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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-23", "file": "debates1930-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0346697df5237fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-23a.391.0", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. B. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. B. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "the action and the business acumen which have enabled the factories to make such a good bargain with the Farmers' Union, but after looking at the extent of the subsidies, which have been granted for the purpose of developing agriculture, I am bound to say that the factories have drawn three-fourths of the subsidies and the other sections of the industry have not had a fair share of: the subsidies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-23a.391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-23", "file": "debates1930-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0346697df5237fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-23a.405.2", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major GEORGE DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are not they\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Major GEORGE DAVIES", "preceding_text": "th prospects next year of an additional 33⅓ per cent. of acreage. Yet hon. Members on the Liberal Benches, because they find this policy has been a success, despite their prognostications to the contrary—according to their theories it never should have been a success—tell us that it is not a success because, they say, the factory is getting more than its fair share of the profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-23a.405.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-23", "file": "debates1930-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0346697df5237fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-23a.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who was?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "o power—which is not very far off—I assure the hon. Member for Burslem that when he rises to oppose the sugar beet subsidy, as he certainly will, we shall remind him of his action this evening. I recognise that in this matter the Minister of Agriculture is far in advance of the bulk of his party, although he has no sort of claim to be considered the originator of the sugar beet policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-23a.419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-23", "file": "debates1930-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0346697df5237fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-23a.423.0", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Will you divide against it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "I do not wish that any false impression should get abroad from the remarks made by the Noble Lord. It is true that on all occasions when this Vote has come up I have opposed it. I opposed it from its inception, and I do so to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-23a.423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-23", "file": "debates1930-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0346697df5237fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-23a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND DRAINAGE (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacROBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In so far as mines are agricultural.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacROBERT", "preceding_text": "es. Hon. Members opposite seem surprised that I should refer to mines, but if they will look at the wording of this Clause they will see the phrase, Any land or building in a landward area is being or is in danger of being injured by flood. It is quite common knowledge that mines are in the landward areas, and it is known that many mines are flooded to-day. Does this Bill intend to deal with them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-23a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-23", "file": "debates1930-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0346697df5237fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-23a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND DRAINAGE (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacROBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacROBERT", "preceding_text": "ve stated, that there is no appeal at all from the Department with regard to the very important question of settling the schemes, and as far as I can see there is no appeal from the Department with regard to the settling of the cost of the scheme. The only appeal is this: when the Department seek to apportion the cost amongst owners, there may then be an appeal in that case, and in that case only.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-23a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-23", "file": "debates1930-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0346697df5237fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-23a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND DRAINAGE (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Water!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I should not have taken any part in the Debate but for the-perfectly amazing speech which we have just heard. The hon. Gentleman has told us that there is flooded anarchy, whatever that means, in the agricultural districts of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-23a.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-23", "file": "debates1930-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0346697df5237fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-23a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND DRAINAGE (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "kely to be. The House of Commons, which is supposed primarily to be a financial House, has not the remotest knowledge of the actual cost from what I have heard of the discussion this afternoon, and I have heard a very considerable portion of it. I, like others, have to leave the Chamber—we are all human—about eight o'clock for a short time, but I am no worse than any other hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-23a.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-23", "file": "debates1930-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0346697df5237fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-23a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND DRAINAGE (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " [ Interruption .] The hon. Gentleman undoubtedly speaks from his own desires and feelings, but there are some who have other ideas in life beyond that. I am sorry for the interruption, because it is a bit difficult to go into a Bill which is so complicated. The hon. Gentleman the Under-Secretary of State referred to the question of floods on the Spey. I understand that great damage is being done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-23a.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-23", "file": "debates1930-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0346697df5237fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-23a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND DRAINAGE (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "th me in saying that we should have such a Measure in England as well. I do not say that I should approve even in that case, but there would be a better chance of getting my approval if the provisions of a Measure such as this were extended to this side of the Border. I want to raise a point on Sub-section (2) of Clause 1. I do not profess to have a comprehensive knowledge of Scottish legal terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-23a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-23", "file": "debates1930-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0346697df5237fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-23a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND DRAINAGE (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": ". You may have a small man occupying a comparatively little homestead who, by some misfortune which he is entirely unable to control, is causing the blocking of a particular river. Down comes upon him this notice from the Sheriff and ultimately the whole cost of the operation, as I read the Bill, may sooner or later be put on his shoulders. I say quite honestly that in such a matter as this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-23a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-24", "file": "debates1930-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d1b96456343f753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.519.0", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLASPHEMY LAWS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOVAT-FRASER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\" and \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOVAT-FRASER", "preceding_text": "r irreverently or profanely deal with the subject. The Bill asks us to regularise scoffingly or irreverently ridiculing or impugning the doctrines of the Christian faith. It asks us to regularise publishing contumelious reproaches of Jesus Christ. It asks us to regularise profane scoffing at the Holy Scriptures or exposing any part thereof to contempt or ridicule. Is the House prepared to do that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-24", "file": "debates1930-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d1b96456343f753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLASPHEMY LAWS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOVAT-FRASER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Make it stronger!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOVAT-FRASER", "preceding_text": "ditious words in derogation of the established religion is at common law guilty of a misdemeanour and is punishable by fine and imprisonment. These are offences against the Church of England which are not dealt with in this Bill. A prosecution might be brought against anybody for uttering and publishing seditious words in derogation of the established religion, and yet this Bill does not touch it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-24", "file": "debates1930-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d1b96456343f753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLASPHEMY LAWS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOVAT-FRASER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOVAT-FRASER", "preceding_text": "d by an hon. Member who spoke from this side of the House, the Statute of 9 William III, c. 32. That imposes a penalty up to three years' imprisonment for anyone who on a second occasion publicly expresses disbelief in any of the main doctrines of Christianity. But even in the time of William III liberality of thought had grown to such an extent that this Statute was never once put into operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-24", "file": "debates1930-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d1b96456343f753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLASPHEMY LAWS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOVAT-FRASER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOVAT-FRASER", "preceding_text": "years' imprisonment for anyone who on a second occasion publicly expresses disbelief in any of the main doctrines of Christianity. But even in the time of William III liberality of thought had grown to such an extent that this Statute was never once put into operation. [ Interruption .] Well, then, why not remove it from the Statute Book? You do not remove it from the Statute Book by this Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.522.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-01-24", "file": "debates1930-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d1b96456343f753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.524.4", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLASPHEMY LAWS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Not at all!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOVAT-FRASER", "preceding_text": "Tom Paine was a decent man in ordinary life. He was made a member of the French Assembly and was received with great honour in the United States, and yet his attacks upon Christianity were of a particularly offensive and foul-mouthed type.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.524.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-24", "file": "debates1930-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d1b96456343f753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.546.0", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLASPHEMY LAWS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDERS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDERS", "preceding_text": "usiness to see the magnificent and beautiful monument which is there to one of our greatest poets—Shelley. It always gives me the greatest pleasure to recollect that my fellow countrymen were so tolerant that, after expelling Shelley from Oxford for his boylike declaration in defiance of tradition the same college which expelled him put up a monument to him because of his magnificent poetry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.546.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-24", "file": "debates1930-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d1b96456343f753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLASPHEMY LAWS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "bolished are Acts which I do not think a single Member of this House, not even my hon. Friend the Member for the Scotland Division (Mr. Logan) would dare to say should be put into operation, they are so utterly stupid. They have been quoted here this afternoon. The present Bishop of Birmingham would be put in gaol under the law that is on the Statute Book to-day. I say that without any hesitation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-24", "file": "debates1930-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d1b96456343f753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLASPHEMY LAWS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "cotland Division (Mr. Logan) would dare to say should be put into operation, they are so utterly stupid. They have been quoted here this afternoon. The present Bishop of Birmingham would be put in gaol under the law that is on the Statute Book to-day. I say that without any hesitation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"] If anyone had the pluck to prosecute Dr. Barnes he could be prosecuted under the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-24", "file": "debates1930-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d1b96456343f753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLASPHEMY LAWS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That, is not blasphemy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"] If anyone had the pluck to prosecute Dr. Barnes he could be prosecuted under the law. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Yes!\"] I ask those who challenged that statement to recall to their minds the sermon he preached not so very many months ago, which was reported fully in the Press, in which he called in question almost all the fundamental principles of the Church of England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-24", "file": "debates1930-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d1b96456343f753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLASPHEMY LAWS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "o!\" and \"Yes!\"] I ask those who challenged that statement to recall to their minds the sermon he preached not so very many months ago, which was reported fully in the Press, in which he called in question almost all the fundamental principles of the Church of England. [HON. MEMBERS: \"That, is not blasphemy!\"] Hon. Members do not know what the law is, and I venture to ask them to go and look it up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-24", "file": "debates1930-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d1b96456343f753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.557.1", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLASPHEMY LAWS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " prison. That continued till one of the men died; I am not quite sure about the other one. Yet at the same time there was sitting on this bench the head of the Rationalist Society. I maintained then what I maintain now, that it is not a question of how you attack the Deity. If you are going to have blasphemy laws any attack on the Deity should be put down—if you are going to put anyone down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-24", "file": "debates1930-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d1b96456343f753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.557.1", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLASPHEMY LAWS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " to defend Him? Does anyone here think that anything that I can say or that any writer can say for or against can add to the glory and the majesty of God, either if you believe in God or detract from Him? That is the nonsense of the argument that we must in some way defend the honour and integrity of the Almighty, that we must save Him from attack. I think that reduces the whole thing to ridicule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.557.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-24", "file": "debates1930-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d1b96456343f753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.563.0", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLASPHEMY LAWS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does nothing of the sort!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": " me and have expressed themselves deeply aggrieved that such things are taking place. Members of the Labour movement conceive the idea of pandering to this kind of low-down business. What opening is there for any literary development, any intellectual profit or any impetus for the Labour movement or any cause in something which suggests that we should dispense with anything in the way of religion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.563.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-24", "file": "debates1930-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "3d1b96456343f753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.570.1", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLASPHEMY LAWS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENNETT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENNETT", "preceding_text": "I am praising the hon. Member, not them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-24a.570.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-28", "file": "debates1930-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "5ae60a55e436e23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-28a.929.0", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN (EMPLOYMENT ABROAD) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir A. LAMBERT WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir A. LAMBERT WARD", "preceding_text": "is Bill seeks to attain could be attained almost equally well by strengthening and making more rigid the passport regulations. In that way the purpose of the Bill would be reached equally effectively without any risk of giving offence to foreign and Continental countries. In my opinion this Bill is tantamount to saying that we do not consider foreign countries fit places for our children to go to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-28a.929.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-28", "file": "debates1930-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "5ae60a55e436e23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-28a.940.2", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLLECTING CHARITIES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Vote against it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": " apply. It is a Tory Measure, and I defy anybody to show the public demand for it. What Member was asked a question at the last Election about it? If one were asked, it would have been against the Bill. Here we have a Government, pressed for time and anxious to pursue other Measures, pioneering a Bill which was introduced by the Tory Home Secretary, the most reactionary Home Secretary we ever had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-28a.940.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.971.0", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "But, arising out of the reply: Are these men going to be discharged and no provision made for them to live? Are they simply going to be thrown on the scrap heap in the same way as 600 men have been thrown out at Beardmore's at Parkhead just lately by a Labour Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.971.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.971.0", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "But, arising out of the reply: Are these men going to be discharged and no provision made for them to live? Are they simply going to be thrown on the scrap heap in the same way as 600 men have been thrown out at Beardmore's at Parkhead just lately by a Labour Government? [ Interruption .] Yes, but we are up against hard facts, and I am not going to sit here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.971.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.971.2", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.971.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.971.4", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "That is for you to say, but I have a right, when I put a question, to get an answer, and it is your duty, Sir, to see that I get an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.971.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.980.0", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (ADMIRALTY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The 'Daily Mail'!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "I have seen the hon. and gallant Member's article in a Conservative newspaper this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.980.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.981.6", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "I am asking whether, when the report is issued, the Government will also issue a statement of their views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.981.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE DISPUTES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has not improved matters. If the right hon. Gentleman thinks it is his function in this House to take up this question, and then to ask the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.996.4", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL MINES [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "A revised Money Resolution to the Coal Mines Bill will be placed on the Order Paper tonight. I understand that it is to be in an agreed form—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.996.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "EMPIRE FREE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Under Protection!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "ng into account the welfare system in Japanese cotton mills, the wages in the Japanese mills are less than one-half what they are in the British mills; and let it be noted that, in spite of the fact that the Japanese mills have announced to the League of Nations that they have abolished night work, the women and children at the present time work in those mills from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. in two shifts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "EMPIRE FREE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": " of that £1,400,000,000 which is at present supplied by foreign countries to the Empire, to add to our present exports of £750,000,000. Doubtless many will be asking the question whether I am in favour of taxing food and raw materials. If I am asked that question in this crude way, my answer would be in the negative, and in any case, we only propose to tax foreign food and raw materials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "EMPIRE FREE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cheap labour!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": "vious advantage of Great Britain to have Free Trade at that time. It was a selfish policy and perhaps a cynical policy, but it was the right policy for the prosperity of England. It was to the obvious advantage of manufacturers in this country to buy in a cheap market, to choose what they would manufacture, and to sell to the world as dearly as possible. That is what Free Trade brought to England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "EMPIRE FREE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": "30;. elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of their high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious Empire, and have made the most extensive, and the only honourable conquests, not by destroying but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race. One word more and I have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "EMPIRE FREE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ds, Whatever it is, nobody in this House has grudged it. Here we are, out of a heavily taxed country, voting a considerable sum of money for pushing the goods of the Empire, oven when they compete with our own. If, on the other hand, you are to go to the Dominions and say to them: \"Will you give us the same advantage, by pushing our goods in your country, even when they compete with yours?\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "EMPIRE FREE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does everybody else?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " shipping and transport facilities between one part of the Empire and another. Unfortunately, the great discussion about Imperial preference and tariffs cut right across, and it was impossible to get any decision upon the subject. But it was no fault of ours. I am all for it. Empire Free Trade! Admirable! Admirable! We are not taxing the commodities of the Dominions. We concede free trade to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1050.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1058.0", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "EMPIRE FREE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Nonsense!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": ", \"You will put a tariff against every country except ours. In return we will put a tariff against every commodity that you are purchasing if it comes from outside the Empire.\" That is the proposal. Take wheat and cotton. What have you got in cotton? You have Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria and the Sudan—they are all mentioned in this great list. What they produce mostly and sell to us is raw cotton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1057.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1060.1", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "EMPIRE FREE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "of Tariff Reformers by saying \"Nonsense!\" but I would if I were a Tariff Reformer. Here last year we had 60,000,000 as against 40,000,000 cwts. in wheat; it was as six is to four. Does anyone imagine that you can, for years and years to come, develop the Empire to such a degree that you can make up that gigantic deficiency which would be the result of your closing your ports against foreign goods?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1060.1", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "EMPIRE FREE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " case of Germany. Frankly, I have been unable to follow what the transaction is there. The real point is whether the German Government is subsidising the export of wheat in such a way that the Germans are dumping on this market, by means of that indirect subsidy, wheat below the coat of production. Let me say at once, that in my judgment that has nothing to do with either Free Trade or Protection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1060.1", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "EMPIRE FREE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "appointed by the House of Commons to examine them, and, if necessary, there should be an embargo against any commodities of the kind. I apologise for taking up so much of the time of the House but this is a vital matter. I only want to say this. France has a great Free Trade Empire—as was pointed out by the hon. Gentleman—in this sense. It has an Empire of 4,000,000 square miles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1060.1", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "EMPIRE FREE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not quite\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " embargo against any commodities of the kind. I apologise for taking up so much of the time of the House but this is a vital matter. I only want to say this. France has a great Free Trade Empire—as was pointed out by the hon. Gentleman—in this sense. It has an Empire of 4,000,000 square miles—[ Interruption ]. Yes, it is the second Empire to ours. It is a Free Trade Empire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1060.1", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "EMPIRE FREE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are starving now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "00 square miles—[ Interruption ]. Yes, it is the second Empire to ours. It is a Free Trade Empire—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Not quite\"]—in the sense of Lord Beaverbrook's first proposition with a tariff ring right round it. In the main that is the position. In the main it has Free Trade inside. What is the result? If we had only the foreign trade of France half our population would starve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1060.1", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "EMPIRE FREE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Belgium?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " If we had only the foreign trade of France half our population would starve. [An HON. MEMBER: \"They are starving now.\"] Really, that is utterly ridiculous. If we had only the population of France, to begin with there would have been no unemployment here. France has a population of 187 to the square mile; Germany has 348 to the square mile, and Great Britain has to maintain 468 to the square mile.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1060.1", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "EMPIRE FREE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We ought to have more!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "pulation of 187 to the square mile; Germany has 348 to the square mile, and Great Britain has to maintain 468 to the square mile. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Belgium?\"] If the hon. Member thinks it worth while to make that comparison he can do so later in the Debate. I am giving the three comparable countries. Our problem is a very different one. France with half its population on the soil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1063.0", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "EMPIRE FREE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PERRY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PERRY", "preceding_text": "acing a tax upon imported foodstuffs and raw materials. When the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) asks how long it would take the Empire to produce the food necessary for our consumption an optimistic Member on the opposite side said \"Now.\" I am reminded that in 1928 only 20 per cent. of the foodstuffs imported into this country came from within the Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1079.3", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "EMPIRE FREE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": " to us of the commerce of Canada. It is obvious that, if Canada was absorbed in the United States—and I pray that will not, and indeed I do not think that it will ever happen—but if, for the sake of argument, we assume that that should come to pass, then obviously those purchases would be measured in shillings rather than in pounds. To come back to the question of Imperial trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1079.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1085.1", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "EMPIRE FREE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "If we were debating that point I should have no difficulty in showing that the taxation of foreign food means the taxation of all the food in this country, because, if you put a tax upon imports from foreign countries, that necessarily raises the price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1085.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1086.1", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "EMPIRE FREE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Foreign food!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "There should be no mistake about this issue, because it has been made perfectly clear in the speeches from the other side of the House to-day, that voting for this Resolution means voting for a tax on food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1087.2", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "EMPIRE FREE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "What does voting for this Resolution mean? It means that every Member who goes into the Division Lobby in support of it is voting for a tax on the people's food—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1087.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1087.3", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "EMPIRE FREE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE BALFOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE BALFOUR", "preceding_text": " the Exchequer, in his last sentence, has been far more concerned with political propaganda than with our trade. The right hon. Gentleman has endeavoured to pass out to the country something which he must know in his heart is not the whole tale. I shall be quite prepared to debate this matter with the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the proper time, but now I only want to nail this lie to the mast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1087.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1090.1", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRUNDY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What area is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRUNDY", "preceding_text": "give as being typical of how the farming industry stands in regard to unemployment. There were 2,011 unemployed in this number. I think that is a general average of between 4 and 5 per cent. In the winter of 1928–9 the same questionnaire was sent from the same area and there were 4,367 unemployed, and they estimate for this winter a number of 5,515, and the time of unemployment three months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1090.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1111.0", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "al schemes. Contracting out was abolished because it was found that the best lives would contract out under special schemes to such an extent that if you permitted sections which had 5 per cent. unemployment to contract out, those remaining in would be called upon to pay greater contributions. I would not like a separate scheme of unemployment insurance administered by the Minister of Agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1121.2", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALLAS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALLAS", "preceding_text": "ow, are taken out by the Ministry of Agriculture on the 4th June each year, are not exactly comparable with the census figures, because they do not relate to exactly the same set of people, but, according to these figures, the number employed in the industry in 1921 was 869,000, and in 1929, 770,000, so that between 1921 and 1929 there were nearly 200,000 fewer people in the agricultural industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1121.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-29", "file": "debates1930-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "2427a9bc45106ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not all that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "I am very doubtful. We have to go on very fragmentary information, but I would not say that they are any worse. I have made inquiries and I generally find that where people are out of work there is some local reason such as that land has been sold, or that a farmer has gone bankrupt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-29a.1136.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-30", "file": "debates1930-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "e94400dd58b6a8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-30a.1176.7", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POOR LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "This was used against us during the Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-30a.1176.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-30", "file": "debates1930-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "e94400dd58b6a8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-30a.1223.11", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "May I ask, before making any remarks on this Amendment, whether neither the Minister nor the Parliamentary Secretary has anything more to say with regard to this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-30a.1223.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-30", "file": "debates1930-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "e94400dd58b6a8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-30a.1223.11", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The book of the words again!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "he Government had had months in which to prepare the Bill, and therefore, clearly, the opinion was one to which they themselves attached the greatest importance. After this there came the great change, and the Attorney-General introduced the new Clause which was in the text of the Bill as it went to the other House, from which this principle, which they had thought so vital, had been omitted. Why?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-30a.1223.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-30", "file": "debates1930-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "e94400dd58b6a8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-30a.1227.0", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which unions?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "e of Lords. But the Minister of course, has gathered not only the wisdom of that place but the wisdom of the trade unions as well. In one trade union after another as shown by the White Paper—and this must have been known to many hon. Members opposite—precisely this same principle is embodied which the Government had itself stated was vital and which now they have completely abandoned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-30a.1227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-30", "file": "debates1930-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "e94400dd58b6a8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-30a.1229.6", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did you not support their separation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "t is a mixture. Little by little—while I was Minister, too—the principle of insurance has become abandoned and the principle of relief has crept in. There is no question that, if we adhere to the original Clause as it left this House, the principle of relief overshadows the principle of insurance. A mixture of the two is intolerable in a self-respecting State. They should be separated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-30a.1229.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-30", "file": "debates1930-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "e94400dd58b6a8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-30a.1246.0", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "preceding_text": "her, have always made it a condition that there must be some endeavour on the part of the member seeking benefit, to find work for himself—not that somebody else is to find work for him—before he can receive benefit. I ask again, what is the objection to these words? We have heard speeches which imply that nothing which comes from another place can possibly be acceptable to this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-30a.1246.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-30", "file": "debates1930-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "e94400dd58b6a8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-30a.1340.7", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "herself introduced a Statute in terms which did not satisfy any quarter of the House. An Amendment was moved dealing with the point by Members below and above the Gangway, and the Minister bowed to the collective wisdom of the House. The Minister was far from bowing in that abject manner in which she bowed to the wisdom of the House when it came in a concentrated blast from the benches behind her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-30a.1340.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-30", "file": "debates1930-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "e94400dd58b6a8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-30a.1356.0", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": " that we are not unduly prolonging proceedings in calling attention to this in order to point the moral that we do not desire to see this state of affairs repeated. I hope that other hon. Members will associate themselves with this protest. No doubt the learned Attorney-General may desire to say something in confirmation of what I have said. I hope that I have said nothing with which he disagrees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-30a.1356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-30", "file": "debates1930-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "e94400dd58b6a8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-30a.1358.0", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "on relates to a series of very complicated questions, and I gather that, as far as this Amendment is concerned, the matter is likely to be put right. An injustice has been done to the individual and to the Corporation, and every time this thing happens there is the liability of a fine of £10, which sum accrues to the Ministry of Labour. The point I wish to raise is a comparatively simple one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-30a.1358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-30", "file": "debates1930-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "e94400dd58b6a8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-30a.1359.0", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN POWER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Arthur Cook.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN POWER", "preceding_text": "This is retrospective legislation in its worst form. It does not happen to be unconstitutional in this country, but it is unconstitutional in America. It has been condemned by Lord Cook.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-30a.1359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-30", "file": "debates1930-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "e94400dd58b6a8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-30a.1360.5", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "This is rather a revelation. Apparently a Clause of this Bill has been smuggled through without our attention having been called to it, and this Amendment might conceal some deep laid plot. The right hon. Lady has asked us to agree with this Amendment. She has been rather \"sniffy\" with regard to some of the things which the Lords have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-30a.1360.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-30", "file": "debates1930-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "e94400dd58b6a8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-30a.1364.7", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Lady that the \"30\" appears by inadvertence and that it should be \"15.\" I take it that the right hon. Lady is not saying anything other than what she has explained to us. I had a slight difference of opinion with the right hon. Lady earlier in the evening, because we had not been explicit enough in demanding a full explanation which she considered she had given earlier in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-30a.1364.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-31", "file": "debates1930-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "378ab539172ed1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-31a.1402.3", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come to Church!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": "ngs, freed from a great deal of that which we deplore that is found in slum dwellings? I think the slum dwelling, with its desolate streets and surroundings, far more open to objection than the healthy open-air life that these children lead on the barges. Let us see what is said by those who have taken a great interest in their welfare. This is a letter from the vicar of St. Michael's, Paddington.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-31a.1402.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-31", "file": "debates1930-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "378ab539172ed1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-31a.1403.1", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": "to be within reach of Paddington, but as a member of the Council of that borough I know that the scarcity of accommodation—already terrible—is increasing in this part of London to the point of obliging families to live in one room under conditions as bad as those of the barges or worse. He signs himself \"Paul Nichols, Vicar of St. Michael and All Angels', with All Saints', Paddington.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-31a.1403.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-01-31", "file": "debates1930-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "378ab539172ed1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-31a.1421.0", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Members of Parliament!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "es go on in a, quite satisfactory way. The case of seamen has been quoted, and another case very much to the point is that of commercial travellers. They have to travel during the whole of the week to distant parts of the country, they get home for week-ends, but sometimes they are away for longer periods. That is one of the disadvantages which cannot be got over in the industrial system as it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-01-31a.1421.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1533.1", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What do you mean by 'gang'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "e lost. One of his reasons for helping forward rationalisation is in order to reduce the cost of manufacture so as to enable us to compete with foreign countries more efficiently. We rejoice over his conversion to this view, but, if there is to be joy over the one sinner that repenteth, we would ask whether he can control the other 99 of the gang who show no sign of repentance of any sort or kind?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1533.1", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "alisation because it will reduce the cost of management so that we can compete more successfully than before in oversea trade. He is a member of the Government, and I would ask, What are the rest of the Government doing There are other costs than those dependent on organisation. The burden of taxes upon industry is as important an item in deciding whether we are able to compete effectively or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1533.1", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " others. He said: \"Lord I thank thee that I am not as other men are, extortioners, bad financiers, or even as this Conservative. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that others possess.\" That is the Chancellor of the Exchequer's version. At the same time, here he is, always giving way, always allowing fresh burdens to be placed upon the taxpayer in general and directly upon industry as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1544.1", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. O'NEILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fewer ships !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. O'NEILL", "preceding_text": " he naturally tried to put the best light he could upon expenditure increase. As far as I read it, he said that we were committed to an extra expenditure of £8,000,000 this year and, at the very best from his own point of view, of £14,000,000 next year. What industry cannot understand is this; how is this extra expenditure going to be met unless we are in for some form of extra taxation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1562.1", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " steel trade. He negotiates and does business for the country as a whole and not for any particular firm. That is the answer to the series of questions that were put. I hope I have answered all of them fairly. I will proceed now to deal with the broad general situation. Quite frankly, if we are to be judged merely upon the figures of unemployment the figures are worse than they were 12 months ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1568.1", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "o have spent the money. I am faced with the cold hard fact that the country does not realise at this moment the serious situation of some of our industries. Surely, it is not going to be argued that we on this side are responsible for that. Surely, it is not going to be argued that all the difficulties that I have to face at the moment are due to the advent of a Labour Government seven months ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1569.1", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "present existing in the cotton trade, where there is over-capitalisation, where spindles are on a basis of two or two-and-a-half times more than ought to be the case, all requiring to be brought down to an economic basis, with hundreds of units all competing one against another and cutting one another's throats, with no organised selling agency and no organised buying agency, with no regard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1572.1", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It will help!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "s hard for me to have to admit those facts, but it is far better for the country to know them, because whatever the temporary situation may be, ultimately it will be to the good of the country as a whole. It all demonstrates that merely shouting for tariffs will not cure inefficiency. Mere shouting for Protection will not put these concerns in a position to compete with their rivals as they ought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1572.1", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Protected !\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "rtain the cause. I am facing the facts and I am not pessimistic, because I believe this reorganisation in the end will be good. The chemical industry is the best illustration I know of rationalisation. I am informed that 9,000 people were dismissed as the first result of that rationalising scheme. The whole of them were absorbed, and within 15 months twice that number were engaged in the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1572.1", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about dyes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I am not pessimistic, because I believe this reorganisation in the end will be good. The chemical industry is the best illustration I know of rationalisation. I am informed that 9,000 people were dismissed as the first result of that rationalising scheme. The whole of them were absorbed, and within 15 months twice that number were engaged in the industry. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Protected !\"] Unprotected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1607.0", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That legislation has not come into operation yet !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "than in the corresponding period when the party opposite were in power; and I frankly acknowledge, further, that we ourselves are in some measure responsible for part of that increase. One of the administrative acts of the Ministry of Labour was to ease the working of the Clause, in the Unemployment Insurance Act which struck men off benefit on the ground that they were not genuinely seeking work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1607.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1617.0", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. S. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. S. MORRISON", "preceding_text": " onerous position and to say, in effect, to the people of the country: \"See how anxious I am about your unemployment. We are not sharing the responsibility of this great evil among all the Departments; I am so anxious about it that I make a special man responsible for that task. If your unemployment figures go up, do not shoot at me. I am a man of peace. Shoot at Jimmy; he is the man responsible.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1625.0", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"If !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "preceding_text": "ith the problem. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster intervened in the debate a little time ago and asked if anybody had ever given a pledge that the situation would be dealt with in eight months? Not, perhaps, in eight months, but I would remind him that the Prime Minister, in March of last year, declared that if anyone could cure the problem of unemployment in 12 months, Labour could do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1625.0", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Darling?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "preceding_text": "s and representations. He said, \"If you ask me what disturbs me most, I have no hesitation in saying that it is anything which tends to sap an independent spirit and make people look to the State for the assistance which they ought themselves to provide.\" And the answer to that representation is Clause 4 of the Unemployment Insurance Bill! In all these representations, powerless as they are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1637.0", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "the Protectionist election of 1923. It will be some time before the Conservative party forgets those representations; and, as similar representations were being advanced in his speech this evening, I await the sequel with very considerable interest. The whole of the latter part of the right hon. Gentleman's speech, by implication if not in specific words, was an appeal for full-blooded Protection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1637.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1637.0", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman pointed out, quite rightly, that the Lord Privy Seal was having conversations with the Wheat Pool of Canada. He said: \"The Wheat Pool will, of course, say to you 'Will you buy our wheat?' What answer will you return?\" Those conversations between us and the Wheat Pool are still going on. In the meantime, for our guidance, I might ask the right hon. Gentleman what answer he would give?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1637.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1637.0", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer !\" and \"What about your policy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "a Government, with an import control board,\" or is he going to rely, as he suggested, upon other methods of Conservative policy? What are those other methods of Conservative policy? There is only one other method which ever has been suggested, and that has been to put a tax upon foreign wheat in order to benefit the Canadian wheat farmer. Is the right hon. Gentleman in favour of that or is he not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1637.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1639.1", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "an effort to describe that policy. The Lord Privy Seal spent one hour this afternoon describing the policy of the Government. Since then we have listened to attacks upon that policy and to constructive suggestions from the opposite side. I now ask precisely what those constructive suggestions mean, and the Conservative party, not for the first time in its history, seeks refuge in complete silence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1640.1", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "period of time we guaranteed to cure unemployment. They have failed absolutely to do that, but on every platform we had to face from Liberal speakers the charge that we would not bind ourselves by such a pledge, and the greater attraction of the Liberal programme—and it was more attractive in that respect—was presented to the electors as superior to ours because of that binding pledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1640.1", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour candidates!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "ld not bind ourselves by such a pledge, and the greater attraction of the Liberal programme—and it was more attractive in that respect—was presented to the electors as superior to ours because of that binding pledge. [ Interruption .] It is no good hon. Members seeking refuge in that kind of interruption unless they can produce a pledge given by a Labour leader. They cannot produce it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1641.1", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "\"immediate,\" certainly it cannot be challenged, for the very first action of the Government was to set up a special Department to deal with the sub- ject and to empower a Minister to take action. It had been pointed out that the Lord Privy Seal has no executive authority to provide work. That is perfectly true. He must work through other Departments, and so must any other Minister in his position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1641.1", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "cial Department to deal with the sub- ject and to empower a Minister to take action. It had been pointed out that the Lord Privy Seal has no executive authority to provide work. That is perfectly true. He must work through other Departments, and so must any other Minister in his position. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because he depends on several of the major Departments of State to carry out his plans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1642.1", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": " been subjected to a good many charges this evening. We have been told that we have made no contribution whatsoever to the unemployment problem. The White Paper which will shortly be issued will show, not that we have solved the unemployment problem, but, as the last White Paper also showed, that we have made a far bigger contribution to the unemployment problem than any other Government has done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1642.1", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Liverpool Street?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "o the unemployment problem than any other Government has done. [ Interruption .] In one way alone, the provision of work through local effort, it will show that in a few months of this Government we have provided expenditure well over double the amount that the late Government provided in the last few years, to say nothing of all the new plans, such as Colonial development and in other directions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1642.1", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": " is a project now for a Tube in the direction of Ilford of which we have some hope. The whole of these great projects after all, are being surveyed and pressed forward by the Government, but I cannot promise in connection with these schemes any immediate developments which can be announced. We have, perhaps, made the mistake at various times of taking the House too much, into our confidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1646.0", "colnum": "1646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "preceding_text": "ile industry, our steel industry, which are now decaying and factories and workshops \"losing, weekly adding to the fearful total we have now of unemployed, if you attempt to rationalise industries which are bankrupt, or verging on bankruptcy, you are going to ask the banks to undertake a perfectly hopeless task from the financial point of view. If you take hold of the right end of the stick—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1646.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1646.0", "colnum": "1646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "preceding_text": "as compelled me even at this late hour to say a word or two to the House. I should like to call attention to another aspect of the Lord Privy Seal's speech. It was not until the last few minutes that he came to grips with the problem as a whole. The major part of his speech was devoted to such questions as asking Members on both sides not to block Bills that had been certified—private Bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1646.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1646.0", "colnum": "1646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "preceding_text": "r trouble The Government was returned eight months ago for the purpose of dealing with unemployment and the right hon. Gentleman has told us to-day that he has no hope of any decrease in unemployment but rather that he sees the certainty that next week 18,000 will be added to the number of unemployed. A further great burden will be cast upon industry by Clause 4 of the Unemployment Insurance Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1646.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1646.0", "colnum": "1646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "preceding_text": "morrow.\" Now it is the case that Lancashire thinks to-day what the country has been thinking for a long time. Lancashire is coming round to the country's point of view. Whenever the Government accepts the challenge of an appeal to the country, we shall find that the great mass of the working classes are determined to return to power a Government which has a policy to deal with industrial troubles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1646.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-03", "file": "debates1930-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "84c521b55f47f1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1646.0", "colnum": "1646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "preceding_text": "e country, we shall find that the great mass of the working classes are determined to return to power a Government which has a policy to deal with industrial troubles. [ Interruption .] The country will insist on a Government which has a policy to deal directly with the fundamental causes of this trouble, and will turn out the party which has shown itself to have got into power by false pretences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-03a.1646.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1726.0", "colnum": "1726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "What has this to do with the Coal Bill?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "other precedent. Instead of asking a Leader of the Opposition to come to see them, they paid a visit to that Leader of the Opposition. I should like very much to know if that is true. I remember, although it is a good many years ago, that there was an Emperor Henry who paid a visit, at a very rough time of the year, to Canossa, which passed into a proverb and by-word in Europe for eight centuries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1725.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1728.4", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "That makes all the difference. You are not a Member of the Government.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "Yes, in my name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1728.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1731.0", "colnum": "1731", "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": " of the Board of Trade always treats the Committee with courtesy. He presented his Bill in great detail, and explained it at great length and with great ability. He gave us ample notice of the Committee stage and was good enough to answer a number of questions I put to him. That is very different from the way in which we are now to be treated. If he wishes to make any progress with his Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1731.0", "colnum": "1731", "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": "th Part I at once, he said: We were pledged to restore the seven hours' day at the earliest opportunity and we offer part of that pledge this afternoon. I make no apology whatever for doing that together with a scheme of co-ordination, because they are bound up together. Only a fool would submit that they are not all bound up together. You cannot separate one from another in an industry like this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1740.1", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "I think that on this Bill the situation will change from hour to hour. I do not see why the Conservative party should be jealous because the Liberal Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1754.0", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": " of some 48 hours, and then we ought to take first things first. The first thing in order of importance originally was the marketing scheme, but that is no longer so. The first thing in order of importance is the vital structural alteration. Let us take that first. Let us thrash out the question of amalgamation; but do not let us do that until there has been a proper opportunity of considering it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1754.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1769.0", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore DOUGLAS KING", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"And we know it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore DOUGLAS KING", "preceding_text": "rd to amalgamations, and if, with the assistance of the Liberal party, these new Clauses for amalgamations are carried, the President of the Board of Trade can have no doubt whatever that the Liberal party are going to do their very best to kill Part I of the Bill which will then come along. The position of the Conservative party has been made perfectly clear. We are against the whole of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1769.0", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore DOUGLAS KING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore DOUGLAS KING", "preceding_text": "the coal industry, but it is certainly progressing very considerably amongst the miners themselves. [HON. GENTLEMEN: \"No!\"] Hon. Gentlemen may say \"No.\" They are speaking, perhaps for their own districts, or a they know them. I also know that in many parts of the country, even in Northumberland and Durham, they would rather like to have a Saturday off in order to be able to go to a football match.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1769.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1772.0", "colnum": "1772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore DOUGLAS KING", "preceding_text": " reasonable and proper idea on their part. I am convinced that a great many districts would welcome this proposal. I am not speaking about those who express opinions said to be held by the miners, but about the miners themselves. If you could go and talk with them in their districts you would find that they would prefer often to work the longer hours—the eight hours day—provided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1773.0", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. EDWARDS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. EDWARDS", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Can we have a quotation from any representative of the miners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1773.6", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "I assure you that I will do my best to keep within your ruling. I did not think that I had transgressed, because I was merely replying to interjections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1773.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1790.0", "colnum": "1790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE BALFOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "w to consider whether it is not better to accept the Amendment, or go further and say that he will report Progress in order to see whether the Business of the House cannot be put into orderly shape. If he would do that he would save time. But for fear of being accused of obstruction, I would like to show how actions of this kind are slowly biting into the constitutional life of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1790.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1805.0", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir A. LAMBERT WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir A. LAMBERT WARD", "preceding_text": "ing the past 40 or 50 years is an absolute tragedy. There was a time not so very long ago, well within the memory of men who are now operating on the Coal Exchange, when British coal could be sold in practically every port and every market of the world. The fact that it is no longer so is largely due to the disturbing influences which I have just named—to the strikes, to the lock-outs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1805.0", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir A. LAMBERT WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir A. LAMBERT WARD", "preceding_text": " regarded as tantamount to carrying coals to Newcastle. Norfolk and Newport News are exporting centres for Pocahontas steam coal, which in the days before oil fuel became so general was the steam coal which competed more than any other with Welsh coal in the markets of the world. The fact that we have lost that market is not altogether due to the dislocations such as this Clause would cause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1805.0", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir A. LAMBERT WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir A. LAMBERT WARD", "preceding_text": "m Cardiff to the Cape, and there, again, the market has been lost through interferences with the trade. The same applies to the lost markets of Colombo, Bombay and even Calcutta. Twenty-five years ago we exported largely to Bombay and Colombo. To-day the whole of that market is supplied by Calcutta coal. We even sent the coal to Java or even to. Shanghai, a thing which is unheard of in these days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1809.0", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "Gentleman must recognise that we could not anticipate that we had to be prepared with our Amendments to Part II this afternoon. The very time that the right hon. Gentleman took to consider the Amendments proposed was enough to justify us in believing that we should not reach this part of the Bill for a considerable time, and I venture to suggest to him that he should allow Progress to be reported.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1809.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1813.2", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did you not do it in 1926?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "mendment in form is one of a permanent character. Of course, that could quite easily be got round by an Amendment. No one would suggest that whatever Bill you might pass fixing hours necessarily fixed hours for all time. You do not want to do that. But, equally, I think you do not want always to have this question of hours being brought forward year by year and subject to some sudden change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1813.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1813.2", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "t round by an Amendment. No one would suggest that whatever Bill you might pass fixing hours necessarily fixed hours for all time. You do not want to do that. But, equally, I think you do not want always to have this question of hours being brought forward year by year and subject to some sudden change—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did you not do it in 1926?\"]—We did. We gave five years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1813.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1813.2", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "sue, I understand, that is raised by the Amendment, It may be that this is really not the right form in which to discuss the question. It may be that ultimately this Amendment ought to be withdrawn and that my right hon. Friend's Amendment, which I have not seen, is the right one. But, again, I am at a disadvantage, and the right hon. Gentleman is at a disadvantage, because he has not yet seen it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1813.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1815.3", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "I am not at all ashamed of what we did in 1926. If this is the appropriate time to discuss whether what we did in 1926 was right or wrong, we will debate it. I should be ready at any time on this Clause in this House or anywhere else to debate that matter, but I am not sure that I ought to embark upon it on this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1815.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1815.3", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ot at all ashamed of what we did in 1926. If this is the appropriate time to discuss whether what we did in 1926 was right or wrong, we will debate it. I should be ready at any time on this Clause in this House or anywhere else to debate that matter, but I am not sure that I ought to embark upon it on this Amendment. [ Interruption .] I really do not think we ought to travel as far afield as that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1815.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1816.5", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When was that done?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "epresentations,\" I think is the expression of the Lord Privy Seal. He has emphasised its importance. He has also emphasised, and no one more so, the importance of international agreements, and in this I am glad to say he seems to have found a convert in Mr. Cook. We were not very successful with Mr. Cook. [ Interruption .] At any rate, we have increased the export trade in coal by 10,000,000 tons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1816.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1816.5", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have been in office during the last six months!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": " has emphasised its importance. He has also emphasised, and no one more so, the importance of international agreements, and in this I am glad to say he seems to have found a convert in Mr. Cook. We were not very successful with Mr. Cook. [ Interruption .] At any rate, we have increased the export trade in coal by 10,000,000 tons. [An HON. MEMBER: \"When was that done?\"] In the last year and a half.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1816.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1816.5", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "onal agreements, and in this I am glad to say he seems to have found a convert in Mr. Cook. We were not very successful with Mr. Cook. [ Interruption .] At any rate, we have increased the export trade in coal by 10,000,000 tons. [An HON. MEMBER: \"When was that done?\"] In the last year and a half. [An HON. MEMBER: \"We have been in office during the last six months!\"] Yes, carrying on under our Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1816.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1817.2", "colnum": "1817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did you not think of that before?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "; hours plus half an hour's break, and 8 hours. These proposals were rejected by votes which I will mention in a moment. If the view of the right hon. Gentleman and Mr. Cook is right the question of hours ought to be settled by international agreement in the interest of this country, because it is only by international agreement that you will get hours down here, for you must get a level of hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1817.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1817.2", "colnum": "1817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "d for international agreement, but what I never accepted was the thesis, so often put to me by hon. Gentlemen opposite, that this country had better do something which no other country proposed to follow it in doing. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman has been long enough in the House to remember that when I was a responsible Minister I asked the House to ratify international conventions which I had made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1817.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1817.2", "colnum": "1817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": " to get hours reduced by international agreement, without a shadow of doubt his wise course is to proceed, as he, has begun, by international action and by the negotiation of a convention at Geneva, but to make it quite plain that the further reduction in the hours shall come into force when foreign countries adhere. Let us see how far a departure has been made from that. The first proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1817.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1824.0", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "e too wide for the scope of the Debate. I am not quite clear where the President of the Board of Trade now stands. I had hoped that he would have replied to the appeal which was made to him by the right hon. Member for Hillhead (Sir R. Horne) to give us some sort of guarantee that however badly drafted the Amendment might be the point intended to be covered should be debated in a proper way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1835.4", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": " previous Acts, and, after my experience, I make an appeal to the Attorney-General to explain this matter still further. This is really a question for the Law Officers of the Crown, but I am quite prepared, after the challenge of the hon. Member for Merthyr Tydfil (Mr. Wallhead), to attempt an explanation myself, although I am sure my explanation would not be equal to that of the Attorney-General.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1835.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1840.0", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir BASIL PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BASIL PETO", "preceding_text": "The suggestion of the hon. and learned Member for Altrincham (Mr. Atkinson) was an admirable one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1840.0", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir BASIL PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BASIL PETO", "preceding_text": "The suggestion of the hon. and learned Member for Altrincham (Mr. Atkinson) was an admirable one. [ Interruption .] The point I want to make is even simpler. I realise that the confusion caused by putting Part II before Part I is very natural. I would like to call attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1850.0", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "use, by a satisfactory majority, decided not to waive the Privilege, but to send the Bill back with the Lords Amendment deleted. The usual thing, the precedent, I think, almost without exception, is that when that is done, the House of Lords agrees, and waives the whole thing. To-night we are informed by the House of Lords that so long as there is a Labour Government in office in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1850.0", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "ivilege; our contention is that so long as that Privilege is legitimately used, the action of the House of Lords must be regarded by the House of Commons as a breach of its privileges. If we had suspended this Bill at this stage, we would have had all the benefits contained in the Bill obliterated, the harsh administration of which we have complained for years would have been re-established—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1853.1", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "e in no way prejudging the fate which the proposals that the Government are now making will meet elsewhere, that it is a great improvement upon the mood and the treatment of constitutional affairs by them which we have witnessed during the present Parliament. The right hon. Gentleman said of the House of Lords that a Labour Government could never receive, or expect to receive, fair play from them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1853.1", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " that a Labour Government could never receive, or expect to receive, fair play from them. [ Interruption .] Hon. Gentlemen must use the keen intelligence which is given to them, and endeavour to practise some sense of detachment in judging of our constitutional and political conditions. Has ever a party—a minority party, a minority in this House—been treated with more generosity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1853.1", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "#8212;a minority party, a minority in this House—been treated with more generosity—[ Interruption .] If they had not been a Labour party, their numerical position in this House could never have enabled them to rule and sway, quite contrary, in many cases, to the feelings of the majority of the people of this country, so many grave and important events. What have they to complain about?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1853.1", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "on in this House could never have enabled them to rule and sway, quite contrary, in many cases, to the feelings of the majority of the people of this country, so many grave and important events. What have they to complain about? [ Interruption ] I do not understand this sudden eager, almost furious, attempt to work up a passionate sense of grievance. They are the favoured, pampered darlings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1853.1", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " passionate sense of grievance. They are the favoured, pampered darlings— [ Interruption ]—a minority Government every member of whose majority is elected three times as easily as a member of the Liberal party; and then they are ready to cry out. But the right hon. Gentleman, in his crying out, is actuated by careful and calm calculation. He is endeavouring to settle this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-04", "file": "debates1930-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "08b53d22a2e4b124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1861.5", "colnum": "1861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "I understand that this Amendment and all the other Amendments, except the one which immediately follows, which deal with the limitation to three years, are substantially to the same effect. Therefore, after what has already been said, I. do not propose either to vote or to speak on these Amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-04a.1861.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-05", "file": "debates1930-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "8a141af53907f32c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-05a.1923.1", "colnum": "1923", "heading": "TRADE WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "o wonderful that we must all bow down to their view without question. It is sheer nonsense. \"By their fruits ye shall know them,\" and the fruits of the banking policy of this country are not rare and refreshing. I am going to say, though I know that large numbers on the other side of the House will dispute it, that it is a fact that the Russian security is the best security in the world for trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-05a.1923.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-05", "file": "debates1930-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "8a141af53907f32c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-05a.1923.1", "colnum": "1923", "heading": "TRADE WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "otsky, delivered at the top of his voice, and was at that particular moment sitting on a sunny boulevard in Moscow with people laughing and moving happily in front of me, it was refreshing to read the views of \"Our Riga Correspondent.\" Now we have \"Our Riga Correspondent\" popping up in the columns of the \"Times\" this morning and saying that 200 White officers have been shot. That is just not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-05a.1923.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-05", "file": "debates1930-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "8a141af53907f32c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-05a.1923.1", "colnum": "1923", "heading": "TRADE WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "letter like that on the morning of a Debate when we are really trying to do what we can to get better relations with Russia. It is like the story of the General who was kidnapped in Paris and spirited away in a specially constructed taxi-cab. It has now been discovered to be untrue. You get a two-column headline to put that thing across, but a little tiny paragraph in a back page to contradict it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-05a.1923.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-05", "file": "debates1930-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "8a141af53907f32c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-05a.1938.0", "colnum": "1938", "heading": "TRADE WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are the total figures?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": " the theory, that there is much hope for us in Russian trade, if they but consider the figures of Russian trade before the War. I will trouble the House with only one set of figures. Before the War, taking a five years' average up to and including 1913, our imports from Russia were less than 6 per cent. of our total imports and our exports to Russia were less than 3 per cent. of our total exports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-05a.1938.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-05", "file": "debates1930-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "8a141af53907f32c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-05a.1946.6", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "TRADE WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "the scheme to Russia. I find in it one passage that says that the Department of Overseas Trade will not in any circumstances encourage trade with speculative, doubtful or irregular customers. I must leave the question of speculation in connection with the Russian Government for hon. Members to decide for themselves. May we not, however, justly describe the Soviet Government as a doubtful customer!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-05a.1946.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-05", "file": "debates1930-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "8a141af53907f32c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-05a.1953.1", "colnum": "1953", "heading": "TRADE WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STRACHEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STRACHEY", "preceding_text": "f sympathy with the Russian Government? If it pays great firms like General Motors of America and the General Electric Company of America to extend credit on such terms, surely that is a fairly clear indication that it would pay this country to do the same. The absolutely businesslike and sensible market value for Russian orders can be established by the price which the Russians can get elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-05a.1953.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-05", "file": "debates1930-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "8a141af53907f32c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-05a.1963.0", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "TRADE WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALLEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALLEN", "preceding_text": "xamine the figures for trade with Russia during the last seven years, we find that Great Britain is a far more valuable market to Russia than Russia is to Great Britain. The Soviets sell in this country on an average about £20,000,000 worth of goods a year, while, on the other hand, their purchases of British manufactured goods have amounted on the average to less than £5,000,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-05a.1963.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-05", "file": "debates1930-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "8a141af53907f32c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-05a.1971.0", "colnum": "1971", "heading": "TRADE WITH RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General Sir ALFRED KNOX", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the iron hand of the Tsar?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General Sir ALFRED KNOX", "preceding_text": ", now that he has become Ambassador to this country, agrees with what he said then. There are several things in Russia, which limit the purchasing powers of Russia. I spent nine or ten years in Russia. I was for two months under the Bolshevist regime, and I knew a good deal of Russia before, having travelled all over it. It is really the iron hand of the Communist that has changed the whole thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-05a.1971.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-05", "file": "debates1930-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "8a141af53907f32c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-05a.2007.0", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "LONDON AND NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY BILL (Certified Bill) (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKINLAY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKINLAY", "preceding_text": "ll is not that I desire to hold up work that is going to be provided for the unemployed. I arrived at this House in June last, and, until then, I was a victim of the railway company's travelling facilities for workmen. Queen Street Station is a landmark in the City of Glasgow. It is a positive disgrace, not only to the London and North Eastern Railway, but to the second City of the British Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-05a.2007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-05", "file": "debates1930-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "8a141af53907f32c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-05a.2008.0", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "LONDON AND NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY BILL (Certified Bill) (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HASLAM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the name of the village?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HASLAM", "preceding_text": "e opposite side to the platform, wait five minutes until the train comes in, and then perhaps wait another two or three hours for the next train. This particular custom is an exceedingly unpleasant one for ladies. It is, indeed, from ladies that I have received this complaint, because they have to climb over these very high gates, and I really think that it is a grievance which should be remedied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-05a.2008.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-02-05", "file": "debates1930-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "8a141af53907f32c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-05a.2032.0", "colnum": "2032", "heading": "DEPRESSED HEAVY INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "preceding_text": " side who seriously believes that if he took over the iron and steel trade now, and ran it as a Government Department, freely open to the competition of the world, at present wage levels, he could make a success of it. Therefore, do not let us waste any more time over that. As far as hon. Members opposite are concerned, their opinions on nationalisation seem to be undergoing a considerable change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-05a.2028.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-05", "file": "debates1930-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "8a141af53907f32c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-05a.2041.1", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "DEPRESSED HEAVY INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And chemicals.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "hipbuilding. The newer industries, like chemicals, electrical appliances, wireless, motors, gramophones and artificial silk are prosperous and hundreds of thousands of persons are employed in these trades, which were small or practically non-existent 25 years ago. Every one of these trades to which the right hon. Gentleman refers is a protected industry with the exception of electrical appliances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-05a.2041.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-06", "file": "debates1930-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5f505de0c7dbeab9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2123.5", "colnum": "2123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "I confess that I am in a little difficulty in regard to your Ruling. Instead of the 7½-hour day which the President of the Board of Trade proposes in the first Subsection of Clause 9, I propose to add a Subsection which, qualifying only the period during which the 7½-hour day is to run, would enable the 90 hours to be distributed over a fortnight instead of a rigid 7½ hours per day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2123.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-02-06", "file": "debates1930-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5f505de0c7dbeab9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2129.4", "colnum": "2129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": " with the question of hours. The hours are related to the day, and not to the year. If you allow this Amendment, which cuts across the whole meaning of what we are going to discuss, in what way are you going to deal with another Amendment which I may move, that, instead of relating to the output of the day, it should be related to the week? Further, do you understand the meaning of this Amendment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-06", "file": "debates1930-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5f505de0c7dbeab9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2129.6", "colnum": "2129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "May I put the Amendment now? If you give permission to the right hon. Member to alter his Amendment, surely it is none the less the privilege—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2129.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-06", "file": "debates1930-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5f505de0c7dbeab9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2130.6", "colnum": "2130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "May I put a question to the President of the Board of Trade? If there has been consultation going on with regard to the other side, why should the same courtesy be denied to this side, and those who have real practical experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2130.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-06", "file": "debates1930-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5f505de0c7dbeab9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2132.3", "colnum": "2132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "So far as I am personally concerned, I thought that I was putting forward something that was agreeable to the mining community. Let me say at once that if the mining community do not want it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-06", "file": "debates1930-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5f505de0c7dbeab9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2142.1", "colnum": "2142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How long are they working in Yorkshire?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "permissive Measure, and that only where the workers agreed to accept the extended working day would the hours of labour in our mines be extended. I went to another place, to listen to a discussion on the Eight Hours Act there, and one of the Noble Lords who intervened in the Debate told their Lordships that they were merely abusing the English language when they referred to it as a permissive Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-06", "file": "debates1930-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5f505de0c7dbeab9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2147.0", "colnum": "2147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "le, some humane, and some inhumane. I have not gathered from the speech of the hon. Member for Don Valley that the spread-over is condemned on the grounds of humanity. We therefore dismiss that. It is, as I understand him, subject to so much abuse under some circumstances as likely to be detrimental to the interests of the miners. If it be subjected to abuse, I think that it is otherwise accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-06", "file": "debates1930-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5f505de0c7dbeab9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2147.0", "colnum": "2147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "ey made reference to the large increase in our export trade last year being dependent upon an act of God. It is quite true. Very large numbers of people in every quarter of the coal trade thanked God last year for the severe frost on the Continent. It was the freezing up of Danzig that really gave a shove off to the prosperity—the modified prosperity—which has come over the coal trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-06", "file": "debates1930-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5f505de0c7dbeab9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2159.5", "colnum": "2159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including coke\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "consumption of coal, because the iron and steel industry is one of the big coal-consuming industries of this country. If there had been any material improvement in steel we should have seen it in an increased consumption of coal. What is the position? In 1925, when the seven-hour day was in operation, the iron and steel industry consumed, according to the official figures, 21,000,000 tons of coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2159.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-06", "file": "debates1930-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5f505de0c7dbeab9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2159.5", "colnum": "2159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the merchants!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "to trace. All the material is available to enable us to find out what has become of it. £30,000,000 of it has gone to the foreigners, £6,000,000 to the railway magnates, £7,500,000 to the shipowners, £10,000,000 to the iron and steel magnates, and I have no doubt that the people of this country will be surprised to learn that £18,000,000 of it has gone to the householders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2159.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-06", "file": "debates1930-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5f505de0c7dbeab9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2189.1", "colnum": "2189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": " recorded their votes, but I have had meetings of over 1,000 of what might be called hostile miners when I first started in, and I have never had a dissentient voice from that proposition which I have just put forward, namely, that what they want first is regularity of work, next increased wages, and lastly, a decrease in the working hours. The hon. Member might wish to put it the other way round.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-06", "file": "debates1930-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5f505de0c7dbeab9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2202.0", "colnum": "2202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Mr. Ben Turner)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Mr. Ben Turner)", "preceding_text": "and 1,000,000 miners' families. I think it is proof positive that their claim for shorter hours is demonstrated to the full because 43 members of the mining community, and 80 members from mining districts, were returned to the House of Commons on a definite election pledge on the matter. The only charge that has been made against the Government is that they are only carrying out half their pledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-06", "file": "debates1930-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5f505de0c7dbeab9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2202.0", "colnum": "2202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Mr. Ben Turner)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Mr. Ben Turner)", "preceding_text": "ive that their claim for shorter hours is demonstrated to the full because 43 members of the mining community, and 80 members from mining districts, were returned to the House of Commons on a definite election pledge on the matter. The only charge that has been made against the Government is that they are only carrying out half their pledge. [ Interruption .] You will not give us the whole pledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-06", "file": "debates1930-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5f505de0c7dbeab9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2205.0", "colnum": "2205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "preceding_text": "able to this House and to the Constitution for a solid block of 80 Members of Parliament to sit in this House and dictate to the party to whom they belong the policy which that party shall carry out. I believe it is of the very greatest danger to the service which this House fulfils in the national interests. It would be very much better if Members of Parliament represented no sectional interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-06", "file": "debates1930-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5f505de0c7dbeab9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2205.0", "colnum": "2205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "preceding_text": "cost of fulfilling this promise, that, instead of fulfilling the whole of it, he has promised to fulfil only half of it. He cannot face the whole of the cost. He is prepared to go only half way and do it by instalments. He estimates that the cost of carrying out only half the promise which hon. Gentlemen made at the last election, is going to add something like 1s. 6d. per ton to the cost of coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-06", "file": "debates1930-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5f505de0c7dbeab9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2207.1", "colnum": "2207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "preceding_text": "wners and hon. Members opposite sit still, complacent. This is a very severe and possibly disastrous attack upon industry at a time when it is beginning to recover, when it is showing signs of returning to that prosperity which we all would like it to attain. I hope that hon. Members opposite will see that as little damage as possible is done. I urge them to consider the matter in no party spirit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-06", "file": "debates1930-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5f505de0c7dbeab9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2216.2", "colnum": "2216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "that which he has put upon them this evening. No one could help being moved by the first part of the hon. Member's speech, with its graphic description of the life of the miner in this country. I speak in the presence of those who have worked underground many years, but I hope the hon. Member will allow me to say that I have never been down a mine in this country or abroad without realising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2216.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-06", "file": "debates1930-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5f505de0c7dbeab9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2220.8", "colnum": "2220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are doing so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "I am not referring to the hon. Member. I am referring to an hon. Member who made a most unwarranted insinuation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2220.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-06", "file": "debates1930-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5f505de0c7dbeab9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2224.0", "colnum": "2224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "England, to see that the miners got a fair and square deal. I do not want to use the somewhat strong language that one has used on this subject outside, but it has always seemed to me one of the strangest ways of carrying out that pledge, immediately the General Strike was over, to adopt the policy of the mineowners, and to go right in the teeth of the recommendations of the Coal Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-06", "file": "debates1930-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5f505de0c7dbeab9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2224.0", "colnum": "2224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "th that view, and the only difference that has arisen between those who sit on that side and us, is that it seemed to us when the Bill was first introduced, that the result would be an increase in the cost of coal to consumers as a whole. We are hoping that the Bill, as amended as a result of discussions that have taken place, will mean hardly an appreciable increase, if there is any at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-06", "file": "debates1930-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5f505de0c7dbeab9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2232.6", "colnum": "2232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "e coal-cutting machinery is most used that this proposal of my right hon. Friend will be most economic. Therefore, it is absolutely plain that this alternative proposal is clearly in the interests of the mining industry as an industry. It is plainly in the interests of the country as a whole, because if it is going to cost the industry less, it is going to cost us less. We, the third estate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2232.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-06", "file": "debates1930-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5f505de0c7dbeab9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2234.2", "colnum": "2234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. POTTS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. POTTS", "preceding_text": "So it does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2234.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-06", "file": "debates1930-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5f505de0c7dbeab9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2234.5", "colnum": "2234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "l. Only one argument has been advanced against the proposal, namely, if I may use a slang expression, the fear that the miners may be jockeyed in making an agreement, if our proposal takes effect. It is not proposed to give the coalowner a right in this matter. This alternative provision is to apply only where there is agreement between both sides. Is there much chance of the miner being jockeyed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-06a.2234.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-07", "file": "debates1930-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3010630a9b2c98a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-07a.2253.1", "colnum": "2253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OMNIBUSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What happened?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "preceding_text": "lready mentioned the case of the Ramsbottom Urban District Council, and there has recently been a case in Leeds in which a private operator brought an action against the local authority because they extended one of their statutory omnibus routes by 40 yards at the terminus, merely because they wanted to turn the omnibuses round, and not for the purpose of getting any increase in passenger traffic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-07a.2253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-07", "file": "debates1930-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3010630a9b2c98a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-07a.2269.1", "colnum": "2269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OMNIBUSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "atters. At present there are safeguards for the ratepayers in municipalities where enterprises of this kind are promoted. They can have a town's meeting; they can have a poll, and the matter can be thrashed out before any Bill is promoted Under this Measure all such safeguards would be eliminated and the ratepayers would have to rely upon the level-headed-ness of the people whom they have elected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-07a.2269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-07", "file": "debates1930-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3010630a9b2c98a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-07a.2269.1", "colnum": "2269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OMNIBUSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": " last fortnight, in which the elected representative apparently have not been very level-headed in the opinion of the ratepayers and where the ratepayers, under the present system, have been able to curb the Socialistic and extravagant tendencies of their representatives. The first instance refers to the town of Leicester. I take it that there is a Labour majority on the town council in Leicester.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-07a.2269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-07", "file": "debates1930-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3010630a9b2c98a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-07a.2309.7", "colnum": "2309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OMNIBUSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major SALMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major SALMON", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member asked a question, and I am endeavouring to answer him. It is surely not denied that for years the London County Council unfortunately lost a considerable sum of money on the running of their trams.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-07a.2309.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-07", "file": "debates1930-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3010630a9b2c98a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-07a.2315.0", "colnum": "2315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OMNIBUSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EVERARD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EVERARD", "preceding_text": "Leicester to register my protest and vote with the great majority of the ratepayers on that occasion. I am not surprised that the hon. and gallant Member for Central Hull (Lieut.-Commander Kenworthy), who has so much knowledge of this House, is not here to-day to propose this Bill. He is like certain barristers who, whenever they have a very bad case to put forward, send their juniors to argue it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-07a.2315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-07", "file": "debates1930-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3010630a9b2c98a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-07a.2320.1", "colnum": "2320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OMNIBUSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "We have been told that the licensing authority is the local authority, and consequently they would be able to licence themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-07a.2320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-07", "file": "debates1930-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3010630a9b2c98a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-07a.2320.1", "colnum": "2320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OMNIBUSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "s it not a fact that the Sheffield Corporation issued literature advocating that people should vote for this Bill? Did they not use even their own municipal printing plant—to which I am totally opposed, because that is not a question of a public or municipal service—for the purpose of advertising their side of the question? Did not they use the full organisation of the Socialist party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-07a.2320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-07", "file": "debates1930-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3010630a9b2c98a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-07a.2331.1", "colnum": "2331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OMNIBUSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "ne for the general charges; and you could criticise any one of the three. That was the law until a comparatively few years ago. The whole idea was that it would prevent monopoly, but the mechanics of the thing forbade it, because you could only have one thing on the railway line at a time. It is different on the roads. The position was exactly the same in regard to trams. Trams run on rails—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-07a.2331.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-10", "file": "debates1930-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "790075cefbc1c396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major DAVIES", "preceding_text": "n which similar cases between masters and men have arisen. On these Agricultural Boards, it is quite obvious that there may be one or two fortunate exceptions dealing perhaps with matters of not very vital importance, but when you do come to questions of hours and wages you always find lined up on one side the representative of the workers and on the other side the representative of the employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-10", "file": "debates1930-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "790075cefbc1c396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.107.0", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEIF JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEIF JONES", "preceding_text": "This is the most extraordinary Amendment that we have had moved on this Bill. The speech of the Mover and all the speeches in support of the Amendment have taken a line in favour of the Clause and its object.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-10", "file": "debates1930-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "790075cefbc1c396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.120.2", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "There is more than one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.120.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-10", "file": "debates1930-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "790075cefbc1c396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.120.2", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": " fault, is not only on one side. The Nottinghamshire miners non-political union is not the paltry thing that the hon. Member for Mansfield would have us believe. It has 17,000 paying members and they contribute 6d. per week. I should like to mention some of the benefits that the members of that non-political trade union receive. They get medical advice in case of accidents, legal assistance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.120.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-10", "file": "debates1930-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "790075cefbc1c396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "al industry which brought disaster on the industry and on the country. If more attention had been given to the economic facts of the situation, and if the settlement of the dispute had been referred to districts and not to a national body, we should never have had any strike at all. I want to draw this hopeful sign from the splendid lead given by the right hon. Member for Bewdley (Mr. S. Baldwin).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-10", "file": "debates1930-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "790075cefbc1c396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "ferred to districts and not to a national body, we should never have had any strike at all. I want to draw this hopeful sign from the splendid lead given by the right hon. Member for Bewdley (Mr. S. Baldwin). [ Interruption .] That shows that, in spite of all that he has done to try to bring peace in the coal industry, even to-day there are some hon. Members who do not appreciate what he has done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-10", "file": "debates1930-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "790075cefbc1c396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.126.5", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "I have never got into conflict with the Chair, and I am not going to do so now. Although there may be only about 40,000 members, I believe that the non-political trade union movement will grow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.126.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-10", "file": "debates1930-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "790075cefbc1c396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.129.3", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain HUDSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about owners and railway directors?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain HUDSON", "preceding_text": "to a rival union trying to cry it down by pretending it is not. We have a Rule in this House that when Members are particularly interested themselves in what we are discussing, they do not vote on the question, and I shall be interested to see if hon. Members who are members of the Miners' Federation and are very intimately bound up with this question will vote in the Lobby against this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.129.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-10", "file": "debates1930-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "790075cefbc1c396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.133.3", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "challenge it. But, assuming it be true, I am going to say this: has not the Miners' Federation insistently and persistently, in every district in the country, not put non-members to the worst places in the mines, but actually forbidden work in the mines to any man who was not a member of their union? Let those in that union who are without sin cast the first stone at the non-political union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-10", "file": "debates1930-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "790075cefbc1c396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.138.0", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": "Board. There is no need for any special representation of this non-political union. As has been pointed out, it is represented there already. It is represented by the owners. This non-political union is nothing more or less than a union supported and subsidised by the owners—subsidised to the extent of £10,000 by the owners and set up in the Notts coalfield merely to do the owners work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.138.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-10", "file": "debates1930-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "790075cefbc1c396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.139.2", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite wrong!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": "etween this non-political union and the owners. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] I wish to point out that the so-called union in Nottingham which has been referred to is not a union at all, and it does not represent the men. It consists merely of a very small group of disappointed leaders who, at a very critical moment of difficulty in the life of the miners of this country, went over to the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.139.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-10", "file": "debates1930-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "790075cefbc1c396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.163.16", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "orking days lost owing to industrial disputes in 1925 was 8,900,000, but in 1926 it was 161,300,000; and the effect of the General Council's action was to reduce the national trade balance of £54,000,000 in 1925 down to £9,000,000 in 1926, which nearly brought the country to the position of working a year for nothing. By their political action they set back the prosperity of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.163.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-10", "file": "debates1930-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "790075cefbc1c396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give his name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ns; the tonnage of coal produced fell from 243,000,000 to 166,000,000 tons, and so one could go on. Their action did more than that. It enabled our competitors abroad to develop their pits and industries at our expense. Hon. Members opposite may shake their heads. A friend of mine who is a big shipper of coal told me that he had found in his trade that, owing to the stoppage in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-10", "file": "debates1930-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "790075cefbc1c396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "In many other ways did the stoppage created by the Trade Union Congress seriously damage industry in this country. That damage is being felt right up to now, and part of the distress in the mining industry to-day is due, and the effects will be felt for some years to come, to the folly of the General Strike of 1926.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-10a.164.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-12", "file": "debates1930-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "6ec78b7625aad2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-12a.392.0", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !,\" and \"Why not\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I do not know anything about this man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-12a.392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-12", "file": "debates1930-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "6ec78b7625aad2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-12a.463.0", "colnum": "463", "heading": "HOUSING DEVELOPMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAWYER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAWYER", "preceding_text": "aterials. These tiles can be bought abroad, giving work to foreigners, more cheaply than slates can be bought in our own country. If the Minister will realise that fact, he will be able to find work for many of our people who are idle to-day. How is it possible for people abroad to provide tiles and send them over here into the Midlands more cheaply than we can manufacture them in our own country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-12a.463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-12", "file": "debates1930-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "6ec78b7625aad2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-12a.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "HOUSING DEVELOPMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Because you stopped the subsidy !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "all attention to it, that, according to the official figures which were given by the right hon. Gentleman a few days ago, the houses completed during the quarter ending in December, 1929, were 14,521, while the number completed during the quarter ending in December, 1928, under the retrograde Tory administration, was 26,858. Therefore, comparing these two quarters, there has been a decrease—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-12a.466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-12", "file": "debates1930-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "6ec78b7625aad2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-12a.516.0", "colnum": "516", "heading": "POSTAL, TELEGRAPHIC, AND TELEPHONE SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "preceding_text": "re it will eventually arrive.\" But I have very considerable sympathy with the Postmaster-General. He may be a Postmaster, but he is not master in his own house. He is under a great many disabilities. He is under the dead hand of Treasury control. He cannot do any of those things that the head of a business can do which make him the successful head of a business. He is deprived of all those rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-12a.516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-12", "file": "debates1930-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "6ec78b7625aad2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-12a.525.0", "colnum": "525", "heading": "POSTAL, TELEGRAPHIC, AND TELEPHONE SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOWEN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOWEN", "preceding_text": "d of these services is dependent upon the maintenance of the Post Office as a national institution subject to the control of Parliament. I think many hon. Members will agree with me when I say that, if the case against the Post Office rested upon that which has been put up by the Proposer and Seconder of the Motion, there is very little that one can criticise, because there is nothing to reply to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-12a.525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-12", "file": "debates1930-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "6ec78b7625aad2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-12a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "POSTAL, TELEGRAPHIC, AND TELEPHONE SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOWEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOWEN", "preceding_text": "Our trade union friends on this side are quite competent to show the Post Office where weaknesses lie, as we have pointed them out over and over again to Conservative Postmasters-General. This policy was introduced by a Conservative Postmaster-General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-12a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-12", "file": "debates1930-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "6ec78b7625aad2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-12a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "POSTAL, TELEGRAPHIC, AND TELEPHONE SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You managed it for five years, why did not you reform it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": " the result of that 17 years is not good enough. Let me appeal to hon. Members to try to get out of their heads the idea that this is primarily a question of private enterprise versus Socialism. What we are asking for is that there should be an inquiry into the present organisation of the Post Office in order to see whether that organisation can be improved and whether the service can be improved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-12a.546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-12", "file": "debates1930-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "6ec78b7625aad2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-12a.550.0", "colnum": "550", "heading": "POSTAL, TELEGRAPHIC, AND TELEPHONE SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who was in charge?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "ontented. He writes: I put the obvious question to them, 'Are you sorry you transferred?' and their laughing and emphatic negatives dispelled all doubts from my mind. I did not find one man who would return to the Cable Room, hut all were very bitter that the Department had allowed them to leave without so much as a letter of appreciation of the services which they had rendered to the Post Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-12a.550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-12", "file": "debates1930-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "6ec78b7625aad2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-12a.550.2", "colnum": "550", "heading": "POSTAL, TELEGRAPHIC, AND TELEPHONE SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "of the men are doing their constituents an ill service in this matter. For years past the cable companies have paid their operators better than the Post Office has paid its operators. Hon. Members opposite know that, and cannot deny it. The wages paid by the telephone and telegraph companies in America are infinitely better than the wages paid by the Post Office, and hon. Members opposite know it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-12a.550.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-12", "file": "debates1930-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "6ec78b7625aad2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-12a.551.2", "colnum": "551", "heading": "POSTAL, TELEGRAPHIC, AND TELEPHONE SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": " time he has really got to know it. Moreover, none of his advisers have had any business experience, and They are paid such low salaries that it is impossible to get any leading technician or business administrator in from outside. It is most unfair that the engineers of the Post Office should be paid far less than engineers outside, and it makes it very difficult to get in new blood from outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-12a.551.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-12", "file": "debates1930-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "6ec78b7625aad2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-12a.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "POSTAL, TELEGRAPHIC, AND TELEPHONE SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "My Leader very properly reproved me for making a speech without taking the precaution to find out whether reporters were present. It was a most indiscreet thing to do, and I hope that my hon. Friend will never do it himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-12a.552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-13", "file": "debates1930-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "6e1123533a1cfddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.583.0", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRISH PRISONERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KINLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KINLEY", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that these men were actuated by political motives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-13", "file": "debates1930-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "6e1123533a1cfddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.583.0", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRISH PRISONERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KINLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KINLEY", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that these men were actuated by political motives—[ Interruption ]—and that they were in fact engaged in fighting for the freedom of their country", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-13", "file": "debates1930-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "6e1123533a1cfddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.665.0", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": " weak colliery which might go into liquidation before long. It has a number of leases outstanding. If it is wound up, the landlord has to come in and prove for what he can get. That pit seeks to amalgamate with some fine strong undertaking with large reserves. What a vested interest you are giving to the landlord! What was a Coalowners Relief Bill to start with is becoming a Landlords Relief Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.665.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-13", "file": "debates1930-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "6e1123533a1cfddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.665.0", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No value at all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ong pits so that these potential producers can go on living a life which they never thought before that they would have. It is futile to put in some proposals that they are to be taken over on a valuation as between a willing buyer and a willing seller. What is the valuation that a willing buyer would put on it when the last thing the buyer wants to do is buy? How are you going to administer that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.665.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-13", "file": "debates1930-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "6e1123533a1cfddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.665.0", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I hope so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "osals that they are to be taken over on a valuation as between a willing buyer and a willing seller. What is the valuation that a willing buyer would put on it when the last thing the buyer wants to do is buy? How are you going to administer that? [An HON. MEMBER: \"No value at all!\"] Then is it part of the proposal in this Clause that a large number of pits are going to be transferred for nothing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.665.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-13", "file": "debates1930-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "6e1123533a1cfddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "ts turning out something like two million tons each—what is the state of the Ruhr, that country of large amalgamations, as compared with Scotland? They do not use any more machinery than they do in Scotland; they do not use any more electric power per man than in Scotland, and the cost of production in the Ruhr is higher than it is in Scotland. They work longer hours and they pay less wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-13", "file": "debates1930-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "6e1123533a1cfddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "expense in working through that fault, with the expectation of finding the rich coal on the other side. The skill of mining engineers brought to bear upon this subject gave quite reasonable expectation that coal would be found there, but still it was a speculation. A large sum of money was spent in following up this project but there was nothing on the other side of the fault when they reached it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-13", "file": "debates1930-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "6e1123533a1cfddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "be benefiting the coal trade. That was the direction taken by many of the cleverest young Welshmen, with the result that mining was neglected and selling-received more attention than it actually merited. It would have been better for the South Wales coalfield if the brains had remained in the mines and if the coal trade had depended upon straightforward, honest, common-place men to do the selling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.706.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-13", "file": "debates1930-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "6e1123533a1cfddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.736.0", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "s annual product, that it is so dangerous and so desperate a proposal. For my part, if this Bill ever reaches the Report stage—and I am hound to say that it looks as if its fate were becoming more and more doubtful, but one cannot expect the right hon. Gentleman to turn in his tracks in the middle of the Committee stage—I hope he will think well, think deeply, and think honestly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.736.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-13", "file": "debates1930-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "6e1123533a1cfddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.750.0", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain PEAKE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain PEAKE", "preceding_text": " a separate company. Then, if any one of them has a disaster—if the coal should turn out to be bad, if the coal should be found to be full of faults, or if there should occur a disastrous explosion—you can limit your liability, you can limit your loss to the one colliery. But if you are going to have compulsory amalgamation, it cuts clean across the system of sound colliery management.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.750.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-13", "file": "debates1930-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "6e1123533a1cfddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.755.0", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "preceding_text": "n and unification, and I took his argument to be that there was in horizontal amalgamation something contradictory to the ordinary development of industry. I suggest to him that horizontal amalgamation and unification and vertical unification are not at all antagonistic, but are, indeed, complementary, and that they are proceeding to-day. The hon. Member himself believes in that, and practises it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-13", "file": "debates1930-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "6e1123533a1cfddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "I think it is a sad indication of the trend of modern thought and public morals that we in this home of freedom and liberty should be discussing the desirability of depriving people of the management of their own property without giving them any adequate compensation or security for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-13", "file": "debates1930-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "6e1123533a1cfddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.779.2", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "I really cannot see why on earth we should insist on spending more money than we need with a proposal which has not been very enthusiastically received. This is a very bad Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.779.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-13", "file": "debates1930-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "6e1123533a1cfddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain AUSTIN HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain AUSTIN HUDSON", "preceding_text": "on of five instead of three we shall get into all sorts of difficulties, and the Commission will be too large to do the work that is required of it. If we have a Commission of three it will, of course, be extremely difficult to divide it There is nothing in the new Clause to say whether the Commission is to sit as a whole always or whether it is to be divided. It is very difficult to divide three.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-13a.780.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-14", "file": "debates1930-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fadfe2da9f96b260", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.803.2", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": " one of the most unsatisfactory positions in connection with the food supply of the people, and that in spite of a host of inspectors. The London County Council expends no less than £100,000 a year on inspectors, or detectives as I prefer to call them. There are in the country, of course, a number of excellent companies and societies, like the co-operative societies, that do exceedingly well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.803.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-14", "file": "debates1930-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fadfe2da9f96b260", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.812.0", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": " extremely grateful to the local authority for having provided it. Yet, as a matter of fact, the authority is breaking the law in establishing this particular amenity, is acting ultra vires and could be stopped by way of legal process if any evilly-disposed person chose to invoke the law. The illustration to which I have referred is quite well known, as I say, to a number of Members in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-14", "file": "debates1930-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fadfe2da9f96b260", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.828.2", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HURST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HURST", "preceding_text": "ing all these businesses, are they not going to have employés? You have to preserve the relationship between employer and employed even though you substitute for the individual who knows his business a city council which does not, and even though you substitute for a business, which is run with energy and for profit, a business which has no financial responsibility and which is run at a loss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.828.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-14", "file": "debates1930-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fadfe2da9f96b260", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.828.2", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HURST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HURST", "preceding_text": "y a social loss and an industrial loss, but also a heavy loss in funds. It it inconceivable that, if the whole industry of the country is municipalised in this way, it can have any other effect than an enormous increase in rates. Hon. Members opposite cannot say that it might possibly reduce rates, because there is a Clause in the Bill which prevents it from reducing rates. It must increase rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.828.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-14", "file": "debates1930-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fadfe2da9f96b260", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GUNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GUNSTON", "preceding_text": "y were successful in doing two things; the first was, by a system of peaceful penetration, to capture the Liberal party, and the other was to capture the local government of this country. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, some years ago, made a speech in which he said that if they could capture the local government of this country they would have the greatest implement for Socialism in their hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-14", "file": "debates1930-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fadfe2da9f96b260", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.851.0", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "d putting a section of their traders out of business. In what order do these trades come? The list reads; \"Meat, milk, bread, coal, banking, tailors and shoemakers.\" Who is the unfortunate milkman or the unhappy baker whose business is first to be ruined by this municipal enterprise? Is that to be settled by a poll of the people? Why should some industries be interfered with and others left alone?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-14", "file": "debates1930-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fadfe2da9f96b260", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.858.2", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "mmunity behind them. They can make losses and need not show them, because county boroughs have no audit of the Ministry of Health to contend with. They can camouflage these things in many ways, and, if they wish to do so, they can beat the private trader by cutting prices and making a loss. What is going to happen when the shop-keeping class has been cut out! Where are the rates to come from then?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.858.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-14", "file": "debates1930-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fadfe2da9f96b260", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "is a question that I have fought in my own Council time and time again. I have argued that the ratepayer, who has to back the risk, ought, if there are profits made, to get some little benefit by way of relief from the rates. Those who have drafted the Bill do not think that is the correct way. It goes into the common fund. They may say, \"We will use it to reduce the price of certain commodities.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-14", "file": "debates1930-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fadfe2da9f96b260", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then you would not reduce the price.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "f from the rates. Those who have drafted the Bill do not think that is the correct way. It goes into the common fund. They may say, \"We will use it to reduce the price of certain commodities.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] That shows that hon. Members have not given deep study to the question. There are many commodities on which a reduction of even a farthing would mean a loss instead of a profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-14", "file": "debates1930-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fadfe2da9f96b260", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.865.0", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER OF HEALTH (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER OF HEALTH (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "to this House with Private Bills for an extension of their powers, for the right to run municipal trams. I should imagine that the majority of the local authorities which have moved in that direction have been authorities where there is no Labour majority. Where, then, is the case of hon. Members opposite? They have no case. Therefore, they proceed through their usual process of misrepresentation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.865.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-14", "file": "debates1930-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fadfe2da9f96b260", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.865.0", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER OF HEALTH (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "cue_text": "HON. MEM- BERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER OF HEALTH (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "ere there is no Labour majority. Where, then, is the case of hon. Members opposite? They have no case. Therefore, they proceed through their usual process of misrepresentation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] An hon. and gallant Member accused me earlier on—and I make no protest—of having deliberately promoted the bringing of this Bill to the House in order that it may sneak through on a Friday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.865.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-14", "file": "debates1930-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fadfe2da9f96b260", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.870.0", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "afeguards. He neglected to say, and I will complete the task for him, that he hoped he would see no more of this Bill, and that it would be rejected this afternoon. He said that he was a Socialist. He reminds me of the case of the boy who was asked whether his father was a Christian, and he replied: \"Yes, Sir, but he does not do much at it.\" Why should the right hon. Gentleman repudiate this Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-14", "file": "debates1930-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "fadfe2da9f96b260", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.880.0", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARCUS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARCUS", "preceding_text": "h those who are responsible for the promotion of this Bill. No doubt this Measure requires some revision as every other Bill does which is presented to this House. The central feature of the Bill is the development of municipal enterprise, and I think that principle has the unanimous support ox every hon. Member on' this side of the House and of several hon. Members who sit on the Liberal benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-14a.880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-17", "file": "debates1930-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3a6eb8783d891f83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-17a.978.1", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MENTAL TREATMENT BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "cellent account of the new Local Government. Act and all that it was doing for the Poor Law guardians of the country. At the end of his speech there was some sort of a minor riot. They said, \"Surely this is not the right hon. Gentleman who used to talk about the Poor Law guardians and how shamefully they were treated by the Tory Government,\" and they examined the right hon. Gentleman very closely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-17a.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-17", "file": "debates1930-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3a6eb8783d891f83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-17a.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MENTAL TREATMENT BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": " many who are insane think that the visiting justices are insane, and I have seen a patient point to the patient next door and say that he was \"dotty.\" It is very hard to draw the line between those who are insane and those who are not. The remark of the last hon. Member that there was good in all parties led me to believe that there was a sound mind in a sound body on the other side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-17a.1002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-17", "file": "debates1930-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3a6eb8783d891f83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-17a.1033.5", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "LONDON ELECTRIC, METROPOLITAN DISTRICT, CENTRAL LONDON, AND CITY AND SOUTH LONDON RAILWAY COMPANIES BILL. (Certified Bill.) (By Order.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLETON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLETON", "preceding_text": " Act on the Statute Book. An hon. Member asked me whether this was not a question of strikes, but railwaymen hardly know the meaning of the word strike. Railways were inaugurated over 100 years ago, and during that time there have been only two national railway strikes. It is true that railwaymen did take part in the strike of 1926 which seems to be engraven on the hearts of hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-17a.1033.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-17", "file": "debates1930-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3a6eb8783d891f83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-17a.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "LONDON ELECTRIC, METROPOLITAN DISTRICT, CENTRAL LONDON, AND CITY AND SOUTH LONDON RAILWAY COMPANIES BILL. (Certified Bill.) (By Order.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "use how every man on this side fought years ago for the very principle which is involved here. I also want the House to observe that the position and the trade of the country are very serious, and the unemployment figure which is seen going up from week to week is due to a far more fundamental cause than is generally appreciated. The increase to be announced the day after to-morrow will be 11,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-17a.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-17", "file": "debates1930-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3a6eb8783d891f83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-17a.1058.0", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "MENTAL TREATMENT BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BOYD MERRIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BOYD MERRIMAN", "preceding_text": " to disable them from co-operating in their own cure by submitting to treatment. I think I have correctly interpreted the scheme. It is important to note, with regard to this last Clause, that the only incapacity that matters is that their incapacity is such as to prevent them from co-operating in their own treatment, and it is immaterial whether they are or are not incapable in any other respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-17a.1058.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-17", "file": "debates1930-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3a6eb8783d891f83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-17a.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "MENTAL TREATMENT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption , and HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "preceding_text": "elling about the country. We should also like to know what is the total. There is no key to that in this Resolution, and it is a somewhat singular thing. We are asked to give a blank cheque. The Minister is to appoint these people. He and nobody else, and he is to fix the amount of their salaries, and all this Committee is asked to do is to authorise what Mr. Micawber calls the \"demnition tottle.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-17a.1085.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-17", "file": "debates1930-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3a6eb8783d891f83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-17a.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "MENTAL TREATMENT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "preceding_text": " We make no apology for occupying some moments more than the Minister of Health desires, because there is no other business which has been talked about for to-night. I think it is entirely the fault of the Government. If, instead of showing anxiety to rush the business through anyway, they had taken a little longer in introducing the Financial Resolution, it would have saved their time in the end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-17a.1085.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-17", "file": "debates1930-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3a6eb8783d891f83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-17a.1103.3", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "RAILWAYS (VALUATION FOR RATING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "discussion for a long period. It was a. case of great complexity and difficulty, and the right hob Gentleman tells us that agreement was only reached on Thursday last, and yet we are asked, having only received the Bill on Thursday, on Monday at a quarter to two in the morning to proceed with the Second Reading. I say that is an abuse of the position of the Government and the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-17a.1103.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-18", "file": "debates1930-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d46778096279cf07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-18a.1208.1", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And accidents fewer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "d. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the coroner?\"] The hon. Gentleman will have an opportunity to speak later on. I am expressing my views, and they are my views, as I have stated. The observance of the speed limit is not supported by general public opinion. In fact, if the 20-miles speed limit were universally enforced, the congestion on the streets would be much worse than it is at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-18a.1208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-18", "file": "debates1930-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d46778096279cf07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-18a.1208.1", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To Ireland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "ng with careless driving which establishes a lesser offence with regard to the careless driver who is not being wantonly dangerous and reckless. Clause 13 will prohibit organised race or speed trials on the highways. They will be entirely prohibited. If people want to go in for speed trials they had better go to the places specially constructed for that purpose and get smashed up in their own way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-18a.1208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-18", "file": "debates1930-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d46778096279cf07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-18a.1245.1", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL-CAINE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL-CAINE", "preceding_text": ", and it cannot be claimed that in these matters we are super-human and the rest of the nations are fools. I will not be drawn off my argument by hon. Members opposite, and I will deal with France in a moment or two. I think this is a very dangerous proposal, because in this country we have the worst drivers of motor vehicles in the world. I know hon. Members opposite disagree with that statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-18a.1245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-18", "file": "debates1930-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d46778096279cf07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-18a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL-CAINE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS \"And more acres.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL-CAINE", "preceding_text": "e deaths is as between 2,000 and 6,000. Another argument which is put forward is that, because there are more vehicles in this country than there are in France, it would not be practicable to introduce a test, but I would ask, what about the United States of America? I think it will be agreed that in the United States of America there are just a few more cars than we have—a few million more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-18a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-18", "file": "debates1930-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d46778096279cf07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-18a.1250.1", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL-CAINE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He deserves it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL-CAINE", "preceding_text": "nd. Then he is watched by the inspector to see that he sounds the horn or warning signal on the car 50 yards before a crossing. He is then told to drive into a narrow street, and there he is told to back the car and to turn it round in this narrow street. If he is able to pass all these tests, and is able to drive back to the place where he started, he will in all probability be given his licence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-18a.1250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-18", "file": "debates1930-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d46778096279cf07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-18a.1265.1", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is there a footpath along the road?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "Mostly pedestrians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-18a.1265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-18", "file": "debates1930-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d46778096279cf07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-18a.1282.1", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. RENTOUL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. RENTOUL", "preceding_text": "ng a Bill of his own, though it was nothing like such a good Bill as mine, and now I find that a further stymie has been laid by this Bill, which apparently blocks both mine and the Home Secretary's. I would ask the learned Attorney-General whether he can also make it an instruction to the Committee that they should consider my Bill as well as the Omnibuses Bill, when the matter reaches Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-18a.1282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-18", "file": "debates1930-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d46778096279cf07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-18a.1298.0", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "s not only capable of doing 100 miles an hour but had actually done 90 or 95 miles an hour in London. There is no droit administritif for the police in this respect. If they drive a car over 20 miles an hour in pursuit of a murderer or burglar they are breaking the law and the common informer, if he chooses to bring a case and get evidence against them, can obtain a conviction. It certainly is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-18a.1298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-18", "file": "debates1930-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d46778096279cf07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-18a.1303.7", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "but it is also the case that accidents are caused thereby. I may say that I myself have never been summoned for any breach of the highway law and I am quite unbiased, but I am familiar with one road in particular to which I wish to refer. It is a main road, and in one town through which it passes, where admittedly the difficulties of traffic control are very great, there is a borough police force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-18a.1303.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-18", "file": "debates1930-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d46778096279cf07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-18a.1322.0", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir CHARLES OMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir CHARLES OMAN", "preceding_text": "rous passing. It having been my misfortune to see two young people killed this summer through reckless and dangerous passing, I approve of anything prohibiting the least approach to that dreadful practice. On the other hand, when I hear people talking of the enormous easiness and pleasure and safety of going at great speed, on arterial roads, for example, in Scotland and other remote places—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-18a.1322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-18", "file": "debates1930-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d46778096279cf07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-18a.1335.1", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Captain HAROLD BALFOUR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What constituency?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain HAROLD BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "the representatives of constituencies which this Bill affects very much are not to be allowed to express their views freely, then public opinion, so far as those constituencies go, will not be with the Bill. I am glad to be able to support the Bill, as representing a constituency which probably has more traffic in and out per day during the summer months than any other constituency in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-18a.1335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-18", "file": "debates1930-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d46778096279cf07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-18a.1340.0", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. W. SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. W. SMITH", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry to have to detain the House with any remarks at this late hour, but these occasions seem to be the only opportunities which back-benches have of stating their views in this House. This is a very important Bill and hon. Members of the party opposite do not seem to realise how important it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-18a.1340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-19", "file": "debates1930-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b3043858c22456a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1455.0", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "INCIDENCE OF TAXATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-19", "file": "debates1930-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b3043858c22456a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1455.2", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "INCIDENCE OF TAXATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Supertax?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "rely ending their private savings, and they are the people who are the greatest sufferers from high taxation. About £880,000,000 goes to higher salaried and professional people, and I think it would be very unwise to penalise this important class any further, because you might discourage them from exercising their special abilities. The ordinary wage-earners receive about £1,900,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1455.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-19", "file": "debates1930-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b3043858c22456a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "INCIDENCE OF TAXATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": " an international system of trade and industry and commerce. We cannot get away from it; indeed, in some respects it would be a very bad thing for us if we did get away from it, because probably we are the greatest money-lending centre in the world. It is part of our business as a nation to lend money to other countries. We do it with the greatest mobility and with the greatest facility and speed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-19", "file": "debates1930-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b3043858c22456a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "INCIDENCE OF TAXATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is it doing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "t never pays, as Mr. Keynes pointed out, to render the entrepreneur or the producer poor. We have to try to bring some assistance to the producer as such. Only one attempt has been made in the last 10 years, and that was in the derating proposals of the last Government. That is the only constructive attempt that has been made since 1918 to bring assistance to the actual producer of wealth as such.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-19", "file": "debates1930-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b3043858c22456a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1465.0", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "INCIDENCE OF TAXATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does that apply to the Tea Duty?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "g (Mr. Churchill) and comes as a result of four and a-half years of the party to which he belongs. The right hon. Gentleman, apart from reductions that he was able to make in his first year of office as the result of the way finances had been conducted before he came into office, did nothing but put on taxes of all sorts and kinds during the whole period of his term as Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-19", "file": "debates1930-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b3043858c22456a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1466.1", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "INCIDENCE OF TAXATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": " phraseology, what are the three claims in favour of believing that high taxation cripples industry? The first claim is that it enters into the cost of production, and thereby makes it difficult to compete with other countries, where taxation is different. The answer is that it entirely depends on the kind of taxation imposed. There is the definite assertion of the Colwyn Committee to that effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-19", "file": "debates1930-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b3043858c22456a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1466.1", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "INCIDENCE OF TAXATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "arge extent they oppose the reductions that this Government is making, and believes it perfectly safe to make, because they want a particularly large Army and Navy. Do they want to cut down the interest on the Debt? They do not want that. They would hold up their hands in horror if we proposed anything of the kind. What they are really out for is to cut down the expenditure on the social services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-19", "file": "debates1930-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b3043858c22456a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1468.0", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "INCIDENCE OF TAXATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": "eded in wiping out entirely its internal debt by the printing press, with the entire disappearance of the old German mark. The company with which I am connected happens to possess quite a number of old German marks, but they do not appear in our balance-sheet as an asset. France did not go as far as that, but France, by a process of stabilising the franc at five times its pre-War value has —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-19", "file": "debates1930-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b3043858c22456a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1468.0", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "INCIDENCE OF TAXATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They say that it is the whole.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": "made by the hon. Member who opened the Debate. I think we have to recognise that it is true that the whole of the interest charges on capital does come out of the possible wage fund. I do not think that it is correct to say that all taxation comes out of wages. It does not come out of wages; it comes out of the product of industry. That is not wages. Wages are only part of the product of industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-19", "file": "debates1930-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b3043858c22456a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1475.2", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "INCIDENCE OF TAXATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is also a social service!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "preceding_text": "eplacement and reproduction of capital is being definitely hindered. He cannot claim that taxation is doing both these things, that it is falling on the workers alone and on capital alone. As the Financial Secretary said, their objection is that the social services are still growing. What is the alternative to these social services? There is no alternative to the social services but the workhouse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1475.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-19", "file": "debates1930-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b3043858c22456a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1477.0", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "INCIDENCE OF TAXATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "preceding_text": "In view of the very crowded state of the House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-19", "file": "debates1930-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b3043858c22456a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1480.0", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "INCIDENCE OF TAXATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Count your own side!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "In the two minutes that are left to me I should like to say a few words on this important subject. Realising the importance of the question of high taxation, I am surprised that there are not more hon. Members opposite present. There are only 14 Conservative Members in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-19", "file": "debates1930-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b3043858c22456a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1483.2", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WALTER GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WALTER GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "ure of these various designs I need not dilate upon, but one, referred to with affection by my hon. Friend, was the design of Mr. Caröe. Mr. Caröe is a member of the firm of Niven, Caröe and Muirhead, and, so entirely in agreement are these architects, that he has two schemes, one being the scheme of Messrs. Niven, Caröe and Muirhead, and the other the scheme of Mr. Caröe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1483.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-19", "file": "debates1930-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b3043858c22456a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1505.1", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "ley (Mr. S. Baldwin). He authorises me to inform the House that, if he had not had an important engagement, he would have come here and not only have voted but would have spoken. With all those authorities in favour of this scheme, who would be against it? We have a certain number of what I call learned societies who I should have thought would have assisted this scheme and not have criticised it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-19", "file": "debates1930-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b3043858c22456a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1524.0", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. L'ESTRANGE MALONE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. L'ESTRANGE MALONE", "preceding_text": "fore we proceed with this discussion. It has arisen because hon. Members have spoken about opposing the Charing Cross Bridge scheme. I wish to make it clear that those who are opposing this Charing Cross Bridge scheme, as it is called, are not opposing the idea of a Charing Cross Bridge. Everybody is agreed that Charing Cross Station ought to be moved from the north to the south side of the river.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1524.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-19", "file": "debates1930-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b3043858c22456a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1524.0", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. L'ESTRANGE MALONE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. L'ESTRANGE MALONE", "preceding_text": "they come before the House for a Second Reading without having prepared a model of the scheme. If one were going to build a ship, costing only a few hundreds of thousands of pounds, one would not lay a plate of it until a model had been built which designers could examine. If one were building a house costing £4,000 or £5,000, one would not lay a brick of it until a model had been built.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1524.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-19", "file": "debates1930-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b3043858c22456a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1526.0", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about town planning?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "t far better traffic experts than exist anywhere else. The House of Commons must really face that, because the House of Commons are paying us to do the work, and we are doing it pretty well. We are doing it exceptionally well at the present moment, and really, when it is said that there is no expert opinion behind this scheme, I am sure that the late Minister of Transport will agree with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-19", "file": "debates1930-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b3043858c22456a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1526.0", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "n hour, and it is estimated that it will reach 3,063 in 1940. And so one goes on. It is perfectly obvious that what we have to do is not to encourage additional traffic coming up Northumberland Avenue into Trafalgar Square, but to discourage it. We may have an isolated case of some one with a car at the National Liberal Club wanting to get on to Charing Cross Bridge in order to get somewhere else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-19", "file": "debates1930-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b3043858c22456a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1526.0", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "to get from the New Cut or the Waterloo Road or the Westminster Bridge Road and to go up North—not necessarily West into Piccadilly or the Haymarket, but North—up St. Martin's Lane way—as a lot of traffic does, I say with every respect that I do not want him in Trafalgar Square or Northumberland Avenue, and I am going to make him go somewhere else. That is the proper thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-19", "file": "debates1930-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b3043858c22456a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1526.0", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "sts that every pains should be taken to make the very best we can out of the scheme and make these places beautiful. Has anybody been to High Street, Kensington Station, through the arcade at the shop of Derry and Tome. I am quite aware that we are bound to disagree upon these matters. I rather like the arcade of which I have spoken not because of the ladies clothes that are displayed there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-19", "file": "debates1930-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6b3043858c22456a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1526.0", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": " the best way. I give him the free tip that that is the best way now, and it can be made a much better and a much clearer way perfectly consistently with the scheme which is now before the House. The House must face one or two central facts. The first is that we have not only to consider the convenience of the railway company, although, after all, even the Southern Railway Company must live—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-19a.1526.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-20", "file": "debates1930-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "958ac0528c928c76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-20a.1628.0", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": " so framing this Motion as to make it practically impossible for the House to discuss it. It shows high Parliamentary finesse, upon which I heartily congratulate him. Apparently, he will go a great deal further than some of his colleagues. I am estopped from discussing the merits of the proposal by the Rules of the House, and after what has occurred, I think a future Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-20a.1628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-20", "file": "debates1930-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "958ac0528c928c76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-20a.1638.2", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": " best. The business before the House is of the most simple, straightforward, honest, clear and obvious character. The House of Commons has given a Second Reading to two Bills and has therefore said that, as far as the general principle of those Bills is concerned, it is willing that they should both become law. It does not matter that one is a Government Bill and the other a Private Member's Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-20a.1638.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-20", "file": "debates1930-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "958ac0528c928c76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-20a.1640.0", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Member also referred, I suppose, to what I was saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-20a.1640.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-20", "file": "debates1930-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "958ac0528c928c76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-20a.1642.0", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ACLAND-TROYTE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We shall support him in the Lobby!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ACLAND-TROYTE", "preceding_text": "I want to commiserate with the hon. Gentleman the Minister of Transport in having brought forward this Motion and in not having found a single Member on his own side to support him, in the course of a Debate lasting an hour and a-half.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-20a.1642.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-20", "file": "debates1930-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "958ac0528c928c76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-20a.1655.1", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Colonel HOWARD-BURY", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel HOWARD-BURY", "preceding_text": "xceeding the speed limit, we are now to have penalties of not less than £20 in order to enable the Minister to start his new establishment. I fully agree with my right hon. and gallant Friend the Member for New Forest and Christchurch (Colonel Ashley) that the full-time salaried officer who is to be appointed by the Minister should not be a lawyer, but that he should be a man of common sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-20a.1655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-20", "file": "debates1930-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "958ac0528c928c76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-20a.1664.4", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to controvert your Ruling, Mr. Dunnico, for a moment. I am simply asking for information as to whether any fees are likely to be included which may be obtained from a medical examination of applicants for licences. The Minister does not at present seem inclined to answer the question. Perhaps he has not considered that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-20a.1664.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-20", "file": "debates1930-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "958ac0528c928c76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-20a.1687.0", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "212;were two very active Members of the Conservative party, both on the Opposition benches and on the back benches on this side, and they watched every shilling and every penny of expenditure and criticised it. If only £10 were being granted as unemployment benefit or in connection with any matter of that kind, they gave it the closest scrutiny. Now it is a matter of £9,000 for guzzling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-20a.1687.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-20", "file": "debates1930-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "958ac0528c928c76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-20a.1706.0", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Book-keeping!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "3;1,385. The telephones, I assume, are paid for in cash. This is not the case with postages. The other communications, telegrams, are not charged upon the Foreign Office Vote. They come under the Diplomatic and Consular Service and come to a very considerable amount. Telegrams alone come to £45,000. The country, therefore, is not getting its telegrams cheaply, but has had to pay £45,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-20a.1706.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-02-24", "file": "debates1930-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "964f761fe0f30326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.1839.6", "colnum": "1839", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Russia!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that the workers in India are about the poorest paid workers in the world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.1839.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-02-24", "file": "debates1930-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "964f761fe0f30326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.1871.2", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL PARKS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "This is essentially the privilege of the rich, and, if there were poor people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.1871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-24", "file": "debates1930-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "964f761fe0f30326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.1919.0", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "at course has always been taken in the past before any permanent buildings of bricks, mortar or concrete have been erected in the Royal parks. Before we pass this Estimate I should like to ask the right hon. Gentleman to state definitely that there will be no permanent buildings of the kind I have described erected in the Royal parks other than those to which the right hon. Gentleman has referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.1919.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-24", "file": "debates1930-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "964f761fe0f30326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.1920.2", "colnum": "1920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "y special responsibility upon Parliament. Coming now to the actual facilities that have been provided, I should like to go in rather more detail into what the right hon. Gentleman said. I find that in a question which he answered some time ago—in the first part of this Session—he stated that in Regent's Park there were 20 cricket pitches, 15 football grounds, and 10 hard tennis courts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.1920.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-24", "file": "debates1930-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "964f761fe0f30326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.1920.2", "colnum": "1920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And riding in the Row!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ould like, however, to point out that, for every 10 persons who use the parks for games, at least 100 persons, who, I should say, are mostly wage-earners and salary-earners, use the parks for walking, and, if you like, courting—which, as an hon. Friend of mine has pointed out, they are perfectly entitled to do—taking out their children or their dogs, or, in summer, sitting and reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.1920.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-02-24", "file": "debates1930-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "964f761fe0f30326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.1944.2", "colnum": "1944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "Because of your previous career.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.1944.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-24", "file": "debates1930-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "964f761fe0f30326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.1945.1", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is very dirty!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "All the men who supervise are permanent men. One hon. Member referred to the water of the Serpentine. It is moving water; it does not stand still. Really hon. Gentlemen should inform themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.1945.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-02-24", "file": "debates1930-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "964f761fe0f30326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.1954.5", "colnum": "1954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "One man, one year!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "What is meant by man years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.1954.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-24", "file": "debates1930-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "964f761fe0f30326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.1985.4", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARCUS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARCUS", "preceding_text": "nd the Balfour Declaration. If we look at the details of the Vote we find that the expenditure arises out of the recent dis- turbances in Palestine. In August last the Jewish inhabitants of Palestine were subjected to one of the most brutal attacks in the history of all atrocities. Defenceless Jewish men, women and children were attacked in brutal fashion by non-Jewish inhabitants of that country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.1985.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-24", "file": "debates1930-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "964f761fe0f30326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.1991.0", "colnum": "1991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. de ROTHSCHILD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. de ROTHSCHILD", "preceding_text": "o not wish to detain the Committee long, but I would like to say a few words in support of this Estimate. I feel it has been very unjustly and unduly attacked by the hon. and gallant Member for Chelmsford (Colonel Howard-Bury). I think, if this Estimate is before the House to-day, there is certainly one person who is in some measure guilty for this, and that is the hon. and gallant Member himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.1991.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-24", "file": "debates1930-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "964f761fe0f30326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.1991.1", "colnum": "1991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "n are injured for life, do they receive pensions? Do we care for them in the event of total incapacity as a result of wounds or other injuries? The Minister of Pensions is in his place. I suppose the question does not concern his Department but this is a point to which the Committee ought to give some consideration. There is a further question of vital importance. This is a Supplementary Estimate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.1991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-24", "file": "debates1930-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "964f761fe0f30326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.2000.1", "colnum": "2000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SHIELS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SHIELS", "preceding_text": "This force is under the control of the High Commissioner, and we are solely responsible for it,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.2000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-24", "file": "debates1930-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "964f761fe0f30326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.2001.1", "colnum": "2001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "We have listened to a most reasonable speech from the Under-Secretary, but I must remind hon. Members that however important the occasion may be it is their duty to be absolutely satisfied that no money has been thrown away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.2001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-24", "file": "debates1930-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "964f761fe0f30326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.2001.1", "colnum": "2001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "th regard to the statement which has been made concerning the expenditure of £15,000 in Iraq about which the Under-Secretary said he had no information as to whether there was to be any contribution paid by the Iraq Government. I want to make it perfectly clear that we ought to be informed as to whether we are likely to have any further contributions from the Iraq Government towards this sum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.2001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-24", "file": "debates1930-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "964f761fe0f30326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.2010.3", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong Vote!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "This Vote is headed \"Registrar-General's Office, England.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.2010.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-24", "file": "debates1930-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "964f761fe0f30326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.2010.5", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It would not have cost anything!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ment, whether between man or woman, or nation and nation, it always leads to trouble. You should keep your bargain whether you win or lose. I sympathise with the fact that the fall in the bonus would have injured the wages of the very poorest of the civil servants, but I remember when the late Government was in office, we made an offer to get over what the hon. Gentleman has described as the jolt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.2010.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-24", "file": "debates1930-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "964f761fe0f30326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.2010.5", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "I sympathise with the fact that the fall in the bonus would have injured the wages of the very poorest of the civil servants, but I remember when the late Government was in office, we made an offer to get over what the hon. Gentleman has described as the jolt. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It would not have cost anything!\"] I remember very well that the offer we made was in excess of the bargain we had come to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.2010.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-24", "file": "debates1930-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "964f761fe0f30326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.2014.2", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS UNDERTAKINGS ACTS, 1920 AND 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "d when the hon. Gentleman opposite would have been very happy to be permitted to leave his place on this Front Bench when he found it difficult to reply to submissions made from the benches opposite. More frequently than not the ex-Financial Secretary to the Treasury found himself in a very awkward position when any questions of substance were put to him. It is a piece of political sharp practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-24a.2014.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-25", "file": "debates1930-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c0e962349f9222ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2060.0", "colnum": "2060", "heading": "CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES (EMANCIPATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT GIBSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the other way round.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT GIBSON", "preceding_text": "dition that it has no right to impose on a co-operative society, which is an organisation of members for business reasons, and also for an ideal. It is establishing the principle that these members may combine for any other purpose, but not to defend their political interests and their political advancement. It is saying that they shall have no power to decide how they shall spend their own money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2060.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-25", "file": "debates1930-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c0e962349f9222ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2093.5", "colnum": "2093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSBOTHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSBOTHAM", "preceding_text": "wn no restriction and no qualification, except the one that no member of the Commission must be a Member of Parliament. He may, however, be a person of very strong and well-known political convictions which may commend themselves to hon. Members on one side of the House or the other. For example, the Board of Trade might appoint Mr. A. J. Cook, and that would appeal to hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2093.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-25", "file": "debates1930-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c0e962349f9222ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2093.5", "colnum": "2093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSBOTHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSBOTHAM", "preceding_text": "st be a Member of Parliament. He may, however, be a person of very strong and well-known political convictions which may commend themselves to hon. Members on one side of the House or the other. For example, the Board of Trade might appoint Mr. A. J. Cook, and that would appeal to hon. Members opposite—[ Interruption. ]—or some of them, but there might be dissension on this side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2093.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-25", "file": "debates1930-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c0e962349f9222ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2106.0", "colnum": "2106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "and the support of Members on these benches and below the Gangway. Unless they have the general good will of the community, their work will be vitiated from the very start. The President of the Board of Trade has suggested that, in moving an Amendment of this nature, we desire to hold up the business of the House, and he even referred to the appointment of these five men as a trifling appointment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-25", "file": "debates1930-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c0e962349f9222ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2106.0", "colnum": "2106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "the scrutiny by the representatives of this democratic country of all Measures that come before the House of Commons. We consider these to be the closely cherished and highly prized traditions of the Liberal party, but here they have a first-class opportunity of putting their views before the Committee in support of an eminently reasonable Amendment, and there is complete silence on their beaches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-25", "file": "debates1930-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c0e962349f9222ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2119.4", "colnum": "2119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": " and ask to be a commissioner, who would say, \"I own an interest in a certain undertaking.\" Is the word \"undertaking\" restricted to coal mines? A man may be interested in a subsidiary concern associated with a coal mine or a partnership in a coal mine. He may be a shareholder or a debenture holder in a gas company or an electricity company, or a china clay company or in anything which might—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2119.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-25", "file": "debates1930-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c0e962349f9222ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2122.0", "colnum": "2122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": " we, usually discover that they always fall out about words and never about principles. We all agree that there is something that should be done, and we are asking that something may be done. Commissioners are going to be appointed, and they should be free from any personal interest. They should have no connection with the industry from a financial standpoint. I am not likely to be a commissioner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2122.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-25", "file": "debates1930-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c0e962349f9222ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2151.4", "colnum": "2151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "Oh, I do not think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2151.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-25", "file": "debates1930-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c0e962349f9222ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2153.3", "colnum": "2153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "I have always been able to keep myself without seeking for a Government appointment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-25", "file": "debates1930-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c0e962349f9222ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2153.3", "colnum": "2153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": " from their original idea. Is this going to be a Commission of responsible men whose acts are to be regarded as corporate acts? They cannot set out on independent inquiries all over the country if their plan is to be the considered plan of a corporate body. If, on the other hand, these five gentlemen are to be sent out like scouts by the President of the Board of Trade scouting in each area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-25", "file": "debates1930-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c0e962349f9222ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2162.0", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "ity a political bias. After all, this Bill is a Socialist Bill, brought in by a Socialist President of the Board of Trade, and we know that the right hon. Gentleman himself has had great difficulties, not only with the mining Members of his own party, but with the party below the Gangway, of whom, although their own amalgamation Clause is being discussed, only one Member is here to represent them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-25", "file": "debates1930-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c0e962349f9222ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2175.3", "colnum": "2175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "irable that we should have these wholesale compulsions on people who are not willing to enter. In the interests of fair play we demand that at least one owner should be found in a district who is willing to ask the commissioners to go into the matter. We have to realise that the coal industry is run, as it has been run for many hundreds of years, by business men who have grown up in that industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2175.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-25", "file": "debates1930-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c0e962349f9222ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2186.0", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "I have listened to this discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-25", "file": "debates1930-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c0e962349f9222ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2186.2", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "These interruptions do not assist the Debate. I have no intention of obstructing, but only to say that it surprises me very much to see the attitude which hon. Gentlemen opposite are prepared to take on this Amendment. They are prepared to treat it as a frivolous Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2186.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-25", "file": "debates1930-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c0e962349f9222ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2186.2", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Address the Chair!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "uld make such a speech. For a body of commissioners, without any previous expert knowledge of the district, to enforce a scheme of amalgamation upon a number of unwilling men, who have been engaged in a business, is a proposition that no business man could seriously accept. If the hon. and gallant Gentleman were engaged in any business, would he like to be subjected to this sort of proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-25a.2186.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-26", "file": "debates1930-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "542802f797400571", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-26a.2255.9", "colnum": "2255", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEA WIRELESS TELEPHONY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. The Government have reached a decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-26a.2255.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-26", "file": "debates1930-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "542802f797400571", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-26a.2308.0", "colnum": "2308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLEMENT DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLEMENT DAVIES", "preceding_text": " to coal mines, and it might be that one coal-owner might come along and say: \"You cannot bring me within your amalgamation scheme, because I have another industry, namely, coking, attached to it. You might have another one saying,\" I have bought a colliery and I am using the coal from that colliery in order to supply my steel works, and therefore you shall not bring that colliery into the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-26a.2308.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2404.7", "colnum": "2404", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman regard this as one of the methods by which a great number of the unemployed can be dealt with?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2404.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2423.3", "colnum": "2423", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "The General Election!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister tell us what the Business will be for next week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2423.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2455.2", "colnum": "2455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I will instance one or two other industries which are better known to Members of this Committee than they are to me, namely, the cotton and woollen industries. Are you going to increase the cost to them, and make it still more difficult for them to compete with foreign competitors?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2455.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2456.2", "colnum": "2456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON - EVANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Certainly!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON - EVANS", "preceding_text": "s shall be altered, or that, when they have considered the case, any decision which they may give shall be binding upon anybody at all. There is absolutely no protection whatsoever in this so-called Arbitration Clause. Will the right hon. Gentleman the President of the Board of Trade, when he comes to reply, say what the arbitrators in this case can dot Can they make a decision altering the quota?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2464.3", "colnum": "2464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "ely a consequence of the reduction of the hours of the miners. The problem is there all the time. It is for hon. Gentlemen opposite to say how that 50,000,000 tons of surplus output is going to be handled unless in the meantime the industry is surrounded by some sort of protection. How is it going to be distributed? I understand that hon. Gentlemen opposite have no objection to price fixing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2469.0", "colnum": "2469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to have fallen foul of a young countryman of mine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2469.0", "colnum": "2469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "k, and I think it is not unfair that I should reply. I say that I regret very much to have fallen foul of a young countryman of mine, for whom I have a great deal of admiration. I regret that he should have marred what otherwise, if I may say so as an old Parliamentarian, was a very able speech, by imputing mean motives to other people. We are all doing our very best according to our lights—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2469.0", "colnum": "2469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "taking is simply one which is animated by unworthy, unpatriotic or mean motives, and certainly not that it is animated by cruel and callous motives. It is not so easy a problem as my young friend imagines. It is a problem which affects not merely one industry, but every industry in this country. If you are going to put up the price of coal, we have the authority of men like Sir Josiah Stamp—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2469.0", "colnum": "2469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "grave decision. It is a decision which will affect every industry in the kingdom, and every hearth and home in the kingdom as well, and we are entitled to examine the reasons both for and against it. I have never taunted right hon. Gentlemen opposite with not having been able to bring in nationalisation. Those taunts have come from the men behind them, and not from the men in front of them —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2469.0", "colnum": "2469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "unted the right hon. Gentleman because he has not brought in a Bill for nationalisation. After all, I fully realise that he represents a minority Government, and that, if he means to continue in office, he must, and perfectly rightly, bring in Bills which will have a fair chance of obtaining a majority. The whole of the taunts in that respect have come from a few bon. Gentlemen sitting behind him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2471.1", "colnum": "2471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By a majority!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "I accept the correction at once. The hon. Member knows very much better than I, and I accept his statement on the subject. The mineowners have rejected the Bill as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2471.1", "colnum": "2471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "on. It is equally true that if you diminish the output you are bound inevitably to increase the cost. You have only to see exactly what happens. I am told—and there are hon. Gentlemen over there who can easily cheek what I have to say, and I have this on the authority of men who know just as much about the mines as they do, and I have had the opportunity of consulting a great many men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2471.1", "colnum": "2471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the ascertainment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "f shifts. Most mineowners prefer cutting down the number of shifts from five to four, or to three, as the case may be, to dismissing their men. I am informed by those who have been working mines that every shift you take off adds 1s. per ton to the cost of coal, because you have to maintain the same overhead charges. If it is two shifts a week, it means an increase of 2s. Just see what that means?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2471.1", "colnum": "2471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "r they devoted £40,000 to the purchase of quotas. I said, \"Does that mean that you purchased the quota of the other mines outright?\" He said, \"Oh, no, you have to go through the same process next year.\" In order to be able to work his mine full time, he had to buy quotas and pay £40,000 a year for, what? Nothing. For the right to something which he hitherto had. Just see what that means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2471.1", "colnum": "2471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the name of the colliery?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " outright?\" He said, \"Oh, no, you have to go through the same process next year.\" In order to be able to work his mine full time, he had to buy quotas and pay £40,000 a year for, what? Nothing. For the right to something which he hitherto had. Just see what that means. [ Interruption .] I hope that hon. Gentlemen opposite will really listen to the presentation of the case from the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2471.1", "colnum": "2471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name the colliery!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "e hitherto had. Just see what that means. [ Interruption .] I hope that hon. Gentlemen opposite will really listen to the presentation of the case from the other side. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the name of the colliery?\"] Certainly I will give the name of the colliery. It is a Yorkshire colliery, and I will give the hon. Gentleman the name later on. This mineowner paid 1s. 6d. a ton for the quota.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2471.1", "colnum": "2471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Is it the Kiveton Park Colliery?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "om the other side. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the name of the colliery?\"] Certainly I will give the name of the colliery. It is a Yorkshire colliery, and I will give the hon. Gentleman the name later on. This mineowner paid 1s. 6d. a ton for the quota. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Name the colliery!\"] I will give the name to hon. Gentlemen as I did the last time. I will give it. I have no objection to doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2474.1", "colnum": "2474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "acity. While he is doing that, here is another colleague who, by Act of Parliament is de-rationalising. One of them says, \"I want to encourage these improvements,\" and the other says, \"By these quotas I mean to discourage them.\" We have two right hon. Gentleman in the same Government preaching two different doctrines, with two rival accents. Will he mind telling me how this is going to be applied?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2474.1", "colnum": "2474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Splendid!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "f the bad mines by one process or another over a period of 20 or 30 years. I want to call attention to that for another purpose. Here you have 21 districts, with different trades, with a different quality of coal and with different customers, who are in many ways rivals. Yorkshire gives 225 days' work to its miners, who earn £113 a year. That is the last figure which appears in the Blue Book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2480.3", "colnum": "2480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "discouraged from doing so. I earnestly hope the Committee will reject this provision, and we can then consider how we are to meet the prospect, or the chance, that the curtailment of hours might increase the cost of coal. We shall then be able to face that question fairly, but do not let us do it by a diminution of output. Every one who votes to-night will be responsible to his constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2480.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2481.2", "colnum": "2481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "stupid course like that? We are told that if we limit production we will be able, somehow or other, to cut out the other fellows; but the way out is not to be found in that direction, and true statesmanship would seek to widen the market for its products instead of seeking to reduce the output of products. This is nothing more or less than the application by the State of the policy of \"ca' canny.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2481.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2481.2", "colnum": "2481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HOST. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": " restrict the production of the commodities and limit the purchasing power of the people. What a senseless entanglement for a nation of intelligent people to land itself into! I quite agree with the coalowners that you cannot have the two systems operating simultaneously in any industry. You cannot have the coalowners running the mining industry, and the House of Commons running the same industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2481.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2491.0", "colnum": "2491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who did that? Lloyd George.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": "ers would come to terms, and we introduced a Minimum Wage Bill. Under that Bill the strike was settled and there was no difficulty in the coal mining industry until the War period. Those who ask for State action ought not to forget what happened in the coal mining industry. The State stepped in and controlled it from top to bottom, and then handed it back to the coalowners in a hopeless condition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2491.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2494.1", "colnum": "2494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": "I am not concerned with coupons. I am concerned with what hon. Members opposite have just said. They were blaming the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs for all that was done to the coal industry during the Coalition. That is a correct statement, is it not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2494.5", "colnum": "2494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": " reduced his output and increased his costs. Then upon what principle are you going to fix the minimum price? Are you going to fix it at a level that will show a margin of profit to the dearest coal-producing pit in the district? If you do not, you will be interfering with the ability of that man to make a profit, and not providing him with the opportunity even of covering his costs of production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2494.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2496.0", "colnum": "2496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": " the beginning of the discussions on the Bill until now everyone has recognised that those two provisions constitute the basis upon which the whole Bill is founded. Now the Liberal party come along and say: \"We are going to oppose you on regulation of output, and we are going to oppose you on the fixation of prices.\" If they can succeed in carrying their Amendments this Bill will be a dead letter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2502.1", "colnum": "2502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "p all their reserves, they have got millions in overdrafts at the bank, there is no credit in the industry. We have tried every means, we have increased hours, we have reduced wages, we have reduced freights, we have reduced dock charges, we have cut down rates, everything that possibly can be done has been done and the industry is in as bad a condition to-day as any time during the last 10 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2505.0", "colnum": "2505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Blackmail!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "tion to the industry. The real safeguard which the public have in a great combination, which is a voluntary organisation, is that, if that organisation acts unreasonably or to the detriment of the efficient members of the organisation by attempting to curtail legitimate development of trade and the services it can render to its customers, then every member is free to leave that organisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2505.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2505.0", "colnum": "2505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about tin?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "the efficient members of the organisation by attempting to curtail legitimate development of trade and the services it can render to its customers, then every member is free to leave that organisation—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Blackmail!\"]—in order to give good service to its customers and promote the industry with efficiency. That) is the great safeguard you have in any voluntary arrangement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2505.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2530.0", "colnum": "2530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore DOUGLAS KING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore DOUGLAS KING", "preceding_text": "There sems to be still some doubt as to what this Amendment really means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2530.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2532.3", "colnum": "2532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "cheme, as previously existing, was absolutely for the regulation of sale. I submit that we want a good deal more knowledge about the matter, for it has been by no means an unqualified success in the only place in which it has been tried. The Chair will not allow me to refer to prices, but I feel that the regulation of sale is going to hit not only the industry but all the consumers of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2532.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2532.3", "colnum": "2532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "the country. [ Interruption .] Hon. Gentlemen opposite may not believe it, but we have been perfectly frank with each other: we wholly disagree with each other on every point in this Bill, because it is a compulsory scheme. I remember when I was occupying the position of Secretary for Mines how hon. Members opposite used to question me regarding how these different voluntary schemes were going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2532.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2534.3", "colnum": "2534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "ht to be given a fair trial, and I was entirely in favour of them; but there is all the difference when it comes to regulating sales compulsorily. You are forcing on people something they do not wish for, something they do not think is going to be good for the industry. They must be given credit for having some knowledge of how to deal with the business in which they have been engaged for so long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2534.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2534.3", "colnum": "2534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "ple something they do not wish for, something they do not think is going to be good for the industry. They must be given credit for having some knowledge of how to deal with the business in which they have been engaged for so long. [ Interruption .] I know there are many things in that Measure that the hon. Member did not like, but I have not noticed that the Bill for its repeal has been put down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2534.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-27", "file": "debates1930-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5af7f4fb3610a166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2535.0", "colnum": "2535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Mr. Ben Turner)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Mr. Ben Turner)", "preceding_text": "other hon. Member that I have been left practically nothing to say in reply. The previous discussion on the word \"production\" showed that its retention was necessary for the purpose of the Bill; and if these other words are taken out it is also true that one part of the purpose of the Bill will be removed. I think the very conclusive success which we have just achieved in the Division Lobby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-27a.2535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-28", "file": "debates1930-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "e7f83bef3f718cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-28a.2575.0", "colnum": "2575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADVERTISEMENTS REGULATION (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALLEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Paste.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALLEN", "preceding_text": " healthy jobs. It is not always an easy thing to do in this trade. I have referred to the large bill-posting companies, but the companies vary in size from several representing each of them many hundreds of thousands of pounds of capital, down to one-man shows in small country towns, very often worked by a father doing the outdoor work with his son, while his wife or daughter does the indoor work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-28a.2575.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-28", "file": "debates1930-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "e7f83bef3f718cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-28a.2587.3", "colnum": "2587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADVERTISEMENTS REGULATION (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NAYLOR", "preceding_text": " which are to be preserved. Is it the owners and drivers of motor cars passing through the countryside whose amenities are to be preserved? I am here representing 37,000 of my constituents who rarely, if ever, see the countryside, so that, when hon. Members speak of preserving the amenities of the countryside, they mean preserving all the beauties of Nature for the users and drivers of motor cars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-28a.2587.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-02-28", "file": "debates1930-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "e7f83bef3f718cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-28a.2594.3", "colnum": "2594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADVERTISEMENTS REGULATION (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLINDELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not rural!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLINDELL", "preceding_text": "t a large portion of them, are real works of art and are produced by real artists, and they are creating a tremendous amount of employment for the men who create them. There are two objects in view in regard to this Bill. One is that this Bill aims at giving to the urban district council and the rural district council the power of controlling the exhibition of posters in their particular district.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-02-28a.2594.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-03", "file": "debates1930-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b52afc761db316fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-03a.97.0", "colnum": "97", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "preceding_text": "rbour, I hesitate to say that we are energetically engaged in trying to get rid of it because we do not like it—that would not be a recommendation in the eyes of any possible purchaser—but the view of the Government is, as the right hon. and gallant Gentleman knows, that Ramsgate Harbour, by its nature, would be better under some kind of local body rather than under a State Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-03a.97.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-03", "file": "debates1930-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b52afc761db316fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-03a.105.5", "colnum": "105", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. LAMBERT WARD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. LAMBERT WARD", "preceding_text": " hard, energetic worker in the last Government. Again under Sub-head A, this additional expenditure is required to deal with measures for the relief of unemployment. There, again, everybody knew that unemployment would increase under a Socialist Government, and that consequently additional expenditure and measures would be required to deal with it. I think that I have said all I have to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-03a.105.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-03", "file": "debates1930-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b52afc761db316fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-03a.134.4", "colnum": "134", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A living wage.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "o do this sort of work? Though it is only a small matter, I think that is a suggestion worth consideration. Further, I should like to ask what wages are being paid, and I think that is rather important. I think it was suggested at question time that these men should be paid higher wages than the prevailing agricultural rates of wages. Is it suggested that the Government could pay uneconomic wages?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-03a.134.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-03", "file": "debates1930-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b52afc761db316fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-03a.152.4", "colnum": "152", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "hat it would be the wish of the Forestry Commission to treat all people in the district equally, regardless of class or circumstances. I do not think it would be the policy of the Commission to allow bridle paths to be used by one section of the community and not by another; always, of course, with the proviso that we must take care that no damage is done to young trees which may be planted there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-03a.152.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-03", "file": "debates1930-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b52afc761db316fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-03a.157.0", "colnum": "157", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Captain RONALD HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain RONALD HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "s were destroyed last year, this question of providing fire-belts is something to which I wish to call the attention of the Parliamentary Secretary. The best method is to provide belts of hard wood—Canadian alder as the hon. Gentleman is probably aware is the best. I am not sure whether the soft wood policy which is being carried out by the Commissioners should not be rather mitigated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-03a.157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-03", "file": "debates1930-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b52afc761db316fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-03a.160.2", "colnum": "160", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which men?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "ntleman found great difficulty, as a good trade unionist, in justifying a wage like that for a highly skilled artisan, such as the forestry worker is. If, however, you are going to pay agricultural workers employed by the State higher wages than other agricultural labourers can earn, as a result of the condition of their industry, you will be inflicting a very great injustice upon these men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-03a.160.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-03", "file": "debates1930-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b52afc761db316fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-03a.185.3", "colnum": "185", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "Since the hon. Gentleman challenges me, that shows how wrong the cost-of-living calculation is. Here you see the \"Times\" two or three days ago giving the index figure, and you see a tremendous plunging down in commodities. You should calculate the index upon fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-03a.185.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-03", "file": "debates1930-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b52afc761db316fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-03a.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "I would not like any friend of mine in the Temple to think that I am endeavouring to deprive them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-03a.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-03", "file": "debates1930-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b52afc761db316fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-03a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Drifting!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "In regard to the inquiry into the sinking of the \"Vestris,\" I should like to ask who decides on the inquiry. I notice that a ship called \"David Lloyd George\" has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-03a.206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-03", "file": "debates1930-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b52afc761db316fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-03a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lost its rudder!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "In regard to the inquiry into the sinking of the \"Vestris,\" I should like to ask who decides on the inquiry. I notice that a ship called \"David Lloyd George\" has been—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Drifting!\"] I do not know quite what actually happened —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-03a.206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-03", "file": "debates1930-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b52afc761db316fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-03a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS LEWIS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS LEWIS", "preceding_text": "16 18s., whereas in the answer to my question it was given as £7,115 8s. I understand the Financial Secretary now puts the cost at £5,398. An explanation is due to the Committee of these varying sums. These are things which I would like to see examined, and I think there is need for a change in regard to them. I want to see the question of the Law Officers, in this connection, gone into.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-03a.206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-03", "file": "debates1930-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b52afc761db316fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-03a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS LEWIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Trade union rates!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS LEWIS", "preceding_text": "gal gentlemen engaged in it kept it going on for such a very long time. The fees obtained either by the Attorney-General or the Solicitor-General were enormous—the Solicitor-General in, this particular case did not receive anything like the fees which were paid in connection with the \"Titanic\" inquiry. I should like to know what is the basis on which the law officers are paid in these cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-03a.206.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-04", "file": "debates1930-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "64bdbb9463e07fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.238.3", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PYBUS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PYBUS", "preceding_text": "Arising out of that answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.238.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-03-04", "file": "debates1930-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "64bdbb9463e07fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.247.3", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAFEGUARDING AND IMPORT DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Surely, it has long been the custom for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the weeks preceding the introduction of the Budget, to receive freely, 10, 12 or 15 deputations from different trades and interests in the country that are anxious about possible financial legislation, and that wish to put their case before him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.247.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-04", "file": "debates1930-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "64bdbb9463e07fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.247.5", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAFEGUARDING AND IMPORT DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "One reason for that is that I do not find so much enjoyment as the right hon. Gentleman did in airing his views before these deputations —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.247.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-04", "file": "debates1930-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "64bdbb9463e07fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.247.8", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAFEGUARDING AND IMPORT DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "I had not finished my reply. If my answer was vulgar, I am sorry that I had fallen into the precedent just set up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.247.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-04", "file": "debates1930-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "64bdbb9463e07fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.248.0", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAFEGUARDING AND IMPORT DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Having regard to the great technicality of the Silk Duties, and the special position which this trade occupies, will not the right hon. Gentleman, bearing in mind the fact that he is a public servant, receive a deputation from the silk industry himself, as Chancellor of the Exchequer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.248.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-03-04", "file": "debates1930-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "64bdbb9463e07fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.248.5", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAFEGUARDING AND IMPORT DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Question!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "With great respect, Mr. Speaker, may I say that very important points of departmental and even constitutional usage are raised by the refusal of a Minister to discharge in the ordinary manner the duties of his Department, and to be accessible to the various interests concerned?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.248.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-03-04", "file": "debates1930-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "64bdbb9463e07fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.254.4", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RELIGIOUS SITUATION, RUSSIA (INTERCESSORY PRAYERS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "I cannot have such a thing said in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.254.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-04", "file": "debates1930-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "64bdbb9463e07fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "TARIFF TRUCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "I will not challenge him because economics are not his strong point. Nevertheless, I will include the Lord Privy Seal and the hon. Member opposite, and I will challenge any man in this House to get on his feet and prove, historically or through the science of economics, that the importation of cheap goods causes or has caused unemployment. Let us have a look at it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-04", "file": "debates1930-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "64bdbb9463e07fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "TARIFF TRUCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "oods causes or has caused unemployment. Let us have a look at it. [ Interruption .] Hon. Members are quite welcome to intervene now and to show me. If it be true that cheap goods are a bad thing, are detrimental to employment and cause unemployment, to make a logical deduction from a premise of that kind you are obliged to say that goods coming in for nothing at all would be worse. Is not that so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-04", "file": "debates1930-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "64bdbb9463e07fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.334.3", "colnum": "334", "heading": "TARIFF TRUCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "I know. I give that to my right hon. Friend as a present. I can assure him that economic fallacies are not secluded in one part of the House. But that is the argument—that if goods came in for nothing at all they would cause unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.334.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-03-04", "file": "debates1930-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "64bdbb9463e07fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.335.2", "colnum": "335", "heading": "TARIFF TRUCE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "That is why we are laughing at you.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "According to your logic, it would have been a bad thing for the manna to have come down, because it would have caused unemployment among the nations. You have only to touch a fallacy with a bit of fun and it falls to the ground. You cannot make fun of the statement that two and two are four, because it is true. You can make fun only of that which is ridiculous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-04", "file": "debates1930-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "64bdbb9463e07fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "TARIFF TRUCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Beaverbrook!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "n help people in foreign countries at the expense of the people in this country. Therefore, they proposed this new piece of Socialist insanity; the establishment of this tariff understanding throughout Europe. The President of the Board of Trade embarked upon this extraordinary adventure without taking the trouble to consult any of the outstanding authorities in our industrial and commercial life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-04", "file": "debates1930-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "64bdbb9463e07fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "TARIFF TRUCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Socialist city!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "have said this much if the hon. Member had not interrupted me. This proposed Tariff Truce means that every small community which has arisen in Europe since the War is taking measures to achieve for itself the highest possible measure of protection before the Tariff Truce can become operative. I spent my Christmas in the enjoyable surroundings of one of the most delightful cities in Europe, Vienna.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-04", "file": "debates1930-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "64bdbb9463e07fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "TARIFF TRUCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GIBSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GIBSON", "preceding_text": "and asked for Protection, it was immediately granted to it. I cannot blame them for looking after their own industries, but, unfortunately, we appear to be in the position of thinking that every country in the world is wrong except ourselves, and we allow them to flood our markets with goods produced under conditions as to labour and wages which would not be tolerated for a moment in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.356.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-04", "file": "debates1930-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "64bdbb9463e07fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.358.8", "colnum": "358", "heading": "TARIFF TRUCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GIBSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GIBSON", "preceding_text": "I would answer that question by stating that in those parts of the world where standards are highest and wages are highest there is Protection. Take the case of Australia, Africa, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. Those are the countries where the wages paid are the highest and where the standard of living is the highest. There is no point in the hon. Member's argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.358.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-04", "file": "debates1930-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "64bdbb9463e07fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.358.10", "colnum": "358", "heading": "TARIFF TRUCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GIBSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GIBSON", "preceding_text": "hey propose to meet competition of that description? I sometimes wonder why we have not taken up the same attitude in this country as Canada and the United States in regard to these questions. It so happens that in this country we are divided in our opinions on the tariff question, and a tariff system is not the creed of any political party. For instance, the Labour party are wedded to Free Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.358.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-04", "file": "debates1930-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "64bdbb9463e07fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.365.0", "colnum": "365", "heading": "TARIFF TRUCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAMMERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAMMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "ance, and, I think, even last month in this country the price level came down by something like 3½ per cent. If the economies which we can make by reducing our prices and by reorganisation and so forth are not going to keep up with the reduction of the world's purchasing power, we are not going to increase the effective demand. It is clear that we have to do more than merely keep prices down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-04", "file": "debates1930-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "64bdbb9463e07fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "TARIFF TRUCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Markets here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "ed markets? America has prospered by her mass production and the extent of the market which she secures for herself as against all invaders. She has succeeded with high wages in producing at a cost per unit which has enabled her to sell not only in her own markets, but in world markets also: and it is just such a position that we would desire to obtain for ourselves. How are we going to obtain it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-04", "file": "debates1930-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "64bdbb9463e07fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "TARIFF TRUCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have lower wages!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": " all invaders. She has succeeded with high wages in producing at a cost per unit which has enabled her to sell not only in her own markets, but in world markets also: and it is just such a position that we would desire to obtain for ourselves. How are we going to obtain it? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Markets here!\"] That is exactly what America does. It secures its market at home, but what is our position?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-04", "file": "debates1930-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "64bdbb9463e07fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "TARIFF TRUCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We do not hold it now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "kes one-fourth of the whole of our export of motor cars in a year. We get on these motor cars a Preference of 30 per cent. An assembled chassis from any other part of the world goes into Australia with a tariff on it of 35 per cent., while we get in with a tariff of 5 per cent. Hon. Members must be well aware that but for that Preference we could not hold the Australian motor car market for a day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-04", "file": "debates1930-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "64bdbb9463e07fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.383.0", "colnum": "383", "heading": "TARIFF TRUCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I cannot devote the time that I should like to an examination of the arguments used by the last speaker. I must content myself with the briefest references to one or two of them. I think the greatest fallacy which underlay the hon. Member's speech was disclosed in the concluding sentence. He regards the potential wealth of this country as a fixed quantity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-04a.383.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-05", "file": "debates1930-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "339329c09932eb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-05a.438.2", "colnum": "438", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman will act exactly in the spirit of his last observation and that it is implied that if tonight we reach some stage at which we should at a late hour be entering upon some question of crucial importance, we should then adjourn our Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-05a.438.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-05", "file": "debates1930-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "339329c09932eb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-05a.470.4", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four tons!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "er fully I should be trespassing beyond the bounds of order, but this I will say: It is admitted that the provisions of the Bill as a whole will increase the price of coal. Various figures have been given. I shall select the right hon. Gentleman's own figure, and put the increase at 1s. 6d. per ton. I do not think it will be disputed that three tons of coal are required to products a ton of steel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-05a.470.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-06", "file": "debates1930-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "764fe0e6fe6670d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-06a.621.11", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "d by her at £7. One roll, valued at £1 5s. Id., was identified as her property and returned to her. Therefore the loss that she suffered as a direct consequence of the constable's action was limited, according to her own statement, to £5 14s. 11d. It is true that she said she had lost a contract, but it appears that that was due to her having failed to insure against burglary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-06a.621.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-06", "file": "debates1930-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "764fe0e6fe6670d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-06a.690.0", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major MCKENZIE WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Loan!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major MCKENZIE WOOD", "preceding_text": "ry Board might be encouraged and empowered to take the initiative in putting these harbours on a proper footing, so that there will be someone able to deal with them, and able to use the £650 in this particular case for the purpose for which it was collected. I come now to the question which, to me, is the most important one raised by this Estimate and that is the question of the relief fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-06a.690.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-06", "file": "debates1930-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "764fe0e6fe6670d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-06a.813.0", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore DOUGLAS KING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore DOUGLAS KING", "preceding_text": "There are one or two questions which I would like to ask. In the first place, with regard to Subhead A, Salaries, Wages and Allowances, the hon. Gentleman has said that that has already been dealt with under other circumstances. This is further provision required because of the retention of the Civil Service bonus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-06a.813.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-03-06", "file": "debates1930-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "764fe0e6fe6670d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-06a.816.8", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What has the Royal Arsenal and its explosives to do with this Vote?", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "preceding_text": "xperience with explosives. At the Royal Arsenal there is a very important research Department which deals with every kind of explosive, and not merely from the military point of view. They investigate all types of explosives, detonators, etc. Unfortunately, we see each Government Department getting into a watertight compartment and setting up its own staff. Here we have the Mires Department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-06a.816.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-06", "file": "debates1930-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "764fe0e6fe6670d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-06a.818.0", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "I hope that hon. Members opposite will pay great attention to what has been said by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Louth (Lieut.-Colonel Heneage) because during his time of service in the Army, my hon. and gallant Friend was a great expert on the subject of explosives, and his observations on that matter should be treated with all respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-06a.818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-06", "file": "debates1930-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "764fe0e6fe6670d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-06a.818.0", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": " Heneage) because during his time of service in the Army, my hon. and gallant Friend was a great expert on the subject of explosives, and his observations on that matter should be treated with all respect. [ Interruption. ] There seems to be an explosive atmosphere in the Committee, but I hope hon. Members will not object if I address some questions to the hon. Gentleman in charge of the Estimate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-06a.818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-06", "file": "debates1930-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "764fe0e6fe6670d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-06a.818.2", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "er this extended system of testing explosives, and one of the most important scientific departments under our administration, namely the National Physical Laboratory! That is a department which is devoted to experimenting on difficult and abstruse scientific subjects, and it seems to me that it should be the duty of the Secretary of the Mines Department to consult with them about the revised test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-06a.818.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-06", "file": "debates1930-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "764fe0e6fe6670d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-06a.818.2", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "ble to tell me that this has been done. I should like to know what tests are made in explosives, because most tests in explosives end up in an explosion, and that is the end of it. [ Interrup- tion. ] The hon. Member for Leith (Mr. E. Brown) tells me that researchers sometimes disappear. I hope that that will not be the fate of the hon. Gentleman, the Secretary for Mines, or any of his Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-06a.818.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-06", "file": "debates1930-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "764fe0e6fe6670d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-06a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER", "preceding_text": "I could not say technically whether the tests are the same, but the tests are what are required for proper testing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-06a.824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-06", "file": "debates1930-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "764fe0e6fe6670d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-06a.824.2", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "After all, I am representing quite a different industry from what some hon. Members opposite represent. Could the hon. Gentleman let me know afterwards? Could he write and tell me? I feel sure he will do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-06a.824.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-06", "file": "debates1930-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "764fe0e6fe6670d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-06a.829.4", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": " remark is made about a sum of £190 under Subhead C. We ought to have a little information about that point. While we are talking about it, we might ask the hon. Lady whether or no that sum is sufficient to do the work necessary. That from the point of view of the widows is a very important matter. Those of us who are Members for constituencies and have had a lot of letters from widows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-06a.829.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-07", "file": "debates1930-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "47b354bee583d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-07a.843.2", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RABBITS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH LAMB", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who owns the rabbit\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH LAMB", "preceding_text": " production. That is not wholly a question of what is spent on production, but of what the expenditure yields; because if the product of all this labour and money is reduced, then the price of corn or of roots is increased to that extent. We pay for the cost of all that waste. Who is responsible for this damage? Primarily, of course the rabbit; but it is the owner of the rabbit who is responsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-07a.843.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-07", "file": "debates1930-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "47b354bee583d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-07a.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RABBITS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE (Dr. Addison)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They were not regular attenders.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE (Dr. Addison)", "preceding_text": "inked up with rooks, and I never quite understood how this judicial separation occurred. Anyhow they seem to have got a divorce or something. I have been looking up the record of this Bill in 1928, and I find that there was considerable controversy in a very large attendance in another place. As a matter of fact, 66 voted against the Bill and 55 for the Bill. So it attracted a very large assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-07a.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-07", "file": "debates1930-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "47b354bee583d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-07a.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RABBITS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE (Dr. Addison)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Work overtime!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE (Dr. Addison)", "preceding_text": "de into a good Bill. I hope that the distinguished Peers at the other end of the passage may be less insistent upon some of the points of which they made so much before. I must say that the Government see no prospect whatever of being able to afford any time for this Bill if they are asked to provide any special facilities for its later stages. I should not like to mislead the House on that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-07a.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-07", "file": "debates1930-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "47b354bee583d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-07a.856.3", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RABBITS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "enerally recognised as doing as much damage to food production as rats. Rabbits get at the corn before it has properly grown, whereas the rats get into the stacks afterwards and destroy them. 12 n. Successive Governments have refused to find time to pass any drastic legislation to put us on our feet in the agricultural industry, and we now discover that there is not even time to chase the rabbits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-07a.856.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-07", "file": "debates1930-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "47b354bee583d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-07a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RABBITS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENNETT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENNETT", "preceding_text": "d here merely as verminous. I have always regarded it as rather disgusting to destroy animals at a time like that. An hon. Member opposite described the rook as one of the worst enemies of the farmer. An equally bad and probably worse enemy is the wood pigeon, yet the wood pigeon and his mate are protected under the Wild Birds Protection Act. You cannot destroy a wood pigeon between certain dates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-07a.863.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.951.9", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Power?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "I rise to call attention to the present position of unemployment in this country. The time has arrived when the House ought to review that position. The Government have been in office between nine and 10 months. When they came into power the unemment figures were", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.951.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.951.11", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "Yes, but I brought it down by 500,000, and you have put it up by 400,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.951.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.951.11", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Foreign goods!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "y counts. When you have symptoms of decay and decline in a country, you can see the thing crumbling. There are none of those symptoms in this land. An hon. Friend of mine the other day was talking about the distributing trades. The increase in the number of people employed in the distributing trades is very significant. You must have something to distribute before you can employ more people there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.951.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are you not sorry?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " there is complete confidence that you have touched bottom in respect of raw material, very likely you will not get an upward tendency. But the real trouble—and the Government must face it, though I am not satisfied that the Lord Privy Seal is facing it—is the temporary depression. I have no doubt ultimately the thing will come out all right, because the tendency is upwards definitely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "raw material, very likely you will not get an upward tendency. But the real trouble—and the Government must face it, though I am not satisfied that the Lord Privy Seal is facing it—is the temporary depression. I have no doubt ultimately the thing will come out all right, because the tendency is upwards definitely. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Are you not sorry?\"] What a discreditable observation!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ent is not keeping up with the increase in population, above all when you take into account the labour saving which is due to the process of rationalisation. I am told by those who know, and I have asked a good many people who have come in contact with these processes, that, on the whole, rationalisation has been responsible, in most of our industries, for a cutting down of 10 per cent. in labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask your party!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "me problem. You have four very doubtful events to get over before you can get the full advantage of this great, new, united, federated and welded policy. I am now dealing solely with the question of time and I am trying to prove that this is very largely for us a temporary problem. There is first of all this difficulty. You must get a Dissolution. I do not know when a Dissolution will take effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.960.5", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "body over 60. That is a wasteful, extravagant and fantastic proposal. I am going to put in a word for the sexagenarian. What would become of this Government if you got rid of all the men in it who are over 60? There is the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Foreign Secretary. Can you imagine this Government without them? I would say that the rest of them are very much \"on appro.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.960.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.960.5", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBEE: \"Was there any?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " to teach him some of the elements of this problem. More power to his elbow—if it is the elbow that he uses on these occasions. I hope, at any rate, that that is not the sort of short cut to which the Government will find themselves committed. It is a prodigious task. It would simply be crushing and it would not answer the purpose. I remember that the ablest generals in the War were over 60.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.960.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.960.5", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You did 20 years ago!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ed. It is a prodigious task. It would simply be crushing and it would not answer the purpose. I remember that the ablest generals in the War were over 60. [An HON. MEMBEE: \"Was there any?\"] Marshal Foch was one of the ablest men who ever undertook a task of that kind. What is it that ought to be done? May I suggest to the Government that they ought to make a real survey of the needs of the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.960.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.960.5", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Chancellor of the Duchy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ntleman and his colleagues ought to be taking in hand. Take agriculture. We are far behind practically all the Western countries of Europe in the matter of agriculture, and my criticism of the Government from that point of view, is that, as far as I have been able to ascertain from the public Press, there is no representative of agriculture on the Committee for Unemployment. It is a mistake—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.960.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.960.5", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "and the time and method of delivery of his own goods without being at the mercy or the choice of anybody else. The result is that it is more convenient. Whatever the right hon. Gentleman may or may not do, road traffic is bound to develop at a great rate, and the only question is whether you are going to take steps to prepare for it, to make ready for it I wish the Minister of Transport were here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.960.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.960.5", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " that what you really want for the health of the community, especially children, is to take them out of these great crowded towns and plant them in little suburbs outside. I thought it was quite sound. Roads are the first essential to a solution of that problem, and of agriculture, and you will never solve it until you get better roads. The agricultural problem is a marketing problem very largely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.960.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.970.4", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "than we should relieve. The late Chancellor of the Exchequer, in support of that statement, quoted words of exactly the same meaning used by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for St. Ives (Mr. Runciman), who, I understand, is the financial authority of the Liberal party. Speaking for myself, I do not accept that view, I do not agree with that theory, but both parties opposite accept that theory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.970.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.970.4", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman the Member for St. Ives (Mr. Runciman), who, I understand, is the financial authority of the Liberal party. Speaking for myself, I do not accept that view, I do not agree with that theory, but both parties opposite accept that theory. [ Interruption .] Well, does the late Chancellor of the Exchequer speak for the Conservative party when he addresses the House on questions of finance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.970.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.970.4", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "o not accept that view, I do not agree with that theory, but both parties opposite accept that theory. [ Interruption .] Well, does the late Chancellor of the Exchequer speak for the Conservative party when he addresses the House on questions of finance? [HON. MEMBEBS: \"No!\"] He does not! Does the right hon. Gentleman the Member for St. Ives speak for the Liberal party when he addresses the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.970.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.997.1", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why blame the last Government? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " gold basis, manufacturing articles on a gold basis, shipping them on a gold basis, selling them in a country on a silver standard with £30 depreciation in every £100 right away. That state of affairs existed not only to-day, but has existed during the past six months without any break. Therefore, I am entitled to ask, in what way the Government are responsible for that state of affairs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.997.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.998.0", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "There was the General Strike.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "hout any break. Therefore, I am entitled to ask, in what way the Government are responsible for that state of affairs? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why blame the last Government? \"] I did not hold the last Government responsible. I held the last Government responsible for taking no steps to remedy the position. Incidentally, the last Government did not have that sharp drop in commodities that I have mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.997.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about coal? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "s to meet the situation so far as it lies under our control? I submit that the effects I have dealt with so far are such as time alone can heal. No action of any Government can deal with the abnormal situation of the over-production of the raw commodities I have mentioned. Any Government which attempted to deal with it artificially would make a profound mistake and probably do more harm than good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.1001.4", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ds and bridges and other relief works, yet no one can suggest that it gave any permanent contribution to the unemployed problem. I have applied myself therefore to seeing if we can provide temporary employment on the lines I have indicated pending a fuller investigation and a practical attempt to find a further remedy. In spite of those figures, I am not one who at this moment is going to despair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.1001.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.1003.1", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Name!", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "Does not this firm include all the leading lights of Liberalism in the City?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.1003.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.1005.0", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I have refused to do is merely to make a spectacular effort on the assumption that spending money will cure the evil. I do not believe that it will and I do not intend to do it. What I do know is that there are a number of industries in this country and they must be treated in different ways. Some have too much capital and it has to be wiped out. Some are in need of capital and it has to be found.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.1005.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OLDFIELD", "preceding_text": "e would let it go through. That is why I am surprised to see this opposition from the Port of London on Second Reading. There seems to be an unholy alliance between the Port of London Authority—the ship-owning interest—and the steel trade. It seems to me that the chief point about dragging this red her ring of a bridge across the track is merely to frustrate the Bill altogether —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.1016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.1016.3", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OLDFIELD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OLDFIELD", "preceding_text": "The only practical result in the near future of accepting the Amendment which has been moved, will be to defer it for an indefinite number of years. The tunnel scheme has had a great deal of consideration and years of work put into it, and we should have to begin all over again if we started on the bridge scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.1016.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "Certainly; if it is argued that these ships are coming along, the Committee are entitled to be satisfied that such ships on the whole will be economic ships—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.1062.0", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN BAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN BAKER", "preceding_text": "lution in the construction of ships for one thing—in size, carrying capacity and methods of propulsion. If we are going to reason on past experience, we surely must be compelled to come to the conclusion that that improvement will continue in the future. If the dropping of bombs is going to wreck a bridge, what will it do to a tunnel? It is just as easy to find this tunnel with a bomb—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.1062.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.1072.0", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You did nothing!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "o ask whether in all these schemes the right hon. Gentleman cannot suggest something for these women? I admire the Lord Privy Seal for all he is trying to do in a most difficult situation, but I remember when the Government party were in opposition for four and a half years, we heard all about pledges and we never had any help from the Opposition. The late Prime Minister appealed for co-operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.1072.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.1072.0", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "d I suggest that it would be better and more honest for them to go to the country and tell the people that the Socialism which they preached at previous Elections will not work, but that rationalisation will work. There are no more disillusioned people in this country than some of the hon. Gentlemen opposite who really believed that when a Labour Government came into power something would be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.1072.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-10", "file": "debates1930-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b6c0851f98774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.1072.0", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " in this country than some of the hon. Gentlemen opposite who really believed that when a Labour Government came into power something would be done. [ Interruption .] Hon. Members say they have no power but they have more power than they use, and if they would bring in some real scheme anybody on this side would help them; if they did not get the Liberals they would get the Tories to support them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-10a.1072.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-03-11", "file": "debates1930-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a84f595a2353e4cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1076.14", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Accept it if he does!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "So far as I know, no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1076.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-11", "file": "debates1930-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a84f595a2353e4cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1094.1", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "May I ask when the President of the Board of Trade will be able to look into this matter seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1094.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-03-11", "file": "debates1930-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a84f595a2353e4cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1095.8", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANNEL TUNNEL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OLDFIELD", "preceding_text": "After what we heard last night about the development in the draught of ships, I hone that my right hon. Friend will not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1095.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-11", "file": "debates1930-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a84f595a2353e4cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1097.5", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman going to inform the House of the very important decision that was arrived at yesterday, when the British scheme was superseded, and the French proposals were adopted and how the British delegates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1097.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-03-11", "file": "debates1930-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a84f595a2353e4cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1098.2", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "May I ask how much more of this kind of thing we have to stand from those gentlemen opposite?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-11", "file": "debates1930-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a84f595a2353e4cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1100.4", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Major MCKENZIE WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lock-out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major MCKENZIE WOOD", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind that during the last coal strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1100.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-11", "file": "debates1930-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a84f595a2353e4cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1204.2", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "ariffs, because that readiness on our part will enable us to enter into fiscal arrangements with other countries much more advantageous to this country. The Liberal position, of course, is that we ought to go to every international conference in the position of a suppliant in order to negotiate. The Liberal position is that our representatives abroad will be able to convince by sweet reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-11", "file": "debates1930-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a84f595a2353e4cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1204.2", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tariffs!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "nt of the Board Trade is able to go to Geneva and, if he finds it impossible to come to any understanding with the other coal-producing countries of Europe, I say, without the slightest hesitation, that it ought to be in the power of this country to protect its own people by taking punitive measures against the other countries unless we can come to an agreement. Is there anything wrong about that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-11", "file": "debates1930-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a84f595a2353e4cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1206.1", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At the expense of the consumer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "o answer for them, and I do not propose to try to do it. I would ask hon. Members to realise that all that we are proposing now is decide the powers which are to be conferred upon the owners to make schemes, which will have to be sanctioned. The coalowners will be charged with the responsibility of meeting the National Council and coming to an agreement to impose a levy upon the various districts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-11", "file": "debates1930-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a84f595a2353e4cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1207.1", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "tell us that powers which have assisted the German steel masters in meeting successfully our competition, is going to ruin our own steel works. I submit that in this discussion we have not had a, proper examination of the possible uses to which these powers might be put. From the Liberal benches we are having simply an attack upon these powers because they offend some ancient Free Trade principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1207.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-03-11", "file": "debates1930-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a84f595a2353e4cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1211.0", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What about dumped German wheat?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " The hon. Member in his second argument contemplated with a very light heart the possibility of this country engaging in what should be in the nature of a tariff war against competing coal-producing countries on the Continent. War is war, and if we take measures of that sort against this trade, do you think that they will not tax our dumped coal when it is avowedly subsidised by Act of Parliament?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-11", "file": "debates1930-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a84f595a2353e4cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1214.1", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STRACHEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STRACHEY", "preceding_text": "remove the objections which may be made to it. There are many differences between voluntary and compulsory schemes, and I am strongly in favour of the latter. The main argument which was put forward by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Darwen (Sir H. Samuel), as I understood it, was that by the proposals of this Clause we were leading the country into what has been described as a tariff war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-11", "file": "debates1930-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a84f595a2353e4cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1230.0", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "I regret that the hon. Member for Rochdale (Mr. Kelly) has so little intelligence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-11", "file": "debates1930-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a84f595a2353e4cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1231.4", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "\"provisions\" itself. Does that apply to provisions in connection with all the dealings of the coal trade—the selling and buying and export of coal, and all the other matters connected with the trade. We are entitled to information on these points at this particularly difficult moment when I find that I am addressing myself to a Subsection of the Bill which I have not had time to go into yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1231.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-11", "file": "debates1930-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a84f595a2353e4cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1233.0", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": "I do not know what that has to do with the Amendment before us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-11", "file": "debates1930-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a84f595a2353e4cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1261.0", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shall!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "he were asked to lay down absolutely hard and fast rules to which every scheme has to comply, and that a mathematical formula were set out. I should understand that that would not be possible, but let us look at the words. The Amendment does not say that every scheme must conform to a hard and fast rule. What it says is that in determining the standard tonnage of any mine regard shall be had, etc.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-11", "file": "debates1930-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a84f595a2353e4cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1285.1", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ota at an undue disadvantage in respect of the cost of production as compared with a company owning several colliery undertakings. Any owner who is dissatisfied with the decision of an executive board in regard to this proviso may appeal to the Judicial Commissioners whose decision shall be final and binding on the executive board. At this late hour I only propose to explain the Amendment briefly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-11", "file": "debates1930-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a84f595a2353e4cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1285.1", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "company owning several colliery undertakings. Any owner who is dissatisfied with the decision of an executive board in regard to this proviso may appeal to the Judicial Commissioners whose decision shall be final and binding on the executive board. At this late hour I only propose to explain the Amendment briefly. [ Interruption .] If hon. Members opposite desire to stay here, I am prepared—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-11a.1285.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-12", "file": "debates1930-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "d6a94b2223c6555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-12a.1321.0", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OLDFIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OLDFIELD", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister at the same time take into consideration the fact that there are other trains besides the 1.3 going to other stations as well as Brentwood?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-12a.1321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-12", "file": "debates1930-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "d6a94b2223c6555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-12a.1326.4", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL PARKS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir FREDERICK HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir FREDERICK HALL", "preceding_text": "Considering the additional facilities which have been granted for boating, bathing, juvenile paddling, etc., will the right hon. Gentleman consider the advisability of appointing an expert officer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-12a.1326.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-12", "file": "debates1930-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "d6a94b2223c6555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-12a.1426.1", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "An important point is involved. As an old Member of the House I am always anxious to stick up for the rights of the House, but I must point out, with great respect, that in my submission I am perfectly entitled to raise a question of policy, and I am perfectly entitled to refer to the attitude of Members of the Government in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-12a.1426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-12", "file": "debates1930-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "d6a94b2223c6555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-12a.1426.5", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ing your Ruling, but I was trying to get your Ruling quite clear. In the course of your Ruling you made some reference to the Opposition, and I submit that you ruled very clearly that I am entitled to discuss policy, and that is the only point with which I am concerned. All I said was that had you ruled that that was not so I should have to consult higher authority. Your Ruling is perfectly clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-12a.1426.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-12", "file": "debates1930-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "d6a94b2223c6555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-12a.1427.3", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "That is so. If I may be permitted to say so, there is really nothing between myself and the Chair. I only wanted to be quite clear that this question of policy could be discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-12a.1427.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1490.2", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General BROWN", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister look into this matter?—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] I ask the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1490.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1490.2", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General BROWN", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister look into this matter?—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] I ask the right hon. Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"]—if he will look into this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1490.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1490.4", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General BROWN", "preceding_text": "May I ask if this may be investigated by the Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1490.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1490.4", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General BROWN", "preceding_text": "May I ask if this may be investigated by the Minister? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] If he finds that I am wrong, I will willingly apologise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1490.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1491.4", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I really hope that the right hon. Gentleman will not make a personal matter of this, as there is obviously some misunderstanding. He believes that he has consulted authorised spokesmen of the Association. The secretary of the Association says that they have not been consulted. Is there any objection to his supplying the names of the people whom he consulted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1491.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1565.1", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "preceding_text": "cences, cartels and bulk purchases; you can discuss tariffs on a business-like basis, and discard them or adopt them on that basis alone. There is one other argument which was advanced by the right hon. Gentleman. I thought he would have to introduce it in the course of his speech. It is the idea that tariffs will lead to an overwhelming amount of lobbying and logrolling, corruption, and the like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1587.3", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "site things at different times, and there are many precedents for that, from the days of Peel, and Gladstone, and Disraeli, right down to the right hon. Gentleman, but I think the right hon. Gentleman is the only one known to our history who advocates opposite principles at the same time. He proclaims Free Trade, and would promote Protection. He opposes food taxes and is also ready to accept them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1587.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1587.3", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cobden!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "g, but we are poor and weak, and therefore we must have Protection against you.\" And he said that the same conditions applied to-day. Why are we rich and strong, and why are they poor and weak, if we have such a bad fiscal system and they have such a good one? Let us judge this matter in the light of actual experience. That is the test, and not the theories or the doctrines of 50 or 100 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1587.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1596.1", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about agriculture then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "profess to advocate. If there is to be no good purpose served by interfering with the duties, why interfere? Is it by any chance the fact that the continuance of the duties is perpetually demonstrating the falsity of Free Trade doctrines? What has been our experience of the duties? We were told that they would raise prices. Have they raised prices? There is no one who can bring any evidence of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1603.3", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was the Coalition Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": " it was laid down that we ought to take every step possible in the future to make the British Empire independent of all the rest of the world in the matter of food and raw materials and essential industries? How-is that to be done? What is the plan of his leader in this matter? It went on to say this should be done by giving specially favourable treatment and facilities to each part of the Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1603.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1603.3", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "the British Empire independent of all the rest of the world in the matter of food and raw materials and essential industries? How-is that to be done? What is the plan of his leader in this matter? It went on to say this should be done by giving specially favourable treatment and facilities to each part of the Empire. [An HON. MEMBER: \"That was the Coalition Government.\"] No, it was during the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1603.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1605.0", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "No, I do not run away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1605.0", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "No, I do not run away. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"] The question will arise in due course. You might as well ask me whether I am in favour of parting with a pound without telling me what I am to get for it. Being a Scotsman I am not going to say till I see the counterpart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1608.3", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "istress in the coal-mining industry and had something to do with the General Strike which occurred in 1926. The fact of the matter is this. The Government inherited from the late Chancellor of the Exchequer an empty till, a pile of bills and, far from helping us to clear up the mess which they left and to arrest the unemployment figures they have done nothing but hamper and obstruct in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1608.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1608.3", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " Vote of Censure is the most futile that I have ever heard. It is wasting a great deal of useful Parliamentary time. It is not serious. It is not a serious attempt to turn out the Government. It is simply moved in order to satisfy the pique of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer because my right hon. Friend had the better of him at Question Time a few days ago and made him look extremely foolish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1608.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1608.3", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "eresting historical lecture and tried to get some of us to agree with his extraordinary policy of Protection. The voice was the voice of Jacob, but the hand was the hand of Esau, and Esau is the atavistic Member for Epping Forest. It is the most incompetent Motion ever placed on the Order Paper, and most unfitted to achieve its object. The hon. Member for Cumberland (Mr. Dixey) could not do worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1608.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1608.3", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "and raw materials, without which you cannot have Protection. I am sorry that the right hon. Member for Epping is not present. I notice that he was in a more friendly atmosphere a few days ago, in front of the younger and less experienced audience of the Oxford Union. He carried his Motion in that home of lost causes. The last time I spoke there we carried the Motion, somewhat to my surprise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1608.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1609.2", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "se the key and open the door. My hon. Friend asks what is the key. I will tell him. At the present moment the greatest need of this country is to rationalise the time of the House of Commons and our method of procedure in order to avoid the waste of Parliamentary time, and the waste of a whole day like this on a useless and ill-considered motion of censure. That is one of the things we want to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1609.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1609.2", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "n. Friend asks: what is the key? I will put the matter in a sentence. You have this extraordinary situation. You can go to Leicester and see a queue of men lining up with worn-out old boots. They are unemployed bootmakers. If you go to the villages you will see agricultural labourers lounging about. They are unemployed; and they will go hungry to bed at night because they will have nothing to eat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1609.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1609.2", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "s you will see agricultural labourers lounging about. They are unemployed; and they will go hungry to bed at night because they will have nothing to eat. [ Interruption .] Yes, that is what they will do. Their children will go to bed hungry because they have no work to do, and yet a few minutes omnibus ride from my own constituency you will find idle and out of cultivation large stretches of land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1609.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1613.0", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "preceding_text": "ve party. I am puzzled because I see no ground for complaint on their part. To what extent does the policy of the present Government in regard to this matter differ from the policy of their own Government? If there is no difference, why this attempt at a Vote of Censure which I feel sure must fail? Has the Lord Privy Seal put forward any particular ideals or policies in contradistinction to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1614.5", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "preceding_text": "er either of these systems, we have the appalling amount of poverty which is the lot of most people who work hard by hand or brain to produce the whole of the wealth of this country? Both under Free Trade and a tariff system we find poverty among only one section of the community. We do not find poverty among the middle classes or among the upper classes. We find it only among the working classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1614.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1615.0", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the millions of unemployed in America?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": " Members opposite agree with that statement. The difference is that we saved those industries, and we were successful in assisting them, while the party opposite are apparently prepared to open the floodgates of foreign competition, and let in any kind of goods whether they are produced under sweated conditions or not or whether they are produced against the whole spirit of trade union conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1615.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1615.0", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Smaller!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "n, and let in any kind of goods whether they are produced under sweated conditions or not or whether they are produced against the whole spirit of trade union conditions. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the millions of unemployed in America?\"] The hon. Member will realise that that is a temporary state of unemployment, and it is a greater proportion of the population than is the case in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1615.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1618.3", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "his important matter. So far as I can gather, every important body of employers in this country has declared that it would be most unfortunate—many of them described it as disastrous—if these duties were removed, and the right hon. Gentleman has not only treated the employers with contumely, but he has treated also the trade unionists and the trade unions concerned with utter contempt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1618.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1620.5", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "become converted to Safeguarding. I know something about this matter, because, when I was chairman of the Tariff Reform League, and was asked who were the men who ought to be followed around because of their damaging Free Trade speeches, I was given five great names in this country, and the owners of those names have all become completely converted to the policy which I am supporting this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1620.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1620.5", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": " cross the Floor of the House if necessary? Since the names have been asked for, they were as follows: Sir Alfred Mond—a fairly able man, pace the hon. Gentleman opposite; Mr. Hamar Greenwood; Colonel John Ward; Mr. McKenna; and the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill). In my time they were always regarded as the most effective platform speakers in the Free Trade Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1620.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1620.5", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "f a Chemnitz firm who were going to build a silk factory in this country at a cost of £50,000. Another firm was going to spend £100,000, and yet another was going to spend from £200,000 to £250,000, and had already given orders for the steel work. All those orders were cancelled the moment the present Government were returned and the right hon. Gentleman made his famous speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1620.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1623.1", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "resent in negotiating for establishing a factory in Cologne, to supply the demands of such of our customers to whom the comparative cheapness of goods made under German conditions appeals, and to fight the German manufacturer in his own market behind his tariff walls. It is the only line of defence left to us as the possessors of a valuable goodwill which has been undermined by unfair competition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1626.0", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NOEL BAKER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NOEL BAKER", "preceding_text": "st Election 70 per cent. of the citizens of Coventry who cast their votes, voted against the maintenance of these duties. I know that in the first Debate on this subject which took place in July last, it was said by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Hendon (Sir P. Cunliffe-Lister) that they cast their votes because they were in doubt as to what we meant on our side in regard to these duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1626.0", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NOEL BAKER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NOEL BAKER", "preceding_text": "ncy of a very serious kind. Our manufacturers are shutting their eyes to the greatest economic opportunity that has ever been before any engineers in this country in modern times. They have the most astonishing market opening before their eyes. Take the home market—the working man is just beginning to buy his small car, and if only they could get their industry into a proper condition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1626.0", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NOEL BAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NOEL BAKER", "preceding_text": "Advisory Council with all their figures, their accounts, and all the information that they can provide. I hope the Government will accept that offer, and I hope the Government in this inquiry will use their influence to press upon the manufacturers the policy of amalgamation. Only amalgamation can save this industry. I said this to a motor manufacturer the other day and he entirely agreed with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1632.0", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How good of you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "e, down to the increased figures of unemployment in particular trades or in the cotton trade—I have no doubt that he would have attributed them all to us, and would have made every party score that he could, placing the blame for most of them on to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Although he would have done that, I freely exclude and exculpate his Government from the blame for these events.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1632.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1632.0", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Try again!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "e some of the things that the right hon. Gentleman said. Speaking in the country he said: I warn these wealthy city men that a Labour Government will increase their taxation. Speaking again on 18th May, during the election, he said: I am not going to say that if a Labour Government comes in there will be no increase of taxation. Taxation of certain people will be increased. I want a cheer, please.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1632.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1641.0", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "What about food taxes?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " address himself to his duties. Instead he comes down here, when we have 1,500,000 unemployed, a number which is probably going to be increased, and talks to us in a mocking way about jews' harps, pop-guns and mechanical donkeys, in a spirit which I can only characterise as worthy of a mechanical donkey. I have little more to say, and I am going to address myself to the question of Budget secrecy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1641.1", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "eman wants to come down here on 14th April. He knows perfectly well tonight whether he is going to repeal those Duties or not. I cannot hazard what he will do. If he does not repeal them what will be his position? Just in order that he might come down here and have all these trades, in which I am told 500,000 people are employed, sitting around in the galleries on every side waiting to hear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1641.1", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " have thought that the days had gone by when the personal pomp and circumstance of an individual, the personal vanity of an individual, could outweigh broad matters of interest. We all know the saying: And wretches hang that Chancellors may shine. We all know how Napoleon before the Battle of Leipzig said, \"Do you think I am a man who cares a snap of the fingers for the lives of 100,000 soldiers?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1644.0", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Wedgwood Benn)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about your change?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Wedgwood Benn)", "preceding_text": " was to hear how the right hon. Gentleman was going to defend the ramshackle Resolution which has been put on the Paper on behalf of the Opposition. I think those who have listened have been greatly disappointed. I do not say that those who expected a brilliant and amusing oration have been disappointed, but those who looked for some sort of defence for the change of attitude have gone away empty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1644.0", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Wedgwood Benn)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Wedgwood Benn)", "preceding_text": " but I will not propose taxes on food.\" I am the leader of a party, and what I say goes! The curtain is dropped and somewhere in the wings there is an interview between the right hon. Gentleman and a crusader. The curtain rises again at the Hotel Cecil, and the party policy has become a free use of safeguarding—that is, Protection; I will give you that in a moment—and food taxes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1644.0", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Wedgwood Benn)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Wedgwood Benn)", "preceding_text": " enthusiasms evoked by Lord Beaverbrook's campaign to be directed to the goal.\" Now, what is the goal? The keystone of the policy, says the crusader, is the taxation of foreign foodstuffs. The policy of the Conservative party to-day on this question is: one, safeguarding, the free safeguarding—that is, the general Protection—of manufactures; second, the taxation of raw materials—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1644.0", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Wedgwood Benn)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Wedgwood Benn)", "preceding_text": " declaration of our intentions and with causing uncertainty in fiscal matters and yet they cannot answer a simple question. On the question of new Safeguarding we all agree that it must give an exception in the Imperial interests. It has been suggested that a new tariff should be imposed on manufactured articles giving a preference to Dominion products. Is that the policy of hon. Members opposite?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1644.0", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Wedgwood Benn)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Wedgwood Benn)", "preceding_text": "reference to Dominion products. Is that the policy of hon. Members opposite? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait and see!\"] Do you propose to impose a new tariff on Dominion products albeit one-third less than the new tariff on foreign products? That is a new scheme for improving the trade of the Dominions. Take the second proposition which proposes to tax raw material including American cotton. Is that right?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1644.0", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Wedgwood Benn)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Foreign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Wedgwood Benn)", "preceding_text": "mplete taciturnity. Of course, we should tax cotton. Lord Beaverbrook has said so on or about the 12th of December. Are you going to tax steel? You would tax steel if the hon. Member for Penrith (Mr. Dixey) had his way, but the others do not know, and this is a united party. Are you going to tax wool? Lord Beaverbrook has announced that you are going to tax raw material. Are you going to tax food?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1647.1", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is that so in France? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "heme which is outlined in this Resolution to-night? It speaks of Safeguarding and Imperial Preference. It is an Imperial policy; it is an Empire crusade and it is a cure for unemployment. If you shut out imports, you prevent exports. You cannot explain, and no one has answered the Chancellor's question this afternoon, as to why in countries with high tariffs there are millions of people unemployed", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1647.1", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "id the British Empire become an English-speaking British Empire? Are 300,000,000 people in Asia, 50,000,000 people in Africa, and 8,000,000 in Oceania, to be told, \"You are tied to a British commercial system. Your markets must be within the British Empire. You must buy from the British manufacturer. Any ring, any trust, any combination can force you to pay more for the goods that you need\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1647.1", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "e tied to a British commercial system. Your markets must be within the British Empire. You must buy from the British manufacturer. Any ring, any trust, any combination can force you to pay more for the goods that you need\"—[ Interruption .] They are to be told, \"You are to be made the victims of a tariff system which simply means the exploitation by capital of the interests of the consumer.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1647.1", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman for Sevenoaks (Sir H. Young) laughs, but is it not a fact that in no mandated territory could you have fiscal arrangements which give a preference to this country? Are you therefore to say that our standard of Imperialism, or what you will, is going to be lower than the Geneva standard? Under the leadership of this crusader, are we to degrade ourselves so that instead of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1647.1", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "? Every mouthful of food which the people eat—and it is little enough—would be embittered by the duty. You go to the people and say, \"Eat less and expand the Empire! Bind the Empire together by tightening your own belts.\" Any such cry or policy of that kind—and it is the policy—as far as strengthening the Empire is concerned, is a sure precursor of its ruin and dissolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1647.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-03-13", "file": "debates1930-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c7290e467d0e75e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1649.0", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (INDUSTRIAL AND FISCAL POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why do not you reply to the Vote of Censure?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "s little enough—would be embittered by the duty. You go to the people and say, \"Eat less and expand the Empire! Bind the Empire together by tightening your own belts.\" Any such cry or policy of that kind—and it is the policy—as far as strengthening the Empire is concerned, is a sure precursor of its ruin and dissolution. [ Interruption .] I have only a little time at my disposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-13a.1647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-14", "file": "debates1930-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "36f05ea3a22e917b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-14a.1670.2", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "PROTECTION OF ANIMALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "rested in that particular form of sport, namely, hunting the wild deer. While I do not say that great improvements ought not to be and could not be made in the mode of killing deer, I think that stopping hunting altogether would be wrong, because it would involve gross interference with the liberty of the subject. This Bill goes about as far as you can go without interfering with legitimate sport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-14a.1670.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-17", "file": "debates1930-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "db0fe1e4eb63467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1680.0", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member must not put questions to me day by day on these delicate matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-17", "file": "debates1930-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "db0fe1e4eb63467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1737.1", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "thout grave sacrifice of economy, to interfere at this stage with its progress. A final decision on the future of the development of the Base will be sought as soon as possible after the Naval Conference, but it will not be taken until after consultation with the overseas Governments affected. I have observed in the Press in the last few days constant references to the size of the Admiralty staff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-17", "file": "debates1930-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "db0fe1e4eb63467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1745.3", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "ple provision for this work to be consolidated and extended. It is very pleasant to record the keenness and skill with which naval and Royal Marine officers have carried out their duties in this branch of the service, and I was immensely impressed last fall, when I visited the Fleet for the autumn exercises, to see especially this branch of the work, and how splendidly these officers were working.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1745.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-17", "file": "debates1930-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "db0fe1e4eb63467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1756.0", "colnum": "1756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At what rate are others building?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "g whatever in these debates about the naval strength of the United States. I rather want to know what is the strength up to which we are building to-day? My mind goes back to the time when we used to build on a two-Power standard. That was against France and Russia. Then came the German menace, and we had to build two keels to one. What enemy are we building against to-day? That is the real point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1756.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-17", "file": "debates1930-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "db0fe1e4eb63467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1758.1", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What do you mean by the Admiralty staff?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "ry against invasion. I do not intend to say more on the subject, because the Naval Conference is sitting, and I hope it will be a success. The right hon. Gentleman mentioned the Admiralty staff. I will give a few figures. I cannot understand why the Admiralty should require so large a staff to-day. In pre-War days, when there were 146,000 men and boys on Vote A, the Admiralty staff numbered 2,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-17", "file": "debates1930-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "db0fe1e4eb63467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1759.0", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "to get the French Prime Minister at Chequers and say, \"You must not ask for the right to build more ships, you must reduce your fleet,\" to make similar demands on the Italians, when the papers are full of most beautiful pictures of these wonderful examples of the naval architect's art practising battle manoeuvres in the Mediterranean. I said that I was going to say some rather disagreeable things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1759.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-17", "file": "debates1930-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "db0fe1e4eb63467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1764.3", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "e done? I make the following proposal. We should acknowledge the failure of the Conference; we should part friends and say \"Gentlemen, we cannot agree with you.\" The British Fleet at present is stronger than any other. No fleet can possibly catch us for five years, even if we stop building altogether, even if the Americans and the Japanese and the others use the utmost of their building resources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1764.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-17", "file": "debates1930-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "db0fe1e4eb63467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1768.1", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "e this very question. They were not allowed to discuss it. We might have known, from the debates in the French Chamber that they were going to raise the question of the need of navies and guarantees. They are no more to blame than any of the others concerned. The Italians have played up very well; the Fascist Government has shown itself more willing to reduce armaments than the British Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-17", "file": "debates1930-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "db0fe1e4eb63467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1768.1", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "to blame than any of the others concerned. The Italians have played up very well; the Fascist Government has shown itself more willing to reduce armaments than the British Government. [ Interruption .] There is the Italian Memorandum to the Naval Conference. The Italians proposed to do away with submarines, and they were prepared to reduce to the lowest possible ratio provided others did the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-17", "file": "debates1930-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "db0fe1e4eb63467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1844.0", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"City.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSES", "preceding_text": "out the very excellent meeting, upon which we are all prepared to congratulate the Government, between the maritime Powers of the world. I disagree somewhat with the statement made earlier in the day that the expression that the Navy is not a superfluity to us should not come from a Labour Minister; the Navy is us, and I quite agree with these sentiments as coming from a part of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-17", "file": "debates1930-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "db0fe1e4eb63467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1844.0", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSES", "preceding_text": "been said concerning the different branches of the Service and I want to ask whether grievances are going to be redressed. A hundred years ago, when steam was first introduced, the First Lord of the Admiralty at that time said that he was bound to discourage the introduction of steam vessels into the Service because it would strike a fatal blow at the supremacy of the Empire. The Noble Lord—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-17", "file": "debates1930-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "db0fe1e4eb63467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1869.0", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Trade unionism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "preceding_text": "that when they want medical men they are in competition with the great civil medical services of the country, both national and municipal. The suggestion which I would make for what it may be worth is this: Would it not be possible to give to men who have served in one or other of the services for five years a preferential claim on all medical appointments under the Crown or in the municipalities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-17", "file": "debates1930-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "db0fe1e4eb63467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1869.0", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "preceding_text": "he man who has served his country for five years should have a preferential claim. By offering an inducement like that you would get these young men into the Service. Unless you have an efficient medical service, you are not going to get a healthy Navy, and if you do not get a healthy Navy, you will have an inefficient Navy, and, as you remember in the War, it was the medical men who won that War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-17a.1869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-18", "file": "debates1930-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "7accba1015ccfa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-18a.1958.1", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral SUETER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral SUETER", "preceding_text": "allant Member for Lewes (Rear-Admiral Beamish) made a very interesting speech yesterday, and questioned the statement in the White Paper that the value of battleships is problematical. I hope I shall not be ruled out of order for that statement, because it has some bearing on this question. The reason why the value of battleships is problematical is that the air arm has knocked out the battleship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-18a.1958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-18", "file": "debates1930-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "7accba1015ccfa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-18a.1958.1", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral SUETER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral SUETER", "preceding_text": "01. He scrapped the whole of the Zeppelin design and started on a new design off his own bat. He was given this work to do by the State and he has carried it out wonderfully well. His ship has flown. She has turned out to be a little too heavy, but when we first introduced submarines we could not get our weights down, and when we built the Mayfly, the first rigid, we could not get her weight down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-18a.1958.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-03-18", "file": "debates1930-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "7accba1015ccfa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-18a.1978.3", "colnum": "1978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Your late party!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I beg the hon. and gallant Gentleman's pardon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-18a.1978.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-18", "file": "debates1930-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "7accba1015ccfa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-18a.2024.0", "colnum": "2024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. OLIVER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That has been answered.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. OLIVER", "preceding_text": "I directed a question to the Under-Secretary in his absence, respecting Atlantic Airways, Limited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-18a.2024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-18", "file": "debates1930-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "7accba1015ccfa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-18a.2029.6", "colnum": "2029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": " col. 1607, Vol. 214.] My Amendment at least leaves the Under-Secretary 2,000 men with which to clear up the debris, but the hon. Member, when he was dealing with the right hon. Baronet opposite, was not so merciful, he wanted total abolition. If I may say so, the Under-Secretary of State scored one white mark in his record when on that occasion he went into the Lobby in support of that Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-18a.2029.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-18", "file": "debates1930-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "7accba1015ccfa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-18a.2038.3", "colnum": "2038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "same position as the present Under-Secretary, who has been doing laborious duty in the House to-night, was on that occasion highly complimented from the Opposition Bench on the fact that, representing the Labour Government, he was pursuing the very same policy which the Tory Government had previously pursued, and to-night history repeats itself. It may be advisable to stick to office like a leech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-18a.2038.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-18", "file": "debates1930-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "7accba1015ccfa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-18a.2046.5", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "preceding_text": "I am not going to apologise for not being able to follow the changes in the policy of the Independent Labour party, but I understand the position of that party at the present time is to vote against all war credit\" as a manifesto and not as a serious objective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-18a.2046.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-18", "file": "debates1930-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "7accba1015ccfa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-18a.2047.0", "colnum": "2047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONS", "preceding_text": "I rise to support the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-18a.2047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-18", "file": "debates1930-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "7accba1015ccfa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-18a.2050.1", "colnum": "2050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONS", "preceding_text": "Did not the hon. Gentleman say one of the best means would be to make it clearly understood by agreement that we should go over to the other country and bomb the other capital and people if—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-18a.2050.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-03-20", "file": "debates1930-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "915e4b42a890c438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2075.8", "colnum": "2075", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CINEMATOGEAPH FILMS (CENSORSHIP).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Another Committee!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman consider the appointment of a Select Committee to go into the whole working of the censorship?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2075.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-20", "file": "debates1930-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "915e4b42a890c438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2178.4", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ed about a good deal in spite of the very kindly efforts made by you, Mr. Young, to keep him to his objective. I have only risen to state in a very few words that, in so far as the party with which I am associated here is concerned, we do not propose in the course of the Committee proceedings, which I believe are coming to an end to-day, to take any further part in moving or supporting Amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2178.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-20", "file": "debates1930-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "915e4b42a890c438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2178.4", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "risen to state in a very few words that, in so far as the party with which I am associated here is concerned, we do not propose in the course of the Committee proceedings, which I believe are coming to an end to-day, to take any further part in moving or supporting Amendments. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] The reason has already been given in the Press. I cannot allude here to the Naval Conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2178.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-20", "file": "debates1930-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "915e4b42a890c438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2178.4", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ally affect the fate of the Naval Conference than a speech delivered from those benches? The reason is that, as I understand it, the fate of the Conference is hanging in the balance. It is a matter of life and death, and there is no doubt at all that any action on our part which would weaken the Government at this particular moment might have a very damaging effect upon the fate of the Conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2178.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-20", "file": "debates1930-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "915e4b42a890c438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2178.4", "colnum": "2178", "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": ". We are responsible to our constituencies, and we are quite prepared to face our constituents when it is necessary, and we will take no orders from hon. Gentlemen above the Gangway. We have not been returned here to consider what is best for their political advantage, and we do not propose to do so. We shall consider what is best in the interests of the party which we are here to represent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2178.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-20", "file": "debates1930-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "915e4b42a890c438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2178.4", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "not been returned here to consider what is best for their political advantage, and we do not propose to do so. We shall consider what is best in the interests of the party which we are here to represent—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"]—and, naturally, we would not belong to this party, if we did not consider that what is best in its interests, is also best in the interests of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2178.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-20", "file": "debates1930-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "915e4b42a890c438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2178.4", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "me deliberately to the conclusion which I have stated. When the Report stage is reached we shall consider what Amendments it will be necessary for us to put down in order to improve the Bill, or minimise its evils. There were two or three points made by the hon. Gentleman the Member for Leominster (Sir E. Shepperson) which showed how thoroughly he misapprehends the attitude which we have taken up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2178.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-20", "file": "debates1930-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "915e4b42a890c438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2181.0", "colnum": "2181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: The owners!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George), and the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Darwen (Sir H. Samuel). We all remember the speech delivered by the right hon. Gentleman on the Second Reading. He hit hard but he never hit harder than when he was attacking this particular provision. What did he say? He said: The prices which are to be fixed, who are going to fix them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-20", "file": "debates1930-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "915e4b42a890c438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2183.3", "colnum": "2183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "I will tell the right hon. Gentleman what is the difference between our two unions. We are united in supporting a policy in which we believe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-20", "file": "debates1930-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "915e4b42a890c438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2184.4", "colnum": "2184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fuel Oil!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ces are being fixed in the dark by an association of coalowners, with no directions as to how they are to fix them, you cannot possibly apply any simple test of that kind. Moreover, the case of coal is more serious than that of almost any other commodity, because there is no external competition in the home market. Industry and householders alike have no alternative sources of supply open to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2184.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-20", "file": "debates1930-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "915e4b42a890c438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2184.4", "colnum": "2184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ers, with no directions as to how they are to fix them, you cannot possibly apply any simple test of that kind. Moreover, the case of coal is more serious than that of almost any other commodity, because there is no external competition in the home market. Industry and householders alike have no alternative sources of supply open to them. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Fuel Oil!\"] Well, to a very small extent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2184.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-20", "file": "debates1930-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "915e4b42a890c438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2205.2", "colnum": "2205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major DAVIES", "preceding_text": "es in your neighs hour's cucumber field, and don't scratch your head under your neighbour's apple tree. Or, as St. Paul would say, \"Avoid every appearance of evil.\" The right hon. Gentleman has not only failed to avoid the appearance of evil, but he has failed to avoid evil itself in this extremely evil Sub-section. I ask him to consider this shrewd Chinese proverb and to apply it to this Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2205.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-20", "file": "debates1930-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "915e4b42a890c438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2208.1", "colnum": "2208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "I desire to speak from the consumers point of view. The workers in the East End of London want to know why they have to pay 2s. 7d. per cwt. for their coal. They want to know how much the miners get out of that 2s. 7d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-20", "file": "debates1930-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "915e4b42a890c438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2254.0", "colnum": "2254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "It is gratifying to know that hon. and right hon. Members below the Gangway are at the last moment going to support us in the Lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-20", "file": "debates1930-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "915e4b42a890c438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2259.2", "colnum": "2259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "accepted was on Sub-section (4) of Clause 2 and this is Sub-section (4) of Clause 3. In both Clauses the Bill originally laid down that an order was to be laid before the House for negative approval. I maintain that the position is exactly the same. If he considered that that Amendment should be accepted last week, I maintain that he should also show the same spirit of acceptance on this occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-20", "file": "debates1930-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "915e4b42a890c438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2290.6", "colnum": "2290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "In reference to the new Clause which the right hon. Gentleman has moved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-20a.2290.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-21", "file": "debates1930-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "7e322661b0b8cc05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-21a.2322.1", "colnum": "2322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. RENTOUL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. RENTOUL", "preceding_text": "e that in this Bill there are practically speaking no exceptions or exemptions at all. I think that the previous Shops Bill, dealing with hours of closing, included many exceptions to deal with particular cases—for instance, with holiday and sea- side resorts and problems of that kind. Of course, hon. Members say that these questions can be dealt with when the Bill gets into Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-21a.2322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-21", "file": "debates1930-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "7e322661b0b8cc05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-21a.2325.2", "colnum": "2325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. RENTOUL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. RENTOUL", "preceding_text": "ng hour at an earlier period of the day, shopkeepers naturally would not be able to pay their assistants the same rates of wages as they do today for a longer working day. That would only be a reasonable tendency, and I do not think any reasonable shop assistant would suggest that, if he is to work several hours less than at present, he nevertheless ought to receive exactly the same rate of wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-21a.2325.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-21", "file": "debates1930-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "7e322661b0b8cc05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-21a.2330.0", "colnum": "2330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "fully in order to show some of the pitfalls which obviously await any Government or any Department which is going to try to make this Bill in its present form the law of the land. We have heard something to-day about the Washington Convention, was one of those who in the late Parliament always hoped that the Conservative Government would have been able to see [...] eir way to sign that Convention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-21a.2330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-21", "file": "debates1930-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "7e322661b0b8cc05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-21a.2330.0", "colnum": "2330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "With regard to the smaller shops, which always form the subject of attack by the hon. Member for East Middlesbrough, it is obvious that at the present time, when trade is so bad, during a large proportion of the hours when the assistants are in the shop, they may have nothing to do; they may have to rise from their chair only once or twice an hour to discuss with a customer a prospective purchase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-21a.2330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-21", "file": "debates1930-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "7e322661b0b8cc05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-21a.2337.0", "colnum": "2337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "pointed establishment with a thick carpet, with perfectly shaped mats. They are attended to by young shop assistants dressed in whatever fashion the Prince of Wales has lately popularised, and then they think, as they leave that soothing atmosphere in order to come down to the industrial arena of the House of Commons, who would not be a shop assistant? They perhaps go with their wives to buy a hat", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-21a.2337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-21", "file": "debates1930-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "7e322661b0b8cc05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-21a.2337.0", "colnum": "2337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about his errand boy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "t down very considerably, and in most cases wages are very much higher than they were. The hon. Gentleman says that this is not an early closing order, and that it does not touch the one-man business. This Bill is concerned with people who are employed; it does not concern itself with the man who owns his own shop and works in it himself. If he does not employ labour, this Bill will not touch him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-21a.2337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-21", "file": "debates1930-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "7e322661b0b8cc05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-21a.2367.0", "colnum": "2367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOFFMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOFFMAN", "preceding_text": "d from the Bill, and all that we got was a husk, the mere fixing of meal times and of the compulsory half-holiday. What has been happening since? During the War we were able to secure the compulsory closing of shops. Ever since hon. Gentlemen opposite have sought to do away with that compulsory closing legislation. They have said, \"We do not mind restricting the hours of employment of assistants.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-21a.2367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-21", "file": "debates1930-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "7e322661b0b8cc05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-21a.2367.0", "colnum": "2367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOFFMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOFFMAN", "preceding_text": " 9.30 p.m., and there is no restriction in respect of Sunday closing. Without Sunday work the hours may be 70 a week. Take sweet shops, in which only girls are employed. They can be open from 9 a.m. to 9.30 p.m., and many of them open on Sundays. Without Sunday work and without overtime the hours may be 67½ per week. Is it not right and fair that these people who have not organised yet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-21a.2367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-21", "file": "debates1930-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "7e322661b0b8cc05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-21a.2373.0", "colnum": "2373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH-CARINGTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is going down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH-CARINGTON", "preceding_text": "so that they could start the municipal shops which they tell us they would like to see. They have said little about municipal shops to-day. Perhaps they fell that it would prejudice this Bill to run that hare at the same time. It seems to me that at a time like this, when business receipts are going down, when taxation is going up, when unemployment is going up, and the cost of living is going up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-21a.2373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-21", "file": "debates1930-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "7e322661b0b8cc05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-21a.2385.5", "colnum": "2385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "33;s. In fact, the nearer you get to production the poorer you become; and the further you get away from the production of the necessaries of life the better off you are. I do not know whether the time will not come some day when Parliament will be compelled to find out why those who produce the absolute necessities of life cannot get a livelihood while those who distribute them are very well off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-21a.2385.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-21", "file": "debates1930-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "7e322661b0b8cc05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-21a.2387.0", "colnum": "2387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "re working for yourself, but a totally different thing when you are working for another man. When I first brought in my Bill in 1922 under the Ten Minutes Rule, proposing that shop assistants should have an eight-hour day it met with such a storm of indignation from the Early Closing Movement that I was in some difficulty as to whether I should get my Bill through. The hon. Member for Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-21a.2387.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-24", "file": "debates1930-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e190c4a1c85dec00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.13.7", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "May we have an answer to the first part of the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.13.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-24", "file": "debates1930-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e190c4a1c85dec00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.14.7", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OLDFIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OLDFIELD", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.14.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-24", "file": "debates1930-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e190c4a1c85dec00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.20.9", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "Then you are never going to have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.20.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-24", "file": "debates1930-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e190c4a1c85dec00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.38.7", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNUFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNUFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "Arising out of the answer given by the right hon. Gentleman, is he aware that the President of the Board of Trade, in the Debate on the Tariff Truce, stated in this House that His Majesty's present Government ratified that Convention last December, and that it was open to them by reason of the fact that other countries had not signed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.38.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-24", "file": "debates1930-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e190c4a1c85dec00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.77.3", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Mr. T. Shaw)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is sitting on the benches behind you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Mr. T. Shaw)", "preceding_text": "l attention to these figures, as I am afraid somewhat exaggerated opinions are prevalent regarding the number of white troops in India. 4.0 P.m Here I would like to refer to a matter of an entirely different kind, and I do it because India plays a part. On the Order Paper there is a Notice of Motion by the hon. Member for Barnstaple (Sir B. Peto), who I do not see in his usual place at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.77.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-24", "file": "debates1930-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e190c4a1c85dec00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.84.0", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "d otherwise have been lost to the Service. Without them, the intake for the year 1929 would have been only 24,840. The physical condition of those who tender themselves for recruitment is a very serious matter. When one remembers that the boys and young men of to-day are the children of the War years, the remembrance may supply the answer to the problem presented by this apparent physical decline.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.84.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-24", "file": "debates1930-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e190c4a1c85dec00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.84.0", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "ry serious matter. When one remembers that the boys and young men of to-day are the children of the War years, the remembrance may supply the answer to the problem presented by this apparent physical decline. [Interruption.] The War ended 12 years ago; it began 16 years ago. Boys and young men join anywhere from 17 to 20 years of age, so that the children of the War years are now joining the Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.84.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-24", "file": "debates1930-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e190c4a1c85dec00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": " Army of a certain type of recruit, who, in the hands of the Army, becomes a first-class man very frequently. I do not think there is any doubt about that, and the higher you make the unemployment benefit, the more risk there is of that. It may well be that at some time the State will have to consider whether a man is to be treated as unemployed when the State is willing to employ him in the Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.94.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-24", "file": "debates1930-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e190c4a1c85dec00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the City!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "way or another, to be in a position to guarantee to the man who joins the Forces a career afterwards. While he is with us we ought to teach him a trade, if he wants to learn a trade, or he ought to have such secondary and even university education as will fit him for higher positions when he leaves the Army. Why should not the Army be the road of entry to the Civil Service in the clerical classes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.94.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-24", "file": "debates1930-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e190c4a1c85dec00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "It is bigger than I thought. Surely, now is not the time to cut down the source of those whom we require in the Army. These corps have great social value, because they give the lads a chance of marching about to music—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-24", "file": "debates1930-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e190c4a1c85dec00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wave the flag!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "It is bigger than I thought. Surely, now is not the time to cut down the source of those whom we require in the Army. These corps have great social value, because they give the lads a chance of marching about to music— [Interruption]. And a very good thing too; they enjoy it. It does them physical good, and it cannot do them any mental harm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-24", "file": "debates1930-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e190c4a1c85dec00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.106.4", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": " know very well that the interests of those people are sometimes said to be of national importance. I hold myself that, both from the point of view of workmen and employment, and trade interests, the rentier foreign investing class are not only not in harmony with the nation, but they are inimical to the best interests of the nation, and that class is no use to the ordinary workers of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.106.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-24", "file": "debates1930-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e190c4a1c85dec00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.106.4", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "especially among the day boy. whose parents object. At the present moment, over 80 per cent. of the boys in the senior school belong, and as long as we can keep it at this I personally should prefer not to have any compulsory rule. Another says: When a boy enters, he does so on the understanding that he will serve in the Officers Training Corps at the age of 15 unless the is medically unfit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.106.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-24", "file": "debates1930-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e190c4a1c85dec00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.106.4", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "can keep it at this I personally should prefer not to have any compulsory rule. Another says: When a boy enters, he does so on the understanding that he will serve in the Officers Training Corps at the age of 15 unless the is medically unfit— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] The Tory party wants to deny educational facilities to boys unless they are prepared to join the Officers Training Corps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.106.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-24", "file": "debates1930-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e190c4a1c85dec00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.106.4", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Health!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": " Tory party wants to deny educational facilities to boys unless they are prepared to join the Officers Training Corps. [Interruption.] Can anyone on those benches deny, after the cheers that we have heard, that the essential purpose of the Officers Training Corps is a military one? Will anyone put up the humbugging case that it is for educational reasons that the Officers Training Corps is formed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.106.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-24", "file": "debates1930-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e190c4a1c85dec00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member knows quite well that what I am reading are quite genuine replies, of which I have a number here. I have deliberately not put any school down, because I do not want to single out any particular school, but, if the hon. and gallant Member wants to force me, I can tell him a few.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.113.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-24", "file": "debates1930-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e190c4a1c85dec00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "This is an extract from the \"A.M.A.\", which the hon. Member who has just risen will know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-24", "file": "debates1930-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e190c4a1c85dec00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "ining.' For health and educational purposes you drill them, make them form fours, walk up and down, use rifles, dummy or otherwise—all for the sake of developing their bodies and their minds. As a matter of fact, military training, as is now admitted, cuts right across all modern tendencies in education, and cuts right across the fundamental principle of self development and self-initiative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-24", "file": "debates1930-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e190c4a1c85dec00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "lk up and down, use rifles, dummy or otherwise—all for the sake of developing their bodies and their minds. As a matter of fact, military training, as is now admitted, cuts right across all modern tendencies in education, and cuts right across the fundamental principle of self development and self-initiative. [Interruption.] The drill-sergeant is an anachronism in modern educational systems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.114.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-24", "file": "debates1930-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e190c4a1c85dec00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The same as your Government did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "ch includes Enfield and I represent a division, in conjunction with the hon. Member for East Woolwich (Mr. (Snell), which includes Woolwich, and I can say that things are very serious as far as both these divisions are concerned. The action of the Government—and there is no need to minimise it, or apologise for it, or to endeavour to explain it—has caused the greatest possible anxiety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.164.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-24", "file": "debates1930-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e190c4a1c85dec00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.223.1", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "tinued. Many of us were very much alarmed at the evidence given by a Member of this House before a Committee in favour of the abolition of that preference. We say that men who have served in the Armed Forces of the Crown should have a preference wherever possible. I know many hon. Members disagree with that view. They disagree with me, because they dislike every soldier and sailor in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.223.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-24", "file": "debates1930-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e190c4a1c85dec00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONS", "preceding_text": "I do not refer to any individual, but to the officer class as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.226.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-03-24", "file": "debates1930-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "e190c4a1c85dec00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What about the class war?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONS", "preceding_text": "e boys. Having experienced war myself and having fought in a war to end war, I do not intend that my boys shall follow in my footsteps. I want to see any boys live for their country and serve their country but not in armed forces. I am perfectly convinced that if we allow the extension of the Church Lads Brigade and the Cadet Corps we are going to bring up a generation impregnated with militarism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-24a.226.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-03-25", "file": "debates1930-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "a5dbbbf9cb50cd48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-25a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "Since my right hon. Friend's reply indicates a return to the good British tradition of no imprisonment without trial, may I congratulate him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-25a.281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-25", "file": "debates1930-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "a5dbbbf9cb50cd48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-25a.331.5", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "e are not to hamper civil aviation in the future. I have spoken with some little vehemence on this matter because I feel very strongly about it. Like the hon. and gallant Gentleman who spoke last. I have been flying, off and on, for about 15 years. I have flown a good deal in Europe, and have covered a good deal of ground quite recently, and this matter was brought very noticeably to my attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-25a.331.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-25", "file": "debates1930-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "a5dbbbf9cb50cd48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-25a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMBY ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "esterday that the cadet grant is to be done away with, the numbers of instructors and superintendents of instruction of the cadet corps under Vote A is to be reduced? I would also point out that the cadet corps are at the present time, and have hitherto been given, the use of War Office land for carrying out their training. At times, the cadet corps are even given the loan of Government buildings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-25a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-26", "file": "debates1930-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "2fbcf69064463447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.394.2", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "May I ask for an answer to my supplementary question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.394.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-26", "file": "debates1930-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "2fbcf69064463447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.488.0", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOWEN", "preceding_text": " over by the Communications Company? It has been suggested from the opposite side of the House that the inquiry made by the Cabinet was a secret and unfair inquiry, and one speaker asked, why was not the Communications Company called into this discussion. Let me answer that question by asking another. Why was not the Post Office called in when the question of Imperial wireless was being considered", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-26", "file": "debates1930-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "2fbcf69064463447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUKES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUKES", "preceding_text": "rights shall be established for the gas workers to those which now exist in the case of those employed by electrical undertakings. There is some ambiguity with regard to the arithmetic of displacement. The hon. Member for West Nottingham (Mr. Hayday) informed the House that we met to-day the representatives of the corporate body, and they were not at all so definite as the hon. Member for Newport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-26", "file": "debates1930-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "2fbcf69064463447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUKES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUKES", "preceding_text": "I understand that this is going to be a displacement extending over a period of three years. This is a scheme which will take approximately three years to develop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-26", "file": "debates1930-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "2fbcf69064463447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUKES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUKES", "preceding_text": " employés, and uncertainty created as to their future, in order to bring about the economies which the corporation seek to effect. Surely, there ought to have been no difficulty about the Glasgow Corporation coming here and saying, to those who are very anxious about the displacement of these 800 men, not that they will give a preference of re-employment, but that they will assure employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-26", "file": "debates1930-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "2fbcf69064463447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.526.7", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GODFREY LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GODFREY LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "message described the newspaper as a new and powerful weapon in the hands of the British working class in its fight against capitalism, against rationalisation and the Social-Fascist Labour Government. The paper, the message stated, was to be a rallying point against the Labour Government of rationalisation, anti-Soviet intrigues, Colonial brutalities, and preparations for another Imperialist war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.526.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-26", "file": "debates1930-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "2fbcf69064463447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.526.7", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GODFREY LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is it from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GODFREY LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "riat abroad to decisive revolutionary battles now. That report has never been contradicted, and it is not the statement of an underling. It is not even the statement of the Third International but is a statement by one who is the autocrat of all the Russians at the present moment. There is no circumlocution about that statement. It is a bare and brutal affirmation of Soviet aims and determination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.526.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-26", "file": "debates1930-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "2fbcf69064463447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.526.7", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GODFREY LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GODFREY LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "t of an underling. It is not even the statement of the Third International but is a statement by one who is the autocrat of all the Russians at the present moment. There is no circumlocution about that statement. It is a bare and brutal affirmation of Soviet aims and determination. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is it from?\"] I was quoting a report of Mr. Stalin's own words and they have never been denied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.526.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-26", "file": "debates1930-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "2fbcf69064463447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.526.7", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GODFREY LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GODFREY LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "d International but is a statement by one who is the autocrat of all the Russians at the present moment. There is no circumlocution about that statement. It is a bare and brutal affirmation of Soviet aims and determination. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is it from?\"] I was quoting a report of Mr. Stalin's own words and they have never been denied. [HON. MEMBERS: \"From where?\"] It was a telegram from Riga.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.526.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-26", "file": "debates1930-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "2fbcf69064463447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.533.0", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "ee nights in a cemetery, and then got away. No protests from the Archbishop of Canterbury; no protests from hon. Members opposite; not a word! Not only did we spend £100,000,000 backing these monsters, but we have to find £5,000,000 interest on that money, and we gave Denikin the Order of the Bath. He ought to have had the order of a very, very cold bath. I ask you to time down to earth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.533.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-26", "file": "debates1930-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "2fbcf69064463447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.538.0", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But it is still wrong!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "I do not want in the slightest degree to transgress the Rules of this House. I was merely trying to prove that certain gentlemen who strain at a microscopic gnat can swallow 20 menageries, and that persecution in Russia to-day is a very much smaller thing than ever it was in the days of the Tsar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.538.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-26", "file": "debates1930-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "2fbcf69064463447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.538.2", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "e is not the same Russian organisation in thin country that they had then, but shall we get out the dynamite, shall we get out the pneumatic drills, shall we commit an act of burglary, and tell the Russians to walk away. When the Russians were turned out and given their marching orders, they merely took their orders to Germany. Incidentally, we have financed these Russian orders from this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.538.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-26", "file": "debates1930-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "2fbcf69064463447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "I believe 60,000 tractors went to General Motors, and all kinds of business went to the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-26", "file": "debates1930-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "2fbcf69064463447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "d he told me that the society had done £13,000,000 worth of business with Russia, and that Russia had met their obligations to the minute and to the penny. Do we want business? We find it more and more difficult to get business, but we have to sell goods if we are to live. Russia ought to provide the best market for us; there is our natural market, and Russia ought to be our very best colony.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-26", "file": "debates1930-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "2fbcf69064463447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.541.5", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "It is quite obvious that immediately the question of Russia is raised it is hard to get a reasonable and quiet Debate 10.0 p.m.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.541.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-26", "file": "debates1930-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "2fbcf69064463447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.541.5", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "that. Cromwell did order a national contribution of £40,000 to be made to the persecuted Christians of those days. Cromwell did more than that, more than I am willing to ask the Government to do, although the First Lord of the Admiralty is a Baptist. Cromwell did say that British warships should be sent in order to make a demonstration against those who were persecuting Protestant Christians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.541.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-26", "file": "debates1930-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "2fbcf69064463447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.541.5", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": " on behalf of their fellow Christians in Russia. Let me briefly sum up what I understand to be the situation. It is that services can be held, but any other kind of religious activity is barred; that the Baptists are steadily losing their places of worship; that persecution is widespread, carefully organised, and more effective to-day than ever before. I am speaking now up to within a month—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.541.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-26", "file": "debates1930-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "2fbcf69064463447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.552.2", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "preceding_text": "their side of the same agreement to be broken in this country. I should hesitate to say that even about the Fascist Gov- ernment in Italy. Having been honoured with a place in this House I should feel that it was not acting in accordance with my responsibility in international matters to use such expressions. But hon. Members on the other side of the House have been so badly bitten by this mad dog", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-26a.552.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-27", "file": "debates1930-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "78ad08ff2f6c5939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.599.4", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POOR LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I am glad to notice the anxiety of the hon. Member for the city of Hull.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.599.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-27", "file": "debates1930-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "78ad08ff2f6c5939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAMMERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAMMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "rather like that of a Mussolini, in order to force particular, and to my mind entirely too narrow, lines of amalgamation on a reluctant industry. I am forced to the conclusion that, unless the Lancashire cotton trade is to go from bad to worse in view of the fact that the normal avenues of finance are blocked, the Government itself must intervene. The \"Daily Herald\" the other day wrote this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-27", "file": "debates1930-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "78ad08ff2f6c5939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.678.0", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"why not make it from 6 a.m. until 5.30 p.m., as it used to be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": "ny of us want to introduce if we can possibly help it. I do not want people to have to go to work at 6 o'clock in the morning, if I can help it, but people would far rather go to work at 6 o'clock and have a full day's work, than have no work at all and draw the dole. I am certain that the people of Lancashire would gladly go to work at 6 o'clock until 6 p.m. if they could have a full week's work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.678.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-27", "file": "debates1930-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "78ad08ff2f6c5939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": "ombine. A friend of mine in Lancashire came here, not long ago. He was in a bad temper. When I asked him what was wrong with him, he said: \"I have been walking down Bond Street, and I saw some cloth in a shop window, priced 16s. 11d., and I sold it to them for 4s. 3d.\" Some of that money ought to have gone to the workers, and some of it ought to have gone into improving the machinery and the mill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-27", "file": "debates1930-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "78ad08ff2f6c5939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.684.3", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": "few words about another trade in Lancashire with which I happen to be familiar, and that is the artificial silk trade. I was speaking to a man who is very much interested in the artificial silk trade, and who has a great deal to do with the weavers and the merchants. Our conversation took place about Christmas time, and he remarked, \"We do not know what is going to happen in regard to the Budget.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.684.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-27", "file": "debates1930-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "78ad08ff2f6c5939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.693.0", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ect which any great amalgamation ought to seek to put before itself, efficient production which must include the full fruits of co-operation. I do not think anyone would deny that in this industry in the past there has been an amazing lack of efficiency in the purchasing of raw cotton. They seem to me to have bought cotton as housewives buy tea, and yet the moment you get large-scale buying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.693.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-27", "file": "debates1930-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "78ad08ff2f6c5939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.711.0", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What would you do?", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "preceding_text": "de in this country absolutely wiped out? Is he going to see the revenue of this country so diminished that it will bring us from our present proud position into the condition of a secondary State? Is that all they can do, to sit on that bench, appoint Committees, and say, \"This is the decision made. You must do this, and in the course of time you will be forced to do it by economic circumstances\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-27", "file": "debates1930-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "78ad08ff2f6c5939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.711.0", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "preceding_text": "our present proud position into the condition of a secondary State? Is that all they can do, to sit on that bench, appoint Committees, and say, \"This is the decision made. You must do this, and in the course of time you will be forced to do it by economic circumstances\"? [HON. MEMBERS: \"What would you do?] I am not looking at this from a political point of view. The matter is too serious for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-27", "file": "debates1930-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "78ad08ff2f6c5939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ic forces to have full play and trust to the principle of the survival of the fittest.\" I suggest that the Government ought to regard this as a most serious and urgent matter. I have heard several speakers state that although things in Lancashire are bad they are not so bad as they might be and practically they say, \"Let us hope for the best and in course of time all these things will come right.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.713.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-27", "file": "debates1930-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "78ad08ff2f6c5939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.729.2", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST INDIES (SUGAR INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MORGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MORGAN", "preceding_text": "f the West Indian labourer. I am coming to your preference point directly. Take the island of Barbados. What were the conditions of labourers there during the time that he was in office and maintaining preferences and when he tells us that the sugar industry was in a healthy and vigorous state? The wages of the labourers there when the profit upon sugar varied from £3 to £10 a ton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.729.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-27", "file": "debates1930-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "78ad08ff2f6c5939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.731.4", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST INDIES (SUGAR INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MORGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MORGAN", "preceding_text": "I repeat that, despite his experience at the Colonial Office, the right hon. Gentleman is giving the House inaccurate information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.731.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-27", "file": "debates1930-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "78ad08ff2f6c5939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.731.4", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST INDIES (SUGAR INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MORGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MORGAN", "preceding_text": "I repeat that, despite his experience at the Colonial Office, the right hon. Gentleman is giving the House inaccurate information. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Yes, and I am here to correct him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.731.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-27", "file": "debates1930-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "78ad08ff2f6c5939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.731.6", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST INDIES (SUGAR INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MORGAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MORGAN", "preceding_text": "hey allow local governors to do what they like, to intimidate, in a manner which should not be allowed. A local J.P. was struck off the list for daring to criticise a volunteer movement, but I do not want to touch upon that matter as I propose to refer to it on the Colonial Office Vote. I believe the Labour Government are anxious to do well, and they will do well if they are in office long enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.731.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-27", "file": "debates1930-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "78ad08ff2f6c5939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST INDIES (SUGAR INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "hold upon the rack. The hon. Gentleman tells us that the Report is a mine of information. A mine of information indeed! It indicates how bankruptcy and disaster are approaching with rapid steps our oldest Colonies, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer instructs the hon. Gentleman to say: \"It is a very good Report. It tells us that disaster is coming. Just wait and you will see the disaster coming.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-27", "file": "debates1930-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "78ad08ff2f6c5939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST INDIES (SUGAR INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ors.\" If the Chancellor of the Exchequer bases his argument against Colonial preferences on the ground that whenever there is a Socialist Government in power those preferences will be in danger of being swept away, he is giving the country a very good hint how to maintain those preferences, and that is to make sure that hon. Members of the Socialist persuasion do not occupy the Government Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-27", "file": "debates1930-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "78ad08ff2f6c5939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.771.0", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DAIRY CATTLE (SHOWS).", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "take more care in his answers to give the truth. Subsequently the hon. and gallant Gentleman went on to say: May I ask if this may be investigated by the Minister? If he finds that I am wrong, I will willingly apologise. But it was not. A false answer!\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 13th March, 1930; cols. 1489–90, Vol. 236.] I submit that that was a personal insult to myself and to my Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-27a.771.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-28", "file": "debates1930-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "b5219d06e51b863f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-28a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain HUDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain HUDSON", "preceding_text": "see how they can be brought down to such an extent as to make it worth while passing this Financial Resolution. Again, I believe that this Resolution, and the enormous increase in unemployment which causes it, are to a very great extent the direct result of the No. 2 Act. Whatever hon. Members opposite may think, that last Act directly discouraged and, I might almost say, disgusted industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-28a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-28", "file": "debates1930-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "b5219d06e51b863f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-28a.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "preceding_text": "men who are desirous of labour, and who for one reason or another are denied the opportunity to labour, and the other section are those who never did labour and hope they never will labour. Curiously enough, the chief criticism of any attempt to assist those who are unemployed through no fault of their own comes from those who, so far as one can judge, were never very anxious to start work at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-28a.841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-28", "file": "debates1930-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "b5219d06e51b863f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-28a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "king men will before long get a week's holiday with pay. After about a week, I should say, a different view supervenes. I recollect that, in the 1923 Election, Conservative candidates were asked the question, what was a fair wage for a working man. That is something like asking what is the proper length for a bit of string. That question was put to me. It would take too long now to give my answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-28a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-28", "file": "debates1930-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "b5219d06e51b863f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-28a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "string. That question was put to me. It would take too long now to give my answer. [Interruption.] Then I was asked, what was the proper wage for a man who was not working, and I said, with perfect truth, that he ought to have at least double the money of the man who is working, because he has so much time on his hands that he needs money to spend in order to keep his life from growing monotonous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-28a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-28", "file": "debates1930-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "b5219d06e51b863f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-28a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "nemployed than by being employed, I maintain that, in the interests of his own household, it would be his duty to be unemployed. I remember seeing it stated in some magazine that one hon. Member on the opposite benches has a family of nearly a score, and, if that be so, and if he were an ordinary wage-earner, I say it would be almost his duty to do nothing but attend and draw his unemployment pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-28a.843.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-28", "file": "debates1930-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "b5219d06e51b863f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-28a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "nufacturing or industry— [Interruption]. My hon. Friend the Member for Central Southwark (Mr. Day) says that he manufactures amusement for the people, but that is not the point. The Government may do great harm to certain industries. The measures which they are taking in connection with the coal trade are definitely directed to preventing the unemployment of a certain number of people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-28a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-28", "file": "debates1930-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "b5219d06e51b863f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-28a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "amount of responsibility for the general difficulty that there is in developing industry. The shyest bird in the world is credit and capital. It is not like labour, which it is almost impossible to move. You cannot take people away from the districts where they have been brought up and where their friends and families are. This movement for the transfer of labour is only \"a fleabite in the ocean.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-28a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-28", "file": "debates1930-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "b5219d06e51b863f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-28a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "ed by Mr. Hatry—he brought his money back. That is what happens with capital. If you get a Government that frightens capital, away it goes. When labour goes on strike, bands are played, great noises are made, and there are denunciatory speeches, processions, picketing, and all sorts of other things; but, when capital goes on strike, you never hear a whisper; it goes like an owl in the night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-28a.843.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-28", "file": "debates1930-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "b5219d06e51b863f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-28a.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "There is nothing Like being agreed upon the facts. Such agreement is a, preliminary step to a clarification of the whole problem. The onus is thrown on the officials to prove a negative, and in the face of the mood and temper which sit upon those benches, of course the officials are throwing up the sponge generally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-28a.857.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-28", "file": "debates1930-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "b5219d06e51b863f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-28a.857.4", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I should never think of withdrawing such a statement. I have said what I believe to be true, and I remain utterly unmoved by the contradiction which I have received.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-28a.857.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-31", "file": "debates1930-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3ff5699d6eff1e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-31a.938.0", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "preceding_text": "y did not understand the mind of the conscientious objector either. I speak as one who was a conscientious objector during the War, and I only hope that hon. Members opposite are as proud of their War record as I am of mine. When hon. Members opposite suggest that there is anything to be ashamed in being a conscientious objector and that they stand upon a lower level than the ex-Service men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-31a.938.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-31", "file": "debates1930-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3ff5699d6eff1e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-31a.938.2", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or be killed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "preceding_text": " a legal line, and were adjudged genuine as well. The hon. and gallant Member who moved the Motion said that the conscientious objectors refused service. That is not true. The conscientious objectors gave service. They were engaged upon work of national importance, and I want to deny as vehemently as I can the idea that the killing of men is the highest form of service you can give to the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-31a.938.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-31", "file": "debates1930-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3ff5699d6eff1e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-31a.938.2", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "preceding_text": "ite tried to introduce. If you are going to start differentiating against particular kinds of opinion you dislike—and here let me say that it was opinion that was differentiated against because the action of these men was perfectly legal and the only thing that could be held against them was their opinion—it will not be long before you start making appointments of opinions you do like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-31a.938.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-31", "file": "debates1930-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3ff5699d6eff1e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-31a.957.4", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS).", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence)", "preceding_text": "in the way in question. Therefore, it would be an abuse of words to refer to this action which the Government have taken as penalising the ex-service men. The hon. and gallant Member for Midlothian did not claim that; he practically said that the effect upon the chances of the ex-service men is negligible. He is not troubled about the actual facts so much as about the principle which underlies it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-31a.957.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-31", "file": "debates1930-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3ff5699d6eff1e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-31a.978.0", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS).", "cue_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "preceding_text": "s of citizenship is to defend, or help to defend, the country in time of war, and, by voluntarily abdicating their position as citizens, they at the same time abdicated their position as citizens in regard to the privileges of citizenship; and, since they refused to take the responsibilities, it is only reasonable to suppose that at the same time they are unworthy of the privileges of citizenship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-31a.978.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-31", "file": "debates1930-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3ff5699d6eff1e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-31a.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": " because I suggest that if she follows the example set by my right hon. Friend and the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Edgbaston (Mr. Chamberlain) in their administration at the Ministry of Health, the House will not have much to complain abóut when we study the figures of this service 12 months hence. Let us go back to the year 1924–25, when we had a Socialist Government in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-31a.1002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-31", "file": "debates1930-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3ff5699d6eff1e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-31a.1005.3", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "sed from 571 to 871. It must be borne in mind that we were then working under the old percentage grant system, and many local authorities were in the position that they could not raise the money which had to be put down in order to secure the grants. Next we come to the health visitors, and here I would like to say that I agree with everything that my right hon. Friend said about their usefulness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-31a.1005.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-03-31", "file": "debates1930-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3ff5699d6eff1e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-31a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is quite mistaken. I thought that canard had been destroyed. All the late Minister of Health did was to point out that certain economies were necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-03-31a.1024.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-01", "file": "debates1930-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "53f722d70b51ed8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-01a.1070.9", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEWIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEWIS", "preceding_text": "Seeing that the great majority of the headmasters of public secondary schools belong to this association, and if the right hon. Gentleman has had no communication with the association, how does he justify his leading the House to believe last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-01a.1070.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-01", "file": "debates1930-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "53f722d70b51ed8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-01a.1078.4", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore DOUGLAS KING", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore DOUGLAS KING", "preceding_text": "l mines. The pits which will feel the quota system most of all are those in what we may call the new areas, the pits where large sums have been spent on development, and where the greatest potential output at present exists. Vast sums of money have been spent in sinking shafts and developing coal mines which could, if they were allowed, produce a far greater amount of coal than they are doing now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-01a.1078.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-01", "file": "debates1930-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "53f722d70b51ed8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-01a.1129.0", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARNOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARNOTT", "preceding_text": " thing to-day, and he went on to say something that no one disputes, namely, that if you restrict the output of any commodity, and your standing charges remain the same, your costs will be greater, and in consequence of that the price charged to the consumer must also be greater. That logic is sound, but the assumption is wrong, because this Bill does not restrict production in any sense whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-01a.1129.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-01", "file": "debates1930-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "53f722d70b51ed8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-01a.1144.2", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ote against the Second Reading, but if those four points had been conceded at that time, the House well knew that we were prepared to acquiesce in the Bill going to Committee, when its various provisions could be considered in detail. Those four points have all been conceded. In the first place we asked that the Bill instead of being merely restrictive should be turned into a constructive Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-01a.1144.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-01", "file": "debates1930-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "53f722d70b51ed8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-01a.1146.3", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "easing or decreasing. Those were the reasons why we objected to the crude proposals with regard to output and quota which were in the Bill—because of their effect in, as we think, protecting inefficiency, and preventing the promotion of efficiency in mines. If this Amendment is inserted in the Bill, as I trust that it may be, our objection will be to some considerable degree mitigated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-01a.1146.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-01", "file": "debates1930-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "53f722d70b51ed8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-01a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"And the more inefficient the better.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ta, and sell a fixed amount, and I am sure of my market for the fixed amount. Well, put up the price so that it suits the less efficient; I shall make 2s. instead of 1s.\" Therefore, you tend to get prices fixed on a scale to suit the most inefficient producers. You stabilise your inefficient pit, by giving it, not only a quota, but an extra vested interest of a price at which it can make a profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-01a.1173.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-01", "file": "debates1930-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "53f722d70b51ed8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-01a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "owner has to say is this, \"I will deliver it to you nominally on the invoice at the fixed price, but you can make a claim, and we can arrange the matter afterwards.\" That would be perfectly simple. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Is that ordinary business morality?\"] No, but when a man is fighting to keep his industry going and is very hard pressed, it is extraordinary what tricks, what legitimate tricks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-01a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-01", "file": "debates1930-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "53f722d70b51ed8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-01a.1222.0", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": "ted and as I take a great interest in the cotton trade I am anxious that everything possible should be done to keep down the price of coal, it is the motive power of the cotton industry and other industries. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will accept the Amendment so that the coalowner can come forward and say, \"I am making a big profit and I should like to get the prices down so that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-01a.1222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-01", "file": "debates1930-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "53f722d70b51ed8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-01a.1238.2", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "se precludes us from tackling that problem for a period of three years, so that we can do nothing on the basis of improved unemployment insurance. We have already been told that we can do nothing on pensions, and now the President of the Board of Trade says he is very sorry, but we cannot do anything under this Bill. The combination of all these things means that nothing is going to be done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-01a.1238.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-04-02", "file": "debates1930-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "b9f8b75e6f888059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-02a.1250.11", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel HOWARD-BURY", "preceding_text": "Has the hon. Member put in a claim with regard to the plate that disappeared from the Embassy? Surely this is one of the claims to be put forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-02a.1250.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-02", "file": "debates1930-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "b9f8b75e6f888059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-02a.1327.0", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNC1MAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dearer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNC1MAN", "preceding_text": " do not let us wipe out that advantage by unfair inverted and artificial discrimination of this kind. I think that my right hon. Friend cannot really have taken into account the effect of this artificial discrimination. I noticed that in the course of an earlier speech he made some reference to the price of coal, and I forget whether he said that bunker coal was dearer or Cheaper than other cargo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-02a.1327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-02", "file": "debates1930-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "b9f8b75e6f888059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-02a.1332.0", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "st spoken told us about the coal which was put into the No. 1 and the No. 4 holds of a ship, and then into the side bunkers for the engine-room, and he tried to make the House believe that a wooden partition dividing these different compartments would separate coal charged at different prices—the difference amounting to as much as 3s. according to the hon. Member for Grimsby (Mr. Womersley).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-02a.1332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-02", "file": "debates1930-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "b9f8b75e6f888059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-02a.1343.0", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "n a district basis and not on a national basis. The answer to that is that the Yorkshire scheme will remain under this Bill and will be given the advantage of legislative authority and compulsion. If it has been possible hitherto for Yorkshire to give a 3s. bounty on its export coal, it will also be possible in the future. That 3s. has been granted. I do not know what the figure is at this moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-02a.1343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-02", "file": "debates1930-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "b9f8b75e6f888059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-02a.1347.4", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ame it in a form which will carry out what is proposed. Over and over again we have had instances where the House has been told that the Minister would take action in a particular way, and it has been said, \"If that is the action which you propose to take, put it in the Bill. You give an undertaking to the House, but you may be out of office to-morrow and there may be somebody else in your place.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-02a.1347.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-02", "file": "debates1930-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "b9f8b75e6f888059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-02a.1389.1", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON - EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON - EVANS", "preceding_text": "tended by this Bill to have an ad hoc tribunal—the Railway and Canal Commission—who are to consider the terms of an amalgamation, and who are to give sanction to the amalgamation; but I want them to be able to say, as they can under the 1926 Act, \"We do give sanction, but in the case of that particular individual he has got debentures\"—he has perhaps to pawn the debentures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-02a.1389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-02", "file": "debates1930-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "b9f8b75e6f888059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-02a.1389.1", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON - EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON - EVANS", "preceding_text": "else which a bank would not accept as security, and unless you give some protection of this sort, you may bankrupt some individual who thought that he had a decent security. It is unwise from the Government's point of view that an individual should be made to run those risks. Do not forget that the Government are doing something that no Government have ever done before in dealing with individuals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-02a.1389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-02", "file": "debates1930-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "b9f8b75e6f888059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-02a.1393.2", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "es are. We do not think that this is a case for the normal procedure of appealing to the Court of Appeal, and then after that to the House of Lords, which would mean that the final determination of the case would be held up for a very long time. We propose to ask the House to say, although we have consented to include the Arbitration Act, in answer to the request of the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-02a.1393.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-02", "file": "debates1930-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "b9f8b75e6f888059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-02a.1398.6", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Part I: Districts for Purposes of Part I of Act. Part II: Provisions as to Amalgamation and Adjustment of Districts.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSBOTHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSBOTHAM", "preceding_text": "the Liberal party out, because it must have been very trying for stalwart, courageous men, who fought so nobly before Christmas and stood to their guns, and fired desperately at the Government Benches, almost in the twinkling of an eye to be marched out of the battle. It reminds me of the rhyme of the glorious Duke of York, who had ten thousand men, and led them up a hill, and led them down again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-02a.1398.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-02", "file": "debates1930-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "b9f8b75e6f888059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-02a.1402.0", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Part I: Districts for Purposes of Part I of Act. Part II: Provisions as to Amalgamation and Adjustment of Districts.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PERRY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did they answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PERRY", "preceding_text": "n attempt to deal with an industry which is probably in as grave a state as it has ever been. I have more than once said to business men in my constituency that if they had been connected with a business upon which Commission after Commission and Committee after Committee had adversely reported in regard to the efficient conduct of the industry, they would have been heartily ashamed of themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-02a.1402.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-02", "file": "debates1930-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "b9f8b75e6f888059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-02a.1411.2", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Part I: Districts for Purposes of Part I of Act. Part II: Provisions as to Amalgamation and Adjustment of Districts.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain PEAKE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain PEAKE", "preceding_text": "o attract any new capital to that industry for reorganisation and rationalisation. The coal trade requires to make a return on its capital, and it requires rather a larger return than that which can be obtained by putting money into Government stocks, because the mines in which the money is invested are wasting assets. In 60, 80 or 100 years they are gone and the capital sunk in the mines is gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-02a.1411.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-02", "file": "debates1930-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "b9f8b75e6f888059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-02a.1412.1", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Part I: Districts for Purposes of Part I of Act. Part II: Provisions as to Amalgamation and Adjustment of Districts.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain PEAKE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain PEAKE", "preceding_text": "farmers they have to take something out of the land, and, when times are bad, they can take rather more out of the land than they are putting back into it in the way of development, or in the case of the farmer, in the way of manuring and so forth. I do not suppose that the right non. Gentleman the Member for Darwen would advocate amalgamation as a cure for depression in the agricultural industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-02a.1412.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-03", "file": "debates1930-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "eeb04129b6e026e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1523.1", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " of the assistance he has rendered to me. If there was any slackness, it was certainly not due to him, and therefore I am very glad of this opportunity of putting that right. But this is not a charge which I am bringing. This is a charge brought by very important people on his own side. Here is an article in the \"Times\"—I think it is the official organ of the hon. and gallant Member's party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1523.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-03", "file": "debates1930-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "eeb04129b6e026e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1523.1", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": ", still, he is securely in his cage for the time being. But they are not sure of him. And they are quite right! I know him! He is rattling his cage very badly; he may break loose; so this is the acceptable time, this is the time to beat the Government. Now! Not in December, not in February, but now! There was cowardice in February; now they are brave, because they have got the monkeys behind them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-03", "file": "debates1930-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "eeb04129b6e026e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1526.3", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "h, of course, it would not be in order for me to discuss now, but it was a proposal which I hope was not entirely put aside. I say no more now, because I understand that conversations are going on upon that matter at the present time. I would like to say, however, that I believe, if that proposal could be adopted, the other methods which this Bill brings into play could be entirely dispensed with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1526.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-03", "file": "debates1930-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "eeb04129b6e026e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1592.6", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "preceding_text": " I asked myself, if they were going down year by year, how far they were going. Were they to be trusted, and need we have the death penalty at all? I really was in a state of anxiety until I heard the Secretary of State for War this evening say, quite fairly and distinctly, \"We, the present Government, are abolishing the death penalty for certain cases against the advice of our military advisers.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1592.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-03", "file": "debates1930-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "eeb04129b6e026e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1592.6", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"The Labour party\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "preceding_text": "r War this evening say, quite fairly and distinctly, \"We, the present Government, are abolishing the death penalty for certain cases against the advice of our military advisers.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Hon. Members opposite applaud that, and I would remind them that in 1924 the then Socialist Government appointed a committee which decided definitely in favour of retaining the death penalty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1592.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-03", "file": "debates1930-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "eeb04129b6e026e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1592.6", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "preceding_text": "whom his comrades thought guilty of cowardice was court-martialled by them, and they pronounced sentence, and carried it into effect. If a man's own comrades decide that that comrade has let them down, has played the coward and the sneak, and they have decided that they cannot stand that, are hon. Members opposite prepared to say that one of their own comrades should not be judged by his comrades?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1592.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-03", "file": "debates1930-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "eeb04129b6e026e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1594.1", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": " shoot him, then I say we are going too far in this matter. We are all anxious that any man who plays the coward, if you can define cowardice, and I agree that it is very difficult to do that, should have proper protection. Last year, in answer to a question, I was assured by the Financial Secretary that no man, because of cowardice, was executed until he was examined by a competent medical board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-03", "file": "debates1930-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "eeb04129b6e026e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1594.1", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ject. They are perhaps not aware that there are certain nervous diseases where a man is not quite responsible. In such a case his action is due to disease and not to cowardice, and it requires a medical board to decide the matter. There is no Member of this House, or of the public, who would desire that any man should be shot for any crime for which he was not responsible, owing to mental disease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-03", "file": "debates1930-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "eeb04129b6e026e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1594.1", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "elligent observation you can get from the other side is \"No. 9 Pill.\" It shows the frame of mind in which hon. Members approach this vital and important question, for we are dealing, not with an abstract question pure and simple, but with a thing that may mean life or death to some poor soldier. If hon. Members care to take the view that no soldier at any time, for any crime, should be shot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1594.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-04-03", "file": "debates1930-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "eeb04129b6e026e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1598.0", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ee and say that I have not in my mind—it may be my own fault—with precision, what the facts are, but I assure the Committee that no discourtesy is intended. If I understand the question of the last speaker, the case which he puts is one where, in front of the enemy, one of His Majesty's soldiers actively engages in trying to persuade others to show cowardice, or something of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-03", "file": "debates1930-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "eeb04129b6e026e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1598.3", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commander SOUTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander SOUTHBY", "preceding_text": "I do not think that that quite answers the point. I had in mind the case of a man who is suffering from cowardice, and does not know what he is doing at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1598.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-03", "file": "debates1930-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "eeb04129b6e026e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1605.3", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "My point of Order, with great respect, is that the assumption was that the Question was being put in precisely the same form as the previous Question had been put.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1605.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-03", "file": "debates1930-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "eeb04129b6e026e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1605.5", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "First of all, a Division was challenged. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] It was challenged on these benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1605.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-03", "file": "debates1930-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "eeb04129b6e026e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1613.0", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. DAVIDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. DAVIDSON", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to interrupt the hon. Member, but I think this is a very dangerous argument which he is introducing, and I suggest that he should drop it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-03", "file": "debates1930-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "eeb04129b6e026e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1619.0", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Colonel SPENDER - CLAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Colonel SPENDER - CLAY", "preceding_text": "e, but I think that one ought to consider also the lives of comrades who may be placed in danger. There is one other aspect that I should like to mention. If you do away with the death penalty, is there not a great risk that you may cause units to take the law into their own hands? I do not wish to deal with some of our Dominion troops. It is a very unfortunate thing that mention was made of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-03", "file": "debates1930-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "eeb04129b6e026e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1621.0", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": "this particular offence from capital punishment he would abolish the 248 possibilities of execution. It is obvious to me that if you do what the hon. Member wants you to do, those responsible for drawing up the regulations enforcing discipline will be able to get every case to which the right hon. Gentleman has referred under mutiny or sedition. It is perfectly simple. I will go further than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1621.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-03", "file": "debates1930-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "eeb04129b6e026e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1622.4", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "nd those responsible for sanctioning these sentences. He talked about the Army Council being able to get as many men executed as before. Not a word of recognition of the efforts of the officers to secure for every man the fairest possible treatment, and the benefit of the doubt. Not a word of recognition of the fact that of the death sentences passed by the unanimous votes of courts-martial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1622.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-03", "file": "debates1930-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "eeb04129b6e026e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1626.1", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "ght to the point of being shot, but the situation was saved and the man was not shot. If the Government and those who believe in war, feel that public opinion would not support them in shooting conscientious objectors, then I submit that they are not entitled to shoot the man who has been driven into the Army by compulsion and who finds that he is not able for the task. That is a logical position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-03", "file": "debates1930-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "eeb04129b6e026e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1632.3", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.— [Prices in Respect of Billeting.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EVERARD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EVERARD", "preceding_text": "is set out. Lodging and attendance for soldier where meals furnished. Tenpence a night for the first soldier and eightpence a night for each additional soldier. I think there is no question in dispute about that. It may be that I was slightly in error in suggesting that they got 8d. only. The point I was endeavouring to make was that, in spite of the fact that the cost of living has gone up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-03a.1632.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-04", "file": "debates1930-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "4326f74beeb60eda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-04a.1703.0", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "preceding_text": "loyment, the only thing that one has to concentrate one's mind on is whether the mentality of this House is capable of facing up to that issue. If this House is desirous of abolishing unemployment, and it cannot abolish unemployment, a further repetition of chaos logically follows. I would have liked to have called the attention of the House to the question of rationalisation of consumption—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-04a.1703.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-07", "file": "debates1930-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6504de88e3d6ef80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-07a.1816.1", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ront of him, has no case upon which he can go to the public and say that he has been hardly treated. If time per- mitted I could give details of the condition of every one of these 39 houses, and if I had been medical officer of health I should have condemned them myself. If this is what \"perfectly good property\" means, then in the case of a clearance area there will be no perfectly good property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-07a.1816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-07", "file": "debates1930-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6504de88e3d6ef80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-07a.1825.0", "colnum": "1825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rings have raised the prices.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "that this miserable 2s. a week, which is all that the right hon. Gentleman anticipates is going to be given, may disappear altogether if building costs go up. What is to be the connection between subsidies and building costs? We know that, whenever we have put up the subsidy, the cost of building has risen, and that the only time when the cost has come down has been when the subsidy has come down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-07a.1825.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-07", "file": "debates1930-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6504de88e3d6ef80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-07a.1874.0", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. GOWER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. GOWER", "preceding_text": "his obligations to the community. My right hon. Friend the Member for Edgbaston stated—and I am sure the hon. Lady who represents the Ministry of Health will agree that statement was true—that the great majority of houses which are situate in working-class districts belong to what might be known as the small owners. The majority of those houses have been purchased by working men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-07a.1874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-07", "file": "debates1930-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6504de88e3d6ef80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-07a.1881.0", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. WALTERS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Call them flats.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. WALTERS", "preceding_text": "arly is this the case with respect to tenement building. I should strongly deprecate any considerable policy of building tenement dwellings in the centres of our large cities. I know that there is a certain number of people engaged in occupations in a city like London who must live near their work, but I should discourage people in every possible way from continuing to live in tenements in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-07a.1881.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-07", "file": "debates1930-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6504de88e3d6ef80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-07a.1924.1", "colnum": "1924", "heading": "ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS (SODOR AND MAN) MEASURE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALBERY", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALBERY", "preceding_text": "I have several times been present late at night when these Measures have been brought up and though I do not wish to put any obstruction in the way of this Measure to-night I would ask whether particulars of these Measures are circulated to hon. Members before they are brought forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-07a.1924.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-08", "file": "debates1930-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d595c461bdf1a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-08a.1965.2", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We cannot hear a word!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": "I have handed in a Private Notice Question with respect to an accident at the Lady Beatrice Pit, New Herrington, County Durham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-08a.1965.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-08", "file": "debates1930-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d595c461bdf1a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-08a.2001.1", "colnum": "2001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "sidy was a vicious thing, and that the right hon. and learned Member for Spen Valley (Sir J. Simon) said: The result of the scheme had been to raise the cost of house building. In the result, as we all know, the rents of what we call the Wheatley houses, notwithstanding the very considerable increase in the subsidy, are no lower at this moment than the rents of what we call the Chamberlain houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-08a.2001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-08", "file": "debates1930-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d595c461bdf1a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-08a.2020.0", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. D. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. D. SIMON", "preceding_text": "ecent houses; and it is by its success in solving that problem that this Bill will in the long run be judged. So far there is, as I have said, agreement on almost everything, but when we come to the remedy we find a sharp division into two camps, the one represented by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for West Woolwich, and the other, I think, broadly, by all progressive thought in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-08a.2020.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-08", "file": "debates1930-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d595c461bdf1a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-08a.2024.5", "colnum": "2024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SIMON", "preceding_text": "in its working. There would be so much for every dependent child, while that child remains dependent. 6.0 p.m. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will read this report; I shall be very glad to send him a copy of it. I think he will find that it will solve all the difficulties that he was raising as to how a scheme of that sort could be fairly administered so as to give help to those who need it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-08a.2024.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-08", "file": "debates1930-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d595c461bdf1a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-08a.2074.1", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (No. 2) (EXPENSES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER [...", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "from all sides, and there was a shortage of labour and materials. Eventually the then Minister of Health had to leave the office and someone else took charge and stopped building for the time, in fact wound up the scheme. In spite of the generous financial provision, that scheme was of no great use, and some of the very houses that cost such large sums of money are bordering on slum houses to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-08a.2074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-08", "file": "debates1930-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d595c461bdf1a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-08a.2100.1", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (No. 2) (EXPENSES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ld start in the first year with a net cost of £220,000, and would increase each year unitil. 11 years onwards, that would be [...] he maximum cost. If you were to re-house 1,500,000 persons in 10 years, on the assumption, again, that 20 per cent. arc re-housed in tenement dwellings, the maximum cost would be a little less than £3,500,000 per year. That is the maximum cost per year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-08a.2100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-08", "file": "debates1930-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d595c461bdf1a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-08a.2101.1", "colnum": "2101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (No. 2) (EXPENSES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I had an interruption like that before, as well, and my answer is the same. So long as there is money in the till, human interests must come first. The right hon. Gentleman says, \"Ah!\" Is he going to say that there is no money in the till? I do not understand what the moral of the right hon. Gentleman's speech is, but he must have something in his mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-08a.2101.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-08", "file": "debates1930-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d595c461bdf1a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-08a.2103.0", "colnum": "2103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (No. 2) (EXPENSES.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "solution, which must be one of the longest sentences ever put into print—72 lines without a break—is that the right hon. Gentleman says the Committee is at fault in that we expect him to give any close estimate. He does not profess to be right down to the decimal point of a penny. It is not a question of decimal points of pennies, but of millions of pounds that he cannot tell us about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-08a.2103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-08", "file": "debates1930-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d595c461bdf1a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-08a.2103.0", "colnum": "2103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (No. 2) (EXPENSES.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Churchill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": " on the Liberal benches, that their complaint is, that they do not think the Minister is asking for sufficient money for this service. That may very well be, for the simple reason that we do not know what he is asking for. It is not a question of thinking. If hon. Members come to this House, they ought to pay some attention to the finances of the country. We are the custodians of the public purse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-08a.2103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-08", "file": "debates1930-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d595c461bdf1a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-08a.2103.0", "colnum": "2103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (No. 2) (EXPENSES.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What do you suggest?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "public purse. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Churchill?\"] My right hon. Friend is quite capable of looking after himself. This Committee is not concerned with the past history of anybody, but with this Financial Resolution. The objection which I Eave to the Resolution is that there is no maximum and no minimum set. It would have made the whole thing much easier if there had been a maximum provision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-08a.2103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-08", "file": "debates1930-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d595c461bdf1a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-08a.2106.1", "colnum": "2106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (No. 2) (EXPENSES.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "preceding_text": "There is no provision in this Financial Resolution to deal with tied cottages, and, therefore, in another direction hon. Members opposite have broken their pledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-08a.2106.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-08", "file": "debates1930-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d595c461bdf1a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-08a.2108.9", "colnum": "2108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (No. 2) (EXPENSES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And a glass of beer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ition we are up against. Then we have men who work on ship work at six in the morning, 10 at night, and two in the afternoon, and they cannot get away from the conditions under which they work. How are these people going to pay rents beyond their means of earning? Finance, to me, means simply this: How much bread and butter can you put upon the table, and can you have a smoke on the Sunday?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-08a.2108.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-09", "file": "debates1930-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ed8408efd9131381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-09a.2242.2", "colnum": "2242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS TRADE [GUARANTEES].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HACKING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Battleships for other countries, but not for Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HACKING", "preceding_text": "rders for one of our depressed industries. I hear on good authority that Italy is giving this kind of financial help to her shipyards to build ships of war not only for Italy herself, but also for sale to Greece and Turkey. In the interests of employment at home we must be on the look out, and it will be well worth considering whether we should not extend credit facilities to include ships of war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-09a.2242.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-09", "file": "debates1930-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ed8408efd9131381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-09a.2266.0", "colnum": "2266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS TRADE [GUARANTEES].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "etcalf. If I did not misunderstand him, he means that Russian buyers—that is the Russian Government—cannot purchase from us goods which we wish to sell, in order to put our people into work, because there is a credit barrage up against them; a clog owing to a lack of credit. There is not a word of truth in that. I do not impugn the hon. Member's truthfulness, but I impugn his judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-09a.2266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-09", "file": "debates1930-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ed8408efd9131381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-09a.2270.1", "colnum": "2270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS TRADE [GUARANTEES].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ced to increase our export trade. The Minister will bear me out, because he was my colleague on the advisory committee many years ago, when I say that very many applications for credit facilities were lodged with us and accepted, but were not afterwards taken up. We considered them, though the hon. Member for Lincoln would have the House believe the advisory committee intercepted the applications.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-09a.2270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-09", "file": "debates1930-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ed8408efd9131381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-09a.2274.1", "colnum": "2274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS TRADE [GUARANTEES].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was after the Arcos raid!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "the North of Scotland, or of Yarmouth or Lowestoft, that this reopening of export credits with Russia would put matters right in regard to employment. Look at the figures. How much have export credits for Russia helped the herring fishermen? The Trade and Navigation Accounts for 1929, page 82, show that in 1927 the value of the herrings sold to Russia was £155,000, and, in 1928, £74,500.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-09a.2274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-09", "file": "debates1930-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ed8408efd9131381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-09a.2281.1", "colnum": "2281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS TRADE [GUARANTEES].", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "preceding_text": "in recent years as a whole, it has been some four or five to one against us. The Russian Government who are the sole arbiters and the sole controllers of all the export trade to Russia, have amassed immense credits in this country. In one recent year they amounted to no less than £13,000,000, not a penny of which was spent in purchasing goods to find employment for the people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-09a.2281.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-09", "file": "debates1930-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ed8408efd9131381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-09a.2305.0", "colnum": "2305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESERVOIRS (SAFETY PROVISIONS) BILL [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not frivolous!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "gest that, so far as the dams of the Metropolitan Water Board are concerned, they will be made more safe by having a specially appointed inspector. It is to remove all unnecessary work of that kind that I second this Amendment. I do so in no spirit of hostility whatever to the real object of the Bill. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I fail to understand the frivolous manner adopted by hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-09a.2305.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-10", "file": "debates1930-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "619b6dbad260f8a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-10a.2368.1", "colnum": "2368", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not a fact\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the Whitley Council does not represent 30 per cent. of the industrial workers—[HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"] I have ascertained the figures. Is the hon. Gentleman aware that it does not represent 30 per cent. of the industrial workers of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-10a.2368.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-14", "file": "debates1930-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "67bef3dc0b40d97f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-14a.2671.4", "colnum": "2671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING AND IMPORT DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I may be expected to say something about the McKenna Duties and the Silk Duties. These were imposed by my predecessor as revenue duties, and they bring in a revenue of about £10,000,000 a year. I regret that the financial position I have inherited—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-14a.2671.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2729.5", "colnum": "2729", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "The House will resume on Tuesday, 29th April, and we propose that that date shall be the Fourth Allotted Supply Day. I understand that the Ministry of Health Vote will be put down for that date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2729.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2729.9", "colnum": "2729", "heading": "MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT (1894) AMENDMENT,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "ineer engaging in the illicit importation of intoxicating liquor into the territory of the United States of America. This Measure, which I have the honour to introduce, is supported by Members of all parties in this House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] At any rate, hon. Members will have an opportunity of expressing their opinion. I do not ask them to say whether prohibition is a wise or an unwise policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2729.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2729.9", "colnum": "2729", "heading": "MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT (1894) AMENDMENT,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "inues. There is no doubt whatever as to the official policy of this country in relation to this traffic. I have heard the representatives of a Conservative Government as well as the representatives of a Labour Government declare upon the Floor of the House the policy of this country in regard to this particular matter. It is not only a question which affects America, but it also affects ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2729.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2729.9", "colnum": "2729", "heading": "MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT (1894) AMENDMENT,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "njoy the protection of the British flag. That simply amounts to this, that the British flag is being used for the defeat of the British policy. There can be no doubt whatever as to the danger to our international relations in regard to this matter. On this point, I would like to give a further quotation from the \"Times\" newspaper, which I suppose will be accepted by hon. Members above the Gangway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2729.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2732.3", "colnum": "2732", "heading": "MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT (1894) AMENDMENT,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2732.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2732.6", "colnum": "2732", "heading": "MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT (1894) AMENDMENT,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "the 12–mile limit. Everybody in the United States knows that the whole thing is a gigantic imposture, and that only a few hysterical males and females believe in it. Why should we manufacture crime which is not a crime? If any British captain or seaman chooses to break the law of the United States, the United States will deal with it. But are we going to im- pinge on the freedom of the seas?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2732.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2742.15", "colnum": "2742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ernments best study the interests of the whole nation and of all classes by allowing money, to quote the famous Treasury phrase, to fructify in the pockets of the people. This is the opposite view from that which the Chancellor of the Excheouer holds. Practically every word is taken from his statement in \"Wealth and Commonwealth\"—not the phrase about fructifying in the pockets of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2742.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2742.15", "colnum": "2742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ere and drastic repayment of the National Debt. I hold that we require far less of the State and less of the taxgatherer, not more, in our national affairs, and that those affairs will come round much quicker in so far as we allow a measure of free play to the saving and creative effort of the commonwealth. Therefore, when I was confronted with the disaster and outrage of the General Strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2742.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2742.15", "colnum": "2742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You deserved it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "lity to spare the taxpayer and to nurse industry through the difficult and harassing period that followed. That is the whole explanation of the policy for which I was responsible during the last four years, and it is the only explanation which I think it necessary to offer for the half suppressed sneers and criticisms and disparagements which the right hon. Gentleman passed on my financial record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2742.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2742.15", "colnum": "2742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "t and harassing period that followed. That is the whole explanation of the policy for which I was responsible during the last four years, and it is the only explanation which I think it necessary to offer for the half suppressed sneers and criticisms and disparagements which the right hon. Gentleman passed on my financial record. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You deserved it.\"] That is begging the ques- tion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2742.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2768.1", "colnum": "2768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "s which have led to this expenditure later on, but first let me examine for a few moments the new taxation. Nearly £47,000,000 of new taxes are to be imposed. They are all direct taxes, or virtually direct taxes; Lone are to be passed on to the consumes. They are to be levied upon a very restricted class, already the most heavily tayed but still the most loyally responsive it the whole world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2768.1", "colnum": "2768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ws that the step he is taking is one which will discourage trade and will dishearten productive enterprise. A substantial portion of this addition to the standard rate of Income Tax, which causes so much hilarity among the party opposite now, will fall upon company reserves; that is to say, it will fall upon what the Colwyn Committee called money at the very point of becoming fruitful to industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2768.1", "colnum": "2768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "king his task easier by stigmatising the class who will pay him as if they were the worthless wastrels of society? I come now to Super-tax and Death Duties. I am not going to waste much time or any tears upon the personal sufferings of the millionaires. Where direct taxation uproots families from the homes in which they have lived for centuries it does inflict a great sentimental injury upon them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2768.1", "colnum": "2768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "much time or any tears upon the personal sufferings of the millionaires. Where direct taxation uproots families from the homes in which they have lived for centuries it does inflict a great sentimental injury upon them. [Interruption.] There is no real gain to British democracy when some family leaves the home of its ancestors and hands it over to a trans-Atlantic millionaire or wartime profiteer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2768.1", "colnum": "2768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oddments!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "for three months and afterwards lost again owing to the great expansion of unemployment and unemployment benefit. There have been better benefits paid to more persons out of work, but there has been, as I have said, a demoralisation of the administration of the Fund. Then we have a handful of oddments and scraps, a few oddments of hard cases in connection with the great scheme of widows' pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2780.2", "colnum": "2780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Borrowed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " and far more easily than they are entitled to get off. The parties went to the country at the General Election and anpealed for the support of the electors. This party received an overwhelming mandate from the electors. The three policies, roughly, were these. The right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs proposed to put £250,000,000 of revenue in.o road-making and public development schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2780.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2782.4", "colnum": "2782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And paid how much in taxes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "rt Great Britain as soon as they do not get their own way in Great Britain. And the right hon. Member for Epping holds that up as a threat to my right hon. Friend! I wish that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had made a frontal attack on the large aggregations of capital in this country. A small handful of people, about 90,000 Super-tax payers, took something like £600,000,000 last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2782.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2796.2", "colnum": "2796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The cost of living came down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "ion of wages is £142,000. In 1929 there is a weekly average reduction of £79,500. Since the Labour Government were in office in 1924, with the exception of that year which seems to the former Chancellor of the Exchequer to have been so disastrous a year for industry, there bas been a reduction of wages every year, and consequently a reduction of the purchasing power of the working class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2796.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2796.2", "colnum": "2796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "d by the Budget. Take the gross income, excluding weekly wage earnings, reviewed by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue—taking the figures from the 72nd Report. In 1924 the gross income reviewed amounted to £2,599,000,000, and in 1928 to £2,765,000,000, an increase of more than £160,000,000. While the one nation has been getting poorer the other nation has been getting richer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2796.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2801.1", "colnum": "2801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "arty at the last election, but quite the opposite point of view was put forward by the Labour party. The Labour party at the last election said that the. Tories had been giving public money to benefit their rich friends, and that if Labour came into office they would see that, in the future, the great mass of the working classes would get the benefit. That point of view was put before the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2802.1", "colnum": "2802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "I am not aware of that. I am aware that more people voted for the combined Conservative and Liberal parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2807.2", "colnum": "2807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "I was quoting from the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, and I was willing to accept his statement. There is this great Army, there is this Navy, there is this Air Force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2807.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2811.1", "colnum": "2811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " Budget. We have now the Budget, and it is not there. The taxation of land values to which we looked to benefit trade, to cheapen land, and to enable people to get work has been postponed, and, from a promise, it has become a mere item in \"Labour and the Nation,\" like so many other items. This year, next year, some time, never. I do not suppose now that I shall ever see a tax on land values—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2814.1", "colnum": "2814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " Secretary, the President of the Board of Education, and the Treasury officials. I do not suppose that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will have much time to give to that committee. The Financial Secretary to the Treasury—well, his heart has never been in the taxation of land values. The President of the Board of Education, we cannot forget, is also the largest landowner in the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2838.1", "colnum": "2838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "our herself has described as a dishonest thing, ask for an increase of borrowing powers. Despite the fact that the Chancellor of the Exchequer estimates that for this year the cost of the Floating Debt will be £11,500,000 less than the cost of the Floating Debt last year, he still proposes to allocate the whole of the Suspensory Fund for the de-rating scheme to the purposes of Debt repayment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2838.1", "colnum": "2838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": " have no interest in taxation, and no sense of civic responsibility. Hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite cannot really maintain that this additional burden on the direct taxpayers, through the increase of the standard rate of the Income Tax, does not ultimately fall upon industry. Of course it does. The Chancellor of the Exchequer admitted that in the concluding passage of his Budget statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2838.1", "colnum": "2838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why complain?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "ved in this particular Budget. As I have already said, the right hon. Gentleman has disappointed everybody. He has certainly abandoned Socialism. The concluding passages of the right hon. Gentleman's statement made it clear that, although he recognises his action in increasing direct taxation, will make it difficult for him to improve the capitalistic system, or to get it into working order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2845.1", "colnum": "2845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "oint. The hon. Baronet was careful to say very little about the export trade in lace. I have taken the trouble to look up the figures for exports of lace, and I find that the export trade has fallen, during these years of Safeguarding,, from 32,000,000 square yards in 1924 to 25,000,000 square yards in 1929. That, of course, is the effect. of these tariffs—they tend to kill the export trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2847.5", "colnum": "2847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "It is a Resolution introduced in a Committee of Ways and Means, with the intention of finding how to raise the revenue which the other Acts of the Session have seen fit to decide should be raised. The Chancellor of the Exchequer who introduced into the Finance Bill all kinds of social reforms would be exceedingly illogical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2847.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-15", "file": "debates1930-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "177f12906a9447cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2847.5", "colnum": "2847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "e Exchequer who introduced into the Finance Bill all kinds of social reforms would be exceedingly illogical— [Interruption]. Hon. Members, when they have been here a little longer, will realise that, through the Estimates and through the Bills which become Acts of Parliament, we agree to certain expenditure, and the Budget is the opportunity of finding how to foot the bill, and nothing else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-15a.2847.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-16", "file": "debates1930-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "32c663ea9722735e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.2965.0", "colnum": "2965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GODFREY COLLINS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GODFREY COLLINS", "preceding_text": "s the Leader of the Liberal party stated this afternoon, between those above the Gangway on the Opposition side and those below, has widened during the last six months. I stand here as an unrepentant Free Trader, believing that our country can only maintain her position as a manufacturing nation by her ability to buy her goods at the lowest possible price, and I welcomed the closing remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.2965.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-16", "file": "debates1930-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "32c663ea9722735e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.2970.2", "colnum": "2970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "ht into the revenue of the year—he has been blamed for it over and over again—surpluses which were in various funds. There was a surplus which was in the Army and Navy Health Insurance Fund, for example, a surplus of £1,000,000, or thereabouts, and we were accused of robbing ex-service men. Because of some petty economy at the Ministry of Health we were accused of starving babies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.2970.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-16", "file": "debates1930-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "32c663ea9722735e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.2970.2", "colnum": "2970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have you got any?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": " in the way the right hon. Gentleman has shown that he was willing they should be misled. The cheers of hon. Members opposite show that they, at any rate, are not repentant, and are ready to go out again on the platform and repeat those statements, although they know, or they ought to know. that they are untrue. If we are going to examine leaflets, we ought to examine some of the Liberal leaflets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.2970.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-16", "file": "debates1930-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "32c663ea9722735e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.2972.1", "colnum": "2972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Five years!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "The borrowing which the right hon. Gentleman was going to do was to be done within two years, and within two years he was going to conquer unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.2972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-16", "file": "debates1930-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "32c663ea9722735e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.2972.1", "colnum": "2972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs is about the first speech in which he has had any real support, except from the Financial Secretary to the Treasury. But is the statement about the deficit true? As a matter of fact, if the Chancellor of the Exchequer had not increased his expenditure, there would have been enough money left without the legacies of debt to see him through this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.2972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-16", "file": "debates1930-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "32c663ea9722735e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.2976.0", "colnum": "2976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "less there is a Customs Duty, the revenue that you get from those alternate Excise Duties will fail you. There is some evidence of failure at this moment. Income Tax is not resilient. It does not increase year by year in its productivity. On the contrary, we have got to a stage when it looks as if there is a falling back. There is a loss on your Excise Duty. Let me give an easy example. Take beer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.2976.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-16", "file": "debates1930-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "32c663ea9722735e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.2990.2", "colnum": "2990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Major SALMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major SALMON", "preceding_text": "e Chancellor made his speech and said that for this yer at least he was going to retain the McKenna Duties and the Silk Duties, hestill said that at the first opportunity I was going to brush them away, to ablish them. In the past we have had freigners coming over here from differed parts of the world and building facories to enable them to manufacture goes here. To-day, all that is stopped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.2990.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-16", "file": "debates1930-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "32c663ea9722735e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.2994.1", "colnum": "2994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did you do in the War?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "preceding_text": "t than anyone else to use that term, for they own nine-tenths of it. They parade the love of their country, but when we come to examine it it is nothing but cupboard love. They love their country so long as they can get anything out of their country, and if they think that they are not getting enough out of their country they are prepared to scrap it and leave it, like rats leaving a sinking ship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.2994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-16", "file": "debates1930-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "32c663ea9722735e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.3001.0", "colnum": "3001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Major ROSS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ROSS", "preceding_text": "l? It is to get taxes, and more taxes. Are we, then, to have prosecuting counsel, Judge and jury, all in one provided by the same Department, whose object will be to get the largest amount of money out of the people who have to pay under this Schedule? If we are going to revise the powers of the Revenue Department in that direction, I think it is a most unfortunate move for the Government to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.3001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-16", "file": "debates1930-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "32c663ea9722735e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.3001.0", "colnum": "3001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Major ROSS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ROSS", "preceding_text": "interested parties tried to screw up the amount of money obtainable from any individual. I wish to speak on the subject of the Duties of a protective nature which have been mentioned in the course of this Debate. First there are the McKenna Duties and the Silk Duties, and I am tempted to quote a line which seems to me rather appropriate in this connection: Honesta quaedam scelera successus facit.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.3001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-16", "file": "debates1930-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "32c663ea9722735e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.3009.0", "colnum": "3009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "drop a hint. If it be true that all forms of taxation levied on the value of human products are finally paid by the prodcers of wealth, namely, the workers, it is incumbent on the Committee, if it be composed of men who claim to understand these question's, to try and find out if there be some form of taxation which can be taken by the State without impinging upon the wages of the working classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.3009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-16", "file": "debates1930-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "32c663ea9722735e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.3009.0", "colnum": "3009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "uation could be brought up to date and made complete and ready for the Budget next year—if that is any consolation to hon. Members opposite! They know as well as I do that once we turn our minds from taxing industry, that once we divert taxation, which, as it has been truly said, is really borne by the working classes, from industry and levy it upon the historic monopoly of land value—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.3009.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-16", "file": "debates1930-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "32c663ea9722735e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.3041.1", "colnum": "3041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"What, is it called?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "f a writer who was reminded of something he had written and forgotten and said, \"I must have written it because it is so very good.\" This is a very good pamphlet. I should like to send a copy of it to every Member of the House of Commons and I would have done so only I am taxing myself so heavily in this Budget that I am afraid that I shall have to economise. I stand by every word in the pamphlet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.3041.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-16", "file": "debates1930-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "32c663ea9722735e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.3053.3", "colnum": "3053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "preceding_text": "uld prophesy that we are not likely to have a frontier war in defence of our own position to ensure peace in our own territories? When you are dealing with a war of that sort, the experience gained in the Great War is a totally fallacious basis to go on. There, the men were up against high explosives and an uncomfortable life in the trenches. It was not my own fate to serve under those conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-16a.3053.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-17", "file": "debates1930-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "caf46789606716b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-17a.3082.9", "colnum": "3082", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POOR LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "I gave that in reply to the right hon. Member for West Woolwich (Sir K. Wood). I asked him to wait. I am not going to give an answer to a question like this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-17a.3082.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-17", "file": "debates1930-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "caf46789606716b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-17a.3201.0", "colnum": "3201", "heading": "SCHOOL-LEAVING AGE (SCOTLAND).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "e Noble Lady. As to the date, the Government have come to a definite decision, as has already been intimated, and I have ready the Order necessary to give effect to that decision. Legislation is required in England, but not in Scotland, so far as instituting the final age is concerned, but obviously I must wait until the English position is brought into line with our own before I launch the Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-17a.3201.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-29", "file": "debates1930-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8339ff4874086feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.63.3", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "poundage this year over last year and the year before, and I feel that I ought to explain it to the Committee. In some areas, the increase in rates this year over last year and the previous year is largely due to the fact that the late boards of guardians, coming to the end of their life and having unexpended balances, decided to utilise their unexpended balances last year in a reduction of rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.63.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-29", "file": "debates1930-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8339ff4874086feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why 20th May?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "e whole question is now being prepared in the Department. Meanwhile, events have made it imperative that action should be taken under the Public Health Acts to prohibit the importation of parrots for the time being. As hon. Members have probably seen in the Press to-day, a new Order has been issued which will come into operation on 20th May prohibiting the importation of parrots and similar birds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.77.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-29", "file": "debates1930-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8339ff4874086feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "o get up in the House, I have been assailed with abuse and vulgar epithets, such as that I was a murderer, a scoundrel, and a hypocrite because of what the appointed guardians in West Ham were doing. Now, after all that, we are told that these new gentlemen in their new posts, for which there was considerable competition, have only after all made a slight increase in the number of people relieved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-29", "file": "debates1930-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8339ff4874086feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.84.1", "colnum": "84", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "hatever the amount—and undoubtedly there is an amount—a considerable part is due to the alteration that has been made in the period in which an insured person is enabled to change his panel doctor. At the present time an insured person can change his doctor on giving only a few days' notice and go to another, and there is no doubt that there is a considerable danger in that relaxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.84.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-29", "file": "debates1930-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8339ff4874086feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.98.3", "colnum": "98", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": " that they have lost to date. All told, £19,000,000 has disappeared by the action of an unscrupulous Chancellor of the Exchequer. Nothing has been said so far about the cost of administering this scheme. I have administered a small society ever since its commencement, 18 years ago. It is interesting to know that the cost of administering this scheme is only 13 per cent. of the premium income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.98.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-29", "file": "debates1930-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8339ff4874086feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.98.3", "colnum": "98", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "in sickness and disablement benefit alone; and I think it is common ground that all societies paying provident benefits—both trade unions and friendly societies, and I think industrial assurance companies also—have had to alter their actuarial calculations and their tables of contributions and benefit as a result of the change in what the Americans call \"behaviourism\" among the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.98.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-29", "file": "debates1930-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8339ff4874086feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.100.4", "colnum": "100", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "Anyway, I could give to the medical gentlemen who are here this afternoon proof from my office that we have had a medical certificate showing that a man was incapacitated from work when he was actually dead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.100.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-29", "file": "debates1930-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8339ff4874086feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "Surely, a Christian Scientist cannot believe that a man is incapacitated from following his employment when he has passed to the great beyond—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-29", "file": "debates1930-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8339ff4874086feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.101.3", "colnum": "101", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Passed by this party!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "can manage this business themselves except for one thing, that if Parliament wants the insured population to get so much benefit out of this scheme, Parliament must not reduce the premium income, or the State grant. I have familiarised myself with the schemes, so far as they are known, all over, and I say unhesitatingly this is the best State insurance scheme of any kind in existence in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-29", "file": "debates1930-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8339ff4874086feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MELLER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Quite naturally!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MELLER", "preceding_text": "ome figures were given to me by a society recently which were very illuminating. This society had come to the conclusion that the persons who declared off seemed to be greater upon a Saturday than upon any other day in the week. The Committee will probably be surprised to know that in an examination which they made approximately 45 per cent. of their members on the fund declared off on a Saturday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-29", "file": "debates1930-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8339ff4874086feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MELLER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MELLER", "preceding_text": "sed some objection on the other side this afternoon. It is the proposal that the insured person may return to the old order of things of changing from one doctor to another. The proposal to reduce the period from six months to one month, unless there had been an arrangement by the acting practitioner and the proposed practitioner, was very largely taken on the initiative of the doctors themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-29", "file": "debates1930-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8339ff4874086feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.122.0", "colnum": "122", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "promise that anything was to be done, but he said that, when the report came forward, they would see what could be done. The Government are now saying what wonderful schemes they are and that they will try to improve upon them. That is interesting, but it, is not what we were led to expect from a Socialist Minister of Health. How easy they are being let off! These benches ought to be filled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-29", "file": "debates1930-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8339ff4874086feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.122.0", "colnum": "122", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Two hundred majority!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "illed—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are they?\"] I will tell you. It is because they are honest men and women, and they know that probably no Minister of Health can do more than the present one is doing. I am not blaming the Minister for not doing more, but I am blaming him for not apologising to the House of Commons for the attitude which he took up during the four years that he was in opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-29", "file": "debates1930-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8339ff4874086feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.126.0", "colnum": "126", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. LEWIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. LEWIS", "preceding_text": "at body will feel when they are told, in effect, that a very serious state of malingering exists at the present time. The hon. Member said that people did not realise what was going on and that we would have to call a halt in extravagance with regard to National Health Insurance. I hope that the Minister of Health will not take too much notice of the criticisms which have come from the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.126.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-29", "file": "debates1930-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8339ff4874086feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.129.2", "colnum": "129", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEWIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEWIS", "preceding_text": "try will insist, if the certification scheme comes into operation, that all parties are represented on the body. It is no use having certification which is left to the doctors entirely. That is all that the doctors want. If that is done, you will not have a much better system than you have to-day. When one speaks of the doctors, one knows that there have been dozens, even thousands of cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.129.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-29", "file": "debates1930-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8339ff4874086feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PERRY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Baden-Baden!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PERRY", "preceding_text": "n the late Mr. Masterman was unsuccessful in coming back to the House. It justifies our policy up to the hilt. If it were possible to bring this course of treatment within the reach of insured persons, we should be conferring a still greater boon upon them. During the last five years those who represent the British Spas Federation—Buxton, Bath, Harrogate, Cheltenham—and the rest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-29", "file": "debates1930-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8339ff4874086feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "he thunderers of the old days. The hon. Lady the Member for the Sutton Division of Plymouth (Viscountess Astor) quoted from a speech of the Parliamentary Secretary, and with some effect too. I remember that speech. I really thought that the hon. Lady was going into hysterics. What she was going to do when she came into office has already been quoted, but I am sorry to say that it has not happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.147.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-29", "file": "debates1930-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8339ff4874086feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.168.2", "colnum": "168", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "No. It has been agreed that it shall be the panel doctors in the locality who will investigate such a matter. Now I come to the question of the administration of out-relief, and I do not know of any single thing that this Government has done that has filled me personally with more pleasure than the change which has been made in the administration of out-relief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.168.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-29", "file": "debates1930-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8339ff4874086feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.170.0", "colnum": "170", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "Is it a fact that the hon. Lady promised that within three weeks of her accession to office she would abolish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-29a.170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-30", "file": "debates1930-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a627d9b3d12e6d45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.185.7", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "In view of the enormous increase in the number of the unemployed in the West Riding, will the hon. Member undertake to represent to the Chancellor of the Exchequer the propriety of considering the recommendations of the inquiry into the woollen textile trades of the West Riding which presented a Report before this Government came into office?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.185.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-30", "file": "debates1930-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a627d9b3d12e6d45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.209.5", "colnum": "209", "heading": "DEATH DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM WAYLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM WAYLAND", "preceding_text": "out of his weekly wages without depriving his wife and family of the necessaries of life. Take the case of an agricultural labourer. I am asked and have been asked many times, \"When are we going to get cheaper beer and cheaper tobacco?\" If an agricultural labourer in Kent, with the standard rate of wages, namely, 32s. a week, purchases a pint of beer for himself and half a pint for his wife—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.209.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-30", "file": "debates1930-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a627d9b3d12e6d45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.240.0", "colnum": "240", "heading": "DEATH DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You said you were a teetotaller!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "o points of view. I recognise, first of all, that even in spite of the efforts of my hon. Friend the Member for the Sutton Division of Plymouth (Viscountess Astor), there will be a considerable number of people in this country who, for a considerable number of years more, will continue to drink beer, and my contention is that, if you insist on drinking this, to my palate, offensive beverage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.240.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-30", "file": "debates1930-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a627d9b3d12e6d45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.264.0", "colnum": "264", "heading": "DEATH DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "t day that this House sits for the purpose of discussing these Resolutions. I would suggest that the Chancellor of the Exchequer might consider whether he could not make some offer on those lines to facilitate business and save time. If he will not do anything of the sort, time will be spent on some of these other Resolutions, and perhaps Resolution No. 2 and Resolution No. 3 may take even longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-30", "file": "debates1930-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a627d9b3d12e6d45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.267.2", "colnum": "267", "heading": "DEATH DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "hing even in a small way to help our growers, but the Government turned it down. The Financial Secretary raised the old bogy of commercial treaties. The Minister of Agriculture was not even here to listen. He may be trying to evolve a policy, but he might, at any rate, consider the suggestions made to him from this side of the House. There is not, I think, very much to be said for this Resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.267.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-30", "file": "debates1930-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a627d9b3d12e6d45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.285.8", "colnum": "285", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have always blocked them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "bury report is adverse to the setting up of further municipal banks. Moreover, a general Bill was brought in in 1923 for the setting up of municipal banks, and it died. In 1925 another Bill was introduced and died. Similarly in 1926; and in 1927 another Bill, based on the Birmingham model, were introduced and died. On many occasions other municipalities have tried to obtain powers and have failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.285.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-30", "file": "debates1930-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a627d9b3d12e6d45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.285.8", "colnum": "285", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ok what would have gone into other banks, had they been handy. The figures show the total Post Office Savings Bank deposits on 31st December, 1919 and 1925. The 1925 percentage of the 1919 deposits for the rest of England and Wales was 110, and for Birmingham City 82. Why was this? It was because the extra facilities offered in Birmingham had filched away the money from the other forms of savings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.285.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-30", "file": "debates1930-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a627d9b3d12e6d45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.289.7", "colnum": "289", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose objections?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "er an uncompromising opposition to the proposals in this Bill; we have no intention or wish to hold up the Bill. We had hoped that by patting down these Amendments, the Cardiff authorities would make some accommodation with our views. There may be, and I think that there are probably, some middle courses that would meet our objections and the objections which I have outlined in the two Amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.289.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-30", "file": "debates1930-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a627d9b3d12e6d45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "preceding_text": "ome down to this House for discussion. They are very remarkable. To begin with, in Committee upstairs these Clauses were carried by a majority of one, the Chairman having voted twice. I have always understood that it is the usual practice for the Chairman of a Committee, where there is a proposed innovation, not to give his casting vote in favour of the innovation, but in favour of the status quo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-30", "file": "debates1930-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a627d9b3d12e6d45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.294.2", "colnum": "294", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "preceding_text": " of this magnitude should be decided by what I will call unusual procedure on the part of the Chairman. I want to call attention to the number and quality of the witnesses who were called to be examined on this question. There were three witnesses, all of whom were prejudiced, biased, and with interests to serve. There was the general manager of the Birmingham Bank, and nobody would suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.294.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-30", "file": "debates1930-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a627d9b3d12e6d45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.295.2", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALIN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALIN", "preceding_text": "pal Bank. When they examined the deposits of the Birmingham Municipal Bank they estimated, and it was a conservative estimate, that no less than 30 per cent. had been diverted from the Post Office Savings Bank, that 20 per cent. had been diverted from investment in National Savings Certificates, that 15 per cent. had been diverted from the ordinary joint stock banks and ordinary investments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-30", "file": "debates1930-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a627d9b3d12e6d45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "preceding_text": "ousing and other fixed capital expenditure. There are very obvious dangers in borrowing short and lending long in this fashion, and these dangers are much more considerable when the risk is concentrated in one place.…My Lords would therefore find it necessary to oppose the Bill if the Clauses in question are proceeded with. What has altered the Treasury view in this very short space of time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-30", "file": "debates1930-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a627d9b3d12e6d45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.304.0", "colnum": "304", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. HENDERSON, Junr.", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. HENDERSON, Junr.", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member who has just spoken wound up his speech with a very violent attack upon Members on these benches, alleging, among other things, that we were seeking to cheapen money at the expense of thrift.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.304.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-30", "file": "debates1930-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a627d9b3d12e6d45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.308.0", "colnum": "308", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"General.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ts financial stability, and for the efficiency with which its municipal affairs are carried on. But it must be recognised, as my hon. Friend beside me has pointed out to the House, that we are in the presence of a report of a very well qualified and weighty Committee appointed in 1926 which definitely recommended that no further extension of municipal banks should take place at least for 10 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-30", "file": "debates1930-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a627d9b3d12e6d45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.317.2", "colnum": "317", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "ion and there is not the smallest doubt that I am stating it correctly. The decision of the Treasury at any time is the decision of the Government. It has no more independent position of the Treasury Ministers than the Ministry of Health or the Home Office or any other Department has of its Ministers. No one who has any knowledge of constitutional practice in this country will deny that statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.317.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-30", "file": "debates1930-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a627d9b3d12e6d45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "A local authority with 150,000 population should be entitled to apply, and below that the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.318.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-04-30", "file": "debates1930-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a627d9b3d12e6d45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Shame!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "her in the case of any future municipal bank it should adopt the principle actually in vogue in the Birmingham bank or bring the new banks into line with the trustees savings bank. After full consideration it has been decided that the rate applicable to new municipal banks should be along the lines of the trustee savings banks rather than along the lines adopted with regard to the Birmingham bank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.318.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-30", "file": "debates1930-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a627d9b3d12e6d45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.320.3", "colnum": "320", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "I would prefer if the hon. Member would allow me to proceed with my statement. I have to deal with one question at a time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.320.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-04-30", "file": "debates1930-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a627d9b3d12e6d45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.324.0", "colnum": "324", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Both!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "preceding_text": "ely failed. In the circumstances I am opposed to these two Clauses being in the Bill. It is far too great an issue to be decided after so short a debate, and without the great questions which are before the House having been answered by the Financial Secretary. The real question which he ought to have answered is, \"Is a State savings bank a good thing, or is a municipal savings bank a good thing?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-04-30a.324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-01", "file": "debates1930-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fc10e3d3df42ab5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.349.4", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIAN NATIONALS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "When these gentlemen were engaged in the business of Arcos they did, as was proved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.349.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-01", "file": "debates1930-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fc10e3d3df42ab5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.358.5", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "Is the President of the Board of Education aware that in these provided schools absolute doctrinal points are taught, such as the belief in the Virgin birth and other religious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.358.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-01", "file": "debates1930-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fc10e3d3df42ab5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.365.5", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "That is not so. There is no gap. There is continuity of payment. I have tried to explain it on several occasions. It really needs a blackboard and easel to make it perfectly plain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.365.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-01", "file": "debates1930-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fc10e3d3df42ab5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.401.3", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHITE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHITE", "preceding_text": "ncome Tax is anything but a disadvantage, but there is a great deal of evidence in contradiction of the suggestion made by a previous speaker that Income Tax is a deterrent to enterprise. The Colwyn Committee went into that question with very great care, and it is part of their Report, I believe, that in certain circumstances an increased direct taxation is a direct stimulus to enterprising firms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.401.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-01", "file": "debates1930-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fc10e3d3df42ab5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.434.0", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Have you not used the money?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-01", "file": "debates1930-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fc10e3d3df42ab5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.434.3", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Doles!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " is going to cost me £200 a year. I have been thinking of getting a new motor car, but I will not do so. Therefore, there is a loss of employment in the making of the motor car.\" If that £200 coming into the Exchequer had been thrown into the sea, it is true that there would have been that loss of employment, but that is not the case. It helps to pay war pensions, old age pensions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-01", "file": "debates1930-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fc10e3d3df42ab5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.435.4", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "en (Mr. Boothby) made a contribution to this Debate. He stated, as he usually does, with all the authority of official experience behind him, that my Budget proposals had had a very disastrous effect upon the national credit. I suppose that one of the effects of my Budget is the fact that the Bank Rate is down to-day by another half per cent., the lowest figure at which it has stood since the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.435.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-01", "file": "debates1930-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fc10e3d3df42ab5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.438.4", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman might have to sit down for some considerable time. I am not called upon to defend the policy or the lack of policy of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.438.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-01", "file": "debates1930-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fc10e3d3df42ab5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.438.4", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman might have to sit down for some considerable time. I am not called upon to defend the policy or the lack of policy of the Government. [ Interruption. ] The right hon. Gentleman has issued a challenge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.438.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-01", "file": "debates1930-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fc10e3d3df42ab5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.439.2", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only half an hour!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "o the lot of a Member of this House to have to make proposals to Parliament which are necessarily of a serious and disagreeable character, one must, always admire those qualities of mind which enable him to lighten the character of his proposals by the charming and agreeable manner in which he commends them to the House and the country. The right hon. Gentleman has addressed us for nearly an hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-01", "file": "debates1930-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fc10e3d3df42ab5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.439.2", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "m the opposite benches before and during the General Election, had been brought to nothing, or to virtually nothing, by the influence and authority—I do not say whether rightly or wrongly; that is not my argument at the moment—of the right hon. Gentleman and the very powerful Department over which he presides with so much complacency. That was the substance of what my hon. Friend said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-01", "file": "debates1930-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fc10e3d3df42ab5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.444.0", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "e means for which this revenue is required. Let the right hon. Gentleman print on the back of his forms, if he is truthful, that more than half of the expenditure of the sixpenny increase on the Income Tax—a large proportion of it at any rate—is required in order that further and better doles may be paid to people who may not even be asked whether they are genuinely seeking work or not", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-01", "file": "debates1930-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fc10e3d3df42ab5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.485.8", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "centage of any man's income above a certain figure, and I submit that that is a far more extortionate rate than was ever applied in the days when kings employed barbarous methods to extract wealth from the Jews. I do not expect to see the present Chancellor of the Exchequer locking up rich men in the Tower of London and extracting their teeth one by one in order to make them disgorge their wealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.485.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-01", "file": "debates1930-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fc10e3d3df42ab5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.487.0", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " Exchequer earlier, had produced any good to British trade. I ask the right hon. Gentleman if he will take the trouble to look at the figures of unemployment and the figures of taxation from 1922 onwards. If he does so, he will notice that each reduction of taxation was followed by a reduction in the number of unemployed and this reduction went on, quite steadily, until the General Strike in 1926.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.487.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-01", "file": "debates1930-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fc10e3d3df42ab5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "of the wealth produced in the country, and ultimately the higher the taxation, the less there is available for those engaged in productive industry; and it is my firm belief that high taxation tends to depress wages all round and that ultimately, although you may camouflage the thing temporarily by saying that it is put on the rich, it is paid by the workers of this country to a very large extent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-01", "file": "debates1930-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fc10e3d3df42ab5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.498.0", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There was!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "embers of Parliament to reduce the Income Tax. The Income Tax reduction was tried. Why was it tried? The urge was that, if the Income Tax were reduced, trade would improve. It was reduced, and it has been reduced in one form or another by nearly £135,000,000 a year. That was previous to 1929. But the wheels of industry have not revolved any more as a result. There was no improvement in trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.498.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-01", "file": "debates1930-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fc10e3d3df42ab5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.498.0", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "ng of an additional £24,000,000 or £25,000,000 is going to smash it? Has it come to that? If it has then it is not much credit to them. We have not had the control of industry on this side of the House, and we have never had in our hands the enormous powers residing in the hands of the entrepreneur. In the main the gentlemen who have controlled industry from the time of Adam Smith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.498.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-01", "file": "debates1930-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fc10e3d3df42ab5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.498.0", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": " from the rich we shall use the argument put forward by the hon. Member for East Leicester (Mr. Wise) and urge it on the ground that, in our view, wealth is not produced in the way that hon. Members opposite would lead us to suppose. Hon. Members talk as though a person went into business, built it up, made a profit, and then he was taxed on his profits. That is not the way business is carried on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.498.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-01", "file": "debates1930-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fc10e3d3df42ab5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "tution of this country. Now it is a doctrine that is almost entirely abrogated, and we find vast taxation with practically no representation at all. Hon. Members may think it a ridiculous argument to put but I think they will realise that it is a fair one that at the present day a man who may be paying £5,000 a year to the State may be out-voted at an election by two girls of 21 years of age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-01", "file": "debates1930-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fc10e3d3df42ab5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "s in which the source of taxation can be destroyed without being taken away or anything of the sort. I will give the House an example of what I mean. I will assume that a man has money invested in the Rolls Royce Company from which he draws an income of £500 a year. It has been the custom of that man, every five years, to purchase from the company a Rolls Royce car. This taxation comes along.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-01a.503.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-06", "file": "debates1930-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "901a4bd223e280de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-06a.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN BAKER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN BAKER", "preceding_text": "ailed that it is only those who are administering who have a million to one chance of understanding the matter clearly. I have had half a dozen insurance policies. They were all taken out prior to 1916. My income has never been, and is not now, £2,000 a year. The amount of insurance was not one-sixth of my annual income. I ought to have had relief at the full rate of tax. I have never had it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-06a.821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-06", "file": "debates1930-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "901a4bd223e280de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-06a.823.4", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to dispute your Ruling, but I want to say respectfully that two Members on the Opposition benches have already spoken about Death Duties, and almost brought tears to the eyes of the sceptre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-06a.823.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-08", "file": "debates1930-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "695bcc0e07962929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1240.1", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the middleman!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "emes are in the position of tax collectors. They are the people who get the benefits, and this Bill is part of the same game. It seems to me obvious why prices are high. There are several reasons, and one of them is taxation. The results of taxation are astonishing. It works its way right through all departments of life, from the producer to the dealer, the broker, the wholesaler and the retailer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-08", "file": "debates1930-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "695bcc0e07962929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1240.1", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "l these things go on to the cost of the articles sold in the shop. Then there is the burden involved in the Shop Hours Act, which, undoubtedly, adds to the cost of production. If you shorten the hours, if you shorten the period during which the shops keep open, you diminish competition and cut out the small shopkeeper and leave the big stores and the co-operative societies to earn their dividends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-08", "file": "debates1930-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "695bcc0e07962929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1240.1", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like your profession.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "ses it is very largely a matter of taxation. In addition, we find that the people in the unsheltered trades like railwaymen, municipal employés, building employés, everybody in a non-competitive trades, through the efforts of their unions—perfectly properly—are having their remuneration put up to a more comfortable figure than that which is obtainable in the producing trades.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-08", "file": "debates1930-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "695bcc0e07962929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1240.1", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": " would be much nicer to get it at 6d. These combines work on infinitesimal fractions. I believe it is a fact, in the case of the meat combine, that the meat imported from South America costs practically nothing at all. I am told that Armours' Combine make their profit out of the hair, hides, hoofs, and horns. I am told they make practically nothing on the meat at all, depending on the by-products.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-08", "file": "debates1930-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "695bcc0e07962929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1246.2", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And legal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "ifficulty. By the course we are taking we shall create more and more officials, a greater bureaucracy. The President of the Board of Trade incautiously quoted the example of Rome. Rome perished for no other reason than that huge numbers of people began to try to live on the productive classes. We here are carrying far too large a load of governing machinery, both Parliamentary and municipal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1246.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-08", "file": "debates1930-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "695bcc0e07962929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1251.2", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rot!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "lace in a great many different ways. You may have 15 or 20 men working together in a shop, all receiving the same rates of pay per hour and per week. As hon. Members opposite know perfectly well, you may have men in a shop like that who do not pull their weight, and those men are just as much profiteering as the man who may take a rather larger percentage than other people think he is entitled to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-08", "file": "debates1930-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "695bcc0e07962929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Virtues of combination!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "preceding_text": "at was her best safeguard. I do not know whether it is 3,000 or 4,000 or 5,000 shops in this country that are under the control of the Meat Trust, but I do know that more than one shop under that control may be found even in the same street. In some cases those who are actually managing the shops themselves do not know in whose service they are, that they are indeed part of the great meat combine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-08", "file": "debates1930-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "695bcc0e07962929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1269.0", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too high!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "dinarily interesting one, was that of milk. In the case of milk, during the War, an attempt was made to fix the price before control was obtained of the supplies, and from that we come to a number of points which bear vitally upon the operation of this plan. In the first place, it was found necessary, for fear of stopping the production of milk, to fix the price, not very low, but very high—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-08", "file": "debates1930-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "695bcc0e07962929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1284.0", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "e first place, what you require, apparently, is further information. Certainly, that is what the Food Council said. They said they could not get from these master bakers the precise figures on which to give a decision, and that is the case for further inquiry. That is the first thing. Secondly, when you do get a well-informed public opinion, I am certain they will bring their weight to bear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-08", "file": "debates1930-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "695bcc0e07962929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1284.0", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have done!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "on. Members to listen. I confirm that by saying that an hon. Gentleman who addressed the House about an hour or so ago said he spoke for the co-operative societies who catered for half the population of this country. If the co-operative societies cater for half the population of this country and wish to increase their clientele, why cannot they come into competition by selling at the proper price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-08", "file": "debates1930-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "695bcc0e07962929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1285.0", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Co-operative Society?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "igation they will have to go further. Plenty of instances might be given in regard to this matter. The Conservative Agricultural Committee of this House asked that the question of the difference in the wholesale and retail price of market garden produce should be investigated—an important question. I do not know a subject which will stand investigation with more profit to the general public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-08", "file": "debates1930-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "695bcc0e07962929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1295.4", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL [EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "ltural Credits Bill. He gave one day for the Second Reading and, immediately after the Second Reading, he proposed to put the Financial Resolution, although as a matter of fact there were no fewer than six amendments to it and it provided for a contemplated expenditure of £812,500, whereas this Resolution, which is purely for the mechanism of the Bill, provides for not more than £20,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1295.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-08", "file": "debates1930-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "695bcc0e07962929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1298.0", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL [EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HOH. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "I should like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-08", "file": "debates1930-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "695bcc0e07962929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1298.0", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL [EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "are to form this Council, to select them entirely himself by his own choice, or to invite any bodies, either to nominate members on to the Council or make suggestions for his approval. For example, are we to have an accountant upon it, are we to have a representative of the manufacturers, a representative of traders, a, representative of agriculture? These seem to me to be very relevant questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-08", "file": "debates1930-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "695bcc0e07962929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1314.0", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL [EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "preceding_text": "an hour or so ago. The fact that the Bill and the Resolution are so widely drawn, coupled with the very small estimate that is put upon the expenses of the administration, show, I should think sufficiently plainly, that the Government are not in any way in earnest, and have no intention of carrying out the Bill on the lines which they have been trying to make out the whole of to-day because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-08a.1314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1337.2", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "idence and to hear the views of the people concerned. Apart from that, there is another interesting fact about the opposition to the Bill. Every single social worker amongst the canal boat people with whom we have got into touch—clergymen, lay missioners, people who have devoted their lives to social reform, and have assisted in educating the canal boat children—is opposed to the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1343.0", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HERBERT NIELD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More irrelevance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HERBERT NIELD", "preceding_text": "We have listened to an irrelevant speech and we have also listened to a most persuasive, and; I was going to say, misleading speech from my right hon. Friend the Member for North Cornwall (Sir D. Maclean).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1345.0", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain AUSTIN HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain AUSTIN HUDSON", "preceding_text": "rences of opinion on that question. There is also the allegation as regards child labour. The Noble Lady the Member for Perth and Kinross (Duchess of Atholl) told us a story of how she was in a lock-keeper's house and saw a child doing work for which it was quite unfitted. Other allegations of that kind have been made, both in this House and outside. Let them be inquired into properly, under oath.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1347.0", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "We are so confident of the facts on which we base our desire to pass this Bill that we, above all people, welcome the chance to have our case established on oath and to confound our opponents.\"I cannot help thinking that this is one of those over-sentimental things which are from time to time inflicted upon this House. I believe we are regarded throughout the world as the most hypocritical people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1347.0", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The same ones?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": " that this is one of those over-sentimental things which are from time to time inflicted upon this House. I believe we are regarded throughout the world as the most hypocritical people. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"] I mean the people as a whole, of whom the Labour party are substantial and accurate representatives. This is a thoroughly hypocritical Bill. People have lived on barges for centuries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1356.1", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "[OFFICIAL REPORT, (Standing Committee B), 13th March, 1930, cols. 99–103.] There you have the zealous educationist, who says, \"Education at all costs! It does not matter whether the accommodation is there, whether it can be provided, whether it is within the means of the parents. Here is a child of school age living on a canal boat. We are going to have that child educated at whatever cost.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1362.3", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": " people receive comparatively low wages. On the contrary, it is a point directly opposed to the views they have put forward because, if they receive low wages, there is all the less reason for compelling them to keep two establishments. If your objection is to the low wages paid in the industry, you should not proceed to deal with it through this Bill but by some means of getting the wages raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1363.3", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "If some hon. Members opposite had been at Eton, they would not have such childish views as they possess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1363.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1363.3", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "peaker's attention if I am subjected to consistent irrelevant and impertinent interruptions. The Bill affects 400 families and something like 1,600 children. I ask the House again, where are these children to go? Is it contemplated, if the Clause is not passed, that they should sleep in the streets or the workhouses, failing other accommodation? Let the supporters of the Bill answer that question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1363.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1363.3", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ems that the ladies and gentlemen in Parliament are more concerned that we should be educated than that we should have anywhere to live, eat and sleep.\" It will be monstrous if this Clause is not added to the Bill. I have a further observation to make. It is a sinister fact that in the general strike the only branch of the transport workers who did not come out on strike were the barge population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1363.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1364.0", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": " is the history of this Bill? It is true that the Bill, when originally introduced into the House of Commons, was far more complicated in its character than it is now. In its passage through the Committee it had to undergo a considerable amount of discussion, and, as a consequence of that discussion, considerable Amendment. As a result, the Bill is now for all practical purposes an Education Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1366.4", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Earl WINTERTON rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1366.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1366.6", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "What about your supporters?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1366.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1376.4", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Longer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "noured citizens who were seeking protection for their homes and their children. There was a Mrs. Tolley there, I believe, a lady of a physique like that of the eminent golfer, who defied the supporters of this Bill. I do not know exactly how long it is since canals were first constructed, but at any rate for a couple of centuries these people have been carrying on their occupation in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1376.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1380.0", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "preceding_text": " Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education to state that principle, and it has not received as much endorsement by hon. Friends on the benches behind me as I am sure, on reflection, they would wish to give it. Undoubtedly, it seems to me, the Clause suggests a system under which a canal boat man could sit still and wait for a local education authority to find suitable accommodation.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "preceding_text": "other point, to which attention has been called more than once by the right hon. and learned Member for Ealing (Sir H. Nield), who has told us of the probability that before long proposals may be made for widening some of the canals, and that if they are widened, it will mean the introduction of quite a different type of boat, for which the child labour, which, it is admitted, is being used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1384.2", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore DOUGLAS KING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore DOUGLAS KING", "preceding_text": " You are placing this obligation on them to make arrangements for their children, either by providing another home on shore and doing away with their home on board the canal boat, or by making suitable provision for the children either directly or through the local authority. You are throwing a considerable obliga- tion upon the parents, and heavy penalties if they do not carry out the obligation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1384.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1386.1", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member talks about homes that are fit to be called homes. That is what we want to ensure under this Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1386.9", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commodore KING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commodore KING", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member knows the dimensions. I am not disputing the size, but I say the size is not everything. Those cabins are the centre of the home life of the family, and I maintain that it is home life that is at the foundation of the British character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1386.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1387.6", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. DUNCAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. DUNCAN", "preceding_text": "Oh, he did not do that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1387.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1391.0", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commander SOUTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander SOUTHBY", "preceding_text": "I do not think the hon. Member for Claycross (Mr. Duncan) would like to go down to the Paddington basin and tell the bargemen there that their children are illiterate and uneducated. If he did I know where he would find himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1391.0", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commander SOUTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander SOUTHBY", "preceding_text": " to prison, although we do not act in this way in regard to any other section of the community.\" Would any hon. Member opposite who sits for an industrial constituency dare to go to his constituency and say to any of his supporters, \"If your children do not go to school, I will send you to prison, with or without hard labour\"? I venture to say that not a single Member opposite would dare to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1397.2", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": "o move, in page 1, line 7, to leave out the word \"thirty-two\" and to insert instead thereof the word \"thirty-three.\" It was thought that the time stated in the Bill was wholly insufficient. We asked for a delay of five years, and pointed out that three years was an absolutely essential minimum period to enable us to make such arrangements as, at any rate, would enable the elimination of hardships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1397.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1400.2", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MORDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MORDEN", "preceding_text": "d, and, what is more, they are helping to educate their fathers and mothers. These children take books home and read them to their parents. They read well, which shows that they are being educated. If anyone will take the trouble to go to the barges, meet the parents, see the children and talk with them, they will find that the children can read and write better than most children in other places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1400.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1403.0", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ven days a week—and the only time in which they will be able to look for this alternative rural accommodation is when they may be free. The time they will have to look for this new accommodation will be very limited. Hon. Members who may have had to move know the tremendous difficulty there is in finding suitable accommodation, and it would be very much harder for these people on the barges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-09", "file": "debates1930-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "303cbe5a7200159e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1414.1", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL BOATS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "lly, to expect to get a Clause of this importance without any advice from the legal officers, seems to be rather too much of a good thing. I am particularly glad to be able to second the Amendment, because my constituency is one in which we have a good many people who are concerned with barges. We have a wonderful system of drainage dating back to the time of the Normans. I took the trouble—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-09a.1414.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-12", "file": "debates1930-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "024108817a480869", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1436.0", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman wants an answer to a different question. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] He asked about permits, and I have given him the answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1436.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-12", "file": "debates1930-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "024108817a480869", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1436.1", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "The latter part of the question is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-12", "file": "debates1930-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "024108817a480869", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1441.2", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. My hon. Friend rose to ask a question, and the hon. Member for Dartford (Mr. Mills) promptly called out, at the top of his voice, that it was a mischievous question. I ask you, Sir, whether you are not the authority to say whether or not a question should be put, and whether we are to be defended from the gross, offensive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1441.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-12", "file": "debates1930-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "024108817a480869", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1447.8", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET DECISION (PRESS PUBLICATION).", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "d furnished the information. The police officials, on my directions, then got in touch with this correspondent on the telephone, and arranged with him that he should be interviewed at his private house as he particularly desired to avoid any publicity. The House would not desire me to make any statement as to the extent or nature of the information I have received, nor would it be proper to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1447.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-12", "file": "debates1930-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "024108817a480869", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1449.2", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET DECISION (PRESS PUBLICATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "Arising from the Attorney-General's statement, is it not a fact that the three much-respected Lobby journalists concerned only made a proper inference from certain general statements? Is it not a fact that the Viceroy in India supplied the correspondents of the various newspapers with advance information, and, in fact, the \"Daily Telegraph's\" correspondent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1449.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-12", "file": "debates1930-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "024108817a480869", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1485.0", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VI. MIINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUXTON", "preceding_text": "Yes, it is actually in the Estimate. I think that we may fairly assume that we have improved the system, which will cover all our main agricultural products apart from cereals. I must not take up any more time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1485.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-12", "file": "debates1930-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "024108817a480869", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1514.0", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VI. MIINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "hat no party individually has been able to arrest up to the present time. I have taken a very serious view of the matter for a great many years. Like the hon. Member who has just sat down, I come of a race of farmers, and I am try? ing to earn a precarious living by getting back to the land. I need no one else to convince me of agricultural depression; my recent experiences will be quite adequate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-12", "file": "debates1930-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "024108817a480869", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1514.0", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VI. MIINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " answer. The trouble is that each of us is seeking an answer in the direction of his own policy, and not seeking an answer in the terms of the best business proposition for reviving the industry. I should have thought a Parliament like this, in which no party has a majority, was pre-eminently the Parlia- ment to deal with this problem. I do not know how long the Government are going to last—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1514.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-12", "file": "debates1930-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "024108817a480869", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1540.2", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VI. MIINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALLAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALLAS", "preceding_text": "ties that were referred to. The Farmers' Union thought that it was the political parties, and they have accused the late Government of not fulfilling their pledge, because they did not call a conference of the political parties. What the right hon. Gentleman said was a conference of the farmers, landowners and workers, which is accepted by the people in the industry as not carrying out the pledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1540.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-12", "file": "debates1930-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "024108817a480869", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1555.0", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VI. MIINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount ELMLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Free Trade!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount ELMLEY", "preceding_text": "ad two glaring instances brought to my notice showing that our marketing system could be improved. Recently a certain city council asked for tenders for the supply of oats for their cart-horses. Six firms quoted, but only three were British, and they did not offer British oats. They offered oats from Chile. That is a state of affairs which, with a little imagination and energy, could be put right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-12", "file": "debates1930-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "024108817a480869", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1576.1", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VI. MIINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "He accused the leader of the Conservative party of having made a promise at the General Election of 1924 which he never did make, and, when confronted with the words of the promise, refused to withdraw. I have the words of the leader of the Conservative party with me and I can read them to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-12", "file": "debates1930-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "024108817a480869", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1578.1", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VI. MIINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is why it is so prosperous!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member asks me what is wrong with that? I say it is admirable, but not a single one of them has been carried out, and the hon. Member has the face to come here and compare our record with the record of his own party. When the Conservative party was in office we did more to help the agricultural industry than any previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-12", "file": "debates1930-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "024108817a480869", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1578.2", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VI. MIINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "arly an equal decline. For example, the import of oats from other countries was 6,298,000 cwts. in 1928 and 4,575,000 cwts. in 1929. Whilst I am not in the least minimising the importance of the desolating effect upon prices of these bounty-fed German oats, we have to remember that their importation was coincident with an almost equivalent reduction in the importation of oats from other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1578.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-12", "file": "debates1930-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "024108817a480869", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1585.0", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VI. MIINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": " recognise the fact that the marketing of this commodity is now being dealt with in circumstances entirely unprecedented in pre-War years. We have to adapt our machinery to those circumstances, and it is perfectly clear that they can only be dealt with by legislation introduced into the House of Commons, and I will not court being called to order by anticipating what can be done in that direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-12a.1585.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-13", "file": "debates1930-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "60bd6a589e4a590f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-13a.1626.2", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAFEGUARDING AND IMPORT DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Will the Chancellor of the Exchequer be present at the reception of this deputation, or is he going to pay a personal call on Nottingham?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-13a.1626.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-13", "file": "debates1930-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "60bd6a589e4a590f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-13a.1635.1", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman consider whether in all the circumstances it would not be more convenient to give a further half-day for the Second Reading.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-13a.1635.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-14", "file": "debates1930-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "46b320f71c0962f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.1914.1", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": " tariff there is a whole list of goods in the production of which British labour is employed. I have a list of the duties here, and while I do not wish to trouble the Committee by going through it in detail, I shall be pleased to supply the particulars to any hon. Members. The duties were 50 per cent. on British goods. It is true that there was another 10 per cent. on goods from foreign countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.1914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-14", "file": "debates1930-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "46b320f71c0962f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.1914.1", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "ds from foreign countries. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Hon. Members are very pleased with small mercies, but on top of that 50 per cent. they have put another 50 per cent. It is common knowledge that hundreds of orders have been cancelled in consequence and that Australia is to be regarded as practically a closed market for British goods of many kinds, especially hosiery and ready-made garments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.1914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-14", "file": "debates1930-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "46b320f71c0962f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.1914.1", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Free Trade!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "er it is not wise, at a time when we want trade, to bring our postage in line with that between the United States and the Argentine. Then our freights are high. It is common knowledge that it is cheaper to send goods from South America to Germany than from South America to London, because of preferential rates for German goods. The President of the Board of Trade ought to be active in that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.1914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-14", "file": "debates1930-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "46b320f71c0962f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.1914.1", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "Board of Trade ought to be active in that matter. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Free Trade!\"] It is a ring, a combine. Our British shipowners, unfortunately, have got together in a combine and have come to an agreement, patriotic people as they are, with the German shipowners, whom they have allowed to give preferential rates on condition that their ships should not compete with this country in South America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.1914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-14", "file": "debates1930-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "46b320f71c0962f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.1919.1", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like coal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "or that industry. They put their case before a committee, and the report of that committee was about due when the last. General Election took place. They have stated that for certain types of cloth, particularly the lighter 11-ounce cloths, Safeguarding was absolutely necessary in order that they might extract a price for their cloth upon the market which would enable them to increase their trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.1919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-14", "file": "debates1930-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "46b320f71c0962f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.1919.1", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What have they gained by it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": " the report was published, the workers of Yorkshire had an opportunity to give a decision upon the matter. All the Safeguarding candidates in industrial constituencies in Yorkshire at the last election were swept out and in their place the constituencies selected candidates who support my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the policy against Safeguarding which he is now pursuing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.1919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-14", "file": "debates1930-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "46b320f71c0962f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.1927.4", "colnum": "1927", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Marquess of TITCHFIELD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come to Blackpool!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Marquess of TITCHFIELD", "preceding_text": "every one will tell you that if it had not been safeguarded there would not be any lace trade in Nottingham to-day. I would rather take the opinion of people who have had immense practical experience of the trade than the opinion of some of my hon. Friends opposite who have probably never been into a lace factory in their lives. Paris, I understand, dresses all the smart women of the world to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.1927.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-14", "file": "debates1930-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "46b320f71c0962f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.1952.0", "colnum": "1952", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And English!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": ". The position is that, whereas Hollywood was an admirable centre when you were dealing merely with non-talking pictures, because you could use any language there, the Americans now are at a great disadvantage, because they use the original English language for production, and then the work has to be done all over again in five different languages—French, German, Spanish, Italian and Swedish", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.1952.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-14", "file": "debates1930-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "46b320f71c0962f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.1952.0", "colnum": "1952", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"American English!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": " you were dealing merely with non-talking pictures, because you could use any language there, the Americans now are at a great disadvantage, because they use the original English language for production, and then the work has to be done all over again in five different languages—French, German, Spanish, Italian and Swedish [HON. MEMBERS: \"And English!\"] The original is done in English—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.1952.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-14", "file": "debates1930-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "46b320f71c0962f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.1989.0", "colnum": "1989", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. GIBSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. GIBSON", "preceding_text": "In this Debate, which was opened in such a commendable manner by the hon. Member on the Front Bench opposite, I have notice that in nearly all the speeches that have been delivered from the Conservative benches in defence of Safeguarding there has been an implication that they want Safeguarding because, behind their minds, they imply that they love their country more than we do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.1989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-14", "file": "debates1930-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "46b320f71c0962f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.2000.0", "colnum": "2000", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "loyment level of Nottingham to the level established in other parts of the country. The right hon. Gentleman challenged the figures about the lace industry, and there is much to be said on that point. He said, \"We have not got complete figures,\" but if that is the case, is it not better to pay some attention to the judgment and the experience of the people who are in the industry, masters and men?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.2000.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-14", "file": "debates1930-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "46b320f71c0962f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.2004.1", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "That is a very poor answer, and the hon. Member had better go to support his candidate at Nottingham with that answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.2004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-14", "file": "debates1930-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "46b320f71c0962f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.2004.3", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "Yes, and you will lose it next time. Without question employment is better, initiative and enterprise in that trade have been encouraged, and we have held up a trade which is a diminishing trade all over the world and which, but for the duty which was put on, would be almost in extremis at this moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.2004.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-14", "file": "debates1930-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "46b320f71c0962f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.2004.3", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "Yes, and you will lose it next time. Without question employment is better, initiative and enterprise in that trade have been encouraged, and we have held up a trade which is a diminishing trade all over the world and which, but for the duty which was put on, would be almost in extremis at this moment. [ Interruption. ] I know there is a slight trend of fashion to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.2004.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-14", "file": "debates1930-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "46b320f71c0962f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.2004.3", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ceed? Because the right hon. Gentleman had absolutely nothing to offer. There was another Government which was not handicapped, namely, the French Government. They made representations and their representations were successful because they had a weapon with which to negotiate in their foreign trade. Yet, the President of the Board of Trade says, \"You must not retaliate because it is so dangerous.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.2004.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-14", "file": "debates1930-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "46b320f71c0962f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.2007.0", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. W. R. Smith)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. W. R. Smith)", "preceding_text": "ng to conclude this Debate, I feel that my task is rendered somewhat light, because I think that the points which have been raised, both in regard to the initial question of the Safeguarding of the lace industry, and in regard to the general question of tariffs so far as it has been discussed, have been very largely, if not entirely, met by the speech of my right hon. Friend earlier in the Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.2007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-14", "file": "debates1930-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "46b320f71c0962f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.2008.1", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "I was coming to that point. If the policy of Safeguarding produces the results that its advocates claim for it, that it is the means of producing better wages, it is not an unreasonable point to submit that the better wages ought to be shown in a higher rate of earnings for those engaged in the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.2008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-14", "file": "debates1930-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "46b320f71c0962f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.2010.0", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What have the Government done?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "h the President of the Board of Trade made when he was reviewing the situation, because the one thing which was emphasised very clearly and very emphatically in his observations was the importance of the home market. It is true to say that the Government have, from the first day they took office, given the very closest and most careful consideration to the posibility of developing the home market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-14a.2010.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-15", "file": "debates1930-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2143e6978c26b1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2020.3", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT GIBSON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT GIBSON", "preceding_text": "Is it the Minister's opinion that in exceptional cases like this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2020.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-15", "file": "debates1930-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2143e6978c26b1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2032.7", "colnum": "2032", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALIENS (ISADORE DREAZON).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether the alias under which this man worked is \"Jack Mills\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2032.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-15", "file": "debates1930-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2143e6978c26b1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2101.1", "colnum": "2101", "heading": "LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a point of honour!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "At any rate, it is not a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-15", "file": "debates1930-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2143e6978c26b1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2101.3", "colnum": "2101", "heading": "LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "That is not a point of Order. On the point which was raised by my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-15", "file": "debates1930-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2143e6978c26b1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2102.4", "colnum": "2102", "heading": "LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Run away!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Replying to the point of my right hon. Friend the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2102.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-15", "file": "debates1930-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2143e6978c26b1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2102.4", "colnum": "2102", "heading": "LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Replying to the point of my right hon. Friend the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Run away!\"] Who is running away? I am going to be here for another hour. Replying to the point raised by my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2102.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-15", "file": "debates1930-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2143e6978c26b1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2103.0", "colnum": "2103", "heading": "LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about C and D?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ttleships and 50 cruisers, you have paper equality. But if \"A,\" by sending its cruisers to raid the trade routes of \"B,\" can draw 30 cruisers of \"B\" to protect those trade routes, the resultant forces available for battle will not be equal. \"A\" would have 40 cruisers to protect her battle fleet and find her opponent's battle fleet, and \"B\" would have only 20. The result in the battle sphere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-15", "file": "debates1930-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2143e6978c26b1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2105.1", "colnum": "2105", "heading": "LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "make amends for much. We ask ourselves whether this immense surrender on our part, this sacrifice to which Mr. Stimson has borne unstinted witness, will end the naval controversy between Great Britain and the United States? Shall we reach the position where British and Americans will not worry any more about each other's fleets and leave off ceaselessly comparing them, gun for gun and ton for ton?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-15", "file": "debates1930-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2143e6978c26b1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2105.1", "colnum": "2105", "heading": "LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "nding we do not know how many weeks in the most searching examination of every detail of a matter which, after all, is infinitely less important to them than it is in our case. Therefore, you cannot blame us for worrying while we are forced to consider propositions of this kind. I confess that I would, to end this naval controversy between the two English-speaking peoples, pay a great price—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-15", "file": "debates1930-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2143e6978c26b1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2105.1", "colnum": "2105", "heading": "LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " detail of a matter which, after all, is infinitely less important to them than it is in our case. Therefore, you cannot blame us for worrying while we are forced to consider propositions of this kind. I confess that I would, to end this naval controversy between the two English-speaking peoples, pay a great price—[ Interruption. ]—but not any price. But will this Agreement achieve it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-15", "file": "debates1930-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2143e6978c26b1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2114.2", "colnum": "2114", "heading": "LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "d States mercantile marine, and he was asked: Is it your suggestion that in order to have parity with Great Britain the United States must have a larger navy than Great Britain, and if so how many cruisers should we need to offset Great Britain's greater merchant tonnage? That is the kind of question being asked over there. Of course, we always welcome my right hon. Friend's great naval knowledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2114.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-15", "file": "debates1930-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2143e6978c26b1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2115.1", "colnum": "2115", "heading": "LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "That is not the point. The real point is, has the Government of the day the support of the House of Commons? That is the real point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-15", "file": "debates1930-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2143e6978c26b1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2116.1", "colnum": "2116", "heading": "LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "to which I should like to have an answer. Here is the opinion of the chief Japanese delegate. I got this from a newspaper of the 12th January, 1930. The chief Japanese delegate said: It is true that the people of Japan do not like the construction of a strong naval base, such as Singapore, in the Pacific. We are friends. Why should our friends come and build this thing at our gates our people ask.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-15", "file": "debates1930-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2143e6978c26b1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2122.1", "colnum": "2122", "heading": "LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "es from land and indescribable suffering was caused. Their crews, in some cases, reached land in open boats, but in other cases they died of hunger and thirst. The submarine commander is to be the judge of the proximity of land. In former rules drawn up at Washington in 1921 relating to submarine warfare the commander who broke the law could be tried as a pirate. This provision has been wiped out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-15", "file": "debates1930-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2143e6978c26b1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2130.0", "colnum": "2130", "heading": "LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is how we got our Empire!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "preceding_text": " navies is a matter of vital interest to us. It is foolish to say that we do not expect war with any other Power. Have we ever expected war? Since the days when the Plantagenet kings invaded France and sought to establish themselves on the French coast, have we ever in our history carried war on to the Continent? We have always been driven into war by circumstances and we have never been prepared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-15", "file": "debates1930-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2143e6978c26b1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2135.0", "colnum": "2135", "heading": "LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MALCOLM MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The French did that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALCOLM MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ifficulties there would have been and insoluble problems if we had tried to calculate what that kind of parity meant to ships belonging to Great Britain and to the United States! We should have had to take into consideration trade routes, defence of our sources of food and other supplies. How are you going to calculate this distinction in terms of capital ships, cruisers, destroyers or submarines?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2135.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-15", "file": "debates1930-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2143e6978c26b1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2188.0", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "I should like to put a question, because it is only fair that the country should know where the party opposite stands on this matter. The right hon. Gentleman said he must, and his party must, disclaim all responsibility for the Treaty. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping went further and said that they must retain the right to review the whole situation at the earliest possible moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-15", "file": "debates1930-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2143e6978c26b1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2189.1", "colnum": "2189", "heading": "LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "o do with past political history, making some good, some indifferent, and some pretty bad. But I do not think that he need worry as to what the view of the country is as to the Government's handling of this Treaty. I resent bitterly the sort of insinuation from the party opposite that members of the Labour party are less anxious about the security and future of the country than the party opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-15a.2189.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-16", "file": "debates1930-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "dc9fb7182627d2d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-16a.2293.2", "colnum": "2293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HAIRDRESSERS' AND BARBERS' SHOPS (SUNDAY CLOSING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "sinesses, used the argument, which convinced me sufficiently to cause me to advise my right hon. Friend not to persist in his Amendment, that if we allowed one-man businesses to open on Sunday, we should enable them to make money at the expense of other people [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]. Certainly. The fact that they close on Saturday does not affect the trade they do on Sunday in the slightest degree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-16a.2293.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-19", "file": "debates1930-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4693bc332df64427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-19a.13.12", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Arising out of the reply to question No. 17, in which it is suggested that the unrest is due to Communistic propaganda, is it not the case that the unrest in India is due to the fact that we, the British, have bled India white for a century and a half?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-19a.13.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-19", "file": "debates1930-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4693bc332df64427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-19a.14.1", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "My point is this, that the statement I have made is the statement of the Leader of this party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-19a.14.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-19", "file": "debates1930-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4693bc332df64427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-19a.55.8", "colnum": "55", "heading": "CLASS 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who pays it now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ct that before the late Government left office they had introduced, perhaps, the greatest Measure that any Government has ever brought forward in this country for the assistance of industry. Under the Local Government Act, industry was relieved of a burden which even the Chancellor of the Exchequer admits was a burden—a burden of rates to the extent of something like £24,000,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-19a.55.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-19", "file": "debates1930-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4693bc332df64427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-19a.55.8", "colnum": "55", "heading": "CLASS 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ttee—and they say: This company finds that the derating of its premises, together with the benefit which it receives from the railway rebates included in the derating scheme, effect a saving for it of 4s. 8¾d. on the cost of every ton of steel plates and sheets which it produces. We all know that great orders, great contracts for steel, turn upon far smaller differences than that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-19a.55.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-19", "file": "debates1930-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4693bc332df64427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-19a.55.8", "colnum": "55", "heading": "CLASS 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ces than that—[ Interruption ]—and taking that typical instance of the benefits which have been conferred upon industry by the derating provisions of the local Government Act, how can anybody doubt that, if it had not been for that Act, these figures, which are so rapidly approaching the 2,000,000 limit, would be far greater to-day even than they are? I dare say we shall be told—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-19a.55.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-19", "file": "debates1930-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4693bc332df64427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-19a.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "CLASS 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I should have excepted hon. Members opposite. They do not agree with anything. I say that we are all agreed, with one exception—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-19a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-19", "file": "debates1930-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4693bc332df64427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-19a.89.2", "colnum": "89", "heading": "CLASS 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": "ion at all. The main objection to rationalisation methods is that they are not rational at all. We have now had it boldly stated from the Front Bench that the party opposite believes in the system of industrial warfare that Marshal Foch declared to be merely war under another form. I hope men and women who call themselves Christian will reconcile that with their religion and with their conscience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-19a.89.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-05-19", "file": "debates1930-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4693bc332df64427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-19a.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "CLASS 1.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "It will help them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "any others are in need of that at this moment? Will it be denied that coal is one of them? Never mind arguing the results of the Coal Mines Bill. Take the history of the coal trade for the last 50 years. Will anyone deny that rationalisation and competent organisation are not necessary in the coal trade? Everyone knows that they are. Safeguarding will not help them. If it will not help them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-19a.102.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-19", "file": "debates1930-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4693bc332df64427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-19a.106.3", "colnum": "106", "heading": "CLASS 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "improve upon that interruption, and his improvement merely means this. Yes, from these benches I say that the conditions I have named are not in the least due to any other Government and the boards of guardians returns of to-day are the best tribute to what this Government has done as far as that matter is concerned. But I am sorry that even my speech should have aroused the ire of my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-19a.106.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-19", "file": "debates1930-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4693bc332df64427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-19a.112.1", "colnum": "112", "heading": "CLASS 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is Socialism?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "his head as if it is a fact. There is a state of affairs for you. What is the use of a Labour Government? What is the use of a Tory Government? The Tories cannot better it, or they would organise with their natural friends, the Liberals, in order to put Labour out. Because they do not see any way, they fear us. They fear the Independent Labour party because we hold the natural solution, Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-19a.112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-19", "file": "debates1930-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4693bc332df64427", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-19a.148.0", "colnum": "148", "heading": "CLASS 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about France?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "preceding_text": "mber for Lowestoft (Sir G. Rentoul) suggests that it is an opportunity for advocating Safeguarding. I think that if one thing more than another has been amply demonstrated in this Debate it is the fact that those countries which depend on Safeguarding, on high tariff barriers, on the taxation of food and raw materials and the like, are the very countries which are suffering most from unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-19a.148.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-20", "file": "debates1930-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0824590f38eb9e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence)", "preceding_text": "cause Income Tax is put on the whole to that extent the amount put to reserve is deficient. That is not a fact. That is not what really happens. A company has to decide how much money it needs, and it puts that money to reserves, and whether the Income Tax be 4s. or 4s. 6d. in the £, the company if it wants to build up its capital resources can put the requisite money to reserves in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-20", "file": "debates1930-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0824590f38eb9e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence)", "preceding_text": "oundation in fact, because the company is at liberty to modify, say, from 20 to 18 per cent. the dividend it pays to ordinary shareholders. In the case quoted by the right hon. Member for Hillhead of the large amount of tax paid, that was a case in which very large dividends had been and have been paid on many occasions by the company. I do not pretend to have dealt with this question fully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-20", "file": "debates1930-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0824590f38eb9e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": " to be drawn from the 20,000,000 incomes in this country, or, rather, the £3,100,000,000 which during the year 1927–28 was assessable to Income Tax; that is to say, the last figure, which will probably have excited the most attention, does not cover the whole income of weekly wage-earners, but it reflects that part of the income of weekly wage-earners which is susceptible to Income Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-20", "file": "debates1930-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0824590f38eb9e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "They have announced, in places where men meet, that they are waiting for the unemployment figure to reach the two million mark, and then: \"Out you come!\" On the unemployment issue the Government, cannot depend for support from hon. and right hon. Members on the benches below the Gangway opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-20", "file": "debates1930-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0824590f38eb9e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": " is only one broad mistake that a Labour Government can make, and that is not the mistake of being too courageous but the mistake of being too timid. I repeat what I said a few weeks ago, the foreign record of our Government has been a brilliant one, but the issues upon which the next election are going to be determined are not what the Government have done in Egypt, not what they have done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-20", "file": "debates1930-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0824590f38eb9e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "n honest Budget, instead of a series of dishonest subterfuges, we welcome it. But as an instrument of Socialist financial policy, it is a defective instrument, a timid instrument, and an instrument which disappoints those of us who sit upon this bench. In my view there is real ground for believing that we have entered in this country upon what may be called the Kerensky period in British politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.294.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-20", "file": "debates1930-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0824590f38eb9e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "try of this country. The Chancellor of the Exchequer takes a diametrically opposite view. He positively relishes and enjoys imposing additional taxation on a small section of the community; he thinks direct taxation a positive benefit to industry, and when he comes to Estate Duty or Death Duties he waxes lyrical on the social benefits to be conferred on the country by the imposition of such taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.315.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-20", "file": "debates1930-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0824590f38eb9e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.341.0", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " any way be injured if they were remitted for impartial consideration to a body of practical business men and financiers of high repute, such as has been gathered together in the Economic Advisory Council. But the Chancellor of the Exchequer will have none of this. In the right hon. Gentleman we are face to face with a dual personality. Everyone knows the famous example of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-20", "file": "debates1930-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0824590f38eb9e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.351.3", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Budget?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Gentleman exerting himself to prove that all the evil features have been driven out and that it only remains for the Liberals and Socialists to unite together to ask the House of Commons to assert its rights. There is the impartial umpire, who, after the manner of his kind, swings from one side to the other according to some occult or secret arrangement made behind the back of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.351.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-20", "file": "debates1930-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0824590f38eb9e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A new Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "umber of speeches which have presented old points in a very attractive way. May I call the attention of the House to the Amendment which we are asked to approve. That Amendment proposes that the Finance Bill should be read a Second time upon this day six months, which is, in effect, a Motion for the rejection of the Budget. What would be the effect of the acceptance of this Amendment by the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-20", "file": "debates1930-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0824590f38eb9e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "statement which has often been repeated in the course of the Budget discussions. \"While we are,\" he said, \"increasing taxation, our industrial competitors are reducing theirs.\" America, he told us, is reducing her taxation, but he refrained from giving us any details as to the reduction of taxation in America. He was a little more rash in his reference to Germany. Germany has not reduced taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-20", "file": "debates1930-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0824590f38eb9e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says he had no connection with the company in the years which I quoted. His connection with it, then, has been in the less prosperous years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.356.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-20", "file": "debates1930-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0824590f38eb9e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.356.7", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "Thousands per cent. upon their turnover—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.356.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-20", "file": "debates1930-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0824590f38eb9e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ave been made from a radio talk that I gave to the American public a few weeks ago, in which I referred to our high Income Tax, Estate Duties and Super-tax. The purpose of that talk was to try to impress on the American people, during the sittings of the Naval Conference, the grave waste of expenditure on armaments. Five-sevenths of the expenditure of this country is for war and military purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-20", "file": "debates1930-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0824590f38eb9e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not be offensive!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "Including pensions! Of course. Is not that part of the war? Did war pensions exist before the war? There are war pensions, our annual expenditure on the Army, the Navy and the Air Force, and the War Debt. If the hon. Member who interrupted me is capable of doing a simple sum in arithmetic, let him add those sums together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-20", "file": "debates1930-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0824590f38eb9e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ost economical form of spending. Take the question of what hon. Members call the taxation of capital in the form of Estate Duties. I do not remember any arguments or criticism of that kind being made five years ago when the late Conservative Government increased the duties upon estates. If it be a crime to-day to take from capital in the form of Estate Duties, surely it was a crime five years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-20", "file": "debates1930-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0824590f38eb9e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which organ?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "l to the pre-War figure. I think that change is largely the result of the relaxation of old customs and old ideas due to the War. There is not, especially among well-to-do people, the same disposition to save as was formerly the case. [An HON. HEMBER: \"There is no inducement!\"] They would rather spend it in luxury. I am tempted to quote from a recent number of the official organ of the Tory party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-20", "file": "debates1930-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0824590f38eb9e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "t in luxury. I am tempted to quote from a recent number of the official organ of the Tory party. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Which organ?\"] There is only one official organ of the Tory party, and it is the \"Daily Express.\" There is an article dealing with the woes of a party which arrived at Victoria Station from the Continent. They had come back penniless, having lost all their money at the gambling table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-20", "file": "debates1930-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0824590f38eb9e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "kshire. A neighbour went in one day and found her in a dying condition. She asked, \"Whatever is the matter with you?\" \"Oh,\" was the reply, \"I was out of sorts and went to the doctor and got a bottle of medicine. The first dose did me so much good that I drank the lot, and it is going to kill me.\" The moral of that is that small doses—reasonable doses—applied at regular intervals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-20", "file": "debates1930-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0824590f38eb9e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": ". His speech, when read abroad, is not calculated to raise the prestige of British industry throughout the world. He said that there was a widespread impression throughout the world that this country is down and out; and the party opposite are more responsible for that than anybody else in this country. For the last six years they have kept the industries of this country in a state of uncertainty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-20", "file": "debates1930-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0824590f38eb9e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"King Charles' head!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "hat it would prove an electoral asset to the Tory party. I repeat that there was no other course that I could have followed which would have been so sound, so honest, so calculated to maintain the credit of the country and at the same time less calculated to inflict any injury upon British industry. It is quite true that the King George's head of Protection always crops up with the party opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-20a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-21", "file": "debates1930-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a3502d15ce555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has not been tried.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "e farmer receives which is the real point for him to consider. I should like to reinforce the appeal of my right hon. Friend the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George). I want to see this agricultural question lifted out of the rut of party politics. We shall have to do it at some time. We have had an experience given from the other side of the House of public ownership. That is no good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.442.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-21", "file": "debates1930-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a3502d15ce555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLIDELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLIDELL", "preceding_text": " in wheat prices in this country. I have already said that it is a contributory factor, that it is something which ought to be stopped. In my judgment anything that is subsidised against our manufacturers or our producers, ought to be stopped. But to say that that will meet the case and give the farmer the price which he wants is overstating the case and in my judgment we ought to be very careful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-21", "file": "debates1930-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a3502d15ce555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLIDELL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLIDELL", "preceding_text": "d at home, but there is one way in which the British public can put an end to that situation and that is by demanding British potatoes. A fortnight ago I put a question to the hon. Member for Gorton (Mr. Compton), the Chairman of the Kitchen Committee, as to how many foreign potatoes were being consumed in the House of Commons, where Members are so deeply anxious and concerned about this industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-21", "file": "debates1930-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a3502d15ce555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLIDELL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLIDELL", "preceding_text": "thing of the sort. I am bordering on Free Trade common sense. The point which I want to make is this: With regard to potatoes, very special circumstances have to be taken into consideration, and a fair judgment must be given on those circumstances when we are discussing this matter. There are special circumstances over which we have no control—circumstances of climate and all the rest of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-21", "file": "debates1930-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a3502d15ce555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLIDELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In places it is over a penny!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLIDELL", "preceding_text": "mpensate him for what he has had to lay out to produce them. In the past two years, many farmers and small holders have got less than half the cost of production. It is useless to say that the public have to pay a big price, because the truth is that the public have had cheap potatoes, for the retail price in many parts of the country during recent weeks has been less than one halfpenny per pound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-21", "file": "debates1930-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a3502d15ce555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLIDELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLIDELL", "preceding_text": "ture thought that it was worth while to send his representative to see what happened. A good deal happened. Very many forward steps were taken, and the first real attempt was made at establishing a marketing board for this section of the agricultural industry. If that board had been allowed to function to-day, there would have been a different state of affairs than there is in the potato industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-21", "file": "debates1930-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a3502d15ce555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.470.4", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ten weeks!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "o tell us what they are going to do about the unanimous resolution passed by the conference, and, secondly, to tell us why it is that at the most critical period of the existence of the industry this conference, which was given a great deal of advertisement, and sent off under very distinguished auspices, the Prime Minister himself making some statement—why it is that nearly six weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.470.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-21", "file": "debates1930-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a3502d15ce555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": " in large quantities at cheap prices. The main grievance against the Leader of the party below the Gangway is that he was primarily responsible for the greatest blow which was ever struck at the agricultural industry, and that is the injury that was done by the abolition of the Corn Production Act. I myself, and I believe some of my colleagues, gave a general support at the time to that Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-21", "file": "debates1930-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a3502d15ce555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was during the War.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ion Act. I myself, and I believe some of my colleagues, gave a general support at the time to that Act—[ Interruption ]—I cannot give way to any more interruptions. I know all parties have to share the responsibility, but the primary responsibility is with the Leader of the Liberal party, who is constantly saying that no party is prepared to come to grips with the agricultural problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-21", "file": "debates1930-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a3502d15ce555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Tory party joined in it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "8212;[ Interruption ]—I cannot give way to any more interruptions. I know all parties have to share the responsibility, but the primary responsibility is with the Leader of the Liberal party, who is constantly saying that no party is prepared to come to grips with the agricultural problem. [An HON. MEMBER: \"That was during the War.\"] I know that there was a national agreement during the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.473.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-21", "file": "debates1930-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a3502d15ce555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who made them so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "]—well, not all of them, but thousands of them. As one interested in the country, I ask in Heaven's name why these people make the countryside into such an awful mess? I do not know any people who make the countryside more untidy than the British people when they go on holiday, and I only wish that they would be more tidy. Hon. Members know that we are the most urbanised people in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-21", "file": "debates1930-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a3502d15ce555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "people who make the countryside more untidy than the British people when they go on holiday, and I only wish that they would be more tidy. Hon. Members know that we are the most urbanised people in the world. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Who made them so?\"] I should say it was the Free Trade system and as much as anything else the policy of Mr. Cobden. It is against that system that we are struggling to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-21", "file": "debates1930-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a3502d15ce555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "on. ] However that may be, it does not absolve the Government of the day. No Government has ever given less sympathetic attention to agriculture than the present Government has done. The only Government which has had the courage to remove from the agricultural industry the greatest burden which, in the old days, that industry had to bear—that is the rates—was a Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-21", "file": "debates1930-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a3502d15ce555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.481.10", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. B. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. B. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "ultimate responsibility for any policy that is passed, and whether it fails or whether it succeeds, upon that Government the other parties will place the blame, and if possible claim the credit for themselves if it happens to be a success. It does not matter much who gets the credit or who gets the criticism. I do not suppose, whatever is done, the British farmer will ever be completely satisfied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.481.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-21", "file": "debates1930-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a3502d15ce555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.489.3", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDERS", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"No, we do not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDERS", "preceding_text": "t eradicate political party feeling from the discussion of any economic question, I do not want to continue my speech on those lines, but I am willing to quote at considerable length from documents which I have in my possession if hon. Members doubt my word. If they accept the views expressed by their journals with regard to the responsibility of the party, I will continue to deal with my subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-21", "file": "debates1930-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a3502d15ce555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.492.0", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major BRAITHWAITE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Pretends!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BRAITHWAITE", "preceding_text": "rly in connection with arable agriculture. I think he has wasted one of the most golden opportunities that a Minister of the Crown has ever had in the history of British farming of getting agriculture put on to a sound basis. He has got on this side of the House great sympathy with agriculture, and he has got in his own party lip service to agriculture which, at any rate, pretends to be something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-21", "file": "debates1930-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a3502d15ce555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.492.0", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major BRAITHWAITE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did your Government do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BRAITHWAITE", "preceding_text": "RS: \"Pretends!\"] Definite statements have been made by hon. Members on the other side of their desire to help agriculture. It is a well known fact that on this side everyone will go out of his way to do everything possible to assist the agricultural industry. Surely, a combination of these circumstances formed a most golden opportunity for the Minister to have done something definite and positive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-21", "file": "debates1930-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a3502d15ce555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "preceding_text": "I then rose and put a definite question to him and asked him if he maintained that that was the average price and his retort to me was that if I bought some land I would know more of what I was talking about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-21", "file": "debates1930-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a3502d15ce555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.503.2", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "preceding_text": "know something about it. That impudent suggestion was worthy of the source from which it came. There are one or two matters of detail to which I would invite the attention of the Minister. One is the question of the rapidity with which the inspectors of the Ministry are enabled to deal with cases of swine fever. One or two cases have occurred in my constituency in which there has been great delay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.503.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-21", "file": "debates1930-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a3502d15ce555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "preceding_text": "but the condition of things is too serious for that. There are men of good will who wish to see the countryside revived and feel it is necessary that something should be done, and if we could get those men together, we could find a basis for the revival of agriculture. Of course there will be cries of \"subsidy.\" There are a number of hon. Members round me who objected to the subsidy on sugar beet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-21", "file": "debates1930-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a3502d15ce555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "preceding_text": "dy.\" There are a number of hon. Members round me who objected to the subsidy on sugar beet. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"] The hon. Member may say \"Hear, hear!\" but the fact remains that although that subsidy cost a good deal it had the effect of reducing the price of sugar, and the consumers in this country have received in direct benefit five times the amount of the subsidy which has been paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-21", "file": "debates1930-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a3502d15ce555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.506.4", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Free?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "preceding_text": "Go in and see how far you can get out of it a mutually agreed policy so that this industry can lift its head again with some sense of security.\" I realise that in debating this issue there are three or four industries within agriculture. I come from the smiling county of Somerset, and if hon. Members want a holiday, they should go down there. We will give them rest, Cheddar cheese and cider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.506.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-21", "file": "debates1930-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a3502d15ce555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.521.0", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST WINTERTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "on which is likely to arise with regard to the surplus milk which the present market cannot absorb. I would like to know whether he has taken any steps to impress upon the community the desirability of drinking more milk. I notice that certain traders who are interested in another liquid are spending between £2,000,000 and £3,000,000 a year on advertising the virtues of beer and spirits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-21a.521.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-22", "file": "debates1930-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "dd2bbbe19e83fea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-22a.673.3", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. W. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Buy a cat!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. W. SMITH", "preceding_text": "es under the Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act comes to £25, but on the previous page we have an official who receives a salary of £500 a year as the executive officer under the Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act. I should have thought that, when the Act only costs £25 to administer, it might have been possible to administer it by some cheaper officer than one receiving £500 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-22a.673.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-23", "file": "debates1930-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "47652331820d5cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-23a.769.0", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS (SCOTLAND) ACT (1886 TO 1919) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCOTT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCOTT", "preceding_text": " they seek to turn back the hands of the clock and to go back to a procedure which was discarded some 11 years ago. That is the true type of reactionary Tory proposal. The late Lord Advocate spent 25 minutes in supporting a proposal to delete one Clause of the Bill, and supported it by a rigmarole—for it is no other—of mis-statements of law and misstatements of facts in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-23a.769.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-26", "file": "debates1930-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "a7cfce7699b3f052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-26a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ned, I think from official answers, but certainly from reports in newspapers of widely different views, of the existence of an organisation in that Province, which is called the Red Shirts Organisation. I should suppose the recent most regrettable murder took place as the result of a conflict between police authorities and this organisation. We want to know where these people get their ideas from.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-26a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-26", "file": "debates1930-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "a7cfce7699b3f052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-26a.875.0", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General Sir ALFRED KNOX", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General Sir ALFRED KNOX", "preceding_text": "ion to help them to restore order. Why was this necessary? Simply because of the extreme leniency of not allowing those troops to use their weapons. We have only 60,000 British troops in India to protect a population of 320,000,000. If the British troops are not to be allowed to use their weapons in order to show that we are top dogs in India, then you are going to have far worse trouble in India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-26a.875.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-26", "file": "debates1930-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "a7cfce7699b3f052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-26a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " there was a strong, united, vigorous, combative if you like, party who could take over the reins of Government. The difficulty in India is that if we did say, \"We have no business to govern another people against their will, we have no moral right to be there, we have no business to carry on what is called dirty Imperialism,\" there is no one to whom we can hand over the reins of Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-26a.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-26", "file": "debates1930-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "a7cfce7699b3f052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-26a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Who said that\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARLEY", "preceding_text": " would probably have cut each other's throats and buried each other if we had not turned up at the right moment. It sounds such utter nonsense to be talked across the House by Members who con- sider themselves to be intelligent. When hon. Members opposite criticise this Government they say it has been returned by the irresponsible, illiterate and most ignorant masses of the people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-26a.924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-26", "file": "debates1930-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "a7cfce7699b3f052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-26a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARLEY", "preceding_text": " some responsibility, or are they simply going to talk in a roundabout fashion and come to no agreement and go home again? If a statement were made by the Secretary of State that the conference would be called to discuss a permanent constitution for India and to give a measure of responsible government to Indians, he would have a successful conference, including Gandhi, within the next two months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-26a.924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-26", "file": "debates1930-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "a7cfce7699b3f052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-26a.942.2", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BALFOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BALFOUR", "preceding_text": " and speaking know that their words will be telegraphed tonight to India, and that with some of the people of India they will carry weight instead of merely the contempt of the majority of Members of this House. Those words may carry weight in India, but they carry absolutely no weight among respectable-thinking and orthodox-thinking people in this country who desire to see law and order in India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-26a.942.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-26", "file": "debates1930-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "a7cfce7699b3f052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-26a.943.0", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you object to that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "preceding_text": "itish goods. I remember the late Secretary of State for the Home Department, now Lord Brentford, making a speech in which he said: It is sometimes said that we are in India for the good of the Indians. That is cant. We conquered India by the sword, and we will hold India by the sword, because it is the finest market for British goods in general and for Lancashire goods in particular. We are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-26a.943.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1030.5", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I beg your pardon. I was saying that the Noble Lady might pay some tribute of gratitude to the brewers who co-operated with the late Administration in paying this heavy additional sum into the Exchequer. It was very convenient when it came in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1030.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1118.3", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "let me deal with the right hon. Member for St. George's (Sir L. Worthington-Evans). These duties were not imposed in the first instance in 1924, but go back to 1860 and earlier, though they received some modification in 1924. All these are different kinds of beer that have been manufactured from time to time. There is no import of mum, but these duties are put on to safeguard the British producer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1118.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1122.3", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": " Gentleman has read the Clause. He speaks of the Customs Duty proposed under Sub-section (3). If he will read the Clause, he will find that he is not speaking correctly. Sub-section (3) is a drawback, which is an entirely different thing. The Customs Duty proposed in Sub-section (2) is the additional 6d. to which I have already referred. There was one other point put to me, regarding fermentation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1130.0", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": " Metropolitan method is to be brought up to date by complicating it in this manner! There was a suggestion that the whole country should follow the Metropolitan method and that the rating authority's assessment should be conclusive for all purposes. That raised a considerable outcry in the agricultural districts, and it was not adopted; but why London, in which there is no agricultural land—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1130.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1151.2", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Opposition!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "e morning on the first day of the Committee stage of the Finance Bill. I find that on the first Finance Bill of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill) in 1925, the first day of the Committee proceedings lasted until 3.16 a.m. and the next day's proceedings until 3.52 a.m. and on two other occasions there were sittings which lasted until 5.45 a.m. and 6.20 a.m. respectively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1151.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1177.2", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "preceding_text": "f people or on the same customs and habits of the people. If, for instance, in place of this tax which is going to be repealed, there was going to be imposed another tax on betting, that would be a very good reason for repealing this tax, but, merely to repeal it and thereby lose a couple of hundred thousand pounds or perhaps more, seems to me wrong both because it is encouraging hypocrites—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1177.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1196.5", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": " out the extraordinary difficulties of legislation by reference. I will not pursue the point, but will only ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer or the Financial Secretary to the Treasury definitely to look at Section 15 of the Finance Act, 1926, and tell us if and when Clause 4 becomes law, how much of Section 15 of the Finance Act, 1926, will be left, how much repealed, and, if any is left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1196.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1197.7", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OLIVER STANLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OLIVER STANLEY", "preceding_text": "hancellor of the Exchequer has taken a middle course between these two. He makes no attempt to place the pains and penalties of the law upon bookmakers, but at the same time he refuses to recognise the bookmakers and to take a share of their profits for the State. The right hon. Gentleman has treated us on several occasions during these Debates to what I believe are popularly known as wise cracks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1197.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1204.0", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "l to take their aid and assistance and be supported by their active journalism, and then brush it aside as an unclean thing. Really, for the right hon. Gentleman's own sake, I would advise him to try to make some answer to the arguments. It is not the slightest use sitting there and maintaining a stoney silence. For three or four hours he has contended himself with barking out one single sentence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1204.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1216.3", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "The only contributions which the right hon. Gentleman has made to our Budget debates are insolence and buffoonery", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1216.3", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "e and buffoonery [ Interruption ]. If the right hon. Gentleman is capable of making a reasonable contribution to our debates, the House will be ready to hear him. He is quite mistaken in his sympathy. I am quite prepared to stop here until to-morrow evening with the right hon. Gentleman, and he will find that I am as fresh to-morrow night as he is. He was particularly offensive when he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1216.3", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " Gentleman is capable of making a reasonable contribution to our debates, the House will be ready to hear him. He is quite mistaken in his sympathy. I am quite prepared to stop here until to-morrow evening with the right hon. Gentleman, and he will find that I am as fresh to-morrow night as he is. He was particularly offensive when he said—[ Interruption ]. He is incapable of being otherwise", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1216.3", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " we should have to continue until the trains were running, and my hon. Friends were able to get home. I said we should go on to the end of Clause 6, however long it takes. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for West Birmingham (Sir A. Chamberlain), when he last spoke, ended upon a defiant note. He said: \"We are prepared to fight you.\" Where are three-quarters of the Tory Members of the House now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1216.3", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman the Member for West Birmingham (Sir A. Chamberlain), when he last spoke, ended upon a defiant note. He said: \"We are prepared to fight you.\" Where are three-quarters of the Tory Members of the House now? [ Interruption. ] Are they in the fighting line? I suppose it is that kind of fighting the right hon. Gentleman had in mind—running away. For four hours since 12 o'clock", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1216.3", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "he fighting line? I suppose it is that kind of fighting the right hon. Gentleman had in mind—running away. For four hours since 12 o'clock [ Interruption ]. I repeat it is not for me to waste the time of the Committee. There are hundreds of Amendments on the Order Paper, and if I spoke for an average of five minutes on each, I should occupy about 20 hours. I shall leave it to the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1218.2", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "d be amply supplied by the temper in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer has replied to the perfectly reasonable and natural request which has been made. At 12 o'clock the right hon. Gentleman was anxious to indicate that, if he could not finish by 1 or 1.30, he would wish to go on in order not to get more business done, but in order to keep the House sitting until the trains began to run again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1218.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1219.0", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman must know he is grossly misrepresenting me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1219.3", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "If he had finished on the note he began, we would have got home, but in the last sentence he changed his mind, and since then he has been obstinate. He has now two purposes in view, one is to occupy his friends until the trains run again, and the other is to punish the Opposition. The right hon. Gentleman used language to the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1219.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1223.3", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "May I draw your attention to the fact that there is now again beginning the very same practice of organised disorder which gave trouble at an earlier part of the sitting; and may I also draw your attention to the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1223.3", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "May I draw your attention to the fact that there is now again beginning the very same practice of organised disorder which gave trouble at an earlier part of the sitting; and may I also draw your attention to the fact—[ Interruption. ] May I ask you for protection for my hon. Friend?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1224.8", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "preceding_text": "If this interruption dies down, we shall be able to save a great deal of time in discussing this Bill, but clearly the longer the animal noises continue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1224.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1224.10", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "preceding_text": "Perhaps they would like it better if I said they were making bird-like noises. My object is to support the Motion moved from the Front Bench below me, \"That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again.\" A number of good reasons for supporting that have already been advanced from this side, and I do not intend to repeat them. I want to support the Motion on humanitarian grounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1224.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1226.0", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "their friends and supporters to give them the opportunity for rest by agreeing to their Motion. There is another reason—[ Interruption. ] We are about to embark upon the discussion of a Clause which is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1226.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1231.2", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "his amiability and all the admirable qualities he has shown in this House, has been committing himself day by day since he came into office to taking away more and more the possibility of industry in this country defending itself against these assaults from abroad. He is now going to support the repeal of these powers. It is a very sad circumstance that he should do it at this hour of the morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1231.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1248.1", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "hould take place in Parliamentary hours. It has been thrust upon us. It does not matter to me that my hon. Friend says that so far as he is concerned this is \"useless.\" I disagree with the hon. Member for Leith (Mr. E. Brown) that we should not retain this because it is cumbersome. If it is useless it cannot do harm, and if it cannot do harm, it can very likely do good, and a great amount of good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1251.4", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Carnarvon Boroughs!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "preceding_text": "It is pathetic to see how the hon. Members above the Gangway cling to obsolete and useless opinions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1251.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-27", "file": "debates1930-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "17a2ae8bc0606422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1263.1", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On one side!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again.\" I should like to express my regret that it has been necessary to occupy the Committee for so long. I am glad to have the opportunity of saying so. The debate has been characterised by quite a lot of good humour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-27a.1263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-28", "file": "debates1930-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1426bd04d14c1ca5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-28a.1272.10", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "Arising out of the usual kind of answer which the right hon. Gentleman gives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-28a.1272.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-28", "file": "debates1930-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1426bd04d14c1ca5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-28a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WOOL TEXTILE INDUSTRY (DISPUTE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "No, Mr. Speaker. With due deference to you, Sir, the Prime Minister did not reply to my question. My question dealt with an entirely new set of circumstances, which I stated, and which were not in the question put to the Prime Minister. It is all right for the Prime Minister to sit there now and laugh, supported by the Tories, but it is the working classes in Yorkshire for whom I am speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-28a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-28", "file": "debates1930-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1426bd04d14c1ca5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-28a.1320.0", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "preceding_text": " at work on it when I came down to the House. I am not able therefore to give the number, but three or four out of every half a dozen times a Supply Vote was put down we discussed unemployment. We were never able to get a discussion on India because the Ministry of Labour Vote was always put down; unemployment was always debated. To-day is a peculiarly fitting day on which to survey the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-28a.1320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-28", "file": "debates1930-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1426bd04d14c1ca5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-28a.1320.0", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "preceding_text": " slight reduction, and he declared himself optimistic of the future. I think, in those circumstances, we are entitled to ask, When did these world causes begin, and how long will they operate? An interesting question; and we should very much like to have an answer. An interesting feature of the perplexities of the present moment came before my notice quite recently, when the Lord Privy Seal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-28a.1320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-28", "file": "debates1930-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1426bd04d14c1ca5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-28a.1320.0", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "f affairs?'\" Once more he emphasised it: I have asked myself that question a thousand times.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 19th May, 1930; col. 98, Vol. 239.] Truly it may be said that the Lord Privy Seal is in direct apostolic succession from the original doubting Thomas. He has so far failed to answer the question. The answer is, of course, that it is very largely due to the action of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-28a.1320.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-28", "file": "debates1930-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1426bd04d14c1ca5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-28a.1329.0", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"France.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": " efficient we were to share in and have our just proportion of the world consumption. It was a question of internal equipment, of internal marketing arrangements. That is not the problem to-day. The right hon. Gentleman says that it is the advent of this Government which has changed the situation. I will give him Anglo-Saxon figures. Take any country, any industrial country he likes. Take Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-28a.1329.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-28", "file": "debates1930-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1426bd04d14c1ca5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-28a.1376.3", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "from hon. Members sitting around here. I will carry it a little further. What is the position? The first thing the Prime Minister said he would do was to set up a thinking and acting machine, or, as he put it, a thinking and acting brain for the Government. That thinking and acting brain was not set up until February. For 8½ months the Government proceeded without a thinking and acting brain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-28a.1376.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-28", "file": "debates1930-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1426bd04d14c1ca5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-28a.1420.0", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "r known a time when there was so much apprehension. There is a feeling that anything that is gained will be taken away, a feeling engendered by the Chancellor of the Exchequer when, in apologising to his extreme left, he had to say, \"This Budget is only one dose. A succession of doses like this will enable us to extract the greater part of the capital of the country\"—or words to that effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-28a.1420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-28", "file": "debates1930-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1426bd04d14c1ca5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-28a.1430.1", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "d the country are equally anxious to know what is likely to be the result of the contest between Lord Beaverbrook and the right hon. Gentleman. The right hon. Gentleman quite clearly and definitely stated again this afternoon what was said in the debate last week, that, whatever else is proposed as a remedy for unemployment, he and his party believe that there is no remedy other than Safeguarding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-28a.1430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-28", "file": "debates1930-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1426bd04d14c1ca5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-28a.1430.1", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "h me when I say that his summary of the whole position, at the conclusion of his speech, amounted to this, that there was no other remedy but Safeguarding. Last week I asked the House this question, and I repeat it to the right hon. Gentleman now. There is only one test to be applied. Are the countries which have already adopted Safeguarding free from the problem that we are suffering from to-day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-28a.1430.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-28", "file": "debates1930-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1426bd04d14c1ca5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-28a.1432.1", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "dy suggested, they were quite prepared to face the facts and apply it. What, after all, 5s the charge made? I ask the House and the country to observe the fundamental difference. My hon. Friend said quite clearly and honestly that he refused to believe that we can ever regain our position as an exporting country. In fact he said we may as well abolish any idea of developing the export trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-28a.1432.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-29", "file": "debates1930-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "548cd907c0b11622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1535.1", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"This Bill bridges the gap!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "ch in the past. Is that gap filled to-day under the policy of the Government? The child leaves school and finds it difficult to get work and further education. Does that child fall into the beneficent hands of the Minister of Labour under the Insurance Fund? He does not until he has paid his 30 contributions, and he will be lucky if he succeeds in crossing this gap before he reaches the age of 16.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1535.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-29", "file": "debates1930-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "548cd907c0b11622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1546.0", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OLIVER STANLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has been here !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OLIVER STANLEY", "preceding_text": " time education for a further year. A great many points will be raised in this Debate. There is the question of economy and of the expenditure which is going to be entailed. There are many hon. Members who will deal with that question. There is one Member, the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) whom I expected to be here to-day to deal with it, and whose absence I deplore.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1546.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-29", "file": "debates1930-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "548cd907c0b11622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1546.0", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OLIVER STANLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OLIVER STANLEY", "preceding_text": "s who will deal with that question. There is one Member, the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) whom I expected to be here to-day to deal with it, and whose absence I deplore. [An HON. MEMBER: \"He has been here !\"] He has not spoken. I think that probably he is not going to speak. The right hon. Gentleman spoke yesterday and made a most impressive reference to the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1546.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-29", "file": "debates1930-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "548cd907c0b11622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1558.1", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "I did not make any personal charge. The Noble Lord's eloquence and its great influence on many persons are matters of common knowledge. If the Noble Lord had come forward and said that this step was necessary, and if he had urged the local authorities in 1927 to make ready for it there would be a very different spirit among those authorities to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-29", "file": "debates1930-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "548cd907c0b11622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1558.1", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "authorities are not prepared for this step. I am not going to suggest that this advance is extremely popular in the country. On the contrary, I think no advance in education has been called for by the voice of the population as a whole. Children obviously are never anxious to stay at school. There is something wrong with a child which prefers to be at school rather than out in the streets at play.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-29", "file": "debates1930-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "548cd907c0b11622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1593.0", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "imagine will have a very serious effect upon the fortunes of the Bill. Since that time we have had an orgy of educationalism, and the impression one gets is that there are a large number of Members who think education is the one thing in life. It is not. It is a very subsidiary thing in life. To say that we are brought into this world for the sake of education is simply taking a wrong perspective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-29", "file": "debates1930-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "548cd907c0b11622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1594.3", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "to industry to work if we are to continue as a commercial country. The right hon. Gentleman the President of the Board of Education, in his opening speech, referred to certain things which he called axioms, and, following his example, I wish to place three fundamental points before the House which I will call axioms. The first one is, that all children are not equal, either physically or mentally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-29", "file": "debates1930-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "548cd907c0b11622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1594.3", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ou may have a father and mother with three or four children. You may find one child perhaps clever at mathematics and a fool at classics, another clever at classics and a fool at mathematics, and a third neither good at classics nor mathematics, but with undoubted talents for the arts and music. You may have children of the same parents with an enormous variety of mentality and intelligence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-29", "file": "debates1930-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "548cd907c0b11622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1596.5", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "t want their names mentioned of necessity. A child should not be compelled to remain in school for another year unless it is likely to benefit. If you keep such child at school for another 12 months, knowing it is not going to benefit, what are you doing? You are adding an increased cost to the State and wasting 12 months of the life of the child when it might be better and more usefully employed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1596.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-29", "file": "debates1930-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "548cd907c0b11622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1596.5", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": " benefit. If you keep such child at school for another 12 months, knowing it is not going to benefit, what are you doing? You are adding an increased cost to the State and wasting 12 months of the life of the child when it might be better and more usefully employed. [An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"] My third axiom is that extended education is not of necessity an advantage to the manual worker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1596.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-29", "file": "debates1930-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "548cd907c0b11622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1596.5", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You do not know what you are talking about!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "portant than in certain sections of the cotton industry, in the spinning room, in what they call piecing up. A delay of 12 months in a child going into a mill may mean that the hands of the child are less supple. It takes longer for the child to learn a particular job, and it is possible that the child may never become as expert in that job as it would have done if it had started at the age of 14.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1596.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-29", "file": "debates1930-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "548cd907c0b11622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1596.5", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bosh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": ", and it is possible that the child may never become as expert in that job as it would have done if it had started at the age of 14. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You do not know what you are talking about!\"] In reply to the hon. Member, I wish to say that I was a factory surgeon for 23 years and that I know these children intimately, and have watched them closely from the time they have passed into the mill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1596.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-29", "file": "debates1930-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "548cd907c0b11622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1599.3", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "r. That, until I began to think that the place was absolutely full of doctors, indeed, so full that I asked whether everybody there was a doctor. I was told that there were a large number of doctors, but that they were not all doctors of medicine, many of them were doctors of law. What was the result? I was told that I could be taken into a grocer's shop where I would be served by a doctor of law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1599.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-29", "file": "debates1930-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "548cd907c0b11622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1599.5", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "After a remark like that from hon. Members the position is simply hopeless. The idea of hon. Members opposite is that our industries shall be filled by graduates from our universities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1599.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-29", "file": "debates1930-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "548cd907c0b11622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1599.5", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": " all the benefits possible, both physical and mental. They deny themselves for their children. Can anyone wonder that when the eldest child reaches the age of 14 the parents look forward to the time when the boy will go into industry and earn a small wage. Do hon. Members opposite blame the parents? Is it wrong for a child to help his parents and try to pay for those 14 years of self-denial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1599.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-29", "file": "debates1930-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "548cd907c0b11622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1599.5", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "rents some of the love and affection they have given to him? Is it not a good thing for the boy to feel that he is only carrying out his duty towards his parents at the earliest possible moment? Is it wrong for parents to receive money in this way from their children? Some hon. Members opposite take the view that it is absolutely wrong for parents to take money from a child at the age of 14—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1599.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-29", "file": "debates1930-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "548cd907c0b11622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1602.1", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I recognise that it was mentioned in the Labour programme—in \"Labour and the Nation\"—but it was not made a vital issue at the Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-29", "file": "debates1930-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "548cd907c0b11622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1603.1", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend apparently agrees with that. That is to say, \"Educate the child whether it is likely to receive benefit or not.\" It only shows to what an extent educationists will go. In their zeal for education they surmount all obstacles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-29", "file": "debates1930-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "548cd907c0b11622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1603.3", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Irrespective of ability!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "That is the class point of view, which has been put over and over again from the other side. They say to us, \"You keep your children at school until they are 18 or 20.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1603.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-29", "file": "debates1930-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "548cd907c0b11622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1603.3", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What do you deduce from that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "y, but I would ask hon. Members opposite to go through the lists of any of our great public schools—Eton, Harrow, Winchester, Marlborough, all of them—and see what percentage of those boys make good. Then compare them with the elementary schools in this country and see what proportion of the boys in the elementary schools make good and you are not going to find a very great difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1603.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-29", "file": "debates1930-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "548cd907c0b11622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1617.1", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": "this Bill, was his interruption. He said, \"This is only a beginning, and we want maintenance allowances, not from 14 to 15, but from 13 to 14, and from 12 to 13\"; but once this principle in this form is granted, where can you stop, short of adopting the full Socialist theory that parents have no responsibility for their children, and that the children are virtually the property of the State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-29", "file": "debates1930-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "548cd907c0b11622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1628.2", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has not answered the question. Is Manchester on that list?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-29a.1628.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-30", "file": "debates1930-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "345a5bad913ebe1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-30a.1652.5", "colnum": "1652", "heading": "EDUCATION [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": "hat this proposal for which we are asked to pay to-day is simply the beginning, either in local elections or Parliamentary elections, as may ultimately be decided, of another line of bribing the electorate with public money. It will always be the same story, \"Vote for me, and I will increase your maintenance allowance,\" or, \"Vote for me, and I will give the maintenance allowance to somebody else.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-30a.1652.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-30", "file": "debates1930-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "345a5bad913ebe1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-30a.1654.1", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "EDUCATION [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": "issent. In the Memorandum it says: Accordingly the net effect of the proposals will be a saving of public expenditure. He explained it; and I know what he means. He means that if the reorganisation and the raising of the school age are properly carried out in both cases it will be cheaper to do it under these proposals than in any other way. Without these proposals they would never have been done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-30a.1654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-30", "file": "debates1930-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "345a5bad913ebe1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-30a.1654.1", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "EDUCATION [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": " shall have to find so much money under the new method that we could not afford to do it. I know that the right hon. Gentleman has education at heart. He has had a great deal of experience of the subject. He was connected with his present office, if not before I was born, long before I reached the compulsory age at which my parents were under an obligation to see that I had an efficient education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-30a.1654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-30", "file": "debates1930-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "345a5bad913ebe1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-30a.1654.1", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "EDUCATION [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": "tleman has education at heart. He has had a great deal of experience of the subject. He was connected with his present office, if not before I was born, long before I reached the compulsory age at which my parents were under an obligation to see that I had an efficient education. [ Interruption. ] I hope hon. Members opposite do not mean to imply that my parents did not carry out their obligation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-30a.1654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-30", "file": "debates1930-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "345a5bad913ebe1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-30a.1697.0", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "EDUCATION [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": ", but I cannot help feeling that you are taking away from the children more than you are giving them by this proposal. You are surrounding them with an atmosphere of State dependence, you are pauperising them. I go into the schools and I find a spirit of self-reliance there. I find that independence of character is being taught and I rejoice, but I come here and I find a spirit of pauperism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-30a.1697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-30", "file": "debates1930-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "345a5bad913ebe1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-30a.1701.2", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "EDUCATION [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "hools, are open to Catholic teachers. When a local education authority wishes to select a headmaster or headmistress of one of these schools, it does not presume to impose any religious test upon the applicant. It is quite possible for a Catholic to become the headmaster or headmistress of a school of that kind without any difficulty whatever, and I say that the Catholics cannot have it both ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-30a.1701.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-30", "file": "debates1930-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "345a5bad913ebe1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-30a.1706.0", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "EDUCATION [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "preceding_text": "t who would rejoice and say, \"By all means let us have free education.\" What does this free education amount to? How is the money obtained? How often have I heard hon. Members say when speaking of public expenditure \"Essentially, all the money comes from the pockets of the wage earners.\" Is not that true in this case? Of course, it is true. Then the wage earners are paying for their own education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-30a.1706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-30", "file": "debates1930-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "345a5bad913ebe1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-30a.1710.0", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "EDUCATION [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "preceding_text": " expect them to call for it. They would not be healthy children if they did. Have the parents called for it? Have the local authorities called for it? Has the country as a whole called for it? I think the answer to all those three questions is undoubtedly in the negative. But there is a call for this Bill and the call has come from the very able office over which the right hon. Gentleman presides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-30a.1710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-30", "file": "debates1930-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "345a5bad913ebe1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-30a.1712.0", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "EDUCATION [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why Scotland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "I think it will be convenient for me to intervene at this stage, because I understand that Scotland wants to say a word in regard to this Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-30a.1712.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-30", "file": "debates1930-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "345a5bad913ebe1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-30a.1724.0", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "EDUCATION [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir NAIRNE STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir NAIRNE STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": "I am very surprised indeed to hear the hon. Member for St. Helens (Mr. Sexton) let himself go in a way that we are not accustomed to hear from him. He is generally one of the most moderate of the party opposite. He talked about raising the school age, but does he want everyone to go to Oxford or Cambridge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-30a.1724.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-05-30", "file": "debates1930-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "345a5bad913ebe1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-30a.1724.0", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "EDUCATION [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir NAIRNE STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir NAIRNE STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": "r anything you like for those who can go further, but they cannot all go to Oxford or Cambridge; they are not all geniuses. I believe that a certain number of them have to get to their work soon. There is skill with the brain, and there is skill with the hands. As far as the cotton people are concerned, I believe that if many years are spent on secondary education, the skill with the hand will go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-05-30a.1724.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-02", "file": "debates1930-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "d8f71d0ba04384a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-02a.1773.1", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING DUTIES (LACE INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "I have received no such representation. In regard to the other supplementary question, we are carrying out the policy which the late Government decided on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-02a.1773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-02", "file": "debates1930-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "d8f71d0ba04384a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-02a.1798.1", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "NAVAL TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Secretly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "a position to, and had not the time to, build that overwhelming supremacy against it which alone would have kept us secure. At that time, the House will remember, we removed a number of our ships from the Mediterranean to the North Sea, and there was that understanding with the French that we would look after their North coast and they would look after, or help us to look after, the Mediterranean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-02a.1798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-02", "file": "debates1930-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "d8f71d0ba04384a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-02a.1807.0", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "NAVAL TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A hundred!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "gg-Briand Pact, the ratification by other Powers secured by treaties, the securing of satisfactory programmes of replacement—and our expert advisers tell us that they are willing to work on a 50 basis. The curious thing is that there seems to be an idea that we took 50 just in the same way as the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) said a thousand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-02a.1807.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-02", "file": "debates1930-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "d8f71d0ba04384a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-02a.1810.1", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "NAVAL TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "gations of the League of Nations, and there I quite agree with him. We have had the League of Nations, and we have had the Kellogg Pact entered into by hon. Members on this side. Is that to be of no effect? Is that to be treated simply as a scrap of paper? I cannot believe it. I will cut down my remarks very briefly, because the merits of the Treaty, as I understand it, are not being entered into.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-02a.1810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-02", "file": "debates1930-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "d8f71d0ba04384a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-02a.1810.1", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "NAVAL TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "nd over 10 times what the Japanese could afford, we see what it means when it is said that from their point of view one of their purposes in naval reduction is to reduce the American Navy to a level on which they can afford to compete with us. That is the President of the Navy League of America, and I have no doubt we shall have the President of the Navy League here making the same kind of speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-02a.1810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-02", "file": "debates1930-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "d8f71d0ba04384a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-02a.1812.3", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "NAVAL TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Say it at South Molton!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": " because a speech of mine would not be complete without it. The party opposite are saving money on this, but spending it on something else. Unless we are economical all round, we cannot have a reduction of taxation. On this side they spend money on the Navy, and on that side they spend money on education and social reform. I do not want to spend so much an either, and I say it quite frankly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-02a.1812.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-02", "file": "debates1930-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "d8f71d0ba04384a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-02a.1827.0", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "NAVAL TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NOEL BAKER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NOEL BAKER", "preceding_text": "s opposite have no claim to responsibility for the Treaty; and they have no claim to the credit which accrues to those who made it. Nor are any thanks due to them for having done anything to render easier the task of those who made the Treaty. On the contrary, the whole of the action that they have taken has made harder the task of the Prime Minister and his colleagues in the Conference this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-02a.1827.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-02", "file": "debates1930-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "d8f71d0ba04384a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-02a.1857.0", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "NAVAL TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FRANK OWEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FRANK OWEN", "preceding_text": "ust build a Navy the replica in every class of ship of what we build, we have no reason to complain. We have no reason to add a single vessel. That is an extraordinary position to take up. If 70 cruisers were enough for us when the American Navy was at the level it was in 1927, if now the American Navy is to build as many cruisers as they want, what becomes of our relative strength to their fleet?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-02a.1857.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-02", "file": "debates1930-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "d8f71d0ba04384a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-02a.1861.0", "colnum": "1861", "heading": "NAVAL TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": " for Ripon (Major Hills), who speaks on this subject with great sincerity, says he is going to support the Government this evening on two major grounds. First of all, he says that he is prepared to back the professional opinion of the Naval experts. Is it quite fair to suggest that the opinion of the Naval experts was taken by the Government without political considerations being forced upon them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-02a.1861.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-02", "file": "debates1930-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "d8f71d0ba04384a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-02a.1884.4", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "NAVAL TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SORENSEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SORENSEN", "preceding_text": "o achieve parity between this country and other countries, any attempt to limit, what I will call pseudo-patriotism in the in- terests of wise internationalism, is derogatory to the honour and interest of this country. I understand and appreciate it, because I once possessed that mind myself, but I suggest that it is not the highest patriotism. I remember in pre-War days going into a public-house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-02a.1884.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-03", "file": "debates1930-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "50b622c1a36535d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.1997.1", "colnum": "1997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "preceding_text": "hey are used for refuse collecting and jobs where there is constant stopping. They are not particularly economical vehicles where long journeys have to be done and considerable speeds must be achieved. Clearly, the owner of a vehicle who bought it up to the date of the judgment has no grievance, because he bought it on the understanding that it would be taxed in the same way as the petrol vehicle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.1997.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-03", "file": "debates1930-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "50b622c1a36535d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.1997.1", "colnum": "1997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "preceding_text": "t between the date of the judgment and the introduction of this Bill. But he has no grievance, because he must have known that the Government of the day, whether the last Government or this, would bring in legislation at the earliest possible date to rectify the matter and, therefore, no one has bought a vehicle under the impression that he would get this 50 per cent. rebate for any material time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.1997.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-03", "file": "debates1930-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "50b622c1a36535d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.2077.0", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ernment derives the large sums it receives in Income Tax. When the Chancellor is making up his Budget, when the various Departments which spend the money of the taxpayer bring their estimates to him, I ask the Chancellor to consider how he can get anything like the income which he has at the present time from the remains of fortunes which have been dissipated by the extravagance of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.2077.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-03", "file": "debates1930-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "50b622c1a36535d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.2077.1", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "While listening to those who have been talking about dissipation and extravagance I have been wondering how they would raise the money necessary to meet the expenditure of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.2077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-03", "file": "debates1930-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "50b622c1a36535d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.2077.1", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": " is their view, they had better face the issue and tell us plainly what they mean. If hon. Members opposite agree with us that the unemployed and the widows should be treated as generously as possible, then they must admit that the only way to find the necessary money is by higher taxation. All this talk about driving capital out of the country does not trouble hon. Members on this side very much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.2077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-03", "file": "debates1930-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "50b622c1a36535d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.2083.0", "colnum": "2083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "news of the people. They are only gamblers in these things, which are the real capital, and they come to us with a lordly manner, with their pince-nez on and their big banking accounts, and talk to us as though they were the only people who counted—they are the only pebbles on the beach. But the ordinary workman in this country has done far more than they have to make the country what it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.2083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-03", "file": "debates1930-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "50b622c1a36535d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.2083.0", "colnum": "2083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "er. In some things he differs from me, but all great minds do not always think alike. I agree with him, however, in this, that if you want any money you have got to go where it is. It is no good coming round to my house after it, when we have honourable millionaires sitting on the benches opposite. They object to paying another sixpence in the pound, but they will pay sixpence to-night for a cigar", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.2083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-03", "file": "debates1930-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "50b622c1a36535d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.2083.0", "colnum": "2083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": " the slightest degree. From the way in which millionaires opposite have been shouting, one would think that they were not going to the Derby to-morrow, just to show how economical they are; but to-morrow this House will be half deserted by gentleman who cannot afford to pay their Income Tax; and when they have exhausted the possibilities of luxury, they will come back and talk to us about economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.2083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-03", "file": "debates1930-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "50b622c1a36535d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.2083.0", "colnum": "2083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "on end; and we claim that that wealth which is the result of the activities of all the people is a social product which must be socially controlled in the interests of all the people. At the present time all the chance that we have is, by Budgets such as this, to divert back to the stream that wealth which up to now has been ostracised into the hands of private individuals under their own control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.2083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-03", "file": "debates1930-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "50b622c1a36535d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.2116.0", "colnum": "2116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "preceding_text": "rding to the history of our financial legislation, His Majesty the King in his Speech from the Throne, asks the House of Commons to provide for the revenue of the particular year, and in each single year there is a separate Finance Bill dealing only with the revenue of the year. If this alteration is allowed it will make it immensely more difficult for the tax-payer to provide for his liabilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.2116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-03", "file": "debates1930-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "50b622c1a36535d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.2117.0", "colnum": "2117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "I wish to say a few words in support of the Amendment which has been moved by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for East Grinstead (Sir H. Cautley). I observed that the Financial Secretary to the Treasury shook his head when my hon. and learned Friend made a certain statement of the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.2117.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-03", "file": "debates1930-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "50b622c1a36535d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.2117.0", "colnum": "2117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "ak up!\"] I am speaking quite loudly, and hon. Members opposite who do not hear me can carry on their conversations much more conveniently to themselves as well as to us in the Smoking-room. I am suggesting to the Financial Secretary that under this Bill, as it is drawn at present, the Surtax at the increased rate for the present year 1930–31 is not payable until January, 1932. Is that plain?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.2117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-03", "file": "debates1930-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "50b622c1a36535d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.2118.1", "colnum": "2118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "se days that Parliament did intend—to do something which was perfectly honourable. And let it be remembered that Income Tax, whether it be the standard rate of Income Tax, or whether it be Surtax—the increased rate of Income Tax—is an annual tax. There is no Income Tax and no Surtax imposed upon the taxpayers of this country except from year to year, and for that particular year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-03a.2118.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-04", "file": "debates1930-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c533f1e781bc89a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-04a.2188.4", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "n by a large majority of other districts, though I agree that we ought to safeguard the interests of the great districts. I put to the President of the Board of Trade these points: First have I correctly stated the Staffordshire case? Secondly, is not that in substance the position which Staffordshire to-day enjoys under the Five Counties Scheme? I think that South Staffordshire is in that scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-04a.2188.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-04", "file": "debates1930-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c533f1e781bc89a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-04a.2235.1", "colnum": "2235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "Oh no, not in the least. I should be prepared to argue that point at any time. I am quite certain that no international lawyer would find any difficulty in arguing at the Court of The Hague—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-04a.2235.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-04", "file": "debates1930-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c533f1e781bc89a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-04a.2235.5", "colnum": "2235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ad Bill, a very much worse Bill. There is a very general feeling in many parts of the House that that is so. Hon. Members above and below the Gangway on this side of the House have frequently chaffed one another on the lack of unity within their respective parties. On this occasion we are in the happy position of finding a completely united Conservative party and a completely united Liberal party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-04a.2235.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-04", "file": "debates1930-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c533f1e781bc89a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-04a.2247.1", "colnum": "2247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "considerable legal knowledge would disagree with the President of the Board of Trade in the view that these words are unnecessary. I think that on this matter I am entitled to have the advice of the Law Officers of the Crown, one of whom, I presume, is available for this purpose. If they are not in the House I say, with great respect, that they ought to be here. What are the Law Officers here for?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-04a.2247.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-04", "file": "debates1930-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c533f1e781bc89a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-04a.2308.1", "colnum": "2308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "Absolutely. I should never have asked for compulsory powers which did not contain that suggestion. In one breath the President of the Board of Trade tells us that this point is covered, and in another breath he contradicts that statement. I say that I would not have asked for compulsory powers without giving such an undertaking and laying down those conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-04a.2308.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-04", "file": "debates1930-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c533f1e781bc89a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-04a.2320.0", "colnum": "2320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "d that was that you could not come to any international arrangement on the basis of hours per day; you would only be able to get it on the basis of the aggregate hours worked in a fortnight. I need not quote chapter and verse for that, because it has often been stated that there was a practically unanimous vote for the principle, although the Conference was able to agree to little or nothing else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-04a.2320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-04", "file": "debates1930-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c533f1e781bc89a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-04a.2320.0", "colnum": "2320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, they are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ute and which the industry will have to face. If I have stated a single fact which is not accurate, I invite the President of the Board of Trade to correct me. Those are the factors which the industry will have to consider and upon which the negotiations will have to be conducted and agreements will have to be made. It is common knowledge that in this matter the miners are certainly not unanimous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-04a.2320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-04", "file": "debates1930-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c533f1e781bc89a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-04a.2325.1", "colnum": "2325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "I think it is quite plain from my figures that if you have a spread-over the men will work eight hours a day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-04a.2325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-04", "file": "debates1930-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c533f1e781bc89a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-04a.2325.1", "colnum": "2325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "I think it is quite plain from my figures that if you have a spread-over the men will work eight hours a day. [ Interruption. ] Surely, hon. Members opposite realise that, and there is no mystery about it. The spread-over means that on certain days of the week eight hours will be worked, but the men will get a clear day off on Saturday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-04a.2325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-04", "file": "debates1930-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c533f1e781bc89a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-04a.2329.0", "colnum": "2329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Of the War!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "r David Llewellyn has stated, said, \"That settles it.\" Whatever hopes there were of retaining wages before that statement proves that they have gone. I can assure the hon. Member and the House that the miners have not given up hope of retaining the miserable wage they are getting with the seven-and-a-half-hour day. Is it not fair that they should? We had a seven-hour day in 1919 as a result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-04a.2329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-04", "file": "debates1930-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "6c533f1e781bc89a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-04a.2329.0", "colnum": "2329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "ed that if the miners had an eight-hour day they would be in a worse position than any miners in Europe, and that second Royal Commission decided against increasing the hours. It was done in defiance of that recommendation and in exactly the same way as it is proposed to be done if the Amendment is carried. It is suggested it should be done by agreement; let us get the owners and workmen to agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-04a.2329.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-05", "file": "debates1930-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "000f3fa799a6ced6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-05a.2388.2", "colnum": "2388", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANNEL TUNNEL (GOVERNMENT DECISION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "A debate has been promised on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-05a.2388.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-05", "file": "debates1930-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "000f3fa799a6ced6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-05a.2453.2", "colnum": "2453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": " the dividend warrants are made out subsequent to the end of the financial year but before the Budget statement has been made, and it is with a view to meeting that point, and after full consultation with the companies, that this particular scheme has been brought forward. What is the scheme? The hon. Member for Farnham (Mr. A. M. Samuel) did not seem to me quite to understand what the scheme was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-05a.2453.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-05", "file": "debates1930-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "000f3fa799a6ced6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-05a.2485.2", "colnum": "2485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "t. Sub-section (3, c ) to which the right hon. Gentleman referred is one which has recently been under discussion between the parties and I understand a very large measure of agreement has been gained. It is agreed that the Clause needs some revision. This is the position. We may postpone the Clause to the end of the New Clauses, but we should be in exactly the same position then as we are in now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-05a.2485.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-06", "file": "debates1930-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fc23be4f8cff76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2581.4", "colnum": "2581", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Commander OLIVER LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander OLIVER LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "for another two years. In this disgraceful way the Soviet sold not only her own countrymen but our chances of victory, and to-day there must be hundreds of thousands of people mourning British dead who would be alive if Lenin had not sold the pass. Having done that Lenin set up this regime, persecuting religion and abolishing property. Hon. Members opposite may ask what has that got to do with us?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2581.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-06", "file": "debates1930-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fc23be4f8cff76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2581.4", "colnum": "2581", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Commander OLIVER LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander OLIVER LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "n people, then turned their attention to every one of our citizens and there was not a British citizen in Russia whom they did not either imprison or drive out. They took every farthing which those British citizens possessed. They drove them out and imprisoned them and then the official representatives of the Soviet State entered our embassy one day and murdered our representative, Captain Cromie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2581.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-06", "file": "debates1930-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fc23be4f8cff76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2581.4", "colnum": "2581", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Commander OLIVER LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are doing it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander OLIVER LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "Government? No, it was just a Coalition Government with a majority of Tories that decided to recognise the Soviet, and we gave them trade facilities in our markets and diplomatic immunity and other rights. It was a generous experiment and how has that generosity been repaid? I hardly like reviving certain old animosities or mentioning anything which may tend to stir sullen and slumbering emotions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2581.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-06", "file": "debates1930-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fc23be4f8cff76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2581.4", "colnum": "2581", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Commander OLIVER LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander OLIVER LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "enly found the representatives of the Soviet interfering in the General Election and there appeared the famous Zinovieff Letter. [An HON. MEMBER: \"It was a forgery!\"] It was exactly like thousands of other letters which came from the same Moscow mint: and that so-called forgery was believed in by the Prime Minister. At that time Lord Haldane said it was true and the Foreign Office said so as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2581.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-06", "file": "debates1930-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fc23be4f8cff76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2583.1", "colnum": "2583", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "date to clear out these propagandists. But we kept them in and we permitted them to exercise trade facilities and other privileges. Yet all the time they were abusing our hospitality. Is it to be wondered at that under those circumstances after a few months we were faced with the worst possible disaster that any country has had to meet since the War. We suffered what was called the General Strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-06", "file": "debates1930-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fc23be4f8cff76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2583.1", "colnum": "2583", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Not half!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "ite—a couple of secret documents suddenly disappeared. They were traced to a house called Arcos. We found the agents of the Soviet masquerading as merchants. We found Arcos itself to be nothing more or less than a Communist clearing house in these islands. Quite rightly, we turned and said, \"We have had enough of these false friends; out they must go,\" and we cleared them out. Were we wrong?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-06", "file": "debates1930-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fc23be4f8cff76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2583.1", "colnum": "2583", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "rade, and yet, as a result of allowing them in already industrial troubles have increased in the United Kingdom, and racial difficulties have grown throughout the British Empire. Let us look into our hearts and compare the present political position, the national and international position, with the position when our party and our Government were in office. When we left office, China was pacified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-06", "file": "debates1930-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fc23be4f8cff76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2583.1", "colnum": "2583", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": " called propaganda. Propaganda is the poison gas of peace. The Red roubles are busy at this job. May I ask hon. Members finally to consider for one moment what exactly the State is which we acclaim to our hearts to-day? I will leave out the past. We will not remember that it is founded upon murder and pillage, that it lives still by persecuting religion, that it has made an art even of kidnapping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-06", "file": "debates1930-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fc23be4f8cff76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2583.1", "colnum": "2583", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Prove it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "ers finally to consider for one moment what exactly the State is which we acclaim to our hearts to-day? I will leave out the past. We will not remember that it is founded upon murder and pillage, that it lives still by persecuting religion, that it has made an art even of kidnapping. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"] Only the other day a Russian General disappeared in France, kidnapped by the Bolsheviks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-06", "file": "debates1930-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fc23be4f8cff76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2583.1", "colnum": "2583", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "ounded upon murder and pillage, that it lives still by persecuting religion, that it has made an art even of kidnapping. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"] Only the other day a Russian General disappeared in France, kidnapped by the Bolsheviks. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Prove it.\"] I can prove it easily if I am ever given the opportunity, and if I am challenged again by the right hon. Gentleman, I certainly will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-06", "file": "debates1930-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fc23be4f8cff76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2589.5", "colnum": "2589", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why mention it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "ations by a recital of a number of incidents which took place many years ago, and about which there is some disagreement. For instance, when I was in Baku I noticed the graves of 27 Bolshevist commissars. A very large number of the Russian people believe, and assert, that those commissars were shot by the orders of certain British officers who were in Baku at that time. I do not accept that story.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2589.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-06", "file": "debates1930-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fc23be4f8cff76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2591.1", "colnum": "2591", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman is aware that the Lena Goldfields have a concession in Russia. I believe arbitration is proceeding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-06", "file": "debates1930-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fc23be4f8cff76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2596.1", "colnum": "2596", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"America!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "Russia beginning with the Eastern Polish frontier and running right through to the Chinese Seas—an enormous area. If Russia wishes to buy goods, to which side of the compass must she turn her eyes. Not to the east, because there lies the sea, although no doubt she must do some trade with Japan. If she wishes to do purchases on a large scale the eyes of Russia must be turned towards the west.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-06", "file": "debates1930-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fc23be4f8cff76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2596.1", "colnum": "2596", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": " scale the eyes of Russia must be turned towards the west. [An HON. MEMBER: \"America!\"] Whether they are turned towards America or towards ourselves is entirely our affair. I decline to subscribe to the suggestion that our salesmen are a wit less capable than American salesmen. It is entirely a matter of the control of affairs on the Floor of this House whether we sell more goods to Russia or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-06", "file": "debates1930-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fc23be4f8cff76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2626.1", "colnum": "2626", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "uenced us in the change in policy which we adopted in the early days of this Government and which led to the signing of the Protocol of October last. I want to come right up to the point that occupied the attention of the right hon. Gentleman during nearly the whole of his speech. That is our present position with regard to this question of Russian propaganda. I am not going to burke the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-06", "file": "debates1930-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fc23be4f8cff76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2628.3", "colnum": "2628", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "evidence was given to the jury, especially if the hon. Member for South Kensington (Sir W. Davison) and the hon. and gallant Member sitting behind him were part of the jury. We know what it would be. We have known for several years what their decision would be. They would not try the case on evidence. Their minds are made up. Suppose that we accepted their verdict and we broke off relations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-06a.2628.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-17", "file": "debates1930-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e65a9cf2a1f2ffe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.32.4", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALIENS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why inquiries?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "preceding_text": "A deportation order has been issued and inquiries are being made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.32.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-17", "file": "debates1930-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e65a9cf2a1f2ffe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You said so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "There is no provision in this Clause giving preference to foreign employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.67.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-17", "file": "debates1930-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e65a9cf2a1f2ffe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.110.6", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "e. Such a body requires a large staff in this country. A business carried on like that might easily have 30 or 40 people employed in this country, and some of them would be highly paid. This Clause, as far as I can see, is going to give those highly-paid people an actual preference over their competitors, who are the representatives of English or other non-official non-State trading organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.110.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-17", "file": "debates1930-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e65a9cf2a1f2ffe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.110.6", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": " Clause, as far as I can see, is going to give those highly-paid people an actual preference over their competitors, who are the representatives of English or other non-official non-State trading organisations. [ Interruption. ] It is all very well to say it is not. It only is not if those organisations are being carried on for the purpose of profit. It is really difficult to construe those words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.110.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-06-17", "file": "debates1930-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e65a9cf2a1f2ffe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.123.2", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "I will do my utmost to abide by your Ruling, but I believe it is true that the only defaulting nation at the present moment, so far as we are concerned, is the Soviet Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-17", "file": "debates1930-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e65a9cf2a1f2ffe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.139.2", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "hich puts them at an advan- tage as compared with the British competitor, or with the colonial competitor and importer here. The Chancellor, in his reply, said that when all was said and done, a body like a co-operative society was in fact trading for profit. It is quite clear that it is not. Its dividends, except to outsiders, consist of a rebate upon purchase price. It is not trading for profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.139.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-17", "file": "debates1930-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e65a9cf2a1f2ffe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "I am accepting it, and if the hon. Member approves of it, I take it that he cannot give his support to this Sub-section. I am putting forward the argument that hon. Members have so often used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-17", "file": "debates1930-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e65a9cf2a1f2ffe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Say it again!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " or two fundamental documents on which the whole Clause is based he should be able to deal with questions concerning them. That is what he has refused to do this afternoon. We have been told that this Clause is based upon a Treasury Minute. We have asked for that Treasury Minute. The Chancellor has been asked whether it is, in fact, in existence, and whether it can be produced or will be produced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-17", "file": "debates1930-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e65a9cf2a1f2ffe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.144.0", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "preceding_text": "I consider that this Clause is very undesirable——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-17", "file": "debates1930-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e65a9cf2a1f2ffe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.144.0", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is that so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "preceding_text": "I consider that this Clause is very undesirable——[HON. MEMBERS: \"Really!\"]—and I consider that I have a perfect right to express my opinion upon it. In the first place, I regard it as undesirable because it puts into statutory and legislative form and in an inflexible way a custom which, I understand, bas been followed for a good many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-17", "file": "debates1930-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e65a9cf2a1f2ffe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.144.0", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "preceding_text": "law. It is another instance of the difference between a written constitution and a constitution which has grown up by precedent and custom. I object to the Clause because it gives immunity from taxation to all consular officers and agents, no matter what the custom or the law of the country which they represent. I should not so much object to this Clause if it represented a reciprocal arrangement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.144.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-17", "file": "debates1930-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e65a9cf2a1f2ffe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.145.7", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "preceding_text": "inually interrupted one's train of thought is broken and it is obviously difficult to keep a connected argument going by careful stages to one's point. [ Laughter. ] This kind of thing makes it extremely difficult to avoid some slight repetition occasionally. I was saying that I should not object so much to this Clause if it were a reciprocal Clause, and that was leading me up to ask——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.145.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-17", "file": "debates1930-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e65a9cf2a1f2ffe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.163.6", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "But if you put in the word \"corporate,\" you then get a bank covered. If we accept the words that the Chairman has used, we get a bank included, and henceforth no bank will be able to retain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.163.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-17", "file": "debates1930-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e65a9cf2a1f2ffe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.168.3", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "preceding_text": "ection 18 about Nathan, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the object of that Section was to prevent false Super-tax returns. There is something rather funny about that, but they have asked for it, and they must have it.\" He sends for a clerk to make out the entry so far as it relates to the securities held by Nathan. There is no right under this Bill to ask for any class of securities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.168.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-17", "file": "debates1930-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e65a9cf2a1f2ffe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.168.3", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "preceding_text": "lieved by half the constituency, however ill-founded it may be. Some inquiry is made, and it is found that an office boy in the American Tobacco Company saw a letter written by the Inland Revenue about Nathan. You find your circle of political, professional and social friends easing off from you, and you do not know what it is about, but it is because the Special Commissioners have made inquiries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.168.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-17", "file": "debates1930-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e65a9cf2a1f2ffe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATKINSON", "preceding_text": " If a railway company were asked to make a return of all shares held by people of the name of H. L. Nathan, that would be a class. I do not think, if they specify a particular person or address, that is a class, but the Commissioners have only to make it \"persons of the name of H. L. Nathan\" and that becomes a class. I may be wrong. It really indicates the difficulty of interpreting these Clauses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.178.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-17", "file": "debates1930-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e65a9cf2a1f2ffe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.198.2", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "at Subsection \"issued by them.\" He said that that meant the registered company, or the parent company, who issued the securities. About two hours ago I put forward a typical case—and there are many others—of the Westminster Bank, one of the big five banks of London, which takes over a large block of Canadian Pacific Railway shares, and issues against them Westminster Bank certificates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-17a.198.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-18", "file": "debates1930-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ba015680d9e0042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.456.0", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "an, and the full force of his organisation and funds, was broadcast up and down the country, and which we poor people, at any rate, who disagree with the right hon. Gentleman, thought was a genuine expression of his views? To-day, instead of coming back to us here and saying that, if we had taken his advice and had followed the Yellow Book all would have been well, he has scrapped his Yellow Book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-18", "file": "debates1930-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ba015680d9e0042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": " that the Government are to be condemned for not providing more work for the people, starting an agitation, with the result that I am faced with additional difficulties in putting this particular road scheme into operation. What is the good of hon. Gentlemen opposite condemning the Government for not employing people, and then starting agitations which interfere with schemes when they are started?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-18", "file": "debates1930-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ba015680d9e0042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "he patriotism of the whole people mobilised towards solving this great problem, which is quite as serious as, if not more serious than, the War. If it is not cured, it will reduce us to a third-class Power which the War did not do. That Planning Division was set up because the Board of Admiralty had no thinking department in the early part of the War. I speak of a matter of which I have knowledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.467.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-06-18", "file": "debates1930-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ba015680d9e0042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.489.2", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Not guilty.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "How many hon. Members opposite keep domestic servants?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-18", "file": "debates1930-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ba015680d9e0042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.489.6", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Then the hon. Member's daughter does domestic service, and I do not suppose that she is ashamed of it, and I would rather see my girl doing domestic work than many other kinds of work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.489.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-18", "file": "debates1930-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ba015680d9e0042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.492.5", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " conference, and not saying a single word about unemployed women, not daring to say a word, because they know they belong to a Government that is more or less controlled by trade unions. I really think it is very alarming and discouraging. I know the hon. Member for Sunderland (Dr. Marion Phillips) occupies two jobs. She is a Member of Parliament and a trade union official. She is a two-job woman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.492.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-18", "file": "debates1930-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ba015680d9e0042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.493.4", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Socialism, too!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "preceding_text": "to the other on the question of unemployment. There seemed to be a fear that somebody would steal this question from one particular party. If you take the OFFICIAL REPORT and read the last nine debates on unemployment, you need not waste time listening to another, for the same old speeches, the same old themes, and the same old nostrums—Protection on the one side and Free Trade on the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.493.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-18", "file": "debates1930-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ba015680d9e0042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.509.7", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"It was a Coalition Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "preceding_text": "umber of unemployed in 1921 than there is now. The recently ennobled father of the hon. Member was a Member of the Government of that day, so that if a very high number of unemployed follows from lack of confidence consequent upon the installation of a Labour Government, apparently there was a worse effect following the installation of the Government in which the hon. Member's ennobled father sat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.509.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-18", "file": "debates1930-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ba015680d9e0042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.509.7", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "preceding_text": "mber was a Member of the Government of that day, so that if a very high number of unemployed follows from lack of confidence consequent upon the installation of a Labour Government, apparently there was a worse effect following the installation of the Government in which the hon. Member's ennobled father sat. [An HON. MEMBER \"It was a Coalition Government.\"] It was a Government of all the talents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.509.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-18", "file": "debates1930-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ba015680d9e0042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.513.5", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HURD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HURD", "preceding_text": "ms offered by the Ministry—and this is not a party matter—are not adequate for the poor communities where the water supply is very bad indeed. If I were given to sob stuff, I could distress the House by describing the conditions in some of the villages with which. I am familiar and the inadequacy and almost the absence of any water supply for even the normal domestic needs of the home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.513.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-18", "file": "debates1930-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ba015680d9e0042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.530.0", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Miss Bondfield)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Miss Bondfield)", "preceding_text": "ly emphasised the fact that, whatever was being done in the short-term programme or in connection with the Unemployment Grants Committee, there would be no relaxation of the efforts already put forth for the stimulation of industry. Of course, it is perfectly obvious to anyone connected with business that the kind of stimulation that industry needs cannot usefully be discussed in public in detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.530.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-18", "file": "debates1930-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ba015680d9e0042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "preceding_text": "next winter. When, however, the hon. Member went on to say that the gravity of the situation was largely due to the fact of a Socialist Government being in office, he very largely nullified what I agree was otherwise an excellent speech. We have only to look round the world and see that all these countries, with the changes of Government that take place, are steadily moving towards the left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-18", "file": "debates1930-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ba015680d9e0042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "preceding_text": " of enterprise, of co-ordination, and of mutual co-operation which the circumstances of the case absolutely require. So far from the Labour Government being a deterrent to the business men of this country, there has never been in the history of the British Parliament such cordial and close co-operation between groups of business men in this country and the Government as exists at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-18", "file": "debates1930-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ba015680d9e0042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "preceding_text": "t are placed upon the shoulders of our taxpayers, but surely hon. Gentlemen opposite must remember that both Germany and France have got their Capital Levy by inflation, while we have still an inflated debt hanging round our necks. If hon. Members opposite had accepted our suggestion of a Capital Levy at the time when it could have been made effective, the situation would have been very different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-18", "file": "debates1930-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ba015680d9e0042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.546.3", "colnum": "546", "heading": "TRADE BOARDS ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Mr. Lawson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Mr. Lawson)", "preceding_text": "-third of the whole of the workers now under trade boards. That investigation over the non-licensed side was completed in 1925. From that time nothing whatever was done. Immediately we came into office the Minister began to set investigations on foot at the request of the Trade Union Congress. Those investigations have now been completed over the whole of this great field. That is no small matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-18a.546.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-19", "file": "debates1930-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8979e46654d70c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.554.7", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Lady surprised in view of the fact that we are importing £3,000,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.554.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-19", "file": "debates1930-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8979e46654d70c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.557.3", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I would like a reply to my question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.557.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-19", "file": "debates1930-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8979e46654d70c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.574.3", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "May I ask who is the Minister that we shall have here before us, and that we may harass?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.574.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-19", "file": "debates1930-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8979e46654d70c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.574.3", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Lloyd George!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "May I ask who is the Minister that we shall have here before us, and that we may harass? [ Laughter. ] This is a serious matter. There is one member of the Cabinet who knows perfectly well that it is a very serious matter, because we have harassed him out of his job. I want to know from the Prime Minister who is the Minister that we can ply with questions regarding this serious question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.574.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-19", "file": "debates1930-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8979e46654d70c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.581.0", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "There never was a Treasury Minute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-19", "file": "debates1930-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8979e46654d70c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.605.0", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "The person concerned will only pay that part which has been settled by the special commissioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-19", "file": "debates1930-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8979e46654d70c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.607.0", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEIF JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEIF JONES", "preceding_text": "It seems to me that the Mover of the Amendment and the Chancellor of the Exchequer are attaching undue importance to the wording of this Clause. As I understand, the dispute has not taken place with regard to Super-tax or Surtax but with regard to Income Tax assessment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.607.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-19", "file": "debates1930-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8979e46654d70c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.608.1", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"AS appears to them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence)", "preceding_text": "e before the special commissioners. The Clause provides that in those cases the special commissioners, having before them the statement of the taxpayer, saying what part of the assessment he disagrees with, and where he finds fault with the assessment, shall decide on the parts which are not in dispute. It provides for the collection of such part of the tax as appears to them not to be in dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-19", "file": "debates1930-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8979e46654d70c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.608.1", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not the taxpayer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence)", "preceding_text": "s the special commissioners, having before them the statement of the taxpayer, saying what part of the assessment he disagrees with, and where he finds fault with the assessment, shall decide on the parts which are not in dispute. It provides for the collection of such part of the tax as appears to them not to be in dispute. [HON. MEMBERS: \"AS appears to them!\"] Well, someone must make a decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-19", "file": "debates1930-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8979e46654d70c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.624.0", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You did that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": ". When this principle was applied to the income Tax, it was the year after we had made a reduction of 6d. in the standard rate and it was in the year when we were imposing no new burdens. The right hon. Gentleman must realise that it is easy for him to stand up and say, \"I will take £20,000,000 from that class, £12,000,000 from this, and £5,000,000 from the other class of taxpayer.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.624.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-19", "file": "debates1930-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8979e46654d70c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.627.3", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have not shown an abundance of it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "not one of principle at all; it is one of time and of expediency. The right hon. Gentleman runs a great risk in offending the whole body of Income Tax and Surtax payers. He may have to run some part of that risk, and say that he has a responsibility in facing the necessity of an increase in taxation. In part that may be true, but all the more I counsel him to proceed with some tact and discretion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.627.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-19", "file": "debates1930-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8979e46654d70c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.641.2", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr, CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Formally!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "It is to you, Sir, that I am addressing myself exclusively, if I may say so, not only in the purely Parliamentary sense, as is my duty, but also personally, in regard to this matter. It was understood that, if a general debate on the whole Clause took place on the first Amendment, the other two Amendments would be moved with short speeches and disposed of very rapidly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.641.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-19", "file": "debates1930-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8979e46654d70c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.642.1", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "The way in which you put the Question founds itself upon the events which preceded the putting of the Question, namely, that these two Amendments were to be moved formally, as the Government contend, or, as we say, with short speeches—there is no difference between the two—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-19", "file": "debates1930-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8979e46654d70c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.671.2", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "the Committee by about 12 o'clock. Of course, I would like to get on as far as possible. As a matter of fact, I would like to get to the end of the Bill, but, in view of the speech which was delivered by the right hon. Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill), I should hardly be justified in entertaining that rather sanguine expectation. The next Clause, Clause 20, is in the category of minor importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.671.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-19", "file": "debates1930-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8979e46654d70c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.697.4", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "her points to raise which, being simpler and less complicated, and not of a technical, legal nature, may be brought within the province of their ability to answer. On the first Sub-section of this Clause I wish to have information regarding certain points. The Financial Secretary to the Treasury was fortunate enough not to be questioned particularly about this rather complicated Sub-section—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.697.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-19", "file": "debates1930-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8979e46654d70c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "uded in the one order, warrant or other document. What has been confusing me, and what I would like the Financial Secretary to explain, is exactly what is meant by the following passage: every such document as aforesaid shall, as respects each such sum, be construed as a separate document and its invalidity as respects any one such sum shall not affect its validity as respects any other such sum.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-19", "file": "debates1930-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8979e46654d70c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.718.2", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "erefore, if the assessable value be low, the poundage rate is so much higher. He went on to say that that is not the case with the Income Tax, but is it not? He says that if we raise the assessment we get a larger return wad that is quite true, but just as the amount of money needed by the local authority is a fixed sum, so the amount which the Exchequer wants from Income Tax is also s, fixed sum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.718.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-19", "file": "debates1930-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8979e46654d70c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.719.0", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATKINSON", "preceding_text": "u should pay more Income Tax on your more valuable house. It is hard on the person who happens to live there, but there may be an argument there. But in the case of the person whose income cannot be increased and who does not enjoy the advantage of living in the more valuable place, but whose income is limited by rents fixed by leases more than seven years old, there is no argument that I can see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.719.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-19", "file": "debates1930-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8979e46654d70c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "hange an alteration of levels is undesirable. In one particular case the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the owner-occupier, if he wished, could recover this increased value by selling or by letting his property. But, supposing he does not wish to sell or let his property, that owner-occupier will find his taxation increasing without any corresponding increase from which to pay the taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-19", "file": "debates1930-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8979e46654d70c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "f a house would have great difficulty in realising under those circumstances. A man with an unrealisable asset will suddenly find that his assessment has been increased and his taxation will correspondingly be increased, and therefore he has a grievance. In those circumstances it is only reasonable to suggest to the rest of the community that any increase should come gradually instead of suddenly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-19", "file": "debates1930-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8979e46654d70c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.734.4", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or non-existent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "g that is done to it, something of value and that that is the case which he wishes to meet. There is the case of a property which, though nearly valueless one year, becomes of considerable value in the next year. That property is to be valued on the previous year's, valuation \"so far as may be.\" It may be valued \"so far as may be\" on the value of the previous year, although that value is very low.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-19a.734.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-24", "file": "debates1930-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ce0fd9005565bb5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-24a.1080.3", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND DRAINAGE (No. 2) BILL [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "rters to-night that we can overdo this business of regaining land from the sea. I wish to God people would use the land they have instead of trying to look for more land. The last speaker suggested that the land could not be used because we cannot get a good enough price for the food we produce upon it. Another confession of the incompetency of the men who own and control the land of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-24a.1080.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-25", "file": "debates1930-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b50340a4f84522c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-25a.1190.0", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "I hope the hon. Member will have a little patience. The point I am endeavouring to put is not a very easy matter to explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-25a.1190.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-25", "file": "debates1930-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b50340a4f84522c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-25a.1223.2", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ious to facilitate business, he has shown us a very strange way of facilitating business since a quarter to four o'Clock this afternoon. Something like two hours were, I will not say wasted, because I might not be permitted to use that word, but, at any rate, two hours have been taken on a point of Order of the most trivial importance, and now advantage has been taken of my unusual courtesy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-25a.1223.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-25", "file": "debates1930-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b50340a4f84522c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-25a.1224.1", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Must?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ot prepared to co-operate, and if they are not prepared to accept, except after these prolonged discussions, concessions that I make, there is only one thing we can do, and that is that we shall have to ask the House of Commons to support a Guillotine Resolution. I would remind hon. Members opposite that the Prime Minister has announced the programme of business that must be carried through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-25a.1224.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-06-25", "file": "debates1930-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b50340a4f84522c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-25a.1225.0", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "I would remind them that every day they delay progress with the consideration of this or other Measures which will be passed before the House rises, they are detaining themselves from taking their own holidays. I shall certainly not accept the suggestion of the right hon. Gentleman. I think it is most unreasonable, and I think it, is high time that the tomfoolery we have had this afternoon ceased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-25a.1224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-25", "file": "debates1930-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b50340a4f84522c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-25a.1225.5", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "portant Amendments. I should not for a moment criticise the Government if one or two Amendments had been put down for the first time this morning, but it is unpardonable, from the point of view both of the Chair and of the Members of the Committee, to ask us to deal with all these Amendments that have been put on the Paper in this way. The right hon. Gentleman has no right to thank the Chancellor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-25a.1225.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-25", "file": "debates1930-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b50340a4f84522c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-25a.1235.0", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "I am not by any means certain that the point which I had in mind requires to be protected in this way. [ Interruption. ] The point was that in the Bill, as originally drafted in Clause 29—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-25a.1235.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-25", "file": "debates1930-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b50340a4f84522c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-25a.1273.2", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Dartford (Mr. Mills) and I are in strong opposition politically, but we happen to be neighbours and we happen to be friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-25a.1273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-25", "file": "debates1930-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b50340a4f84522c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-25a.1273.2", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Dartford (Mr. Mills) and I are in strong opposition politically, but we happen to be neighbours and we happen to be friends. [ Interruption. ] Why should it be strange? It is not at all strange. In the county of Kent we have the cricketing spirit, and we know how to play the game.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-25a.1273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-25", "file": "debates1930-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b50340a4f84522c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-25a.1277.0", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "In connection with this question of the Imperial and International Communications Limited, considering the late Government's position in regard to the amalgamation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-25a.1277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-25", "file": "debates1930-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b50340a4f84522c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-25a.1293.1", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Then I trust you will permit me to say that if the right hon. Gentleman were willing to accept this Amendment he would be in a position to give that great remission. I am content to leave it at that. That would be doing something which would be a great encouragement to our industries. But, seriously, I want to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-25a.1293.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-25", "file": "debates1930-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b50340a4f84522c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-25a.1293.1", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " Anybody is allowed to have an opinion in this House. [ Interruption. ] I say to the right hon. Gentleman that if he wishes to facilitate the course of this Budget he ought to try to meet the opinions which are put forward from this side of the House, even when they do not altogether represent his complete view of our financial policy. After all, he is the head of only a minority Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-25a.1293.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-30", "file": "debates1930-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "6199ab8ddf74c8c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-30a.1682.1", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Canada !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "And where rents are practically impossible. I have not travelled so far as the Noble Lord. When I was in America last I spent seven weeks in hospital. I discovered that for two rooms in Montreal they were paying 28s. a week rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-30a.1682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-30", "file": "debates1930-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "6199ab8ddf74c8c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-30a.1687.5", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "CHANNEL TUNNEL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": " year. Why should the Government turn round and say that it is unwise to permit private enterprise to spend £500,000 a year for five years on a project which might turn out to a very valuable piece of constructive work, and all the time, month after month, and year after year, they are allowing much greater sums of money to be spent on much wilder, more speculative and more fantastic schemes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-30a.1687.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-30", "file": "debates1930-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "6199ab8ddf74c8c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-30a.1687.5", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "CHANNEL TUNNEL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A battleship costs £6,000,000 or £7,000,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": " their ground of opposition. They no longer say that it would be a fatal thing from the point of view of security to have the Channel Tunnel, but they say that it would cost a lot of money adequately to protect it. The lot of money in the terms of the White Paper amounts to something like £1,000,000. That may be a considerable sum, but it is only half the cost of one of our great battleships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-30a.1687.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-30", "file": "debates1930-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "6199ab8ddf74c8c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-30a.1710.0", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "CHANNEL TUNNEL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "o on the building of the Tunnel they would be responsible for every penny of finance and for any money that was invested. Let us follow that argument up. To brew beer in this country a man must obtain a licence and the State grants the licence. Has there ever been a suggestion that the Government are going to compensate the brewers or others who brew beer? That shows how ludicrous is the argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-30a.1710.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-06-30", "file": "debates1930-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "6199ab8ddf74c8c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-30a.1734.0", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "CHANNEL TUNNEL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "] As one who has listened throughout to this debate, I venture to say that the great bulk of what has been said in support of this project has not been based upon fact, but has been based upon generalisations and upon, I will not say sentimentality, but somewhat idealistic considerations; and if there was ever a proposition which should be settled as a business proposition, it is this proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-06-30a.1734.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-07-01", "file": "debates1930-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "12197f6e61362d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1764.14", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "The question of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1764.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-07-01", "file": "debates1930-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "12197f6e61362d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1764.16", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for Scotland withdraw on behalf of his colleague?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1764.15"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-07-01", "file": "debates1930-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "12197f6e61362d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1765.1", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Let him say so. Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "I understood the hon. Member for Peebles to say that he did not intend to make any insinuation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1765.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-07-01", "file": "debates1930-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "12197f6e61362d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1765.4", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "If there is any misunderstanding the hon. Member for Peebles should say definitely that he did not intend any insinuation or, if what he said was misunderstood to mean an insinuation, that he withdraws it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1765.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-07-01", "file": "debates1930-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "12197f6e61362d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1765.7", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "I have made it quite clear that there was no insinuation of any kind against the hon. Member, and I have made it perfectly clear that I have a right to ask in this House if Members representing constituencies have themselves made representations on behalf of their constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1765.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-07-01", "file": "debates1930-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "12197f6e61362d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1765.11", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "I have ruled on numberless occasions that any insinuations are out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1765.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-01", "file": "debates1930-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "12197f6e61362d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1814.1", "colnum": "1814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "use which, in order to catch five men, may injure 50. Under the Clause as it stands, unless there is, in any case, a limit of time, no man in future will dare to accept the covenant or undertaking of another person, for fear that, at some unlimited period back, there may be found a prior claim by the Revenue relating to a, deceased estate of another person which has been undischarged——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-01", "file": "debates1930-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "12197f6e61362d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1829.0", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "panies can be rectified within a few days of the transfer if the company find that they come within the ambit of this Bill. I would like to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much money the Exchequer hopes to save by the operation of this Clause. The Chancellor of the Exchequer shakes his head. I do not want to disturb the equanimity that is prevailing but is it purely through vindictiveness?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-01", "file": "debates1930-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "12197f6e61362d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1834.0", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Yes, it has!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "I would like to see the word \"indirectly\" left out because I do not know exactly what it means. I am told that it has no definite meaning in law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1834.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-07-01", "file": "debates1930-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "12197f6e61362d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1838.1", "colnum": "1838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " legal aspect of this matter. I have been somewhat confused between the various legal definitions on this point, and the various legal gentlemen who have talked about it, but I am still convinced that these words are entirely unnecessary, although I agree that we do not want to leave any loophole. If I might try to persuade the Committee to give me leave to withdraw the Amendment now——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1838.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-01", "file": "debates1930-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "12197f6e61362d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1906.3", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "e that anyone can say more than that. I hope that we have achieved that object. I believe we have achieved it. We have reduced that risk to a minimum, but risk, negligible though it may be, always must be in a Clause of this sort. That being so, we are faced with this position. As far as I know there have been no cases of tax evasion other than by landed concerns. I do not know of one single case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1906.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-01", "file": "debates1930-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "12197f6e61362d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1906.3", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "egligible though it may be, always must be in a Clause of this sort. That being so, we are faced with this position. As far as I know there have been no cases of tax evasion other than by landed concerns. I do not know of one single case. [ Interruption. ] Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman does. He may know more about these things than I do. I do not know of one single case of an ordinary business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1906.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-01", "file": "debates1930-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "12197f6e61362d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1919.2", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Marquess of HARTINGTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The land is there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Marquess of HARTINGTON", "preceding_text": "e revenue and not agriculture is his own particular job. But it is his job to look after the revenue, and, in smashing the agricultural industry by this Clause, he is not only doing serious damage to agriculture, but is permanently impairing the buoyancy of the revenue. When you destroy an agricultural estate, you have destroyed, as far as one can see for all time, a great revenue-producing asset.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1919.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-01", "file": "debates1930-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "12197f6e61362d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1920.0", "colnum": "1920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEIF JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEIF JONES", "preceding_text": "The Noble Lord is mistaken in complaining that the Death Duties discriminate against agriculture at the present time. So far as there is discrimination in our taxation, it is in favour of agriculture, and that has been so in all recent Budgets, as it is in the present one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-01", "file": "debates1930-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "12197f6e61362d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1921.3", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " matter of this kind be disposed of without an attempt on the part of the Leader of the House for the time being and the Minister in charge of the Bill to answer the many important and cogent points which have been addressed to him across the Floor of the House. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman is going to give us an answer, because he really will not accelerate his business by sitting silent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1921.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-01", "file": "debates1930-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "12197f6e61362d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1922.0", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "hould give any pledge on such an important matter? With regard to the Amendment itself, where the observations have been directed to the words proposed to be left out, hon. Members seem to have been under a complete misapprehension. They seem to have assumed that if there is a business holding, managing, developing, and dealing in land, that that alone brings it within the provisions of Clause 29.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1922.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-01", "file": "debates1930-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "12197f6e61362d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1925.0", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "The word \"holding\" means \"owning\"——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-01a.1925.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-02", "file": "debates1930-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "e2684cd5bf80bf79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-02a.1967.2", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "MARRIED WOMEN TEACHERS (EMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": " the Noble Lady the Member for Perthshire (Duchess of Atholl). The House would be the poorer if married women were barred from membership, and we want to remove that restriction from the teaching profession. If ever there was a profession which is calling for women, it is the teaching profession. There are people who still believe in the old idea that the proper place for the woman is in the home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-02a.1967.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-02", "file": "debates1930-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "e2684cd5bf80bf79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-02a.2005.0", "colnum": "2005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "going to compare those two things, you obviously should take off those charges which may regard as prior charges, fixed charges, charges which have to be made, such as interest on debentures and interest on preference shares, which for this purpose are money which does not fall within the distributable pool, and preference shares have to be paid before any dividend is available on ordinary shares.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-02a.2005.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-02", "file": "debates1930-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "e2684cd5bf80bf79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-02a.2076.0", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "POSTPONED CLAUSE 30.—(Estate duty where life-interest is transferred to private company.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REID", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Insurance companies!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REID", "preceding_text": "head in a bag—like the Law Reversion Society, which deals with principals. I hope the Financial Secretary has real knowledge of his own without having to send for his Treasury experts. There are societies who deal with life interest and reversionary interests on actuarial principles. There are quite a number of very well-known and highly respected societies dealing with these life interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-02a.2076.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-02", "file": "debates1930-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "e2684cd5bf80bf79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-02a.2093.4", "colnum": "2093", "heading": "POSTPONED CLAUSE 30.—(Estate duty where life-interest is transferred to private company.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite admit that at the worst, or at the best, this can only be a duplication of what is implied in \"bona fide.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-02a.2093.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-02", "file": "debates1930-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "e2684cd5bf80bf79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-02a.2095.1", "colnum": "2095", "heading": "POSTPONED CLAUSE 30.—(Estate duty where life-interest is transferred to private company.)", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "It is not a thing which can be measured in terms of money at all. It may be a perfectly bona fide transaction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-02a.2095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-02", "file": "debates1930-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "e2684cd5bf80bf79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-02a.2097.1", "colnum": "2097", "heading": "POSTPONED CLAUSE 30.—(Estate duty where life-interest is transferred to private company.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman is rather giving away the position which he ought to be occupying in a case of this kind. Let it be clearly understood. Every man who owns any substantial amount of property, any kind of real or personal or any other property, is nothing else but a fool if, in making his business arrangements, he does not at least take care not to pay more taxation than is absolutely necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-02a.2097.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-03", "file": "debates1930-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4601f2c285c91fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-03a.2176.2", "colnum": "2176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir LAMING WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Impossible!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir LAMING WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "t. If there is a transfer price of, perhaps, 20s. a share, and the actual asset value may be able to be proved to be anything up to 30s. a share, you are going to charge the companies with a Death Duty on the basis of 30s., when 20s. is actually the transfer price. That is unfair. The present method of valuation is the market price. The Attorney-General says that that is not possible to ascertain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-03a.2176.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-03", "file": "debates1930-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4601f2c285c91fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-03a.2198.0", "colnum": "2198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence)", "preceding_text": "d it is quite impossible for the Government to accept this Amendment. Perhaps the best answer I could give to the hon. Member would be to refer him to the speech of the right hon. Member for St. George's (Sir L. Worthington-Evans) a little earlier in the debate, in which he pointed out that of the three possible methods of making the valuation that on a dividend basis would be the most unsuitable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-03a.2198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-03", "file": "debates1930-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4601f2c285c91fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-03a.2200.1", "colnum": "2200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General Sir NEWTON MOORE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General Sir NEWTON MOORE", "preceding_text": " for Estate Duty purposes on the basis of market transactions at that date. I have in my mind a case where shares were valued at 21s. The total of the estate was £540,000, and the duty on it was £140,000. Arrangements were made to defer the payment of duty, because it was realised that if a large block of shares were thrown on the market the effect might be to bring the price down to 5s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-03a.2200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-03", "file": "debates1930-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4601f2c285c91fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-03a.2278.1", "colnum": "2278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or Lord Beaverbrook!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "g an Amendment directed at the root purpose of the Clause. This Amendment merely points out a flaw in the Clause, which would not have occurred if my right hon. Friend the Member for Watford had been brought into consultation, or if the Treasury had consulted anybody representing the ordinary commercial interests of the country, or solicitors, who are as frequently concerned in these transactions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-03a.2278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-03", "file": "debates1930-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4601f2c285c91fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-03a.2282.0", "colnum": "2282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do that now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "I can give the hon. and gallant Gentleman the assurance he desires. As I understand it, he is anxious to be assured that the object and intention of the use of these words is not to give the Commissioners power to inquire of all and sundry as to the affairs of the taxpayer. The object of this Clause is simply to give them sufficient power to inquire of the taxpayer, and the taxpayer alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-03a.2282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-03", "file": "debates1930-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4601f2c285c91fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-03a.2282.0", "colnum": "2282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What inquiry?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": " are not sufficient to cover the amount of inquiry of the taxpayer which would be necessary for this information. They are only to inquire from the Surtax payer particulars of the nature and the amount of any deduction claimed to be allowed. These words by themselves would not empower the commissioners to pursue inquiries which would be likely to be necessary for the administration of this Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-03a.2282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-03", "file": "debates1930-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4601f2c285c91fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-03a.2293.0", "colnum": "2293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": " with a body which has no standing in the Government of this country. I do not want it to be supposed that I have any complaint to make against the Life Offices Association. They have done their work well, as the Chancellor knows; but it is a poor example of how fit the Labour party is to govern when their Chancellor, known to be a person of no mean capacity, can insult the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-03a.2293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-03", "file": "debates1930-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4601f2c285c91fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-03a.2293.0", "colnum": "2293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "s moved in a case of this kind to which there is practically no answer given; when one sees that it was a perfectly reasonable Amendment which would not have upset the agreement which the right hon. Gentleman arrived at with the Life Offices Association, one can only come to the conclusion that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has adopted an attitude which is only an insult to the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-03a.2293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-03", "file": "debates1930-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4601f2c285c91fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-03a.2297.0", "colnum": "2297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "stead of offering a meed of thankfulness that criticism had been met. In my understanding of the usages of the House there are political and business questions, and surely one of the best things we can get by way of debate is that, when business points are met, they should really be met, not in a political, but in a business manner, and in the case of this Clause they have undoubtedly been so met.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-03a.2297.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-04", "file": "debates1930-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "760b89c49681b1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-04a.2371.2", "colnum": "2371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "I am very far from calling in question any decision of any particular bench of magistrates. What I am pointing out is that one of the most serious questions which has arisen of recent years in connection with the administration of justice, is that of the extraordinary variations between different benches of magistrates in their treatment of young people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-04a.2371.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-04", "file": "debates1930-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "760b89c49681b1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-04a.2375.1", "colnum": "2375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "of the papers describing how undergraduates break records between Oxford and London and Cambridge and London; and, in the particular instance given in a cutting which I have here from the \"Daily Mail,\" the distance between London and Oxford was covered at an average of over 60 miles an hour, which means that at certain spots the vehicle must have been travelling at between 80 and 90 miles an hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-04a.2375.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-04", "file": "debates1930-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "760b89c49681b1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-04a.2390.2", "colnum": "2390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "on of a privileged class and who have said \"Now we have at our disposal the means of cutting along in such a way that the railways are out of date and their speed is of no consequence. We have got our own special train.\" Ordinary people who ride on a bus do not have the settlement of the speed of the bus. Those ordinary people are now being dragooned by a Labour Government in a mater of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-04a.2390.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF NATURAL RESOURCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEN TURNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEN TURNER", "preceding_text": "ch says, A landless man is an unfree man. I do not think anybody can dispute that. Bishop Nulty, in one of his pastoral charges, has said: The land of every country common property of the people country. As most people are landless in this Kingdom, it must be the case that their land has been taken from them, and the object of this Bill is to restore the land to the people—to all the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.434.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF NATURAL RESOURCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEN TURNER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEN TURNER", "preceding_text": "and death to our people and it is above and beyond politics. The land is God-given and man-stolen. The Bill seeks to restore to the people what has been taken from them, and I am very glad to hear hon. Members opposite cheering so loudly, because they will find that one of the greatest Conservative minds in the world, the late Mr. Gladstone, made this observation. [ Interruption. ] It was in 1879.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF NATURAL RESOURCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEN TURNER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEN TURNER", "preceding_text": "udly, because they will find that one of the greatest Conservative minds in the world, the late Mr. Gladstone, made this observation. [ Interruption. ] It was in 1879. [ Interruption. ]. I hope hon. Members opposite do not seek to repudiate the finest statesman of that period. Mr. Gladstone said: I freely own that compulsory expropriation is a thing which is admissible and even sound in principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF NATURAL RESOURCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEN TURNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEN TURNER", "preceding_text": "ispossess the people of the chance of labour in industrial employment, so that they will have to turn to something else. I want to appeal to this House to take such steps that the nation can use the land and use our people on the land, so that they can give their physical strength for that purpose. We want land cultivation. I am sorry that we lost this Bill in 1924, which we did by 12 votes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.465.0", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE 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": "t-repeated invitation of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill) to those who sit below the Gangway to recognise that the Gangway is very much narrower than the Floor, had at last been accepted. It appears that the right hon. Gentleman's desire to see a coalition beween the two sections of the Opposition for a combined fight against Socialism has not yet been fully accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.465.0", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE 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": "hich was sought in an Amendment moved earlier to secure complete exemption from taxation of all sums placed to reserves by companies. The hon. and gallant Member said more than once that I might be influenced in my attitude towards this Clause by the cost of the full remission. What the hon. and gallant Member appears to be aiming at would cost between £50,000,000 and £60,000,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.471.1", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You make us sick!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "bate his energy in Debt amortisation. This is not the first time that I have put this point before the right hon. Gentleman. There is only one way of doing it. The right hon. Gentleman could express this matter in a much more satisfactory form if he chose to meet us, but he done not want to meet us. We want to have a little less of Potsdam from the right hon. Gentleman and a little more of Geneva.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "now what is the meaning of \"vocation\" in this connection; whether it differs from a profession or a trade. Trade depression to-day is in productive industries, but the subsidy—because it is a subsidy, as I will show later, a bare-faced subsidy, or may I use the word of the hon. Gentleman himself, an \"unblushing\" subsidy—would apply to the equipment of, for example, an ice cream vendor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "e to which reference was made in a previous debate, which was the exemption from Income Tax of all company reserves. It goes a very long way. I do not in the least complain because the hon. Member has not the resources at his command to get a proper estimate of the cost but the cost would not be £5,000,000 a year, as he says. The cost, at the lowest estimate, would be £30,000,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.488.1", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Try it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "member very well that the attack on the Agricultural Rating Act was the stock-in-trade of Liberal criticism and attack upon the Tory Government of that time. That Act was not repealed. On the contrary, Government after Government had to extend the principle until agricultural land to-day does not contribute one penny to local taxation. Take the De-rating Act. Is it going to be easy to repeal that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.488.1", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERRS: \"What about the late Chancellor of the Duchy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ility of doing something on any lines, if it is a sound scheme and if it can be defended. During the past 12 months there has been an impression abroad that I have been a stumbling-block to the expenditure of public money. I have never opposed a single scheme—not one—put forward on behalf of unemployment. If my right hon. Friend the late Lord Privy Seal were here he would confirm that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.488.1", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What a cordial Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "have been a stumbling-block to the expenditure of public money. I have never opposed a single scheme—not one—put forward on behalf of unemployment. If my right hon. Friend the late Lord Privy Seal were here he would confirm that. [HON. MEMBERRS: \"What about the late Chancellor of the Duchy?\"] I never had any communication from the late Chancellor of the Duchy during the last 12 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " to dig holes and to fill them up again. The idea in the new Clause put into concrete form is quite impossible, it is full of injustices and anomalies and it would not conform to the dictum and condition that I have just laid down—no ladling out of public money unless we are going to get a return for it, sooner or later. While I have to oppose the Clause, I do not say that my mind is closed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.491.1", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "proposing something.\" Believe me—I am speaking in all seriousness—that unless something is done definitely by the Government of the day, the country will grasp at the first silly straw that is offered to prevent it from sinking. I am not really in a mood to provoke crises or to try to defeat the Government; I am rather in a mood to appeal to them, because no one wants to turn them out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.513.0", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " did not alter the principles of valuation in regard to landed property. That is quite true, but if he will study the records of the Treasury, he will find that I made something like this proposal at the same time that I proposed to deal with the evasion of Death Duties. I thought that the evasion of Death Duties should be stopped, and we have assisted the Government to stop it in this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.549.0", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": " the Bill—and not the least contentious part of it—which we have debated in both Houses has been the levy—the central levy and the district levy. The central levy went by the decision of the House and the district levy very nearly went. Indeed, it had almost as near an escape as the right hon. Gentleman had earlier in the evening, but he made better arrangements on that occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.549.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.553.0", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "Let me remind the House of the history of this provision. As the Bill was introduced, there was a Clause allowing a central levy to be imposed over the whole country in order to give a subsidy on export coal, and a district levy which was to be allocated among the districts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.553.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.554.2", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "preceding_text": "I should not have intervened had not the right hon. Gentleman turned round and asked me not to interrupt. I would like to ask a question which my right hon. Friend has just put. We have seen this afternoon an example of carrying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.554.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "l bound—I use the strongest possible language that can be used at this time, or that, indeed, requires to be used—we feel bound, in the circumstances, to disagree with this Amendment, not only in the interests of the miners, whose conditions necessitate a shorter working day, and whose working hours, in comparison with the working hours of miners abroad, are by no means too favourable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "t hon. Gentlemen desire it, but I may tell them very shortly that in all the important coal-producing countries of Europe—the statistics are not my own, but are furnished by the countries concerned—the hours now, when this Bill has not yet become an Act, are no higher than the hours of labour in this country in the mining industry will be when this Bill is placed upon the Statute Book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "se to any discussion, succeeded in persuading the House to carry a Clause giving the Board of Trade a discretionary, permissive power to make orders. He made a strong appeal to the House to give him that power and he succeeded in carrying the Amendment. He now comes to another Amendment on a subject of much greater importance where, in the opinion of many, a discretion is far more necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ere is no question, either in substance or in form, of its being what he has represented it to be. He will really understand the situation better if he will appreciate that I do not believe there is anyone in the House or in another place who, in the proposal that is now put forward, in whatever form it may ultimately take, has the least intention or desire to weight the scales one way or another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "e credit for meaning what they say. I repeat without fear of contradiction that I am certain that there is no one in the House, and I do not believe there is anyone in another place, who wants anything but that there should be in this matter perfectly free negotiation, and that it is only where there has been free and frank negotiation and an agreement entered into that this Clause should operate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ontradiction that I am certain that there is no one in the House, and I do not believe there is anyone in another place, who wants anything but that there should be in this matter perfectly free negotiation, and that it is only where there has been free and frank negotiation and an agreement entered into that this Clause should operate. [ Interruption. ] It is what it says and it is what it means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": " that there should be in this matter perfectly free negotiation, and that it is only where there has been free and frank negotiation and an agreement entered into that this Clause should operate. [ Interruption. ] It is what it says and it is what it means. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Gentleman says if you put that into an Act of Parliament, people will be forced, whether they like it or not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.567.1", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "maintaining this Clause intact has been, that over the whole of that area producing 100,000,000 tons of coal, whatever you do by this Bill, you are not going to make the difference of a fraction in the hours worked over the whole of that area. We have also been told that seven and three-quarter hours or seven hours 40 minutes were being worked in other districts and not the full eight hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "eams are easier to work. If that was not so the ascertainment for the districts would be the same. That being the case, and having these physical difficulties which no amount of legislation can possibly overcome, the only question which the hon. Member has to decide is this, is he arbitrarily going to say, \"I will insist on having absolutely the same hours day by day in every pit in this country\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have it now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ibly overcome, the only question which the hon. Member has to decide is this, is he arbitrarily going to say, \"I will insist on having absolutely the same hours day by day in every pit in this country\"? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"] Well, then, it must inevitably follow that if you do that you must have a greater differentiation in wages than would otherwise be the case. That inevitably must be so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "cost is going to be higher than would be the case if the spread-over was allowed. I do not think anyone will deny that. If that was not true, then no coalowner would ever propose to operate this Clause and no miner would ever dream of agreeing to it. The sole argument which has been advanced against our adopting the Lords Amendment is because the miners' Members in this House decline to accept it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "l us in the last stage of these proceedings that we had better adopt this particular view of the Government, because it happens to be the only one upon which he has been consistent. The fact of the right hon. Gentleman's consistency does not impress me in the slightest, because I know that that consistency would disappear if by any chance he saw any political advantage by taking the opposite view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "f by any chance he saw any political advantage by taking the opposite view. [ Interruption. ] Upon the merits of this Amendment, I would venture to make an appeal to the House. As I see the situation in this country at the present time, it is one of extreme gravity, and any addition to the costs of the industries of this country can only have a very serious result upon our prospects in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": " industries of this country can only have a very serious result upon our prospects in the future. [ Interruption. ] What is the situation with regard to the coal trade? It is quite certain, and it has been repeatedly admitted by the President of the Board of Trade, that the reduction of hours must add to the cost of coal. I should like to ask the House to view this increased cost from two aspects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "uption. ] What is the situation with regard to the coal trade? It is quite certain, and it has been repeatedly admitted by the President of the Board of Trade, that the reduction of hours must add to the cost of coal. I should like to ask the House to view this increased cost from two aspects. [ Interruption. ] No amount of interruption will stop me. I do not appeal for any special courtesy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-09", "file": "debates1930-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "ab33381488d8b31c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.579.0", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "preceding_text": " for Hillhead would suggest that he died before the War. Exactly the same arguments are advanced in support of this Amendment as we have had against every Measure brought before this House to improve the condition of the working classes. He said that unless this Amendment is adopted the export trade of the country in coal will be so injured that our general prosperity must suffer. That is not new.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-09a.579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-10", "file": "debates1930-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "073b49ca50242b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-10a.665.3", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (Recommitted) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Colonel HOWARD-BURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He might be an old one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel HOWARD-BURY", "preceding_text": "rated evidence of one witness. I look upon this Amendment as an extremely important one. At the present time, as the Bill stands, on the word of a young policeman who has just been appointed, a man can be fined £50 for a first conviction, and £100 for a second or subsequent conviction and sentenced to four months' imprisonment solely on the uncorroborated evidence of one young constable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-10a.665.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-10", "file": "debates1930-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "073b49ca50242b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-10a.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (Recommitted) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. HENDERSON, Junior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. Danger and speed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. HENDERSON, Junior", "preceding_text": "d, and, in deciding that question, he would have the assistance of two witnesses. Those who have had to deal with questions of speed in running down cases know how easy it is for different witnesses to take different views as to speed. Under Clause 11, on the other hand, what the magistrate has to determine is not the question of speed but whether or not the accused is guilty of dangerous driving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-10a.677.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-10", "file": "debates1930-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "073b49ca50242b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-10a.689.0", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (Recommitted) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "preceding_text": "better if the exact nature of the drug had been stated. Take a hypothetical case of a man who is susceptible to malaria and takes a heavy dose of quinine. In certain cases quinine creates noises in the ears and deafness. [ Interruption. ] If he has taken a dose of quinine it might be that it has made him deaf and he cannot hear oncoming traffic. Would he be liable to prosecution under this Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-10a.689.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-10", "file": "debates1930-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "073b49ca50242b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-10a.722.0", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (Recommitted) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "preceding_text": "spitals are burdened as the result of these accidents on the roads. I agree that that is so; I know it, and I sympathise with them. It is a problem of hospital finance, which ought to be faced as a problem of hospital finance. But this Amendment to the Bill is not going to cause people who are treated in hospitals as a result of accidents on the road to pay the hospitals for their treatment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-10a.722.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-10", "file": "debates1930-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "073b49ca50242b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-10a.761.0", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (Recommitted) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "county council of Yorkshire, or the great corporation of Liverpool, are not to be trusted with the provision of footpaths or grass margins, then you had better do away with local government altogether and concentrate everything in Whitehall. Who is going to pay for these grass margins and these footpaths? If the Minister tells the corporation of Liverpool, \"You are to provide grass margins\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-10a.761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-10", "file": "debates1930-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "073b49ca50242b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-10a.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (Recommitted) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": "e he has put in their proper order horses, livestock and pedestrians. The question is not whether one is entirely in favour of local government or in favour of being managed from Whitehall. Neither of those questions has any real relation to the Clause. I support the Amendment mainly because of the pedestrians. This Bill is based upon the report of a Royal Commission, all of whom were motor users.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-10a.767.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-10", "file": "debates1930-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "073b49ca50242b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-10a.786.0", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (Recommitted) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST EVANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He will not be a Welshman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST EVANS", "preceding_text": "re, also, that the right hon. Gentleman himself will be the first to appreciate—especially in view of the fact that yesterday's proceedings seem to weigh upon his mind to some extent—the possibility that he may not be the particular Minister of Transport to make this appointment, and from his successor we may not get that sympathy to which the right hon. Gentleman has given expression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-10a.786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-10", "file": "debates1930-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "073b49ca50242b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-10a.786.0", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (Recommitted) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Welsh-speaking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST EVANS", "preceding_text": "mpathy which the right hon. Gentleman has expressed for our purpose, I appeal to him to go just a little further than he has gone to-night. He speaks of the practical difficulties, and he suggests that he might be confronted with the situation of having to appoint either a Welshman with no other qualifications for the post, or else somebody who had the other qualifications, but was not a Welshman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-10a.786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-10", "file": "debates1930-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "073b49ca50242b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-10a.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (Recommitted) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "preceding_text": "I have no complaint to make of the way in which I have been treated by the House. The House has been very reasonable. I would prefer, however, to go by time rather than by Amendments, if that is agreeable to the Opposition. We might continue for half-an-hour and then adjourn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-10a.788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-11", "file": "debates1930-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "54f02c02376a0123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-11a.813.2", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir KINGSLEY WOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You created the machinery!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir KINGSLEY WOOD", "preceding_text": "elays in connection with such schemes as they are able to present to the Government. They, I think with a great deal of truth, attribute a considerable part of the blame for delay to the action of Government Departments. The Lord Mayor of Sheffield at the conference to which I have already referred said that there were too many Government departments dealing with these matters at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-11a.813.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-11", "file": "debates1930-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "54f02c02376a0123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-11a.823.1", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are lucky!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "changed. They will enable us to obtain entry into the requisite parcels of land here and there. In my experience as Chairman for 20 years of the Roads and Bridges Committee of the county of Glamorgan, I found that under the Unemployment (Relief Works) Act of 1920, with the utmost good will, it takes us nearly two months, when there is no opposition, to get into possession of land for improvements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-11a.823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-11", "file": "debates1930-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "54f02c02376a0123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-11a.826.4", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "conscientious people, but I do not think it is fair to place upon them, without any public inquiry, the right of deciding these very important matters. The Minister says we must agree to this because it is necessary to expedite work. I make two comments. Is the Minister quite sure that delay always arises through public inquiries? Do delays never occur in Government departments? Of course they do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-11a.826.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-11", "file": "debates1930-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "54f02c02376a0123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-11a.863.2", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "at from various angles, but we are dealing with a Board which is already in existence and if we selected certain names for definite exclusion we should be taking a line which is contrary to English practice and would have a repercussion upon other matters such as, I am sure, my hon. Friends would not wish to see happen. Further, we should be passing a severe vote of censure upon those individuals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-11a.863.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-11", "file": "debates1930-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "54f02c02376a0123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-11a.867.0", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KINGSLEY GRIFFITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KINGSLEY GRIFFITH", "preceding_text": "dies by this kind of inquisition. Although this is a very strong case, in which there is as much reason as there could be in almost any case for the indignation, with which I sympathise, of hon. Members opposite, I do ask them not to press this Amendment because by doing so they will be setting on foot a kind of machinery which can be used against them, and will be used against them in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-11a.867.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-15", "file": "debates1930-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "b2a7235d12c8fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-15a.1230.0", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "rd for a single room for a single person in one of these hostels, equipped with all the latest facilities, with electric lighting and heating, with a garden in the centre of it, with decencies and comforts such as these poor people have never before known—the highest charge for such a house, everything included, is in the neighbourhood of 3s. 6d. a week. I have heard it put as low as 2s. 9d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-15a.1230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-15", "file": "debates1930-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "b2a7235d12c8fa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-15a.1230.0", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": " one of these hostels, equipped with all the latest facilities, with electric lighting and heating, with a garden in the centre of it, with decencies and comforts such as these poor people have never before known—the highest charge for such a house, everything included, is in the neighbourhood of 3s. 6d. a week. I have heard it put as low as 2s. 9d. [ Interruption. ] Yes, including lighting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-15a.1230.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1288.0", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS ACT (1923) AMENDMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quote a case.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": "e hon. Member said, in his concluding remarks, that this Measure might cause injustice, and he dismissed that point in a light and airy fashion as if it did not matter much. I disagree entirely with him as to where the injustice will lie. I have every reason to think that if this Measure were passed into law there would be very much more injustice done to the landlords than justice to the tenants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1288.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1333.2", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "e definition of dumping is a difficult matter, though everybody knows what it means. It is when a surplus of goods produced in a country at a certain cost is dumped upon another country at a price below the cost of production, advantage being taken of the fact that there is a high tariff in the exporting country. That is another matter that could very easily be examined, and then, above all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1333.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1333.2", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " of goods produced in a country at a certain cost is dumped upon another country at a price below the cost of production, advantage being taken of the fact that there is a high tariff in the exporting country. That is another matter that could very easily be examined, and then, above all—[ Interruption. ] How can you examine it if you refuse absolutely to go to any sort of conference at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1333.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1344.1", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"4s.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "The only one that went through without a financial crash! France has paid 5s. in the £ of her debts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1344.1", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "in the £ of her debts—to her own nationals. Belgium has paid, I think, 3s. to 4s. Germany has paid nothing. It is true that our taxation is heavier, but our taxation is heavier than that of other countries because we are the only people who are paying our debts. If we paid only 4s. in the £ of our debts we could wipe out at once more than £200,000,000 of our liabilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1344.1", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And child labour!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "in Europe. There is a good deal said about wages in the United States. They pick the best of them! Has anybody read what is happening in the iron and steel industry in the United States—of the wages, the sweated conditions? They are working seven days a week at 10 hours a day and at wages—well, there is no blast furnacemen in this country who would take work under the conditions there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1344.1", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " the sweated conditions? They are working seven days a week at 10 hours a day and at wages—well, there is no blast furnacemen in this country who would take work under the conditions there. [An HON. MEMBER: \"And child labour!\"] Yes, and that is true. The whole story has not been told about wages in the United States. Besides, it is a sparsely populated country, with gigantic resources—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1344.1", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ption. ] Yes, and then there are our social services to be taken into account. Let me put another point. This is the country which maintains and employs more people to the square mile than any great country in the world—I said maintains and employs, leaving out all the unemployed. There are more men and women employed to the square mile in this country than in any great country in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1344.1", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " and other occupations of every sort and kind. Let me give one or two figures. In France you have one out of 24 of the population living in seaport towns. In Germany you have one out of 12, and in the United States of America the proportion is one out of six of the population. In this country the proportion is one out of three of the population living in seaport towns. What is the reason for that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1388.2", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GIBSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Yorkshire?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GIBSON", "preceding_text": "I apologise, but I feel strongly when such remarks are made in this House, and when such accusations are thrown across to these benches and when we have not sometimes a reasonable opportunity of replying to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1388.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1388.2", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GIBSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Seven millions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GIBSON", "preceding_text": "000. The Chancellor of the Exchequer mentioned this afternoon that he had received some figures from Los Angeles on the western coast of the United States relating to the enormous percentage of unemployed in that city. He went on to say that it was stated, perhaps with a certain amount of truth, that they had in that country from 4,000,000 to 6,000,000 more unemployed than we have in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1388.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1409.0", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "in or meat or similar bulky articles of that kind, it seems to me that they would be far greater when you come to every one of those manufacturing industries which, somehow or other, have to be protected to-day. If we take the cotton industry as an example, does the hon. Member really suggest that you can deal with the difficulties of that industry merely by controlling the prices of raw material?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1414.2", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Referendum?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " must be one which would ensure for them a secure market for their foodstuffs in this country, and our belief is that the best way to secure that secure market for them is by putting duties on foreign foodstuffs. He made it perfectly clear that if he was in that position he would feel it his duty, if he was able to make an agreement of that kind, to submit it to the people at the General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1414.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1414.2", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "s primarily designed, not to benefit the Dominions, but to benefit the home market. When the right hon. Gentleman suggests that the admission of wheat from the Empire into this country, or of Canadian manufactures from Canada into this country, is not going to benefit the British farmer or the British manufacturer, he only shows how completely he has failed to understand what our policy really is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1414.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1416.3", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ent indefinitely to see these things happening and not make some effort to find some remedy more satisfactory than any that has been discovered hitherto. Of course it is not the plan of our party that under an extended system of Safeguarding there should be a duty on every article imported into this country. Such a thing as that has never been attempted, not even in the most protectionist country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1416.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1422.0", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " last two weeks. He referred to the great regret which he felt that this Government were in office, because he was very anxious to produce a united Empire. The Government who were in office in 1926 and agreed to the report which has been presented and the constitutional findings of the Conference of 1926 are the very last Government and the very last party that ought to talk about a united Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1422.0", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " this Government were in office, because he was very anxious to produce a united Empire. The Government who were in office in 1926 and agreed to the report which has been presented and the constitutional findings of the Conference of 1926 are the very last Government and the very last party that ought to talk about a united Empire. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] My right hon. Friend has just stated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1422.0", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "s been presented and the constitutional findings of the Conference of 1926 are the very last Government and the very last party that ought to talk about a united Empire. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] My right hon. Friend has just stated—[ Interruption ]—that the Chancellor of the Exchequer explained the Government's position in language which was straightforward, unequivocal and unmistakable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1423.1", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " Safeguarding and Protection, he would have had to face precisely the same problem in a safeguarded and protected country as he is facing to-day. What is the use of drawing distinctions which have no actual reality in relation to one country and another? We are being censured to-night by the Opposition, because we have carried out the pledges that we gave to the country at the last Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1423.1", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " ground of censure is, first of all, that we have not adopted Safeguarding. The reply of the Government is perfectly plain, and we challenge a reply to it. Can you point out one single country, highly industrially developed, in the same position as we are, but which has been safeguarded or protected, that has not a much more serious problem of unemployment than we have to face at the present time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1423.1", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Possibly!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "esent production,\" would simply be met with a point blank refusal. There is not a Dominion that will agree to rationalisation upon present conditions and will not insist upon a free hand to develop its own industries behind its own tariff walls. The suggestion is made that, if we tax foreign food and let in Dominion food free, then the Dominions will come to some sort of industrial bargain with us", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1426.1", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ome up against the opposition of the steel industries and the coal industry of Eastern Canada. There is a strong and, from their own point of view, a reasonable combination of interests. He knows perfectly well that the most dangerous proposition we could put up to the Government of that Dominion would be to sell the Eastern interests in order to buy the Central and Western agricultural interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1426.1", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ernment of that Dominion would be to sell the Eastern interests in order to buy the Central and Western agricultural interests. [ Interruption. ] The point I am making is that there is not a single Dominion which can give us substantial preference on manufactured articles in relation to industries which they themselves are establishing behind tariff walls in return for advantages for food imports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1426.1", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ubstantial preference on manufactured articles in relation to industries which they themselves are establishing behind tariff walls in return for advantages for food imports. [ Interruption. ] Does anyone suggest that when the next adjustment of tariff walls is made we are going to get a law tariff wall which makes our competition with Dominion products effective in return for free imports of food", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1426.1", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about America?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "the Canadian Government was certainly not at all indifferent to the proposal, even at the stage when it was only a proposal, and had not been adopted by the Government. Hon. Members talk about give-and-take with the Dominions and about taking their agricultural produce, but these Dominions would ask, \"Would you give us special advantages in secondary production which you yourselves are promoting?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-16", "file": "debates1930-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "16a844eb29425d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1426.1", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING POLICY AND EMPIRE MARKETS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "roving sin. If hon. Members opposite had been sitting here instead of us, and if they had carried out their Election pledges, every word, every restriction which my right hon. Friend sitting by me made, would have had to be made by them, because they would not have been able to say that they were prepared to sacrifice the standards of life of our people in order to give something to the Dominions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-16a.1426.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-17", "file": "debates1930-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "22304406764ff5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-17a.1453.1", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JUVENILE OFFENDER (SENTENCE, CHELMSFORD).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "As no supplementary question was put raising the point which the hon. Member has now brought before the House, I was not able to give any answer. There was a misunderstanding on another point, which I tried to explain, but on account of the noise that occurred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-17a.1453.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-17", "file": "debates1930-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "22304406764ff5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-17a.1453.6", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JUVENILE OFFENDER (SENTENCE, CHELMSFORD).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hold your tongue!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Are other hon. Members to be allowed to put supplementaries on questions not reached?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-17a.1453.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-17", "file": "debates1930-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "22304406764ff5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-17a.1453.10", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JUVENILE OFFENDER (SENTENCE, CHELMSFORD).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-17a.1453.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-17", "file": "debates1930-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "22304406764ff5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-17a.1454.2", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JUVENILE OFFENDER (SENTENCE, CHELMSFORD).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-17a.1454.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-17", "file": "debates1930-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "22304406764ff5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-17a.1463.0", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROCKWAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROCKWAY", "preceding_text": "May I draw your attention to this fact, that, on the last occasion when we wished to raise the question of India in this House, we were compelled to use the Adjournment, and the important question of India was postponed until the last hour of that Adjournment, when the House was practically empty; and may I ask if that is a dignified way of dealing with this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-17a.1463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-17", "file": "debates1930-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "22304406764ff5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-17a.1463.4", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROCKWAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROCKWAY", "preceding_text": "I speak with very great respect, but, honestly, the situation in India is now so serious that we should be failing to do our duty if we did not speak our minds on this matter, and, if the Front Bench will not allow us an opportunity to do so, we must take other means of doing it. I say that with very great respect, but we cannot be silent on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-17a.1463.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-17", "file": "debates1930-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "22304406764ff5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-17a.1533.1", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "when this subject was considered, we followed the lead of the Liberal party in view of the careful study which it has given to financial matters of all kinds. We have learned something of their diligence and their high authority from the many Yellow Books and other coloured books which they have prepared, and which from time to time they have used to illuminate public discussions on these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-17a.1533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-17", "file": "debates1930-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "22304406764ff5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-17a.1544.0", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "en given infinite trouble in drafting the Clause. They could not have received a more devastating and destructive reply than that received from the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Committee stage. He held out no hope whatever that he would even consider any more suggestions along those lines. And here they are this afternoon not even going to vote for the. Clause which they themselves put down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-17a.1544.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-17", "file": "debates1930-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "22304406764ff5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-17a.1599.2", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "to been most prominent in supporting what will be the case if my Amendment is accepted. It took the hon. Member a long inquiry to discover what the effect would be. There is no penalising the poor man. He will get as much abatement upon his life assurance policy as he gets at the present time and if I were to concede what has been demanded this evening the State would be making a gift to that man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-17a.1599.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-18", "file": "debates1930-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e24890afa2865f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-18a.1632.0", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY] (No. 4).", "cue_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " deserve real attention. The first was the remarkable sentence that in fact the income of the Fund would have been all right if, unfortunately, the expenditure of the Fund had not gone up so greatly. That constituted practically the whole defence of the Government, as contained in the hon. Gentleman's speech, except only for one or two other sentences which stood out in a somewhat coruscating way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-18a.1632.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-18", "file": "debates1930-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e24890afa2865f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-18a.1644.0", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY] (No. 4).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Partial.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "f 13.7 per cent. and in a city like Dundee a rise of 14.7 per cent. I need quote no more figures to show the gravity of the problem. It is not because there has been an alteration in the regulations, although it may have had some effect, but it has not had the exaggerated effect which hon. and right hon. Members have suggested. What is wrong is that we are now carrying out a policy of maintenance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-18a.1644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-18", "file": "debates1930-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e24890afa2865f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-18a.1654.4", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY] (No. 4).", "cue_speaker": "Captain BALFOUR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are they\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BALFOUR", "preceding_text": " of the productive industries, we should not have these Resolutions coming forward now and in the future. Any particular political party that went to the country now and advocated a reduction of the standard of life of any great section of the community would be committing political hari-kari, but if we could get the relation of the sheltered wages down as compared with the productive wages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-18a.1654.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-18", "file": "debates1930-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e24890afa2865f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-18a.1656.0", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY] (No. 4).", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Miss Bondfield)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Miss Bondfield)", "preceding_text": "I understand that there is a strongly expressed desire that we should have a wider discussion on the Second Reading of the Bill next Wednesday, so I will now deal with one or two points which have been raised in this discussion.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-18a.1656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-18", "file": "debates1930-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e24890afa2865f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-18a.1699.0", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY] (No. 4).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "preceding_text": "On this financial resolution I am not allowed to discuss the ethics of unemployment, I am merely discussing the finance, and if the hon. Member understood finance he would realise that, however much his heart may be with the unemployed, he will not improve their position by ruining the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-18a.1699.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-18", "file": "debates1930-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e24890afa2865f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-18a.1699.0", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY] (No. 4).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "preceding_text": "ruption. ] If we are not to be allowed to discuss financial resolutions on a financial basis we shall very soon have a bankrupt country in which the unemployed will not be able to get, their £10,000,000, because there will not be £10,000,000, and hon. Members opposite must search round to find where the money is to come from to pay their own salaries, because there will not be any money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-18a.1699.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1769.3", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "If my hon. and gallant Friend will listen he will understand. I say that this year he lays down one flotilla, but he lays down a policy which makes it imperative on him or on a Conservative Government to lay down two flotillas a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1769.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1770.2", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "vernment, in which he drew attention to unemployment, expenditure and so on. I would be out of order in discussing that side of it. There is a very good answer, indeed, but this is not the place to give it. There is, however, another side to that poster which does require an answer. He said that under the capitalist and national government of France they spend £80,000,000 a year on armaments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1770.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1770.2", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "er side to that poster which does require an answer. He said that under the capitalist and national government of France they spend £80,000,000 a year on armaments. [ Interruption. ] I knew that the right hon. Member for Epping would defend the First Lord. Under a Socialist Government, he said, we in England were spending £120,000,000. Nationalist military France spends £80,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1770.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1770.2", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Swiss\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ilding. As the right hon. Member for Epping was good enough to let something fall while I was speaking—I am glad enough to have his attention—may I address myself for a moment to his main argument, which, apparently, will be adopted by the First Lord, that you cannot disarm until others also disarm, and as long as the French or the Japanese, or the Venezuelans maintain armaments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1770.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1770.2", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " also maintain our defences very strong indeed. May I ask the right hon. Member for Epping when he replies to explain why, believing the things he does, holding the faith which we on these benches do not hold, he was so complacent when there was a French Army the greatest in Europe, with wonderful equipment? Why did he not press the Conservative Cabinet for a British Army equal to the French Army?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1770.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1774.1", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "rmament, but, as my right hon. Friend has challenged me, I want to see the Treaty revised, and I want another Naval Conference as soon as possible to prevent an increase in tonnage and for a reduction of armaments and to prevent an increase in American tonnage to a tremendous extent. I would not mind at all if the Treaty were thrown out in other countries. I do not think that it is any use at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1777.1", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "a shall have 18 of these heavy cruisers with 8-inch guns of which only 15 are to be built by 1936 and that we shall have 15. In addition, we have four of the Effingham class with 7.5-inch guns. It will take the Americans four or five years to build their quota or ration of 8-inch gun cruisers and now is the time when my right hon. Friend is starting to build a new type of heavy 6-inch gun cruiser.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1777.1", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "that we shall have 15. In addition, we have four of the Effingham class with 7.5-inch guns. It will take the Americans four or five years to build their quota or ration of 8-inch gun cruisers and now is the time when my right hon. Friend is starting to build a new type of heavy 6-inch gun cruiser. [ Interruption. ] It is a new type. Since 1924 we have been building nothing but 8-inch gun cruisers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1779.1", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Until when?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ad to say. \"We have laid the keels of all the ships and there is not much in this holiday.\" At any rate he has accepted part of the Italian offer. Why cannot we accept some of it. The Noble Lady the Member for the Sutton Division of Plymouth (Viscountess Astor) who has left the Chamber, asked me what my policy was. My policy is to postpone shipbuilding. It is to declare and accept a naval holiday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1780.1", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "he League of Nations machinery will be more successful. That is no reflection on the Prime Minister, who himself admitted that he was disappointed with the results of the Conference. We cannot hope for success if we do not make some effective protest against my right ban. Friend's extravagance at the Admiralty—and extravagance there is. The whole spirit of the Admiralty is extravagant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1780.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1800.2", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "The whole House is familiar with the special difficulties in which they and the Noble Lady the Member for the Sutton Division of Plymouth (Viscountess Astor) are involved in these matters. It was an appreciation of those difficulties which led me to refuse invitations to stand for dockyard constituencies, because I know the special sort of pressure that is brought to bear on their representatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1800.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1842.0", "colnum": "1842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "at I call a police force. You can take their attitude from the speech of the hon. Member for Erdington (Mr. Simmons). Just think what he said! He said that the whole world was moving towards peace. I think that we are moving towards peace, but look at India, look at Egypt, look at Russia, and look at China! Only last year there was a very considerable war in China between the Russians and Chinese,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1842.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1870.0", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which nation is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "preceding_text": "e familiar since we have had the Socialist party in this House. I am perfectly certain that if we have a war, we shall have Japan on our side. There is only one war which looms in front of this country and I need not tell the Committee what the nation is. We hear it stated that a war with one nation is unbelievable and impossible, but there is only one nation with which war is at all likely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1870.0", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which nation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "preceding_text": "h looms in front of this country and I need not tell the Committee what the nation is. We hear it stated that a war with one nation is unbelievable and impossible, but there is only one nation with which war is at all likely—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Which nation is that?\"]—and, in the event of such a war, we will most certainly have Japan on our side and we may realise the value of Singa- pore.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1870.0", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was not Germany prepared?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "preceding_text": "e drafted to new services. There are so few of their own rank and rating available that they have to be drafted to these other services at unreasonable periods and in an unreasonable time. Can any hon. Member opposite give me an instance of a war which broke out because people were prepared? Dozens of instances occur to the mind, of cases where war broke out because people were unprepared for war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1870.0", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "preceding_text": " greater than ours. We are a small people numerically compared with some of the great nations, like Germany, which has half as many again as us, and the United States, which has three time as many, and Russia, with the largest Army in the world. Other peoples will naturally say, \"Why should these people have all this which we need. Let us take it from them.\" That has been the history of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1870.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1879.0", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member has made a statement the implications of which are very grave. I ought to tell the Committee that the limitation of 91,000 tons was inserted in the Treaty specifically at the request of the technical advisers of the British delegation. That can hardly be described as blackmail by the other Powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1879.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1880.0", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier - General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier - General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "I have listened to the interruptions and interjections of hon. Members opposite while my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for North Portsmouth (Sir B. Falle) was speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1880.0", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier - General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier - General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "pean wars. I will not go through the whole list, but on each occasion it will be found that a representative of His Majesty's Government has stood up at the Box and said, \"Never has the position of the world been so clear; never have we been so free from the possibility of war\"; and in each case within a year this country has been plunged into a great war in which we have been forced to take part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1880.0", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier - General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier - General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "rd demand for the reduction of the Fleet. That is a very recent lesson, and it is really a tragedy that memories are so short that we have forgotten that on several occasions during the War we were, as Mr. Hoover, the present President of the United States of America, has himself placed on record, within a few weeks of starvation. We were then saved from starvation by our cruiser protection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1880.0", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier - General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier - General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "on ]—and that is what we are so light-heartedly dealing with to-day. When I hear the laughter of hon. Members opposite I do not want to wrangle with them, but I do say, on behalf of our country, that we must surely realise that this is the supreme question for the people of these islands. No other question really counts; because, after all, prosperity is nothing if your country is destroyed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1880.0", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier - General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is your enemy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier - General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": " destroyed. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"] The hon. Member says \"hear, hear\"; I do not know whether he is sneering at me, but I say this as a humble citizen of this country, that having known the facts, I would sooner pay an increased amount of taxation than see this country plunged into the tragedy which is so likely to occur if we disregard the results of this present so-called naval agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1880.0", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier - General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier - General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "results of this present so-called naval agreement. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is your enemy?\"] That is exactly what was said in 1914 by the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs. I believe I am right in saying that Lord Haldane, who was at that time Secretary of State for War, came back from Germany absolutely convinced, and told the public so, that there was no real fear of anything of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1883.0", "colnum": "1883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral SUETER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral SUETER", "preceding_text": "rlborough\" was hit at the Battle of Jutland, she is turned into a lame duck, and a lame duck is of no use. She cannot keep up with the Fleet, and, therefore, is perfectly useless. I submit to the Committee that the time has come when hon. Gentlemen opposite, who go to their constituencies pledged to economy, should attack their Front Bench and say to them, \"Why do you not scrap these battleships?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1883.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-21", "file": "debates1930-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "c0eca26fa4d050c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1886.0", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Commander SOUTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander SOUTHBY", "preceding_text": "I refrained, out of courtesy, from interrupting the First Lord when he spoke. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"] I do not think that the First Lord would deny me the courtesy of asking him a question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-21a.1886.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-22", "file": "debates1930-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "da4d0238269b6f98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-22a.1939.0", "colnum": "1939", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING (HUTS, WELLING).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": "Is the First Commissioner of Works aware that the last Government sold these houses without giving notice to the local authority, and the result is that many tenants are being asked to pay 20s. per week for wooden hutments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-22a.1939.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-22", "file": "debates1930-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "da4d0238269b6f98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-22a.1951.7", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "CHILDREN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": " Strangely enough, the same boy can however join the Army. I could never understand why there should be this difference. The Bill does something else. It abolishes the death penalty up to the age of 18 years. That was a unanimous recommendation of the Committee. Above all things, I feel sure the House will agree with me when I suggest that the time has arrived for the whipping of children to stop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-22a.1951.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-22", "file": "debates1930-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "da4d0238269b6f98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-22a.1995.2", "colnum": "1995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OLIVER STANLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OLIVER STANLEY", "preceding_text": "ave arrived at a logical conclusion that the acceptance of this Amendment might have had the effect of ruining the object of the Clause. But he made no attempt to do this. He merely brought forward an entirely inaccurate assertion. He said that Members on this side of the House had deliberately, for the sake of their friends and to protect the taxes of their friends, made every attempt to ruin it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-22a.1995.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-22", "file": "debates1930-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "da4d0238269b6f98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-22a.2038.0", "colnum": "2038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "anything I can to put down tax dodging, but, after listening to the speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on this Amendment, the position seems to me like two parish councillors squabbling as to where they should put down the next lamp-post in the street. In replying to this Amendment, the Chancellor of the Exchequer seemed to me to make the most thin and the weakest defence I have ever heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-22a.2038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-22", "file": "debates1930-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "da4d0238269b6f98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-22a.2064.1", "colnum": "2064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "esponsible for the reduction of the Bank Rate, but I do say—and, if it were necessary, I could produce abundant financial authority from supporters of the party opposite to the effect I have stated—that the reduction of the Bank Rate, if that be so, during the last five months from 6½ per cent. to 3 per cent. has been a benefit to industry to the extent of £35,000,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-22a.2064.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-22", "file": "debates1930-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "da4d0238269b6f98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-22a.2064.1", "colnum": "2064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "hings would certainly have been worse than they are if it had not been for the fact that we have pursued this policy of debt reduction. The other point that has been raised by all the speakers who have taken part in this debate is that I am paying off debt with one hand and borrowing with another. If I was not paying off this debt, the result would be that there would be £5,000,000 more debt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-22a.2064.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-22", "file": "debates1930-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "da4d0238269b6f98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-22a.2071.0", "colnum": "2071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "ed at a time when its value was half what it is now. That is not so. It would be interesting to have a return of the amount of the War debt which is now held by people who borrowed the money before 1918–1919, 1920 and 1921. A great deal of the argument of the hon. Member for Smethwick (Sir O. Mosley) falls to the ground, because he fails to understand that money is constantly changing hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-22a.2071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-22", "file": "debates1930-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "da4d0238269b6f98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-22a.2082.2", "colnum": "2082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (Recommitted) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, in page 89, line 18, to leave out paragraph ( a ). I have always understood that English law assumed that a person was innocent until he is proved to be guilty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-22a.2082.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-22", "file": "debates1930-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "da4d0238269b6f98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-22a.2092.1", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (Recommitted) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. Craigie Aitchison)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. Craigie Aitchison)", "preceding_text": "ary sense of the term. If you were dealing here with crime I should assent at once, because, as my hon. Friend has said, it is undesirable to depart from the rule, which in general is a fundamental rule, of the law of Scotland that a case should be corroborated so as to have more than one witness. You are not dealing here with crime at all, but with a statutory offence, which is a different thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-22a.2092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-22", "file": "debates1930-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "da4d0238269b6f98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-22a.2093.3", "colnum": "2093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (Recommitted) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "ase can be made out for such an extension of the law. I do not think it is necessary to detain the House by saying much in justification of this provision. When one reflects that in the City of London alone, during the year ending on the 31st March, 1930, the number of children killed by motor cars was 297, and the number of children injured in the City of London alone was upwards of 10,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-22a.2093.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-22", "file": "debates1930-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "da4d0238269b6f98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-22a.2093.3", "colnum": "2093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (Recommitted) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "10,000—[ Interruption. ]—I think it is vitally important that it should be possible to convict people who disregard traffic signals, which are imperatively required in the interests of public safety, upon the evidence of one witness. If two witnesses were required, the result would inevitably be that a very considerable proportion of people who ought to be convicted would go scot free.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-22a.2093.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-22", "file": "debates1930-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "da4d0238269b6f98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-22a.2107.3", "colnum": "2107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (Recommitted) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Colonel HOWARD-BURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Set to music!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel HOWARD-BURY", "preceding_text": "day may be out-of-date to-morrow. Our roads are getting more and more congested and one of the most important features under the Bill will be the Road Code. When will that be presented to the House? I believe the Road Code will do more to save life than anything else in the Bill. I hope he will confer with the Minister of Education to see whether it will not be possible to get the Road Code—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-22a.2107.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-23", "file": "debates1930-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "8b31bf80e530398d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-23a.2340.1", "colnum": "2340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OWEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OWEN", "preceding_text": "May I be permitted to make an explanation? When I made that statement I understood that Mrs. Pankhurst had taken part in the movement to secure peace by negotiations. On that point, I may be mistaken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-23a.2340.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-24", "file": "debates1930-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc6bc13b162a5e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-24a.2481.4", "colnum": "2481", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "nd the Treaty and the Convention, it does not operate in the case of a complete prohibition of all imports, bounty-fed or non-bounty-fed, if, in fact, that is part of the machinery of a Government import monopoly. What the right hon. Gentleman is asking is whether you can within the terms of the existing Convention or Treaty impose a prohibition which operates on some countries and not on othears.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-24a.2481.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-25", "file": "debates1930-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "2688fb3c21107699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-25a.2607.0", "colnum": "2607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "preceding_text": "en to what I propose to say. I go further than that. I say that all taxation of industry is had. I have always believed that; and the reason why I am so enthusiastic about this Budget is that it reduces taxation upon industry and places it upon profits. This Budget completely reverses the system that has been growing up in the last five years under the right hon. Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-25a.2607.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-25", "file": "debates1930-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "2688fb3c21107699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-25a.2636.3", "colnum": "2636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "preceding_text": "round that our burdens will be lightened and even the burden of those social services to which so much reference has been made this afternoon will be lessened. I do not believe it is possible for any Government in any part of the world to increase direct taxation over and above the amount which the direct taxpayer thinks that he is justified in paying. You can only carry it, I believe, by consent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-25a.2636.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.273.3", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT PRINTING WORKS, HARROW (MR. KIRSTEIN).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Strike!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "In the first place, we have reverted in this matter to the practice which prevailed at the Stationery Office before the stoppage of 1926—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.273.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.274.1", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT PRINTING WORKS, HARROW (MR. KIRSTEIN).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "The practice in this matter is one which existed before 1926—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.274.1", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT PRINTING WORKS, HARROW (MR. KIRSTEIN).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "The practice in this matter is one which existed before 1926—[ Interruption. ] I would remind the right hon. Gentleman that in professions like those of barristers and doctors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.274.2", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT PRINTING WORKS, HARROW (MR. KIRSTEIN).", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "Did the hon. Gentleman revert to that practice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.274.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.274.3", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT PRINTING WORKS, HARROW (MR. KIRSTEIN).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "Did the hon. Gentleman revert to that practice—[ Interruption ]—on the instructions of this particular trade union, or why did he do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.274.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.309.3", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "preceding_text": "ay I intimate to the Noble Lord that I only got his letter at 8 o'clock last night? In the third place, may I remind Members of this House, and the Prime Minister in particular, that I am as conscious of my duty as any Member of this House as to what I ought or ought not to do. I shall be quite happy to read the speech referred to in the Motion if the House agrees, and you, Mr. Speaker, permit me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.309.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": "There is an Order on the Paper to-day, called the Dartford and Purfleet (Thames) Tunnel Bill, which I have had the honour of working through this Parliament, and am I in order, as one of the ordinary Members of this House, in demanding that the hon. Member who is attempting to apologise should indicate whether he includes me in this general attack of corruption against Members of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.311.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.313.5", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Give us the truth about the bribery!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "preceding_text": "Twenty-one years ago in this House he was earning a reputation for being very offensive to any Member of this House who came—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.313.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.313.8", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "preceding_text": "Be a man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.313.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.313.10", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "You will not allow him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.313.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.313.13", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": " bribes to help to pass doubtful Bills in the interests of private individuals. It is perfectly obvious that the charge there does not mean that we are free to do it if we like, but that as a matter of fact it has been done. The second statement is: It is known that Labour Members accepted money from moneylenders and other interests, and it is known\"— and so on. Those are the two statements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.313.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.313.13", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give him a chance!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "at is my point, and I want to confine the attention of the House at the moment to those two points—one point repeated in two variations. The hon. Member appears to-day, and he shows quite clearly that the statement was considered, was written out before it was delivered, and that it was coolly and deliberately given out to the world. To-day he has withdrawn nothing. He has explained nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.313.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.317.2", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "ing question in the House, hon. Members having to take the onus of making statements and, consequently, getting into considerable trouble. The Committee of Privileges ought before now to have had seriously under consideration the palpable fact, with which we are all familiar, that there is such a result taking place frequently in this House as hon. Members being under the influence of drink—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.317.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.317.2", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish! and \"Privilege!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "seriously under consideration the palpable fact, with which we are all familiar, that there is such a result taking place frequently in this House as hon. Members being under the influence of drink—[ Interruption. ] I submit, Mr. Speaker, that there is no hon. Member of this House who can dispute having seen from time to time Members of all parties in this House under the influence of drink.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.317.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.317.2", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "t to suggest, and I am submitting it in the interests of the House and in the interests of common truth, that the Committee of Privileges ought before now to have given, and I hope that it will now give, serious attention to that particular aspect of the affairs of this House, in the interests of all concerned. We know perfectly well the situation in the House and how serious the developments are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.317.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.318.3", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a Standing Committee!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "preceding_text": "I desire to raise two matters on the Amendment which the Prime Minister has moved. I want, first of all, to ask whether the House can be informed how the Committee of Privileges is composed, and if it is not a Standing Committee to whom the selection of personnel for the purpose of dealing with this particular matter will be left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": " Sandham) would have accepted that proposal. We have to bear in mind that the hon. Member for Kirkdale is in almost the same position as a prisoner at the bar and the prisoner himself and his friends must be satisfied as to the fairness of his trial. Even the Law Courts in this country take considerable pains to see that the prisoner is at all times satisfied as to the proper conduct of his trial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "d as to the fairness of his trial. Even the Law Courts in this country take considerable pains to see that the prisoner is at all times satisfied as to the proper conduct of his trial. [ Interruption. ] I may be trying the patience of hon. Members but I want to say quite frankly that we do not think that the prisoner in this case, the man who is being charged, is at all likely to get a fair trial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nothing of the kind!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "ister has this afternoon sit and try the case? If any member of the jury had spoken of a case in the same tone as the Prime Minister has spoken King's Counsel would certainly object to that man sitting on the jury and trying the case. The Prime Minister has already read out the charge, and the tone and temper of his speech shows that he thinks there is no foundation in fact for what has been said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": " the defence of prisoners at the Bar, if he were in the House, would say that if any member of the jury spoke in that tone he would immediately object to him trying the case. Look at the Committee of Privileges. It is well that we should consider, when a man is on trial, who are to be the jury; who are to be the judges. Let the House mark this point, that the man who is being charged to-day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "popular in the House. I admit that with the exception of my hon. Friend the Member for Bridgeton (Mr. Maxton) we are not popular. The only difference is this; that long after the so-called popular men have left this House I am likely to be here. But the more unpopular the man the more certain we should be that his trial is fair. Let me give an illustration from my own experience in the Law Courts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "I have made a mistake and I retract. I see that he is not on the Committee, but take the right hon. Member sitting beside the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George), the right hon. Member for Ross and Cromarty (Mr. Macpherson). He is a Tory in disguise. Go over the names—Lord Hugh Cecil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.322.3", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "I have no hesitation in meeting that point. It is perfectly true that the hon. Member for Kirkdale has made charges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.322.3", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "o utters a criminal libel. The moment he goes before the Court the charge is against him, and the moment the hon. Member goes before the Committee of Privileges the charge is against him of having libelled his fellow Members. I want to claim this in common fairness. We will allow the three, six, nine, and 10 Members to remain, from whom certainly the hon. Member will not get a shadow of fair play.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.322.3", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": " of them from whom we do not think the hon. Member will get a fair trial. In fairness we are prepared to allow them to remain. All we ask is this, and I hope that this Assembly will grant the request, that two names be added to the Committee of Privileges; and the names I suggest are those of the hon. Member for Camlachie (Mr. Stephen) and the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, West (Mr. W. J. Brown).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.322.3", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What group?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "f the hon. Member for Camlachie (Mr. Stephen) and the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, West (Mr. W. J. Brown). [ Interruption. ] Why the hilarity? It is perfectly obvious that there are certain sections of the House from whom we cannot get fair play. 5.0 p.m. I ask for the hon. Member for Camlachie to be added to the Committee because he is the only Member of our small group with any legal training.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.322.3", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is going to be a witness!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "m we cannot get fair play. 5.0 p.m. I ask for the hon. Member for Camlachie to be added to the Committee because he is the only Member of our small group with any legal training. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What group?\"] Our group is well defined, and every hon. Member. knows it. I am not going to argue that matter now. It is also eminently fair to ask that the hon. Mem- ber for West Wolverhampton be added.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.322.3", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "em- ber for West Wolverhampton be added. [An HON. MEMBER: \"He is going to be a witness!\"] With his Civil Service training, and also his training in connection with trade unionism, he is a man who, from our point of view, is absolutely essential on this Committee. I ask that these two names be added. There are your 10 Members, your packed jury, and all we ask in the interests of semi-decency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.322.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLE MENTARY ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ked, blind and crude. Interference in the shape of the movements of ships and the influence of troops is what the Government have been forced to rely upon. We have to restore British influence. It is a plant of slow growth. It is very difficult to cultivate. You struck it a fatal blow a year ago when, in a rough and almost insulting manner, you struck the High Commissioner from his position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.336.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLE MENTARY ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That's an exaggeration\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "preceding_text": "ous about the position in Europe. I do not think there is any straightforward observer who can be otherwise. In fact the work of the Naval Conference is only half finished, and it has been left in a position of considerable anxiety for us. When we read that the Prime Minister made a speech like that, which would seem to imply complete Satisfaction with the existing state of internal affairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.382.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-29", "file": "debates1930-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "11a07e516676b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.384.0", "colnum": "384", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLE MENTARY ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Miss PICTON-TURBERVILL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss PICTON-TURBERVILL", "preceding_text": "the Government. Though some of us who sit on the back benches week after week, month after month have been here for one year only, yet we have progressed several stages in the art of distinguishing those speeches which have substance in them from those speeches in which there is no substance. I feel that there has been very little substance in the attacks made on the Foreign Office this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-29a.384.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-30", "file": "debates1930-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "54dfabf49374063e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-30a.564.1", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": " on those benches opposite now, except the two Ministers, who would go down to their constituents and say, as any of us here would say—\"The Army is short of recruits and we hope you will join it because in doing so, you will be joining an honourable and useful profession.\" I do not believe there is a single hon. Member opposite with the exceptions 1 have mentioned who is prepared to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-30a.564.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-30", "file": "debates1930-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "54dfabf49374063e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-30a.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ength of the Army as being necessary for the safety of this land. I maintain, therefore, that it is the right hon. Gentleman's clear duty to resist attempts to prevent recruiting—especially attempts by his own party—and it is also his duty, when we have what is almost a crisis in recruiting, to take active personal steps to obtain recruits and to use his personal suasion in the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-30a.565.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-30", "file": "debates1930-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "54dfabf49374063e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-30a.571.3", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They did in the War!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "nds—of young men there in excellent physical condition who would gain inestimable benefit by a few years service in the Army, most of them not needing to fear that they will ruin their economic future. Why not ask that in the present state of shortage 2,000 or 3,000, or 4,000 or 5,000, of these excellent young men, excellent in physique, should join as infantrymen pour encourager les autres?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-30a.571.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-30", "file": "debates1930-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "54dfabf49374063e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-30a.583.0", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "preceding_text": "entleman informed the House that there is at the present time a shortage of 140 medical officers. It is no use having an army at all, however small the army may be, unless it is a healthy army. The only way in which von can have a healthy army, and keep it healthy, is by having a sufficient and efficient medical staff. The health of the Army depends to a very great extent upon its medical service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-30a.583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-30", "file": "debates1930-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "54dfabf49374063e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-30a.589.3", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Earl W1NTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl W1NTERTON", "preceding_text": "Really. The hon. Gentleman must not go on accusing me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-30a.589.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-30", "file": "debates1930-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "54dfabf49374063e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-30a.593.2", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"They were only 4 feet 8 inches!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONS", "preceding_text": "tate for War very alarming figures concerning the physical standard of the recruits in the British Army. We were told that 61 per cent. were rejected because they were under the physical standard, that the standard had been considerably lowered during the past few years, that the height was only 5 feet 2 inches—I should think that even the bantams we had during the War would come up to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-30a.593.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-30", "file": "debates1930-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "54dfabf49374063e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-30a.607.2", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LINDLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LINDLEY", "preceding_text": "o acquire the pick of the basket for a particular purpose, and largely at the expense of those who are not physically fitted for that purpose. Of those who did not fight for the country many never had an opportunity, and many, although they had. an opportunity, were prepared to suffer in other ways for the sake of their country. We have been told that these last-named people were beneath contempt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-30a.607.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.682.3", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Minister if this gentleman's case is being prejudiced in any way by a mistaken belief that he is any friend of mine?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.682.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.741.1", "colnum": "741", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (SPEECH OF MEMSER).", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir William Jowitt)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was not addressing them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir William Jowitt)", "preceding_text": " This House guards, and will guard its Privileges. It has ample power to restrain, and, if necessary, to punish those who disregard them. It is manifest that the Committee could come to no other conclusion than that the hon. Member, apart altogether from the truth or falsity of those charges, was guilty of a grave breach of Privilege in regaling his constituents with these sensational allegations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.741.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (SPEECH OF MEMSER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "preceding_text": "e a Select Committee and that it declined to alter the composition of the Committee of Privileges in any way to make that Committee more acceptable than it appeared to be to the hon. Member for Kirkdale or his friends. In spite of that fact, I felt that it was my duty to go to that Committee. I expected, and I think that most hon. Members of this House expected, that I should he asked to go there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.747.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.752.7", "colnum": "752", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (SPEECH OF MEMSER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of what\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "A good deal has been said in the report and in the speeches in this House as to the breach of Privilege, but surely greater than a breach of Privilege is the question of the honour and honesty of hon. Members. In the interests of the innocent a judicial inquiry ought to be set up and a full investigation made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.752.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.752.7", "colnum": "752", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (SPEECH OF MEMSER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": " told you!\"] One Speaker in the Chair is enough. I am rather keenly interested in this question, because I have striven for eight or nine months to get a judicial inquiry set up. The right hon. Gentleman suggests that it is necessary to put down specific charges. I have given specific charges, and given the names and given the amount of money they received and have been refused a judicial inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.752.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.752.7", "colnum": "752", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (SPEECH OF MEMSER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "the time when, from many miles distant, I heard Members on the Front Bench in this House challenging Members on the other side of the House with the possibility of corruption, and at that time the Labour party as a fact were in full cry that these Members should be placed in the dock. But to-day hon. Members are ready to line up behind the Front Bench and defend every and any action against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.752.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.752.7", "colnum": "752", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (SPEECH OF MEMSER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "ht the case of the working classes and the British public for clean government. I stand down to no man in my desire for clean government. Suppose that we were to take this question with an unruffled temper and were to say, \"Well, if there are men in this Rouse who are receiving bribes, surely if there are only a small number in the House, the great majority should say, 'Let us have the evidence.'\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.752.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.755.2", "colnum": "755", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (SPEECH OF MEMSER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "preceding_text": "My first duty in this matter is to my informers—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What about your colleagues?\"] I respect that duty, and if it be a question as to whether I have been treated with ridicule or ignominy, rather than let my informers,down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.755.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.755.2", "colnum": "755", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (SPEECH OF MEMSER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "preceding_text": "ly seeking for the truth, and as a consequence my first step is to protect my informers as far as I possibly can. What I do desire is the appropriate place for making statements with the protection for these people that I demand. I submit to the House this: If I had gone fully into the matter last night, what would have happened? There would have been the whole of the matter printed in the Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.755.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.755.2", "colnum": "755", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (SPEECH OF MEMSER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "preceding_text": "f the Members of this House to seek for the truth for which I am seeking, irrespective of personal exposure, and irrespective of personal results. To say that it is necessary for me definitely to take the step of naming people in this House before I can get protection from the judicial tribunal that I desire, is asking too much from me, in. view of the fact that I have a duty towards my informers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.755.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.757.3", "colnum": "757", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (SPEECH OF MEMSER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "I have more pluck than you have. I feel that some words are due from me following what the Chancellor of the Exchequer has just said and because, whatever else I lack, I hope that courage is not one of the things which I lack, I propose to respond to what the Chancellor of the Exchequer has said. But I do not propose to respond—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.757.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.757.3", "colnum": "757", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (SPEECH OF MEMSER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "eing that this very situation would arise this afternoon, I consulted Mr. Speaker before this afternoon's sitting with the object of ensuring that I should be able to participate in the Debate and also with the object of ensuring that I should be able to read correspondence which had passed between the Prime Minister and myself. You, Mr. Speaker, will confirm this. You were gravely doubtful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.757.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (SPEECH OF MEMSER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not do it now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "e of Commons has not yet disposed of the charges of the hon. Member for Kirk-dale (Mr. Sandham). The second reason is that when I do make my statement, it will be made upon the Vote of the appropriate Department, with names mentioned, with amounts mentioned, with the individuals who paid over the money mentioned, and with a complete statement that will compel this House to make that investigation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (SPEECH OF MEMSER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Try!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "the appropriate Department, with names mentioned, with amounts mentioned, with the individuals who paid over the money mentioned, and with a complete statement that will compel this House to make that investigation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not do it now?\"] Because nobody knows better than some Members in this House that I cannot make this statement in its completeness and be in order on this occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.765.0", "colnum": "765", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (SPEECH OF MEMSER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All of us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "Yes, but it is very difficult in a question like this to say who is the prosecutor and who is the accused. Who is the accused here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.769.5", "colnum": "769", "heading": "INDIA (CONFERENCE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "id than the introduction of any party differences in this great question, or the creation of unnecessary divisions of opinion or a vote. I consulted with my friends in the light of what passed yesterday as to what my action should be, and in the efforts still to preserve that party union, although the Government have rejected the advice tendered to them on behalf of a majority of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.769.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.776.0", "colnum": "776", "heading": "INDIA (CONFERENCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROCKWAY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROCKWAY", "preceding_text": " round-table Conference, you must carry out that amnesty in order to get the atmosphere in India in which that round-table Conference may be successful. Thirdly, it has become clear during the last few months, whatever was the situation before, that the Indian National Congress represents a vast mass of the politically-minded people, that the masses of India, are now behind that, Conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.776.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.776.0", "colnum": "776", "heading": "INDIA (CONFERENCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROCKWAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROCKWAY", "preceding_text": " India in which that round-table Conference may be successful. Thirdly, it has become clear during the last few months, whatever was the situation before, that the Indian National Congress represents a vast mass of the politically-minded people, that the masses of India, are now behind that, Conference—[ Interruption ]. I will not delay my argument, because I have spoken long enough already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.776.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "INDIA (CONFERENCE).", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Nehru\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "the Conference, they will be at a disadvantage, because they will be meeting the head of a Commission which has produced the only possible solution which has been produced up to the present. There may be other solutions, but this is the only solution so far put forward, and although invited to do so by Lord Birkenhead it is a notorious fact that Indians themselves have produced no agreed solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": " Lancaster believes that the social system under which we live can possibly be operated without unemployment at all. I might depict him as Sisyphus, attempting to do what is obviously impossible in our social system. The party on these benches was the first to make the issue of unemployment a political issue. When Mr. Keir Hardie came into this House in 1893 as the Member for the unemployed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": "rdie asked Mr. Gladstone, the Prime Minister, why the Speech made no reference to the question, and Mr. Gladstone replied that he did not think it was the function of a Government to deal with unemployment—a very significant statement. From that time to the present unemployment has been made a first-class political issue, as it should be. That is why the importance of the question has grown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"World causes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "ttributed to the right hon. Gentlemen who sit on the Treasury Bench. Theirs is the responsibility for the 70 per cent. increase over a year ago when they took office, and it is about those men and women that we are worrying. \"Nobody,\" said the Prime Minister, \"will reduce unemployment quicker than the Labour party.\" What a reduction! No fewer than 850,000 in the other direction. To what is it due?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": " voluntary idleness is still to be regarded, like tempests and earthquakes, as an act of God. But world causes was a magnificent new phenomenon which came to the brain of one of the triumvirate in charge of unemployment. World causes or not, what happens to other countries? Why do not world causes have their effect on employment in France, for instance I want to get at the actualities of the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBRRS: \"What is your policy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": " the autumn to bring to this House some constructive scheme, and do something which might help to mitigate the difficulty. Our plans and programme are before the country, and are well known. The Liberal party have their own scheme, some of it good and some less good; at any rate, they have a policy. The Government alone, who aspire to rule this country, have nothing at all to put before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.850.1", "colnum": "850", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TILLET", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Council of Action!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TILLET", "preceding_text": "And good temper—now and again. I want him, with his distinguished ability, to come down with the rest of us to the sober facts that are presented to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.850.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.851.3", "colnum": "851", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": "o through the records of the last Parliament, and see what was the effect of taking 1s. off the Income Tax, I think it will give him cause to think. It is a case of cause and effect. When we took 1s. off the Income Tax, there was a fall of 200,000 in the unemployment figures. When 6d. was taken off, there was a fall of 100,000, and when the next 6d. was taken off there was another fall of 100,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.851.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.851.5", "colnum": "851", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": "I am not suggesting anything at all. I am saying exactly what happened. Hon. Members can draw from it what inference they like. Unemployment figures have, for that reason among many others, again gone up. This 6d. is going to make a very considerable difference to people who have a pretty good income. What they will do is to get rid maybe of a gardener, a chauffeur, anything you like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.851.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.851.5", "colnum": "851", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": " he only had a little more courage and if he came boldly forward and owned up to making a mistake. Practically every Member of the Socialist party will have to go to his constituents in a very short time and say, \"We have made an absolute mistake. We had not the cure for unemployment that we thought we had. Some other reason has turned up why we had not. We made that promise to cure unemployment.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.851.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.851.5", "colnum": "851", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Who said that\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": " they have misled them. I know what is going on in Lancashire in the cotton trade. I know what they are feeling there. They are feeling pretty sick with the Socialists. I heard of a certain Socialist Member who went almost weeping to someone and said, \"What am I going to say to my constituents? I told them we had a cure for unemployment, and we have not got it. I am almost afraid to go near them.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.851.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.857.2", "colnum": "857", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GIBSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GIBSON", "preceding_text": "et they are not brought together. Until we get a sufficient majority on these benches to tackle these problems upon Socialistic lines, we shall make no progress. This is no new thing from my point of view. In my election address and at my meetings I made it clear that there was no cure for the unemployment problem inside the framework of capitalism. More people are becoming convinced of that fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.857.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.857.2", "colnum": "857", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GIBSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So is yours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GIBSON", "preceding_text": " tackle these problems upon Socialistic lines, we shall make no progress. This is no new thing from my point of view. In my election address and at my meetings I made it clear that there was no cure for the unemployment problem inside the framework of capitalism. More people are becoming convinced of that fact. [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members on the Liberal benches may laugh, but their day is done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.857.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-07-31", "file": "debates1930-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "69a05418fb54db74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.877.0", "colnum": "877", "heading": "BENEFICES (TRANSFER OF RIGHTS OF PATRONAGE) MEASURE, 1830.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "preceding_text": "I hope the hon. Members responsible for this measure will not press it on the House to-night. After all, it will settle matters for 100 years", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-07-31a.877.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-08-01", "file": "debates1930-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c8a740dd193924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-08-01a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS COVENANT.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "he League divided on this fundamental issue. The hon. Member shakes his head. Lord Cecil of Chelwood, after reading the Resolution, which says that he accepts the proposed Amendment as a reasonable compromise and on the condition that a treaty for the reduction and limitation of armaments has entered into force, says, \"I was a party to that Resolution, I warmly support it and I think it is right.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-08-01a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-08-01", "file": "debates1930-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c8a740dd193924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-08-01a.1005.0", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "MALTA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OLDFIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OLDFIELD", "preceding_text": "That just bears out my point, that it is a quarrel among Catholics. To be denied the Roman Catholic Sacrament would mean very little to the hon. Member, but it means a great deal to the people in Malta—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-08-01a.1005.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-08-01", "file": "debates1930-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "8c8a740dd193924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-08-01a.1005.0", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "MALTA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OLDFIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OLDFIELD", "preceding_text": "8212;[ Interruption ]—who are at present at variance with the Church, and if there are so many Roman Catholics who take the view of the hon. Member it is a great pity, for the sake of a peaceful approach to this problem, that the hon. Member did not ask one of them to put the case. He has mixed it up with so much general denunciation of Roman Catholicism and with so much No Popery cry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-08-01a.1005.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-28", "file": "debates1930-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b3320bfd8ee6313c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-28a.7.4", "colnum": "7", "heading": "DEBATE OH THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAR LETON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAR LETON", "preceding_text": "im to come in person to-day to open Parliament, and we pray that his health and strength may be maintained. My constituents no less than myself feel the honour that has been conferred upon us in entrusting me with this Motion. It has also been conveyed to me that the whole City of Leeds also realises the distinction which has been placed upon that great city. My fellow engine —drivers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-28a.7.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-28", "file": "debates1930-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b3320bfd8ee6313c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-28a.11.0", "colnum": "11", "heading": "DEBATE OH THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. B. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. B. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "nd. I must apologise for keeping the House, but I should like to offer one word of comment in regard to that aspect of the position. I should be forgetful of my knowledge of the inside of this great industry—I am afraid that I am rather taking advantage of this occasion to push one industry more than another, but, remembering the long silence in this House in relation to this industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-28a.11.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-28", "file": "debates1930-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b3320bfd8ee6313c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-28a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "DEBATE OH THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "cipated his mind; and he was quite wrong in the meaning he attached to it. I can give a very good report of the Imperial Conference. The Imperial Conference, as the right hon. Gentleman knows, is divided into two main sections, although for one reason or another the economic side is receiving almost exclusively all the attention. Hon. Members think they may make more political capital out of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-28a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-28", "file": "debates1930-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b3320bfd8ee6313c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-28a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "DEBATE OH THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ts to know is, is there such an appreciable percentage of abuse as to create a general wrong? There is not. But there is something of a different character. The sort of cases given, of £3 earned and then unemployment for the rest of the week and drawing what is called the dole—these are not abuses. There is not a single one of these payments given except after the decision of an umpire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-28a.29.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-28", "file": "debates1930-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b3320bfd8ee6313c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-28a.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "DEBATE OH THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ocial meaning and a social content into those figures. I am perfectly certain whatever unfortunate experiences may be contained in it which ought to be cleared out of it, that taken as a whole the country has had full value for every 6d. spent. Bills will be produced as we go along—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Electoral reform!\"] Some hon. Members seem to go tremendously fast, but they are always behind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-28a.31.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-29", "file": "debates1930-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "b5bc194af3d87a07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-29a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "664,000 votes, which is about 300,000 more, and they had 260 members, or one member for every 34,000 votes. The Liberal party polled 5,300,000 votes, and they have one member for every 90,000 votes cast. What fun! What a joke! Every decent and right-minded man must realise that there is a constitutional wrong which ought to be remedied. I will put it this way. Suppose the situation were transposed", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-29a.47.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-29", "file": "debates1930-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "b5bc194af3d87a07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-29a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH,", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A drop in the bucket!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ragement. The fact remains that the difficulties with which the country is faced just now, especially in regard to unemployment insurance, are difficulties essentially connected with finance. Finance is the very gist and essence of this problem, and the finance of unemployment insurance is at present one of the gravest dangers this country has ever had to face in the whole course of its existence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-29a.57.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-29", "file": "debates1930-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "b5bc194af3d87a07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-29a.91.0", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or do without it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "preceding_text": "y do not believe in it. Why do they not give a preference at the present moment? I will take a very small matter, not that I want to make any argumentative use of it. I have seen in this House man after man who believes in Preference consuming wine which comes from a foreign country. If he really means Preference, let him put up with the personal inconvenience of drinking, say, South African wine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-29a.91.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-30", "file": "debates1930-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "28340f51e63eae92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-30a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "e the surplus wealth of this country can and should be invested. It should be invested back in the bodies of the people who produce it. I am profoundly dissatisfied and annoyed that the Government should have put the question of Unemployment Insurance into the hands of a Royal Commission. That means, presumably, that nothing is to be done to Unemployment Insurance while this Commission is sitting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-30a.227.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-30", "file": "debates1930-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "28340f51e63eae92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-30a.299.0", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. SHEPPERSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. SHEPPERSON", "preceding_text": "ill see the losses which the arable farmer and wheat producer has experienced. Reference has been made to the price the producer gets and the price of bread to the consumer. I am sympathetic with that criticism. In the year 1913 I was selling wheat at 33s. per quarter, and the price of a loaf of bread was 5d. To-day I am selling wheat at 30s. per quarter with the price of a loaf of bread at7½", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-30a.299.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-30", "file": "debates1930-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "28340f51e63eae92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-30a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount LYMINGTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or licence!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount LYMINGTON", "preceding_text": " ensuring that he is going to benefit trade. That is a cold-blooded analysis of the situation. I turn to what has been regarded throughout this debate as the really vital question, namely, what are these proposals going to do for unemployment. We have to regard this question in the light of the possibilities arising from the fact that we must accept the alternative of tariff or embargo or subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-30a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-30", "file": "debates1930-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "28340f51e63eae92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-30a.313.3", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Five per cent. per annum?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "No, not at all. It is taking the totality, and we have only had for all these years 5 per cent. of our holders who have turned out failures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-30a.313.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-30", "file": "debates1930-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "28340f51e63eae92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-30a.317.1", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Chinese eggs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "upon the minority so that the price will not be broken. The milk producers, at any rate, in the West of Scotland and the National Farmers' Union Executive in Scotland have unanimously confessed that the sooner this Bill is on the Statute Book, the sooner there is a chance for the producers of one of the most essential commodities in the world to get a decent livelihood in return for their labours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-30a.317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-30", "file": "debates1930-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "28340f51e63eae92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-30a.326.0", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which Government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "preceding_text": " get money, and then we shah have the whole thing brought to perdition. Is that what the Government want? Are they going to sit quietly and to watch Lancashire get into that condition, or are they going to recognise that they are here as the custodians of this country and that part of the trouble in the Lancashire cotton trade is not due to Lancashire, but to the monetary policy of the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-30a.326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-30", "file": "debates1930-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "28340f51e63eae92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-30a.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. W. R. Smith)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. W. R. Smith)", "preceding_text": "ight, both in the matter of the information at my disposal, and also from the point of view of time, to attempt anything in the nature of a reply to the many points which he raised. There is one feature which has emerged from the speeches to-night. It is that this amounts to nothing more or less than a hopeless confession of failure as far as private enterprise in the cotton industry is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-30a.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-31", "file": "debates1930-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "dd1256025001bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.355.5", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WALTER GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Pure guesswork.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WALTER GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "as now existing in regard to trade disputes and trade unions was something vital to the industrial classes of this country. I cannot understand why during the whole of the last Session there was not a seething mass of discontent on the benches opposite. I cannot but think that most of the hon. Members opposite were very much relieved when the Government did not move the Second Reading of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.355.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-31", "file": "debates1930-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "dd1256025001bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LO RD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LO RD", "preceding_text": "People's ideas of delicacy differ and while of course one does not know what the promised Bill is going to contain, I should have thought that it was extremely delicate ground to interfere with a law which lays it down that a workman shall not be interfered with in his own house and in his own home—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-31", "file": "debates1930-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "dd1256025001bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "eople who do not want to subscribe, and therefore the funds of the Socialist party are a great deal less. Let us ask ourselves for a moment what the law is at present. As I understand the law it is that any man who chooses to do so can subscribe to any political party to which he wishes to subscribe, but, as far as I know, no man in this country is put under the smallest compulsion to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-31", "file": "debates1930-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "dd1256025001bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Non sense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": " express his political convictions in a way which is made public. The theory behind our Ballot Acts is that a man's politics are a matter for his innermost conscience, and that nobody has the right to compel him to make a declaration of his political views. Quite apart from any question of money, contracting-out, to my mind, makes a serious inroad upon the political liberty of the working classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-31", "file": "debates1930-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "dd1256025001bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "tter for his own conscience and his own volition. But if hon. Members opposite pass a Bill which substitutes contracting-out for contracting-in—and everybody knows that is the reason for this—and if at the same time they are able to enforce, in industry, 100 per cent. trade unionism they are then making it a condition of industry that a man should make a declaration of political faith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-31", "file": "debates1930-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "dd1256025001bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "2;and if at the same time they are able to enforce, in industry, 100 per cent. trade unionism they are then making it a condition of industry that a man should make a declaration of political faith. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Well, there is one way and one way only in which a man can avoid it if he does not happen to be a Socialist, and that is by paying money to something in which he does not believe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-31", "file": "debates1930-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "dd1256025001bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GORDON MACDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Full-blooded Liberalism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GORDON MACDONALD", "preceding_text": "the Fund solvent if you can, but whatever else you may do, provide fairly adequately for those who need help and are unemployed. My hon. Friends below the Gangway on this side take a different point of view and criticise the King's Speech because they feel that it is not full-blooded Socialism. They think the measures outlined, if enacted, will not be real, full-blooded Socialistic measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-31", "file": "debates1930-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "dd1256025001bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.368.0", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "uantity. I really think it is time we got a Chancellor of the Exchequer and a Treasury tax-collecting body with a sense of humour, because if they had, they would have seen the absurdity of thinking that could last very long. I know a very wealthy man who tells me that he has got a very large income on paper, but by the time he has paid all his bills and premium his deficit is £30,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-31", "file": "debates1930-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "dd1256025001bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Paddington!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "ohannesburg telling me that when there was an attempt to get all the young mining apprentices to study geology he refused to have anything to do with the proposal unless they came voluntarily. He said that one or two men in a class of 50 who were there under compulsion and against their will could destroy the morale of the whole class, just as one or two men can disturb the placidity of a meeting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-31", "file": "debates1930-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "dd1256025001bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "think that it must be something wrong and disagreeable. The real cause of education is promoted by enthusiasm and by children gladly taking to it, as they do take to it when they get the right kind of teacher, of whom there are not too many about. This is demoralising—keeping these children at home dependent on their parents at an age when it is very difficult to get anything like obedience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-31", "file": "debates1930-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "dd1256025001bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "I have seen, perhaps, more pickets at work than the hon. and learned Member himself has, but I am dealing at the moment with the law. The hon. and learned Gentleman makes his living, as I do, in the law courts of this country, and any person who was affected as he insinuates would have no difficulty in procuring his services for an adequate fee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-31", "file": "debates1930-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "dd1256025001bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.392.3", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "peech of the hon. Member for South Cardiff was this: \"Do not let us trouble; it is not worth while. We are not dealing with this thing on the merits of the Act of 1927 but because of the circumstances in which the Act of 1927 was passed. We feel sore about it. We think, apart from its actual provisions, that the motive of the Act was an attempt to get back at the trades unions or the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.392.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-31", "file": "debates1930-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "dd1256025001bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about tariffs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "gine the hon. Member for Norwich rising in his place with the familiar Cobdenite argument, and pointing out that the price of Argentine wheat was lower than the price of Canadian wheat, and that our food was really in such circumstances costing more. I believe that all these fantastic ideas of dealing with the food supplies of this country either by quota or import board are all doomed to failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-10-31", "file": "debates1930-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "dd1256025001bf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "That resolves itself entirely into a matter of opinion and judgment as to what is the right course to pursue, but it is hardly logical or consistent to get up here and make a statement that it is impossible to do certain things in this House, constituted as it is, and then blame the Government for not attempting to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-10-31a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-02", "file": "debates1930-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "116520eac6bcfa48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-02a.253.2", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. Morison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. Morison)", "preceding_text": "sh point of view. I venture to say that the principle will be welcomed by every Scottish farm labourer in Scotland. The case for this Clause seems to be stronger in regard to Scotland than in regard to England. The Scottish farm labourer, by his contract, has the right to his cottage either for a year or for six months, whereas in England, I understand, it is generally only a weekly tenancy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-02a.253.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-02", "file": "debates1930-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "116520eac6bcfa48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-02a.259.0", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": " what they want. But whatever course is decided on I should like to deal with the really practical point which would arise if some Clause of this sort is passed. The object of the Bill, as I understand it, is to increase production. I want to know how you are going to increase production if you keep upon the land a man living in a cottage who is not working on the land, but working somewhere else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-02a.259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-02", "file": "debates1930-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "116520eac6bcfa48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-02a.259.0", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "upply of labour. His experience is very unique. In the part of the country that I know there are only sufficient cottages provided to work the farm, and I do not think that is an isolated farm. I once owned property in Suffolk, and in that part of the county there were certainly only just enough cottages to work the farms. Supposing one of the labourers leaves and chooses to remain in his cottage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-02a.259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-02", "file": "debates1930-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "116520eac6bcfa48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-02a.264.0", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major WHELER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major WHELER", "preceding_text": "We have got into an extraordinary position in regard to this Clause. The situation seems to be this, that the Government admit that the Clause is not a good Clause. They admit it is not likely to carry out its purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-02a.264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-02", "file": "debates1930-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "116520eac6bcfa48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-02a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A BOSCAWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Explain it\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman suggest that the Government have accepted this without understanding it? Because the right hon. Gentleman does not understand it, it does not follow that we do not understand it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-02a.275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-02", "file": "debates1930-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "116520eac6bcfa48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-02a.281.0", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE EDWARDS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE EDWARDS", "preceding_text": "cases he is now compelled to live. There are complaints about the responsibility that is thrown on the shoulders of the tenant farmer, but the tenant farmer can at once relieve himself of that responsibility by saying to the landlord, \"I no longer want these houses with my farm. You can keep them yourself and let them direct to the, workmen.\" The responsibility then will be thrown on the landlord.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-02a.281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-02", "file": "debates1930-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "116520eac6bcfa48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-02a.281.2", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDWARDS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDWARDS", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged for the interruption, but I repeat again that the tenant farmer can say to his landlord, \"Keep your houses and let them to the men.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-02a.281.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-02", "file": "debates1930-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "116520eac6bcfa48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-02a.281.3", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "t of the world, and look into houses, and never ask whether rent is paid or whether they are held as a condition of service. What we are afraid of is that this Clause, is a camouflage, that it means to go very much further than this, and that it is brought in, not to render a house habitable, but probably to insist that all the most modern building laws shall be applied to cottages in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-02a.281.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-02", "file": "debates1930-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "116520eac6bcfa48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-02a.288.0", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" It is not for that. That is our objection.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "cerned, that the people are worse housed even than they are in the East End of London. All that we are asking for in this Clause is the same protection for the agricultural worker as the industrial worker receives in the great industrial centres. Why the objection? Because the landlord knows, and the people who are mainly speaking on behalf of the landlord know, that he will have to foot the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-02a.288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-02", "file": "debates1930-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "116520eac6bcfa48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-02a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Incon- venient.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "spirations of Wales, but, as I said in Committee, we have not got a separate Ministry of Agriculture for Wales. An Amendment was put down to create one. It is outside the scope of the Bill, and therefore cannot be debated. But I hold, not that it would be very unfortunate, because I cannot see, reading my own speech—a very interesting occupation—that I ever used the word \"unfortunate.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-02a.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-02", "file": "debates1930-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "116520eac6bcfa48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-02a.307.0", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": " find exactly the same thing. They have a 'Board in England. If you go to Scotland you find a. Board there. I canot see why the farm labourers in Wales should come up to a Central Wages Board in order to deal with their wages and conditions of labour. The farmers and farm labourers in Wales would prefer to do their own business in their own country rather than be contaminated by coming to England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-02a.307.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-03", "file": "debates1930-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd80707b754eb64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-03a.503.5", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Paddington!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " Lord Privy Seal really represented the whole mind of the Government. I could not help thinking that there must be some plans of which he had not been told, or, perhaps, which he did not understand, and that one ought to be able to find something more substantial than the platitudes with which he regaled us last Wednesday. Then, I remembered, there was a by-election about to take place at Shipley.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-03a.503.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-03", "file": "debates1930-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd80707b754eb64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-03a.551.0", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "endeavoured to find out how many people are already receiving retiring and other pensions from the State, for I would not like to ask any man to give up his job in exchange for a pension when there are already hundreds of thousands receiving pensions without that disqualification. There are 29,804 teachers receiving pensions without any disqualification whatever as to following another occupation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-03a.551.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-03", "file": "debates1930-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd80707b754eb64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-03a.561.0", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ll which was promoting reorganisation of that industry and possibly amalgamations and rationalisation. The House will remember that when the Coal Mines Bill was introduced there was very little in it about reorganisation, and not a word about amalgamation. May I remind hon. Members that those proposals were only dealt with in response to a stimulus which was applied from this quarter of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-03a.561.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-03", "file": "debates1930-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd80707b754eb64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-03a.583.1", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or by any other Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "ank for foreign exchange purposes; still remaining on the gold standard in relation to the rest of the world, but. keeping a separate and stable internal commodity price level. These questions are, of course, very technical. And I should like to know what has happened to the Macmillan Committee. It has been sitting for months without any result, like every other committee set up by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-03a.583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-03", "file": "debates1930-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd80707b754eb64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-03a.583.1", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What would you do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": " reform, school age, rural amenities, the Emperor of Ethiopia; they are all dealt with in the King's Speech; but the one vital issue which overshadows all the others, the economic problem of industry, agriculture and unemployment, is not touched at all. The most shocking pro- posal is the one to refer the whole question of unemployment insurance to a Royal Commission, that classic weapon of delay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-03a.583.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-03", "file": "debates1930-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd80707b754eb64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-03a.595.0", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "preceding_text": "n. We have a policy. [ Interruption. ] That is what we want, an election. We will be glad to face an election. The proof of it will be seen in the extent of our vote to-morrow night. If we get sufficient support from the Liberal party we will bring about the downfall of the Government, and that will secure us an opportunity of putting into force 'the policy which we believe would help the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-03a.595.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-03", "file": "debates1930-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd80707b754eb64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-03a.607.0", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where will you go?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "preceding_text": "at I doubt whether we shall ever be able to recover from them. I want the House to appreciate what that means. Perhaps this state of things does not matter much to the better-off classes, because they will find opportunities of going to some other country where things are better. I would like to ask what is going to happen to people who have not the opportunity of going to live in other countries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-03a.607.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-03", "file": "debates1930-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd80707b754eb64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-03a.607.0", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wholesale prices\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "preceding_text": " to you. It is well known that real wages in this country have been going up for some time past. The cost of living has been continually falling. It has not been falling as fast as the prices of raw materials and other commodities; there is a certain time lag; but anyone who studies the figures will know that the cost or raw materials and the price of commodities have been pursuing a steady trend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-03a.607.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-03", "file": "debates1930-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd80707b754eb64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-03a.607.0", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did you advocate it in 1929?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "preceding_text": "ry at this moment. On the one hand you have the possibility of a conflict between these forces, which will do the country so much harm; on the other hand, you have the possibility of adopting a change in your fiscal system which will make such a conflict entirely unnecessary. That is the choice which is being put before the country, and in case of an election I am certain what the country will do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-03a.607.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-03", "file": "debates1930-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd80707b754eb64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-03a.607.0", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They will not take them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "preceding_text": "their doing any such thing. They have got to have markets in order to get jobs, and those markets can only be obtained by exchanging our manufactured goods for the raw materials and food which can be produced in the world outside. As the Empire can produce all the food and all the raw materials that this country requires, and rather more, why should not we exchange them for our manufactured goods?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-03a.607.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-03", "file": "debates1930-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd80707b754eb64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-03a.611.0", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "preceding_text": "Government have gone back on all that. A duty on an American motor car is a duty on a luxury. The Government arrange to get rid of that. They are anxious that the user of American motor cars should not be unduly penalised. Does the hon. Gentleman who is going to reply disprove that statement of the Government? If we place duties on American gramophones are we not placing a duty on luxury spending?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-03a.611.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.695.6", "colnum": "695", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh\" and \"What is a tariff?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": " those efforts. Keeping for nine months the safeguarded industries in suspense; allowing the Lace Duty to lapse; allowing the Cutlery Duty to lapse next month; proclaiming a tariff truce, under which this country may remain the dumping ground of the world; threatening the great industries of this country, such as the cotton industry and the iron and steel industry, with Parliamentary interference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.695.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.695.6", "colnum": "695", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "and the iron and steel industry, with Parliamentary interference. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh\" and \"What is a tariff?\"] A tariff is an interference with foreign industries. The Government are increasing the taxation of employers through the Income Tax; they are placing increased taxation on capital by means of the death duties, and they are making it profitable for the boys and girls to go on the dole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.695.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.695.6", "colnum": "695", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "red into agricultural problems during the last 10 years or so, is in favour of the policy of maintaining the wheat acreage. That is entirely ignored by the policy of the present Government. We believe that the maintenance of the wheat acreage and the stabilisation of agricultural prices at a figure at which the farmer can earn a livelihood and the farm labourers maintain their present wages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.695.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": ", if you go to him and say, \"You must pay more for your food,\" he is entitled to make at least an observation. Therefore, we are entitled to know a little more, and I dare say we may hear later on from the Leader of the Opposition what the policy is with regard to the British farmer. So far as I can infer, it was merely a subsidy on wheat. It was not very clear. I dare say that was my fault—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It ought to be more!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "r as I can infer, it was merely a subsidy on wheat. It was not very clear. I dare say that was my fault—[ Interruption ]—I am sure it was. But Is would like to know what it was. The Noble Lord knows very well, I am sure, because he represents farmers and a farming constituency, that, as far as wheat is concerned, it is only 4 per cent. of the total agricultural produce of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "he is considering at this very hour for his own country the problem which we are discussing for our country—and that a few months after a great Tariff Bill has been carried by Congress. If you go to Germany you find exactly the same discussions going on there, between parties and inside parties, as you have here. In Italy you have the same thing. In France there are special conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "that I have been trying to emphasise, that really, even if it has advantages, it does not settle this problem. Protection at best is a gamble. You may be convinced that it may hit the mark, but there are elements of uncertainty in it. No one can quite tell how the balance will go, and it is all a balance. There is no case to guide us of a great Free Trade industrial country becoming Protectionist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": ", why do you not vote for it?\" I will answer that question, which hon. Members are entitled to ask, and I will answer it with my usual candour. Every speaker who has supported the Amendment has made it quite clear that in his judgment it is a Protectionist Amendment. If we were disposed for other reasons to vote for it, that would have made it quite impossible for people who do not take that view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " that is their line, I am very much afraid that we are not going to have a real, energetic, convinced attempt to deal with the situation within the confines and boundaries of the existing system. The second thing I want to put is this: There has been a suggestion by two or three Ministers that their failure is due to the fact that limitations have been imposed upon them. Imposed upon them by whom?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "sewhere—there was nothing left for us but to publish the suggestions which we had made in order to show that, at any rate, if there is any hanging back it is not due 'to the fact that there is a lack of support of very strong action for dealing with unemployment coming from these benches. I should like to say another thing upon this question. The Prime Minister seems to be very amused—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The two cows!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "What is the point of giving one instance to the contrary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "o a Protectionist country like Germany where there are some of these small farms he would see sights which you will not see on family farms in this country—women carrying manure and spreading it on the land and doing work of that kind. That is a thing which you do not find in Denmark, which is a Free Trade country, and you do not find it on family farms in this country at the present moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "n,\" but it is for the Ministers to decide the policy. I do hope that the Government will do it, and put some drive into it. Everything depends upon that. Unless you have real energy behind you, your proposals or your schemes—it does not matter what they may be—will fail. It is because I am going to wait until these plans are developed that I cannot see my way to vote for the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.713.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who keeps them there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "oped that I cannot see my way to vote for the Amendment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I have said so before. I am going to talk quite frankly to the Leader of the Opposition. His interest and the interest of the party behind him I can understand. They are fidgeting to get back. The right hon. Gentleman was responsible for putting right hon. Gentlemen on the Government bench. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] He was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "On some things I would take the opinion of the right hon. Member for West Woolwich (Sir K. Wood) but democracy is not one of them. Democracy has chosen this Parliament for five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "e reconditioning of industry and to secure the putting in hand of public works, primarily on grounds of their economic advantage to the nation and in a limited number of cases on grounds of public amenity. We started in office not with advantages but with a great number of disadvantages. I am not trying to make excuses. We have no need to make excuses, because our achievements are so considerable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.721.2", "colnum": "721", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "t is, of course, for the Chancellor of the Exchequer and not for me to argue the merits or demerits of a loan policy, but we can say that we have achieved the practical ends of the loan policy in terms of work already, and without raising any national loan. No Government have given to the question of unemployment the constant and unremitting attention which the present Government have given to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.721.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "212;as he does after those admirable analyses of facts and figures, produced, arranged and sorted with masterly skill—his tributes to the need of Socialist reorganisation, with which he invariably favours us, and with which we entirely agree, at the end of his speeches—I wish that he would start off with that declaration of faith, and then proceed to tell us what he really means by it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.756.3", "colnum": "756", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "and because it is not possible to put men to work quickly in large enough numbers. It is the duty of His Majesty's Government to get over the opposition that is put up against its own schemes, and, if there are Tory majorities on local authorities opposing its schemes, why does not the Minister of Transport come to the House of Commons and ask for powers to set aside the power of those majorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.756.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.756.3", "colnum": "756", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Chancellor of the Exchequer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "n the extreme to allow the expending capacity of local authorities to determine the practicability of national unemployment proposals and schemes. Consequently, I hope, and I see nothing to prevent it, that the Government will adopt the work scheme proposal of the Liberal party. It may be necessary to raise a development loan. Have we on this side of the House ever been against a development loan?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.756.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.756.3", "colnum": "756", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "sals—if that be the condition for prolonged power, why do not the Government accept it? We are not asked from the Liberal benches to adopt any proposals which are against our election pledges; we are not asked to accept any proposals which are in themselves anti-Socialist. I have always thought that for a public authority to spend more and more money on public works was good Socialism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.756.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No one can make it work.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ce the War, hon. Members opposite have been trying to break down what they call the capitalistic system. They have preached it at every street corner, they have made promises to put a spoke in every wheel in which capitalism tried to work, and now we have the sorry spectacle that they not only cannot make the capitalistic system work, but they will not even try to make the Socialistic system work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "port. He spoke about the different plans that the Government made, and he has boasted that they have spent £120,000,000, far more than the late Government did, in trying to re-start works and so on. It is very misleading to put it in that way. Anyone can spend money. That is the right hon. Gentleman's way of solving our industrial troubles, to spend money—of course someone else's money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "rs opposite, because most of them are not likely to make money. That is why they want the State to run everything, because they cannot make money themselves. You do not find that hon. Members opposite ever made a good business for themselves. Some of them have inherited it, I admit, but very few of them have really been good business men. It is nothing against you. I think you are perfectly right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much are you earning now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ly right. [ Interruption. ] That is a personal question. I am not afraid. If you turned me and the hon. Member out, I guarantee that I would make a living, and I would not lean on anyone else, and I would not tell my children to lean on anyone else. I would tell them not to lean on the State. I would tell them that the State depended on their enterprise and not they on the enterprise of the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nursery schools!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "enjoying a far higher standard of living than the workers in any other country in the world. Where you have capitalism flourishing you do not have to have doles. In Canada and the United States of America where there is talk of unemployment they have never had to have social services. One of the great difficulties of this country is the enormous amount of money we have to spend on social services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.762.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FRANK OWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was present!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FRANK OWEN", "preceding_text": "l from the hon. Member for Aston (Mr. Strachey), who asked if, in a period in which the world is growing into an economic mad house, might not economic nationalism be no more than a measure of self-preservation? He said in a neighbourly or comradely way, \"Since the world is all going mad, let as all go mad together.\" The hon. Baronet was not present at the time when the immortal phrase was coined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.781.0", "colnum": "781", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "We heard this afternoon a very optimistic speech from the Minister of Transport who gave us a long catalogue of schemes outlined by the Government, which are to cost the large sum of £135,000,000. I did not hear him state how many people would be put into employment owing to these schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.781.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You know something about that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": " engaged in commerce who has great schemes in his locker and who is only anxious to get some encouragement from the Government in order to launch those schemes? Is there one word of economy in the Speech? We hear of glorious plans which are going to cost many millions of pounds. It is very easy to spend money and those who have the least money are the most capable of spending other people's money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.782.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.805.4", "colnum": "805", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "untry, and by that very means have made the problem which they are attempting to solve insoluble. I do not think there is any more striking instance of what I have been saying than for any candid and impartial reader to study the words of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, written 30 years ago, and compare them with his conduct—which I admire so much on the whole—at the Exchequer to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.805.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.805.4", "colnum": "805", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "impartial reader to study the words of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, written 30 years ago, and compare them with his conduct—which I admire so much on the whole—at the Exchequer to-day. [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members may laugh, but it is perfectly true. It is because of that loss of faith that the steam and the life and the energy have been running out of the party all over the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.805.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-04", "file": "debates1930-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "4a89adae9def79da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.817.7", "colnum": "817", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about unemployment\"?", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "a thousand and one varieties and differences of trades meeting together, discussing details and coming to arrangements? I cannot. Therefore, the only way to approach this problem is to take trade by trade or groups of trades by groups of trades, and that is being done. So I am glad to find that we are not so far in disagreement on that matter as he seemed to think. There is the question of cotton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-04a.817.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1089.2", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Sir Charles Trevelyan)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Sir Charles Trevelyan)", "preceding_text": ", this or that one among their sons might have developed stronger intellectual appetites if he had gone through a workshop apprenticeship at a comparatively early age. Yet this is the moment we choose for compelling all parents to burn incense to this aristocratic idol of indiscriminate fulltime education. So that what the Noble Lord now says is that he finds that at long last his class was wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1089.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1104.5", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "ruction that you could give in a primary school or in the new central school, was a very good foundation preparation for the training in the factory. What you need to-day is an education which will develop mental keenness, mental gifts a great deal more, but will develop them by an educational method that is very largely in touch with the machine upon which that skill has to exercise itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1104.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1104.5", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": " Members are not going to re-act back again towards the obstinate and unreasoning horror of vocational training which they exhibited at the end of the War. That, as every teacher knows, held up educational progress and the development of technical education more than anything else in this country, and we are suffering to-day from having missed an opportunity greatly to develop technical education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1104.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1104.5", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "every teacher knows, held up educational progress and the development of technical education more than anything else in this country, and we are suffering to-day from having missed an opportunity greatly to develop technical education. [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members must realise that in those wild interruptions of what I am saying they are exhibiting just that crass impenetrability to ideas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1104.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1104.5", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "eship purposes? All this class of consideration has been wholly ignored. Above all, by spending these enormous sums of money on the primary stage of education, you are ensuring that for many years to came no local education authority will have the money to spend on the development of technical education in co-operation with industry. This Bill is a Bill to sterilise originality in education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1104.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is too bad!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": " school in the rural area, in a lump with the boys of 13 and 12. This is simply a Bill to prolong school life and the only thing that can be said in favour of it by the Government is: \"It is true that things in the schools can hardly be ready for it, but, after all, the accommodation and the teaching which they will get in those schools will be good enough for the children of the working-classes.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "fact that they have tried to stimulate mere mass consumption and that their attempt to increase the consuming power of their people was not based on any real attempt to increase the property-owning opportunities of their people, to increase the opportunities of their people to develop a higher standard of individual family life which can only be developed on the basis of the ownership of property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1136.0", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COWAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COWAN", "preceding_text": "ow to consolidate the Empire, and to make the most of its resources. I think there should be common agreement that all the members of the Empire should cooperate in giving the best possible chance to its future citizens. It is not a question of continuing education or no education. It is certain that, if the people of this country are not getting good education, they will be getting bad education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": "ce. Do not spend it on this hybrid Measure which is going to do nothing but harm to the children of the country, to the people of the country, and ultimately, though some of them do not see it, to the teachers. The real reason was given away by the right hon. Gentleman. He said that the well-to-do keep their children at school until a much greater age, and why should not the poor man do it?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1160.0", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ction and the better for the people generally. Therefore, if the raising of the school age were recognised as something which was going to be of national benefit, both to industry and to the child, it would not be necessary to introduce a compulsory Measure to make children attend school between the ages of 14 and 15. I venture to remind hon. Members also that this proposal is going to cost money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1160.0", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": " our present standard of life we must either increase production or spend less money. I have noticed that hon. Members opposite, when it comes to the spending of money, are quite happy because they have the antiquated economic idea that the money is coming out of the pockets of the rich. They have not yet got to modern economics which prove that all expenditure ultimately comes down to the worker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1160.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1164.4", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Half timers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ave to face will not be that of finding jobs for unemployed juveniles, but of finding available juveniles to fill vacant jobs. Hon. Members opposite say they do not want children to go into industry, but it is essential in agriculture and in cotton spinning that, if a child is to become an efficient workman, he should go into the industry at a sufficiently early age to acquire the necessary skill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1164.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1164.4", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ors beating us more easily. Ron. Members opposite are asking the House to envisage the future of a Lancashire cotton industry no better than that industry in foreign countries, and the gradual decay, to a very low level, of what has been our principal export industry. These are very serious questions, and it would be wise for hon. Members to consider the cost. Can we afford it at the present time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1164.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1166.0", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLEWELLYN-JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the State pays!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLEWELLYN-JONES", "preceding_text": "s Bill were wanted, we should find great anxiety among the parents, in which case there would be no need for compulsion. Do we realise that the whole series of Acts insisting upon compulsory attendance at school are due to the fact that unfortunately there is a minority of parents who are not prepared to perform their duty towards their children unless the State comes in and compels them to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1174.0", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ANNESLEY SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ANNESLEY SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": " the Bill which is now before us will not for years to come produce that result, but will only lead to considerable educational waste and inefficiency. The hon. Member for Flint (Mr. Llewellyn-Jones) told us that, as an official of a secondary school, he often greatly regretted the fact that there were many children who wished to obtain secondary education, but for whom there were no places—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1174.0", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ANNESLEY SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ANNESLEY SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "urplus of wealth in the country, and he quoted an article by, I understood, the financial editor of the \"Evening Standard\" as saying, \"Where does the money come from?\" We were accused of being defeatists on this side because we drew attention to it, but the money comes from industry, and, because the Government that sits on the Front Bench opposite is in office, industry has lost confidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1174.0", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ANNESLEY SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ANNESLEY SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "en in the schools from April, 1931 to 1932, instead of the 300,000 children, mainly boys, who would get employment, some 150,000 older persons would get employment. I think I am quoting correctly. But when the 500,000 children come out of school at the age of 15 in 1932, what will happen? The 300,000 who would normally get employment will find that half their jobs are taken up by the other people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1176.1", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "What is the use of that suggestion if we cannot be ready?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1176.3", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Class prejudice!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "e mainstay of the secondary schools, is a good principle. If you cannot apply a good thing to everyone, select the best people to whom to apply it. When I was in Tanganyika two years ago, I went into many schools there, and I found there is no likelihood of a sufficiency of teachers either black or white for many years to come, and so they confined themselves to the sons of the chiefs and headmen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1176.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "I am quite aware of that fact. I said the chief finding was adopted by my Noble Friend who was then President of the Board of Education. For various reasons the other finding, the raising of the school age in 1931, was not adopted, and the arguments against that have been repeated so often that I will not go into them now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1185.0", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "ducational objections, strong as they would be, there would not be the same necessity for confronting the Government on this occasion with a strenuous opposition, but they are based upon considerations which are deeper still. The deepest consideration upon which the opposition to this Bill is based is an unalterable opposition to the extension of the principle of compulsion and maintenance grants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1185.0", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "le of compulsion. It is no good arguing that compulsion has been need in the past. That is true. In the past there has been compulsion on children to go to school, but observe the conditions under which that compulsion has been exercised. It has always been exercised in order to compel a minority to come up to the standard which has already been accepted voluntarily by the majority of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1185.0", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "is, in regard to the relations of the parent to his children. 10.0 p.m. We have heard much during the debate about this Measure conferring a benefit upon the children. It is very touching, and awakens a chord. But let us look at a deeper verity still. It is not for this House, or for this Parliament, or for any Government at any stage to interfere between the relations of the parent and his child.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1185.0", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "his child. [ Interruption. ] I am perfectly prepared to lay that down as one of the principles which will ultimately divide us from hon. Members opposite. Here we are up against the difference between a Socialist and one who is not a Socialist. There are two units in society—the family and the State. Hon. Members opposite exalt the State above the family; we exalt the family above the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1185.0", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "chools is to employ 150,000 men in industry. I believe the argument to be completely illusory, but suppose it to be true. What would be the balance of the account? The President of the Board of Education cannot pretend that the gain would be even of the same order as the actual fresh expenditure. He has moreover forgotten one detail; he has forgotten the cost on industry of employing adult labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT (WOMEN COTTON OPERATIVES).", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Miss Bondfield)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Miss Bondfield)", "preceding_text": " from my deepest conviction—and I do not think anyone will say that I stand for subjecting women to unfair temptations, because I have spent my whole life in trying to make life a little safer for girls in industry—that not only is this canteen work suitable for the right type of woman, but that it is work that is definitely adding to the general uplift of the situation in these camps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1212.0", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT (WOMEN COTTON OPERATIVES).", "cue_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "preceding_text": " I am in favour of every effort that can be made to improve the conditions of domestic service. It was not so long ago that Carlyle wrote: \"All work is noble; even cotton-spinning is noble.\" When he said that, it was a most degraded trade. To-day it is a highly respectable trade, and I believe I shall live to see the day when domestic service will be looked upon as a highly respectable occupation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-06", "file": "debates1930-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "982ce7c4d66fb744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1212.0", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT (WOMEN COTTON OPERATIVES).", "cue_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "preceding_text": "e will do everything we can to make it so. We are doing it through our training centers, and we are steadily improving the status and the quality and the payment for domestic work. I deprecate this constant suggestion that there is something derogatory to the womanhood of the nation to be engaged in domestic work. All our mothers were engaged in domestic work. It is an honourable occupation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-06a.1212.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-07", "file": "debates1930-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8db8d96008a5ffa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-07a.1241.0", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RABBITS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commander SOUTHBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander SOUTHBY", "preceding_text": "ts on their land, and I cannot see why we should pass a Bill which is going to allow a county council to come in and do work for the farmer or smallholder who is either too incompetent or too lazy to do the work for himself. If he has already the right to abate rabbits on his land, why does he not do so without asking the county council to come in and do it for him? I hold no brief for the rabbit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-07a.1241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-07", "file": "debates1930-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8db8d96008a5ffa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-07a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RABBITS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. LAMB", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. LAMB", "preceding_text": "ate, leads me to believe that there will not be very great grief on his part if he is not successful in the Amendment which he has put before the House. In the first place, his argument was that he was an advocate for the continuance of the use of steel-traps. I only regret that he was not in the House when my right hon. Friend the Member for South Molton (Mr. Lambert) spoke earlier in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-07a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-07", "file": "debates1930-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8db8d96008a5ffa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-07a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RABBITS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. LAMB", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shipley!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. LAMB", "preceding_text": "arlier in the debate. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He was.\"] I think that probably he would have realised that the right hon. Gentleman undoubtedly voiced the opinion of a large number of people that it was desirable, in this connection, at any rate that the use of the steel-trap should tie prevented. Provision was included in the last Bill, because there had been great opposition to the use of the steel-trap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-07a.1247.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-10", "file": "debates1930-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f25a2aabab47ee7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-10a.1394.1", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS AND AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "lready been devoted to a discussion of this small and minor Measure. This Bill, as the Secretary of State pointed out in the one sentence which he devoted to the explanation of the Bill, is merely a collection of grievances which have been pigeon-holed for years in the Department of Agriculture. Is there a single Clause in the Bill which is going to put a single new man on to the land in Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-10a.1394.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-11", "file": "debates1930-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d2fc7fca01ab6d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-11a.1517.0", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "ch will have to be provided for this particular Measure. Let us examine what we spend on education. In 1913, we spent £25,500,000 on 6,000,000 children at a cost of £4 5s. per child per year. At present money values that would be £6 17s. We will take £6 17s. as a basis. To-day we are educating 5,500,000 children at a cost of £61,500,000, or £11 3s. per child per year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-11a.1517.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-11", "file": "debates1930-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d2fc7fca01ab6d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-11a.1574.1", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " or put them into parties for life. I am not now speaking from any party point of view, but from a practical point of view. The present Minister of Education knows perfectly well that he brought in a Bill which would have meant a religious war. He had to drop it. Then he brought in a Bill for maintenance grants, which I believe he is against in his heart. [ Interruption. ] Anyhow he brought it in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-11a.1574.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-11", "file": "debates1930-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d2fc7fca01ab6d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-11a.1603.3", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLINDELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLINDELL", "preceding_text": "so the unemployed portion of the population an insured contributor with four children can receive by way of insurance benefit to which he is absolutely entitled £1 14s. per week, plus 5s. for each child. The agricultural worker, who is called upon to work six days in the week, and who has four children will get 30s. or 32s. per week or 34s. per week at the most, plus the 5s. for his children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-11a.1603.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-11", "file": "debates1930-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d2fc7fca01ab6d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-11a.1606.0", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MATTERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, Greenwood!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MATTERS", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Holland-with-Boston (Mr. Blindell) has told the Committee that this Money Resolution should not be accepted because the country cannot afford the expense. I would remind him that his distinguished leader the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) is the author of the statement that this country can afford what it wills strongly enough to get.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-11a.1606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-11", "file": "debates1930-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d2fc7fca01ab6d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-11a.1614.2", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": " necessities of the case. We have had a very long speech from the hon. Member for West Salford (Mr. Haycock). I do not know if it interested everybody, but I do not think it was very much to the point as regards the subject before the Committee. I should like the Committee to address themselves to this question, as a meeting of shareholders would address themselves to any scheme submitted to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-11a.1614.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-11", "file": "debates1930-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d2fc7fca01ab6d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-11a.1614.2", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The directors would not tell them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "shareholders in the country and are very much interested in the expenditure of the country, and it is our duty here to see that, if money is expended, it is expended so that we get the best value for it. A meeting of shareholders would first ask, \"How much money is required?\" According to the Minister he is not quite sure of the amount, but shareholders would want that information very definitely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-11a.1614.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-11", "file": "debates1930-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d2fc7fca01ab6d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-11a.1616.2", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBEERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "preceding_text": "en remaining up to that age. Therefore, the number of children who have been retained in school until the age of 15 in this country, after a 12 years' possibility of its becoming the general age, is a mere fraction of the total number of children in the schools; and the Government now come forward and ask us to make 15 the compulsory age all over the country, with no power of exemption whatsoever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-11a.1616.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-11", "file": "debates1930-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d2fc7fca01ab6d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-11a.1616.2", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "preceding_text": " what is £9,000,000 to a country which has a national income of £4,000,000,000? It may also be asked what is £16,000,000 spent on education in a country which has a national income so large as that I admit that wise expenditure on education is very useful, and it is one of the very best things on which you can spend money, but every nation has to cut its coat according to the cloth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-11a.1616.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-11", "file": "debates1930-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d2fc7fca01ab6d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-11a.1616.2", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "preceding_text": "ay also be asked what is £16,000,000 spent on education in a country which has a national income so large as that I admit that wise expenditure on education is very useful, and it is one of the very best things on which you can spend money, but every nation has to cut its coat according to the cloth. [ Interruption. ] I am afraid there is far too much class consciousness shown in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-11a.1616.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-11", "file": "debates1930-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d2fc7fca01ab6d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-11a.1627.7", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": " right hon. and learned Member for Hillhead (Sir R. Horne), and the right hon. Member for Sevenoaks (Sir H. Young). The right hon. and learned Member for Hillhead said that however important education was it was imprudent to spend money at the present time; that we should hurt credit, trade and exports. Then came the word \"ruin.\" I do not believe that the two sides of this House can be reconciled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-11a.1627.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-11", "file": "debates1930-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d2fc7fca01ab6d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-11a.1627.7", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "ing that is in our minds is this, we are doing this ten years too late. For ten years no hon. Member would have dared to say that it was financially impossible. For the last ten years the children ought to have had this chance, and our people expected them to have this chance, and it is not good enough now to turn round and say that we cannot spend another £8,000,000, or whatever it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-11a.1627.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-11", "file": "debates1930-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d2fc7fca01ab6d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-11a.1627.7", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "oing to-day is to do the same thing for the average child; that is the big new thing we are doing by these proposals. We want children to get the advantages of education independent of merit; merit is to come up later. It is said by the Opposition that we are giving doles and largesse. They say we could not do it without grants. What is the disgrace? The disgrace lies in the poverty of our people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-11a.1627.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-12", "file": "debates1930-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7f32ee9cff279d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1651.7", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSES", "preceding_text": "Are we to understand that the previous Government bought far more timber from Russia than the present Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1651.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-12", "file": "debates1930-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7f32ee9cff279d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1705.0", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "PRE-WAR PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General Sir JOHN DAVIDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General Sir JOHN DAVIDSON", "preceding_text": "of this House, the pre-War pensioners will get plenty of sympathy of the sort now offered to them, but when the Whips are put on by either the party opposite or this party, they will not get the pension scale which they want, though, in view of the proximity of a General Election, I should not be in the least surprised to see the Labour party turn round and vote for this Resolution this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1705.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-12", "file": "debates1930-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7f32ee9cff279d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1715.1", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "PRE-WAR PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "preceding_text": "For this purpose, naturally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1715.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-12", "file": "debates1930-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7f32ee9cff279d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1751.2", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "WAGES AND TARIFFS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "preceding_text": "d out in Russia some years ago, when their wealth was in fact redistributed. As always in a case of this kind, force was necessary to obtain the redistribution, and a great deal of force was used, and a great deal of bloodshed and suffering ensued. What has been the result? The people of Russia are a great deal worse off now than they were even when they started, and they started badly off enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1751.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-12", "file": "debates1930-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7f32ee9cff279d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1751.2", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "WAGES AND TARIFFS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "preceding_text": "d, and a great deal of bloodshed and suffering ensued. What has been the result? The people of Russia are a great deal worse off now than they were even when they started, and they started badly off enough. [HON. MEMBERS \"Nonsense!\"] That is indisputable. Anyone who knows the facts knows very well that the necessities of life are harder to come by in Russia than they have been probably for decades", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1751.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-12", "file": "debates1930-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7f32ee9cff279d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1761.0", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "WAGES AND TARIFFS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "balance It cannot be done. In order to pay the interest on the private foreign investments we hold and to pay these reparations, which I think are fantastic, and for which the right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer made so noble and so Socialist a stand at The Hague, for which he was prepared to jeopardise the peace of Europe in order to get another couple of millions out of Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-12", "file": "debates1930-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7f32ee9cff279d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1761.0", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "WAGES AND TARIFFS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your party applauded him!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "r to get another couple of millions out of Germany. [ Interruption. ] Fine socialist principles those were! How is Germany to pay? By goods. Money is worth nothing unless it is backed by goods. The Chancellor was prepared to insult the Finance Minister of France and to jeopardise the peace of Europe simply in order to get another £2,000,000 worth of goods from Germany dumped into our markets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-12", "file": "debates1930-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7f32ee9cff279d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1763.1", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "WAGES AND TARIFFS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "he conclusions can he drawn from them. It is nonsense to talk about a world blizzard when we have such facts staring us in the face. The causes are there; but the Chancellor of the Exchequer will not apply the remedy. I hope hon. Members opposite will he gingered up to-night to bring some pressure to bear upon the right hon. Gentleman. What have hon. Members opposite imposed upon British industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-12", "file": "debates1930-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7f32ee9cff279d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1767.2", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "WAGES AND TARIFFS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "ot. So far as the international aspect of rationalisation is concerned, surely it is an argument which ought to appeal to hon. Members opposite, because, when it is boiled down, it means that if you have a limited demand, narrowing markets, and intense international competition, you must have some form of conscious control of production. That is a doctrine which Rathenau preached to his dying day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1767.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-12", "file": "debates1930-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7f32ee9cff279d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1767.2", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "WAGES AND TARIFFS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "s that if you have a limited demand, narrowing markets, and intense international competition, you must have some form of conscious control of production. That is a doctrine which Rathenau preached to his dying day. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I am pleased that hon. Members opposite agree with that argument but you cannot have conscious control of production without conscious control of imports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1767.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-12", "file": "debates1930-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7f32ee9cff279d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1767.2", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "WAGES AND TARIFFS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did your party do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "ants of the Treasury Bench will be alone in one Lobby and we shall all be found in the other Lobby. Wages are controlled in this country by one of the most efficient systems of trade unions in the world, and we impose a higher standard of social services and a higher standard of life than any other country in the world. Notwithstanding these facts, we still refuse to control production and import.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1767.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-12", "file": "debates1930-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7f32ee9cff279d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1770.1", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "WAGES AND TARIFFS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "ard of life and our present wage standards are to be maintained. The Government have nothing. This is probably the most inept and futile administration that was ever known in any country or in any age. It has absolutely nothing on any economic question—neither Socialism nor tariffs nor anything else. The Government just sit there helpless and futile, without a suggestion of any sort or kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-12", "file": "debates1930-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7f32ee9cff279d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1771.0", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "WAGES AND TARIFFS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMES HUDSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMES HUDSON", "preceding_text": "mean a tax upon manufactured commodities, a tax upon half manufactured commodities, and indeed, as most of the raw materials that come into the country have some element of manufacture in them, a tax on raw materials as well, and very likely on food, too. In modern days, with the development of tinned foods, the element of manufacture becomes more prominent in the food that comes into the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1771.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-12", "file": "debates1930-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7f32ee9cff279d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1777.0", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "WAGES AND TARIFFS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PHILIP OLIVER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PHILIP OLIVER", "preceding_text": " or of interest on foreign investments. If it does not come in the shape of reparations or interest on investments, obviously it comes in payment for services which we are rendering. I should like to know at some time from the hon. Gentleman or from one of his party whether they, at any rate, object to manufactured imports coming into this country in payment of interest on our foreign investments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1777.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-12", "file": "debates1930-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7f32ee9cff279d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1787.0", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "WAGES AND TARIFFS.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "f 400,000 workers. That is one of the greatest contributory causes of the appalling unemployment figures with which we are faced. Every Member will realise that, unless you can find some new method of dealing with this great flood of imports, you are inevitably driven to the disastrous remedy of the old Manchester school, namely, a reduction of wages. I am not speaking in any controversial spirit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1787.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-12", "file": "debates1930-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7f32ee9cff279d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1791.2", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "WAGES AND TARIFFS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "110N. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "will find the rather interesting fact that, during the last 10 years, unemployment in this country has been constant, although since hon. Members opposite formed a Government the figure has been doubled. But while unemployment here has been constant, in the United States there have been only two periods of serious unemployment. There are no official figures as to unemployment in the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1791.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-12", "file": "debates1930-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7f32ee9cff279d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1791.2", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "WAGES AND TARIFFS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "arkable resolution which was passed some time ago. They will be voting in favour of handing this country over to the competition of the Continent, to the competition of labour in some parts of Europe, where, as has been stated by the Prime Minister himself, bestial conditions exist. Are hon. Members going to keep out the products of these bestial conditions, the products of slave labour in Russia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1791.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-12", "file": "debates1930-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7f32ee9cff279d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1791.2", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "WAGES AND TARIFFS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "he Free Trade cause. But I venture to assert on behalf of my hon. Friends that we are absolutely determined that the standard of living of our people shall not be dictated to us by Soviet Russia, or by conditions of the kind which I have referred. Hon. Members may scoff. Let them laugh, let them jeer, but their time is short. This country is undoubtedly going to give an overwhelming mandate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1791.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-12", "file": "debates1930-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7f32ee9cff279d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1809.0", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "WAGES AND TARIFFS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ot as valuable for employment as the visible might be. We were short in exports last year by £134,000,000 to meet our imports. What did we give to balance the amount? Hon. Gentlemen always say you must not reduce imports because you reduce exports. You can reduce the imports of manufactured goods by £134,000,000, and you will not reduce exports of goods, bullion or services by one penny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1809.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-12", "file": "debates1930-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7f32ee9cff279d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1817.4", "colnum": "1817", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (TRANSFER OF JUVENILES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLLIAMS", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLLIAMS", "preceding_text": "d that in the year ending 31st October, 1930, the number was only 309. That means that, in spite of the fact that double the number of people are out of work, the Government in one of the greatest areas of employment in the country, have been able to help only half the number of juveniles. I put down a question asking her if she could explain this position. That was not done in any hostile spirit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1817.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-12", "file": "debates1930-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a7f32ee9cff279d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1819.1", "colnum": "1819", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (TRANSFER OF JUVENILES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"HOW do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " do a conjuring trick if I could get the Liberal party to vote in the same Lobby. I ask the right hon. Lady, in this matter of transfer, as far as women are concerned, to realise that it is a very important question, and I would like to know whether she can hold out any hope for a large number of women in the northern industrial area who have very little hope of permanent employment in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-12a.1819.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1845.4", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NEWSPAPER SERIAL (\"GREEN PASTURES\").", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Not at all. Is it not a fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1845.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1891.2", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Dr. Addison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of wheat? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Dr. Addison)", "preceding_text": "red by our own town markets. Discussion of this subject is apt to centre round the question of wheat production, and I give for comparison the wheat figures. The general crop is from £10,000,000 to £12,000,000 in value. But in this island we have the finest pastures and the best strains of stock in the world, and we produced £70,000,000 worth last year and imported 74,000,000 worth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1891.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1891.2", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Dr. Addison)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who has got to pay?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Dr. Addison)", "preceding_text": "logged in many cases to a vast extent, but it is no suggestion of ours that we should undertake work on land that is not likely to pay for the work. One has only to apply to any one of our land surveyors, and they can point to instances in their own districts where this kind of thing is required. As a matter of fact, you have only to travel about the country with your eyes open to see it yourself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1891.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1891.2", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Dr. Addison)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a well-known case.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Dr. Addison)", "preceding_text": "ake it, if need be, compulsorily. That is rather a courageous proposal. I will give the House an actual record of a case that is waiting now. This is a case where the county council has in vain done what it could to get the owner to put the place in order, and this is a description taken last week of this place. The owner seems to have plenty of money to spend in law expenses, and nothing happens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1891.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1891.2", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Dr. Addison)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Dr. Addison)", "preceding_text": "is waiting now. This is a case where the county council has in vain done what it could to get the owner to put the place in order, and this is a description taken last week of this place. The owner seems to have plenty of money to spend in law expenses, and nothing happens. [An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a well-known case.\"] It is a well-known case, and it is high time that we took power to deal with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1891.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1905.0", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": " mean. In our great efforts after the War, when we had all the county councils working with us, we succeeded in settling something over 16,000. Let us compare the 3,000,000 acres with our total arable area. There is a misprint in this book. The total arable area is not 30,000,000 acres but about 13,000,000 acres, and the right hon. Gentleman proposes to take nearly one-quarter of that arable land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1905.0", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "ble area. There is a misprint in this book. The total arable area is not 30,000,000 acres but about 13,000,000 acres, and the right hon. Gentleman proposes to take nearly one-quarter of that arable land. [ Interruption. ] I agree that it would not be entirely limited to arable land, but, taking that as a comparison, we see that it transfers the control of nearly a quarter of our arable land—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1908.1", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get to the Bill!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "s long after he and I have passed away. It is not very long ago since the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs was very much dissatisfied with the Minister of Agriculture in the late Government. It must be a great gratification to the right hon. Gentleman that he can now see the scheme which he has done so much to think out carried out by one of his most trusted and most efficient lieutenants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1908.1", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "ocialism by practical stages without mentioning nationalisation. However carefully this Bill shirks the name, it is very obvious that that is the real purpose of this scheme. The Agricultural Land Corporation and the Ministry of Agriculture will form a very strongly-laid framework for further steps in that direction. Already we see the germ from which may develop such a policy as exists in Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1908.1", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So they are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "pt that the smallholders are to be the kulaks, and if the process goes on these darlings of the Socialist party, these kulaks, will be swept away eventually for the full communal organisation which will be set up as the result of this experiment in large-scale farming? Large scale management, except for such a political purpose, can surely only be justified if farmers are inefficient at their job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1909.5", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "ganisation upon which the agricultural industry is founded. As for land reclamation and improvement, it does seem to me to be a fearful waste of money, at a time when there is so much good land being farmed 'at a loss, to pour out money which will certainly not bring in any return. The chief argument of the Minister of Agriculture was that there was a lunatic down in Hampshire who could not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1909.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1913.1", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "The figure which I was given by the Department, and which I have taken from the OFFICIAL REPORT, was 4,000, but they may not all have been failures. It is not only we who hold this view; it is held by Professor Orwin, who has been quoted with approval by the right hon. Gentleman. Professor Orwin asks what is the use of an indiscriminate provision of smallholdings all over the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1923.1", "colnum": "1923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALPASS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALPASS", "preceding_text": "to rebut the statement which was made by the late Minister of Agriculture that my right hon. Friend in introducing the Bill had selected an isolated case of inefficient farming and neglect of land. When you go through the country, either by train or by oar, you see all around you patent and obvious evidence of the neglect of this important and very valuable material asset of our agricultural land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1923.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1936.2", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BRISCOE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BRISCOE", "preceding_text": "It may seem almost ungrateful for the Conservative party to oppose this Bill, now that the Minister of Agriculture has at last produced one, and more especially because he introduced it in a very charming and delightful way. But the Bill is going to involve the country in enormous expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1936.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1942.1", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir. J. LAMB", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir. J. LAMB", "preceding_text": "hem into it. With regard to large-scale farming, I cannot believe that these proposals have been put forward by experts who have any practical knowledge. I believe that the real incentive to bring in this Bill has been Socialism. I believe it is the Socialist element on the other side of the House which has forced the Government to do something and that this is a little of \"Socialism in our time.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1947.1", "colnum": "1947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. LAMB", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In Scotland!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. LAMB", "preceding_text": "n this country, to duplicate these examples, which have cost so much up to the present? When we have 21 attached to farm schools and 12 attached to universities, I think we might take advantage of the very valuable information which they have given us without duplicating it. With regard to the reclamation of land, where is all this land requiring reclamation which it will be profitable to reclaim?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1952.2", "colnum": "1952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRANVILLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Certainly!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRANVILLE", "preceding_text": "merely a demonstration model of the right hon. Gentleman's ability to produce legislation in this House. Running through the Bill are the words \"the Minister has powers,\" but we want to know if the Minister intends to use those powers, will the Chancellor of the Exchequer back him up, and can the administration of the Department carry out the many technical details which are contained in the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1952.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1967.0", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. B. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. B. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": " Minister will not be de- terred by the partisan objections which are now being raised. We hear that it is terrible to spend any money upon agriculture. A little time ago we were criticised because we did nothing, and now that a modest £1,000,000 is being asked for in order to give the unemployed who are suitable an opportunity to get on to suitable land, again we are wrong, wrong every time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1967.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1970.0", "colnum": "1970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"18,000 acres.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "ters of Clause I is that this is the most economic way of using considerable portions of our soil, why waste Government money upon it? It will come about of itself. Everybody knows that in this country there are poor soils and goods soils, and there are enormous farms. One farm in the west of England covering 10,000 acres has been mentioned. In Lincolnshire, there are farms hardly less in acreage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1970.0", "colnum": "1970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have you not the courage?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "r we cannot get back some of the people from our congested towns into our deserted country. There will he failures and there will he expense but there will be successes, and if there are successes, they will he of a value to this nation which cannot be estimated in terms of cash alone. I cannot support by my active vote to-night, this Bill, nor can I support it as long as it is marred by Clause 1.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1970.0", "colnum": "1970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": " be successes, and if there are successes, they will he of a value to this nation which cannot be estimated in terms of cash alone. I cannot support by my active vote to-night, this Bill, nor can I support it as long as it is marred by Clause 1. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Have you not the courage?\"] I think it would require an older and more respected Member of the House to teach me anything about courage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1980.0", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major GEORGE DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major GEORGE DAVIES", "preceding_text": "sider all farmers inefficient. I should like to repeat what I have said for many years in this House, having listened to a goodish number of debates on agricultural questions and to questions put at Question Time to the Minister. The whole trend of mind of hon. Members opposite is to emphasise that people who are already carrying on agriculture are ignorant, inefficient and should not be assisted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1980.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1980.0", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major GEORGE DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major GEORGE DAVIES", "preceding_text": "with regard to the way in which he shall employ his workers. A prominent farmer told me the other day why the smallholder does in some eases make good, in spite of his difficulties, and the reason is, that he does not have to take off his coat to start a job because he has never had it on, that he has no wages bill to pay at the end of the week, and that you do not see him. at four markets a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1980.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1999.3", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fourpence a dozen?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "000,000 eggs from Belgium, 379,000,000 eggs from the Netherlands and 669,000,000 eggs from Denmark. Is there any hon. Member in any quarter of the House who will venture to say that. British activity, British toil, British genius and the British hen cannot supply a large part of that market and, as my right hon. Friend says, at prices which amount in some parts of the country to fourpence a dozen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1999.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1999.3", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "n some parts of the country to fourpence a dozen. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Fourpence a dozen?\"] I know of parts of the country where the producer is getting sixpence a dozen for his eggs in the glut period and where those eggs have been sold retail at 2s. 3d. The report of the Imperial Agricultural Committee, page 11, shows that for the year 1925 one egg in every seven used in this country came from China.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.1999.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.2003.1", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "n order to break leases. Be that as it may, all that this Bill says is, Let us try it. If great agricultural advisers, men of great skill and experience, say this thing should be tried, why should we not try it? We say we must go in for reconditioning seriously neglected land. We have no right to allow the national heritage to go back to rushes and to waste. We have public-spirited citizens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.2003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.2006.0", "colnum": "2006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has made a violent attack on me about something of Which I have no knowledge. Will he kindly substantiate it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.2006.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.2006.2", "colnum": "2006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "I was not aware that I had said anything about the right hon. Gentleman and eggs. But since he has raised the subject may I say that when the right hon. Gentleman interrupted me on a previous occasion, and said our party had not helped him, I said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.2006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.2008.0", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain WATERH OUSE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WATERH OUSE", "preceding_text": ";15,000,000 to £20,000,000 a year is not a fair proceeding. The right hon. Gentleman is asking for a sum for maintenance, but a tremendous increase in annual expenditure and in capital expenditure upon education hinges on it. If this Resolution passes it will mean that, one way and another, the country will be involved in an expenditure of something like £100,000,000 a year on education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.2008.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.2008.0", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain WATERH OUSE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose children?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WATERH OUSE", "preceding_text": "not know bow much money he will require to foot the bill. I feel very strongly that the financial position of this country does not warrant all this expenditure. At the present moment we are the most highly taxed nation in the world, and we spend larger sums of money upon education from rates and taxes than any other nation. Our children are kept at school longer than any other children in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.2008.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.2008.0", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain WATERH OUSE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WATERH OUSE", "preceding_text": "any other hon. Members, and especially the right hon. Gentlemen had read, and it contains this sentence: The private. Member still regarded himself as sent by his constituency to keep watch on the king's Ministers—placemen, as they were opprobriously called; to curb their schemes of private avarice, and thwart their plots against the liberties of the land. That was in the days of Queen Anne.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.2008.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.2017.0", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We know!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "s required cannot be carried on. The whole scheme cannot possibly come into being for several years at least. I object in principle to extra taxation which affects not only the so-called rich, but everyone in the country. It is owing to extra taxation that there is so much unemployment to-day. I ask the Parliamentary Secretary to let us know exactly what position we shall be in on 1st April, 1931.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.2017.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-13", "file": "debates1930-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c2d0bb524287e58b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.2022.1", "colnum": "2022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "I regret that I fell into the same mistake as the Parliamentary Secretary, and therefore I will not pursue that argument, except to say that, when it comes to expenditure on education or anything else, I stand for economy. In my election address I said I would take an independent view of a constructive character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-13a.2022.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-14", "file": "debates1930-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "d6b6884e3867dfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2041.0", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did you oppose that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORT", "preceding_text": " what are called the professional classes. I served on a small urban district council which was afterwards merged into a larger body, and when that amalgamation occurred, the manager of our little gasworks was compensated—and he is being compensated to-day—to the tune of £7 a week for loss of status. He is earning more to-day than he earned as the manager of that little gas-works.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2041.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-14", "file": "debates1930-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "d6b6884e3867dfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2049.3", "colnum": "2049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER \"He was asking a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that my hon. Friend takes up that position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2049.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-14", "file": "debates1930-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "d6b6884e3867dfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2049.3", "colnum": "2049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "Members opposite, but it is the expressed intention put into their Bill. If there is a clear indication from the other side of the House that they are prepared to consider Amendments to the end that they have suggested is the real end of this Bill, namely, to do away with the injustice caused by a decision of which we all complain, if they are prepared so to amend this Bill as to bring back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2049.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-14", "file": "debates1930-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "d6b6884e3867dfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2071.0", "colnum": "2071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DOUGLAS HACKING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Honest men come into their own.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DOUGLAS HACKING", "preceding_text": " Clause only; but it makes up for its brevity by being complicated. The complication of the wording and also of certain judgments which have been given in another place has been proved by the dispute which took place only a few moments ago between an hon. and learned Member on this side of the House and an hon. and learned Member opposite. When lawyers fall out with regard to interpretation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-14", "file": "debates1930-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "d6b6884e3867dfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2079.2", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Take ours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "hich are in no way Committee points or points of detail but are points of principle. There is a considerable difference between the terms of the Bill and the speeches of its promoters. I do not profess to be an expert lawyer, and, in regard to the effect of a particular Clause in the Bill, I am bound to take the opinion of lawyers, as they are the only people who understand this sort of rigmarole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2079.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-11-14", "file": "debates1930-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "d6b6884e3867dfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2081.0", "colnum": "2081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "stion of detail for Committee, but is a question of principle. I ask the Government whether we ought to go into Committee on a Bill which alters the whole principle of workmen's compensation, and says that in future workmen's compensation and unemployment benefit are to be interchangeable, and that a man can get one or the other. I know that the promoters do not mean it, but that is what. it does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2079.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-11-14", "file": "debates1930-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "d6b6884e3867dfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2081.3", "colnum": "2081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "That is not the least what I am arguing. I am arguing this—and it has been supported by every legal Member who has spoken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2081.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-14", "file": "debates1930-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "d6b6884e3867dfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2081.5", "colnum": "2081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "and that a large number of very able lawyers have expressed the opinion that this Bill, as drafted, would, in fact, give to a man who has hitherto been in receipt of compensation, what is in effect an alternative, when he is unable to obtain work in the present state of the labour market, of either drawing unemployment relief or workmen's compensation. That is the opinion which has been expressed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2081.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-14", "file": "debates1930-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "d6b6884e3867dfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2081.5", "colnum": "2081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "entlemen must realise that it is the duty of the Government to advise us as to the legal effect of a proposal which is brought before the House, and it is the duty of the Government to indicate their view on a question of principle. The preponderating view expressed by lawyers in this House to-day is that if this Bill passes in its present form it snakes a radical change in a principle of the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2081.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-14", "file": "debates1930-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "d6b6884e3867dfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2085.0", "colnum": "2085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ompensation is to be paid to be the test of whether the failure to get work is in consequence of the accident, or whether the failure to get work is to be entirely irrespective of the accident and merely a consequence of the labour conditions obtaining in the industrial world at the time. I do not propose to argue which is right or wrong, but I think that it ought to be the result of the accident.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2085.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-14", "file": "debates1930-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "d6b6884e3867dfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2090.0", "colnum": "2090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "original Bill that remains in the Bill as reported is the word \"If\"—that we shall have to change the whole thing from beginning to end? It is the intention of everyone to remedy the injustice which has arisen out of the legal decision, and, that being so, it would surely be better to try to get some non-party agreement as to the exact form of words, and not waste the time of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2090.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-14", "file": "debates1930-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "d6b6884e3867dfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2101.0", "colnum": "2101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "I only intervene in this debate to express my admiration for the hon. Gentlemen opposite who say they are not obstructing and who for the last two hours have been obstructing us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2101.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-14", "file": "debates1930-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "d6b6884e3867dfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2103.0", "colnum": "2103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What has the Irish Free State to do with it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "It is remarkable that some hon. Members do not seem to understand their own position in this House. The hon. Member who has just spoken boasts of being a representative of the Imperial Parliament apart from the Irish Free State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-14", "file": "debates1930-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "d6b6884e3867dfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2103.0", "colnum": "2103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "tion in this House. The hon. Member who has just spoken boasts of being a representative of the Imperial Parliament apart from the Irish Free State. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What has the Irish Free State to do with it?\"] Northern Ireland is part and parcel of the legislation passed in this House, but with the difference that when it is a Bill giving something to the workmen, they are not part and parcel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-14", "file": "debates1930-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "d6b6884e3867dfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2103.0", "colnum": "2103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "reland, if hon. Members here did their duty in the Northern Parliament of Ireland, would come under every Amendment and every improvement in the general Acts, but what is the situation, as far as those of us who are Irishmen know it? To all intents and purposes those Members are going to support the opposition to this Bill in the interests of the big firms who dominate northern industrial Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-14a.2103.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-11-17", "file": "debates1930-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "be2c3b5d8d676b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.9.4", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "My attention was called to the statement of my hon. Friend that boys of 11 were imprisoned, and I immediately inquired and found that it was without foundation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.9.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-17", "file": "debates1930-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "be2c3b5d8d676b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.77.2", "colnum": "77", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "d that the mandatory should he responsible for putting into effect the Declaration originally made on 2nd November, 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers, in favour of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.77.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-17", "file": "debates1930-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "be2c3b5d8d676b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.77.2", "colnum": "77", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "the only course. What is the reason for this? There is no more room for the Jews; there is unemployment amongst the Arabs. There is unemployment here. Why? It is due to world conditions. In the United States of America, France, and in every land there is unemployment. In Palestine—the Jews. The Jews get murdered. They are to blame. Now what are the real facts of the case in Palestine to-day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.77.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-17", "file": "debates1930-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "be2c3b5d8d676b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.77.2", "colnum": "77", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " money makes a very remarkable story—£700,000 a year coming from Jews in every land. The rich Jews, on the whole, are not Zionists, though there are some. The Jews are 20 per cent. of the population, and their contribution to the revenue of Palestine is between 40 and 50 per cent. That is what enabled the Palestine Government to raise a loan of £4,000,000 or £5,000,000 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.77.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-17", "file": "debates1930-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "be2c3b5d8d676b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.77.2", "colnum": "77", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "you had in the whole of the rest of Palestine. It is in the Mandate, but it is excluded from the national home for the Jews. There is a great tract of territory which is open for the purpose of settling the Arabs if there is a surplus population needing land, but you must have it properly developed. I admit that it is a difficult task. We ought to have considered that before accepting the Mandate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.77.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-17", "file": "debates1930-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "be2c3b5d8d676b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.77.2", "colnum": "77", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "s through a spirit of patriotism for their native land, they are capable again of rendering service to humanity as a whole. We thought that that opportunity ought to be afforded them. The nations of the earth in council assembled came to the same conclusion. If the Government of this country say they cannot carry it out, for Heaven's sake let us give an opportunity to somebody else that can do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.77.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-17", "file": "debates1930-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "be2c3b5d8d676b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SHIELS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SHIELS", "preceding_text": "gislative Council, though no doubt that might have been expanded into something more. So far from being unsympathetic, this matter has been explored repeatedly by the Palestine Government. Nothing would please us better than the possibility of such a round-table conference. The Prime Minister reminds me that when the Arab delegation was here an attempt was made then, and it was not found possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-17", "file": "debates1930-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "be2c3b5d8d676b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SHIELS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Which party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SHIELS", "preceding_text": "re. So far from being unsympathetic, this matter has been explored repeatedly by the Palestine Government. Nothing would please us better than the possibility of such a round-table conference. The Prime Minister reminds me that when the Arab delegation was here an attempt was made then, and it was not found possible. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] Because we could not get the parties to come together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-17", "file": "debates1930-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "be2c3b5d8d676b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.120.0", "colnum": "120", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And economics— \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ers, through the Dark Ages kept alight the torch of learning. I think I may claim that through those centuries, and even in the present day, the Jewish people, out of all proportion to their numbers, have made great contributions to the common treasure-house of mankind in matters of religion, in philosophy, in science, in music, in the drama, in many of \"the things that are more excellent \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-17", "file": "debates1930-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "be2c3b5d8d676b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel HOWARD-BURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel HOWARD-BURY", "preceding_text": "But it has a wide circulation. It is read very widely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-17", "file": "debates1930-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "be2c3b5d8d676b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.142.2", "colnum": "142", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de ROTHSCHILD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de ROTHSCHILD", "preceding_text": "No, the tenants themselves got £30,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.142.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-17", "file": "debates1930-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "be2c3b5d8d676b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "Paper of 1922, hut when that phrase was used it was used by Dr. Weizmann, the head of the Zionist movement and used legitimately by him. He was undoubtedly led by responsible people in the Administration of that date to believe that that was the position. If there was an open betrayal at all, which I am disposed to believe, it occurs, not in the White Paper of 1930, but in the White Paper of 1922.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-17", "file": "debates1930-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "be2c3b5d8d676b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "t one way, and the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs may suggest another. The right hon. Gentleman who has suggested the best way out of the difficulty is the right hon. Member for Darwen (Sir H. Samuel). The Government have suggested a way out in the White Paper. What does the White Paper of 1930 do? It is admitted that it cannot be a betrayal unless the White Paper of 1922 was a betrayal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.157.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-11-17", "file": "debates1930-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "be2c3b5d8d676b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "t way out of the difficulty is the right hon. Member for Darwen (Sir H. Samuel). The Government have suggested a way out in the White Paper. What does the White Paper of 1930 do? It is admitted that it cannot be a betrayal unless the White Paper of 1922 was a betrayal. [ Interruption. ] Does the hon. and gallant Member for Kelvingrove suggest that there is betrayal in the White Paper of this year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-17", "file": "debates1930-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "be2c3b5d8d676b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Total population!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": " is going to be satisfactory, because people do not understand the exact meaning of the word \"equal,\" but in so far as it does attempt to give a clear definition in place of a vague ambiguous document, so far so good. It may he that there is room in Palestine for plenty more Jews. The right hon. Member for Darwen says that 3,000,000 Jews can be absorbed into Palestine ultimately. That may be true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-17", "file": "debates1930-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "be2c3b5d8d676b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GEORGE JONES", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Far more\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GEORGE JONES", "preceding_text": "n made, the Government, whatever else it does, ought to try to make it certain that we are going to act faithfully and honourably to everybody concerned. I very much regret the manner in which the Prime Minister referred to the massacres of August, 1929. He brushed that matter 9.0 p.m. on one side with a purely party remark to the effect that his predecessors were involved as much as he was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-17", "file": "debates1930-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "be2c3b5d8d676b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.201.2", "colnum": "201", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "preceding_text": "The full text of the White Paper was cabled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.201.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-17", "file": "debates1930-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "be2c3b5d8d676b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.203.3", "colnum": "203", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "want to make it clear that for many years there has been a desire on the part of the Zionist organisations throughout the world to be allowed to settle on the other side of the Jordan. Everyone who knows the country wilt bear me out when I say that there are great tracts of fertile land there which are really more suitable for settlement than most of the unoccupied land on this side of the Jordan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-17", "file": "debates1930-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "be2c3b5d8d676b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.208.0", "colnum": "208", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In Whitechapel.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman and I are very goad friends, but this is a matter, not of my hon, Friend or myself, but a matter of tremendous public interest and anxiety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-17", "file": "debates1930-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "be2c3b5d8d676b95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.208.3", "colnum": "208", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SHIELS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SHIELS", "preceding_text": "Well, the record of the debate is before the country, and anyone who is in doubt about tie position will have an opportunity o' reading the various speeches and getting the various points of view, but. I think that we have made clear what we wished to make clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-17a.208.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-18", "file": "debates1930-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "fa9c18c6c16f5ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-18a.275.4", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir GEORGE COURTHOPE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir GEORGE COURTHOPE", "preceding_text": "sole economic object of which is to eliminate labour from the land? I very much doubt it. I am not trying to make that point for a partisan reason. There may be a justification for a great landowner trying to keep his estate together by embarking on a big experiment, but there can be no justification for the State doing so when one of its principal concerns is the employment of more of its people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-18a.275.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-18", "file": "debates1930-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "fa9c18c6c16f5ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-18a.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. COURTHOPE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. COURTHOPE", "preceding_text": " may come to many people's minds that the cultivation of subsidised allotment plus the dole is the whole duty of man. I am not quite certain how you could stop that. I do not suggest that that would become general, but there may be many people who think that by working an allotment and drawing the dole they are doing their job. That is a risk which the Minister of Agriculture must provide against.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-18a.279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-18", "file": "debates1930-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "fa9c18c6c16f5ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-18a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "s the alternative? To have a secure market. What does that mean? There are two phrases which I have noted in this debate. One was used by the hen. and gallant Member for Bye (Sir G. Courthope) who made as he always does on agriculture a very well-informed speech, and one with a good deal of which I certainly agree. He said that it was no use doing this sort of thing unless you had a secure market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-18a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-18", "file": "debates1930-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "fa9c18c6c16f5ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-18a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "uld like to quote the opinion of one of the members of that inquiry, Mr. Joseph Duncan. I know there is a certain dislike of Mr. Duncan's views upon some of these subjects among ardent supporters of smallholdings, but, after all, Mr. Duncan is the accredited representative of the farm servants of Scotland and has studied this question with the greatest care. Mr. Duncan, writing in \"Forward\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-18a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-18", "file": "debates1930-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "fa9c18c6c16f5ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-18a.351.3", "colnum": "351", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. HOPE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. HOPE", "preceding_text": "I will not discuss the Highlands just now. If the hon. Member will come with me, I can take him through Forfarshire and show him estates where money has been spent on improvements which have brought the landowners practically no return at all. Instead of this money being spent by the State, we should be doing better work if we were to give grants to landowners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-18a.351.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-18", "file": "debates1930-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "fa9c18c6c16f5ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-18a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Low wages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "disastrous seasons in agriculture that have ever been experienced. The losses are not due to bad farming; they are greatest where the farming is best. In all the great arable districts, the great stretch from the North-East of Scotland right down the East Coast to Lincoln- shire, the losses are greatest—just where the farming is best. It is not due in the least to bad or inefficient farming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-18a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-18", "file": "debates1930-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "fa9c18c6c16f5ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-18a.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Quite right too!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": " Empire Settlement Act, and it was considered good business, if you please, to vote £3,000,000 of public money to settle unemployed men from this country in the Dominions overseas. That money was voted to settle unemployed men in Western Australia—after a, course of training—at a cost of £1,500 per settler; and to settle them also in Canada or in some other part of the globe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-18a.388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-18", "file": "debates1930-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "fa9c18c6c16f5ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-18a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN RHODESIA.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "erland. The Europeans in South Africa are no mere temporary sojourners in a strange land—adventurers out to exploit what is not theirs. Our hearts and our hearths are equally abidingly wrapped up in the bosom of South Africa as our fatherland. The second point is that we in South Africa own as valid and honourable a title to our fatherland as any nation in any country. Does anyone deny that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-18a.397.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-19", "file": "debates1930-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bb58ada61dda30dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-19a.435.2", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DYESTUFFS (IMPORT REGULA- TION) ACT, 1920.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "The information which the right hon. Gentleman has given is of no use at all. This matter is of very vital importance. The right hon. Gentleman says that there is controversy, and, of course, the whole House will expect a much fuller statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-19a.435.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-19", "file": "debates1930-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bb58ada61dda30dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-19a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "FRUIT-GROWING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. EYRES MONSELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. EYRES MONSELL", "preceding_text": "production. In Northern Africa, where we have the question of the low wage again, they are able to produce fruit even earlier than they can produce it in the South of France. I think my remedy is simple. I would prohibit the importation of, I will say, plums until our crops have been ripe for two or three weeks and our people have had the chance of getting the high prices instead of the foreigner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-19a.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-19", "file": "debates1930-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bb58ada61dda30dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-19a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "FRUIT-GROWING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The early crop!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "appen to know of actual fruits purchased here at a. price at which the foreigner could not possibly have raised them or even picked them. I know of a considerable quantity that was purchased from abroad. The foreigner's price was a price at which he could not possibly have produced the fruit, even at low wages; certainly the price would not have paid for picking or for packing and sending it over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-19a.480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-19", "file": "debates1930-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bb58ada61dda30dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-19a.510.10", "colnum": "510", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ISAACS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Camberwell.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ISAACS", "preceding_text": "ote from the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Southwark who in his report for the year 1927 said: The number of dwelling houses found not to he in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation is 10,499. That is in the Borough of Southwark. No houses are being built by the Southwark Borough Council, which is, I think, the only borough council in London with such an unenviable record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-19a.510.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-19", "file": "debates1930-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bb58ada61dda30dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-19a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NAYLOR", "preceding_text": "opportunities. It is a site now occupied by the largest cinema in the country and that site would have provided sufficient space to house a very large proportion of these people. Therefore, the hon. Member for West Fulham is not justified in saying that they were unable to secure a, site when that site was available for them, if they had not allowed it to slip into the hands of the cinema company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-19a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-19", "file": "debates1930-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bb58ada61dda30dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-19a.539.2", "colnum": "539", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STRAUSS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STRAUSS", "preceding_text": "f the maintenance of the subways, which is complicated owing to various circumstances. I can assure the hon. Member that the county council are meeting him in the case which he put before the House. I would say to the other Members of my party here this evening, as the Minister of Transport has said, that the Bill has the full and unanimous support of the Labour party on the London County Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-19a.539.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-19", "file": "debates1930-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bb58ada61dda30dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-19a.540.2", "colnum": "540", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": " for under Clause 13. I suggest they are not provided for at all. Clause 13 reads: For the purpose of determining any question of disputed compensation payable in respect of lands taken under the powers of this Act the following provisions shall apply. In a further explanation we were told that £1,438,000 is being provided as compensation, but to whom? To the landowner and the property owner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-19a.540.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-19", "file": "debates1930-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bb58ada61dda30dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-19a.555.0", "colnum": "555", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. B. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\" and \"There are five of them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. B. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "than it has had at least since the War in relation to this and other problems. And because the Motion, so ably moved by the Noble Lady, puts the necessary completion to the position thus far developed) from the standpoint of the farm worker, I must express my surprise that my hon. Friends on the other side of the House, especially the agricultural Members who know the hard-pressed condition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-19a.555.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.675.0", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " been in public life. I wish that the Minister would accept the Amendment. I doubt if the local education authorities can he ready before 1936. Some of them, of course, will never be ready. [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members opposite know as well as I do that if they had brought a Bill in as an educational measure and had followed on the lines laid down by the late Government, we would have had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.678.0", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": "r. In principle we cannot oppose that idea, but I have advisedly used the terms \"technical education\" and \"higher education.\" Merely to keep children in school for another year means that they will only he marking time, and the best that can be said of such a proposal is that it will keep them out of the labour market and out of the battle of life for one more year. Is that a good thing in itself?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.678.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.678.0", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": " advantages of education which otherwise would not have been available to me and which carried me on to a fairly ripe age still receiving education. There are some hon. Members opposite whose friendship I have the privilege of possessing and who have told me that their first step in life was for them a great adventure and that they gladly left the classroom where they had unwillingly stayed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.678.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.689.0", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Morgan Jones)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Morgan Jones)", "preceding_text": "good faith?\" My right hon. Friend comes from a family of historians, and he has heard of the wooden horse of Troy, whereby that famous city fell through the innocence of the besieged people. We are not going to have this wooden horse introduced into our citadel. We propose to maintain our citadel intact, and our proposal is that the school age shall be raised simultaneously throughout the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.689.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.704.2", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "s country between 1900 and 1910—one of the causes of the worker being in a bad bargaining position with the employer—was that successive raisings of the school leaving age had dammed back the supply of juvenile labour to the labour market, and that, when the influence of that damming back had disappeared, there was released upon the labour market a large over-supply of juvenile labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.704.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.721.3", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheer up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "elping unemployment are going to put additional burdens upon industry, it will react upon the country and that will necessarily react upon the workers, and instead of having unemployment of nearly 2,500,000 we shall have increases of unemployment, our people will become more and more discontented, more and more anxious to work, with no work for them, and I tremble to think what will be the result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.721.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.728.4", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "preceding_text": "ld of 14 is employed it is employed on something that is quite simple. An employer would not think of offering such work to an older person or of offering the wage that could be paid for the work. Does it not seem common sense that if suddenly the supply of juvenile labour is very much restricted many employers will be driven so to reorganise their work that they will do without that child labour?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.728.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "My figures are surely right. There is a Government report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": " the effect on the labour market in the East End of London of discharging at the age of 15 a greatly increased number of boys. He knows that that would produce unemployment. I should like to say a word in reply to the speech of the hon. Member. It has been said, and will be said, up and down the country that, because we move Amendments of this kind, we are against giving another year of education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": " later, proper education shall be available to him. That has been my policy. Every hon. Member knows that this is what I have done, and what this party has stood for. Why does the hon. Member for North Salford get lap in this House and sling accusations as if we were trying to prevent children of his class from getting another year at school? He knows perfectly well that what we say is this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.738.3", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Toole), knows the kind of attitude to take towards his political opponents, knows that that has been our policy, and that what we are opposing now is the exertion of legal compulsion upon parents to do something whether they desire to do it or not. That is the only issue between us. Let me say, in conclusion, one word on this subject of legal compulsion, and this is strictly to the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.738.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.748.0", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The parents!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "o show how it is going to work. Even assuming for a moment that hon. Gentlemen opposite are right in their contention that a large number of children are not going to be able to find adequate courses and schooling in the schools as they are, this proposition is perfectly unworkable. Who is to work it and who is to decide whether the classes are adequate or not, or are sufficiently advanced or not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.748.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.748.0", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "l not send my child there,\" all I can say is that we are getting a long way from any system which we are working at the present moment. It is not a conservative action. Some Members opposite think it should be the parents. If it were not, of course, it might be a bench of local magistrates. That is a possibility. A bench is to settle whether a course is an advanced course or sufficiently advanced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.748.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why worry about it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "Yes, and that is the extent to which you have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "ready reorganised. We are getting ready for the possibilities of the future. We want to give our children the same chance as your children have had, or at least as near to it as we can, for we cannot give them all the chances that you have had. I wish to God that you had made better use of them! We want to give our children another year in school, in properly developed, properly organised schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "dren the same chance as your children have had, or at least as near to it as we can, for we cannot give them all the chances that you have had. I wish to God that you had made better use of them! We want to give our children another year in school, in properly developed, properly organised schools. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Then you will vote for the Bill, which is an effort in that direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is what we are asking for!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "effort in that direction. [ Interruption. ] I am not speaking in favour of your proposition. Your ideas on education are fish-like and smelly. We are only asking that this Bill should be allowed to go through. It is going through its various stages in Committee, and eventually it will give our children another year at school under a definite form of organisation, which will mean a chance for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.752.2", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "preceding_text": "ade. It seems to me that the right hon. Gentleman has one ambition, as I said at an earlier stage in the Bill, to have his name associated with a great Measure of social reform. We all share that ambition. I have no doubt that he wants to be commemorated in bronze on the Thames Embankment between Forster and Raikes, and from what I know of the right hon. Gentleman nearer to Forster than to Raikes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.752.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.758.0", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir NAIRNE STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir NAIRNE STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": "n and jute mills, and I know that every year after 14 which a lad spends out of the mill is going to be wasted as far as cotton spinners are concerned. They are going to be less efficient spinners. I should like to see a lad of 18 or 19 years of age trying to be a piecer. He would only skin his fingers badly at the job. Are you going to put a number of spinning machines into some of these schools?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.758.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.758.0", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir NAIRNE STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir NAIRNE STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": " be less efficient spinners. I should like to see a lad of 18 or 19 years of age trying to be a piecer. He would only skin his fingers badly at the job. Are you going to put a number of spinning machines into some of these schools? [ Interruption. ] It is not a bad thing to learn your job. I had to learn mine, and the sooner you begin to learn your job the less you are likely to talk an awful lot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.758.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.759.0", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "r to what country you go—he exhibits this quality always, that he loses the trained sense of the governing classes and does not get the instinctive common sense of the great mass of the people. For what he loses he does not get anything in return. The people of this country, when they see that their children are to be herded in school from 14 to 15, and that nothing new is taught them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.759.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have the parents no right?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "Let us take first the parents as one possible alternative. Hon. Members opposite are arguing on the ground that compulsion is unfair and is even iniquitous, and their proposition is that the parents object to compulsory education. Are you going to invite the very people who object to compulsory education to decide whether the time has come to have it applied to their particular area or not?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "I do not want to rob the authorities of West Ham of their share of credit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.784.0", "colnum": "784", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir ERNEST SHEPPERSON", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ERNEST SHEPPERSON", "preceding_text": "d the Bill, and I am going to follow in their footsteps and congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on the manner in which he introduced the Bill. I would congratulate the Government on the excellent choice they have made of a Minister. The Government started by promising that they would make farming pay, and they have had a difficult and almost an impossible task, and there is no one who can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.784.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.789.2", "colnum": "789", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "e estimate of the cost of these holdings, per thousand or per hundred. We state precisely how much it will cost to train men; how much our allowances will cost. This is condemned, I would have the House notice, as a great waste of money in unproductive expenditure. It all depends upon how you view it. How are these men upon whom money is to be spent, otherwise engaged? They are unemployed persons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.789.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.792.0", "colnum": "792", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is not entitled to get up in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.792.3", "colnum": "792", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is not entitled to make statements in this House which can be shown to be ill-founded by anyone who looks at the Statute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.792.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.792.8", "colnum": "792", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": " time were provided by the county councils on the basis of the Treasury paying 75 per cent. of the loss and the county councils 25 per cent., and the result of that scheme for the provision of smallholdings was to paralyse the movement. The proof of that statement is in the fact that since that date the additional number of smallholdings provided in the whole of England and Wales is less than 700.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.792.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.792.8", "colnum": "792", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "to enable unemployed persons to do a self-respecting job of work, is to go on paying allowances to men for doing nothing. I do not know how many men we shall be able to help in this way, but seeing that the smallholding movement has paid in cash about 3 per cent., for the main part, that is not a bad cash dividend for a land investment these days. It is much better than most landlords are getting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.792.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.794.0", "colnum": "794", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Three per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": " of his final admission that 2½ per cent. is a great deal more than the average landlord gets to-day as a return. What happens then to the claim made from the benches behind him, by hon. Members who talk about the landlord class as the bloodsuckers of the country? The right hon. Gentleman admits that landowners would be delighted if they could make 2½ per cent. on their invested capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.794.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.794.0", "colnum": "794", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will you teach him?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "ed if they could make 2½ per cent. on their invested capital. [HON. MEMBERS \"Three per cent.\"] I understood the right hon. Gentleman to say 2½ per cent. I will not say that the Minister is an ignorant man or that he does not know the agricultural situation. I will not say that he comes here as an unctuous man, but I will say that he has a great deal to learn about some of these subjects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.794.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.794.0", "colnum": "794", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are not on the Bill now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": " that all hon. Members will take the Minister's own advice. I commend to my interruptor what the right hon. Gentleman said during the Committee stage of the Financial Resolution. If any hon. Member has any suggestion which will help us to improve and make more business-like the administration of the Bill, I shall welcome it gladly.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 18th November, 1930; col. 345, Vol. 245.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.794.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.794.2", "colnum": "794", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "it is the crux of the situation. What is the good of the Government coming to the House to ask for money for these large-scale ranches, or 'whatever they may be called, when at the same time they are draining money away from the land, through the enormous Death Duties raised on estates of landowners? Surely the obvious thing, if you want to see money going back to the land would be to remit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.794.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-11-20", "file": "debates1930-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e61065c6f97946d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.806.3", "colnum": "806", "heading": "CUNARD (INSURANCE) AGREEMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "No, he never said so.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALBERY", "preceding_text": "do not think that differs in substance from what I have said—that he can anticipate that about half the insurance for construction purposes can be placed with underwriters at Lloyds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-20a.806.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-21", "file": "debates1930-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "12dbe4046cd356a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-21a.839.0", "colnum": "839", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITIES (PUBLICITY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "e. We see in the windows of our tourist agencies advertisements about hotels and railways abroad. I have seen advertisements in London about the Pennsylvania Railway, Atlantic City, and the glories of California. Hon. Members from time to time receive copies of advertisements of the amenities even of the remote State of Virginia. Why should the City of Manchester not tell the world of its glories?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-21a.839.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-21", "file": "debates1930-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "12dbe4046cd356a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-21a.847.0", "colnum": "847", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITIES (PUBLICITY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major LLEWELLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLEWELLIN", "preceding_text": "use, gain from the fact that a number of people are brought into this country? Not a single thing. The people who gain by it are the railway companies, the hotel proprietors and the shopkeepers. The ordinary resident does not gain a bit by having a large number of people coming here from France or Germany or anywhere else outside this country. I do not suppose that anybody would dispute that fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-21a.847.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-21", "file": "debates1930-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "12dbe4046cd356a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-21a.861.4", "colnum": "861", "heading": "EAST AFRICA.", "cue_speaker": "Captain MARCESSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain MARCESSON", "preceding_text": "I understand the arrangement is that this Motion should be taken on Monday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-21a.861.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.879.5", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "If we are to spend vast sums of money on developing these holdings, surely it would be right to know why some have not succeeded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.879.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "ive what is called the \"Kangaroo\" to the Chairman upstairs. So here we are, very united. I am told—at least I have seen it in some of the newspapers—that because we are a minority Government, we have no business to move a Resolution like this. The Bill has received a Second Reading in this House. The Bill has received a very good majority in this House. We may be a minority Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "arge of the business upstairs. I need not go through Amendment after Amendment. There is only one other to which reference might be made, and that is the Amendment which says that the Motion should he made from day to day. The very fact that that is suggested shows the intention of the hon. Gentle- man. If there is any reason why my Motion this afternoon is justified, that Amendment is the reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "eech about the outrage on the liberties of debate, making exactly the same Motion when he st [...] d at the Box on the Government side, and the gentleman who proposed the Motion originally ranking from the Opposition side the sort of speech which his successor in office made when he was on the Opposition side the sort of speech which his successor in office made when he was on the Opposition side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.935.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "pressed without real experience of the work of Committee. I have conducted many Bills through this House and I have opposed many Bills, and I say, without exception, that the result of prolonged discussion has been that the Government have always had to make concessions against their judgment in order to buy off opposition, concessions which render the Bill more ineffective and not more effective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.935.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "in this House and said that they were not going to take any more Bills that Session, suddenly the Bills got through with a rush. What does that mean? The Opposition—and rightly so; I am not criticising them, because it is their business as an Opposition—wanted to occupy the time of Committees upstairs and down here in such a way that no Bills of an obnoxious character could be carried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.935.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.952.1", "colnum": "952", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "e for the Guillotine, which I think my hon. and gallant Friend said lie preferred to the Kangaroo, that surely is the most arbitrary and the most bludgeoning way of dealing with the difficulties which have arisen. It is necessarily a Resolution framed by the Government alone. It is imposed upon the House by a majority in the House—a party majority. Some trifling concession may be made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.952.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.960.0", "colnum": "960", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir ASSHETON POWNALL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ASSHETON POWNALL", "preceding_text": "which has already been on the stocks of the Department for several months, and it may even be for a year. He cannot plead that this Bill must go through before Christmas for this, that or the other reason. If that were so, there would be a general measure of agreement over the step which is now proposed. if this were a good Bill we should all want to see it passed, in the interests of agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.963.0", "colnum": "963", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Captain GUNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GUNSTON", "preceding_text": "at we are not really arguing about the Kangaroo to-day, but arguing about the extension of the Kangaroo procedure to Committee upstairs, which is a much more serious move than is, perhaps, apparent? The Kangaroo procedure was first applied in Committee upstairs in 1911. That is 19 years ago. After the lapse of 19 years we are only now proposing to apply it for the third time in Committee upstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.963.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.971.0", "colnum": "971", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Captain Sir WILLIAM BRASS", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Sir WILLIAM BRASS", "preceding_text": "et this one Measure through which is going to deal with unemployment before he goes to the country. He will then be able to say to the country that at least he has passed one thing during the time he has been in office which has to do with the unemployment problem, on which he was elected. This seems to me to be a forecast that the Prime Minister is expecting a General Election at no distant date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.971.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.971.0", "colnum": "971", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Captain Sir WILLIAM BRASS", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Sir WILLIAM BRASS", "preceding_text": " of Transport was not very happy with the Committee which was considering the Road Traffic Bill, because he tried to force certain things through, and the result was that the discussions went on longer than was necessary. If the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Agriculture, when he is in charge of this Bill in Committee, will only take the Committee into his confidence and be reasonable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.971.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.973.0", "colnum": "973", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SM1THERS", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SM1THERS", "preceding_text": "to curtail the free speech of this House. One of my reasons for opposing this proposal to curtail discussion in Committee is that this Bill is hardly at all an agricultural Bill, but is a Bill designed to bring in extreme Socialist proposals in regard to the acquisition and control of land, and Soviet methods are being used to suppress speech on the part of those who are opposed to such proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.973.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.973.0", "colnum": "973", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SM1THERS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We do know!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SM1THERS", "preceding_text": "ill be completely torn to pieces. My right hon. Friend the Member for Wood Green (Mr. Locker-Lampson) referred to the invidious position in which the Chairman of the Committee will be put. I believe absolutely in the complete impartiality arid fair judgment of the Chairmen not only of this House but of Committees upstairs. It would be interesting to know who will be the Chairman of this Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.973.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.973.0", "colnum": "973", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SM1THERS", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SM1THERS", "preceding_text": "r judgment of the Chairmen not only of this House but of Committees upstairs. It would be interesting to know who will be the Chairman of this Committee. [An HON. MEMBER: \"We do know!\"] I have been called away on urgent business and I have not heard. But, whoever he is, does he know anything about the technicalities of agriculture? [ interruption .] I am informed that he does. That is to the good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.973.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.976.2", "colnum": "976", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "I voted for it at the time, and I should vote for it again, as it was a sensible thing to do. This is a sensible thing to do for exactly similar reasons. Hon. Members opposite want us to allow this Committee to experience the same difficulty as that experienced by the Committees on the Consumers Council Bill, and the Road Transport Bill last Session. There was obstruction on those Bills for weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.976.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.976.2", "colnum": "976", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\" and \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "e to deal with the business. The right hon. Gentleman took another novel kind of objection. He said that we ought not to make this proposal until the Bill had been discussed—I will not say obstructed—for some days, and that it should be tabled only after bitter experience had shown us that it was necessary. What would that mean in this case? We are now nearly at the end of the Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.976.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.976.2", "colnum": "976", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "mean in this case? We are now nearly at the end of the Session. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\" and \"Hear, hear!\"] If hon. Members opposite do not make a worse slip than that, they will not do amiss. We are now nearing the end of the Sittings of Parliament before Christmas—we will put it that way—and everyone knows that the House will not meet again until, or anyhow towards, the end of January.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.976.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.980.0", "colnum": "980", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir KINGSLEY WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir KINGSLEY WOOD", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman the Minister of Agriculture, and certainly one of the most interesting was in the first part, when he called to his aid a speech of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George). I never thought that I should ever find the Minister of Agriculture looking across at the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs and almost kissing him again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.980.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.1011.2", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "But we shall not put clown any trivial Amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.1011.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.1011.3", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "nd therefore the Government are loading the dice most unfairly against the private Member and in favour of the Government. I appeal to the right hon. Gentleman, whatever his official views may be, to make some concession to the Opposition in this matter. After all, we do not want to obstruct, and candidly I am not doing that, but if we are going to be treated in this way we will obstruct the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.1011.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.1014.2", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruptian", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ns me in connection with this question is that of the interests of the back benchers. I have had considerable experience of the Government, and of the maladministration of the Minister himself. I have had to sit and endure over and over again his imperfect methods of conducting these Bills through the House of Commons. I have done my best in my time to help him to get them through the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.1014.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.1033.3", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Travelling to and from school.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "preceding_text": " knowing something of agriculture, I could not listen to so much nonsense as has been talked by Conservative Members, without saying something in reply. One would assume that these children in the country were kept in school the whole of the time, whereas for a few days a week they are there only four or five hours a day. What do hon. Members think that the children are doing the rest of the time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.1033.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Morgan Jones)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They were all ages!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Morgan Jones)", "preceding_text": "mining area, and children left my class about September and went into Herefordshire to follow hop-picking. They happened to go at the beginning of the educational year, and were away for about a month, or five or six weeks. It created absolute chaos in my class for weeks and months on end, for the obvious reason that some children were at school from the beginning of the term, and others were not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.1039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Morgan Jones)", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Morgan Jones)", "preceding_text": "th while. to take that experience of mine into account. It is suggested that the children should be allowed 60 days in the year. Already they get something like 12 weeks' holiday a year. Sixty days, reckoning five days to a week, will give them another 12 weeks. That is to say, we are to guarantee for these children, if their parents so desire it, nearly six months' absence from school every year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.1039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Morgan Jones)", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Morgan Jones)", "preceding_text": "ese children, from their very earliest days, are on the farm with their parents, and they are in close and constant touch with these things, and all that they can be taught on the land. Therefore it seems to me, as far as practical acquaintance is concerned, they get as much education naturally as they are likely to have if they were taken for 60 days, or whatever the term may be, into the fields.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.1039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Morgan Jones)", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Morgan Jones)", "preceding_text": "ness, but it is fair to make a reference to what was challenged by the hon. Member for Ashford, and to what was reasserted by the Noble Lady the Member for Kinross (Duchess of Atholl), that it is far better that these children should be taken away from the school so as to save the crop. Very good. What is the answer to that argument? Do hon. Members opposite ever take their children out of school?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.1039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.1043.3", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH LAMB", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH LAMB", "preceding_text": "exploiting,\" and it did not start on this side of the House. It started in the first speech of the President of the Board of Education, when he spoke of children being released from school for agricultural work. The word \"work\" does not occur in this Amendment. The Amendment says: for the purpose of receiving instruction in agriculture\"— [HON. MEMERS: \"Read on!\"]—the next word is \"or.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.1043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-24", "file": "debates1930-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "153583aac3cde45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.1043.3", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH LAMB", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sowing!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH LAMB", "preceding_text": " made to the needs of the industry, but the need of work for the industry is not the strong point of this Amendment. It is the need of the industry if it is to give the industry skilled workers later on. An almost deliberate attempt has been made to create prejudice by suggesting that the sole object of those who are supporting this Amendment is to obtain cheap labour. What is education after all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-24a.1043.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-25", "file": "debates1930-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6670e90b830579d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that this company is undercutting Lancashire cotton spinners in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1063.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-25", "file": "debates1930-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6670e90b830579d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1086.10", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister bear in mind that there are over 5,000,000 Liberal electors in this country who are very inadequately represented—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1086.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-11-25", "file": "debates1930-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6670e90b830579d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1147.0", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why not trust them?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "It is open to the local authorities to give higher maintenance grants. They can do so if they like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-25", "file": "debates1930-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6670e90b830579d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1149.1", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": " that it will hold up educational progress in the future as no purely reactionary opposition of Tories could ever do. That is what the right hon. Gentleman is doing under the guise of an Education Bill. There is nothing about education in this proposal—it is simply a thoroughly mean unemployment policy and a thoroughly ineffective one. The right hon. Gentleman is going down to history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-25", "file": "debates1930-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6670e90b830579d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1152.0", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDN JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And books.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDN JONES", "preceding_text": "scholars from these schools to obtain the degrees of Inter. B.Sc. and Inter. B.A. at the University of London. The entering age to these schools is 11, and in many instances the governors, in cases of need, award maintenance allowances, which vary in amount. It just depends on the needs of the parents. Further, if they travel from a distance, a certain sum is allowed for travelling expenses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-25", "file": "debates1930-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6670e90b830579d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1154.0", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "ced when the actual Budget of the year is heading towards a very large deficit. In these circumstances we are asked to increase our outlay for this year by £8,000,000 or £9,000,000. It is an improper demand to make on the House of Commons, as representing the people of the country, unless the Government are prepared to show where the money is to come from. Where is the money coming from?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-25", "file": "debates1930-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6670e90b830579d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1160.0", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "f the parents easier by finding the necessary money, that the children can be kept at school. In London, and I have no doubt the same observation applies to Manchester, Glasgow and other great cities, we have found that £13 a year is little enough. It may be different in a rural area, where housing is much cheaper, and where, perhaps, food is cheaper, where a man has an allotment or a garden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1160.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-25", "file": "debates1930-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6670e90b830579d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1162.0", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " every other local authority had been so far-seeing and so progressive, because if they had been, the House and the Government would have been spared all this, as I think, very ugly debate about maintenance grants, in which we are always getting back to a contrast between the rich and the poor, which, to my mind, is very offensive. [ Interruption. ] Yes, bitterness and. class hatred are offensive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-25", "file": "debates1930-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6670e90b830579d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1162.0", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "t year we spent on maintenance grants £6,500. That amount is sufficient to take some of the children right up to college. The Minister of Education has the whole scheme before him, and I wish he had put it before the Committee. Our scheme in Plymouth was a real, educational one. There was no question of bribing the parents to try to make them swallow a rather bitter pill with a silver lining.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-25", "file": "debates1930-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6670e90b830579d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1162.0", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ghed, because once more hon. Members will see what a ridiculous assembly we are. We laugh at the most absurd things. A Member makes a slight slip and we all roar like schoolboys—not like schoolgirls. We have placed this question in the forefront in Plymouth, and we have kept the question of education first and foremost in our minds. We have spent in Plymouth over £6,500 in these grants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-25", "file": "debates1930-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6670e90b830579d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ere is a much greater problem attached to this question of education to-day. The President of the Board of Education said that he wanted England to lead the way. Lead which way? We in England are the highest taxed people in the world. We spend more on social services than any other country in the world; and we have the biggest debt and the greatest number of unemployed of any country in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-25", "file": "debates1930-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6670e90b830579d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " wanted England to lead the way. Lead which way? We in England are the highest taxed people in the world. We spend more on social services than any other country in the world; and we have the biggest debt and the greatest number of unemployed of any country in the world. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] Hon. Members opposite cannot tell me of another country in the world where taxation is so high as ours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-25", "file": "debates1930-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6670e90b830579d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1167.1", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Morgan Jones)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Morgan Jones)", "preceding_text": "I hope that the Committee will presently be ready to take a decision on this Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-25", "file": "debates1930-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6670e90b830579d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1167.3", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "How can the Minister reply when he spoke at the beginning?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1167.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-25", "file": "debates1930-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "6670e90b830579d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1167.3", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "poke at the beginning? [ Interruption .] I think the Committee will agree that we have had a fairly full discussion. We have been twitted by speakers on the other side with having overlooked a Clause in the Bill which we introduced earlier in the summer. I wonder if I may ask hon. Members who advanced that point one question: Why did they choose to lift out of the late Bill that particular Clause?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-25a.1167.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-26", "file": "debates1930-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb043c9a8bd2efab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1351.0", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "DUMPING OF FOREIGN CEREALS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "do not know whether it was the mover or the seconder of the Motion who said that the greatest dumper of cereals into this country was Russia. I take the very months which he quoted, and if he does me the honour of listening to me, he will see what the actual facts are. At the end of the month of October we had received into this country, in response to orders that were sent to Russia for it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1351.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-26", "file": "debates1930-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb043c9a8bd2efab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1351.0", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "DUMPING OF FOREIGN CEREALS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At what price?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "s which he quoted, and if he does me the honour of listening to me, he will see what the actual facts are. At the end of the month of October we had received into this country, in response to orders that were sent to Russia for it—[An HON. MEMBER: \"By whom?\"]—by grain traders—6,700,000 quarters, and the Argentine \"dumped\"—I will use that word—here 13,651,000 quarters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1351.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-26", "file": "debates1930-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb043c9a8bd2efab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1351.0", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "DUMPING OF FOREIGN CEREALS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "tee. What have they been doing? They have been giving credits to British exporters, to send to Russia, in response to orders from Russia, such goods as this country can supply and as the Russian customer wants. That credit amounts to about £2,500,000, and I noticed that within the last week or two a very large order, amounting to £600,000, had been placed for British machine tools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1351.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-26", "file": "debates1930-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb043c9a8bd2efab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1351.0", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "DUMPING OF FOREIGN CEREALS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "t that is by goods or services which come into this country. There is no other way of doing it. Russia cannot send us back manufactured goods. What has she sent back to us? The things which she has and which we want. She has been sending back to us timber. She is going to pay for the £600,000 worth of orders for British-made goods by wheat, by timber, by oil, by tallow, and by other products.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1351.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-26", "file": "debates1930-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb043c9a8bd2efab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1351.0", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "DUMPING OF FOREIGN CEREALS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Prohibition!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "al with dumping.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 10th May, 1921; col. 1727, Vol. 141.] That, though in a slightly more classic form, is what my right hon. Friend said the other day. That is the Liberal case with regard to dumping. Since that day until this, no case has been proved. That is our case, and the remedy of hon. Members above the Gangway is to put up tariffs. You cannot stop dumping by tariffs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1351.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-26", "file": "debates1930-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb043c9a8bd2efab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1360.3", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "DUMPING OF FOREIGN CEREALS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel RUGGLES-BRISE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel RUGGLES-BRISE", "preceding_text": " we are in to-day. Why did Cobden always insist upon cheap food? Free Traders advanced only one reason for that, and it was that it would give this country cheap labour. It is amazing to me that the Socialist party, which calls itself the Labour party, should subscribe to the theory of cheap food, because the only principle upon which it rests is that it is the necessary corollary of cheap labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1360.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-26", "file": "debates1930-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb043c9a8bd2efab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1364.1", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "DUMPING OF FOREIGN CEREALS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel RUGGLES-BRISE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Paddington?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel RUGGLES-BRISE", "preceding_text": "ain unemployed? That is the necessary consequence of the action taken by the President of the Board of Trade, and, in these circumstances, I ask, should the right hon. Gentleman be permitted to go to Geneva to ratify the Tariff Truce Convention? I will consider for a few moments the views of political parties on this question. The Conservative party have declared their policy in unequivocal terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-26", "file": "debates1930-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb043c9a8bd2efab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1366.0", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "DUMPING OF FOREIGN CEREALS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. B. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. B. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "protest against the humbug and cant which has been associated with this business. While we are going down into the very depths of poverty in East Anglia, and our people do not know which way to look, hon. Members come here with a proposal to stop dumping from Russia. We do not want to deal with the foreign side of the policy so much as to get down to a just economic price for our own home produce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-26", "file": "debates1930-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb043c9a8bd2efab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1366.0", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "DUMPING OF FOREIGN CEREALS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. B. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. B. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": " a just economic price for our own home produce. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Of course, my hon. Friends cheer. They visualise the taxation of everybody's food. But they know that they cannot get a mandate for that until two elections are over, and what is going to happen in the meantime to our starving industry? I submit that the policy of the present Government, although not yet declared—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-26", "file": "debates1930-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb043c9a8bd2efab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1370.4", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "DUMPING OF FOREIGN CEREALS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "with all that has been said on the other side in regard to the seriousness of the situation in this country. I believe that this Motion could have been carried if the partisan note of censuring His Majesty's Government had been kept out of it. We are halfway through an agricultural Session, and the Government are undoubtedly bending their minds to a constructive policy, which is not yet completed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1370.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-26", "file": "debates1930-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb043c9a8bd2efab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1393.0", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "DUMPING OF FOREIGN CEREALS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FRANK OWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FRANK OWEN", "preceding_text": " has not been made clear is what was in the right hon. Gentleman's mind when he talked about dumping. It is very important that the farmers of this country should know exactly where each party stand when a declaration of that kind is made. We disagree as to what constitutes dumping. Many Members of the Conservative party hold that dumping means any kind of cheap imports admitted into this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-26", "file": "debates1930-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb043c9a8bd2efab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1412.2", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "untry, with our small acreage, possibly compete in the growing of wheat with the great spaces of Canada, the United States of America, and the Argentine? Have we not to acquiesce in the fact that a change has come over the world, and that it is quite impossible for us in this country to compete in the matter of wheat growing with those countries. We have to face that fact, as Denmark has faced it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1412.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-26", "file": "debates1930-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb043c9a8bd2efab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1415.0", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "ssion is so exceedingly great. In the counties which I know best, in Cumberland, in North Yorkshire, and in Cornwall, if any farm becomes vacant, there is more than one applicant anxious to take it, and I would like to ask my hon. and learned Friend who moved this Motion whether things are not looking up a bit? He has had 21 years' experience. Has he looked at his balance sheet for this last year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1415.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-26", "file": "debates1930-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb043c9a8bd2efab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1415.0", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "no escaping the fact that the rating relief given to farmers has passed, when farms have changed hands, into the pockets of the landlords. That cannot be helped. The farmer knows well what rent was paid by the last tenant and, the conditions being the same, he can pay more rent if he has not got to pay rates. It always seems to me the inevitable result of all the rating relief that has been given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1415.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-26", "file": "debates1930-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb043c9a8bd2efab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1417.3", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "ere bound to deceive him. But I wonder that hon. Members above the Gangway have not learnt the lesson. This is a country where most of the people live in towns. I suppose nine out of 10 of our population are now urban people. They will never pass legislation for any length of time, they will never endure for long that nine-tenths of the population should have its food artificially made dear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1417.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-26", "file": "debates1930-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb043c9a8bd2efab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1444.0", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLINDELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For their own industries?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLINDELL", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman the Member for Brigg (Mr. Quibell) said that they spoke with two or more voices, and they do. On this particular matter they speak with two or more voices, and some of them with three or four voices. A week or two ago, when I was in Shipley, I did not hear anything about subsidies for agriculture, and the hon. Member who represents Shipley, if he is here, will back me up when I say it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-26", "file": "debates1930-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb043c9a8bd2efab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1444.0", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLINDELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLINDELL", "preceding_text": "ustries?\"] You cannot legislate piecemeal for distinctive industries. If the nation is to start tariffs and subsidies, then the industrial section of the nation ought to be told quite openly what it is intended to do, and that they will have to shoulder part of the burden. The real reason why that by-election was won was because of the definite statement made that the candidate would not tax food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-26a.1444.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1487.1", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Major OWEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major OWEN", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Is it fair to other Members of this House who have questions on the Order Paper that one question should occupy all this time? I have a question on the Paper to-day which involves an important matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1487.1", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Major OWEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major OWEN", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Is it fair to other Members of this House who have questions on the Order Paper that one question should occupy all this time? I have a question on the Paper to-day which involves an important matter—[ Interruption. ] If this is the way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1487.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1493.4", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PYBUS", "preceding_text": "I was suggesting a new form of grant, not connected with the Unemployment Grants Committee or the Development Committee. My suggestion was that hospitals have a most direct economic value and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1539.1", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "perial Conference, and it is now 27 years since Mr. Chamberlain, in 1903, embarked on his great campaign of Tariff Reform. To many of us—possibly many of us in this House—that year dates our first active participation in politics. I remember very well the enthusiasm with which I, as a young man, agreed with those proposals, because they seemed to me at that time, in my ignorance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1539.1", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "n, agreed with those proposals, because they seemed to me at that time, in my ignorance—[ Interruption ]—to cut right across all the party predilections of the day, and I hoped we might have seen some new enthusiastic Imperial party. I remember the first time that my hopes were dashed. I was walking in the morning with my father, who was coming down to the House. We were in Rotten Bow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1549.0", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. J. H. Thomas)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did you not do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. J. H. Thomas)", "preceding_text": " that his name should be omitted from this Vote of Censure. We are censured because we refused to consider the offer made by the Dominions. What was the offer? I say clearly and definitely that if any offer were made that would help the trade of this country, would give employment to our people and not injure them, not only would we have considered it, but it would have been our duty to accept it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1549.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1549.0", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. J. H. Thomas)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who did?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. J. H. Thomas)", "preceding_text": "imple reason, I assure you, that there never was such humbug as this proposal. Yes, I did say that, but, if after I have shown the House what the proposals really were, you think I ought to withdraw it, I will; but I am going to show the House first. We were asked first, clearly and definitely, to agree to put a tax on foodstuffs. That was the first proposal made. There can be no mistake about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1549.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1552.1", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "212; is one to which we must and do subscribe, and I heartily endorse Mr. Scullin's statement that it is a duty to affirm not only the maintenance of that principle but also the extension of its operation. I am entitled to ask this question, What was the object in conveying to the country that you were accepting the principle if the principle did not mean, as Mr. Bennett said, a tax on foodstuffs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1552.1", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not 'you'!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "n they any party capital being made out of their presence here. Six days after, again, mark you, when the Imperial Conference were considering the offer, the right hon. Gentleman again deals with the situation. He then reverses the previous declaration. If the previous declaration did not mean food taxes, as the Dominion Premiers intended, how is it that on the 16th of October you announced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1552.1", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "evious declaration. If the previous declaration did not mean food taxes, as the Dominion Premiers intended, how is it that on the 16th of October you announced—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Not 'you'!\"]—how is it the Leader of the Opposition announced that they as a party had adopted the quota system, and in explaining it, said: We have adopted this method in preference to a tariff on foreign wheat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1552.1", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "od taxes, as the Dominion Premiers intended, how is it that on the 16th of October you announced—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Not 'you'!\"]—how is it the Leader of the Opposition announced that they as a party had adopted the quota system, and in explaining it, said: We have adopted this method in preference to a tariff on foreign wheat. [ Interruption. ] Am I putting it either too high or unfairly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1552.1", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "w that the Imperial Conference was to be held the next year. Therefore, had he been returned to office he would have met the Imperial Conference with his pledge, \"No tax on food.\" Then if the Dominions had made to him the same offer that they made to us, his choice would have been either to break his pledge or, as he said yesterday, have discussed the offer and immediately appealed to the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1553.2", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain PETER MACDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain PETER MACDONALD", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. A moment ago the right hon. Gentleman said he would explain to the House who it was he called a humbug, and I think we are entitled to know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1553.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1554.1", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Sit down!", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Captain MACDONALD rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1554.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1554.8", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Safeguarding !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ite clearly that it did not necessary follow that the only preferences were to be tariff preferences. There are many other ways of dealing with that problem. Over and above that we met the legitimate doubts which they expressed. What was their first great anxiety? It was that so far as the existing preferences now enjoyed by them were concerned some guarantees for their continuity should be given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1554.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1554.8", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "guarding, they said: \"It is your business to look after your own country in your own way, and we do not want to interfere.\" But they did say that so far as existing preferences now given to them are concerned they should continue. We gave that assurance. It was readily given and given without any bargain of any kind. We did not say to them: \"We will give you this, what will you give us in return?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1554.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1554.8", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Russia first\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " Government. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Bewdley did not devote one-fiftieth part of the speech to the subject-matter. We are not doing a dis-service by speaking plainly, because the Dominions speak plainly. They never disguised from us that their policy was Canada first, Australia first, and South Africa first. Are we to be condemned because we say \"Our policy is Great Britain first?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1554.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1562.0", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member will pardon my interrupting him, but this is important to the Dominions. If he says for one moment that I inferred that Mr. Bennett did not mean them as genuine, I must make that clear. I never said anything of the kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1562.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "ng in return? I submit that we are jeopardising our future in the Dominion markets unless we take advantage of this opportunity of making terms with the Dominions. Mr. Bennett said, in language which was perfectly explicit, that we had now come to the time when we must take every step, and that we dare not fail. The Government have let us fail. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Darwen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "comrades in the Australian Parliament said to me that the difficulty about having Empire Free Trade with us was that our wages were so much lower than theirs that they could not afford to let our goods come in to compete with their labour, otherwise they would have to bring their wages down. What other argument are we to have? What is the argument of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Darwen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "e cost of the article plus a fair profit. Anybody who voted for that Bill can no longer describe himself as a Free Trader. I admire the right hon. Gentleman so much that there is a document which I always carry about with me and study in my moments of leisure, as being one of the best pieces of advocacy I have ever heard in this House. It is the right hon. Gentleman's speech on the Coal Mines Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "o the duty and, accordingly, when he talks about an economic union demanding 20 per cent., it is already granted in most cases in which we would be most interested. But Mr. Bennett only put forward 10 per cent. as a basis of discussion, and our complaint against the Government is that they have never discussed it. They never said: \"Suppose that we do this for you, will you give us something more?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1606.0", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KINGSLEY GRIFFITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KINGSLEY GRIFFITH", "preceding_text": "from our Dominions we are necessarily going to lose trade with foreign countries?\" On the face of it, there is no reason why we should, but if the method by which we are to increase trade with the Dominions is that of deliberately putting obstacles in the way of our trade with foreign countries that result will follow, because the method suggested is to discourage trade with those other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1606.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1638.0", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "preceding_text": "hat the last thng that the right hon. Gentleman expects is that he or his colleagues will ever have to go to Ottawa for the continuation of the Conference. As for the description which the right hon. Gentleman gave of that proposal, it was the sheerest travesty of that proposal, and if ever there was a piece of humbug, it was his description of it. Shall I turn to the right hon. Member for Darwen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1640.3", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "preceding_text": "d States—which shuts out almost every article the Argentine produces—buys far more from the United States than from us. I should say the conclusion rather was that if we begin to teach a country like the Argentine that we have the power of withholding as well as the power of giving they would be prepared to give twice as much for a good deal less of our market than they give us to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1640.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1649.0", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "entleman exaggerates my influence at the Imperial Conference. I was a very humble and very obscure member of that Conference, and I can scarcely believe that the occasional views that I might have ventured to utter had any effect at all upon the decisions there. The attitude of the Government with regard to the problems that came before the Conference was the attitude of a united Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1649.0", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "s a very humble and very obscure member of that Conference, and I can scarcely believe that the occasional views that I might have ventured to utter had any effect at all upon the decisions there. The attitude of the Government with regard to the problems that came before the Conference was the attitude of a united Government—[ Interruption ]— and it was the attitude of a united party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1649.0", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "he occasional views that I might have ventured to utter had any effect at all upon the decisions there. The attitude of the Government with regard to the problems that came before the Conference was the attitude of a united Government—[ Interruption ]— and it was the attitude of a united party. [ Interruption. ] Our policy is a policy that does not change with every change of the moon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1649.0", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "reign trade. The right hon. Gentleman appears to be very familiar with what took place inside the Conference. I will not say what the sources of his information may be, but I do not think that those sources are obscure. He gave very precisely certain dates, and told us what was discussed by the heads of Delegations. There has been no published statement about the proceedings of those meetings yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1651.1", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has had his opportunity, and the time left at my disposal is far too short. It cannot be denied that Mr. Bennett came to this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1651.1", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ample, in addition to the facts given by my right hon. Friend. My constituency is interested in woollen goods. It has had a large trade with Canada. The Canadians raised the duty upon 32 ounce woollen cloth from 7½d to 2s. 3½d. Scores of other instances can be given of similar action by Canada and Australia. And then Mr. Bennett comes here and says, \"If you will tax Canadian wheat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1651.1", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tax Canadian wheat?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "cy is interested in woollen goods. It has had a large trade with Canada. The Canadians raised the duty upon 32 ounce woollen cloth from 7½d to 2s. 3½d. Scores of other instances can be given of similar action by Canada and Australia. And then Mr. Bennett comes here and says, \"If you will tax Canadian wheat—[ Interruption. ] It. is quite right. Mr. Bennett said that scores of times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1651.1", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "gainst the United Kingdom as they are\"—and, mark you, in many cases prohibitive tariffs. Both he and Mr. Scullin were perfectly honest. They said that their policy was to give a preference to British imports where they must import those goods, but where British goods came into competition with Canadian or Australian goods, then they put up a protective duty for the protection of their goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1651.1", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "e duty for the protection of their goods. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] Why not? The Leader of the Opposition said that his objection to the policy which we had adopted at this Conference was that we were destroying Imperial economic unity, and now hon. Members opposite are approving a Dominion, policy which frankly, honestly and deliberately says that the purpose is to keep out British manufactures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1651.1", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "Why not? The Leader of the Opposition said that his objection to the policy which we had adopted at this Conference was that we were destroying Imperial economic unity, and now hon. Members opposite are approving a Dominion, policy which frankly, honestly and deliberately says that the purpose is to keep out British manufactures. [ Interruption. ] They said it, and they made no secret of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1652.1", "colnum": "1652", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "One of the Australian Ministers who was recently in this country, but who was not a delegate to the Imperial Conference, said: \"Our purpose is to bring your factories to Australia.\" That is the purpose of Canada, too. Therefore, they put up these tariffs to try to compel us to dismantle our mills here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1652.1", "colnum": "1652", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ently in this country, but who was not a delegate to the Imperial Conference, said: \"Our purpose is to bring your factories to Australia.\" That is the purpose of Canada, too. Therefore, they put up these tariffs to try to compel us to dismantle our mills here. [ Interruption. ] Yes. It is only a few weeks since a mill in the West Riding of Yorkshire was dismantled and its machinery sent to Canada.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1652.3", "colnum": "1652", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SN0WDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SN0WDEN", "preceding_text": "I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1652.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1653.0", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way!\" and \"Sit down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1653.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1653.2", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ands are running out, and that the offer that is being made to the Mother Country may never be repeated. I want to put this question to the right hon. Gentleman—I do not expect to get an answer. If the right hon. Gentleman had been the head of the British Delegation at the Conference would he have accepted Mr. Bennett's proposal? Would the Tory party have accepted it and gone to the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1653.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1653.2", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "tt's proposal? Would the Tory party have accepted it and gone to the country? [ Interruption. ] They have told us that they are going to the country on some such policy as this. I fervently hope they will. What will be their pro- gramme? It will be an appeal to the British people for Imperial unity to enable the Dominions to keep out our goods and increase the number of unemployed in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1653.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1653.2", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "o the Dominions as the only means by which the Imperial tie can be kept? That is not our policy. It is the most sure and certain way of disrupting the Empire. The Tory party monopolises the Empire. They are always mouthing, to use the expression of the right hon. Member for Epping, Imperial sentiment by the Imperial pint. Their policy is one which will inevitably lead to the breakup of the Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1653.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1653.2", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "a speech of 40 minutes he devoted half-an-hour to Mr. Cobden with never a word of the Motion which he was supposed to be moving. I think, judging from the reception that was given to that speech by the Members sitting behind him, we may expect very soon to see another Whip signed by a still larger number of Tory Members, calling for a conference to decide the question of whether \"Baldwin Must Go.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1653.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1653.2", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "o that speech by the Members sitting behind him, we may expect very soon to see another Whip signed by a still larger number of Tory Members, calling for a conference to decide the question of whether \"Baldwin Must Go.\" [ Interruption. ] I appear to have touched a very sore spot. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Hillhead (Sir R. Horne) made a very interesting statement this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1653.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1656.0", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Mr. MOND rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1656.2", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell the truth!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "f, and therefore the cost of living will be increased by over 30 per cent. We are censured because we would not accept the proposals that were put forward for imposing tariffs in this country. At the beginning of this discussion we were supposed to be in the dock. Now the party opposite are in the dock, and there they are going to be kept. They cannot ride off about this question of food taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1656.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1656.2", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ut food taxes, very backward about food taxes, was because they had been informed that if they went to the country on food taxes, they would not win a single industrial constituency. The right hon. Gentleman this afternoon charged us with-lack of vision. We have the vision to see through these proposals. If a policy of this sort were adopted, it would qualify us for the inside of a lunatic asylum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1656.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-27", "file": "debates1930-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6ec328ff648edc1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1656.2", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "EMPIRE TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "try on food taxes, they would not win a single industrial constituency. The right hon. Gentleman this afternoon charged us with-lack of vision. We have the vision to see through these proposals. If a policy of this sort were adopted, it would qualify us for the inside of a lunatic asylum. [ Interruption. ] Let the party opposite have the courage to declare their policy. Let them go to the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-27a.1656.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-28", "file": "debates1930-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5206ff2cbcf341d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1685.0", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALITY OF WOMEN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GERALD HURST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERALD HURST", "preceding_text": "d hardship if you alter the law in England so as to bring it into conflict with the law of our Dominions and Colonies and all the great continental countries. You cannot force our conception of the law upon these foreign countries. Take the case of an English woman who marries a German and goes to live with her German husband in Germany. If this Bill is carried she retains her British nationality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1685.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-11-28", "file": "debates1930-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5206ff2cbcf341d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1687.0", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALITY OF WOMEN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "She does not want it.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERALD HURST", "preceding_text": "t and our laws; she can have a British passport and owes allegiance to the British State. At the same time she is living in Germany, married to a German husband, and she is a full German citizen according to German law. That is really an impossible position. She is a citizen of Germany and of Great Britain. What protection can British law give her if she is living in Germany with a German husband?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-28", "file": "debates1930-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5206ff2cbcf341d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1697.0", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALITY OF WOMEN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": " seems to me there would be an equal number of men who would prefer to take the nationality of their wives. But why should it be assumed that the woman must take the nationality of the man when his whim, caprice or business instincts lead him to change his nationality? Suppose the hon. and learned Member for Moss Side (Sir G. Hurst) proposed to marry a German lady, and I to marry a German husband.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-28", "file": "debates1930-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5206ff2cbcf341d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1703.0", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALITY OF WOMEN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCOTT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCOTT", "preceding_text": "ave met unhappy married people. I do not propose to follow the hon. Lady in dealing with all the unhappy cases which she has put before the House. We ought to keep in view the main principles of the Bill and the reasons why it ought to receive the approval of the House. In this matter, so far as I have been able to ascertain the views of my colleagues, the Liberal party will be found to be united.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-28", "file": "debates1930-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5206ff2cbcf341d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1713.2", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALITY OF WOMEN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on with it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ny hon. Members on this side of the House who are pledged to support this Bill. When I asked some of them if they were going to be here today they said, \"What is the use\"? The Government are pledged to it. Did not the Prime Minister make a promise? Surely they are going to pass the Bill because it has been brought in by one of their own party.\" Did I see the hon. Gentleman opposite shake his head?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1713.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-28", "file": "debates1930-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5206ff2cbcf341d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1714.1", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALITY OF WOMEN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "I believe that Lord Brentford was far more courageous at the Home Office than the present Home Secretary, and so do you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-28", "file": "debates1930-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5206ff2cbcf341d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1714.5", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALITY OF WOMEN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In the name of Liberty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "There are a lot of licences which I would like to take away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1714.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-28", "file": "debates1930-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5206ff2cbcf341d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1730.0", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALITY OF WOMEN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "THE SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Clynes)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "THE SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Clynes)", "preceding_text": "ade out. The attitude of the Government on this question has already been publicly expressed by a Member of the United Kingdom delegation at the Conference on the Codification of International Law, at The Hague, in March and April of this year. At the outset, therefore, I should like to express in the most emphatic terms the approval of the Government of the principles embodied in this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1730.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-28", "file": "debates1930-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5206ff2cbcf341d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1743.6", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALITY OF WOMEN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "Really, in that case, \"may\" does mean \"shall\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1743.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-28", "file": "debates1930-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5206ff2cbcf341d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1743.6", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALITY OF WOMEN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We do not want her to do so.''", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "Really, in that case, \"may\" does mean \"shall\". [ Interruption. ] The Bill says: A woman who is a British subject shall not lose or be deemed to lose her British nationality by reason of her marriage with an alien. How is that woman to divest herself of British nationality?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1743.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-28", "file": "debates1930-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5206ff2cbcf341d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1752.4", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALITY OF WOMEN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss RATHBONE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss RATHBONE", "preceding_text": "r friend and not Short. Women, in spite of a popular opinion to the contrary, are, on the whole, an inarticulate section of the community, with the possible exception of a few rebels among them. Like Mary, they keep all these things and ponder them in their hearts. They observe closely all the time, not only what parties promise, but what they perform, and the organised women of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1752.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-28", "file": "debates1930-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5206ff2cbcf341d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1752.4", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALITY OF WOMEN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss RATHBONE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss RATHBONE", "preceding_text": "before the right hon. Member for Bewdley took his place, that I felt that, as an old member of the women's movement, who never has belonged to any political party, I would like to take this opportunity of paying the tribute to him that he has kept every pledge, so far as I know, that he has given to the women of the country, and I am warning the present Government that they had better do likewise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1752.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-28", "file": "debates1930-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5206ff2cbcf341d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1759.0", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN (PROVISION OF FOOTWEAR) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "The fact of the matter is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1759.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-11-28", "file": "debates1930-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5206ff2cbcf341d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1759.0", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN (PROVISION OF FOOTWEAR) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " clear voice. We have had this power in Scotland, and we have not abused it. This power has not been withdrawn by any Tory Government. What we say is that the Government must tell us whether they intend to implement the half-pledge which has been given by the Secretary of State for the Dominions. It is all very well to say there is no one here except the Secretary of State for the Dominions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-11-28a.1759.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1797.2", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS (LIGHTING).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman not consider that in view of the present financial position of the country it is inadvisable— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1797.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1800.8", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LEE", "preceding_text": "Pending a successful settlement, can the Secretary for Mines not give us some definite indication of what relief measures will be undertaken? We have been giving a subsidy to opera, and I hope the position of these miners will be remembered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1800.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1804.2", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PERSONAL EXPLANATION", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, you did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "me in the hon. Gentleman's point of Order, but I gathered that it was intended to refer to me. I did not really catch his point of Order—there was a good deal of noise going on in the House at the time—otherwise, I should at once have risen to say, what I now say, that I never used any such phrase, that I never used any phrase that could be taken as either remotely resembling it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1804.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1844.3", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": "t 10 months—and they are costing the Exchequer about £22,000,000 a year. All of these people, both those on transitional benefit and those on the Fund, we are providing for under the name of insurance, and the House knows, the country knows, and the Government know, that a great part of this money is not money paid as insurance, but is really indiscriminate and unlimited outdoor relief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1844.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1852.2", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are not getting it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "eans giving up a position, whatever it may be, and not to go on working. If it be true, for example, that a number of people who have been working, let us say, as hotel workers, women who have served in the watering-places at times of the year when there are crowds and who get themselves quite properly classed as hotel workers, are not trying to go on working, they are not entitled to get benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1852.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1852.2", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "tion of our own population a different view as regards relief from public funds, when, unfortunately, they are out of work? I am absolutely with the rest of the Committee in the desire that they should be helped in all genuine and necessitous cases. But if you once find people over a long period of years learning the clever way in which within the law they can make this claim and that claim—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1852.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1852.2", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Lawyers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "unfortunately, they are out of work? I am absolutely with the rest of the Committee in the desire that they should be helped in all genuine and necessitous cases. But if you once find people over a long period of years learning the clever way in which within the law they can make this claim and that claim—[ interruption ]—whether they are employers or whether they are workpeople—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1852.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1859.1", "colnum": "1859", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "I submit that it is very desirable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1859.1", "colnum": "1859", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "I submit that it is very desirable— [ Interruption ]—I do not do it with any desire to provoke anybody at all, but I submit that it is very desirable, not only on financial grounds, that we should have these matters looked into and dealt with as soon as possible, but it is also extremely desirable on another ground, which is even more important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1887.1", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Question\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "s practically everybody else recognises that any investigation into them will probably cost more than we could save as a result of that investigation. I would rule out that factor altogether, because my experience of the working of unemployment insurance has been that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a person who is not entitled to it to get unemployment benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1896.4", "colnum": "1896", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Major THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A magician!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ple in employment. The men I referred to are now out of a job and on unemployment pay. I suggest that the question of subsidising industry out of the money that is now being spent in outdoor relief, or unemployment relief, ought to be seriously considered by the House. If we are to get our people back to employment we can only do it in one way, by getting them back into jobs which they understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1896.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1923.0", "colnum": "1923", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "We want to know what the arrangements are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1923.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1923.7", "colnum": "1923", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "That is the reason why I want some time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1923.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1923.7", "colnum": "1923", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "That is the reason why I want some time. [ Interruption. ] I have done 14 days' hard labour before you were born.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1923.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1926.0", "colnum": "1926", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ore, from the point of view of this Fund, there is no justification whatsoever for going on borrowing in the hope that something pleasant will turn up. The Committee will forgive me if I stress this view to them, because at the present moment it is a matter of amazing gravity for this country. There is not one of the big industrial countries in Europe that is suffering in the same way that we are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1926.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1927.1", "colnum": "1927", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " the leavings. That is the reason why, from the point of view both of this fund and of the country generally, the worst disservice possible has been done by Ministers, who, not only as regards the administration of the fund, but as regards the whole question of unemployment, have never realised its gravity; have never put before the country the real position in which this country is placed to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1927.1", "colnum": "1927", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " come back for more and more additional borrowing powers, while on the other hand the amount of unemployment will increase until this country is really drifting towards disaster. I would place before the Committee this consideration. We could never have borne our present burden if it had not been that we have been living on the savings of our fathers, which have been placed in foreign investments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1927.1", "colnum": "1927", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "fting towards disaster. I would place before the Committee this consideration. We could never have borne our present burden if it had not been that we have been living on the savings of our fathers, which have been placed in foreign investments. [ Interruption. ] That is absolutely true. That is the only thing which has enabled this country to continue to bear the weight of its unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1929.2", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ght to disaster as regards this Fund. It will be not a question of £70,000,000, but of £80,000,000, £90,000,000 or £100,000,000, and what is true of this Fund will be true of the state of the country and its industries as a whole. If that be so, it lends overwhelming force to the representations that have been made, as I have said, both by the Leader of the Liberal party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1929.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1929.2", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "en made known by the Government on behalf of this House. Whenever speeches are made, employers are treated by Ministers to a certain amount of exhortation and objurgation, and after that there is a dose of the old soporofic telling them that all will be well again in the spring, that unemployment will go down, that there will not be such a drain on the Fund, and that things will be better with us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1929.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1929.4", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "I am not in the least upset by the obligato from the opposite side, but I should have thought that hon. Members who profess to have such a great regard for the unemployed would probably wish to listen with a little more consideration to a discussion of the causes which lead to a greater amount of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1929.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1933.1", "colnum": "1933", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"With draw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "Judging from some of the Noble Lady's sentiments in this House, she does not know very much about them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1934.1", "colnum": "1934", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": " themselves. The hon Member for Leith (Mr. E. Brown) put the point well when he said that the alternative to the present unemployment insurance system is social riots and general demoralisation of a kind that can he seen in other countries. There are some people in this country who really think that the worse off the working Classes are the better they will work and the more amenable they will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1934.1", "colnum": "1934", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "er for Leith asked a very pertinent question. He wanted a definite pledge that the Royal Commission was not proposed for the purpose of playing for time but that it was to be a Commission of action. I am authorised by the Minister of Labour, and by the Government, to say that it is to be a Commission of action. There will be interim reports upon which the Government will proceed from time to time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1936.0", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir NAIRNE STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir NAIRNE STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": "The real truth of the matter is that the Government have got into a very sticky hole, and they do not know how to get out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1936.0", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir NAIRNE STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sandeman's Port!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir NAIRNE STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": " something to turn up. The Treasury Bench reminds me of a lot of quacks who have got together. They thought that by advertising, which is quite contrary to the usual procedure in the medical profession, they would get together a clientele. They have got their clientele, and have poisoned them. They are now going to try some other medicine, Mother Seigel's Soothing Syrup, or something of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1936.0", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir NAIRNE STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir NAIRNE STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": ". MEMBER: \"Sandeman's Port!\"] That is not mine. It belongs to a cousin, but I think it would do some hon. Members some good. The Government are not at all certain that this new dose is going to he effective. It is said that the Lord helps those who help themselves. The Government are trying to help themselves by handing over something; and this something is having a very bad effect on the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1936.0", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir NAIRNE STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir NAIRNE STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": "cousin, but I think it would do some hon. Members some good. The Government are not at all certain that this new dose is going to he effective. It is said that the Lord helps those who help themselves. The Government are trying to help themselves by handing over something; and this something is having a very bad effect on the country. [ Interruption. ] It is indeed, it is having a very bad effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1937.0", "colnum": "1937", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In your constituency?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": "To come back to the subject of the demoralising effect of these doles, I am perfectly certain that that demoralising effect is being felt all round. I have had case after case brought to my notice which make one shiver.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1937.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1938.0", "colnum": "1938", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What people?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I was not present when that Ruling was given or I would not have transgressed. But I know a great deal about what is going on in the country in regard to this insurance question, and I would say to many of these people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1938.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1938.3", "colnum": "1938", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "d spend up to another £10,000,000 to deal with the greatest social problem with which we are faced to-day. I hear lion. And right hon. Members opposite protesting emphatically against the extension of this system of insurance, and I listened to them the other night enthusiastically supporting the Government when they voted a subsidy to one of the companies that some of them are interested in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1938.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1939.1", "colnum": "1939", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J ONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Comic opera!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J ONES", "preceding_text": "Some of them have only just come from the opera—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1940.6", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "wn constituency there are men and women perpetually going round to discover what kind of character the men and women have who are drawing unemployment benefit. If they could inquire into the character of these other people, they would not come off so well. Yet they sit in judgment on the working class, which, in the language of Ruskin, is the only class which is not a class—it is the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1940.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1941.3", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has no right to make a remark like that. As far as I know, both sides of the Committee have had a very fair share. I cannot allow anybody to charge the Chair with making a particular selection. If that were true, the hon. Member might then be surprised that I should call him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1941.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1941.6", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "o make it laugh. As far as this Fund is concerned, we are not voting for it because we believe in the methods on which it is now being conducted. I said outside this House in 1911, when this system was first discussed, and I say it now inside the House, that it is not a Measure to insure against unemployment, but that it was originally intended by its authors to be an insurance against revolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1941.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1941.6", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "r peoples. I do not pretend to be any better than I am. Bad as I am and good as you are, I am as good as you are, bad as I am. No one of us here can look down upon his fellows. The down-and-outs, the men and women who are unemployed—you are trying to put upon them a stigma which they ought not to bear. You cannot find employment for them, and you are going to find them committees of inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1941.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-12-01", "file": "debates1930-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1cda0a140b514e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1942.1", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Divide!", "preceding_speaker": "Major SALMON", "preceding_text": "y that he is running his Department to the best of his ability, but when he came into office he found 1,000,000 unemployed, and to-day there are more than 2,250,000. That does not speak very well for the way in which the Government have managed the unemployment question, and it is an extraordinary thing to find it suggested that the more persons there are unemployed the more thrift there is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-01a.1942.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.1967.9", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Arising out of the original answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.1967.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.1973.7", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAFEGUARDING AND IMPORT DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether the Government contemplate any alteration in regard to taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.1973.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2030.2", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Major LLEWELLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLEWELLIN", "preceding_text": "ek, a rise of 5s. would be considered a substantial increase, or whether, if a man was earning £3 a week, a rise of 10s. would be regarded as a substantial increase. Is it a substantial increase or is it not? Probably everyone in this House would take a different view on that question, and it is because we do not want these people to be in danger of being brought before the magistrates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2030.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2044.2", "colnum": "2044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": "ly afford. But since we have passed the principle of maintenance allowances, we have put in this sum as the very outside amount which the country can possibly afford at this moment. A great deal more could be said on the subject, but we have a great deal to get through to-night. We have to prevent hon. Members opposite getting as far as they desire to go, but we do not want to do it at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2044.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2059.0", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Major LLEWELLIN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLEWELLIN", "preceding_text": "wances for those who are in absolute need of them in order that they may be able to provide their children with schooling, and of course there has been expenditure of this sort under previous Acts of Parliament. But I oppose the wholesale giving of maintenance allowances as proposed in the Clause. The first thing you have to maintain and build up in this country is the old idea of the family life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2059.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2063.1", "colnum": "2063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "eople come to this House and ask for the power to exercise their votes intelligently, my hon. Friends here resist it because it is expensive. I think that is a very serious paradox for the Conservative party, and it is very unbecoming, for a party which claims credit for enfranchising the whole population and free- ing them, to come to this House and resist a miserable little Bill like this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2070.0", "colnum": "2070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "ing speech, and I have already covered many times most of the ground over which we have travelled this afternoon. I have listened very carefully for any new points of view, and I cannot say that I have heard very much that is new. The hon. Member for Finchley complained that he was misunderstood, but I could not quite make out why. He is opposed to the Bill, but it seems that he was misunderstood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2070.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2070.2", "colnum": "2070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "Yes, compulsorily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2070.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2072.0", "colnum": "2072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Raising of compulsory school age and provision of maintenance allowances.)", "cue_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "preceding_text": "d, paints out that every scholar at Winchester had to make a declaration that his father had a certain income, which was nearly three times the income of an artisan. The same thing applied at Eton. In founding Eton, Henry VI expressly excepted persons of what was then called villein status from coming under the benefits of the endowments of that school. They were persons who were of unfree status.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2072.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2080.0", "colnum": "2080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A bargain!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "The difficulty is that we cannot tell what decision the Committee will take, and therefore it might be more convenient to have the discussion on this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2080.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2083.0", "colnum": "2083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "he date which is now proposed, and which the Government are prepared to accept, that is to say, September, 1932, I say quite frankly that, if we had been considering from the first the date for raising the school age from a purely educational point of view, that is the date which in all probability we should have chosen. The Hadow Committee's report suggested the beginning of the school year 1932.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2110.4", "colnum": "2110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. COBB", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are 'we'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. COBB", "preceding_text": "At any rate, we in London are extremely anxious that the date should be postponed as late as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2110.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2130.0", "colnum": "2130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir DENNIS HERBERT", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DENNIS HERBERT", "preceding_text": "With very great respect, may I not call your attention to the fact that the main object of this Amendment is to deal with and afford a certain measure of protection to certain well-known classes of schools usually known as religious schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2130.0", "colnum": "2130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir DENNIS HERBERT", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Non-provided schools!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DENNIS HERBERT", "preceding_text": " religious schools. [Hon. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I may be mistaken in the Amendment, but I was under the impression that we were discussing the Amendment at the bottom of page 164, that is, the question of elementary schools not provided by the local education authority. I do not profess to be an expert on these matters, but I have always understood that these are what we commonly call religious schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2130.0", "colnum": "2130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir DENNIS HERBERT", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DENNIS HERBERT", "preceding_text": " the bottom of page 164, that is, the question of elementary schools not provided by the local education authority. I do not profess to be an expert on these matters, but I have always understood that these are what we commonly call religious schools. [Hon. MEMBERS: \"Non-provided schools!\"] They are non-provided by the State authorities, because they are provided by certain religious bodies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2131.1", "colnum": "2131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2139.0", "colnum": "2139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "irst of all, however, to say that I think it is exceedingly important that we should not exaggerate. The hon. Member for Lancaster (Mr. Ramsbotham) talked about 2,000,000 children left out of account, but that is putting it a little too high, because the case with regard to the mere raising of the school age is that most schools, including non-provided schools, can cope with the increased numbers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2139.0", "colnum": "2139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "eventing a settlement than the passing of a proviso of this kind, because we should put it in the power of any party or any section of people, by obstinacy and by the exorbitance of their demands, to make the raising of the school age inoperative. You would create an atmosphere of suspicion, and there would be a feeling in the minds of a large number of people that a kind of blackmail is possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2148.0", "colnum": "2148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": "e given to those who hold a different point of view. So I may illustrate it by supposing that we on our side put down an Amendment to say that the raising of the school age cannot take place unless teachers of all denominations are given a chance of reaching headmasterships in schools provided out of public funds. If hon. Members supporting the Amendment have no desire to reach a settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2149.5", "colnum": "2149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": "n. Friends are asking is that the raising of the school age shall be stopped until their demands are satisfied. Obviously, if that decision is taken, the demands of those who speak for Roman Catholic schools must also be satisfied and the demands of those who speak for the Free Churches must be satisfied. The point I am stressing upon this Committee without raising the religious controversy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2149.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2151.0", "colnum": "2151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So are we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "while Rome is burning. We must express our honest convictions and allow the President of the Board of Education to state what in the opinion of the Government are reasonable proposals which might satisfy all parties. If that could be done, I feel that a great degree of satisfaction would be reached. In passing, may I say that I am as loyal as any man to my party, but I am more loyal to principles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2151.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2161.1", "colnum": "2161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Most of them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "May I say just two or three words on this Amendment, I hope in the spirit for which the right hon. Gentleman has just appealed? I hope it will not be thought that the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Bedfordshire (Mr. Gray) represents the views of all who sit on these benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2161.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2163.0", "colnum": "2163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": " hold our opinions, that the first and main consideration should be the good of the child. That is why the right hon. Gentleman is entitled to say: \"As far as you can, abate your denominational claim, and, if possible, arrive at a settlement which will give the child the best chance.\" Those conversations are still continuing. They would be made impossible, I think, by the passing of the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2165.0", "colnum": "2165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Major LLEWELLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are stirring up the dust!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLEWELLIN", "preceding_text": "ir that in this Bill, as in the Bill introduced by the President of the Board of Education last summer, there must be some provision for these schools. I regret the attitude taken up by one or two members of the Liberal party, because it seems to me that they are stirring up the dust of the religious controversies of their fathers, rather than looking to the future of the children of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2167.0", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST EVANS", "preceding_text": "I must register my protest against the statement of the hon. and gallant Member for Uxbridge (Major Llewellin) when he accused Members of the Liberal party of \"stirring up the dust.\" We have stirred up no dust. It is the members of his own party who are responsible by putting on the Order Paper an Amendment which is not really essential to the consideration of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2167.0", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST EVANS", "preceding_text": "y of \"stirring up the dust.\" We have stirred up no dust. It is the members of his own party who are responsible by putting on the Order Paper an Amendment which is not really essential to the consideration of the Bill—[ Interruption ]—not essential to the principle of raising the school age. And they have put down the Amendment for the very purpose of raising the religious controversy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2174.0", "colnum": "2174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "The President of the Board of Education led off his reply by saying that the subsequent Amendments were unimportant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2174.0", "colnum": "2174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "The President of the Board of Education led off his reply by saying that the subsequent Amendments were unimportant. [ Interruption. ] I hope the President of the Board of Education observes among his followers the Hampstead Heath atmosphere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2176.1", "colnum": "2176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "That was on 24th November.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2176.4", "colnum": "2176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "g ago abandoned their opposition in principle to discussing important questions in the middle of the night and have adopted another principle, that it is important that this House should sit up from one o'clock to five o'clock in order that hon. Members might have some place to sleep in or otherwise to disport themselves in. Some hon. Members propose to use this Chamber as a night club and some as", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2176.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2177.2", "colnum": "2177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "Some hon. Members like to use this Chamber in one way and some in another", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2177.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2177.12", "colnum": "2177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "I think, with all due submission to you, Mr. Young, that the strongest reason for reporting pro- gress is that hon. Members of this House are not at the present moment in a state to discuss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2177.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2178.1", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "the Committee should get through allotted sections of a Bill, no matter what is the character of the discussion, is absurd, and this Committee should oppose any suggestion of the kind. The final reason for reporting Progress is that a proposition put before us on a Bill like this, on which the Government have changed their mind, should be put before the House of Commons by the Leader of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2178.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2178.5", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "I beg the right hon. Gentleman's pardon. It is only his coyness he has to thank for the fact that I did not see him. The extraordinary sparseness of the Government Front Bench and the fact that immediately after—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2178.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2178.7", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "It is customary, Mr. Young, for a Member of the House while speaking to turn towards those behind him, but in order to save—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2178.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2179.1", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "Immediately after the complete change of policy on the part of the Government we are asked to stay here all night because of that change of policy, and neither the head nor any really responsible Member of the Government is present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2179.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2179.2", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon MEMBER", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "Immediately after the complete change of policy on the part of the Government we are asked to stay here all night because of that change of policy, and neither the head nor any really responsible Member of the Government is present. [ Interruption. ] My final argument is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2179.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2182.4", "colnum": "2182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " of much greater importance to the working-classes of this country than this Bill in its now emaciated form. I also learn from the newspapers that we are going to have an extended Christmas Recess. Many right hon. Gentlemen opposite are more in the confidence of the Government than I am, but that is the report, that we are going to have an extended Christmas Recess. I cannot see the urgency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2182.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-02", "file": "debates1930-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e1161717be6ef8a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2189.3", "colnum": "2189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Short, title, construction, extent, saving and commencement.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "I agree with my right hon. Friend that it is important in this House that, as far as possible, you should have debates carried on in a good temper. I am prepared to be content with the next very important Amendment, on the general understanding, however, that we get through the rest of the Amendments on this Clause very rapidly when we meet again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-02a.2189.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-03", "file": "debates1930-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7ce1870ec0db05eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-03a.2315.0", "colnum": "2315", "heading": "WOOLLEN TEXTILE INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOCKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOCKWOOD", "preceding_text": "ithin the terms of this Motion. I was able to snake nothing whatever of the speech of the hon. Member for Central Bradford (>1r. Leach). On behalf of the people and the traders of the West Riding of Yorkshire, I immediately dissociate myself from all the deplorable sentiments which he expressed. He said that our manufacturers were neither philanthropists nor educationists; they were immoral—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-03a.2315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-03", "file": "debates1930-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7ce1870ec0db05eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-03a.2325.1", "colnum": "2325", "heading": "WOOLLEN TEXTILE INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BIRD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BIRD", "preceding_text": " in and competes against him at a lower price. Even from that point of view, amalgamations will not assist at all. As my hon. Friend continued his argument, it rather made me think that he was not really advocating amalgamations in the sense in which we think of them, but that he was getting almost to nationalisation of the textile industry. I do not think that my hon. Friend would even deny that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-03a.2325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-03", "file": "debates1930-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7ce1870ec0db05eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-03a.2343.0", "colnum": "2343", "heading": "WOOLLEN TEXTILE INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Major LONG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major LONG", "preceding_text": "h I can say with all sincerity I have done my best to alleviate during the past 20 years. Hon. Members opposite made statements about managers, about the banks, and about the employers in some factories not being very generous. I desire to deny that. In my part of the world, I say emphatically, no one has clone more to help the situation than the managers and the employers in the textile industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-03a.2343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-03", "file": "debates1930-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7ce1870ec0db05eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-03a.2343.0", "colnum": "2343", "heading": "WOOLLEN TEXTILE INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Major LONG", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major LONG", "preceding_text": "it under Safeguarding?\" Let them come down to my Division, and I will show them. It has been said that our own exports have never gone up. I beg to differ. In the safeguarded industries in my own Division exports have gone up, but they will shortly decrease and pass out of sight altogether. Owing to whom? To the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He is the gentleman who has done that for the unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-03a.2343.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-12-04", "file": "debates1930-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "850577668acb755d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2387.5", "colnum": "2387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POOR LAW.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOD", "preceding_text": "This question does not apply to Scotland, but to Britain; that is why I put it down. I put it first to the Minister of Labour and then to the Secretary of State for Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2387.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-04", "file": "debates1930-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "850577668acb755d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2387.10", "colnum": "2387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POOR LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not required to !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "I would respectfully submit that the Minister has not answered the question as to whether he is going to see that the local authorities are advised to raise the amount for children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2387.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-04", "file": "debates1930-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "850577668acb755d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2387.10", "colnum": "2387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POOR LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Raise it on the Adjournment !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "I would respectfully submit that the Minister has not answered the question as to whether he is going to see that the local authorities are advised to raise the amount for children. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not required to !\"] No, but decency compels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2387.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1930-12-04", "file": "debates1930-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "850577668acb755d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2389.9", "colnum": "2389", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POOR LAW.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HACKING", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the hon. Member for Burslem (Mr. MacLaren) has anticipated the Budget statement after, as he said, having had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2389.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-04", "file": "debates1930-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "850577668acb755d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2419.4", "colnum": "2419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Continuance of Acts in Schedule.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNUFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNUFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": " 10 years and no longer. The colour makers say that their increased efficiency during the last few years warrants an extension of the Act which would enable them to complete their work. Further, the importance of the dye industry from the point of view of national security must not be overlooked, but from the point of view of obtaining this object the burden should not be laid on the colour users.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2419.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-04", "file": "debates1930-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "850577668acb755d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2421.1", "colnum": "2421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Continuance of Acts in Schedule.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": " administrative prohibition. Then there came the Sankey judgment, which declared that to be illegal, and between the date of the Sankey judgment and the passing of the 1920 Act, there were enormous importations of foreign dyestuffs which, for the first few years of the 1920 Act, largely militated against the success of the dye industry in this country. In 1920 the Act was passed by common consent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2421.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-04", "file": "debates1930-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "850577668acb755d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2444.0", "colnum": "2444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Continuance of Acts in Schedule.)", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. William Graham)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. William Graham)", "preceding_text": "en a tendency to concentrate on what I will call the bulk lines and not to pay the same attention to the novelties or specialities or more particular brands. That raises a very important consideration when we come to the textile trades. Sometimes hon. Members opposite are inclined to suggest that we have no business experience and that many of these decisions are taken on purely political grounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-04", "file": "debates1930-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "850577668acb755d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2460.0", "colnum": "2460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Continuance of Acts in Schedule.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": " I do not know what else. If I understand the President of the Board of Trade correctly, he comforts us with the thought that if the Act does come to an end it will still be all right, because a world combination, or a combination between England and Germany, may very well take place. My own feeling, which I quite agree is of a slightly halting character, perhaps because of my economic past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-04", "file": "debates1930-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "850577668acb755d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2466.1", "colnum": "2466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Continuance of Acts in Schedule.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONO", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONO", "preceding_text": "er began with the study of phenol, and created the science of antiseptics; but phenol is simply another grouping of carbon atoms. Metchnikoff went further, and discovered that extraordinary creature-if one can call it a creature—the enzyme. This material, or animal—no one knows which it is—creates fermentation. It has the peculiar property of eating starch and giving off alcohol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-04", "file": "debates1930-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "850577668acb755d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2472.1", "colnum": "2472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Continuance of Acts in Schedule.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "sputed—the matter quickly gets into its proper and very small proportions. The total value of dyestuffs produced in this country is, I believe, somewhere in the neighbourhood of£3,000,000, and the value of the total production of the textile industry is somewhere in the neighbourhood of£250,000,000, so that the total possible effect, at its most, is limited to about three per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-04", "file": "debates1930-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "850577668acb755d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2488.2", "colnum": "2488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Continuance of Acts in Schedule.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": " was to all intents and purposes a merger between the dyestuff makers of this country and the Interressen-Gemeinschaft, and that the Government should withdraw their holdings in order that that merger should be made. It was the Government of 1924 that would not relinquish the Government's holdings, so that the merger between our dyestuff makers and the German dyestuff makers should not take place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2488.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-04", "file": "debates1930-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "850577668acb755d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2488.2", "colnum": "2488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Continuance of Acts in Schedule.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "?\" Here, in my possession, is the Report of the investigation, drawn up by a Committee on which there was not a single direct representative of the two huge trades which I have mentioned, who from the beginning have been treated as if they did not belong to the textile trade, and whose interests have been neglected for the sake of a trade which, however important, is a mere fleabite in comparison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2488.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-04", "file": "debates1930-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "850577668acb755d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2488.2", "colnum": "2488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Continuance of Acts in Schedule.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "t it has been difficult to get novelties and that it has been difficult to get these things quickly. I would ask anyone in this House who wears a dyed cotton garment of any kind whether, if he or she went into a shop and saw two pieces of cloth, one an old-style cloth and the other dyed with a novelty, with a guarantee of fastness of colour, whether he or she would not at once take up the novelty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-04a.2488.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-05", "file": "debates1930-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "ec942d2e3fe96932", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-05a.2585.1", "colnum": "2585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ADMISSION OF THE PRESS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": " It was passed on account of the decision given in the Court of Appeal that the Press had no statutory right to attend the meetings of town councils. We find that the associations representing all the local authorities throughout the country are opposed to this Measure, and I submit that we ought to give due weight to the opinion of those associations, because they are not political organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-05a.2585.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1930-12-05", "file": "debates1930-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "ec942d2e3fe96932", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-05a.2587.1", "colnum": "2587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ADMISSION OF THE PRESS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": " When, however, the report was published in full and the whole of the circumstances were revealed to the public, they understood the reason for the exclusion of the Press, and there was not a single complaint from anyone in the town, but rather commendation for the common sense shown by their representatives in dealing with the matter. There is always opposition to any project, however good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1930-12-05a.2587.1"}
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