in the court and mulcted in costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-23a.1262.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-24", "file": "debates1929-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9bd43717c002af0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1270.9", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DIPLOMATIC RELATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. W. SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. W. SMITH", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether, if the reply from the Soviet Government should be in the direction indicated in the Press this morning, the right hon. Gentleman will take exception to the words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1270.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-24", "file": "debates1929-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9bd43717c002af0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA AND RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman say whether the Labour party still maintains—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1272.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-24", "file": "debates1929-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9bd43717c002af0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1297.0", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MOTOR DRIVING LICENCES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. NELSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. NELSON", "preceding_text": "May I urge on the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-24", "file": "debates1929-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9bd43717c002af0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1297.0", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MOTOR DRIVING LICENCES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. NELSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. NELSON", "preceding_text": "May I urge on the hon. Member—[HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"] May I request the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1297.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-07-24", "file": "debates1929-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9bd43717c002af0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1301.6", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR EGYPT (LORD LLOYD'S RESIGNATION).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Oh, oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "preceding_text": "May I ask if the resignation of Lord Lloyd arose in any way from the policy intended to be taken by His Majesty's Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1301.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-07-24", "file": "debates1929-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9bd43717c002af0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1302.3", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR EGYPT (LORD LLOYD'S RESIGNATION).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Papers?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, I shall be quite prepared to meet any statement that may be made on Friday on the Adjournment Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1302.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-24", "file": "debates1929-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9bd43717c002af0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1302.7", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR EGYPT (LORD LLOYD'S RESIGNATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Then are we to understand that the Foreign Secretary will open the proceedings on Friday by making us a full statement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1302.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-24", "file": "debates1929-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9bd43717c002af0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1302.7", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR EGYPT (LORD LLOYD'S RESIGNATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Then are we to understand that the Foreign Secretary will open the proceedings on Friday by making us a full statement? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Are we then to understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1302.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-24", "file": "debates1929-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9bd43717c002af0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1310.4", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "preceding_text": "Is it fair to say that, arising out of the answer given by the Prime Minister to the supplementary questions asked by my right hon. Friend, the Government have decided already to reduce the Navy below the safety minimum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1310.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-24", "file": "debates1929-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9bd43717c002af0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1374.0", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "amount which represented the limit to which we ought to go. I understand that the hon. Member for Stafford (Mr. Ormsby-Gore) said something about the Government offering a fifty-fifty contribution with regard to these pictures. Contrary to what I think has been assumed, that was not on an unlimited basis, but was up to a certain definite figure. I think that disposes of the point as to the amount.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-24", "file": "debates1929-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9bd43717c002af0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1407.11", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "the register. We have to recognise that the number of persons unemployed is turned over at least four times in a given year; that in any given year probably 6,000,000 persons, male and female, are unemployed at some part of the year. Therefore, when we are dealing with the problem of unemployment insurance, we are dealing with the greatest human problem that men and women are called upon to solve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1407.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-24", "file": "debates1929-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9bd43717c002af0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1407.11", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or his deputy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "tself, and what I say might be taken as criticism of one or two of my friends. First of all there is the question of attendance at the court. I believe that when a man takes a job he ought to give reasonable attention to it, and that if he cannot do so he should resign. I find that in these courts—and this applies to both sides—the only person who is never absent is the chairman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1407.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-24", "file": "debates1929-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9bd43717c002af0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1407.11", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "he interviewing officer, who, having a doubt about the case, remits it back to the insurance officer, but before it gets to the insurance officer two persons of local standing are to be allowed to examine the applicant and make a recommendation. Then the insurance officer may come in, and then the court of referees. The material change proposed is the introduction of two persons of local standing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1407.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-24", "file": "debates1929-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9bd43717c002af0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1423.1", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "M. TROTSKY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROCKWAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROCKWAY", "preceding_text": "er to our question he said: In regard to what is called 'the right of asylum,' this country has the right to grant asylum to any person whom it thinks fit to admit as a political refugee. On the other hand, no alien has the right to claim admission to this country if it would be contrary to the interests of this country to receive him.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 18th July, 1929; col. 603, Vol. 230.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-24", "file": "debates1929-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9bd43717c002af0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1434.1", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "M. TROTSKY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDERS", "preceding_text": "nd up and advocate at the present moment that the German Emperor, who is not allowed to go back to Germany, should be allowed to come to England, there are many people who agree on this side with the abstract principle splendidly enunciated by my hon. Friend the Member for East Leyton who would vote against the admission of the German Emperor into this country for very sound and practical reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-07-24", "file": "debates1929-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9bd43717c002af0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1438.1", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "M. TROTSKY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "tility of the Russian Government, and its opposition to our institutions and our Constitution. The present Government of Russia has shown the same hatred as M. Trotsky; indeed, I understand that M. Trotsky is more ready to modify his views. One of the reasons why he was banished from his country was that he was prepared to adjust Soviet ideals to the principle of capitalism and a modified freedom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-07-24a.1438.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-29", "file": "debates1929-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "062f7c2a07a45714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-29a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "I certainly do not include the Slum Clearance Bill among the minor Measures to which I referred; I hope that when the Bill is introduced it will be recognised that it is a Bill of first-rate importance. I think the answer to the hon. and gallant Member's question has been given by the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-29a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-29", "file": "debates1929-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "062f7c2a07a45714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-29a.85.0", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAST PROTECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FIELDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are, 'we'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FIELDEN", "preceding_text": "t to decisions of a departmental nature, unfairness may possibly be caused. To the main proposals of the Bill we raise no objection, but we do feel that the Bill takes away from the House of Commons certain powers which the House ought to retain in its own hands. We object to the departmental over-riding of Acts of Parliament, and I rise to make it clear that that is the attitude which we take up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-29a.85.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-29", "file": "debates1929-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "062f7c2a07a45714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-29a.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAST PROTECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " case like the one I have quoted there can be proper co-ordination. Every hon. Member must see that in such a case there is a position of difficulty which quite easily may hold up the whole of the good work that should take place under the Bill. May I draw attention to Clause 19. What is meant by the words: The expression 'coast' includes the banks of a tidal estuary. How far does the bank run up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-29a.121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-29", "file": "debates1929-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "062f7c2a07a45714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-29a.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAST PROTECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "be considered by, a Committee of the Whole House. There is hardly any industry, any port authority, any agricultural or fishing interest that does not come into touch with the Bill in one way or another. Under these circumstances, it is almost impossible for the Government to get a Committee upstairs which can deal with the Bill properly. If the Government wish to make it a really good Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-29a.121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-29", "file": "debates1929-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "062f7c2a07a45714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-29a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "THIRD PARTIES (RIGHTS AGAINST INSURERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "The insurance company will answer, I have no doubt, that that was one of the factors they took into consideration in, fixing the premiums.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-29a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-29", "file": "debates1929-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "062f7c2a07a45714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-29a.140.3", "colnum": "140", "heading": "THIRD PARTIES (RIGHTS AGAINST INSURERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKINLAY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKINLAY", "preceding_text": " that charged by a first-class insurance company. In Glasgow at the moment omnibuses are running under these bogus insurances. People are liable to be killed and are being killed, and their dependents are left with nothing. I suggest that in tightening up the Measure action should be taken to deal with this form of mutual insurance among omnibus proprietors, because it constitutes bogus insurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-29a.140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-29", "file": "debates1929-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "062f7c2a07a45714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-29a.140.3", "colnum": "140", "heading": "THIRD PARTIES (RIGHTS AGAINST INSURERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKINLAY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKINLAY", "preceding_text": "ggest that in tightening up the Measure action should be taken to deal with this form of mutual insurance among omnibus proprietors, because it constitutes bogus insurance. [ Interruption ] Well, here was a case where a widow was awarded £1,800. The man who nominally owned the omnibuses went into bankruptcy. His chief creditor was a bookmaker who advanced him the money to start the omnibuses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-29a.140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-29", "file": "debates1929-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "062f7c2a07a45714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-29a.149.3", "colnum": "149", "heading": "COLLECTING CHARITIES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: 'No!'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": " 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, everyone of those collectors would have to get a special permit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-29a.149.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-30", "file": "debates1929-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "88779137d65802ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.155.3", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "Do I understand that, after the Government have wantonly destroyed the last London Traffic Bills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.155.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-10-30", "file": "debates1929-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "88779137d65802ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.155.5", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "It would be better if the question were put without the adjective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.155.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-30", "file": "debates1929-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "88779137d65802ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "DUMPING OF GERMAN WHEAT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DOUGLAS NEWTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DOUGLAS NEWTON", "preceding_text": "e which has been done to the agricultural producer, to the farmer, and the smallholder under this foreign bounty importing scheme has not been reflected in any commensurate advantage to the housewife. I think that in this case at any rate to help the farmer will not raise the price of the loaf to the consumer. Moreover surely I am right in believing that every hon. Member opposite is a Freetrader.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-30", "file": "debates1929-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "88779137d65802ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.174.0", "colnum": "174", "heading": "DUMPING OF GERMAN WHEAT.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Mr. Noel Buxton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Mr. Noel Buxton)", "preceding_text": " regarded as a mere congeries of town and urban districts to which agriculture should be subordinated. We have always cordially advocated mutual interest and co-operation between town and country, and we do regard agriculture as a most essential element in the national life. We hold—though this is not the moment to advance it—that our policy represents the best way to save agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-30", "file": "debates1929-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "88779137d65802ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "DUMPING OF GERMAN WHEAT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "ice, can find out what it is, and if it is an infringement of the understanding reached at Geneva and endorsed by the German Government, he has the right to protest. In these matters international action can be of great benefit to our people at home, and I hope he will not hesitate to take the matter up. If this Motion is inspired by a general opposition to the import of foreign grown grain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-30", "file": "debates1929-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "88779137d65802ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "DUMPING OF GERMAN WHEAT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RILEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RILEY", "preceding_text": "imited character. The effect has been simply to increase the price by from 3s. to 4s. per quarter in certain markets almost entirely confined to about four ports on the East Coast. Take Boston; take Kings Lynn; I am not sure whether it would go as far as Newcastle; and take Hull. It affects the whole of those ports, but it does not affect the British markets at all in other parts of the country. \"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-30", "file": "debates1929-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "88779137d65802ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.203.0", "colnum": "203", "heading": "DUMPING OF GERMAN WHEAT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLINDELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLINDELL", "preceding_text": " country during the last seven years amounts to 888,860 cwts. That enables us to realise exactly how much of the total importation of wheat into this country comes from Germany, and it enables us to realise in a true measure the importance of this particular question. In other words, less than 1 per cent. of the total consumption of wheat in this country is the subject matter of our Debate to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-30", "file": "debates1929-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "88779137d65802ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.235.0", "colnum": "235", "heading": "DUMPING OF GERMAN WHEAT.", "cue_speaker": "ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "ADDISON", "preceding_text": " can submit. I feel sure, however, that no one has less faith in the prescription contained in the Motion than the Mover and Seconder themselves, both of whom are men of great knowledge and practical experience, and from the somewhat list-less support which it has received from their own friends it is not unreasonable to ask them to let it go without going into the Division Lobby in support of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-30", "file": "debates1929-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "88779137d65802ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HACKING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is your proof?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HACKING", "preceding_text": "t them.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 5th December, 1928; col. 1221, Vol. 223.] That has been repeated in substance to-night by the Mover of the Motion, but I would ask whether he has any proof at all of that statement. I would assert definitely, without fear of contradiction, that never has there been a case within the memory of living man in which an innocent person has been executed in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.260.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-10-30", "file": "debates1929-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "88779137d65802ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman reply to the following question? Would it not follow as an automatic consequence of the passage of the Motion now before the House that the Government would thereafter introduce a Bill to give effect to the legislation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-30", "file": "debates1929-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "88779137d65802ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.275.0", "colnum": "275", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KINGSLEY GRIFFITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For murder?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KINGSLEY GRIFFITH", "preceding_text": "e hon. and gallant Member explained exactly what it contained and everybody knew that they would be asked to approve of the proposal that this practice should no longer go on. I regard it as a matter for profound regret that there should be any delay in dealing with this subject. It means that in the meantime other sentences are going to be passed and other people are going to suffer this penalty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-30", "file": "debates1929-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "88779137d65802ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.275.0", "colnum": "275", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KINGSLEY GRIFFITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do not hang enough!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KINGSLEY GRIFFITH", "preceding_text": "his practice should no longer go on. I regard it as a matter for profound regret that there should be any delay in dealing with this subject. It means that in the meantime other sentences are going to be passed and other people are going to suffer this penalty. [An HON. MEMBER: \"For murder?\"] Yes, for murder. Evidently there are still some people here who cling to the barbaric doctrine of revenge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-30", "file": "debates1929-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "88779137d65802ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.277.0", "colnum": "277", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLARKE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLARKE", "preceding_text": "The ground has been very well covered by the previous speakers, and I would in the first place, congratulate and compliment the hon. Member for West Middlesbrough (Mr. K. Griffith) on the splendid speech which he has just delivered. With him I find myself in complete agreement, but I would like to ask one or two of those who have spoken already if they really think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-30", "file": "debates1929-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "88779137d65802ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANG", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANG", "preceding_text": "The suggestion is that it would be just the same if he had not been hanged. I do not agree. There is that extraordinary psychology which looks upon the gallows as something so horrible that never again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-30", "file": "debates1929-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "88779137d65802ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ssed out of that, and now do not treat children as criminals, but try to reform them? Every time that the question of a change in the laws of this land arises, people get up and talk about this being a sentimental age. I remember, when we wanted to change the Criminal Law Amendment Act and raise the age of consent to 16, what a hard fight it was in this House; but the House has changed since then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-30a.289.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-10-31", "file": "debates1929-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "941e6a96d13f4cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.365.3", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"'Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Bill be now read a Second time.\" I should like to refer to the question of the pledges of the Labour party, which the Opposition are now taking up, not, I imagine, with the purest motives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.365.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-10-31", "file": "debates1929-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "941e6a96d13f4cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.365.6", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "No, that is a very well-known rule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.365.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-31", "file": "debates1929-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "941e6a96d13f4cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.365.7", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "designed, who by the accident of date are excluded from its provisions. It is no use hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite standing on the pure milk of their own gospel—[ Interruption ]. This is apparently an occasion on which I should unhesitatingly withdraw. The principle of the Act of 1925 was that nobody should receive pensions or allowances except in respect of somebody's contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.365.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-31", "file": "debates1929-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "941e6a96d13f4cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.385.3", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is about time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "say I think it is a most discreditable incident that a man in the position of the present Foreign Secretary, with his responsibility to the country, should have made statements of this kind at an election, statements which, if he had really had any knowledge of the subject, he must have known could not possibly be carried into operation. I want to examine the Bill which we actually have before us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.385.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-31", "file": "debates1929-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "941e6a96d13f4cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.385.3", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "mbers opposite are beginning to think about expenditure, and I am glad to hear that the Cabinet Committee in the course of its survey is not going to leave out of account considerations of finance and what the country will be called upon to pay. I know that a great many hon. Members opposite think there is no more difficulty about raising £100,000,000 than there is in raising £1,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.385.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-31", "file": "debates1929-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "941e6a96d13f4cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.385.3", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear; Hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "no bottomless pit from which you can go on drawing money. The more you spend upon unnecessary or unwise schemes to-day the less money there will be here- after for better schemes when you have learnt wisdom. Will any hon. Member opposite deny that the most dangerous and menacing feature of the present time is the desire to get something for nothing, and the desire to live at the expense of others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.385.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-31", "file": "debates1929-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "941e6a96d13f4cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.385.3", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is coming back!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " adopt with regard to widows' pensions. He said: We will extend the system\"— that is, the system of widows' pensions— in such a way that a widow in need will be the one test of qualification on the pensions register. Where is the fulfilment of that pledge in this Bill 1 A little while ago the Prime Minister embarked on his west-ward voyage to America, and the pledge went west with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.385.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-31", "file": "debates1929-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "941e6a96d13f4cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.394.0", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BIRKETT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BIRKETT", "preceding_text": "ce to the grief and disturbance in the house when the husband died, everyone felt that that was very true and very sad, and everyone in the country is quite willing to see that right is done in the matter. But why cannot the pension be paid from the date of death? As the Clause stands, if even a few months from the death the claim is made, the pension will begin to be paid three months afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-31", "file": "debates1929-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "941e6a96d13f4cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.401.0", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Labour Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "e any sign of trade improving? Does any intelligent man, in his soul, think that the trade of this country is going to be better in 1930 than in 1929? If there is anyone on this side of the House or on the other side who thinks that, I submit, as one who understands this question as well as the average man, that we are more likely to be worse off in 1930 than in 1929. I will tell hon. Members why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.401.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-31", "file": "debates1929-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "941e6a96d13f4cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.428.0", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Amendment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": "ledge of the subject about which he was speaking. His speech was interesting to me from this point of view. He said quite definitely that this in its main features is a non-contributory scheme, and that it is for that reason that he likes it. I would point out to him, as I think a previous speaker has already done, that this Bill is headed \"Widows' Orphans' and Old Age Contributory Pensions Bill.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-31", "file": "debates1929-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "941e6a96d13f4cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.447.0", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "Widows', Orphans' and Old Age Pensions Act. There is no doubt also that a large number of anomalies came into existence when the 1925 Act was put into operation. I say, however, that this Debate has been the most unreal I have ever listened to in this House. The speech of the Minister of Health was unreal, because he knows that this Bill is not going to remove a tithe of the anomalies which exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-31", "file": "debates1929-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "941e6a96d13f4cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.447.0", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "unreal, because he knows that this Bill is not going to remove a tithe of the anomalies which exist. [ Interruption. ] It is not going to touch the fringe of the question. He knows also that the promises made during the election campaign did gain votes for his party, and they raised in the minds of people expectations which he knew then, and certainly knows now, that it is impossible to carry out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-31", "file": "debates1929-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "941e6a96d13f4cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.447.0", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "Debate is unreal because, although you are going to help in the case of pre-Act widows, you are going to leave all the other anomalies untouched. It has been an unreal Debate as regards the speeches of many hon. Members opposite. They have tried their best to blow hard and keep up their courage by saying that although they did promise all these things, nevertheless this is some small contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-31", "file": "debates1929-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "941e6a96d13f4cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.448.3", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "I am suggesting that if it is possible to bring it into operation for one class of widows in 1930 it is just as possible to bring it into operation for another class in 1930.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-31", "file": "debates1929-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "941e6a96d13f4cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.448.3", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "as I am putting forward. I want the Parliamentary Secretary when she replies to tell us why the raising of this money is going to come in the distant future. There will be no charge at any rate on this year's financial estimates, and I am rather of the opinion that the postponement is in order that somebody else will have to raise the money. Personally, I welcome even this small measure of relief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-31", "file": "debates1929-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "941e6a96d13f4cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.448.3", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": " in any amendment of the Act we could get something put in to assist them, and I have made representations to the Ministry repeatedly. The late Government did indeed give us a great concession by including share fishermen in the 1928 Act, and the only class in the fishing industry now left out is the skipper. I am very anxious that they should be included, because I can quote some very hard cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-31", "file": "debates1929-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "941e6a96d13f4cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.448.3", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "her voluntary contributors. Something ought to be done on their behalf. Many of them are men who have been workmen, but who, because of slack-ness in their own trade, and rather than be idle, have started some small business. Let me take a case which I brought to the notice of the late Minister of Health and about which nothing could be done under the existing Acts or under this Bill as it stands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-31", "file": "debates1929-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "941e6a96d13f4cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.448.3", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": " his life, and he experiences great diffi- culty unless he finds a beneficent Member of Parliament to do it for him. In many cases the claim is turned down for technical reasons. Let me give an example. A man carried on a small business of boot repairing, and proved to the committee that he was not earning 10s. a week. He was able to do a little bit of work and potter along, and he employed a boy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-31", "file": "debates1929-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "941e6a96d13f4cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir KINGSLEY WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir KINGSLEY WOOD", "preceding_text": "betrayal of those promises. I was amazed to-night when the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Health said that he had to thank the Chancellor of the Exchequer for his generosity in this connection. I hold in my hand an article written by the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, no doubt a carefully written article, and issued in a paper circulated very widely amongst the workers of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.455.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-10-31", "file": "debates1929-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "941e6a96d13f4cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.460.0", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir KINGSLEY WOOD", "preceding_text": " promise by instalments, but a very definite phrase was used in this undertaking which I think the House will agree when they hear it would give people the definite impression that the fulfilment of the promise would be immediately undertaken by the Government. He said this: The Labour party was pledged to remove at once the hardships and injustices of the Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Act\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-31", "file": "debates1929-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "941e6a96d13f4cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "Does not the Minister understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-31", "file": "debates1929-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "941e6a96d13f4cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.464.2", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "ousands of people looking to the Labour party and trusting the Labour party—and their trust will not be disappointed. Step by step the party will work through the manifesto. [ Interuption. ] What are those laughs and jeers about? Do hon. Members suppose we can put this programme into force before Christmas? Does any intelligent person suppose it? With a fair share of luck and industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.464.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-10-31", "file": "debates1929-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "941e6a96d13f4cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "I can only reply to the Noble Lady: \"Wait and see.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.466.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-10-31", "file": "debates1929-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "941e6a96d13f4cb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.466.2", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "I can only reply to the Noble Lady: \"Wait and see.\" [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-10-31a.466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-01", "file": "debates1929-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "a3373795db679450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.510.0", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "able of giving a fair deal to the workers.\" This Financial Resolution is a fair sample of Socialist thought, and the kind of instalment that we may expect of \"Socialism in our time.\" It gives large sums of money to a selected class, many of whom are not in need of it. If that be denied, we might perhaps all agree upon an Amendment in Committee that it shall be given only to people who are in need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.510.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-01", "file": "debates1929-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "a3373795db679450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "preceding_text": "cumen of the late Minister of Health, of £46,000,000, of which nearly £20,000,000 was in excess of requirements. Even at the end of the 10 years period, with the old scale of £4,000,000 a year from Exchequer contributions, there would still be a surplus. I want to know whether it is possible that the Minister of Health and the Parliamentary Secretary have something up their sleeves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-01", "file": "debates1929-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "a3373795db679450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.517.1", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OLIVER STANLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OLIVER STANLEY", "preceding_text": "se contingencies rather than that it should be left to the State to do it for them; and, therefore, any extension of social services which might be shown to entail a reduction of the individual's own power to provide against those contingencies is in fact an evil. In discussing this matter to-day, we start with the difficulty that we do not know how the money for this service is going to be found.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-01", "file": "debates1929-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "a3373795db679450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.524.3", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "100 years, of cultivating luxury trades at the expense of the necessary basic industries of this country. In conclusion, I should like to say one word with regard to what was said by an hon. Member below the Gangway as to the Liberal point of view. I listen with considerably more patience to contributions on this subject from the Liberal benches than to contributions from the Conservative benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.524.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-01", "file": "debates1929-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "a3373795db679450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.524.3", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": ", have a re cord in social insurance, and it is a re cord upon which we, to a degree, are building. For that reason I listen more tolerantly to contributions from that, quarter than to contributions from the benches opposite. But nothing is easier than for the individual members of a party which is far removed from power, and becomes still farther removed from it with every day that goes by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.524.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-01", "file": "debates1929-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "a3373795db679450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.528.0", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "een, that honesty and virtue belong to no one party, and I think the hope of this House is that we have a great many perfectly honest, high-minded Socialists who come for the first time into the House and are going to have to face facts which never before in their lives have they had to face. Let us see what this profligate Government did. It spent £400,000,000 on social services in one year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.528.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-01", "file": "debates1929-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "a3373795db679450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.528.0", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is more than we spend in three Budgets.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "lists who come for the first time into the House and are going to have to face facts which never before in their lives have they had to face. Let us see what this profligate Government did. It spent £400,000,000 on social services in one year. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Never!\"] You know perfectly well what I mean. Our social contribution to widows' and orphans' pensions cost nearly £400,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.528.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-01", "file": "debates1929-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "a3373795db679450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.528.2", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "spend the principal. Your theory of Government is to spend the principal. Our's is to spend the whole of the income and leave the principal untouched. That is my objection to Socialist social reform. Is industry any better than it was when you fought us on our Bill? It is in no better situation to-day than it was then. What did the present Under-Secretary of State for Scotland say in that de bate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.528.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-01", "file": "debates1929-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "a3373795db679450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.531.2", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "e scheme of the hon. Gentleman the Member for Peckham (Mr. Beckett)? He brought before the House a scheme on a non-contributory basis, and said that it was a much easier scheme than the one which we produced. He said that it could be understood by anyone who could multiply two by two, and that it was as easy as falling off a log. Why do the Government not fall off the log and bring in that scheme?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.531.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-01", "file": "debates1929-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "a3373795db679450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.531.2", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "cial worker cares about except the problem before us. The Minister must know how difficult it is for us on these benches to be patient and listen to speeches from that side. It is very difficult for the \"hard hearted, cold, and unimaginative business men on these benches, whose only thought is to grind down the faces of the poor\" to be patient during these Debates. I do not want to be provocative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.531.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-01", "file": "debates1929-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "a3373795db679450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "efore they have a keen interest in measures such as that which we are considering to-day. Throughout my profession there is an immense amount of support for any Measure which tries to mitigate the cases of hardship which exist in the poor homes of this country. But if we are to believe much that is spoken from the other side, there should be no end to this kind of legislation, no end to it at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-01", "file": "debates1929-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "a3373795db679450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.556.0", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "s. That is a vital financial question about which this Committee as a whole has an absolute right to know, unless the House of Commons is going to give up its old power of dealing with the finances of the nation and hand them over to the Executive. There is another point, which I think was passed unnoticed earlier in the day. I was amazed, or, at least, not very amazed, but certainly amazed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.556.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-01", "file": "debates1929-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "a3373795db679450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.556.0", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, he is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "d, with the in evitable effect that at the end of the time the State will have to pay an ever increasing contribution. If we had gone on in that kind of way I can imagine the wrath that would have been poured on the head of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer. We should have been told straight out that we were robbing the hen roost. It is unfortunate that the Minister of Health is no longer here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-01a.556.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.593.9", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman not aware that when a day is asked for through the usual channels it is usually for a Vote of Censure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.593.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "I beg to give notice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.594.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.597.10", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "Can I ask the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.597.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "preceding_text": "May I ask if the right hon. Gentleman will take steps to ascertain and publish this important information; and whether the Government are considering suspending the operation of this fund until the constitutional question which has arisen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.600.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Deterioration!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ng this question of facilities I would also like at this stage to mention that the degradation in connection with our coal to-day is such that makes one wonder why consideration has not been given to this subject years ago. When I first went into the coal trouble with a view of finding other markets I found that there was at least 28 per cent. degradation in the coal from the pithead to the buyer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come over to this side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "t the railway companies themselves could contribute and I gave One illustration—the substitution of steel sleepers for wooden sleepers. I explained in my illustration how the wood was imported and I stated all the advantages which in my judgment would accrue from the adoption of steel sleepers. Of course I assumed that when I was emphasising steel sleepers I was not advocating foreign steel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Bear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "and the House will be pleased to know that schemes covering half the country and three-quarters of the population exist at this moment. The Electricity Board have let contracts amounting to £1,250,000 since July last. We have no right to say to a private employer \"You speed up\" without making a similar appeal to Government Departments. Consequently we asked the Post Office what they would do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.669.8", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "s dependent upon imports for the vast proportion of its food and raw material, amounting to £800,000,000 a year. They include four-fifths of our wheat, three-fifths of our meat, the whole of our cotton, nine-tenths of our wool and timber. The size of those figures will at once bring home to the Committee how important a bearing the export trade of this country has on our unemployment problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.669.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.669.8", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " We are her largest single customer for wheat; and when I examined the facts I found, and I told the Canadian people, and I am now going to tell the Committee, that although we were her largest single customer, although she had the benefit of all our Trustee Acts, although she was part of the Empire, yet last year for every £1 she spent with us she spent nearly £5 with the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.669.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.682.0", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will give the details, but it is only fair that the right hon. Gentleman should have a clear answer to his question. He will give the full details of the changes, but I will summarise them briefly. I have already said—and there ought to be no misunderstanding by anyone who knew the late Government's policy—it was 15 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.682.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "d tried to ascertain what were the inducements. He took refuge—I do not blame him—and said \"I am thinking.\" Now, perhaps, he has thought, and will be able to tell us the results of his thinking. Has he found any scheme? Because it is very important not merely to transfer from the distressed areas but to bring new industries into the distressed areas. We tried to do it by our de-rating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GEORGE PENNY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GEORGE PENNY", "preceding_text": " school age to 15 and pensioning workers off at an earlier age is not dealing with the question. It is merely nibbling at the problem, and it means additional expenditure, all of which adds to the burden on industry. There is no mystery as to what is wrong about our great export trade. Our cost of production is far too great, which makes the costs of our goods higher than those of our competitors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.697.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.723.0", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": " applies to unemployment. If you were to pass an Act of Parliament to spend so much money\"— I hope that that will be noted— If you were to pass an Act of Parliament to spend so much money, believe me, that would bring us to a worse state than we were in before. You must somehow or other find a scheme where the State will do its share, where the local authority will do its share\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.722.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "ader will do his share, where the manufacturer will do his share, and where the trade unionist will do his share. Is not my right hon. Friend the Lord Privy Seal engaged upon the noble task of seeing that all do their share, and is not the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Liberal party to-day complaining that my right hon. Friend is not taking the whole executive burden on his own shoulders?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": " that my right hon. Friend is not taking the whole executive burden on his own shoulders? [ Interruption. ] If the right hon. Gentleman did not mean that, I do not know what he meant. All that I would say is that the position of the right hon. Gentleman in this House to-day is utterly inconsistent with his position when talking to me and other Labour mayors in 1921 up in the Highlands of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALLEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALLEN", "preceding_text": "on—greater variety for everyone all round. It has in many respects painfully and gradually come to near that. I do not speak in ignorance on this point, because I have spent the last 10 years of my life, since I was a boy, in writing advertisements for people who are trying to get mass production, and I realise all the time that you cannot sell goods unless people have the money to buy them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALPASS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"TO US also.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALPASS", "preceding_text": "and I am on sure ground when I say that there will be many building operatives in the West of England who were walking the streets doing nothing under the late Government's rule who will now be gradually absorbed into the building industry. When hon. Members opposite criticise the efforts of the Government in dealing with this all important question—to us it is the thing that really matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is ill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": "tements, coming from the benches opposite, are a source of profound 'amazement. I have listened to the hon. Member for Oxford University (Lord Hugh Cecil) standing at that Box and denouncing this party for having got into power because of the alleged promises to cure unemployment. I have seen him moved with the most tragic emotion standing at that Box, and I have never seen him in the House since.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": "romises to cure unemployment. I have seen him moved with the most tragic emotion standing at that Box, and I have never seen him in the House since. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He is ill.\"] Then I withdraw unreservedly, for I was not aware of that fact. This is the impression that I have got in this House of its relation to unemployment. The Conservative party admits publicly that it cannot cure unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.744.8", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": "nough to possess a vacuum cleaner she can get round the house in no time. This machinery in the house is a blessing in the house, but while the housewife blesses the machinery in her home, her husband comes home from the factory and curses the machine that has put him out of work there. That is the paradox of our modern society—that in one place it is a blessing and in another place a curse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.744.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.744.8", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": "irman of a board of guardians, there is nothing I have seen which has so touched me as the question of unemployment in towns where, I suppose, the percentage is as great as in almost any part of the country, including even South Wales, Durham or Lanark. I have seen such sights as have moved me to the very depths, and I want to appeal to the House to give us credit for being sincere in our beliefs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.744.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "we are very much handicapped if we insist upon a higher standard of living for the workers. This country forms part of an economic unit with Europe, where we have to compete. Ours is a Free Trade country, and we have to compete within the economic unit of Europe to-day at a time when the wages and conditions of life in this country are already at a higher level than in any other country in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.752.7", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If there are any?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "preceding_text": "suggest that the solution is to be found in the speech of the hon. Member for West Belfast. He argued that you ought to bring into closer relationship spending power, or the distribution of wealth, and the production of wealth. He argued for what he called profit-sharing. I agree. We would only disagree as to the amount of the profits to be shared and the proportion in which they are to be shared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.752.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.752.7", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "preceding_text": "roportion of unemployed from outside. Of course, to take unemployed into Lanarkshire would be worse than taking coals to Newcastle. I do want to suggest to the Lord Privy Seal that unless he has made up his mind that Lanarkshire is derelict, and is going to remain derelict—and if Lanarkshire is derelict and there is no recovery for her steel and iron and coal, then Glasgow is derelict—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.752.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.752.7", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or behind him!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "preceding_text": "money to spend it is wiser to spend it in the regeneration of that area, in the belief that all the other things which the Labour party are going to do if they get an opportunity will bring Lanarkshire back to something like normal industrial and commercial life. He should not be afraid of his friends, either above or below the Gangway, and should not be afraid of those immediately opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.752.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.756.0", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You will want a job!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ents, the extent to which they are meeting the unemployment problem and the extent to which they will meet the unemployment in six months, in a year, in two years—because we hope the right hon. and hon. Members opposite will do so well and so brilliantly in solving this problem that they will be summoned by the united voice of the nation to continue in power during the succeeding Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.756.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.756.0", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "opposite side of the House from us, sitting in the seats of power, are those who were denouncing from this side of the House the proposals of the last Government; and the explanations which were given by us to the country, which were given by us to organised labour and which were given by us to the great Trade Union movement and were not believed, are now being given by those right hon. Gentlemen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.756.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.756.0", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentlemen. [ Interruption. ] As the hon. Member for Bridgeton said, hon. Members opposite are walking into the Lobby in resignation it may be, but in determined resignation, to carry out plans along the lines of things which they said, not merely here on the Floor of the House but up and down the country, were not merely mistakes but deliberate attempts to deceive and defraud the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.756.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "All I can say on that subject is that, as a representative of starving men outside, both in his history and, if I may say so, in his appearance, there is no more vivid representative than the hon. Member for Bridgeton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "in fact that belief was justified or unjustified. We on these benches believe that it was justified, but no one will deny that the nation for the past four or five years, and even before that, has been like a paralytic trying to walk along a road, with his arm paralysed, with his leg paralysed, going stiffly, going slowly, going one-sidedly, the right side not knowing what the left side was doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.757.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.761.2", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Does it mean that we must always accept wage reductions?", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "The disputes in the woollen trade and the coal trade—all these disputes swallow up more of the prospects of this nation in a fortnight than a year's work of the right hon. Gentlemen opposite can restore.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.761.3", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With what result?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "portant subject. We have the prospect of a recovery of trade which must be mostly psychological and must be based on confidence, and I would ask the hon. Member for Bridgeton to beware when he puts forward his logical scheme for reduction in costs, and to remember that we have won our position in the world by defying the strict rules of logic, and we shall need to go on defying them in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.761.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": " … The Labour Party believes that if it has a majority. … a great advance in industrial progress and social well-being can be made. That is the election manifesto of the Labour party. How pessimistic is that language beside the radiant picture which the right hon. Gentleman painted this afternoon! The more I look at our election pledges the more astonished I am at our moderation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.771.2", "colnum": "771", "heading": "WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "would never establish a co-operative commonwealth, but would establish a pauper State.\"— not my words, the words of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He continued: The most dangerous and the most menacing feature at the present time was a depreciation of the value, usefulness, honour, and dignity of honest work, a desire to get something for nothing, a desire to live at the expense of others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.771.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.771.2", "colnum": "771", "heading": "WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "nt social services, however much one wants to see them extended within the limit of our income, the fact emerges, is it better to go on with the social ser- vices, having a great burden of unemployment, than to be in the position in which France finds itself, of not having these great social services and having full-time employment for the people of its own country? I am sorry to detain the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.771.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-04", "file": "debates1929-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "9b1aa52b5c558791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.790.0", "colnum": "790", "heading": "WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "s. I heard the hon. Lady earlier in these Debates saying that we were afraid to vote against the Second Beading. I, for one, abstained from voting on the Second Reading solely in order that I might have an opportunity at later stages, of improving the obvious defects in the Bill. Those defects are apparent to anybody. Why should a widow of 55 receive a pension and a spinster of 55 not receive one?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-04a.790.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-05", "file": "debates1929-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "697461ff103cc3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.890.0", "colnum": "890", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO UNITED STATES AND CANADA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "tter that I will not discuss but a matter to which I attach very considerable importance, and that is what is known as the question of the freedom of the seas? Until we are in a better position in reference to world armaments I think we ought to proceed very cautiously with regard to abandoning any of our rights there. I should like to know from the right hon. Gentleman. It is a very vital matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.890.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-05", "file": "debates1929-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "697461ff103cc3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.904.0", "colnum": "904", "heading": "RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "I am not at the moment concerned with what they recognise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.904.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-05", "file": "debates1929-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "697461ff103cc3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. BALDWIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is the guy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "r the next, but here they have a pledge which they can redeem if the House of Commons gives them permission. The Prime Minister last April said that relations with Russia were going to be resumed by hook or by crook, and the first opportunity has been taken; and I cannot help thinking that there lingers somewhere in the mind of the Foreign Secretary the recollection that to-day is Guy Fawkes' Day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-05", "file": "debates1929-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "697461ff103cc3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "l must have a long spoon. But nobody ever dreamt, least of all Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, of breaking off relations with Russia, turning out the ambassador here, and if anybody had proposed it in this House he would have been treated as if he were a lunatic. You had the same accusations then; at a time when they were much more formidable. The Russian Army was much more formidable then than it is now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-05", "file": "debates1929-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "697461ff103cc3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.942.2", "colnum": "942", "heading": "RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": "they proved it at the General Election. Distrust of a Government would be no reason why a foreign country should not trade with this country. One of the Amendments which is put before us for serious consideration, urges that we shall do no business with Russia until the Soviet have made amends for wrongs inflicted upon British citizens and provided compensation for its plunder of British property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.942.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-05", "file": "debates1929-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "697461ff103cc3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.961.0", "colnum": "961", "heading": "RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "e they are concentrating their activities on our Empire, our Dominions and the borders of our Dominions, especially Afghanistan and the north-west frontier. The dictum of Lenin, which says: Let us turn towards Asia, and we shall succeed in the West, was the starting point of the vast turning movement to overthrow the world. The Second Congress of the Komintern have passed the following Resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.961.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-05", "file": "debates1929-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "697461ff103cc3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.961.0", "colnum": "961", "heading": "RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "ress of the Komintern have passed the following Resolution. [ Interruption. ] I hope that hon. Members will allow me to proceed. It is not easy for me to speak in this House, but I consider it to be my duty to try to put before the House the widespread net of activities of the Soviet Government and its organisations. I hope the House will allow me to do that, without making my task more difficult.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.961.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-05", "file": "debates1929-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "697461ff103cc3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.961.0", "colnum": "961", "heading": "RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "utionary Soviets. The remaining chapters expose the characteristic features of the colonial economy of Imperialistic policy, and studies the Communist strategy and tactics in China, India and other Colonial countries. That is the theory of the Soviet Government and its allied organisations. I would now direct the attention of the House to the extent to which that theory has been put into practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.961.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-05", "file": "debates1929-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "697461ff103cc3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.961.0", "colnum": "961", "heading": "RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "stern Workers, called the Stalin University; the Institute of Oriental Studies, connected with the central committee of the Soviet Republic; the university of the Chinese Workers, the Sun Yat Sen, Leningrad, and the Institute of Living Oriental Languages with the following Sections, China, Japan, Mongolia, Tibet and Hindustan and Turkestan. The Institute admits only members of the Communist party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.961.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-05", "file": "debates1929-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "697461ff103cc3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.968.0", "colnum": "968", "heading": "RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "on to British gunboats and sent them to Riga for world distribution. Everything in the garden was lovely, for anti-Russian propaganda, until the compositors came into the \"Daily Herald\" office and gave original copies. The matter was brought up in this House and a number of hon. Members may remember the sequel. Sir Basil Thomson had to retire, but he still continued his anti-Bolshevist propaganda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.968.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-05", "file": "debates1929-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "697461ff103cc3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.974.0", "colnum": "974", "heading": "RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "ssia is concerned. Russia has ceased to be the centre of a formidable world movement, and has become once more a nation, a great nation, and a powerful nation, but still a nation, ruled over by a Government. You can see instances of the tide going back upon the Communist movement all over Asia to-day. In South Russia itself there is a tendency for some of the small States to revert to nationalism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-05", "file": "debates1929-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "697461ff103cc3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.978.3", "colnum": "978", "heading": "RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "ty? In conclusion, I want to make one complaint. I greatly admired the way in which the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs handled the League Assembly. I cannot say that I have admired at any stage his handling of this particular question during the last five months; and I express a pious hope that he may handle the negotiations now about to take place a little better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.978.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-05", "file": "debates1929-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "697461ff103cc3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": " of the economic position inside Russia, that, judged by any ordinary tests, the economic position in Russia now is stronger than it was three or four years ago. It is true that the financial position is difficult, but that is because of the shortage of capital and the concentration of their reserves on pensions for industry and agricultural producers. The Russians are admittedly short of capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-05", "file": "debates1929-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "697461ff103cc3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "rselves, and, I think, America. Other countries have had to rely upon foreign capital for reconstruction and repairing the damage of the War and the revival of industry. Russia is the only country which, since the War, has not had any foreign investments, and it is almost the only country which since the War has raised its production agriculturally and industrially to more than its pre-War figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-05", "file": "debates1929-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "697461ff103cc3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "n Government owes to the Government of this country and which Russia owes to private individuals in this country. As regards the debts of the Russian Government, I hope the right hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I say that I have not perfect confidence in him, but I am convinced that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will see that we do not obtain less from Russia than he asked of our other Allies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-05", "file": "debates1929-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "697461ff103cc3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " not obtain less from Russia than he asked of our other Allies. [ Interruption. ] Let him get what he got from Italy; that is something, at any rate. What I care most about is not the exact amount of money which we may receive, but the recognition of the public law of the world that when a Government inherits from a previous Government, it inherits its obligations and duties as well as its rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.989.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-05", "file": "debates1929-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "697461ff103cc3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.995.0", "colnum": "995", "heading": "RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "And made a good speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "onal, and that they do not interpret the pledge of the Treaty of 1924 in the same sense as the right hon. Gentleman. The right hon. Gentleman has not been wholly fortunate in the arguments used by his supporters in this Debate. It is, I think, a case in which he might pray to be saved from his friends. The right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs came forward as his most loyal and eager supporter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.993.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-05", "file": "debates1929-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "697461ff103cc3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.996.2", "colnum": "996", "heading": "RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not the way to do things.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "self made no accusation against my right hon. Friend of breach of faith and no accusation of repudiation of pledges. He merely wondered why my right hon. Friend and the Government were in such a hurry. That last question can be simply answered. We are in a hurry in order to catch up with all the time that has been lost during the last four years in many spheres both of domestic and foreign policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.996.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-05", "file": "debates1929-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "697461ff103cc3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.996.2", "colnum": "996", "heading": "RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "slation, as to which, of course, I am not in a position to give any undertaking to-night. I was asked also by the Leader of the Opposition, and the right hon. Gentleman who spoke last emphasised the question, to say something on the subject of diplomatic privileges and immunities. Quite evidently, that is to some extent a question of detail, although to some extent a question of principle as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.996.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-05", "file": "debates1929-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "697461ff103cc3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.996.2", "colnum": "996", "heading": "RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "estion of detail, although to some extent a question of principle as well. [ Laughter. ] If hon. Members find that difficult to understand, it is probably due to a blissful ignorance of the political and economic conditions prevailing in the Soviet Union. I think I may, however, say that it is not the intention of the Government that diplomatic privileges and immunities should be unduly extensive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.996.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-05", "file": "debates1929-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "697461ff103cc3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.1000.1", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "r. G. Balfour), who is a member of the Anglo-Russian Committee which has been examining trade conditions in Russia, and has made an interesting Report, appreciates the fact that in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics trade is a State function. It may be argued, as no doubt the Soviet representatives will argue, in the negotiations which follow, that that would entitle them to a somewhat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.1000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-05", "file": "debates1929-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "697461ff103cc3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.1000.1", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "ist Republics was an invitation to send a responsible representative to London in order to discuss with the Foreign Secretary direct the most expeditious procedure for reaching as rapidly as possible a friendly and mutually satisfactory settlement. And so on. It is evident that M. Dovgalevski, possibly owing to his imperfect knowledge of the language in which the conversation was carried on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.1000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-05", "file": "debates1929-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "697461ff103cc3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.1000.1", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "is imperfect knowledge of the language in which the conversation was carried on—[ Laughter. ] Such difficulties are not unknown in diplomatic conversations with persons of another nationality. It is possible that M. Dovgalevski was not quite able to appreciate the point put to him by my right hon. Friend. I do not know whether that is the explanation or not, but it is a possible explanation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.1000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-05", "file": "debates1929-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "697461ff103cc3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.1004.5", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "t undertaking will prove effective the future will show. I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs upon his interesting speech. In that speech, he showed more knowledge of the history of this question than many other hon. Members, and he pointed out that Russian propaganda did not begin in 1917 with the Bolshevist revolution. It was Queen Victoria who in 1868—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-05a.1004.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-06", "file": "debates1929-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "522d987574dbf8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1090.0", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "ACCIDENTS IN MINES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROWSON", "preceding_text": " It is true that they have had three cases of people who have been injured underground which ended fatally, but two of those deaths were caused by septic poisoning supervening at a later stage. If that be the experience of one colliery, it is, as I say, a matter worth the consideration of the Mines Department. I only intended to speak for 10 minutes, and I do not think I will carry on any further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1090.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-06", "file": "debates1929-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "522d987574dbf8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1124.3", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "ACCIDENTS IN MINES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER", "preceding_text": "d to by an hon. Lady, namely, that the management have a costly infatuation for the god of output, which is responsible for many accidents in our mines. There has been a complaint, which I have heard for the past 45 years, that when His Majesty's inspectors visit a mine or a factory the management know about it, and inspectors are suspected of having informed pits beforehand of their coming visit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1124.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-06", "file": "debates1929-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "522d987574dbf8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1124.3", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "ACCIDENTS IN MINES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER", "preceding_text": "ave a costly infatuation for the god of output, which is responsible for many accidents in our mines. There has been a complaint, which I have heard for the past 45 years, that when His Majesty's inspectors visit a mine or a factory the management know about it, and inspectors are suspected of having informed pits beforehand of their coming visit. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I do not believe it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1124.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-06", "file": "debates1929-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "522d987574dbf8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "ACCIDENTS IN MINES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER", "preceding_text": "they never had—as owners, managers and inspectors. I am advised by the legal department that this view is based on a misunderstanding of the law. The worker or any other person has the right to prosecute a colliery owner, manager or official for any offence against the Coal Mines Act or Regulations committed by the person who is charged. That is legal advice and there is no limitation there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-06", "file": "debates1929-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "522d987574dbf8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "NATIONALISATION OF TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WALLACE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WALLACE", "preceding_text": "ny way a derelict or starving system. I cannot help thinking that the hon. Member will have some trouble with the Lord Privy Seal when that very overworked Minister has time to read the OFFICIAL REPORT. The Seconder of the Motion also suggested that not only the railways and long distance transport, but also air transport might be nationalised. Does he intend to include coastwise shipping as well?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-06", "file": "debates1929-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "522d987574dbf8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1177.0", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "NATIONALISATION OF TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Lord BALNIEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord BALNIEL", "preceding_text": "tion cannot stand by itself. You cannot nationalise railways without nationalising a great many other subsidiary things as well. The railways are also landowners, hotel keepers, engineers; they are owners of, and they work in close connection with, great docks and harbours, with ferries, steamships and so on. If you nationalise the railways, you will have to nationalise those other things as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-06", "file": "debates1929-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "522d987574dbf8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1179.5", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "NATIONALISATION OF TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Lord BALNIEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord BALNIEL", "preceding_text": "and have shown that there is little likelihood of our finding that under greater coordination we shall get better services. It is in the common knowledge of all Members of the House, it is in the knowledge of every porter on every railway station in the country, that the service of the railways was incomparably better before the measure of nationalisation or co-ordinisation or anything else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1179.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-06", "file": "debates1929-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "522d987574dbf8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1179.5", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "NATIONALISATION OF TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Lord BALNIEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord BALNIEL", "preceding_text": ". It is in the common knowledge of all Members of the House, it is in the knowledge of every porter on every railway station in the country, that the service of the railways was incomparably better before the measure of nationalisation or co-ordinisation or anything else—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] It is idle to deny that employés of railways will be in no way better off than they are to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1179.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-06", "file": "debates1929-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "522d987574dbf8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1181.5", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "NATIONALISATION OF TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Lord BALNIEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There will be no need for it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord BALNIEL", "preceding_text": "Do they think that when they are striking against the State it will be easier for them to stand out than when they are striking against the body of directors and shareholders of a railway company? Of course, hon. Gentlemen, whatever they say, know perfectly well that it will be far, far harder for them in every way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1181.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-06", "file": "debates1929-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "522d987574dbf8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "NATIONALISATION OF TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "tition is bad and co-ordination is good, but co-ordination means that private monopoly, if it is privately owned, must be publicly supervised, and you are in danger in those circumstances of getting the worst of both worlds and not, as the hon. and gallant Member for North-East Bethnal Green said, the best of both worlds. Let us not be too hard upon the railway officials and the railway companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-06", "file": "debates1929-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "522d987574dbf8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "NATIONALISATION OF TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So are the drivers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "cessarily the railway companies that are conscious sinners, it is the system upon which they have been built that is bad. Let us not denounce the railway officials. My impression is that the men who are running the railways are not the least among the best quality of industrialists. They are a pretty good body of men. Their technical officers, the general managers, are men of considerable ability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-06", "file": "debates1929-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "522d987574dbf8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "NATIONALISATION OF TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "me form of public ownership, provided the politicians were not dominating the concern all the time. That is a legitimate and perfectly fair point to raise. Is it for the Conservative party which nationalised the telephones to oppose nationalisation? They may be sorry that they did it, but they did it. Surely they will admit that the telephones have been better managed since they were nationalised?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-06", "file": "debates1929-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "522d987574dbf8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1193.0", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "NATIONALISATION OF TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Major GLYN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major GLYN", "preceding_text": " for inefficiency of management or of anything else. Not a single Member on this side, as far as I know, defends parasitic directors who are not worth their salt or their salaries, and we do not want to see the old system continued. We are trying to break that down, and are succeeding in breaking it down. May I utter a word of warning If the railway industry is working well with the workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-06", "file": "debates1929-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "522d987574dbf8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1199.0", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "NATIONALISATION OF TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCOTT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCOTT", "preceding_text": "f the business? They would, of course, ask, \"Does the business pay now?\" The railways, as my hon. Friends know, are at present, and have been for a number of years, paying their dividends out of reserves and not out of profits at all, and yet this Motion asks the House to favour the purchase by the State of this concern which is not proving, in all cases at any rate, to be a profit-making concern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-06a.1199.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1215.4", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister of Labour follow my question? As to the schemes which are put up for a period of 15 months—I agree that in the cases where it is five or six years it is a large improvement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1215.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1231.5", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRUNDY", "preceding_text": "If I send the right hon. Gentleman a copy of the letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1231.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1233.3", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentle man not tell us when the Bill will be introduced?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1233.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1234.5", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SULLIVAN", "preceding_text": "Are those children attending a purely non-sectarian school in which no religious instruction is given?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1234.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1241.2", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POOR LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman doing anything to stop boards of guardians from making men break or shift stones? May I have an answer to my question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1241.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1247.0", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "May I ask whether at Croydon any weather report had been received that there was likely to be mist or fog when this machine took the air?", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for AIR (Mr. Montague)", "preceding_text": "An inquest is being held to-morrow at Caterham. In the meantime, I am not in a position to add anything to the facts that have been publicly reported. I should like to take this opportunity of conveying an expression of profound condolence to the relatives of those who lost their lives in this most regrettable accident.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1246.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1313.0", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ultimately.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "vernment, limited, restricted, experimental, tentative, but we promised, and this is where the pledge comes in, that gradually, if the experiment were successful, that we would ex tend it until India ultimately enjoyed full partnership in the Empire on equal terms with our great Dominions. A great ideal, a noble one, a fruitful one, partnership of the East and West in a great community of nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1313.0", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And rebellion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "mined gradually from time to time by the success that attended the experiment at each stage. May I call the attention of the House, if it is necessary, to the fact that this is the course that has been pursued in every Dominion of this Empire. Canada did not attain Dominion status immediately. It began with self-government of the provinces. It took nearly a generation before you had confederation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1313.0", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER; \"There was no Division!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "erely using the words which were used in another place. Two political parties protested. Up to the present all political parties have acted together. In 1917, the House of Commons was absolutely united in the steps which we took; there was no political party which dissented. In 1919 the Bill passed, not only without any protest by any political party, but with the support of all political parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1313.0", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "f reform was the very subject matter of a Statutory Commission, and a Commission which had a greater authority than the Secretary of State for India, than the whole of the Government, even than the Viceroy upon that particular subject, because it was statutory. It was set up under an Act of Parliament, and upon this matter they were the only people who were authorised by law to express an opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1313.0", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ress an opinion. [ Interruption. ] I do not mean to say that in dividual Members of this House could not express an opinion, but I mean the only official opinion that could be expressed unless Parliament reversed the Act, was the opinion of the Commission. Until the Act is reversed, the only people who are authorised to express an official opinion are the Statutory Commission set up by Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1319.1", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "n made at this stage with regard to Dominion status would create an impression in India, which is a mistaken one, that there was some great change contemplated. I ask the right hon. Gentleman: Were they not right in their prediction, were they not right in their conjecture, that the effect of that declaration would be to create an absolutely false impression as to the intentions of the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1319.1", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " this weighty pronouncement of the Viceroy. What does that mean? It means that the leaders of the Indian National Congress, the whole of the leaders of the Swaraj movement in India, whether extreme or moderate, are under the impression that the joint conference is to be summoned, not to discuss when Dominion status is to be introduced, but actually to frame a scheme for the purpose of carrying it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1319.1", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It does not say that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "eaders of the Indian National Congress, the whole of the leaders of the Swaraj movement in India, whether extreme or moderate, are under the impression that the joint conference is to be summoned, not to discuss when Dominion status is to be introduced, but actually to frame a scheme for the purpose of carrying it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] That seems to be the view of hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1323.2", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "from Indian politics and reintroduced a spirit of confidence and trust between Government and governed and delivered a blow at the Independence movement which has hitherto been gaining daily adherence among Congress men. The \"Times of India,\" not a Swarajist organ, says— The Imperial Government has made a generous gesture. and the London \"Observer,\" which is not a Swarajist organ said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1323.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1330.1", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "I have answered that question specifically by stating that the Declaration of the Viceroy stands as it stands, and I must say this. I must ask the right hon. Gentleman not to cross-question me with a view to making difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1331.0", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nobody believes it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has no right to say that. I was responsible, as head of the Government, for these reforms and for this pledge, and I have as deep a sense of responsibility as he has, and I think I am as patriotic as he is. I am asking this question in order to avoid difficulties, and as the right hon. Gentleman knows, in private—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "I should not have said that the right hon. Gentleman was cross-examining me in order to make difficulties, and I apologise to him. I should not have said that. I should have said that the question he was asking might make difficulties, and the answer to him is this. There is the statement. It is explicit and clear. Nothing has to be added and nothing has to be taken from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1347.0", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN BAKER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN BAKER", "preceding_text": " He told us that you could not separate them; it was a matter of broad general principle, and you ought to deal with the matter on broad lines as a matter of principle. Therefore they were to have an extra pull to help them over difficult times created by their own incompetence. But now, when it comes to distributing money for nothing to people who really need it, there has to be an investigation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1350.2", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "us will, though she may have become wealthy herself or her children have become wealthy and have made her an allowance, be entitled to come in under this Bill and apparently will receive the 10s. a week when there is really no conceivable justification for giving it to her. A widow, say of the age of 54, or a woman who is not a widow at all—a spinster—will not come in under the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1350.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1352.0", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Does the hon. and gallant Member consider that 10s. a week is largesse?", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "e justification for giving it to her. A widow, say of the age of 54, or a woman who is not a widow at all—a spinster—will not come in under the scheme. [An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"] No, not at present but we hope that she will before long. That is why we say that if you are going to distribute this largesse there is some justification for extending the benefits of the Measure to these women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1350.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1357.0", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "preceding_text": "et a pension of 10s. a week for life, surely hon. Members would not desire to penalise other people who may be getting the pension. If a person gets the pension and she is not entitled to it, action can be taken. Some people think that the persons themselves have to make out their need, but I understand from the reservations that the need will be considered by those who are dispensing the pension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1372.3", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "at a weekly wage, and if the Insurance Act had been in force he would have been in an insurable occupation. After a few years, the father died and left the business to the son who a few years ago retired with a fortune. He is still alive, but if he had died, as far as I understand the Bill, because he had been at one time in an insurable occupation his widow would have come under these provisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1372.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1372.3", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": ", and he died many years ago leaving her a widow—the widow of a man who would have been in an insurable occupation. She received a fortune at her father's death, but she would have been eligible under this Bill for a pension. I have a dozen similar cases in my mind from my own experience. We suggest this method as an easy way out of the difficulty although, perhaps, a very objectionable way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1372.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1378.1", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "cannot share that view, and I wish to submit some considerations which seem to me to make this by far the most important part of the Bill, not merely on account of the total money to be expended, but by reason of the principles embodied in it. I wish to state clearly to the Committee what are my views on this topic, because, although my views as an individual are of no importance to anybody—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1379.3", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": " agreed that there may be wealthy widows in such circumstances that you cannot expect them to help themselves, but it is necessary, where you find any member of the community in a position to help in the joint operation between himself and the State, that he should do so, and that the State should not be left to do the whole job. Hon. Gentlemen opposite will observe that I have said nothing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1379.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1382.0", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "en made available, and asked, can we in some way divert some of this money in order that it might be used for other purposes within the Act which would be much more worthy? He attacked the selection of the people who are coming within the scope of the amending Bill, and, as I listened, it seemed to me that his assumption was that all the pre-Act widows in the insurable class are well-to-do people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1382.0", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": " this money in order that it might be used for other purposes within the Act which would be much more worthy? He attacked the selection of the people who are coming within the scope of the amending Bill, and, as I listened, it seemed to me that his assumption was that all the pre-Act widows in the insurable class are well-to-do people. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] That is the whole basis of his argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1387.0", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "spective parties to see what they were going to do, and the Foreign Secretary, a man, one would have thought, with some responsibility, deliberately gave that pledge. He said further—and this is one of the reasons for this Amendment—that there was money in the Pensions Fund which would permit not only of every widow in the country receiving a pension but of the pension being increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1387.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1389.3", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"From rich widows.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "um of money amongst the various classes of the community who are in need. I heard one hon. Member on my own side saying that this Bill was apparently put forward as a popular proposal. There was never a greater mistake made by anyone. There is nothing popular in this proposal because it is so grossly unjust. Everyone will be supporting this Amendment before long. Every day we are get ting letters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1389.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1395.1", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Mr. Johnston)", "preceding_text": "Surely for fantastic irrelevance the speech to which we have just listened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-07", "file": "debates1929-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "4af0a3fe072e4eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1396.2", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": " became an Eastern Princess. A woman who is in the insured class now might become the legatee of a South American millionaire, but these are units among thousands, and the suggestion of hon. Members opposite that, without a test as to means, there will be placed on the pensions list, out of the insured class, multitudes of wealthy widows is a fantasy. We oppose the Amendment on the ground of cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-07a.1396.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1499.9", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "I take it that nothing will be done in this matter without the assent of Parliament?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1499.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1520.8", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Active consideration!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "Seeing that in the reply to which the right hon. Gentleman has referred it was stated that the matter was under consideration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1520.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1524.8", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "No ideas at all.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has no idea of the number?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1524.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1578.1", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "I only wish that you, Sir, had been the Speaker or had been in the Chair during the last Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1578.1", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " we are only concerned with the case of rich widows who might get pensions. We are bringing in these Amendments in order to make the Bill a better Bill. Hon. Members opposite have proclaimed, this is only a first instalment of a wider scheme of insurance, but surely it would be better for them to leave out the word \"insurance\" altogether if they are going to give money on a non-contributory basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One per cent.!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " test of necessity was put into the Act as far as the pre-Act widows was concerned. Suppose for a moment it was agreed— I do not say that I do agree—that £250 was the proper means limit: Consider what we should have to do. It would mean that every single applicant for a pension under this Bill would have to undergo an examination, in order to catch perhaps a very small proportion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1585.0", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And you want to add more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "s under those particular pro visions. Just as many disagreeable questions will have to be put to the widow of a man who died 30 or 40 years ago with regard to what was his insurance status and matters of that kind as would have to be put to her about her means. Therefore so far as the very large proportion of these people are concerned similar questions will have to be put to them under this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1585.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1599.0", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "preceding_text": " That indignation should be directed, not against us, but against his own leader. It was the Prime Minister who laid it down that the object of his party was to help the widow in need, and it is to fulfil that object that this Amendment has been put down. It would save a lot of time if we did not allow ourselves to be led on one side by appeals either to passions or to street corner methods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1599.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1599.0", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "preceding_text": "r who laid it down that the object of his party was to help the widow in need, and it is to fulfil that object that this Amendment has been put down. It would save a lot of time if we did not allow ourselves to be led on one side by appeals either to passions or to street corner methods—[ Interruption ]—but concentrated exclusively upon the important but limited Amendment on the Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1599.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1599.2", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "preceding_text": "troduce the Income Tax limitation. We have not been told by the Government that this cannot be done. It is no use hon. Members opposite talking vaguely about an inquisition into means. Under this Bill already there will be a far more serious inquisition, a far more irritating and far seeking inquisition, than would follow from the mere limitation of pensions to those who are not Income Tax payers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1599.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1600.2", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "preceding_text": "e believe that the principle it embodies should be strongly pressed. I think the difficulty over this point arises because the Bill is not based upon logic, because the Government have seen fit to depart from the contributory basis and find themselves in these difficulties. No doubt they will find themselves in many more. Everyone on this side dislikes intensely any form of inquisition into means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1600.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1600.3", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "in-aid of rates in order that rates paid by certain industrialists might be reduced by 75 per cent., and then the other side never asked whether they were paupers or brewers, or whether they filled in their Income Tax papers properly. It is pure cant. We in the Labour party believe in pensions for the people, and we have never asked any questions as to whether they are entitled to pensions or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1600.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1600.3", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much would you like?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": " never asked whether they were paupers or brewers, or whether they filled in their Income Tax papers properly. It is pure cant. We in the Labour party believe in pensions for the people, and we have never asked any questions as to whether they are entitled to pensions or not. [ Interruption. ] I am going to justify that. I say it is not a question of people's means; they are citizens of the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1600.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1602.5", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You will not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "The question of the means limit has been brought in, and, therefore, I have pointed out some fallacies in connection with it, from an ordinary working-class point of view. I am not a financial expert. I was born without anything, and I shall go out without anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1602.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1602.5", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "The question of the means limit has been brought in, and, therefore, I have pointed out some fallacies in connection with it, from an ordinary working-class point of view. I am not a financial expert. I was born without anything, and I shall go out without anything. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You will not!\"] I shall; I cannot take it with me, and you cannot either; it would melt if you did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1602.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1606.0", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "ot treating the Committee with the frankness it deserves for Ministers to equivocate on the subject of the number of widows who would be excluded. The last argument, that it would postpone the beginning of this large reform, strikes me, especially if you read it in connection with the other provisions of the Bill, as almost cynical when one re collects that the distribution of this largesse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1606.0", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Drop that finger!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "on of this largesse—[ Interruption. ] As we have several times had occasion to explain to hon. Members opposite, largesse is not a quantitative, but a qualitative, term. If the hon. Member does not know the difference between quantity and quality, I shall be delighted to explain, but not by taking up the time of the Committee. The Minister is to be the sole judge of who is to get this money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1617.0", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And old age pensions!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": "I must adhere to my ruling. This is a Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Bill", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1617.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1626.0", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You took it away!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "ds it or not, she is to get this pension? Consider the position of a widow with children. One of the arguments used against the 1925 Act, at any rate that Section which dealt with pre-Act widows, was that you gave to a widow a pension for herself and a pension for her children until they became of the age of 14, and after she had enjoyed that for a certain length of time you took it away from her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1626.0", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "mind that there were definite pledges from the party opposite that if they were returned to office, they would sweep away all the anomalies of the 1925 Act. They asked, \"Why should Mrs. Jones draw a pension and Mrs. Smith not draw a pension\"? They said they did not recognise age limits or anything else—not when they were seeking votes. They said that they were out to give all women pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1630.1", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": " Member for Edgbaston (Mr. Chamberlain). That Act was described as a monstrous thing and the right hon. Gentle man the Member for Shettleston (Mr. Wheatley) said that it was robbing the old man's cash box. Those who were in the House at the time remember the very strong and turbulent language in which that Measure was attacked by the party opposite. Now they have come back to put everything right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1640.0", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "Up till now we have been dealing with Amendments intended to wreck the Bill, Amendments against the whole principle of the Bill, Amendments designed to embarrass the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1640.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1654.4", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "flippant remarks of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for West Woolwich (Sir K. Wood), whose paucity of imagination in this Bill has led him to repeat the same speech on every possible occasion. I would suggest to him that he should buy a gramophone record which would let everybody know about the Prime Minister's pledge during the General Election. This opposition is purely fractious opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1654.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1654.4", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "How. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "nconsistent and contradictory Amendments from Members on the opposite benches. First of all, they want more people in the Bill, and then they want fewer people in the Bill. Whatever we do, we are wrong. All these Amendments are put forward, not with any desire to improve the Bill, but with a desire to obstruct it. I give hon. Members below the Gangway the credit for a sincere desire to improve it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1654.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1670.5", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Not given!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "( seated and covered ): I wish to ask whether, in view of the unsatisfactory nature of the reply given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1670.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-11", "file": "debates1929-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "e8f5f376a7a2abd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1677.0", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How are you going to do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ure. It means that in the coming months referees are to be asked to handle between 300,000 and 400,000 cases, and that is utterly impracticable. Work it out in the coming months, from, say, March to June of next year, after which certain pensions will become payable. It would mean, unless the scheme is to be allowed to break down, that on every working day 2,000 claims will have to be disposed of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-11a.1677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1698.8", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not answer it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "The House is certainly entitled to know that, and any question about that will be answered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1698.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1715.6", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that those Estimates cannot possibly be taken until April, will the Prime Minister take an opportunity of explaining what he meant when he told the electors last May—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1715.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1783.1", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, he has not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "Withdraw! The right hon. Gentleman is bringing a charge against hon. Members of this House. [ Interruption. ] The right hon. Gentle man has made a charge against my hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1783.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1792.0", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "just one of those rare occasions which arise when the Committee should express itself as a Committee, irrespective of the Front Benches—much as we admire them—who have actually to use these powers which they are seeking and which they are asking us to give. Some of us in the last Parliament protested against the extension of these bureaucratic powers, and we were not always successful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1807.2", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "ll. I am not going to follow the hare that has been raised by the mention of Mr. Burke. I hope the Government will refuse to accept the Amendment. I have listened to the case for it and it seems to be this, that the Minister of Health may make mistakes, that he is human, therefore there ought to be an appeal. That assumes that a court of referees, or some other judicial body, cannot make mistakes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1807.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1843.2", "colnum": "1843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "I will endeavour to address myself to the Amendment and, if I can, to give some reason why it should receive the consideration of the Committee and induce the right hon. Gentle man to give some reply on behalf of the Government. In regard to the little controversy which I regret I should have had with anyone opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1843.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1844.0", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "That is not so.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentle man to give some reply on behalf of the Government. In regard to the little controversy which I regret I should have had with anyone opposite—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—a personal controversy, I would point out that my right hon. Friend distinctly stated the difference between the two Amendments. It will be found that no agreement whatever was made in connection with the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1843.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1850.2", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But he has not left a widow!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has raised a very interesting point as regards normal occupation. I think the right hon. Gentleman might reasonably claim that his normal occupation was that of a Cabinet Minister, but also it might be held that he was at some time employed as a bricklayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1850.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1860.8", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, in page 2, line 5, after the word society,\" to insert the words \"or of the Navy, Army, and Air Force Insurance Fund. I am very much obliged to you, Sir, for your Ruling, but I would point out, in the first place, that I am not one of the hon. Members for Devonport, I am the only hon. Member for Devonport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1860.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1864.6", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1864.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1874.6", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the great sympathy for policemen expressed by hon. Members opposite. Having been in their hands once or twice I have an equal sympathy with them. But this Bill deals with a contributory pensions scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1874.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1874.6", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ed hut the principle has 'been extended to those who were not contributors. The point has been raised about those men who, having served in the police before 1918, may have left the police and gone into other employments, and the question is whether they have joined contributory employment or not—whether they belong to the class of people whose widows are entitled to benefit under this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1874.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1878.3", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Five years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "No, under the Act of 1925 it is provided that he gets a pension if there are 104 stamps on his card. Before his widow can get a police widow's pension under the Police Act of 1921, he must have been a subscriber to the Police Pension Fund for, I think it was, 10 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1878.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1884.0", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "n the discretion of the Chair the Amendment was not called. We are now in the difficulty, that if we vote for the Amendment we are going to give a certain section of that big class a privilege. There are a number of hon. Members on all sides of the Committee in a real dilemma as to what they shall do with their vote. None of us wants to make party advantage out of this particular class of persons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1884.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1899.1", "colnum": "1899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: NO.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " of the previous five years, whatever the other four years may be, a man earns more than £500, his widow is to be denied the pension, although he was of the insurable class. It is not that he should be earning £500 for five years; it is, if for one year he earns £500 but in the remaining four years earns, perhaps, only 40 shillings a week, his widow is to be deprived of the pension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1899.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1903.2", "colnum": "1903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "preceding_text": "I have several other arguments. Let me ask this, what is meant by \"the late war\"? I should like to know how many wars there have been in India. There was a certain amount of warfare in the defence of Shanghai which hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1903.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1904.0", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "preceding_text": "I venture to suggest for the consideration of yourself and the Committee that there are a great many reasons why we should report Progress and consider the fresh point of view. We have not had any explanation from the Government on a very important point", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1904.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1904.2", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "preceding_text": "thing in support of the Motion. I am confident that the Committee ought not to proceed further until we have the Government proposals on the Paper and have had at least the whole of Wednesday to consider them. That would give us a reasonable opportunity of judging what these proposals amount to, and how they may affect a very large number of people. We should not discuss what we do not understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1904.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1907.0", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " the opposite side and had proposed a Motion to report Progress in connection with the Fighting Services. It would have been said that we were acting in a most unpatriotic manner. This new Amendment is not a restrictive Amendment. Anybody who has heard it read twice ought at least to understand the substance of it and I am not saying that he would necessarily understand all its implications—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1907.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1917.5", "colnum": "1917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": "I quite admit that it is always to the convenience of the Committee that the Amendments should be in the hands of hon. Members. That is not a matter for the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1917.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1930.1", "colnum": "1930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "preceding_text": "If the Committee keeps the words as they are at present the people affected will be of a varying class because the words \"late War\" have a very indefinite meaning. I raised the point earlier in the Debate and I think it is one of considerable substance. If you took these words to a court of law I think it would be very difficult to get a definition of what the war was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1930.1", "colnum": "1930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "preceding_text": " interruptions. I do not know who is going to respond to this proposal but if the Minister does so I would suggest that we should have from him some definite information as to the real meaning of the words the \"late War.\" I am aware in the 1925 Act the words \"late War\" is inserted, but I suggest that it is time we had a proper definition which will safeguard the widows of the men who are affected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1930.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1945.1", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "preceding_text": "I gather, Sir, that you are bound by Standing Orders. We also recognise that election pledges are a very sore subject to the opposite side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1954.0", "colnum": "1954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "of Health, and certainly if the Minister of Health has a right to submit not merely a manuscript Amendment but a manuscript Sub-section, the Opposition has a perfect right to submit Amendments. Hon. Members who sit above and below the gangway opposite find themselves, I am sure, in full agreement with me when I say that all-night sittings do not lead to legislation which is a credit to this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1954.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1963.2", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Read it again.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "e words last inserted, to insert the words: (iv) that having joined the Naval or Military Forces of the Crown for temporary service only in connection with any war previous to the late War, he served during that War as a man of those Forces for a period of not less than two years and died within three years of the termination of that period; or. I cannot imagine a more clearly expressed Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1967.2", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "preceding_text": "I think the Committee will agree that the more the Government try to alter this Bill the more hard cases appear to arise. There is the question of the Royal Defence Corps. It is extremely hard to know, without the Amendment before us, when the qualifying period begins. There is also the question of the women who served—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1967.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1968.7", "colnum": "1968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I want to know whether it is competent for the hon. and gallant Member to bring into question all these additional widows of the women who—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1968.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1969.5", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Nor of schoolmistresses.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "I shall observe your exhortation, Sir, and should respect the dignity of the House in every way. This is not an assembly of schoolchildren.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1969.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1976.4", "colnum": "1976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "y,\" the other qualification must be that they must have had two years' service. I should like to ask what wars he has in mind. The hon. Lady did say something about three or four people whose husbands had served in the Crimea. I rather doubt whether she is right. At the time of the Crimean war there were in fact no temporary soldiers. All those who went out there were on the regular establishment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1976.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1982.2", "colnum": "1982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut-Colonel ACLAND-TROYTE", "preceding_text": "I ask leave to withdraw my Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1982.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1990.3", "colnum": "1990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Is it necessary for the hon. Member to be insulting as well as boring?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1990.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-12", "file": "debates1929-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "246d6f3a89767cc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1990.4", "colnum": "1990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "I am sure that I would never ask the hon. Member to withdraw anything unless it were absolutely necessary. The Minister will not consider it insulting when I say that he does not appear to have realised the importance of the Egyptian campaigns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-12a.1990.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-13", "file": "debates1929-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e5f875fded9743d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-13a.2010.9", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Marquess of TITCHFIELD", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman make inquiries into this matter? It is very important. Does he not realise that this statement proves that the promises made by the Russian Government are not worth the paper on which they are written?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-13a.2010.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-13", "file": "debates1929-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e5f875fded9743d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-13a.2045.2", "colnum": "2045", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that, owing to the gracious intervention of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, that has been done, but it does not detract from the legal position, and this may happen again; and is the hon. Gentleman also aware that the magistrate who sentenced this prisoner added insult to injury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-13a.2045.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-13", "file": "debates1929-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e5f875fded9743d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-13a.2089.2", "colnum": "2089", "heading": "EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Maiden speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": "I did not understand so, Mr. Deputy-Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-13a.2089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-13", "file": "debates1929-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e5f875fded9743d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-13a.2125.4", "colnum": "2125", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT LEGISLATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Parliament!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "preceding_text": "ttention which should be given to all the subjects brought before the House, they would have to live longer lives than any of us can hope to live. If we are to exempt the House from that criticism and apply our time to more important matters of legislation we ought to improve these Standing Orders and relieve our Members from sitting on proposals which have had the experience of local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-13a.2125.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-13", "file": "debates1929-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e5f875fded9743d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-13a.2173.1", "colnum": "2173", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT LEGISLATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "mphasising the very point that I am presenting to the House. The fact, assuming it to be a fact, that there are too many there is not within the competence of this House, but is due to the officials and corporations who engage these men, and, therefore, it could not be the subject of inquiry by this House. There is, however, a branch of this matter which could be inquired into by this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-13a.2173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2189.12", "colnum": "2189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "Will these men, after serving their term, receive unemploy- ment benefit without having to prove that they have been endeavouring to obtain honest work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2189.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2190.0", "colnum": "2190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "preceding_text": "If that be a serious question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2190.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2220.4", "colnum": "2220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POOR LAW.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, order!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. GRATTAN-DOYLE", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the right hon. Gentleman has undoubtedly made up his mind now as to what his probable course will be, why cannot he announce it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2220.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2227.6", "colnum": "2227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POOR LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman if on the occasion at least he will stir himself out of the lethargy——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2227.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2236.0", "colnum": "2236", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not an official organ!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in the official organ of the Labour party to-day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2282.1", "colnum": "2282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "econcilable principles; that is to say, how they reconciled on the one hand giving pensions to those who have not contributed, and, on the other hand, refusing pensions to people who have made 103 contributions. I think there will be no difference of opinion in any quarter of the House that emoluments paid out of public funds to people in the country seldom produce any gratitude to the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2285.4", "colnum": "2285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "lete attention to the points I have raised, and I hope that this one is deserving of her attention. I know that it is quite wrong and makes bad law to generalise from exceptional circumstances, but I do not feel these two widows' cases which have happened to come within my notice in the last few days are exceptional. We on these benches will have to justify ourselves before our constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2285.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2290.1", "colnum": "2290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You can put another one down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEE", "preceding_text": "rried on a Division. I have risen simply for the purpose of stating one case that has come to my notice which the Amendment would not remedy. I know of a case where a man paid 104 contributions, because he paid a week in advance, but because the 104 weeks had not elapsed benefit has been denied to the widow. This Amendment, while looking at one side of an anomaly, does not touch that point at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2290.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2319.3", "colnum": "2319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "contributory pensions, I put it to him that administratively, at the lowest, but probably anyhow, it is going to be almost impossible—if he wants to—to get rid of the contributory pension system, on the ground of finance for one thing, and on the very ground of fairness for another. Therefore, these difficulties will not increase—I mean these difficulties will not decrease—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2319.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2321.1", "colnum": "2321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "n. Member for Gorbals (Mr. Buchanan) made a great appeal that the point should be settled by the Minister, because he said we could question this decision. Whether that be a good point or not, it seems to me that you will give the applicant a better chance if you give her two chances instead of one; give her the Department first and then another appeal. Of course, there must be finality somewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2321.1", "colnum": "2321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "pt our criticism. I have always made my position quite clear, and I believe it is the position of the whole of my party, and it is that we wish to see pensions put on such a basis that pensioners obtain them as a right. One of my objections to this Clause is that we are going away from that principle. There is no right in any contributory or legal sense; there may be in the charitable sense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2321.1", "colnum": "2321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "as to cost: The figure of £80,000,000 or so has been bandied about in the course of Debate and has figured in some of the Papers and questions and answers which deal with this Measure, but it remains true that the right hon. Gentleman said that he did not know what the capital cost would be, because it had not been worked out. That is my final comment on this question. It is my final comment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2321.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2331.0", "colnum": "2331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You need not worry about that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "to a speech of quite exceptional interest and power, the speech of a man who, however much many of us may differ from him—and we do differ from him—in some fundamental considerations, is, we recognise, sincere and has the courage of his sincerity. I watched, while he made his speech, an air of pensiveness, and even of melancholy, overspreading the countenances of hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2331.0", "colnum": "2331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " watched, while he made his speech, an air of pensiveness, and even of melancholy, overspreading the countenances of hon. Members opposite. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You need not worry about that!\"] I am not worrying about that; but I think they were worrying about it, because they realised that that speech to which they have just listened will be made in their constituencies, to their constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2331.0", "colnum": "2331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "y, and, as a matter of fact, unless some miracle happens, unless, as the hon. Member said there were to be such a prodigious revival in trade during the next three years as would create a whole new class of super-tax payers, and incidentally, of course, raise the general level of prosperity in the country, it is quite certain that the country could not afford a scheme of non-contributory pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2338.0", "colnum": "2338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " been fortunate enough to escape a cross fire. Both my hon. Friend the Member for Camlachie (Mr. Stephen) and the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Edgbaston (Mr. Chamberlain) during the time they were in double harness put the same point as to the time of the next Measure. Every Member of this House knows what a foolish question that is. It is a question which is lacking in political sincerity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2338.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2340.0", "colnum": "2340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "bout two systems running side by side. I should like the Committee to appreciate the logic of what that means. If to meet any human need you introduce a system of contributory insurance and you do not have two systems running side by side, there will be needy people left out, and they can never come in. Does it mean that hon. Members opposite do not want to do anything for the pre-Act needy widow?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2338.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2341.0", "colnum": "2341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "To be true to their principles, they cannot. If you have a system of widows' pensions introduced by any date, I do not care what date, if you want to avoid two systems running side by side you can only do so by excluding the widows who are widows when your scheme comes into force. Is that the intention of hon. Members opposite?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2340.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2342.3", "colnum": "2342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I welcome the right hon. Gentleman's conversion to Poplarism, and indeed it is most terrifying in the person of the right hon. Member for West Woolwich. At any rate it is a very considerable contribution, I place it no higher than that. This is not a perfect Bill; it is a partial Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2342.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2343.0", "colnum": "2343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And in Leith.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": "for Shettleston (Mr. Wheatley) about the measure of the right hon. Gentleman for Edgbaston (Mr. Chamberlain) for, speaking in Glasgow on that Bill, the right hon. Member for Shettleston described it as the most heartless and contemptuous fraud ever perpetrated on a helpless people. At any rate we can mark a growth in moderation of the Members from Clydeside, which I hope will be noted in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2343.0", "colnum": "2343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You did not go on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": " appreciate just how far the nation can go within its resources on the line advocated by hon. Members opposite. This is a partial Bill, and after having listened to the discussion about finance and after hearing the Parliamentary Secretary turn down our Amendment to lower the age from 55 to 45—not now in the Clause—the Minister says that 55 is the age at which our economic power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2346.3", "colnum": "2346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GUNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GUNSTON", "preceding_text": "lways given us. I think, however, that one of the most astounding speeches ever made by the Minister of Health—and he is always surprising us—was made this afternoon when he tried to give a new definition of \"need.\" When we challenged hon. Members opposite regarding the Prime Minister's pledge that every widow in need would have a pension, they laughed in a rather uncomfortable manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2346.3", "colnum": "2346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GUNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, they did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GUNSTON", "preceding_text": "class. That is the new definition and I shall examine how it is going to help hon. Members when they come to explain their broken promises to the electors. The Minister went on to say that of course these pledges could not be carried out at once, and that it would require many King's Speeches to do so. I do not think that the leaders of the Labour party said so in the country at the last Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2353.9", "colnum": "2353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "I would like the hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2353.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2353.9", "colnum": "2353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "I would like the hon. Lady—[ Interruption. ] I think that I am justified in asking the hon. Lady if she will see to it that they are included.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2353.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2356.0", "colnum": "2356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "I shall not detain the Committee long. I never do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2356.0", "colnum": "2356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "wing all about non-contributory pensions it is remark- able how enthusiastic you are against them. I believe in pensions for everybody—just the same as you do, when you chose your parents properly. They can have pensions from the day they go into the cradle until the day they go into the soap box. It is contemptible cant. I say it again, it is contemptible cant to hear these crocodile tears.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2367.1", "colnum": "2367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "This is one of the occasions when there appears to be a spirit of harmony in the Committee. I think that the case made out for widows over 55 is really irresistible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2374.0", "colnum": "2374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "preceding_text": ". The Minister of Health said it is unfair that a spinster of 55 should get an old age pension when a married woman of 55 does not, but then a married woman of 55 has consolations which a spinster of 55 has not. Up to the time when she becomes a widow she has a husband. There is a considerable chance that if she has lived to 55 she has a quiverful of children. I would say if I were a married woman", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2376.0", "colnum": "2376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "years if I had children, and, if I were a spinster within the meaning of the Act, being deprived of the joy and solace of children, I should have the pleasure of knowing that I would get my pension 10 years earlier than my more fortunate married sister. I can only speak for myself, but I am encouraged to believe that there are very many Liberals on these benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2377.2", "colnum": "2377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "tch your husband and become a widow at your own option, they can retain their pension rights. This is an obvious, and, as I hope, an unintended illogicality. Surely the only thing that matters is the nationality and status of the person concerned, and, if a man's work should take him temporarily to any part of the world, whether it be Mesopotamia or Persia, it does not seem to me to matter —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2377.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2385.0", "colnum": "2385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "I am not at all satisfied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2385.0", "colnum": "2385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"YOU have been told!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "I am not at all satisfied. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I cannot understand the attitude of hon. Members opposite. Surely, their loyalty is to these people. I know the position they are in from the correspondence that I have received. I want to make sure that they are going to be covered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2398.0", "colnum": "2398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "May I ask a question upon that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-14", "file": "debates1929-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba6808141fa0525d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2399.3", "colnum": "2399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS' ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " they go abroad cease to be compulsorily insured persons. They become voluntarily insured persons and, as such, have to pay a double contribution. The hon. Member is asking me to take power by special order to levy a contribution upon the Crown. As I understand his case, it is that he desires, when these people are sent on foreign service, that the Crown should continue to pay their contributions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-14a.2399.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-15", "file": "debates1929-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "55c205241be6d94b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-15a.2421.2", "colnum": "2421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANNUAL HOLIDAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "much if not more than those who so easily obtain it, see those who enjoy salaries going to the mountains, the country or the seaside, and themselves having to stay at home because of the sparseness of their economic resources. I am here to plead for the men and the women, some of whom have written to me, who have been working for the same firm for years, and have not yet had a real annual holiday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-15a.2421.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-15", "file": "debates1929-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "55c205241be6d94b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-15a.2435.0", "colnum": "2435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANNUAL HOLIDAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain AUSTIN HUDSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, 2¼ d., surely.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain AUSTIN HUDSON", "preceding_text": "but if the same kind of thing is going to happen in private industries, it shakes confidence and causes more unemployment. I had some rather interesting facts given me by a coal owner as to the effects of such a Bill as this on the mining industry. The mining industry have worked out that this Bill would cost them £2,250,000 a year extra, and that that would come to a cost of 2s. 2d. per ton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-15a.2435.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-15", "file": "debates1929-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "55c205241be6d94b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-15a.2435.0", "colnum": "2435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANNUAL HOLIDAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain AUSTIN HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain AUSTIN HUDSON", "preceding_text": "ovisions of the Bill will have to be arrived at before the Bill, if it ever does pass, be comes law. Clause 5 is a most important provision, because it says that any agreement, written or oral, express or implied, made either before or after the commencement of this Act.… shall be void. That means that every agreement between employers and employed has to be scrapped, and a new one drawn up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-15a.2435.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-15", "file": "debates1929-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "55c205241be6d94b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-15a.2443.1", "colnum": "2443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANNUAL HOLIDAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": " allow for that week or fortnight's non-production. Therefore, strictly speaking, this Bill does not give increased benefits to the workers, but is a Bill which will actually reduce the emoluments of the workers. In the long run, the question of the rates of pay given by an employer is not settled by the employer himself. The employer pays the highest rate of wages the industry can afford to give.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-15a.2443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-15", "file": "debates1929-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "55c205241be6d94b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-15a.2443.1", "colnum": "2443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANNUAL HOLIDAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": " the law of supply and demand, and the inevitable result will be that the wages of the workers will be reduced 2 per cent. to cover the cost of the holidays for which they are going to receive pay. What is the position in this country respecting holidays? I do not think hon. Gentlemen opposite can deny that the great majority, I should say 99 per cent., of the people of this country have holidays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-15a.2443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-15", "file": "debates1929-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "55c205241be6d94b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-15a.2451.0", "colnum": "2451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANNUAL HOLIDAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: Why \"even\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "preceding_text": "icultural districts many of the agricultural workers have never been beyond the nearest market town, perhaps half-a-dozen miles away. It is not so much that they have not the money; it is that they have not the time. During the last 20 years the whole idea of an annual holiday has been growing in men's minds. The humblest office boy has an annual holiday nowadays, and even domestic servants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-15a.2451.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-11-15", "file": "debates1929-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "55c205241be6d94b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-15a.2458.0", "colnum": "2458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANNUAL HOLIDAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "May I ask on what basis the hon. Gentleman makes the calculation that it will require £40,000,000 to carry out the provisions of this Bill?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir NAIRNE SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": "through the House of Commons which means a charge upon trade and industry of £40,000,000. It is perfectly absurd. I wish there were someone on the Treasury Bench from the Treasury who would let us have their view upon the question. I think it is simply a question of idealists—and we have all got our ideal feelings as to what we would like to do—allowing their feelings to run riot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-15a.2457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-15", "file": "debates1929-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "55c205241be6d94b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-15a.2459.2", "colnum": "2459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANNUAL HOLIDAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": "Take 10 per cent. off—it cannot be more than 10 per cent.—and it would still leave £36,000,000, which is a pretty big sum of money in respect of which to come here on a Friday and ask the House blindly to pass a Bill. Who is going to pay? By bringing in a Bill of this character the Socialist party are proposing a reduction of 2½ per cent. in the wages of the workpeople.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-15a.2459.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-15", "file": "debates1929-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "55c205241be6d94b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-15a.2460.3", "colnum": "2460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANNUAL HOLIDAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": "yed into employment you will get increased purchasing power, with a vengeance, and in that event I will readily back a Bill for a holiday with a week's pay, with the greatest pleasure. Not one of the basic trades upon which we have to rely for our exports, which pay for our imports, is paying. Take the coal trade. We have been told that the proposal in the Bill would cost 2.2d., at the very least.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-15a.2460.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-15", "file": "debates1929-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "55c205241be6d94b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-15a.2468.1", "colnum": "2468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANNUAL HOLIDAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GERVAIS RENTOUL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERVAIS RENTOUL", "preceding_text": "name was attached to the Amendment, and therefore I am glad to have the opportunity of saying some thing with regard to this Bill. A few nights ago, in the Parliamentary summary which was broadcast on the wireless, so much prominence was given to this Bill, for some reason which I am quite unable to follow, that many people in the country must have imagined that it was a first-class Measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-15a.2468.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-11-15", "file": "debates1929-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "55c205241be6d94b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-15a.2471.0", "colnum": "2471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANNUAL HOLIDAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. RENTOUL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. RENTOUL", "preceding_text": "commendation from the Town Clerk of Lowestoft, because he happens to be a very intelligent and far-sighted official. Certainly, if the hon. Member had included a compulsory provision in his Bill, among the many other compulsory provisions, that would insist that those who were given this holiday had to spend some portion of it at Lowestoft, I should have felt far more sympathetic towards his Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-11-15a.2471.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-09", "file": "debates1929-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa10382b9072220f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-09a.87.5", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"How does the hon. and gallant Member arrive at that figure?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " ever since last July. In July we found £3,500,000. In this Bill we are finding £8,000,000 for the transitional period and one million pounds for ad- ministration. Then there is a further £4,000,000 for new benefits. Those sums amount to £16,500,000. To this amount has to be added, as a result of the debate of last Thursday, a sum of, I suggest, at least £4,000,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-09a.87.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-10", "file": "debates1929-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc29d453d02bb9e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Thursday!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "s or demerits, as the case may be. A White Paper has just been placed in our hands, which indicates the programme of the Lord Privy Seal. Surely, before we separate for December and January, there ought to be an opportunity for a full discussion upon that programme, and I trust that the right hon. Gentleman will find a day for that purpose. When will the Coal Mines Bill be in the hands of Members?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.250.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-10", "file": "debates1929-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc29d453d02bb9e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.250.1", "colnum": "250", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "entleman thinks that we are saddling them with too much. We are trying to get through what, I admit, is a pretty heavy programme, but it is essential that it should be done. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Hon. Members know perfectly well that I am not likely at this time of the Session to be too controversial, but a very large part of the work which we found we had to do was left over by our predecessors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-10", "file": "debates1929-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc29d453d02bb9e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.251.3", "colnum": "251", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir LAMING WORTHINGTONEVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir LAMING WORTHINGTONEVANS", "preceding_text": "sures which the Government are proposing to take until after Christmas. He proposes definitely to deprive the Opposition of the right to discuss the White Paper which is now being put in the Vote Office for the first time to-day, and he is doing that, as I suggest, quite unnecessarily, because he has got the time which could be used for the purpose if he were to postpone the Coal Mines Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.251.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-10", "file": "debates1929-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc29d453d02bb9e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.252.2", "colnum": "252", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "By the leave of the House, might I say it is of the utmost importance that the Second Reading of the Coal Mines Bill should be taken before Christmas?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.252.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-10", "file": "debates1929-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc29d453d02bb9e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.253.0", "colnum": "253", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": " be gained, and that the Government may possibly reconsider proposals in the light of any criticism expressed. May I put this? In the first place, this is a Bill of apparently so difficult a character that it is now six months since the President of the Board of Trade announced the general lines of his policy, and it has taken him, six months to prepare the Bill which he is now going to circulate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-10", "file": "debates1929-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc29d453d02bb9e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.253.0", "colnum": "253", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Make it four!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "policy, and it has taken him, six months to prepare the Bill which he is now going to circulate. [ Interruption. ] I think the Prime Minister would wish these questions put. It was before the Recess that the President of the Board of Trade announced his intention and the general lines of the question with which he proposed to deal. It is now six months, or very nearly six months—five months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-10", "file": "debates1929-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc29d453d02bb9e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "the House and the country. All important Bills since I have been in the House have been introduced in that way. We could then have a discussion, it may be a day's discussion, on the First Reading of the Bill on the question that leave be given to introduce the Bill. That does not force a division. That was the course followed in the case of the Home Rule Bill of 1903, a very controversial Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-10", "file": "debates1929-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc29d453d02bb9e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": " the situation that we are going to have three weeks' holiday. In my constituency, there are thousands of people who are not certain of a decent Christmas dinner. They will be on semi-starvation during the three weeks that we are on holiday, and, when all these questions of time come up for consideration, cannot we consider them? If it is necessary to have a day's discussion on unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-10", "file": "debates1929-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc29d453d02bb9e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "loyment—[ Interruption ]—some hon. Members may wriggle in their seats—I must point out that the people we represent are not so anxious as we are about holidays. Cannot we give them a whole week's discussion? I shall be pleased to 'meet hon. Members opposite and discuss unemployment at any time. They know more about it than I do. Some of them have been out of work all their lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-10", "file": "debates1929-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc29d453d02bb9e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Saturday!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ation and consideration of details, and that is best done after the Second Reading of a Bill and before the Committee stage. That is what I had in mind. So far as unemployment is concerned, it is absolutely impossible to discuss it and take the Coal Mines Bill unless we have an extra day. I should be glad to arrange an extra day in such a way as to suit the convenience of all parties in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-10", "file": "debates1929-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc29d453d02bb9e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 12.—(Further amendment of s. 14 (2) of 17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 30).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "ve in an exceptional period of employment. The question then arises, what is going to happen to these people; and I take it that that is the point the Amendment is raising. We say that, for some time at any rate, these people must have protection through the Unemployment Fund, but I cannot agree with the suggestion that there might be a possibility of driving them back on to the local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-10", "file": "debates1929-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc29d453d02bb9e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 12.—(Further amendment of s. 14 (2) of 17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 30).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "ne of demarcation between the two classes of unemployed. [Horn. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I understood the hon. Member for West Nottingham (Mr. Hayday) to take an entirely different view, considering it better to keep one class of unemployed. An hon. Member who spoke subsequently also agreed. What I want to know, and what I think we are entitled to know, is what the Government are going to do on this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-10", "file": "debates1929-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc29d453d02bb9e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.318.0", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 12.—(Further amendment of s. 14 (2) of 17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 30).", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "with unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-10", "file": "debates1929-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc29d453d02bb9e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.323.0", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 12.—(Further amendment of s. 14 (2) of 17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 30).", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"He is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "hat because the Umpire has laid down a certain doctrine in Decision 5061, therefore that doctrine is to be like the law of the Medes and the Persians. It cannot be touched, and on that account a provision which reasonably construed as is good in itself, has to go. There has never been an argument like it put forward in this land before. With all respect to the umpire, he is not a court of justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.323.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-10", "file": "debates1929-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc29d453d02bb9e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Provision of approved courses of instruction for persons under eighteen.)", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "me, however, is intended to provide for juveniles of from 14 to 18 years of age. We attach special importance to the clause of the report noting that the scheme is regarded in many respects as experimental, and but for that clause, we should not have felt able to accept the report. The circular sent out by the right hon. Lady is far more reactionary than anything that the late Government sent out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-10", "file": "debates1929-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc29d453d02bb9e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Provision of approved courses of instruction for persons under eighteen.)", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "oing to be dependent on consultations with the Minister of Educa- tion and with the Treasury. We have heard great rows outside about what the Chancellor of the Exchequer has done. We know that he is adamant. As to the Minister of Education, I feel like a certain singer. He reminds me of the lines: Say something, sweet Belinda, Thy voice I long to hear. I have hardly been able to resist singing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-10", "file": "debates1929-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc29d453d02bb9e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Provision of approved courses of instruction for persons under eighteen.)", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Nobody knows better than the hon. Member. Why was he so keen against lowering the insurance age in 1924? Because he said it would make it much more difficult to raise the school age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-10", "file": "debates1929-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc29d453d02bb9e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Provision of approved courses of instruction for persons under eighteen.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "Well, in another part of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-10", "file": "debates1929-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc29d453d02bb9e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.345.2", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Provision of approved courses of instruction for persons under eighteen.)", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": " of this kind we should have from the President of the Board of Education his definition of what he means by \"so far as is practicable,\" or tell us what is in his mind. It is essentially a matter for his Department. It may be that these words have had to be put in, but from the point of view of Parliamentary purity it is no good to say that this is a mandatory Clause, It is not a mandatory Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-10", "file": "debates1929-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc29d453d02bb9e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.351.0", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Provision of approved courses of instruction for persons under eighteen.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": " who has been converted; it is the Liberal party that has been converted to the practical necessities of the situation. It has been said that it is only the Liberal party which has any educational concern for the children, but I want to apply a corrective. The original suggestion of the Liberal party was that every child everywhere should be compelled to go to a juvenile unemployment centre—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.351.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-10", "file": "debates1929-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc29d453d02bb9e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Payment of benefits in respect of persons under sixteen.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": " home he is conscious of the fact and that there is being directly contributed to the means of the home the six shillings, partly provided for by his own contributions? Why should that infer some humiliation to the boy? It is an assurance that the six shillings, which was intended for the upkeep of the home, should always go in that direction. Is there no danger that it may go in other directions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.386.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-10", "file": "debates1929-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc29d453d02bb9e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.391.10", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Payment of benefits in respect of persons under sixteen.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": " Member who is a colleague of his in this House. The right hon. Gentleman characterised my speech as being \"studiously offensive.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"So it was.\"] I ask hon. Members opposite, is it fair to say that to an hon. Member who has been charged with something? I am within the recollection of the Committee and of every honest Mem- ber in it. I said nothing that was studiously offensive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.391.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-10", "file": "debates1929-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc29d453d02bb9e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.395.7", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Payment of benefits in respect of persons under sixteen.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh! Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for War has taken the unusual course of saying that he will consider whether he will with- draw his expression. I can only repeat now, what I said at the beginning, that I would unreservedly withdraw any insulting observations that I ever made in this House. I have never in my life intentionally made an insulting observation. I did humorously remark—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.395.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-10", "file": "debates1929-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc29d453d02bb9e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (BOOTLE WATER RATE) ORDER, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I have no particular objection to this Order, but there are one or two points on which I should like more enlightenment. It is quite clear that this Order is to meet an exceptional case, but I would like to ask whether there is any likelihood of similar Orders having to be issued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-10a.422.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-11", "file": "debates1929-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "2904ac5e6b40919e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-11a.491.1", "colnum": "491", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At what price?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKIN", "preceding_text": "o the villages and hamlets and often to individual farmhouses, and after they have run out a cable to do as they do in America, send out a canvasser to see that the people take the supply. The point is, will the people take the supply? Of 60 farms which were canvassed in the southern part of the county 57 out of the number said that they would take the supply if and when the scheme is carried out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-11a.491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-11", "file": "debates1929-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "2904ac5e6b40919e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-11a.514.0", "colnum": "514", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "ts. I have had an experience which may not be without interest to the House. Last week I gave evidence upstairs before a Committee composed of five members of their Lordships' House. It would be quite improper of me to make any comment upon the decision at which their Lordships arrived, but the fact remains that they did not find the preamble of a Bill called the Grampians Electricity Bill proved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-11a.514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-11", "file": "debates1929-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "2904ac5e6b40919e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-11a.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "COLONIAL POLICY IN RELATION TO COLOURED RACES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "Surely that is unfair!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-11a.604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-11", "file": "debates1929-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "2904ac5e6b40919e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-11a.608.0", "colnum": "608", "heading": "COLONIAL POLICY IN RELATION TO COLOURED RACES.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWO0D", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWO0D", "preceding_text": "gulf that there is between white and coloured in some parts of our Colonies. It sometimes forces me to think of the black man in a black Colony. French officials may treat him unjustly, live on his women, bully him, but the nigger in a French Colony will strike his breast and say, \"I am a French citizen.\" I have never heard a native in an English Colony say that he is proud of being an Englishman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-11a.608.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-11", "file": "debates1929-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "2904ac5e6b40919e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-11a.618.8", "colnum": "618", "heading": "LICENSING LAWS (WALES).", "cue_speaker": "Major OWEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"And still are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major OWEN", "preceding_text": "s not a greater influence in the whole of civilised Europe than that of the culture and literature of Wales. We are not a people to be treated as a little area somewhere. May I remind the House that the British Empire is largely due to the efforts of Welsh kings? They, at any rate, set the foundations of it, and during the whole of that period the greatest statesmen of this country were Welsh men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-11a.618.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-11", "file": "debates1929-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "2904ac5e6b40919e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-11a.621.3", "colnum": "621", "heading": "LICENSING LAWS (WALES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "e appeal which has been addressed to me as an after-thought, I would say that if there is all this depth of feeling on this question, the matter might have been raised very much earlier and brought forward long ago. The truth is that so far as there has been a distinction between any one part of the Kingdom and another on a matter of licensing the distinction has been between Scotland and England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-11a.621.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.626.11", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Circulate!", "preceding_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "preceding_text": "I could give the figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.626.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.635.2", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRAMWAY EMPLOYES, HULL (DISMISSAL).", "cue_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "preceding_text": "Victimisation, whether by employers or otherwise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.635.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.635.4", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRAMWAY EMPLOYES, HULL (DISMISSAL).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Major CARVER", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Lady aware that these men for the last three years have been peacefully following their occupation, and that this victimisation is due to the fact that for the first time there is a Socialist majority on the Hull City Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.635.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.635.7", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRAMWAY EMPLOYES, HULL (DISMISSAL).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL - MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Minister of Labour whether her predecessor, during the later months of 1926, did not get into touch both with employers and with organisations of workers with the object of seeing that cases of victimisation might be gone into and remedied; and does not the right hon. Lady feel that she also might get into touch with the employers in the present case?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.635.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.667.0", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMAN REPARATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "preceding_text": "Is not the amount announced very much less than that which the right hon. Gentleman described as the inadequate minimum under the Balfour Note?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.667.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.668.0", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IMPORT DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "As the statement which the right hon. Gentleman has foreshadowed is obviously one of first-class importance, may I ask whether the House will have an opportunity of discussing it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.668.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.703.2", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Last night!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "afting of a Clause, but for alterations of a wide and sweeping character. It would be out of order for me to discuss those changes now, but that they are of a wide and sweeping character the statements of the Ministry officials and the Government Actuary are themselves sufficient to show. Let me call the attention of the House to this White Paper, which has only been circulated this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.703.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.706.2", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman said that there would be an increased Exchequer charge of £24,500,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.706.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.706.3", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "on. Lady will agree to that. Under those conditions, we have discussed this Bill, and when we brought up the fact that a new Clause was being introduced and that it might reasonably be taken in Committee instead of for the first time on Report, the right hon. Lady dismissed it in a word by saying that the speech of the hon. and gallant Member, which was myself, seemed to be much ado about nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.706.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.706.3", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "egard to this fund and to vote it into deficit, without making any arrangements whatever by what that deficit can be met. These are not conditions under which free debate can take place, and we ask, nay we demand, from the Government the right of free discussion here in the House of Commons. There is no reason whatever, save the desire of hon. Members opposite to get away for their holidays—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.706.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.711.2", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "I rise to support the Motion and to ask the Leader of the House to give it his consideration. I think every Member of the House will realise that I am in a somewhat special position and I hope they also realise that, being in a special position, I am not intervening on this occasion in any party spirit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.711.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.711.2", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " aspect of the whole matter. It introduces new principles. It is clear from paragraphs 8 and 9 of the White Paper that it introduces perfectly new principles into the whole system of unemployment insurance, and, in a technical matter of this kind, it is impossible to get it considered on Report stage. I am appealing to the right hon. Gentleman in the interests of good, decent administration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.711.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.718.2", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "iend the Leader of the Opposition was, and in view of the confusion which had arisen and which was inimical alike to the interests of the Bill and to the interests of the Committee in coming to a decision, the Leader of the Opposition suggested that it would be better to defer further consideration of this particular Clause to a more convenient season. There is no difference of opinion about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.718.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.718.2", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On Report stage.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ests of the Bill and to the interests of the Committee in coming to a decision, the Leader of the Opposition suggested that it would be better to defer further consideration of this particular Clause to a more convenient season. There is no difference of opinion about that. [ Interruption. ] To withdraw the Clause, certainly, and to defer consideration of what would be Clause 4 until a later date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.718.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.737.4", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment as to disqualifications for receipt of benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "preceding_text": "That has nothing to do with the case I have made, that they were moving Amendments and that they were going into the Lobby in support of an expenditure of another £20,000,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.737.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.737.8", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment as to disqualifications for receipt of benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "preceding_text": "on. Lady has a heavy burden laid upon her if she is going to explain which of these two is the correct version of what is at stake. Surely, never has a Minister come before this House of Commons with a proposal in a Bill supported by a White Paper prepared in her own Ministry, and meant, I suppose, to bolster up her own case, which has contained such damning criticism of the whole of her proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.737.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.737.8", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment as to disqualifications for receipt of benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And they will not grumble.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "preceding_text": "dy exceeded. Yet, in the course of a six hours' Debate, in response to arguments which were presented, I agree, most eloquently, but which she must have heard hundreds of times before the right hon. Lady over-stepped the limit to the extent of £4,000,000, a large proportion of which, do not let us forget, falls not on the Exchequer and the taxpayer, but on the insured worker and the employer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.737.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment as to disqualifications for receipt of benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "Member for Bridgeton (Mr. Maxton) and his friends when, in what they wanted for the wives and children, they were demanding the scale that had been advocated in the Labour party's manifesto. We resisted that, and I hope that the hon. Member, when he is subjecting us to his kindly criticism, will remember that to our credit, as well as the fact that one or two hon. Members did act to our discredit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment as to disqualifications for receipt of benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir WALTER GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WALTER GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": " entitled to benefit. The criticism which destroys this Clause is that it leaves the man entirely in this position, that not the smallest obligation is put upon him to do other than obey the instructions of the officer of the Employment Exchange or accept a job which is definitely offered to him. Under this Clause there is no obligation on the man to show any personal initiative of any kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.747.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.753.0", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment as to disqualifications for receipt of benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Is not the implication of all those rules to put the onus of proof on the particular branch committee?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ASSHETON POWNALL", "preceding_text": "d Workers: Members in receipt of unemployment benefit must look for work and shall not engage in any occupation for profit or award during working hours. They must attend each branch meeting or send a satisfactory apology. I suggest that the collective wisdom of the trade union Members opposite might be taken to mean that the words we are discussing were not satisfactory in their own trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.751.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.754.1", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment as to disqualifications for receipt of benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "only the trade union regulations could be made to apply by Act of Parliament everything would be quite all right. The House may well remember that most of these out-of-work donation funds in trade unions are voluntary in character and are open to such members as can subscribe to them. It has also to be remembered that there is no State grant towards those funds and no tax on industry or employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.754.1", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment as to disqualifications for receipt of benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "eciation to which hon. Members opposite can give utterance. They say, in effect, this: \"If we had our way, we would place the National Unemployment Insurance Scheme on the same basis and with the same restrictions as the trade unions' voluntary contributions and make the whole of its income come from the resources and the wages of the employed persons only, without State or employers' assistance.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment as to disqualifications for receipt of benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Under a Socialist Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "he Department. He said that it was estimated that there would be 30,000 applicants who could not fulfil the 30-stamps qualification by April, 1928. There was an elaborate set of figures arriving at that computation. Now, in 1929, we get the same Department putting the figure at 120,000 of those who could not fulfil the 30-stamps qualification by April, 1930. That is the value of your White Papers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment as to disqualifications for receipt of benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "Major SALMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"De-rating!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major SALMON", "preceding_text": "cost, for we have to find all the money that is necessary. I believe the day to be unfortunately nearer than many people think when, if we continue the policy of simply trying to find money rather than work for the unemployed, it will be the beginning of a serious crisis in this country. We devote far too much time in the House to seeing how we can give money away rather than how we can find work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment as to disqualifications for receipt of benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "Major SALMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major SALMON", "preceding_text": "rying to find money rather than work for the unemployed, it will be the beginning of a serious crisis in this country. We devote far too much time in the House to seeing how we can give money away rather than how we can find work. [HON. MEMBERS: \"De-rating!\"] I am not permitted to discuss de-rating, but, if ever there were a constructive scheme brought before the country, it was that of de-rating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.761.2", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment as to disqualifications for receipt of benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "preceding_text": "how the Employment Exchanges shall deal with cases of this kind. I do not wish to say anything against the administration of the \"genuinely seeking work\" condition, but it is asking far too much from the Employment Exchange officials to ask them to search out cases of the kind suggested. There may be a few shirkers, but hon. Members opposite by their speeches suggest that it is a large percentage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.761.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.761.2", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment as to disqualifications for receipt of benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "preceding_text": "ministration of the \"genuinely seeking work\" condition, but it is asking far too much from the Employment Exchange officials to ask them to search out cases of the kind suggested. There may be a few shirkers, but hon. Members opposite by their speeches suggest that it is a large percentage. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] One would assume that it is large from the comments which they make in their speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.761.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment as to disqualifications for receipt of benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Actions speak louder than words!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "st Nottingham (Mr. Hayday)? It seems to be part of the usual procedure of hon. Members opposite to say that we on this side of the House insult the unemployed. They can point to no phrases of any sort which justify such a statement on their part, but I have not the least doubt that what they say here merely represents what they are prepared to say in the country without a single proof of any kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment as to disqualifications for receipt of benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Where did you get that from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ause and the previous one; that there is a difference, I believe, as shown by the White Paper, the Minister has not convinced us about it; and that it is now common property, at least it has been stated in the Press, that the attempt to get Sub-sections (2) and (3) of the old Clause withdrawn was not a real attack upon the Government but one which the Members who made it were prepared to withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment as to disqualifications for receipt of benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "e clear from the statement made by the Minister and the Attorney-General that they did not want to have them withdrawn; and, therefore, we are now to have fastened upon this country a change in administration which is due to nothing else than a collapse before a sham attack. Finally I want to condemn this Clause because it takes away all initiative such as the trade unions themselves say is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment as to disqualifications for receipt of benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then why all this labouring?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "this country a change in administration which is due to nothing else than a collapse before a sham attack. Finally I want to condemn this Clause because it takes away all initiative such as the trade unions themselves say is right. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Let me be quite clear again. I say straight away that 93, 94 or 95 per cent or more of those who are unemployed are eager and anxious to get work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment as to disqualifications for receipt of benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "ad that interruption, because it gives me an opportunity of dealing with a point to which I wanted to refer. I am not in favour of a certain type of test work which is useless. There is nothing which destroys the moral of men more than telling them to dig a hole and then to him it up again. If they are doing a job which is a proper job and receiving a proper scale of wages, it is proper test work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.790.0", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment as to disqualifications for receipt of benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir ERNEST SHEPPERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ERNEST SHEPPERSON", "preceding_text": "st time I have, dared to intervene in a debate on the -Unemployment Insurance Bill. I have refrained from doing so because I represent an agricultural constituency, and agriculture is not within the province of the Bill. Therefore I thought it right to leave the Debate to those who represent industrial areas, and who know the circumstances of those areas far better than I do. But a worm will turn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.790.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.794.0", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment as to disqualifications for receipt of benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "Major DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ment had only taken a real stand and said, \"If we reform Clause 4 in the way that we have been compelled to do by our supporters, we are going to destroy the whole basis of the Insurance Bill; allow us to carry this through as we had intended, even if it is only a first instalment prior to bringing in some future Measure whereby, by a definitely charitable organisation, we may assist those\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.794.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.818.2", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment as to disqualifications for receipt of benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "ives surprise to the Parliamentary Secretary. I think that every Member of the Committee will agree that it is a sound principle to lay down that you must expect from all these men an endeavour to help themselves, and an endeavour to do what they can to remedy their own situation, and not merely rely upon what can be done for them\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, 5th December, 1929; col. 2687, Vol. 232.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-12", "file": "debates1929-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af8584712fd171af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.819.0", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment as to disqualifications for receipt of benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "ter has mothered to-day—if I may use that expression—there is a phrase to the effect that the possibility should not be overlooked that the new Clause will have the effect of bringing into benefit certain other persons who cannot be foreseen at the moment. It mentions, for example, married women who have done little or no work since marriage, and seasonal workers during the off season.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-12a.819.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-13", "file": "debates1929-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "74c715c1f804011c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.874.1", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS (SCOT- LAND) ACTS (1886 to 1919) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacROBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacROBERT", "preceding_text": "thing. That is not a matter of detail. We have had statutory small tenants for 19 years, and we ought not to change their tenure unless we are satisfied that there is some public feeling among them against the tenure. We have had within the last year a Report from a neutral Committee. No reference was made by the previous speakers to that Committee. Why not? The Committee reported last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-13", "file": "debates1929-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "74c715c1f804011c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.882.3", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS (SCOT- LAND) ACTS (1886 to 1919) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacROBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, heart!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacROBERT", "preceding_text": "shall not he deemed to be a reasonable purpose. Note that it is limited to cases where a landlord has no other estate. Therefore, the position is this, under this Bill promoted by the Liberal party: they say that if a man has one little estate only he shall not get back his estate, but if a man has many estates he can go to the land court and, if he shows cause, can get it back. That is grotesque.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.882.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-13", "file": "debates1929-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "74c715c1f804011c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.882.3", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS (SCOT- LAND) ACTS (1886 to 1919) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacROBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacROBERT", "preceding_text": "een the original intention of the pro-motors, but that is the Clause which they are now asking this House to approve. Again it says that occupation by a landlord for the purpose of residence of a holding, being his only landed estate, shall not he deemed to be a reasonable purpose and therefore it might be reasonable to presume that he could secure resumption if he had more than one landed estate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.882.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-13", "file": "debates1929-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "74c715c1f804011c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS (SCOT- LAND) ACTS (1886 to 1919) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacROBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacROBERT", "preceding_text": "The compensation is paid under the Agricultural Holdings Act. The hon. Member for Kincardine says that there are other Acts under which they can get the right to be compensated, and that this Bill expressly provides for compensation under the Agricultural Holdings Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-13", "file": "debates1929-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "74c715c1f804011c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.889.2", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS (SCOT- LAND) ACTS (1886 to 1919) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacROBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you think that there would be anything to shoot if he were a good tenant?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacROBERT", "preceding_text": "pay, he can recover from the person who has the right to shoot. I am quite certain that the promoters of the Bill have not really faced the situation, that this Clause will give a statutory right to shoot to the landholder. It seems to me, as I read the provisions of the Agricultural Holdings Act, that if you give a man the right to shoot you take away from him the right to get compensation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.889.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-13", "file": "debates1929-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "74c715c1f804011c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.889.2", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS (SCOT- LAND) ACTS (1886 to 1919) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacROBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He can eat them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacROBERT", "preceding_text": "r the preservation of wild birds. They are to go. They have no effect with regard to the landholder. We have brought in Acts to prevent the destruction of game and birds in certain ways, e.g., to poison them and so on, but under this Clause which has been put forward by the promoters of the Bill, the landholder is entitled to kill game as he pleases. He can snare them, poison them, net them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.889.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-13", "file": "debates1929-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "74c715c1f804011c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.889.2", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS (SCOT- LAND) ACTS (1886 to 1919) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacROBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacROBERT", "preceding_text": "nimals he kills and will not require compensation. The point I was about to make when I began this digression was that under this Clause these landholders—and we are told that there are 50,000 of them—are to he given the right to go and kill game, and, I suppose, vermin and wild birds too, in any way they please, and, not only that, hut they are to he entitled to kill them at any time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.889.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-13", "file": "debates1929-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "74c715c1f804011c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS (SCOT- LAND) ACTS (1886 to 1919) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "he 1911 Act entirely, and I would advise the House to take this opportunity, if time can be found, of doing our best to improve this Bill, and to make it a useful Measure as far as our smallholders in Scotland are concerned. There is one other point only with which I should like to deal in a very short way. The right hon. and learned Member for East Renfrewshire, in the course of his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-13", "file": "debates1929-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "74c715c1f804011c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.916.2", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS (SCOT- LAND) ACTS (1886 to 1919) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. W. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. W. SMITH", "preceding_text": "o deal with it. I feel very strongly on this question of the alteration of the law relating to smallholding in Scotland, for I believe this is not only to be an alteration in the law of Scotland in regard to small holdings but also in regard to land tenure in Scotland. Then, I suggest, it would not only apply to holdings of 100 acres, but would be made to apply to holdings of 200 acres, and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.916.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-13", "file": "debates1929-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "74c715c1f804011c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS (SCOT- LAND) ACTS (1886 to 1919) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "That raises a new and an extraordinary issue. It is usual to have an attack made by the back benches upon the Government Front Bench but not to have an attack upon the Government Front Bench made by the Government Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-13", "file": "debates1929-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "74c715c1f804011c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS (SCOT- LAND) ACTS (1886 to 1919) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "That raises a new and an extraordinary issue. It is usual to have an attack made by the back benches upon the Government Front Bench but not to have an attack upon the Government Front Bench made by the Government Front Bench. [ Interruption. ] The right hon. Gentleman said that if the guidance given yesterday by the lawyers was to be taken as an example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-13", "file": "debates1929-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "74c715c1f804011c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.923.2", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS (SCOT- LAND) ACTS (1886 to 1919) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And to-day.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman said to me—and this was said not in any other portion of the Debate—that if the guidance which we received yesterday in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.923.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-13", "file": "debates1929-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "74c715c1f804011c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.923.4", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS (SCOT- LAND) ACTS (1886 to 1919) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has entirely misunderstood the position. He has intervened in a Debate which he does not understand and on a subject of which he is entirely ignorant. The Secretary of State said, not five minutes ago, that if the guidance given to the Committee yesterday and to the House to-day was an example of what lawyers can do, then it was time that laymen took a hand in the game.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.923.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-13", "file": "debates1929-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "74c715c1f804011c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.923.6", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS (SCOT- LAND) ACTS (1886 to 1919) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Spending it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ficers from whom the House rightly demands guidance. We have had guidance from the Lord Advocate in the Conservative ad- ministration. We have had guidance, as hon. Members admit, full measure, pressed down and running over. He never stinted himself in his efforts to make clear this complicated Measure, although he is not paid for it. What about the man who is paid £5,000 a year. Where is he?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.923.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-13", "file": "debates1929-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "74c715c1f804011c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.924.3", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS (SCOT- LAND) ACTS (1886 to 1919) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "I should never have intervened in this Debate at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.924.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-13", "file": "debates1929-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "74c715c1f804011c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.924.3", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS (SCOT- LAND) ACTS (1886 to 1919) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "wait with eager anticipation their joining in this protest. If the Lord Advocate is going to criticise this Measure obviously it would be better that that criticism should be made on the Floor of this House, where it can be discussed and canvassed, rather than that we should wait to hear the Lord Advocate in the somewhat informal atmosphere of the Committee room upstairs. Time is running on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.924.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-12-13", "file": "debates1929-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "74c715c1f804011c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.925.0", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS (SCOT- LAND) ACTS (1886 to 1919) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "That is the fourth 'time you have said it.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "t guidance. The Secretary of State for Scotland whose admirable power of clarity and simplicity of expression, his modesty and facility in debate, is still not fully equipped with that legal knowledge and training which is necessary if the speech of the ex-Lord Advocate is to be canvassed in the way in which it should be canvassed. I cannot conceive any reason for the absence of the Lord Advocate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.924.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-13", "file": "debates1929-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "74c715c1f804011c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS (SCOT- LAND) ACTS (1886 to 1919) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "It may well be said 40 times, and said indeed until the Lord Advocate cuts short the Debate by appearing. Immediately he appears I shall be more than ready to resume my seat. I am not speaking for the pleasure of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-13", "file": "debates1929-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "74c715c1f804011c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.925.3", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS (SCOT- LAND) ACTS (1886 to 1919) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "int of view may be all very well for him, but it will not be understood or appreciated North of the Tweed. Not a single Scotsman is on the Front Bench opposite, except the indefatigable Casabianca, the Secretary of State for Scotland: The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled. Are we to take it that the others have fled? Have they disappeared? Are they frightened of the Debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.925.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-13", "file": "debates1929-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "74c715c1f804011c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.927.2", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS (SCOT- LAND) ACTS (1886 to 1919) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "I see that the hon. Member for Kirkcaldy (Mr. T. Kennedy) is now present. We are glad to see him back. It is a 100 per cent. increase in the Scottish tenancy of the Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.927.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-13", "file": "debates1929-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "74c715c1f804011c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.927.2", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS (SCOT- LAND) ACTS (1886 to 1919) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "nnedy) is now present. We are glad to see him back. It is a 100 per cent. increase in the Scottish tenancy of the Front Bench. [ Interruption. ] I have the approval of the Government Chief Whip in continuing my speech. I certainly do not wish to take up the time of private Members, and, if the Lord Advocate had come in, I should have been delighted to give place to him. I desire to resume my seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-13a.927.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.945.9", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "May I point out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.945.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.953.6", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give it now —\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "I should be very glad to give an explanation to any hon. Member who cares to come to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.953.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1011.5", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Rates of contributions for young persons.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": " Bill—we shall enter our protest against it when the time comes—but we cannot be certain, because in the Committee stage the Socialist party supported the Clause, the Conservative party opposed it, and the Liberal party went away, and we do not know in what direction the Liberal party will vote. When the Question, \"That the Clause be added to the Bill,\" was put, the Liberals went away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1011.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1012.1", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Rates of contributions for young persons.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": ". I have here the OFFICIAL REPORT of 9th March, 1925, containing the speech of the First Commissioner of Works, in which were these words I have already give to the House: I cannot understand how any man or woman here can face the wholesale demoralisation that is going on day by day among the young men of from 18 to 25 years of age. I said that I do not agree with it as a reading of the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Rates of contributions for young persons.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was only a kitten!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": "tention to this Clause, but her heart is hardened against us. Even if it could be shown beyond any doubt that there would be no juvenile unemployment in the next 10 years, her heart would still be hardened, and she would still insist on juveniles paying the contributions proposed in the Bill. I think the cat was let out of the bag by the right hon. Lady in a discussion on another part of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Rates of contributions for young persons.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will be three years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": " what is going to be paid in the case of a risk maturing, but also the chances of that risk maturing at all. It does not need a Government actuary to work out the figures in this case. Any hon. Member opposite with a knowledge of the rule-of-three could do it for her. If the Government actuary were asked to work out a premium for the life of the present Government, I do not know what he would say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1033.0", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Minimum age for insurance.)", "cue_speaker": "Major GEORGE DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major GEORGE DAVIES", "preceding_text": "the sheep separating themselves from the goats on his own benches; and when they are in difficulties they are helped out by patient oxen on the opposite benches below the Gangway. I do not want to allow this Clause to go—we shall divide on it, I trust—with- out emphasising these two points. We are in the House of Commons with a trusteeship on behalf of the young people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1033.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Minimum age for insurance.)", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "No one will admit that that is so, least of all anyone who has been a director of an insurance company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Minimum age for insurance.)", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": ". Assuming that the hon. Member for Stockport (Mr. Townend) has made a correct statement, then all life insurance and accident insurance is wrong. I should he very sorry to hear it stated on the other side of the House, among responsible Members, that they admit the principle that in life insurance or in any other form of recognised insurance the risks of the bad lives are taken by the good lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Minimum age for insurance.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. S. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. S. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "me out of school, take up a blind alley occupation for 10 weeks, and, with the aid of his credited contributions, draw unemployment benefit for 18 months. That is the class of case which should largely influence this House and the hon. Member for Leith. I am doubtful whether his conversion is as well justified as it should be. The whole object of our opposition as far as I can understand it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1045.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1062.2", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Rates of benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "not, it is no less undesirable to have to consider a Bill of this magnitude on Third Reading in which there have been so many alterations made on the Report stage without it having been in print. If it is to be the custom on every Bill which the Government brings forward, the Opposition will have to take very vigorous steps to prevent Third Readings coming on on the same night as the Report stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1062.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1084.2", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "mendment. If the right hon. Lady cannot give a reason, perhaps the Parliamentary Secretary can. It is really treating my hon. and gallant Friend with rather scant courtesy merely to say that the Amendment cannot be accepted, without giving any reason. Perhaps, when they have searched for the reason, one of the hon. or right hon. Gentlemen opposite will give an answer to my hon. and gallant Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1084.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1084.2", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "rched for the reason, one of the hon. or right hon. Gentlemen opposite will give an answer to my hon. and gallant Friend. [ Interruption. ] It is not a question of courtesy. The lack of courtesy is on the part of the Government. My hon. and gallant Friend made a perfectly reasonable request, but all that the right hon. Lady said was that she regretted that she could not accept the Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1084.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1086.3", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the figures under you a year ago?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "agnitude of the problem. They have been in for nearly seven, and the only impression they have created is that they are perfectly incapable of dealing with the problem. What has happened up to now is that, instead of any reduction or improvement in unem- ployment, up the figures have been going week by week one after another until they are now more than 200,000 more than when they came into power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1086.3", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did you not do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ustification for all this expenditure now that we come to review the Bill and look back upon it? The only claim that the Government can produce in justifying it is that it is the one way they know of meeting the objection to the condition about genuinely seeking work. That is absolute nonsense. We were, on all sides of the House, quite ready to join in meeting objections to genuinely seeking work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1086.3", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " it is that it is the one way they know of meeting the objection to the condition about genuinely seeking work. That is absolute nonsense. We were, on all sides of the House, quite ready to join in meeting objections to genuinely seeking work. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did you not do it?\"] There is objection on the part of hon. Members opposite that we did not make speeches on the subject on Clause 4.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1086.3", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " speech, which for the first time takes away any defence that any of us had in the past for saying that it was not a system of doles. It is a Bill which transforms the whole insurance scheme into a system of doles. It is a Bill for the endowment of people whom the Attorney-General calls \"work-shys.\" It is a Bill for the enrichment of people who are not deserving at the expense of the good workmen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1086.3", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ond all question by the Official White Paper issued by the Government themselves. Let me compare for a moment speeches by Ministers opposite with the official papers. Barely a month ago the Lord Privy Seal stated his opinion in public: If you ask me what it is that disturbs me most, I have no hesitation in saying that it is anything which makes men and women rely upon other efforts than their own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1086.3", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, it does not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "et me compare for a moment speeches by Ministers opposite with the official papers. Barely a month ago the Lord Privy Seal stated his opinion in public: If you ask me what it is that disturbs me most, I have no hesitation in saying that it is anything which makes men and women rely upon other efforts than their own. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Hon. Member cheer that. This Bill does the opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1086.3", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "more of expenditure upon doles to the unemployed at a time when we have £3,500,000 a year less earnings in wages of the employed. I say that to vote for this Bill on the Third Reading is the final destruction of any true insurance scheme and the creation of a system of gigantic relief to take its place—relief very largely to the undeserving at the expense of the good and honest workman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1086.3", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Lost Leader\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ders of the Liberal party. The hon. Member for Leith and his hon. Friend the Member for Bodmin and the other Members of the rank and file deserted them. They followed the Attorney-General. I suppose it was that the old influence of the Attorney-General was too strong. They that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him, Lived in his mild and magnificent eye, I forget the name of the poem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1094.1", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "nds on this side, at any rate, will make a note of the incontrovertible facts that I am about to submit to the House—the raids and forestallments of revenue have amounted to over £50,000,000; the sinking fund provision has fallen short by some £30,000,000. Legislation passed by the late Government has not been financed out of revenue. The year after next I shall have to find—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1097.0", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": " think, a hardship inflicted upon these men. It had to be swept away and the majority of the committee so reported. Then changes were suggested in this House and were embodied, after deliberation, in the Bill and I think it is simply playing with words to say that the Bill as introduced by the Government, after, as I suppose, responsible deliberation, did not bring about a very substantial change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1097.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1097.0", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "as introduced by the Government, after, as I suppose, responsible deliberation, did not bring about a very substantial change. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Of course it brought about a change. It changed the condition—changed it from a condition into a disqualification—and It lifted the onus off the shoulders of the man and placed it for the most part on the insurance officer and the machine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1097.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1097.0", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": " smoke their pipes, and wait until an offer comes to them? \"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 5th December, 1929; col. 2687; Vol. 232.] I can imagine the derision that would have arisen in this House if that bad been said from the Front Opposition Bench, but it came from the Attorney-General. That was the question that was put on the ah. On the 12th we had the answer, and the answer was in the affirmative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1097.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1097.0", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "magine the derision that would have arisen in this House if that bad been said from the Front Opposition Bench, but it came from the Attorney-General. That was the question that was put on the ah. On the 12th we had the answer, and the answer was in the affirmative. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"] My submission is that as the Bill at present stands there is no obligation whatever upon a man to lift a finger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1097.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1097.0", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": " submission is that as the Bill at present stands there is no obligation whatever upon a man to lift a finger. [ Interruption. ] That was the interpretation given by the Attorney-General. If that is wrong, then all my argument is wrong, but the assumption is that a man who is away from his Employment Exchange need not himself, until he has received written instructions, lift a finger to find work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1097.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1097.0", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"He advanced further!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "position which he himself had taken on the 5th of the month. My suggestion is that there is one statement made by the Attorney-General on the 5th, and there is another on the 12th, and I had to make my choice between the two. I was convinced by what he said on the 5th; I was not convinced by what he said on the 12th. I went with him in his advance; I was not prepared to go with him in his retreat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1097.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1097.0", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "n reputation, the Attorney-General will not be obliged to make speeches like that with the short interval between them or seven days. Otherwise, there may come upon him the words once written in describing a statesman in this House a very long time ago: His ready tongue, with sophistries at will, Can say, unsay, and be consistent still. The submission that I make is what I tried to say on the 5th.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1097.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1097.0", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "cted to listen in the House of Commons to a spokesman of a Labour Government making such a statement as that.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 5th December, 1929, col. 2696, Vol. 232.] That may be quite right as far as the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale is concerned, but I thought it was common ground with most people that the unemployed man owes a duty to those of his fellows who are contributing to the fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1097.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Shame!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "e estimates \"— This is a public concern— and the limited amount of money available for the works. Unfortunately, the past few weeks these men have not received as much money as they would have done had they been wholly unemployed, and on the dole.' This naturally causes dissatisfaction, and to-day some of the men asked the foreman to discharge them, so that they could go on the 'dole.'", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1097.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1104.1", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWTHER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWTHER", "preceding_text": "\"Lead us not into temptation.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1104.3", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "I am using the term used by the Minister of Labour in speaking of temptation, and I will tell the House of a paragraph to which she put her name in the Blanesburgh Report, where it speaks of the benefits that should be given: It should provide benefits definitely less in amount than the general labourer's rate of wage, so that there may be no temptation to prefer benefit to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1104.3", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "orkman and the other. That is where the disaffection exists. I went down the other evening to a part of my constituency where the men go out day after day to work in perilous conditions and when they come back after a perilous journey over the rocks with great danger to themselves, there is not a man in that community who in the last two years has on the average earned as much as is provided here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1104.3", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Middlemen!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "f my constituency where the men go out day after day to work in perilous conditions and when they come back after a perilous journey over the rocks with great danger to themselves, there is not a man in that community who in the last two years has on the average earned as much as is provided here. [HON. MEMBERS \"Shame!\"] It is not a question of trouble with employers. There are no employers there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1105.1", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are voluntary organizations!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "tions from many people, who can have those contributions protected only by ourselves. There is an obligation in regard to those people who have been paying in and who have no choice in the matter. I do not want to quote trade union regulations, although they were quoted by the Minister. Every trade union regulation has this provision and insists on the obligation upon the man himself to seek work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1106.2", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " Employment Exchange, and signs his name and gets his money, in some way he is debilitated morally. It is far more decent, it far more makes for man- liness if there be a straight bargain between the man and the community, and that is what this Bill does with reference to the unemployed man. The Chancellor of the Exchequer seemed to make some apologies for surrendering to his so-called extremists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1106.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1109.0", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "preceding_text": " June, when the banns were put up, she has been carrying on with the right hon. Member for Tamworth (Sir A. Steel-Maitland). For months she has accumlated evidence in support of her behaviour, and came down to the House, accompanied by her legal adviser, fully prepared to defend herself against the action which the hon. Member for Bridgeton was bringing aginst her, an action for breach of promise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1113.0", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "preceding_text": "itizens of this country. That is an unavoidable necessity. I rejoice in this Bill although it is only a small beginning. Hon. Members on the back benches behind me have complained about the 2s. for children. To offer 2s. for children is to belittle our own species; I say so frankly in this House. To offer a woman 2s. to keep her child—an English child, a precious gift to the community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1117.2", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which way?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "All I can say is that, if the hon. Member says that, he does not believe in his own argument about this being an Insurance Bill and an insurance system. Under this Bill money is to be spent in certain ways which, if I had my way, I would spend in other ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1117.2", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "All I can say is that, if the hon. Member says that, he does not believe in his own argument about this being an Insurance Bill and an insurance system. Under this Bill money is to be spent in certain ways which, if I had my way, I would spend in other ways. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Which way?\"] For instance, I would rather have had a reduction of the waiting period than an increase of 2s. for dependants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1117.2", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "the 10 months of this year there were 1,357 claims disallowed. There is no man who knows the port of Leith, or any other of these districts, who does not know that what the Chancellor of the Exchequer has said is literally true. The fares of my hon. Friend the Member for Bodmin (Mr. Foot) need not trouble him. The great mass of these men, if they can smell a job, will make every effort to find it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1123.1", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Major SALMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not out of industry; it is out of profits!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major SALMON", "preceding_text": "ecognise their responsibilities. The great trouble of the Socialist party, as was said by the Minister of Health, is that they have only to wish for a certain thing and they can have it; the country can afford it. What does it mean. It means that whilst they are pandering and promising, and giving large sums of money away, they are creating very great burdens for industry upon which we all depend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1124.7", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": "on those who find the struggle in life difficult. What would you say of the Government which achieved both those things, which, whereas it spent in 1928 something like £20,000,000 less than the Socialists in 1924, spent something like £12,000,000 more on social services That may be regarded as a triumph of financial policy which right hon. Gentlemen opposite can not possibly evade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1124.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1127.0", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Major, ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major, ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "After the intervention of my hon. Friend who has just sat down the House will not be disposed to think lightly of lawyers or to regret their contributions to our discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "lor weaves during the day the hon. Member for Bridgeton undoes during the night. Under those conditions, economy was far from the achievements of the household of Penelope, and, when the master of the house finally came back, he found that a sad amount of waste and revelry had taken place during his absence. I do not wish to follow the Chancellor into the analysis he gave of the National finances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What has that to do with this Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "austed; a small sum of £10,000 has been found in the balance, and, when that has gone, there will be no more for the miners in the distressed areas of Scotland, who this winter will have to face a black winter without any assistance. The money was distributed during the summer in higher benefits, while in England it was guarded and still remained to help the English miners through the winter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1133.1", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " strong, determined and growing section which says that the business of the trustee is not to keep these funds, but to squander them. Until the House is fully seized of that position, until the House realises that behind this pasteboard facade of a respectable Government there is the real driving force of a determined effort to change fundamentally the whole basis of society in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1137.0", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Re- pealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "preceding_text": "00. The inevitable result of arranging the finances at that balancing point was to increase the deficit of the fund, and they did so increase that deficit year by year. I have gone into the matter of the 1926 deficit referred to by an hon. Member on the back benches. We analysed that in 1926, and allowing that the dispute of that year was entirely responsible for the deficit it still leaves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1146.0", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "n. Lady has pointed out, the additional provision which is due to the change in number, by which the Exchequer contribution was one-half of that of the employers and the employed, is £3,500,000. Is that adequate, in view of the great increase in unemployment that has been progressively going on since the Money Resolution upon which that Bill was based passed through a Committee of this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1146.0", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "very excessive figure and everybody who has had anything to do with the Unemployed Insurance Fund has always understood that when you are considering the state of that fund you have to take it for a period of years. It is not the slightest use taking it for a short period, because it does not balance. It has always been held by those who have studied insurance that you must take a period of years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1146.0", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "ing an argument relating to the bankruptcy of the fund. I was giving, as an example, the fact that on the 31st of March, 1926, the deficit on the fund stood at £7,170,000, and at the end of that year it had risen to £22,640,000. This shows that there was an increase in the debt during 1926 of 215 per cent., and that was entirely due to the trouble which was started by the general strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-16", "file": "debates1929-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5d1106da5be54d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1146.0", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "administered by the Minister of Labour the more your payments automatically increase, and the more the number of unemployed will increase and automatically there will be a greater call on the Exchequer on the fifty-fifty basis. I should like the Minister of Labour to give us some further information regarding that aspect of the question. Will she tell us whether this is merely a bookkeeping entry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-16a.1146.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-17", "file": "debates1929-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "040d670e099295ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1176.0", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether it is true that the Unemployment Grants Committee have a staff of only eight mem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-17", "file": "debates1929-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "040d670e099295ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1177.5", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FISHING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "ght to say, in reply to the first supplementary question, that I do not agree with the hon. and gallant Member, because we have had question after question put in this House which, in a way, has discouraged public subscriptions. [HON. MEmsEas: \"No!\"] Oh, yes. We had an hon. Member shouting across the Floor of the House that they did not want charity, and we had another hon. Member asking if—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1177.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-17", "file": "debates1929-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "040d670e099295ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1178.0", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FISHING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "We do not accept the statement all the same. It is most unfair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1178.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-17", "file": "debates1929-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "040d670e099295ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1202.7", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "preceding_text": "Am I not entitled, for greater accuracy, to quote the exact words of a very important document about which I wanted information from the Financial Secretary to the Treasury?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1202.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-17", "file": "debates1929-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "040d670e099295ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1209.2", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "SHARING-OUT CLUBS (REGULATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to ensure the proper financial control and management of sharing-out clubs. I do not think there is any need to stress the necessity for a Bill of this description.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-17", "file": "debates1929-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "040d670e099295ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1274.0", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "es the greater half of print, into a different form. That is a somewhat unusual method of introducing a Bill, and is an additional reason why we should have longer time for criticism. Anyone who deals with the coal problem has a very difficult task; and that task is not made easier when you are confronted with a pledge very casually given, which you have not the least intention of redeeming—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-17", "file": "debates1929-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "040d670e099295ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1274.0", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ent up to the hilt. The right hon. Gentleman slid very quickly over the question of the pledge this afternoon, but I am sure it was very definitely in his mind. It is certainly in the minds of most hon. Members of the House. But what did happen? An absolute and categorical pledge was given by the Government that the Eight Hours Act would be repealed as the first act of the Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-17", "file": "debates1929-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "040d670e099295ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1274.0", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "the \"Miner\" on the 18th May, written by Mr. Lindsay, Secretary of the Parliamentary Labour Party, this was said: Undoubtedly it was agreed that in the first Session of the Lahour Government a Bill would be introduced to reduce the working hours of the miners. All that is outstanding is the decision as to the form that Bill should take\"— There is no suggestion of doing it by instalment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-17", "file": "debates1929-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "040d670e099295ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1274.0", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ey were not going to get a repeal of the Tory Act after all. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at Leicester last October said, in equally categorical but very different terms to those used at the time of the General Election, that: An immediate return to the seven-hour day would inflict grievous disaster on the industry, pits would close down and miners would be thrown out of work. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-17", "file": "debates1929-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "040d670e099295ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1293.0", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"He will not meet them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ations with other industries—the much-depressed cotton industry, for example—when he has to persuade them to acquiesce in this deliberate increase of prices; also the iron and steel industry, and perhaps the gas industry, which, in industrial centres, provides from 25 to 50 per cent. of its product for industry. I do not envy the Minister of Agriculture when he meets the farmers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-17", "file": "debates1929-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "040d670e099295ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1352.1", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr TURNER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr TURNER", "preceding_text": "st energetic people in the industrial world. They do not go down the pit to play at marbles. The results that we have before us now shew that individualism has failed, and the policy of past Governments has also failed to produce bread and meat for the miners. I think that in this case there is something in this Bill that will give the miners a little bit more sustenance than they have had before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-17", "file": "debates1929-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "040d670e099295ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1352.1", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr TURNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr TURNER", "preceding_text": "ed industries like railway works, gas works and the ancillary concerns? It is a well-known fact with regard to many ancillary concerns and by-product plants that the coal is sold below cost price. If it is sold below cost price, it is sold at the expense of those children and of that woman whose letter I read. I have lived among these hungry folk, and I want to help them. This Bill will help them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-17", "file": "debates1929-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "040d670e099295ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1352.1", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr TURNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which Clause?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr TURNER", "preceding_text": "w it is 49s. Where hat) the difference gone? The collier has not got it. That is where the dear coal is. It is not so in the case of the gas works, electricity works, and by-products plant. It is in the household coal only that it is dear. The President of the Board of Trade is making arrangements to stop that ramp. Those on the other side of the House did not attempt to stop it, but let it go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-17", "file": "debates1929-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "040d670e099295ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1352.1", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr TURNER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr TURNER", "preceding_text": " to their consideration to do so. What is the proposition of the late Government? It is a policy, as we say in Yorkshire, of doing \"nowt.\" The industry is in a deplorable position, but there is no suggestion of doing anything whatever to restore it. They may say they are not the Government, and it is not their business, but they have been the Government and it got worse and worse as years went by.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-17", "file": "debates1929-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "040d670e099295ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1356.1", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cook's policy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER", "preceding_text": "Whose policy could it have been but your policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-17", "file": "debates1929-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "040d670e099295ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1362.1", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE BALFOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "In what a pathetic position we find ourselves tonight: The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour said, in answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Torquay (Commander Williams), that this Vote will carry us to February, and that at that date a further Supplementary Estimate will be introduced. He has put this Vote, in fact, in the position of being a mere token Vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-17a.1362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1377.3", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether, in view of the answer which he has now given, it may be taken for granted that His Majesty's Government will see that these moneys are returned to the Dominions and Colonies who advanced them under false pretences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1377.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1409.3", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "PREVENTION OF VICTIMISATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GERVAIS RENTOUL", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"What were those undertakings?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERVAIS RENTOUL", "preceding_text": "s out of order to put questions in this House to any Member of the Government with regard to these matters, because they are not responsible for them. This Bill seeks to empower the Minister of Health, acting on behalf of the Government, to issue such directions as may be necessary to local authorities in order to ensure the fulfilment of undertakings and pledges given by His Majesty's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1409.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1409.3", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "PREVENTION OF VICTIMISATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GERVAIS RENTOUL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERVAIS RENTOUL", "preceding_text": "ers here, irrespective of party divisions, because there is no doubt whatever that a very clear and definite pledge was given in regard to this matter. I say that in spite of the ingenious suggestion made yesterday by the hon. Member for Shore-ditch (Mr. Thurtle) that no such pledge ever was given and that it was merely an appeal made by the Prime Minister of the day. I am afraid that will not do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1409.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1409.3", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "PREVENTION OF VICTIMISATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GERVAIS RENTOUL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERVAIS RENTOUL", "preceding_text": " clear and definite pledge was given in regard to this matter. I say that in spite of the ingenious suggestion made yesterday by the hon. Member for Shore-ditch (Mr. Thurtle) that no such pledge ever was given and that it was merely an appeal made by the Prime Minister of the day. I am afraid that will not do. [ Interruption. ] Public memories may be short, but they are not quite as short as that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1409.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1410.0", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "PREVENTION OF VICTIMISATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERVAIS RENTOUL", "preceding_text": "e pledge was given in regard to this matter. I say that in spite of the ingenious suggestion made yesterday by the hon. Member for Shore-ditch (Mr. Thurtle) that no such pledge ever was given and that it was merely an appeal made by the Prime Minister of the day. I am afraid that will not do. [ Interruption. ] Public memories may be short, but they are not quite as short as that. [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1409.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1410.1", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "PREVENTION OF VICTIMISATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. RENTOUL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. RENTOUL", "preceding_text": "Not only was such a pledge given, but it was given on the authority of the whole House, and if such pledges are given a very grave state of affairs arises if they are not observed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1410.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "PREVENTION OF VICTIMISATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "Which they did not do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1411.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1411.3", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "PREVENTION OF VICTIMISATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1411.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1411.5", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "PREVENTION OF VICTIMISATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. RENTOUL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. RENTOUL", "preceding_text": "On 13th May, after the General Strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1411.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1413.1", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "PREVENTION OF VICTIMISATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MUFF", "preceding_text": "ember for Epping (Mr. Churchill). At the outset, seeing that the hon. Member opposite has mentioned the City of Hull and its Corporation, it would be as well if I might be allowed to quote the actual resolution passed on 26th November, 1929. It states: That the whole of the volunteers be given notice to terminate their engagement; that they be given the option of applying for re-engagement\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1413.2", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "PREVENTION OF VICTIMISATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MUFF", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"Mostly spent in drink.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MUFF", "preceding_text": "has been transpiring, not only in the city of Kingston-upon-Hull, but in other places where systematic victimisation took place. Kingston-upon-Hull was affected for days after the rest of the country had come to terms owing to the fact that the new party of the right hon. Member for Epping, the undergraduate party, filled the city. They came in large numbers at a cost of £15,000 to the rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1413.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1447.1", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "SOVIET RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Captain PETER MACDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain PETER MACDONALD", "preceding_text": "et Government we can be guided by any precedent in the conduct of negotiations with any other nation. It will be recalled that the famous lady in the past was no ordinary woman; in fact, she was no lady at all. The Soviet Government is no ordinary Government; it is, in fact, no Government at all. The real governing body in Russia to-day is the Third International, otherwise known as the Comintern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1447.1", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "SOVIET RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Captain PETER MACDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain PETER MACDONALD", "preceding_text": " in fact, no Government at all. The real governing body in Russia to-day is the Third International, otherwise known as the Comintern. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] A Government is that body within a nation in which authority resides, and no authority resides to-day in the Soviet Government as such; as I have said, the chief governing authority to-day in Russia is the Comintern or the Third International.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1464.0", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "SOVIET RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was beyond the Bar!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member was not in the House when Mr. Speaker gave his ruling, it is a little difficult for him to give us guidance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1465.0", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "SOVIET RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALLEN", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALLEN", "preceding_text": "countries and all other questions of this unhappy universe. The trouble and heart-searching which Russia and- Ireland have caused from time to time was aptly expressed by the Secretary of the First Ambassador to the Court of Russia, in the reign of Elizabeth, when he said that: Wilde Irish are as civil as the Russes in theyre kinde, Hard choice which is the best of both ech bloudy rude and blinde.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1466.4", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "SOVIET RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "preceding_text": "his return from Russia in 1917, on his arrival in Downing Street. They say that the marks of his impatient paces can yet be traced on the carpet outside the Cabinet Room. I wonder whether he has been in similar trouble lately? I wonder whether his recent delinquency in the matter of drafting State documents has got him into similar difficulties with his present colleagues. What are the real facts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1466.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1466.4", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "SOVIET RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "preceding_text": "ng Street. They say that the marks of his impatient paces can yet be traced on the carpet outside the Cabinet Room. I wonder whether he has been in similar trouble lately? I wonder whether his recent delinquency in the matter of drafting State documents has got him into similar difficulties with his present colleagues. What are the real facts? [ Interruption. ] The real facts are extremely simple.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1466.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1482.4", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "SOVIET RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. You ruled at the commencement of this Debate, Mr. Speaker, that discussion of the acts of the Government prior to the Vote of the House was to be excluded from the Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1482.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1490.8", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "SOVIET RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "tled to exercise towards the policy of the Government with regard to Russian relations. One or two questions have been submitted to me during the discussion. The hon. and gallant Member for Wycombe (Sir A. Knox) asked me: \"Was any agreement made that debts should be dealt with and settled before relations were re-established?\" The answer to that question is quite plain. No such agreement was made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1490.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1495.4", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "SOVIET RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "and, even when it was a question of war with Russia and we were subsidising Denikin, Koltchak and the others, we never went to the House of Lords. For the first time for a long time, Parliament has something to say about diplomatic relations. For the first time, the relations between nations are open and above board, and the democratic representatives of the British people will have the last word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1495.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1538.3", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "POLITICAL SITUATION IN INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "Twenty-eight millions is a considerable number, but that is only a comparatively small proportion of the whole, and the Untouchables apart, if we take all those peasants who are not politically educated and politically minded, we shall find that they will always follow the educated Indian in preference to the British.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1538.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1570.3", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is what they are here for\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": "was the implication of that answer, what was what the lawyers call the innuendo which the right hon. Gentleman desired to convey to the House? What he desired to convey was that he was not satisfied with the progress as a whole, but that the results compared favourably with the results of last year. That is the meaning which hon. Members opposite attached to it, because they cheered the statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1570.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1570.3", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": "register fell by 96,000. In 1927, between 5th and 12th December, the fall was 24,000. In 1928, between 3rd and 10th December, the fall was 30,000. This year, the figure on 25th November was 1,285,000, on 2nd December, 1,302,000, on 9th December, 1,309,000. This year for the first time, the trend has been reversed. Instead of falling in the first weeks of December, the figures have this year risen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1570.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1579.0", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "was largely founded that attempts were being made to find radium in other countries in the world, and hopes were held out that radium might be found in some of the British Dominions. I think that there could be nothing better for mankind, especially mankind suffering from a terrible disease of this nature, if it is possible to find radium in other countries in addition to the one I have mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1580.1", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are going to discuss it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "at he was not called to order for ambling into the realm of unemployment. There is one item of expenditure which has not been discussed. Strangely enough I get the feeling that hon. Members opposite have not referred to it because they are responsible for throwing this little debit at our heads. It is a sum of £106,000 to the Trustees of the National Gallery. Nothing has been said about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1580.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1583.0", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speak up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "is said that if you did do what I propose there would be a collision between these investments and National Savings Certificates. I do not believe that that would be the case, because those who invest in National Savings Certificates are a totally different class. I believe that it is an example of the close liaison that, even in these democratic days, exists between the Treasury and high finance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1582.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1584.0", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "I do not want to keep the House very long from the reply of the Financial Secretary to the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1588.1", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "The First Commissioner of Works with his very kindly and benevolent attitude towards those who serve under his auspices will perhaps take these matters into account. Having corn-mended this very necessary improvement in the conditions under which so many of our employees work to the attention of the First Commissioner of Works, I would merely ask, in conclusion, that the Financial Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-18", "file": "debates1929-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "00b0a6cc66514ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1588.3", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": " fault that we have to consider the spending of over £5,000,000 of public money at this time of the morning. As hon. Members are so interested in the remarks that I have been making, I am prepared to amplify them almost indefinitely. I have, as a matter of fact, a great many notes on all sorts of subjects which are raised by these Estimates, but I do not want to take up the time of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-18a.1588.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1611.2", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "It still follows from the right hon. Gentleman's reply that the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1611.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1613.0", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speak up!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "That supplementary question shows the wisdom of my previous answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1612.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1622.2", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "We cannot hear! Address the Speaker!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "As regards the first part of the question, I do not know the particular cases which the hon. Member has in mind. As regards the second part of the question, it is perfectly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1622.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1622.8", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speak up!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "As regards the second part of the question, it is true that a number of local authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1622.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1627.3", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAFEGUARDING DUTIES (LACE AND CUTLERY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "s and trade unions in the lace industry in regard to the lapsing of the lace duty when the statutory period for which it has been imposed expires; he has received no similar representations in the case of the cutlery duty. With regard to the second part of the question I would remind the hon. and gallant Member that the policy of the Government in relation to the Safeguarding Duties is well known.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1627.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1661.5", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore DOUGLAS KING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore DOUGLAS KING", "preceding_text": "ing to give greater sustenance to the miners unless it is, by joint action, to put up prices against the home consumer. With regard to home consumption, who are these other people who will have to pay the increased price? The Secretary for Mines quoted a miner's paynote which he said, after all deductions, gave the miner only £1 14s. 8d. I think he will agree that that is an exceptional case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1661.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1661.5", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore DOUGLAS KING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore DOUGLAS KING", "preceding_text": "eased price? The Secretary for Mines quoted a miner's paynote which he said, after all deductions, gave the miner only £1 14s. 8d. I think he will agree that that is an exceptional case. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I was not asking hon. Members on the back benches. I was asking a responsible Minister of the Government, and if he makes inquiry, he will have to admit that that is an exceptional case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1661.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1661.5", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore DOUGLAS KING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore DOUGLAS KING", "preceding_text": "ng a responsible Minister of the Government, and if he makes inquiry, he will have to admit that that is an exceptional case. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] His own statistical returns will show it so. The average wages for mine workers in the June return were something over 9s. a shift, and we are working over five shifts a week and, therefore, it is common arithmetic to say that 45s. is the average wage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1661.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1661.5", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore DOUGLAS KING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore DOUGLAS KING", "preceding_text": "eek and, therefore, it is common arithmetic to say that 45s. is the average wage. [ Interruption. ] I am not going to be drawn into argument all over the House. I am taking up a point which was raised by the Secretary for Mines the night before last, and he made a statement with regard to a miner's paynote. I am only putting it to him that if he makes inquiry he will find that that is exceptional.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1661.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1661.5", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore DOUGLAS KING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore DOUGLAS KING", "preceding_text": "find that that is exceptional. [ Interruption. ] I will take the hon. Member's suggestion. Even supposing that were an average—it is not an average I know; it is very much below the average—but even if it were £1 14s. 8d., does he realise that many of the consumers who will have to pay extra for their coal under this wholly unwarrantable Bill are getting far less than 34s. a week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1661.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1672.0", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "consider to be thoroughly vital and fundamental, and I will tell the right hon. Gentleman why we consider them to be fundamental. By the best computation which I have been able to secure, the effect of this Bill must be, in the absence of provisions for cutting down the costs of production, to increase the cost of coal by at least 3s. 6d. a ton. There are some who put the figures very much higher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1672.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1672.0", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "o secure, the effect of this Bill must be, in the absence of provisions for cutting down the costs of production, to increase the cost of coal by at least 3s. 6d. a ton. There are some who put the figures very much higher. [ Interruption. ] There is a Gentleman who spoke yesterday. He is the Chairman of the Scottish Coalowners. He says that the effect will be to put up the price of coal by 4s. 6d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1672.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1672.0", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " their case. The consumers of domestic coal cannot do so. Three and sixpence per ton added to the price at the pithead will mean at least 4s. 6d. by the time is comes to the home. In scores, if not hundreds of thousands of homes, it will mean a perceptible diminution in warmth and comfort. When we woke up this morning and looked out of the window, we saw the ground covered with a thick hoar frost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1672.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1672.0", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nationalisation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "of Commons and vote for the Second Reading of a Bill that puts up the price of coal to the people.\" There was an old tax in this country called the Hearth Tax. It was an oppressive tax, it was a cruel tax, and it was abolished by the humanitarian sentiments of this country; no one thought that it would fall to a Labour Government to reimpose it. What is the alternative to putting on higher prices?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1672.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1672.0", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ou could save cost in production and save cost in distribution. More than that, that you should concentrate more and more upon the economic pits. Everybody who knows the mining industry knows very well, especially those who have been engaged many times in settling mining disputes, that the uneconomic pits are mainly responsible for lowering the general level of wages throughout the whole industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1672.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1672.0", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which is the colliery?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "It is from one of the largest collieries in Yorkshire. Before they came into the scheme they were well managed, always paid good wages, and worked full time. Their output was 600,000 tons. Under new management they spent a good deal of money in putting improved machinery in the pits in order to increase the output. They increased the capacity to 700,000. Then they were induced to join this scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1672.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1672.0", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"468,000 tons!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "will be in the hands of the Secretary for Mines or the President of the Board of Trade. What happened? The quota of capacity was fixed quite fairly, and they are not complaining about that. The quota was reduced to 438,000 tons. They bought a quota from another mine and paid thousands of pounds for it, but they could only buy a quota of 30,000 tons. That brought up the joint quota to 478,000 tons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1672.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1680.0", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I should like to ask the right hon. Gentleman a question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1680.5", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Abolish it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " protection for the consumer. The right hon. Gentleman the President of the Board of Trade consulted the miners and the mine owners, but there was no consultation with any body of men representing the consumers of this country. They were never brought into consultation. Suppose that the Attorney-General brought in a Bill to reform the legal profession—not that they stand in need of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1680.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1680.5", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And no limitation of output.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ht into consultation. Suppose that the Attorney-General brought in a Bill to reform the legal profession—not that they stand in need of it—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Abolish it.\"] If you call together the Bar Council and the Incorporated Law Society I am quite certain that the only recommendation you would get would be that the one reform which was necessary was an increase in the fees of both.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1680.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1680.5", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The owners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "mines of the country, is to be fixed—by whom? By the owners. The whole quota for this country is going to be fixed by a committee of the owners. The district capacity, the district quota is to be fixed—by whom? By the owners. The capacity, the quota, of each individual mine is going to be settled—by whom? By the owners. The prices which are to be fixed, who are going to fix them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1680.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1680.5", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Finish your text.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "with this situation. Surely the quota which you fix, whether for a district or an individual mine, will affect the livelihood of the miners themselves. If you cut the quota down you may turn miners out, you may cut down the number of hours they work. Surely they at least ought to be consulted, but it is all left to the colliery proprietors. And Mr. A. J. Cook accepted this! \"Blessed are the meek.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1680.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1680.5", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ioned. Why? I do not say that price cannot be referred to a Committee of Investigation, but there is nothing in the Bill to say so. When you come to fixing the price at which you sell, and which is fixed by the owner, you are not ashamed to put in the word \"price\"—arbitration—but when you come to protect the consumer you must not mention the word \"price.\" Why? It would upset the owner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1680.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1680.5", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Another committee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "do is to send their complaint to the Board of Trade, and if the Board of Trade show as little aptitude to protect the consumer as they have shown in this Bill, very little protection will the consumer get from them. What are they to do? They can investigate and, having investigated, what are they to do next? Do they decide? No. They can send the complaint on to the owners. What follows after that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1680.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "You have forgotten it already. If you remembered it, you would never go into the Lobby tonight to vote for this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " Who is the author? The name of the hon. Member the Secretary for Mines is on the Bill. I have great respect for the hon. Member, and there are many positions that he has filled with great distinction and many positions in which he would prove successful, but, honestly, regarding him as Minister of Mines I cannot help thinking that the quota of responsibility is greater than the standard capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "Bill. I have great respect for the hon. Member, and there are many positions that he has filled with great distinction and many positions in which he would prove successful, but, honestly, regarding him as Minister of Mines I cannot help thinking that the quota of responsibility is greater than the standard capacity. [ Interruption. ] I say that without any hesitation, and I am entitled to say it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "terruption. ] In my judgment, it is vital, in so important a Ministry, that men should be there who are acquainted with the working of the industry. The name of the Attorney-General is on the Bill. He was bound to be on. I see that he himself said, in substance, in the discussions on unemployment, that those who were genuinely seeking work cannot discriminate in the jobs which are offered to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "o the general interest of the community. The owners treated the Government with insolence in my judgment. They refused to appear, at the invitation, I believe, of the Prime Minister, in order to discuss matters with him, because the miners were there. I think the Government ought to proceed to redraft their Bill. Instead of doing that the Government surrender. Well, I do not put Cabinets too high.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "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": "ft their Bill. Instead of doing that the Government surrender. Well, I do not put Cabinets too high. [ Interruption. ] I have been in several, and I know. As a matter of fact, to use a phrase which has been falsely attributed to me and which I never used, Cabinets are not \"homes for heroes.\" There never has been such a case of abject surrender as this surrender. May I just say in conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "veral, and I know. As a matter of fact, to use a phrase which has been falsely attributed to me and which I never used, Cabinets are not \"homes for heroes.\" There never has been such a case of abject surrender as this surrender. May I just say in conclusion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"]—I flatter myself that the proof that I am not tiring hon. Members is that they should be here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"1918!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "S: \"Hear, hear!\"]—I flatter myself that the proof that I am not tiring hon. Members is that they should be here—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"]—and I can assure them that I shall not be more than a few minutes more. What I want to say in all seriousness is this: This is not the expectation that was roused at the last Election. There never were higher hopes excited at any Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1688.0", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SULLIVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SULLIVAN", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Is the right hon. Gentleman in order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1692.1", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "at time. We had nothing to do with drafting it, and I knew nothing about it. I know that I denounced it at the time. I personally denounced the whole thing. I spoke for myself, and I denounced it as undermining the very foundations. Anybody who looks at the Debates in 1921—not in 1919, but in 1921—when we were dealing with the consequences of it, will see that I then pointed out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1693.1", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "Liberals say, \"But you have not the power to do it.\" The President says, \"I think we have, but if we have not we will obtain powers.\" There is common agreement between us on principle about that. The Liberals say, \"Are you prepared to insist upon amalgamating them on present values and net upon inflated values?\" A very definite and emphatic reply in the affirmative has been given to that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1693.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1701.0", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "ow, all the evidence, all the facts, all the figures, all the accountants' state-ments, everything upon which they formed their conclusion, and any one of us can form his or her own judgment upon that data. I realise that I am expressing a contrary opinion to that of a very able and competent gentleman, and I realise that in differing from him, I may be regarded as a little bit lacking in modesty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1705.0", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who won?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major THOMAS", "preceding_text": " two remarks by the Secretary for Mines yesterday. He tried to give the House the impression that Members on this side of the Rouse do not think about the coalminer. I have worked and lived with the coalminer, and I have done something which, probably, a great many people in this House have not done. I have played golf with him. We did it during the 1912 strike and we might have done worse things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1705.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1715.0", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "preceding_text": "e statement that the Conservative party has done nothing for the miners. To do that, I am going to make this statement first of all—I am referring to Scotland only—that this Bill will do absolutely nothing for Scotland except to put her in a worse position competitively with the rest of the United Kingdom. It will put Scotland absolutely into the pocket of Yorkshire, to start off with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1742.1", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": " that the miners and the coalowners are going to meet and divide this spoil? If you think so, you do not know the coalowners, nor do you know the miners. The public may take it that there is no arrangement between the coalowners and the miners to increase the price of coal. After all, there are 4,000,000 persons more or less connected with the mining industry, one eleventh of the total population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1743.0", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": " unemployed, for their special benediction, I do not know. We should have thought the owners were a class of the community which would not particularly appeal to hon. Members opposite. You cannot get away from the fact that this Bill confers on them absolutely unlimited, uncontrolled, and unprecedented powers without a single safeguard for the public. We are passing through a very dark hour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1743.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1743.0", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "c problem of the coal industry. It really makes one despair, because there has never been one attempt on the part of an hon. Member opposite, either on the Front Bench or on the Back Benches, to answer the murderous criticism that has been advanced against the Bill. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Ogmore (Mr. Hartshorn) said it might be a rotten Bill, but still, it was better than nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1743.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1765.1", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "his House is prepared to face the problem of prices, there will be no solution of the coal problem. If I may say so parenthetically, I do not know if my right hon. Friend the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs has communicated that letter to which he referred when he was addressing the House, but, as I understood him, he informed the House that the writer of that letter had left the Five Powers scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1765.1", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "hich do not permit a proper organisation of the industry itself. It is sold at levels which do not permit decent wages to be paid to the miners. It is sold at levels which do not permit profits being made upon the industry. I have a suspicion with the right hon. Gentleman that all these declared losses are in the nature of losses, the other side of which are tucked away, and are to be found—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1765.1", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "the miners. It is sold at levels which do not permit profits being made upon the industry. I have a suspicion with the right hon. Gentleman that all these declared losses are in the nature of losses, the other side of which are tucked away, and are to be found—[ Interruption ]. The thing is like transfer prices. If I have said anything which might be taken as offence to the coalowners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1765.1", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "d as regards coatings by a public authority in order to see that the consumers do not suffer. In that respect the Bill requires some strengthening. This Measure is going to a Committee, and so far as the Committee is concerned any Amendments put down on the lines of the Bill to strengthen its provisions and deliberately put in to fulfil a certain purpose will be considered by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1765.1", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " sat on these benches. The House knows our intentions perfectly well. Hon. Members had an indication of those intentions in the speech of the President of the Board of Trade, and in the carrying out of those intentions, if contributions are made from the Government side or from Members of the parties opposite, the Government will examine them very carefully to see if they are suitable to the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-19", "file": "debates1929-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "a214c4e1df89bb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1765.1", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "contribute to that end. They must come together. They must exchange views across a table. They must stop this sort of idea that only in parts and only in sections are those great national problems involved in coal conditions to be settled and to be dealt with; and this Bill will make a substantial contribution to that end. Therefore, with its safeguards, with its peculiar Committee features—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-19a.1765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-20", "file": "debates1929-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "1c202c7a9cca0e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1785.0", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " not yet been passed, but in the ordinary course of the procedure of the House I suppose it will be passed. On the other hand, I think that purely as a matter of courtesy it would have been much better if we had had the Minister of Agriculture here this morning. It shows a disrespect and a lack of courtesy to the House which is always being shown by hon. Members on the Front Bench opposite.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1785.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-20", "file": "debates1929-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "1c202c7a9cca0e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1785.1", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "ord Privy Seal. One could understand the taking of Private Members' time at the end of a Session, when it might be necessary to do so in order to get important business through, but one cannot understand it at the beginning of the Session and at the beginning of a Parliament. The Government have tried to put too much important business through in a short time, and I as a humble back bencher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-20", "file": "debates1929-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "1c202c7a9cca0e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1824.0", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RICHARD RUSSELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Ask the lawyers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RICHARD RUSSELL", "preceding_text": " House what is called our Local Legislation Committee. Year after year they carry on doing efficient work. Why is it not possible for this House to appoint a local administrative committee, to see how the work is carried on locally throughout the country, and by sympathetic co-operation, try to get that local administration at the lowest possible expenditure and at the highest state of efficiency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-20", "file": "debates1929-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "1c202c7a9cca0e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1836.1", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VAUGHAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VAUGHAN", "preceding_text": "d be nonsense, and would be wasteful expenditure of public money. Nevertheless, when a road is required, as hundreds of them are, when, to use the words so often used by the Lord Privy Seal, they are roads of public utility, when they will promote public and national efficiency, then there is nothing to equal a road for providing a large proportion of employment. I have just two points more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-20", "file": "debates1929-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "1c202c7a9cca0e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1837.0", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "osition was that I could not get them together. Take the position of the present Government. They can get all the consultations and the advice they want on that side. They have the Trade Union Congress people, and the knowledge of their side and the influence of organised labour, but they have hardly anybody on that side who really has the kind of knowledge which I am attempting to describe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-20", "file": "debates1929-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "1c202c7a9cca0e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1853.1", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A master-hand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "That is right. That is why I knew. I thought I detected a very cunning hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-20", "file": "debates1929-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "1c202c7a9cca0e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1856.1", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "That is taken from the election address in 1924 of the right hon. Member for Bewdley (Mr. S. Baldwin) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-20", "file": "debates1929-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "1c202c7a9cca0e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1856.1", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He voted for it last time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "embers in the House would only run politics as they run their business, how much better the country would be. My right hon. Friend accused me of being too partial to what he called rationalisation. He told the House that on the railways and in many other industries, this process of rationalisation had gone on, and that it had been so disastrous in effect that it was the real cause of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-20", "file": "debates1929-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "1c202c7a9cca0e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1857.1", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "find there some 80 odd Bills waiting to pass the House of Commons, and 40 odd of them require powers that Parliament must give before the work can be proceeded with. May I point out that when I asked the House a fortnight ago to give me power to speed up this work by five weeks, two hon. Members sitting on the Opposition Benches got up and said that I was asking for a revolutionary change? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-20", "file": "debates1929-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "1c202c7a9cca0e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1857.1", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "se miserable level crossings in that great city, which handicap trade and traffic and everything else. But it is no use asking me how many men will be employed. I have first to find out when this House will pass the necessary Bill to enable the Hull Corporation to proceed with that work. The right hon. Gentleman asks, what is the difference between our policy and the policy of the late Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-20", "file": "debates1929-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "1c202c7a9cca0e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1860.1", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many men are employed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ment, only £6,000,000 was approved. We did not. get the power until four months ago to deal with our development schemes, and in the six months during which we have been in office £13,500,000 has been sanctioned by that one Committee alone, for 630 different schemes, and at the present moment there are 923 further schemes, of a total value of £18,000,000, before the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-20", "file": "debates1929-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "1c202c7a9cca0e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1865.1", "colnum": "1865", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Surely, you are not going to hold the Government responsible for recent events in the City and America. On the other hand, I frankly admit that there are bright prospects in certain industries if unification and rationalisation, in spite of what has been said, can take place. I will give one illustration. The motor industry offers more hope for employment than any industry in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1865.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-20", "file": "debates1929-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "1c202c7a9cca0e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1807.1", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": " life of me I cannot see how they appeal to the business minds of the country. You are asking us to spend £20,000,000 in reclaiming land when you have many acres—can I put it at millions of acres—of land which is already reclaimed, is fit for cultivation and has not been cultivated. While I have no objection to any old way of finding work, or rather finding wages for people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-20a.1807.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-23", "file": "debates1929-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd91dadc14e04dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.1885.7", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "Then the attempted exportation of 16 railway truckloads of munitions of war was not considered of sufficient importance by the Government to need their intervention?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.1885.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-23", "file": "debates1929-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd91dadc14e04dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.1902.8", "colnum": "1902", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Moscow!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "Has the Parliamentary Secretary found out yet what was the reason for the strike, and can he give us the reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.1902.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-23", "file": "debates1929-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd91dadc14e04dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.1964.1", "colnum": "1964", "heading": "EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was nearly 40 years ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "Ever remain. Yes, Sir. When the word of His Majesty's Government is pledged, it is not their custom to break it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.1964.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-23", "file": "debates1929-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd91dadc14e04dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.1994.0", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": ", of course, that the roads have not been broken up. What does this significant remark of the Air Minister mean? I ask the Foreign Secretary specifically, because it is no use getting ugly facts covered up and camouflaged over, and leaving the working classes in this country and in Egypt suddenly to wake up and find that armed violence has broken out, and that they are expected to take part in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.1994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-23", "file": "debates1929-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd91dadc14e04dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.1994.0", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " does this significant remark of the Air Minister mean? I ask the Foreign Secretary specifically, because it is no use getting ugly facts covered up and camouflaged over, and leaving the working classes in this country and in Egypt suddenly to wake up and find that armed violence has broken out, and that they are expected to take part in it. [ Interruption. ] Let us see exactly where we are going.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.1994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-23", "file": "debates1929-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd91dadc14e04dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.1994.0", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " assurance on behalf of the Government unless he had honourably intended that reliance could be placed upon it. As a Socialist Minister has introduced this topic of armoured cars into the discussion, I feel bound to bring to the notice of the House the kind of situation which the Government have already been focussing in their minds, and it is no doubt seriously concerning their military advisers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.1994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-23", "file": "debates1929-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd91dadc14e04dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.1994.0", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "illages, and their fields, in order to crunch the gravel on the barrack square or to exchange the implements of agriculture for lethal weapons. They do not wish to be soldiers. Why should they be compelled, against their own inclinations, which are at the moment in harmony with the dearest inclinations of lovers of peace throughout the world, to undergo the rigours of compulsory military training?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.1994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-23", "file": "debates1929-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd91dadc14e04dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.1994.0", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "he Sudan is folly. No one can pretend that these causes of dispute will be removed by anything short of that; either you must be prepared to concede the full Egyptian claim about the Sudan, or you must be prepared to face a continued quarrel with all those forces in Egypt at whose behest we are no to evacuate Cairo. There are other causes of friction which this treaty does nothing to remove—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.1994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-23", "file": "debates1929-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd91dadc14e04dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.1994.0", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "h the point of decision, the demand of Egypt is that the British quit the soil of Egypt bag and baggage, and the Nationalist forces which Zaghloul formed and led forward will never be content with less. Zaghloul Pasha again and again made it perfectly clear that nothing short of the complete evacuation of the soil of Egypt would satisfy the national demand which he created, inspired and expressed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.1994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-23", "file": "debates1929-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd91dadc14e04dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.1994.0", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ital. We shall always be held accountable to Europe and the United States for the safety of their nationals. We shall always continue to take upon our shoulders the burden and the unpopularity of 'all the antagonisms that may arise between the Egyptian populace and foreign interests and colonies. We shall have no leverage at our disposal except the naked threat of invasion and re-occupation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.1994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-23", "file": "debates1929-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd91dadc14e04dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.1994.0", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " affairs during the short time that they have been responsible. In June, they were in communication with Mahmud Pasha behind the back of the High Commissioner. In August they dismissed Lord Lloyd, thus advertising our impending retreat to every subversive force in Egypt and Palestine. I believe the dismissal of Lord Lloyd and its manner was the direct precursor of the massacres in Palestine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.1994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-23", "file": "debates1929-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd91dadc14e04dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.2015.6", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir RENNELL RODD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir RENNELL RODD", "preceding_text": "s have to be made and are equitable in themselves they should be made at once and not haggled over so as to produce the appearance of having been extracted by pressure and importunity. The question often asked me to-day is whether or not the Egyptian fellah will have the same guarantee of fair play as he had when the country was under military occupation is not pertinent to the present discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.2015.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-23", "file": "debates1929-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd91dadc14e04dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.2037.0", "colnum": "2037", "heading": "EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain HAROLD BALFOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain HAROLD BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "since 1915 I think she will reverse her judgment. During that period of what has been described in this House to-night as \"the very wicked military occupation\" more was done to clean up Cairo and Port Said than at any other time in Egypt's history. Port Said used to be known as the sink of the world, but I know that when I went there in 1918 it was, for a Near East town, comparatively respectable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.2037.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-23", "file": "debates1929-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd91dadc14e04dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.2059.0", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "rd, and with all the sincerity that may be in their hearts, sometimes, when they allow their heads to be carried away by their hearts, they land this country into the most galling situation. That we have seen in the past. Hon. Members laugh, but I do not think that I am exaggerating when I say that we have been landed into nearly all the great tragedies of this country by great democratic leaders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.2059.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-23", "file": "debates1929-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd91dadc14e04dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.2061.1", "colnum": "2061", "heading": "EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "e the glory of Egypt had departed, and the spirit of the people had been broken. The country was bankrupt, the finances were in chaos and the Nile, the richest fertiliser in the world, was pouring millions of tons of the best alluvial soil in the world wastefully into the ocean. The country was in the depths of despair and the government was utterly corrupt. Then came British genius to the rescue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.2061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-23", "file": "debates1929-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd91dadc14e04dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.2071.2", "colnum": "2071", "heading": "EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has not answered my question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.2071.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-23", "file": "debates1929-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd91dadc14e04dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.2074.1", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "t of this Treaty we are making it possible for foreign armies to invade Egypt in order to establish the rights of their nationals. The entry of Egypt into the League of Nations, if this goes through, will entitle Egypt to the same protection as that afforded to other members of the League and she will enjoy the same guarantee of her independence against external aggression as any other member has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.2074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-23", "file": "debates1929-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd91dadc14e04dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.2074.1", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": " Member of the League is entitled. We are very glad to notice that the policy which we are putting before the House is gradually winning acceptance in all quarters except a small section of the ground which is still occupied by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping who was disowned by the hon. and gallant Member for Warwick and Leamington (Captain Eden) in the course of his speech —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-23a.2074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-24", "file": "debates1929-12-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b4901a4c3538742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-24a.2080.4", "colnum": "2080", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman assure this House that in any such arrangement made for the fishermen of Scotland the point of view expressed by the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland that party politics should come in will not be the point of view of the right hon. Gentleman?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-24a.2080.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-24", "file": "debates1929-12-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b4901a4c3538742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-24a.2170.1", "colnum": "2170", "heading": "SINGAPORE NAVAL BASE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. PENNY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. PENNY", "preceding_text": "ny time. As I have already said, the mentality of the Asiatic is entirely different from that of the European. I would like the House to consider this question from still another angle, and that is, in regard to Malaya itself. The cost of the Singapore Base is trifling compared with the millions of pounds which the two great key industries of rubber and tin have given to investors in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-24a.2170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-24", "file": "debates1929-12-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b4901a4c3538742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-24a.2173.1", "colnum": "2173", "heading": "SINGAPORE NAVAL BASE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They showed vision.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "East, 8,000 miles away, another Portsmouth. The hon. Member for Kingston-upon-Thames (Sir G. Penny) talked about the Bolsheviks, the Afghans and the Chinese. Singapore will hardly be a defence against the Bolsheviks, the Afghans or the Chinese. I could never understand why the Singapore base was commenced. It was begun in the days of the Coalition Government, in 1921, when millions did not matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-24a.2173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-24", "file": "debates1929-12-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b4901a4c3538742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-24a.2176.1", "colnum": "2176", "heading": "SINGAPORE NAVAL BASE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "o defend that base against attack! As I have said, this has never been thought out; I am as certain of it as possible. What sort of garrison are we to keep there? I suppose the right hon. Gentleman the First Lord of the Admiralty has had access to the records. Has he ever considered what kind of garrison must be kept in Singapore to defend it in time of war against a strong naval Power over there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-24a.2176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-24", "file": "debates1929-12-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b4901a4c3538742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-24a.2176.1", "colnum": "2176", "heading": "SINGAPORE NAVAL BASE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We must be ready!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": " of date. Hon. Members opposite want money for social reform; hon. Members on this side want money for armaments. Where the taxpayer is coming in, I am not quite sure; but this base must be maintained in perfect order. We are told that we must look ahead, and that it will not be ready for 10 years. Cannot we have a little rest for the time being? Who can say what is going to happen 10 years ahead?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-24a.2176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-24", "file": "debates1929-12-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b4901a4c3538742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-24a.2176.1", "colnum": "2176", "heading": "SINGAPORE NAVAL BASE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "000,000 a piece to be 8,000 miles away in time of war? Of course we are not. Why not? So many men might jump in here. Does anybody believe that these great battleships will be permitted, in time of war, to be 8,000 miles away at Singapore? The idea is perfectly ridiculous, and my hon. Friends really ought to know it. If they do not know it, it shows that they have not considered the matter at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-24a.2176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-24", "file": "debates1929-12-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b4901a4c3538742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-24a.2194.1", "colnum": "2194", "heading": "NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "heavy a charge to accumulate at the back of a Fund with such an enormous annual revenue as that. It does not even amount to one year's annual revenue. Look at our own affairs. We have a debt of over £7,000,000,000, that is to say our debt is eight or nine times our annual revenue and, therefore, if the Insurance Fund is in a state of bankruptcy, we are seven or eight times more in bankruptcy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-24a.2194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-24", "file": "debates1929-12-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b4901a4c3538742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-24a.2202.1", "colnum": "2202", "heading": "NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " that he spoke as if he had a personal grievance against these trades, as if, because they had been protected by a tariff, they had done him some wrong and ought to be punished. The whole tenor of his statement was that it served them right, that those who live by a tariff shall fall and suffer by a tariff. I can assure him it is not the fault of the trades. They never asked for this tariff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-24a.2202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-24", "file": "debates1929-12-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b4901a4c3538742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-24a.2206.0", "colnum": "2206", "heading": "NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Gentleman said that I used that surplus in order to satisfy my friends and to gain popularity. What did the right hon. Gentleman do with his surplus? Of course, I will not for a moment say that in disposing of that surplus the right hon. Gentleman had his own political friends in mind; no, not in the least! He was relieving the Super-taxpayers to the extent of £10,000,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-24a.2206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1929-12-24", "file": "debates1929-12-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b4901a4c3538742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-24a.2229.1", "colnum": "2229", "heading": "WOMEN'S ROYAL AIR FORCE (MISS PENNANT).", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL", "preceding_text": " a very great pity, in Miss Pennant's interests, that the matter was not allowed to rest there when the apology was obtained from Lord Weir with regard to the gross manner of her dismissal. But what followed? The question, of course, was not simply the question, \"Was this an honest exercise by Lord Weir of his discretion?\" It was at once said that there had been here a very serious intrigue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1929-12-24a.2229.1"}