{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-02", "file": "debates1932-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "65a4d46ae7cc8f89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.4.1", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "Does that mean that the fellows are working overtime?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.4.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-02", "file": "debates1932-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "65a4d46ae7cc8f89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.13.2", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "preceding_text": "May I tell the Minister of Labour for his information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.13.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-02-02", "file": "debates1932-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "65a4d46ae7cc8f89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.20.2", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, Order, and Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Everything may be as the Prime Minister says, but on the last occasion when this matter was raised we went away hoping and believing that something was going to be done. I think that the country and the world ought to recognise that up to this point the Japanese Government have been engaging in a piece of international piracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.20.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-02-02", "file": "debates1932-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "65a4d46ae7cc8f89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.20.5", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Forty.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I am quite conscious of my responsibility in the matter, Mr. Speaker, and the responsibility of any Member of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.20.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-02-02", "file": "debates1932-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "65a4d46ae7cc8f89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "I have already drawn the right hon. Gentleman's attention to the fact that he did make that remark about a friendly Power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.21.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-02-02", "file": "debates1932-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "65a4d46ae7cc8f89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I have not the slightest intention of withdrawing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.21.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-02", "file": "debates1932-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "65a4d46ae7cc8f89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.21.4", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I have no intention of sitting down. In this House the Russian Soviet Government, which is as friendly as any otherGovernment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.21.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-02", "file": "debates1932-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "65a4d46ae7cc8f89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DARTMOOR PRISON (DISTURBANCES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption;", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether the Home Secretary is able to give an assurance to this House and the country that the men concerned have bad an ample opportunity of presenting their case themselves", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-02", "file": "debates1932-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "65a4d46ae7cc8f89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DARTMOOR PRISON (DISTURBANCES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether the Home Secretary is able to give an assurance to this House and the country that the men concerned have bad an ample opportunity of presenting their case themselves [ Interruption; ] whether the men concerned have had an ample opportunity of putting their case before the Commissioner", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-02", "file": "debates1932-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "65a4d46ae7cc8f89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DARTMOOR PRISON (DISTURBANCES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether the Home Secretary is able to give an assurance to this House and the country that the men concerned have bad an ample opportunity of presenting their case themselves [ Interruption; ] whether the men concerned have had an ample opportunity of putting their case before the Commissioner [ Interruption ]? That is the right of every Englishman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-02", "file": "debates1932-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "65a4d46ae7cc8f89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has hardly met the point. This legislation is designed to benefit the country's trade and industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-02", "file": "debates1932-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "65a4d46ae7cc8f89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.39.2", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Sir Hilton Young)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bureaucracy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Sir Hilton Young)", "preceding_text": "erference. The first is this: This is a local Bill, and not a centralising Bill. It is not a. Bill to confer arbitrary powers on a distant centralised office. That is not the way in which legislation on this subject is drawn. This is a Bill to put in the hands of the local authorities themselves through their own chosen representatives power to control their own destiny in these important matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.39.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-02", "file": "debates1932-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "65a4d46ae7cc8f89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. WALKER SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. WALKER SMITH", "preceding_text": "eir area? One committee did not know what another was doing, and one comes to the point of an agreement with a manufacturer permitting him to buy the land and make contracts for buildings and works and the supply of electricity, and then they say, \"We are very sorry. This does not conform to our ideas.\" That is a matter that came before the Minister of Health to deal with in his judicial capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-02", "file": "debates1932-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "65a4d46ae7cc8f89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. WALKER SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. WALKER SMITH", "preceding_text": "s Bill or any other Bill for the purpose could obtain. But does anyone believe that it will do anything? Does anyone believe that the local authorities are the right bodies to do these things, to preserve the amenities of the countryside and to preserve the beauty, and so forth, and so on? Local authorities have to do it, aided by Government Departments. Who has made the beauty of the countryside?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-02", "file": "debates1932-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "65a4d46ae7cc8f89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.113.0", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of HEALTH (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of HEALTH (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "preceding_text": " hon. Member made. He gave a figure of £40,000,000. All I say about that is that he is the architect of his own calculations and the builder of his own hypotheses. It is a fantastic sum to anybody who has done any real work with regard to town planning, and he ought not to have given any credence for a moment to such a fantastic sum. This, as the Minister said, is indeed a measure of economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-02a.113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-03", "file": "debates1932-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "de7abdd3dddffefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "nity to move a Motion, one of the first things they would do would be to move a Motion about the means test, about unemployment benefit, about workmen's compensation, about the 48 hours week and things of that kind. On every one of those subjects the Government could muster full support and defeat us. At whom is this Motion aimed? No one on the Government side is pleased with the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-03", "file": "debates1932-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "de7abdd3dddffefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "side is pleased with the Government—[ Interruption .] I cannot understand the Conservatives in this matter. I can understand my Labour friends. Our incomes depend on Parliament, but hon. Members opposite are not dependent on Parliament. Look at the Tory speeches delivered in the country. Hon. Members opposite are all dissatisfied, and, as the weeks go by, their dissatisfaction must increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-03", "file": "debates1932-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "de7abdd3dddffefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "Crown can have the business allocated so as to allow themselves a fair amount of off-time. The right hon. Gentleman assumes that each Supplementary Estimate will take one day, but as a matter of fact many of the Estimates are trivial and do not take much time. This Motion is nothing but an attempt by the Government, knowing their own folly, knowing their own incapacity to face the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-03", "file": "debates1932-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "de7abdd3dddffefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "rd Beaverbrook honestly and fearlessly says that this Government must be swept out or else do something for which they were elected. The choice before the House of Commons is whether power and initiative and time are to be taken from private Members from now to the end of the Session, or whether this Government, led by a. man who in my view is inept and in- capable of leading any Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-03", "file": "debates1932-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "de7abdd3dddffefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "preceding_text": "but it is rather discouraging to a new House of Commons, largely composed of new Members, when the Prime Minister and the Government—this all-powerful Government—have to take away Members' special privileges of promoting Bills and moving Resolutions. But there is a way out, and the right hon. Gentleman, who has years of experience not only as a Minister, but also as a Chief Whip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-03", "file": "debates1932-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "de7abdd3dddffefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "preceding_text": "12;have to take away Members' special privileges of promoting Bills and moving Resolutions. But there is a way out, and the right hon. Gentleman, who has years of experience not only as a Minister, but also as a Chief Whip—[ Interruption ]. Yes, he was joint Chief Whip before the hon. Member ever thought of becoming a Member of the House of Commons. He was joint Chief Whip in Coalition days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-03", "file": "debates1932-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "de7abdd3dddffefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In the dinner hour!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": " their rights to the Government in response to this plea of urgency. A great deal has been said about subjects being \"talked out\" on private Members' nights. That sort of thing does not happen only in the case of private Members' Bills. I remember many occasions when the House had to be summoned for a, \"count\" because 40 Mem- bers, out of 615, were not present to deal with the Government business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-03", "file": "debates1932-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "de7abdd3dddffefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "he House had to be summoned for a, \"count\" because 40 Mem- bers, out of 615, were not present to deal with the Government business. [An HON. MEMBER: \"In the dinner hour!\"] No, not in the dinner hour. It is well known that after 4 o'clock, after the occupants of the Front Benches have delivered their speeches, hundreds of Members leave the House and do not come back until after 10 o'clock at night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-03", "file": "debates1932-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "de7abdd3dddffefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.166.0", "colnum": "166", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "preceding_text": "The House is well aware that hon. Members opposite always have the courage of their convictions, but perhaps they will allow me to express my regret that they have taken this opportunity of making a personal attack on the Prime Minister at a time when he is unable to be present in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-03", "file": "debates1932-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "de7abdd3dddffefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Two important points in favour of the Government Motion have been entirely omitted. I have always been a strong supporter of the rights of private Members, but I have also been a strong opponent of the folly of most private Members' Bills. Nearly every private Member's Bill means the spending of more money, and we know that this House was returned to stop spending money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-03", "file": "debates1932-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "de7abdd3dddffefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "urned to stop spending money. [ Interruption .] Certainly; to get the national purse in a proper and fit state by really drastic economy. That is one of the reasons against the bringing forward of a large number of private Members' Bills by quite irresponsible people, promising to this or that section of the community gifts for which the community cannot possibly afford to pay at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-03", "file": "debates1932-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "de7abdd3dddffefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "se of Commons. Sometimes they sit on one side of the House and sometimes on another. They bring forward what I suppose I should not be polite if I called half-witted Measures, but at any rate Measures which are not of extreme urgency, and I think the country would he shocked and scandalised if sonic of those Measures occupied the time of the House on Wednesdays and Fridays during the coming weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-03", "file": "debates1932-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "de7abdd3dddffefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "] I could say a great deal about my feeling as regards the Government, but I am rather too old a Parliamentary hand to rise to the flies which are cast by the Clyde group, if I may put it in that way. I congratulate the Government on having at last made up their mind that it is really necessary and urgent to get on with their business, and I will do everything I possibly can to help them to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-03", "file": "debates1932-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "de7abdd3dddffefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "preceding_text": "more, but we are not doing it. The Mover of the Amendment has opened the door and shown a way of escape from the entanglement or the impasse into which the right hon. Gentleman opposite has placed himself. We have on several occasions—I think that the majority of Members will agree with me—voted because of our allegiance to the party when we would rather have voted in apposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-03", "file": "debates1932-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "de7abdd3dddffefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "preceding_text": "d, \"Why cannot you ginger up matters? Why cannot we carry on our work as if we were a business concern? If we were a business concern, we should be bankrupt within three months.\" \"No,\" he said, \"You must study the Parliamentary procedure.\" It is the Parliamentary procedure which makes it impossible for the private Member to have a voice. The time has come, and it is very rapidly approaching—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-03", "file": "debates1932-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "de7abdd3dddffefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not Members of the National Government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "preceding_text": "s of the Government Front Bench would come with me, not in their Rolls-Royce saloons but into the tubes or the trains or the streets, having disguised themselves so that they would not be known, and hear what was said about them, they would not come here again. They would go for their holidays, they would have a breakdown in health, any possible excuse, so as not to have to come here again.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-03", "file": "debates1932-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "de7abdd3dddffefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "preceding_text": "o as not to have to come here again.—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Not Members of the National Government?\"]—The National Government is a Collossus with feet of clay. The Government is ill-assorted and it cannot possibly endure, and the time has come when we have to realise the fact. Many years ago I wets on a holiday with friends and we got into a first-class compartment with third-class tickets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-03", "file": "debates1932-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "de7abdd3dddffefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) ACT, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "And that they have discovered their trade and started to produce, all within a month.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-03", "file": "debates1932-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "de7abdd3dddffefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) ACT, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "preceding_text": "ho vote in these Debates to see how far they are personally interested, from the pocket point of view, in these duties which are being imposed. The hon. and gallant Member himself came here as a lawyer, but if you look into things I think you will see he is becoming an industrialist. and is interested personally in these factories in this particular industry for which he is pleading at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.212.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-02-03", "file": "debates1932-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "de7abdd3dddffefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.212.3", "colnum": "212", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) ACT, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain LOCKWOOD", "preceding_text": " many mis-statements, that I am an industrialist with a personal interest which would affect my voting here. My only interest in the concerns which he has referred to has been an interest in order to restore them and put them on their feet, and I have no financial interest whatever, except that of any other workman employed by the organisation, and therefore I hope he will withdraw the allegation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-03a.212.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-04", "file": "debates1932-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "8b611ad31b897973", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.264.2", "colnum": "264", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "But the subject matters that are to be debated to-day and on Tuesday are, as everyone will agree, quite new.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.264.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-04", "file": "debates1932-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "8b611ad31b897973", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.279.5", "colnum": "279", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the most corrupt!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "I may say, the whole body of our supporters, have been anxiously longing for the day on which we might settle down to the main business which had brought us to Westminster. That day has now come. I do not think that any reasonable man would say that the delay has been unduly protracted. Barely three months have elapsed since the most remarkable election in the whole of our political history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.279.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-04", "file": "debates1932-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "8b611ad31b897973", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir Herbert Samuel)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir Herbert Samuel)", "preceding_text": "ould address to the House. The second is this: This measure, this 10 per cent. tariff, is not a temporary measure. It is not intended to endure merely for the time of the emergency, and has not been so advocated. The Chancellor of the Exchequer may say that the emergency requires this measure, is an additional reason for it, but he does not say that when the emergency is over this can be repealed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.316.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-02-04", "file": "debates1932-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "8b611ad31b897973", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman support the Government in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.323.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-04", "file": "debates1932-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "8b611ad31b897973", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.323.5", "colnum": "323", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "e no consumers' council or advisory body which would examine these things from that standpoint. The three or six gentlemen are to represent the interests of the consumers as well. It is sometimes said that, after all, these proposals are nothing more than adopting a policy which is virtually the Free Trade of our neighbour Holland. But Holland is not a manufacturing country. These proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.323.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-04", "file": "debates1932-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "8b611ad31b897973", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.323.5", "colnum": "323", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "untry. These proposals—[ Interruption. ] Holland is not a great manufacturing country. Its exports of manufactures in proportion to its population are far less than ours. Apart from that, these proposals are not a simple all-round tariff that might be accepted in Holland or Denmark. These so-called surtaxes will necessarily and intentionally convert this country into a Protectionist country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.323.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-04", "file": "debates1932-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "8b611ad31b897973", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.323.5", "colnum": "323", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "less true. I think the Government might do much to stimulate industrial recovery, not by beginning at the tariff end and saying, \"Here is a tariff which you industrialists may have, what are you going to do in exchange for it?\" but proceeding from the other end. I would have a commission, not a tariff commission, but an industrial commission, and I would invite industries to prepare schemes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.323.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-04", "file": "debates1932-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "8b611ad31b897973", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.323.5", "colnum": "323", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Since when?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "hett, by Sir Robert Hadfield and many others. There are many minds which are thinking along those lines, and a great Imperial policy of that kind could be devised. With regard to foreign countries, there is a movement in Europe such as there never has been before, sprung from a bitter experience of the results of the hindering of international trade—a definite movement towards lower tariffs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.323.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-04", "file": "debates1932-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "8b611ad31b897973", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.323.5", "colnum": "323", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ny minds which are thinking along those lines, and a great Imperial policy of that kind could be devised. With regard to foreign countries, there is a movement in Europe such as there never has been before, sprung from a bitter experience of the results of the hindering of international trade—a definite movement towards lower tariffs. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Since when?\"] Within the last few months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.323.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-04", "file": "debates1932-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "8b611ad31b897973", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.341.0", "colnum": "341", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tamworth!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "We are reminiscent to-night. I heartily congratulate Birmingham. We have had Edgbaston, Sparkbrook, Erdington, and there is only Moseley remaining—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-04", "file": "debates1932-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "8b611ad31b897973", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "here are certain things that ought to be exempted because to do otherwise would prove disastrous to a particular trade. I believe that in every country in the world there are these same points of view, one section wanting tariffs and the other section not wanting tariffs. The Home Secretary this afternoon, in dealing with the growth and development of an anti-tariff campaign in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-04", "file": "debates1932-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "8b611ad31b897973", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.368.1", "colnum": "368", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the remedy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "f Joe Chamberlain was mentioned. I grew up to believe they were great men. They are not great men. They are only great because people have been taught by them to believe they are great when they occupy those benches. Liberals, Tories, and Labour men have each in turn, since 1918, applied their minds to the self-same problems, and yet the position of the country is worse to-day than it was in 1918.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-04", "file": "debates1932-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "8b611ad31b897973", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.377.0", "colnum": "377", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "er—I speak very feelingly, because it is a subject very dear to me—the difficulty under the procedure of the Safeguarding of Industries Act. There were the innumerable questions in connection with the White Paper and the hostility of Government Departments towards some of the committees of inquiry. We realise that every opportunity was given to make the proceedings as long as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-04", "file": "debates1932-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "8b611ad31b897973", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " forward most vehement demands for the freeing of company reserves from the heavy burden of taxation, and that when it was explained to him by Lord Snowden that that would mean £20,000,000 or £30,000,000, \"Never mind,\" said the Home Secretary, and he forced his demands to a Division and pressed the Government within two votes of defeat on the Budget of the year. He may do the same to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-04a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-05", "file": "debates1932-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "9d447ec0e4752e8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-05a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES) ACT, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Sir BERTRAM FALLE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BERTRAM FALLE", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Torquay (Mr. C. Williams) is well able to look after himself, but at the same time he has exhausted his right to speak in this Debate. He was told in the last Parliament that his nickname was \"Tennyson's Brook.\" His nickname in the present House of Commons will be worthier than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-05a.418.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.456.6", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "There are only two classes; those who have been convicted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.456.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr, LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " course, in the acceptance of a Cabinet His Majesty has to take account of opinion in this House, and relies on the advice of such of his advisers as he thinks necessary to call in to advise him. Therefore, the Cabinet is not something which is appointed by this House, but the constitutional practice is that the Cabinet is approved by the King, but appointed and chosen by the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr, LANSBURY", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "y he speak with one voice in the House of Lords and the Secretary of State for India with another voice here? I should very much like to know how far we are to go in this matter. If the Prime Minister, as is quite possible, disagrees with the Foreign Secretary over the policy concerning Shanghai and China generally, or disarmament, is he to be allowed freedom to denounce his own Foreign Secretary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr, LANSBURY", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " the country would like to know, whether the Prime Minister will be able to speak as he would have spoken if he were standing here instead of me. There is the question of future legislation. Already an. agitation is going on, and a number of influential members of the Cabinet are taking part in it, to the effect that now is the day and now is the hour when the Parliament Act can be repealed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr, LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ll come down against any change on their heels and their toes at the same time. But suppose that the Prime Minister feels strongly for the people whom he represents, and says that this ought to be done, while the Cabinet by a majority say that it shall not be done, may the Prime Minister come and stand by his own people for once in this matter? Is he going to be allowed a free hand in this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr, LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "es to be nothing better than old-fashioned quacks— the sort of cheap-jack doctors that one meets in the market place, each wanting to sell his wares, and all pretending to compete with one another. You know how they \"do each other down,\" or appear to, and then share the swag afterwards. Each one of them tries to talk the others down—I have been in many a market place and seen it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr, LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "House who does not know it. There is no question of preserving national unity. You cannot preserve something that does not exist and has not existed. You will say that what I have said is exaggerated and untrue, but listen to Viscount Snowden: The Tory party would not be morally entitled to claim a Mandate to carry out a general system of Protection in the new Parliament. Now why do you not cheer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr, LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "t the Government's policy will intensify our evil plight, and that also is the position of myself and my friends. We disagree fundamentally with the major policy of the Government. We repudiate their claim to represent the nation, and we say to the nations of the world—for it is necessary to know it—that when we Socialists come to power, as come to power we most certainly shall —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr, LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a Vote of Censure!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "more tariff walls produces discontent and bitterness between nations—that we shall fight as hard as we can, whether the Liberal party help us or not, and to the best of our ability, against this disastrous policy. We believe that the day has come when in our own interests there must be co-operation in the production of goods for the service of the nation. We believe that international—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.529.0", "colnum": "529", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD PRESIDENT of the COUNCIL (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD PRESIDENT of the COUNCIL (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "at by Professor Lowell, of Harvard University. One could expect, perhaps, the intelligent observer from overseas to lay his finger on that point in dealing with English Constitutional matters. To-day, whatever the right hon. Gentleman may say, we have a National Government. In other words, it is not the Government of one party. It is a Government consisting of representatives of the three parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.529.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.547.5", "colnum": "547", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": " at least we never had one with the courage to dissent from that Government. As far as tariffs and this quarrel are concerned, I cannot see where the Labour party can have any quarrel there. They may have a quarrel about unity, but not about tariffs. So far as I can read the proposals of the Government, they are much the same as Mr. Arthur Henderson favoured—a 10 per cent. tariff throughout.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.547.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.547.5", "colnum": "547", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rather than—!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "Arthur Henderson favoured—a 10 per cent. tariff throughout. [An HON. MEMBER \"No!\"] Oh, yes. It may be denied that this was the kind of thing we were going to get, and it may be said that Mr. Henderson did not favour a 10 per cent. tariff, but I attended a meeting where he did. I attended a meeting at Transport House where he said that, in the emergency, he would accept a 10 per cent. tariff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.547.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.550.0", "colnum": "550", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "e know the result. It brought forth immediately, as one expected it would, express disclaimers from the Prime Minister and from my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Conservative party who, in the absence of the Prime Minister leads the House with such satisfaction to all parties in it. They expressly disclaimed that that great and sweeping majority in any sense constituted a party victory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.550.0", "colnum": "550", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"We cannot hear a word\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ust say a word or two about the Vote of Censure, and what we think our course of procedure ought to be. The Vote of Censure is devoted to two matters with which my right hon. Friend the Lord President dealt with clarity and force earlier in the Debate. First, there is the point of inability to decide upon a united policy. Does anybody expect that with the developments which have taken place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.554.3", "colnum": "554", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Not on principle!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "y which have led to the creation of this experiment. As to when we should speak and vote on these proposals, in Committee or otherwise, is a matter we must leave for the occasion from time to time to dictate. Clearly it is impossible to lay down hard and fast rules. The exercise of our liberty to speak and vote in this House must be decided by our sense of duty, by good sense, and by good feeling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.554.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.555.0", "colnum": "555", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "em came to this House filled with definite enthusiasm for the cause of tariff reform. Most of them considered their own judgment inferior, and they came to this House to hear the argument. What did they hear? They heard a remarkable statement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to vindicate the policy of 30 years ago, and after that they heard that policy torn to tatters by the Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "out company directors. My right hon. Friend the Member for Hillhead knows a great deal more, and he will agree with me when I say that no company which was worth anything at all would allow a minority of its directors, after a policy had been decided upon, to go about the country and attack the policy of the board and express the hope that at the earliest possible opportunity it would be reversed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.569.1", "colnum": "569", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "embers who offered to resign on the honesty of their action. The hon. Member for Gorbals (Mr. Buchanan) pointed out the difficulty which a Labour Member had to face, because of his financial position. But that difficulty applies to the whole House and not merely to Labour Members. It is not merely financial disaster if you lose your job, but you have the absolute disaster to your political career.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.575.1", "colnum": "575", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was never anything else!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": " the arguments the Chancellor of the Exchequer has advanced an hour or two before, is not going to enhance either the prestige of the Government or the credit of this country in the eyes of the world. It may seem a vigorous thing to say, but I do think that as a result of what took place on Thursday last, the National Government was for the time being turned into nothing short of a national farce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "for a length of time a Member of a Cabinet or of any other organisation with which I professed to be in total disagreement on a matter of principle. Honesty ought to compel those four Members of the Cabinet to reconsider their position. I am not concerned with the general policy of the Cabinet, but I would like to know what is going to be the action of the four Ministers with regard to the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.585.0", "colnum": "585", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": "hatever the general will was, one thing at any rate which the general will did not decide was this—it certainly gave no command to the Members of all parties to form a Government in order to agree to differ. That, surely, is an insult to the singular unanimity of the nation. It might have been thought that a man, however clever —and we all agree that the Home Secretary is clever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.585.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": "mitted to squeak and to scamper as they choose across the Floor of this House. I think that the right hon. Gentleman the President of the Council failed to make good the distinction between party loyalty and loyalty to the Government. I do not think that I would have the slightest difficulty in exposing the fallacy of the distinction which he sought to make, and to do so on his own premises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.593.0", "colnum": "593", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "om the standpoint of personal interest, whether there is Tariff Reform or Free Trade—the common people have to be taken advantage of in both cases. This Vote of Censure is to some of us a natural vote. The last speaker, the hon. Member for Eastbourne (Mr. Marjoribanks), is naturally a Conservative. Nobody objects to his being a Conservative. He is going to keep all he can and get all he can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.605.0", "colnum": "605", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You found they were both liars.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "nts on which to judge its conduct. But the right hon. and learned Gentleman ought to give us a complete statement of what actually took place. Remember the position of some Members of the last Labour Government. Two sections came out of that Government, one of which told us one story and the other told us another story, and, whenever we began to get down to the essential facts that mattered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "he course of that election some very curious things happened. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Darwen (Sir H. Samuel) was opposed by a Conservative candidate, both saying that they stood for the National Government but both taking as much care as they could anyhow to see that the other fellow lost. The same thing befell the right hon. Gentleman the Member for St. Ives (Mr. Runciman) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "e measure greater publicity and less irresponsibility. I cannot see that. They will not know one whit more of what will be going on in the Cabinet in the future as a result of this departure than they have done before. There is no pledge whatsoever from the Lord President of the Council that there is to be full publicity of Cabinet proceedings in the future. There has been no such guarantee given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "rant of freedom this Government must come speedily to an end. At what point is this disagreement in the Cabinet to stop? Did I understand aright from the President of the Board of Education that it is the intention of himself and his colleagues in the future stages of the discussion of the Tariff Bill to speak against the Government and, if necessary, to put down Amendments against the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.614.1", "colnum": "614", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "ake disarmament. Are we to take it that it is because of the triumph of the Liberal party that Lord Cecil is not a member of the delegation at Geneva this week Is that indicative of the triumph of Liberalism or of Toryism? Everyone who has read the evening papers can see that it is the triumphant vindication of Toryism in the present Cabinet at the Disarmament Conference this week at Geneva—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-08", "file": "debates1932-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "47ebfff3616ff2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "CABINET RESPONSIBILITY.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I gather that my Noble Friend goes on to say that the shares of a company would not fall if only, being in disagreement, they would keep their disagreement to themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-08a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.672.0", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA AND JAPAN (SHANGHAI).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "s correct, namely, that His Majesty's Government do not desire to be embroiled in the dispute; but may I put it to the right hon. Gentleman that it is a very dangerous situation when a portion of the International Settlement is used as a base for the Japanese forces to operate against the Chinese? Is there not any power in the world, either in the League of Nations or by the Nine-Power Pact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.672.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.674.6", "colnum": "674", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "preceding_text": "In view of the coincidence of the abnormal increase in unemployment with the operation of the Abnormal Importations (Customs Duties) Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.674.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.679.4", "colnum": "679", "heading": "NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Agreed, agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to establish a National Industrial Council; and for other purposes connected therewith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.679.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.695.2", "colnum": "695", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "It was for various reasons. One was that half of the world was not on a gold basis, and, therefore, in taking the exports from this country there was half of the world paying us still on a sterling basis, and there was no exchange bonus in the transaction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.695.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.695.2", "colnum": "695", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "about that. If this House were to do foolish things it might very easily de- cline, and if we were to do nothing it would certainly decline. One of the reasons why I want to see sterling on a strong basis is that I, naturally, want, as every sensible person does, to see the capacity of this country to buy its main food supplies and its main raw material for its industries without let or hindrance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.695.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "Well, we have seen it tried by Governments in the past, and it has always failed. It failed in the coal trade. The Coal Mines Act has not extended the export of coal from this country and it has in fact by Statute limited it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "at the present moment of there being an automatic desire on the part of these foreign countries to lower their tariffs. But I do not, despair. We are now working in a new world, and I hope that we shall be able to use the means which the House is conferring upon the Government to this good end. The 10 per cent. will not prevent negotiation. The 10 per cent. can be reduced if we get a quid pro quo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And a good thing, too!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "preceding_text": " purpose of these revenue taxes was disclosed by the President of the Board of Trade. Already those whom hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite represent are quarrelling over the spoils. There was scarcely a week-end paper which did not indicate what is going to happen with the proceeds of the revenue duties. Some suggested that we should see a penny coming off the price of the pint of beer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.715.0", "colnum": "715", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": " ourselves, to pursue them at any length. I am, however, distinctly surprised that any hon. Gentleman speaking from that bench should oppose the proposals of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, because I think I am right in stating that the hon. Gentleman's own leader, Mr. Henderson, confessed that the majority of the old Socialist Cabinet were in favour of an all-round revenue tariff of 10 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.715.0", "colnum": "715", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "chequer, because I think I am right in stating that the hon. Gentleman's own leader, Mr. Henderson, confessed that the majority of the old Socialist Cabinet were in favour of an all-round revenue tariff of 10 per cent. [ Interruption. ] I hope that hon. Gentlemen above the Gangway will not be angry at that statement. I do not know whether they wish to repudiate what has been said by Mr. Henderson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.722.3", "colnum": "722", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "er. At least, he is not pure white. He is piebald. He has the Free Trade disease in patches, with temporary exceptions for industries which cannot survive the effects of Free Trade. He got really eloquent over raw materials, yet he did not hesitate to support the Coal Mines Act in the last Parliament. Coal, if anything, is a raw material with very little or practically no competition from outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.722.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is again disputing facts which have been given by his colleagues. I thought he was going to differ on only one subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.727.2", "colnum": "727", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Major GWILYM LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In spite of Free Trade.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major GWILYM LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " hon. Baronet, except to make one or two comments on his observations. He seems to think the balance of trade is £409,000,000. I would remind him that we do have such things as invisible exports. He also said that Free Trade gave our people a stone instead of bread. I do not think it is necessary for me to point out that under Free Trade the standard of living in this country rose enormously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.727.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.727.2", "colnum": "727", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Major GWILYM LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major GWILYM LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " country and the prosperity of our people have run along the lines of Free Trade. I am fully conscious that I am speaking the sentiments of only a small minority in this House, but I feel entitled to protest against these proposals because I resigned from the Government last October when I foresaw that an election on the lines contemplated would have no other result than we see before us to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.727.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.727.2", "colnum": "727", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Major GWILYM LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major GWILYM LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "lated would have no other result than we see before us to-night. [ Interruption. ] I said, \"On the lines contemplated,\" and that meant a national appeal in order to get one party's policy adopted. There is no doubt whatever that large numbers of Free Traders voted for National candidates because they were assured that a change in the fiscal policy of this country was not the issue at the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.727.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.727.2", "colnum": "727", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Major GWILYM LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give us the names!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major GWILYM LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "l candidates because they were assured that a change in the fiscal policy of this country was not the issue at the election. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I know of Liberal Free Trade candidates who went on to Conservative platforms because they had an assurance from the Protectionist candidate that in his judgment, at any rate, a change in the fiscal policy was not an issue. I know candidates who did it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.727.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " increasing imports and restricting exports. We have been told that the object of these proposals is to transfer work from foreign countries to our own countries, and when the Chancellor of the Exchequer made that statement, he was loudly cheered by hon. Members behind him. Our imports are another country's exports, and as you diminish their exports so you diminish their purchasing capacity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "They say they will do anything they can for us, but Canada must come first, Australia must come first, and so on. Why cannot we say, for a change, that Britain must come first? We have very good friends outside the Empire. It is possible for us to develop the world without confining ourselves to Empire development. As far as trade is concerned, we have even better friends outside the Empire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It put you out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "on. Disraeli said: It may be in vain now in the midnight of their intoxication to tell them that there will be an awakening of bitterness.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 4th February, 1932; col. 306. Vol. 261.] That awakening of bitterness has come. The political cycle will not stop. It will go on turning, as it has turned in the past, putting Governments into office and then turning them out of office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.750.0", "colnum": "750", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "tion. I confess that when I heard the proposals of the Chancellor of the Exchequer my first impression was that they went beyond the commission which this administration received from the country, but on re-reading with great care the statement of the purposes which he has in mind in putting forward his proposals I have come to the conclusion that those purposes were clearly within the commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.750.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "ot likely to call upon them. My own fear is that the condition of the ordinary men and women of the country, not merely the working classes but the professional classes, who by hand and brain have to earn their livelihood, is such, their anxieties are so intense, that if they fail to get a remedy from the present Government they may turn in desperation in the most extreme direction for assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.755.0", "colnum": "755", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On selected trades\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "ay that the proposals of the Government are not Protection are confining themselves to the idea of the general 10 per cent. tariff and forgetting all the other resolutions and proposals, A re- markable commission is to be set up with more powers even than the House of Commons. It is going to have power, on the top of the 10 per cent. tariff, to impose duties up to 100 per cent. That is Protection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have done very well.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "erence to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and his administrative qualities and abilities, I suggest that he cannot teach the experts of the United States anything about tariffs and that what they do not know in Berlin about tariffs is not knowledge. He can teach them nothing. They have been applying scientific tariffs now for two generations and they are worse than we are as the outcome of it all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.772.0", "colnum": "772", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Major BEAUMONT THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major BEAUMONT THOMAS", "preceding_text": "the past, as being one of those most responsible for the position in which the country finds itself to-day. We expected from the right hon. Gentleman some alternative proposals, but what was the alternative which he put forward? In his speech, the Home Secretary said: I would have a commission, not a tariff commission, but an industrial commission, and I would invite industries to prepare schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.772.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": " National Government. It is the only explanation which can be advanced. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Darwen still remains in the Government although he has already delivered it a most fatal blow. As I have dealt with the question as to whether the Government have a mandate for this proposal, perhaps I may be allowed to look at the proposal itself and the reasons for bringing it forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "entation of trade if we allow our financial authorities to move their liquid resources where they like? I cannot see it. We have been told that we must get our trade organised as soon as possible within the British Empire. The President of the Board of Trade told us that it was not possible artificially to stimulate exports. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade made a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.789.3", "colnum": "789", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We can send it out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "lready experienced restriction in our coal market. If that restriction is to be intensified, we shall certainly lose something on that part of the contra account. Then we come to shipping. Undoubtedly if we are going to stop import- ing into this country we are bound to have reduced freights. The ships which come to this country will carry less cargo because that, apparently, is the design —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.789.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.789.3", "colnum": "789", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a good thing!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "ies—food. You will get a rise which will necessitate either a cutting down of the real wage or a rise in wages, and I venture to suggest to the Committee that before very long there will be a movement among the working classes of this country to have rises in wages. No doubt we shall hear that that is an undesirable thing and that industry cannot afford it, but that has got to be put —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.789.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.789.3", "colnum": "789", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "l Secretary playing with the remains of his Fabian past when he knows that behind him the serried ranks of Tories have dug their toes in and are not likely to follow him into that great social, economic and industrial reorganisation through which he says the country has to go. One finds instead the Tory party having a regular \"beano\" in the House, welcoming at last the fruit of 30 years of labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.789.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.796.0", "colnum": "796", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "In the protected industries.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " The next assertion in the Amendment He was referring to an Amendment on a previous occasion— was that we should check the rising standard of the people. We have checked it so effectively that in one month during which the Orders have been in operation 82,000 more men and women have been employed than were employed previously.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 3rd February, 1932, col. 196, Vol. 261.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.789.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": ", the \"Statist,\" gives the key to the whole policy in its article on tariffs this week when it says— The real case for tariffs is to give some assistance to the direct taxpayer. I think we have realised by now that that is the real case for tariffs. The President of the Board of Trade said quite fairly this afternoon that the direct taxpayer was grossly over-taxed at, the present time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait and see.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "h we can discriminate against other countries, and thereby throw overboard the whole of the most-favoured-nation treaties, is an extremely dangerous thing to do. I suggest to the House that it is not only very doubtful, but almost certain that the treatment we get from other countries, once we try to start a tariff war, will not be so good as the treatment we have had in the past under Free Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "\"Take away the tax; we will deny ourselves all the receipts from it in the future, because we believe that the poor consumer\"—as we might say of the taxpayer—\"is badly treated.\" It is too good to be true, and, anyway, so far as we are concerned, we are not content that the Treasury should be left as the sole protection for the consumer in this scheme by which tariffs are to be erected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "provement, and that temporary improvement may well be apparent long before the more slowly developing adverse effects which are bound to follow. In that period, no doubt, the country will feel that it is deriving some benefit from these tariffs, and no doubt, if world conditions improve, all the Protectionists in the country will raise a whoop of delight and say, \"Look what our tariffs have done.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-09", "file": "debates1932-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "0127de4b7c68b0b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "GENERAL AD VALOREM CUSTOMS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "o reduce the chaos in the trade either of this country or of the world. It is no good expecting industry to reorganise itself. It has had an opportunity for years now, and it has failed. Until the Government takes control, as sooner or later it will, of the industry and finance of this country, and Governments do so in other countries, and bring about a measure of international co-operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-09a.796.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-02-10", "file": "debates1932-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "00099c679f7deb02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.842.4", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman tell us if it is not the case that we have air machines weighing 13 tons used as bombers, with engines six tons in weight, that are capable of doing all the damage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.842.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-02-10", "file": "debates1932-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "00099c679f7deb02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.843.2", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I want to put it to you, Mr. Speaker, if I shall be in a position to put the same question to the Under-Secretary of State for Air as I put to the First Lord of the Admiralty, to which he did not reply. Is it not the case that submarines and battleships are now obsolete because the aircraft are now able to carry torpedoes that used to be carried by battleships and submarines?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.843.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-10", "file": "debates1932-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "00099c679f7deb02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.851.8", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Arising from the original reply, and following the statement made about troubles in India, I would like to ask the Secretary of State if he will not release those two Englishmen, Bradley and Spratt, who have been three and a-half years in gaol and have not been tried?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.851.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-10", "file": "debates1932-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "00099c679f7deb02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.892.3", "colnum": "892", "heading": "GENERAL PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO NEW CUSTOMS DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What statement?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "cations. What I do challenge and have always challenged in the case of all the outstanding men whom we have produced in this country politically, is their courage to stand up to the facts of the situation. Those facts are perfectly well known to them, but even the Lord President of the Council in his speech last night was not very sure, I think, as to whether he ought to make the statement or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.892.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-10", "file": "debates1932-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "00099c679f7deb02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.895.2", "colnum": "895", "heading": "GENERAL PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO NEW CUSTOMS DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " to deal. I am trying to get Members to visualise the situation which it is proposed to meet by means of this paltry and puny idea of the Government's—an idea which is not worthy of great minds. With your permission, I will not take long to give you a review of it as I see it. Take coal. I want to prove that we have a superabundance of everything and that tariffs are absolutely no use—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.895.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-10", "file": "debates1932-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "00099c679f7deb02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.895.2", "colnum": "895", "heading": "GENERAL PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO NEW CUSTOMS DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "ke coal. I want to prove that we have a superabundance of everything and that tariffs are absolutely no use—[ Interruption. ] Members here will hear nothing of the truth, and what the great hordes of the Tory party would do is to howl us down, just us they would put us in prison so that our voices should not be heard. But my voice will be heard here to-day. Take coal. What do you find there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.895.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-10", "file": "debates1932-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "00099c679f7deb02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.910.0", "colnum": "910", "heading": "GENERAL PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO NEW CUSTOMS DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A free hand!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "preceding_text": " there is not a Member in this House who can deny that this is a definite betrayal of all the statements that were made to the electorate during the last General Election. I made the same challenge early in November, and I repeat it now: there is not a Member in this House who can bring forward his election address and show that he suggested to his constituents that he would support a tax on food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.910.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-10", "file": "debates1932-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "00099c679f7deb02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "GENERAL PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO NEW CUSTOMS DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENRY HASLAM", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENRY HASLAM", "preceding_text": "We have listened to two remarkable speeches from the Mover and Seconder of this Amendment. The underlying assumption of both speeches appeared to be that, if a tax were placed on certain foreign foodstuffs, the price of the foods in question would rise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-10", "file": "debates1932-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "00099c679f7deb02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.924.1", "colnum": "924", "heading": "GENERAL PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO NEW CUSTOMS DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "question agrees that that is the object. The hon. Member with the tall hat may shake his head, but I can assure him that every person interested in the farming industry believes that if you impose tariffs—and I would rather take it from them than from the hon. Member—it will give them a higher price for their foodstuffs. It will increase the misery of the common people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.924.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-10", "file": "debates1932-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "00099c679f7deb02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.929.8", "colnum": "929", "heading": "GENERAL PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO NEW CUSTOMS DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ct of our discussion at the present time. I have dealt with the general accusation and also with the specific accusation brought against the President of the Board of Trade, who has disposed of it himself, and against the Lord President of the Council, who is exonerated by the date which had nothing at all to do with the last election. Therefore, I hope we have heard the last of these accusations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.929.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-10", "file": "debates1932-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "00099c679f7deb02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.929.8", "colnum": "929", "heading": "GENERAL PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO NEW CUSTOMS DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "t, and these steps must be regarded as part of a complete policy which cannot be judged by a single portion alone. The hon. Member for Aberdare said that in an answer given in this House as to the price of the 4-lb. loaf in the countries of the world, that it was lower in this country than in any other. I took the trouble to get the answer to which he referred and that story also is untrue —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.929.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-10", "file": "debates1932-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "00099c679f7deb02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.947.0", "colnum": "947", "heading": "GENERAL PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO NEW CUSTOMS DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " it is not, I understand, advanced to-day. Let me call attention to two points which the Chancellor of the Exchequer made in his speech with regard to the necessity of restricting imports into this country, and let me bring the House back to the argument as to the balance of trade. If it be true that there is no such problem, then, indeed, these proposals are unnecessary, and, possibly, injurious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.947.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-10", "file": "debates1932-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "00099c679f7deb02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "GENERAL PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO NEW CUSTOMS DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will pardon me, these figures are taken from the Encyclopedia Britannica —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-10", "file": "debates1932-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "00099c679f7deb02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.962.0", "colnum": "962", "heading": "GENERAL PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO NEW CUSTOMS DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "wages in protected countries, and hon. Members interjected: \"How can we compete against that?\" The implication is that because those wages are low in protected countries and ours are comparatively high our workers cannot compete against the low-wage countries and, presumably, the desire of hon. Members would be to re- duce the standard of our wages to that which prevails in the low-wage countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.962.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-10", "file": "debates1932-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "00099c679f7deb02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.969.3", "colnum": "969", "heading": "GENERAL PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO NEW CUSTOMS DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "to get the rest of their requirements at the same time. I assume that the present facilities in London, which are very expensive, will be largely applied to other ports. Will facilities be given for drawbacks? A real inconvenience has been the very inadequate provision for drawbacks. When we come to these duties I am afraid that a tremendous amount of trade will be diverted from London to Hamburg.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.969.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-10", "file": "debates1932-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "00099c679f7deb02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.983.2", "colnum": "983", "heading": "GENERAL PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO NEW CUSTOMS DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "We do not intend to move our Amendments on this Resolution, but we wish to raise two points arising out of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-10a.983.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-02-11", "file": "debates1932-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "35dce2c6a1479807", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-11a.1006.6", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — THAMES WATERMEN AND LIGHTERMEN (DISPUTE).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MAYHEW", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that large numbers of traders and shippers who are absolutely neutral in this dispute have had to pay many hundreds of pounds to have their goods brought to the quay instead of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-11a.1006.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-02-11", "file": "debates1932-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "35dce2c6a1479807", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-11a.1009.3", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JUVENILE OFFENDERS (SENTENCE, SOUTH SHIELDS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "But is the right hon. Gentleman prepared to defend boys of 16 who are in for a first offence being—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-11a.1009.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-02-11", "file": "debates1932-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "35dce2c6a1479807", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-11a.1011.6", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRISONERS AWAITING TRIAL (SMOKING).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "Does not the mere fact that they have been kept in custody rather point to the necessity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-11a.1011.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-11", "file": "debates1932-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "35dce2c6a1479807", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-11a.1064.0", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "o, for example, when the totalisator business was established, a number of people got into a semi-public service. I should imagine, too, that additions were made to the staff of the Ministry of Labour as a result of the means test. I cannot imagine that the additional work of paying transitional benefit through the public assistance committees was done without the appointment of some new officers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-11a.1064.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-11", "file": "debates1932-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "35dce2c6a1479807", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-11a.1098.2", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "imates of this description without showing to the House any justification for them. It may be that some explanation will be given, but in my humble opinion explanations should be given before Members ask questions, and not after an attempt has been made to rush the thing through the House. It is a question of deception. You are not playing fairly and squarely with the people of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-11a.1098.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-11", "file": "debates1932-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "35dce2c6a1479807", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-11a.1100.0", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "In the remarks that I desire to make on this Estimate, I may or may not say something about the Labour benches, but as a Member of Parliament I also must exercise my free right to say what I desire to say in this House. I hope I shall not succeed in raising any more adverse comment than anyone else. I will speak about the Labour party if I wish to do so, but I will not take orders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-11a.1100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-11", "file": "debates1932-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "35dce2c6a1479807", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-11a.1114.0", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr, DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "I will resume my seat in a moment without your ordering me to do so, so as not to tempt you into art act of discourtesy to a Member of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-11a.1114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-11", "file": "debates1932-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "35dce2c6a1479807", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-11a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "There is an item in the Estimate for salaries, etc., surveyors, etc., £5,900, which represents a saving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-11a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-11", "file": "debates1932-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "35dce2c6a1479807", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-11a.1124.0", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "preceding_text": "e some time ago with regard to unemployment in the West Indian Colonies, there is now returned a saving of £35,000. How has that saving been effected Has that sum been saved because we are not carrying out certain of the works which were not thought necessary some tithe ago, or has it been saved as we are saving in this country at the expense of the backs and the stomachs of the people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-11a.1124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-11", "file": "debates1932-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "35dce2c6a1479807", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-11a.1132.6", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "he pockets of the natives, as for example, on road works, sea defences and drainage works. When we came to a closer estimate of the money to be spent we found that a saving of £35,000 was likely to be effected. An hon. Member behind me and another hon. Member opposite raised the question of the loan to Antigua and hoped the terms would not be excessive. I can assure him that they will not be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-11a.1132.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-11", "file": "debates1932-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "35dce2c6a1479807", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-11a.1141.0", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE (KING'S BENCH DIVISION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "r the poor woman if, instead of passing stupid, silly infra dig remarks, they devoted their time to the job they are paid for. I turn to another matter. What are the ages of the judges? We are entitled to know. There is a feeling abroad that you can say and write what you like about a politician, but you must never ask a question about a judge. I am entitled as a business man to ask that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-11a.1141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-11", "file": "debates1932-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "35dce2c6a1479807", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-11a.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE (KING'S BENCH DIVISION).", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "I wish to ask two questions. I do not know whether the Solicitor-General will be able to answer either of them. I observe that unlike other legal speakers the hon. and learned Member from Nottingham (Mr. Knight) did not put in a disclaimer that he did not desire judicial office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-11a.1158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-12", "file": "debates1932-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a06417a43b640360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-12a.1197.0", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CROOM-JOHNSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CROOM-JOHNSON", "preceding_text": "ich the children's courts are doing. 1.0 p.m. There is one other objection. In London the probation officers are, I think, entirely with me. Is it solemnly suggested that these probation officers are to take charge of young men—because that is what they are in London—nearing their 17th birthday, and are we going to follow that up in a year or two by increasing the age to 18, 19 and 21?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-12a.1197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-15", "file": "debates1932-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "49d51d95e511d6c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA AND JAPAN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " published in the Press. Would the right hon. Gentleman report to the House the authentic reply, so that the public may know what really is the Japanese official reply to the case? While we are questioning and giving answers in the House events go on. Is any time limit going to be put before action is taken either by the League or by His Majesty's Government in co-operation with other Governments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-15", "file": "debates1932-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "49d51d95e511d6c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1295.2", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Major Elliot)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Major Elliot)", "preceding_text": "circumstances, the advocates of each side having placed the position before the House, the Liberal party, as well as the Conservative party, agreed by a majority to support. these proposals. It is, in those circumstances, with uncommon authority that the proposals pass to this, their next stage. You have the name of the head of the Government, the Prime Minister himself, upon the back of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-15", "file": "debates1932-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "49d51d95e511d6c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1295.2", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Major Elliot)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Major Elliot)", "preceding_text": ". There is a strain upon sterling due to that adverse balance,\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 4th February, 1932; col. 329, Vol. 261.] There are one or two Free Traders in this House—the Home Secretary is not one of them. There is the right hon.and gallant Gentleman the Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Colonel Wedgwood), and there is the hon. Member for the Mossley Division (Mr. Hopkinson) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-15", "file": "debates1932-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "49d51d95e511d6c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1306.1", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "The Committee has power to add to the free list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-15", "file": "debates1932-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "49d51d95e511d6c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1313.1", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "sea that a large number of business men and bankers are coming to that point of view. We are not now so lonely as we used to be in our advocacy of a change. The other day the Halley Stewart lecture was delivered by Sir Basil Blackett in the City of London. I am sorry that a gentleman like him cannot be asked to come to the Bar of the House 'and give vs all the benefit of his experience and advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-15", "file": "debates1932-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "49d51d95e511d6c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1314.2", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ight hon. and hon. Members opposite call this Bill a proposal for the reconstruction of national life. There never was such rot. Anyhow, my point is that this distinguished economist has put it on record that the problem is not Protection naked and undiluted. He has put it on record that if the industries of this country were being re-planned under national control and national organisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-15", "file": "debates1932-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "49d51d95e511d6c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1314.2", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "w that to be true of America and of this country. And we know that in the midst of bad trade and depression, practically the only people who maintain their dividends are the bankers and the moneylenders. I go through the City of London nearly every day. I pass the Bank of England and I see another storey being added to it and on the other side I see the Westminster Bank and the Midland Bank—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-15", "file": "debates1932-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "49d51d95e511d6c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1314.2", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " in a beautiful gamble in New York because of certain arrangements which are being made by the Government of the United States in regard to the issue of money. We know that the richest people are not those who actually do the work of running businesses and keeping industry going, but the people who control the credit and the money of the world—some of whom get into prison occasionally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-15", "file": "debates1932-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "49d51d95e511d6c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1314.2", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "e is no dispute because hon. Members opposite say so. A leading economist, not on the Protectionist side but on the Free Trade side, defending the present arrangement said that what Malthus told us a century or so ago that the population would exceed our power to provide for the population was still true. I have heard the same gentleman talk like that in this House and on the county council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-15", "file": "debates1932-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "49d51d95e511d6c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1314.2", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " industries. If it is true that the nations of the world will not need so many services from us in the future, that they will not need so much shipping, that they will not need us to do their insurance, that they will not need to borrow money from us—if that is true, and it appears to be largely true, then it is also true that we must recondition our own country and re-establish agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-15", "file": "debates1932-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "49d51d95e511d6c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1333.4", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "I am now talking of the relative value—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1333.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-15", "file": "debates1932-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "49d51d95e511d6c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1374.0", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAGGAR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAGGAR", "preceding_text": "Protection because they know it cheats and bleeds them at a hundred points. The man who believes that wealthy landowners and manufacturers are shouting for Tariff Reform in the interest of the toiler carries simple faith too far … Protection is a positive act of aggression against the poor. That statement was made by no less an authority than the right hon. Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-15", "file": "debates1932-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "49d51d95e511d6c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1394.1", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "preceding_text": "own. They are so weak that it would be absolutely impossible for them to carry out the work which they were called upon to do; they would be incapable of it. By this Bill the Government are making a change in our fiscal system. What is it to be? Is it to be for the better or is it to create or strengthen the spirit of revenge, the revengeful feeling which at the moment is rife throughout the land?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-15", "file": "debates1932-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "49d51d95e511d6c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1396.2", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. D. MILLAR", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. D. MILLAR", "preceding_text": "e paper mills. That is an illustration of the sort of raw material with which I am sure the Government will be willing to deal, along with others. I might mention also the case of certain woods, hickory shafts and persimmon heads used in the golf club industry, which are not produced in this country. That is the sort of case which might very well be considered in relation to the needs of industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1396.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-15", "file": "debates1932-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "49d51d95e511d6c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1413.0", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not in the same party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "Following the usual custom, I would like to congratulate the hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Keighley (Captain Watt) upon the very able maiden speech which he has delivered. I do so with all the greater heartiness in that he was a fellow student of my own son at Glasgow University, and I should be only too proud to see my son follow in his footsteps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-15", "file": "debates1932-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "49d51d95e511d6c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1416.0", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "me Minister's simplicity. There is one thing that Lord Snowden stated clearly in the other place last week in giving his reasons for his refusal to accept Cabinet responsibility. He told us that the Government had been formed expressly to look after and to endeavour to solve the national crisis. A national crisis cannot be solved by something which has been a political issue for the last 25 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-15", "file": "debates1932-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "49d51d95e511d6c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1424.3", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shipbuilding!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member who preceded me also told us of the terrible condition of shipping. I sympathise with him in the sad state of that trade, but surely the fact that shipping is in a bad way is not a conclusive argument for maintaining the system under which it has got into the bad way. He asked a perfectly fair question: how would shipping benefit by our proposals?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-15", "file": "debates1932-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "49d51d95e511d6c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1424.3", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "ersal of our policy took place. The point I wish to make is what an enormous help it is to the policy of Imperial Preference that this Bill should be available and should soon be law. Suppose we bad had this Bill law and this Government in power when the great Conference of 1930 took place. How very different would have been the result! It has been said that the Dominions do not give us very much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-15a.1424.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-02-16", "file": "debates1932-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "144d482c4c5883fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1436.5", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — METALLIFEROUS MINES ADVISORY COMMITTEE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman not endeavour to assist the revival of this industry rather than go on with this silly old sugar-beet subsidy, which is costing the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1436.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-16", "file": "debates1932-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "144d482c4c5883fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1442.5", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruptiom.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman think it a wise and discreet policy to invite foreigners to come and invest their money here, while—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1442.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-16", "file": "debates1932-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "144d482c4c5883fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1468.1", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH IMMIGRANTS, AUSTRALIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "Is it not plain to the right hon. Gentleman that the number of people who are now returning from Australia, a protected country, to these shores, a free country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-16", "file": "debates1932-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "144d482c4c5883fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1501.0", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Major Sir Archibald Sinclair)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Major Sir Archibald Sinclair)", "preceding_text": " of a kind which are being produced or are likely within a reasonable time to be produced in the United Kingdom in quantities which are substantial in relation to United Kingdom consumption \"— if I may use an American expression in regard to the duties on these articles, \"the sky is the limit.\" The truth is that we have in this Bill the complete structure of a permanent Protectionist system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-16", "file": "debates1932-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "144d482c4c5883fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1524.0", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "preceding_text": " unfortunate, very clumsy and very dilatory process. I would call attention to a serious omission from the Bill. There is no antidumping Clause. Every other tariff scheme has such a Clause. We need such a Clause in order to deal with the importation of goods which are sent here, especially from Russia, with the avowed intention of wrecking our business as far as possible and upsetting our markets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1524.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-16", "file": "debates1932-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "144d482c4c5883fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1535.1", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Free hand!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "preceding_text": " clear that we were in an emergency, that it was necessary that there should be national unity, and that alone could take the country out of its difficulties. The question of tariffs was to be examined, but the Prime Minister specially emphasised that there would be no taxation of the people's food. There are not 150 Members in this House who were returned here with a mandate to put taxes on food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-16", "file": "debates1932-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "144d482c4c5883fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1572.1", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lower wages and lower taxes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACDONALD", "preceding_text": "sibility of the 10 per cent. being multiplied two or three times, we know where we are. 9.30 p.m. Why are these goods coming into this country and being sold here? The reason is that they are cheaper. What earthly reason can there be why somebody in some other country should be able to produce a certain article in that country and send it here and sell it cheaper than we can produce and sell here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-16", "file": "debates1932-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "144d482c4c5883fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1578.2", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "cue_text": "An HON.MEMBER: \"What about the American tariff?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "preceding_text": "eriously from the dumping of Russian wheat, oil, and timber. When hon. Members opposite talk about unemployment in the United States, as they are quite entitled to do, it seems to me to be one very important reason for the unemployment there that that great country is suffering from competition especially in primary products dumped abroad by Soviet Russia., many of which come on to our own market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1578.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-16", "file": "debates1932-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "144d482c4c5883fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1584.1", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "mperial Conference. Then, when we come to striking a bargain with the Dominions, we shall come up against the interests of British agriculture. Are we to protect British agriculture against imports from the Dominions, or not? The Dominions are quite frank about that. They say, \"We will give you a preference, but will look after our own people first.\" Is that the line the Government intend to take?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-16", "file": "debates1932-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "144d482c4c5883fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1584.1", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"All hear, hears!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "e Dominions, we shall come up against the interests of British agriculture. Are we to protect British agriculture against imports from the Dominions, or not? The Dominions are quite frank about that. They say, \"We will give you a preference, but will look after our own people first.\" Is that the line the Government intend to take? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] There are some cries of \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-16", "file": "debates1932-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "144d482c4c5883fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1584.1", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": " efficacy of tariffs and exchange control, to arrive at an independent solution of its difficulties. Everyone who has followed this Debate will realise that \"childlike\" is just the word that fits the arguments which have been put forward in this House. Such arguments appeal to people who are full of sentiment and have not thought out the matter. A good deal of time has been wasted to-night —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-16", "file": "debates1932-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "144d482c4c5883fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1584.1", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "ose interests are not going to profiteer at the expense of the community. That is the great reason for our objection to this Bill. Instead of moving on lines that are being advocated not only by Socialists but by economists of various views in various countries, you are merely bolstering up the inefficient, profiteering, capitalist system. We have our remedy, which I cannot put forward at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-16", "file": "debates1932-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "144d482c4c5883fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1593.3", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The six months.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "d not be possible for the Government or this House in the short time available to get the materials which are necessary for coming to a final judgment on this matter. Therefore we inserted that Sub-section in Clause 1 which provides that on the recommendation of the Advisory Committee, the Treasury may add articles to the free list which are not actually in the free list, in the Bill as it stands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-16a.1593.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-02-17", "file": "debates1932-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "481cfcdd3687c1c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1614.3", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA AND JAPAN.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Does the Foreign Secretary think that the League of Nations can do anything?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1614.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-17", "file": "debates1932-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "481cfcdd3687c1c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1649.5", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman must realise that the issue is far more important than whether the telegram contained treasonable matter. A communication addressed to an hon. Member of this House has been stopped —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1649.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-17", "file": "debates1932-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "481cfcdd3687c1c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1663.2", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "(2) REPORT STAGE AND THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why stop at 10.30 each night?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "mittee has before them, when we consider that they have to deal with the duties under the Abnormal Importations Act which expires in May, and that we have to get their views as to what course is to be taken with regard to those duties, I think it will be agreed that that again is a very powerful and conclusive argument in favour of this Time Table. I do not think there is anything else I need say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1663.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-17", "file": "debates1932-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "481cfcdd3687c1c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1672.1", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "(2) REPORT STAGE AND THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "e Exchequer, that there is a real desire to get this Measure on to the Statute Book as soon as possible in order to see it in action. But we have not yet heard what the tail of the Opposition who sit opposite to me below the Gangway are going to say on this matter. We know, however, that they can be very vocal, because they have rather more energy and ability than the other part of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-17", "file": "debates1932-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "481cfcdd3687c1c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1684.2", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "(2) REPORT STAGE AND THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVID MASON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVID MASON", "preceding_text": "ion made an appeal to my hon. Friends not to delay the discussion of the Motion dealing with unemployment. We have no desire to waste the time of the House, and it is because we believe that this Import Duties Bill will prove detrimental to employment and to trade and commerce that we are asking for a longer time to discuss it. The hon. Member for Colchester (Mr. Lewis) cast, some spersions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1684.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-17", "file": "debates1932-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "481cfcdd3687c1c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1684.2", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "(2) REPORT STAGE AND THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVID MASON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVID MASON", "preceding_text": "nger time to discuss it. The hon. Member for Colchester (Mr. Lewis) cast, some spersions—[ Interruption .] I am addressing the Deputy-Speaker. My hon. Friend cast aspersions on those who moved and seconded this Amendment for having stated that they wanted to improve the Bill. I do not think that was the language they used. What they said was that they desired to make the Bill less injurious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1684.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-17", "file": "debates1932-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "481cfcdd3687c1c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "(2) REPORT STAGE AND THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "preceding_text": "ellor of the Exchequer. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer is entitled to bring that forward for our having five days instead of eight, I suggest that I am entitled to answer that contention of the right hon. Gentleman. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said, in answer to my question, that the position is that, since our imports of goods exceeded the whole of our visible and invisible exports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-17", "file": "debates1932-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "481cfcdd3687c1c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1686.3", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "(2) REPORT STAGE AND THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "preceding_text": "man brought forward this argument this afternoon in favour of a shorter duration of time for the discussion of this Bill. I think that had you been present you would have heard the Chancellor of the Exchequer laying emphasis upon the importance of our rushing through this Bill because of our adverse balance of payments, and I appeal to you, is it not then fair, if I can demonstrate briefly —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1686.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-17", "file": "debates1932-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "481cfcdd3687c1c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1713.3", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Who told you that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order. There are three distinct points of view in the House on this matter. We on these benches have a distinct point of view. The means test is being operated just now under the Poor Law. The official Labour Opposition is not in favour of what is being operated now, but it is in favour of a means test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1713.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-17", "file": "debates1932-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "481cfcdd3687c1c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1744.8", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "e not being treated properly, disabled soldiers are not being treated properly, the reckoning up of the family income is a great scandal, and, reviewing the whole position since the great fiasco of this new Government coming into power, I say quite candidly that there is not a Member of the present Government who could stand before an audience and give an explanation of what they are doing to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1744.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-17", "file": "debates1932-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "481cfcdd3687c1c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1753.1", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain FRASER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FRASER", "preceding_text": "se what are the facts at the present time and may we not help these men best, not by making political capital out of their misfortunes, but by representing their cases to the appropriate local authorities where I believe they will receive abundant and reasonable sympathy? On the general position of the Unemployment Fund, it has been argued on the Opposition side that there should be no means test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-17", "file": "debates1932-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "481cfcdd3687c1c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1753.1", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain FRASER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FRASER", "preceding_text": "y opposite, whose downrightness I greatly admire, but other hon. Members above the Gangway with less fervour have argued that there should be no means test. I cannot believe that they really subscribe to that doctrine. Do they really affirm that it is fair for a person to receive relief, either from the State or a local authority, no matter what his income may be? Is there to be no limit whatever?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-17", "file": "debates1932-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "481cfcdd3687c1c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1753.1", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain FRASER", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FRASER", "preceding_text": "understanding or sympathy. I do not think that we need quarrel with each other about motives. It is the method and the method only which is worthy of discussion. We have reached a stage now when we have a definite plan of economy. We all know that it will impose hardships. The Government did not say that there would be no hardships. We deliberately adopted the plan although it will mean hardships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-17", "file": "debates1932-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "481cfcdd3687c1c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1762.4", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "But we are discussing the means test as applied by the Poor Law authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1762.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-17", "file": "debates1932-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "481cfcdd3687c1c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1765.1", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "preceding_text": "e Frankenstein of Capitalism, and it is also the Frankenstein of the present social system. It has broken Governments, as it has broken the hearts of men and women who are seeking for work. It will ultimately destroy this Government, unless the problem is tackled, and it will destroy the present social system of society too. Every unemployed man has been made unemployed, by whom? By the employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-17", "file": "debates1932-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "481cfcdd3687c1c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1765.1", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "preceding_text": "work. It will ultimately destroy this Government, unless the problem is tackled, and it will destroy the present social system of society too. Every unemployed man has been made unemployed, by whom? By the employers. [ Interruption .] Who gives the individual the sack? It is the employer, who says: \"I have no longer any work for you.\" This House is full of bankers, employers and capitalists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-17", "file": "debates1932-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "481cfcdd3687c1c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1765.1", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "preceding_text": " houses generally agreed upon and the numbers built. In 1928, the number should have been at least 120,000 houses a year—houses that would have received some State subsidy. The number built was 102,000. In 1929, there should have been 135,000 houses; the number actually completed was 123,931. In 1930, the number should have been 150,000, but, instead of that, the number completed was 51,571.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1765.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-02-17", "file": "debates1932-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "481cfcdd3687c1c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1769.0", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "preceding_text": " 10th February with regard to discontinued road work. The review of the commitments of the Road Fund in view of schemes of road and bridge improvement and new construction which has been undertaken in the interests of economy has not yet been completed. Up to the present it has been decided to postpone or curtail just over 1,000 schemes. The estimated cost of the deferred work is £30,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-17", "file": "debates1932-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "481cfcdd3687c1c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1772.4", "colnum": "1772", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "any question at all, and only 1 per cent. of the adjudications made by the public assistance subcommittees go to appeal. Is not that a very striking testimony to the success of the actual administration? One further figure. The administration has not been a light matter in such a district as London, and one must not think that it has not imposed a heavy strain on the forbearance of the unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-17a.1772.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-18", "file": "debates1932-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e73d9e00f086fdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1793.2", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman make inquiries, because this is a very serious matter? Here we have proof of the Tory Government breaking up homes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1793.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-18", "file": "debates1932-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e73d9e00f086fdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1817.2", "colnum": "1817", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"5 per cent now !'", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Am I right in assuming that the retention of a 6 per cent. Bank rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1817.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-02-18", "file": "debates1932-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e73d9e00f086fdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1824.5", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Are they trustee stocks?", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "The interest, as the hon. and gallant Member says, has been paid and the necessity for action on the part of the Treasury does not arise. These stocks remain as they were before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1824.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-18", "file": "debates1932-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e73d9e00f086fdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1834.5", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "As the point has been raised about consultations through the usual channels, may I, speaking for the smallest group in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1834.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-18", "file": "debates1932-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e73d9e00f086fdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1891.0", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Charge of general ad valorem Customs duty of 10 per cent.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JANNER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JANNER", "preceding_text": "ment, although they may be entitled to place themselves in the doctor's hands. I take it that the doctor in this instance is the general practitioner, who was to submit his patient to a thorough X-ray examination, and, after having made a very careful examination of the X-ray plates, on the advice of a physician of renown, was to come to conclusions which were appropriate to deal with the disease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1891.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-18", "file": "debates1932-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e73d9e00f086fdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1910.6", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Charge of general ad valorem Customs duty of 10 per cent.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I heard once that the great Henry Ford bought some land, but he never built a factory on that land. I have heard all these stories before, but I want to know the spot where the new factory is situated and how many people are actually employed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1910.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-18", "file": "debates1932-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e73d9e00f086fdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1940.0", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Constitution of Advisory Committee.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "nions are not going to have much weight in selecting the goods to be dealt with under this Measure, in deciding the rate of duty on articles specially selected for extra duty, or in deciding the articles which are to be added to the Schedule. This is a great experiment and we are all agreed on one thing. We all hope that it will be for the advantage of the country. I am one of the doubtful people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1940.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-18", "file": "debates1932-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e73d9e00f086fdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1940.0", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Constitution of Advisory Committee.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was an Advisory Committee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "ommittee is only to give advice. We want to have the feeling throughout the country that this Committee is judicial, that it is, as the Mover of the Amendment said, in much the same position as the Statutory Commission which inquired into conditions in India under the chairmanship of the present Foreign Secretary. That was a real Statutory Committee which carried great weight throughout the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1940.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-18", "file": "debates1932-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e73d9e00f086fdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1952.9", "colnum": "1952", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Constitution of Advisory Committee.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to intervene in the contest going on opposite, but I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Eccles (Mr. Potter) was a little unkind to my hon. Friend sitting in front of me. There is nothing of the bright young man about my hon. Friend. There is nothing of the Y.M.C.A. about him. He is really a sort of super-Gretton, if I may put it like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1952.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-18", "file": "debates1932-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e73d9e00f086fdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1954.0", "colnum": "1954", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Constitution of Advisory Committee.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I do not for one moment wish to go behind any of my hon. Friends in front of me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1954.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-18", "file": "debates1932-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e73d9e00f086fdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1960.0", "colnum": "1960", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Constitution of Advisory Committee.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I only wish to ask a question. According to the President of the Board of Trade, we are not to have any of these musty, fusty political economists, and we are not to have the judiciary. Will somebody tell me who we are to have?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-18", "file": "debates1932-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e73d9e00f086fdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1966.0", "colnum": "1966", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Constitution of Advisory Committee.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S, CRIPRS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S, CRIPRS", "preceding_text": "This is a very serious matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1966.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-02-18", "file": "debates1932-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e73d9e00f086fdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1971.2", "colnum": "1971", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Constitution of Advisory Committee.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "mendment were accepted, these unfortunate men would be stripped of all their possessions. They would have no place where they could invest any money that they might have or that they are paid for holding their positions. Should any flagrant case occur the Government will have a remedy because they have accepted an Amendment under which any member of the committee can be given three months' notice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-18", "file": "debates1932-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e73d9e00f086fdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1971.4", "colnum": "1971", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Constitution of Advisory Committee.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. MASON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. MASON", "preceding_text": "e (Mr. Haslam), that we have been saying that it is impossible for industry to benefit under the Bill, I would point out that we Free Traders have never denied that certain industries may benefit, but what we have tried to show hon. Members is that it will be bad for the trade of the country in the aggregate. We have never denied that if a particular industry is bolstered up by high tariffs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-18a.1971.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-19", "file": "debates1932-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d3c94ae48e635727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-19a.1982.0", "colnum": "1982", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Constitution of Advisory Committee.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "y industries associated with the steel trade before a recommendation can be made? It would be the height of foolishness to embarrass the administration of the Committee to put in a condition of this kind. The work of the Committee would be interminable. If they had to take into consideration every question in the particular business affected, they would have to pursue inquiries in every direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-19a.1982.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-19", "file": "debates1932-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d3c94ae48e635727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-19a.2002.0", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Constitution of Advisory Committee.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "s a matter of complete indifference what the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the President of the Board of Trade, and the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade may say What matters is the wording of this Clause. These gentlemen will be appointed for three years, and during that period they cannot, I understand, be dismissed, in actual practice, because they do not do what the Government like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-19a.2002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-19", "file": "debates1932-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d3c94ae48e635727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-19a.2019.0", "colnum": "2019", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Additional duty of customs on special classes or descriptions of goods.)", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "aid it will not be possible to accept the Amendment, and the hon. Member will at once see why. The definition, which he says would be such an easy thing, would be in practice almost impossible. I see that the hon. Gentleman is wearing a watch chain. I do not wear a watch chain. A watch chain is an article of luxury. You can pull your watch out of your pocket by the finger and thumb perfectly well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-19a.2019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-19", "file": "debates1932-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d3c94ae48e635727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-19a.2019.1", "colnum": "2019", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Additional duty of customs on special classes or descriptions of goods.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You can get it from the Empire.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": ". A 10 per cent. duty will be fixed, unless there is some restriction placed in the Bill. How do we know but that the Committee will simply run up taxes on certain articles as a result of which the people will not be able to obtain those articles? Tinned salmon is invariably a Sunday afternoon luxury for tens of thousands of people, and it may be impossible for them to enjoy that luxury in future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-19a.2019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-19", "file": "debates1932-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d3c94ae48e635727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-19a.2019.1", "colnum": "2019", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Additional duty of customs on special classes or descriptions of goods.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "run up taxes on certain articles as a result of which the people will not be able to obtain those articles? Tinned salmon is invariably a Sunday afternoon luxury for tens of thousands of people, and it may be impossible for them to enjoy that luxury in future. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You can get it from the Empire.\"] Of course, we shall get it from the Empire, but with the additional duties put upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-19a.2019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-19", "file": "debates1932-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d3c94ae48e635727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-19a.2044.0", "colnum": "2044", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Additional duty of customs on special classes or descriptions of goods.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is giving himself unnecessary disturbance of mind over the relationship of employers and employed. He can very safely leave the question of rates of wages in industry to hon. Gentlemen opposite, who are the peculiar custodians of that subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-19a.2044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-19", "file": "debates1932-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d3c94ae48e635727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-19a.2046.0", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Additional duty of customs on special classes or descriptions of goods.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEWIS JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEWIS JONES", "preceding_text": "t satisfy the Committee that their industry is fairly efficiently run? It was suggested by the hon. Member for East Wolverhampton (Mr. Mander) that before the Advisory Committee deals with any claim for consideration, they shall be satisfied that the industry, not only on a national basis, but each individual unit, is efficiently organised; both on a national scale and in the individual factories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-19a.2046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-19", "file": "debates1932-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d3c94ae48e635727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-19a.2046.0", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Additional duty of customs on special classes or descriptions of goods.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEWIS JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEWIS JONES", "preceding_text": "ts, you have 13 or 14 different rates of pay. What is going to be the \"standard rate of wages\"? Some explanation was given during the discussion of this Amendment, but I do not know whether the hon. Member for East Wolverhampton means time-wages or time-rates. It is impossible for any Advisory Committee to satisfy themselves that a standard rate of wages is operating throughout the whole industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-19a.2046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-19", "file": "debates1932-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d3c94ae48e635727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-19a.2046.0", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Additional duty of customs on special classes or descriptions of goods.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEWIS JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Amendment says 'similar machinery'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEWIS JONES", "preceding_text": "ion. If the iron and steel trade goes forward to this Advisory Committee to make out our case, we can prove that we pay the finest wages of any steel industry in the world, and that we are working shorter hours than any steel industry in the world, but we cannot prove that we have a joint industrial council, because the principal trade unions refuse to go to arbitration on any question in dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-19a.2046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-19", "file": "debates1932-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d3c94ae48e635727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-19a.2054.0", "colnum": "2054", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Additional duty of customs on special classes or descriptions of goods.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is foreign competition that has brought it down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "rder to make the same wages for such long hours as they did in the shorter working week. That is the case in regard to the garment workers in the East End of London. The Amendment would, in fact, bring us to the stage that that industry would not be protected under the Bill unless it paid the recognised rates of wages and observed the recognised hours of labour, and 48 hours a week is the maximum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-19a.2054.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-19", "file": "debates1932-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d3c94ae48e635727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-19a.2060.1", "colnum": "2060", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Additional duty of customs on special classes or descriptions of goods.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Home Secretary's speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " the Committee to neglect other matters of the utmost importance. We are not now in the realm of experiment. We have had 10 years experience of safeguarding, and there is not a single safeguarded industry which has not markedly improved in efficiency. Otherwise we should have heard of it. Not even the hon. Members for Bethnal Green have ever been able to produce any evidence of lack of efficiency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-19a.2060.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-02-22", "file": "debates1932-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "f1afbf1f68e5dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.28.2", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PYBUS", "preceding_text": "The question as to the disposal of the time of the House is not one which I can decide, but I suggest that it would be difficult properly to discuss this complicated technical question on the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-22", "file": "debates1932-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "f1afbf1f68e5dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.49.0", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. J. H. Thomas)", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. J. H. Thomas)", "preceding_text": "e speech we have heard to all intents and purposes says to the British Parliament that we ought to tell the British Commonwealth of Nations, \"You not only must be treated as foreigners, but you are foreigners.\" That is an insult. Whatever views you may hold, whatever political faith you may embrace, when you remember the position that the Dominions without pressure took in our hour of trial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.49.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-22", "file": "debates1932-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "f1afbf1f68e5dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.54.3", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "ernment to impose the 10 per cent. on all your imports which are now exempt,\" we can understand the anger and indignation there will be in Australia. On the other hand, the right hon. Gentleman may make a bargain with New Zealand and fail to make a bargain with Australia, and there will, in consequence, be an unhealthy differentiation which will weaken the common bonds of tradition and of history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.54.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-22", "file": "debates1932-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "f1afbf1f68e5dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "Not all all. What Lord Beaverbrook said in the course of his enunciation of the policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-22", "file": "debates1932-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "f1afbf1f68e5dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.58.3", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "re the introduction of coir matting is putting workers out of employment. Two factories have been closed already as a consequence of the competition. Does the hon. Member agree that those things should be allowed to come in free because they come from countries which happen to be members of the Empire—with a big accent on the H? I cannot pronounce it as well as the Dominions Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.58.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-22", "file": "debates1932-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "f1afbf1f68e5dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.58.3", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Heaven, by this playing about either with Free Trade or Tariff Reform, are you to solve the problem of unemployment? You cannot. Every day that goes over our heads sees us in the same position. Therefore, I suggest that this Amendment, although it has been moved religiously, as an article of faith, by the 12 apostles who are still left, and by one of the descendants of the original apostles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.58.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-22", "file": "debates1932-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "f1afbf1f68e5dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.99.0", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Your party policy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "t true? They are going to get benefits from the State, because that is what it means. They are going to get the right to tax their fellow-citizens. I am not a farmer, but I am the son of an agricultural labourer, and I know of farmers in Essex who bring their stuff up to market, and who have told me that after they have sent their goods up for a week, they have been in debt at the end of the week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.99.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-22", "file": "debates1932-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "f1afbf1f68e5dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.109.3", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "May I suggest to the hon. Member that the point he raises is a very flimsy one? It is perfectly true that that information is obtainable at Somerset House, but we want it to be available for the President of the Board of Trade in the one document with the other information, so that it can be examined there and then, without a visit having to be paid to Somerset House to dig it, out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-22", "file": "debates1932-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "f1afbf1f68e5dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.116.1", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "The proprietor may be an individual. There are a vast number of small companies in this country. The very people who are concerned are the small individuals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-22", "file": "debates1932-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "f1afbf1f68e5dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Go on, let us have it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "elf clear by saying that I did not attack the employer and his sons and so on. I simply call then collar-and-tie men. If hon. Members wish me to give illustrations, I will give them, but I shall have to bring persons into it, and I do not want to have to do that kind of thing. If the hon. Gentleman wants me to get into that atmosphere I can do so even as far as Members of this House are concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-22", "file": "debates1932-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "f1afbf1f68e5dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.148.5", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "tariff imposed provided they could be assured that the tariff would safeguard the interests of the workpeople. Let me make this statement about what has happened in this country. We have lived long enough to see in this country several trades safeguarded under the Safeguarding of Industries provisions, and, except in one case, those safeguards never helped the workpeople by one-halfpenny per hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.148.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-22", "file": "debates1932-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "f1afbf1f68e5dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.148.5", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Motors, paper, lace and glove industries!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "terests of the workpeople. Let me make this statement about what has happened in this country. We have lived long enough to see in this country several trades safeguarded under the Safeguarding of Industries provisions, and, except in one case, those safeguards never helped the workpeople by one-halfpenny per hour. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Is there any hon. Gentleman who will stand up and say it has?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.148.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-22", "file": "debates1932-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "f1afbf1f68e5dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.148.5", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "tries provisions, and, except in one case, those safeguards never helped the workpeople by one-halfpenny per hour. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Is there any hon. Gentleman who will stand up and say it has? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Motors, paper, lace and glove industries!\"] The cutlery trade in. Sheffield was safeguarded for five years. I give that as one instance. I am assured by the trade union concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.148.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-22", "file": "debates1932-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "f1afbf1f68e5dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "Those workpeople were probably misled by their employers. They are not the first workpeople to be so misled, and if any body of workpeople in this land have been induced to believe that this Bill is going to give them an increase of wages, they will find out in less than 12 months that the statement cannot be borne out in fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-22", "file": "debates1932-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "f1afbf1f68e5dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.163.0", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT ASKE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT ASKE", "preceding_text": "ed the view that there is not greater unemployment in the shipping trade than there is in the iron and steel trade. The hon. Member is very wide of the mark. On the North-East coast the unemployment in the shipping trade is at the present time 75 per cent. more than in any trade in the country, and if the hon. Gentleman's proposals are carried out, our shipyards will be shut down for good and all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-22", "file": "debates1932-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "f1afbf1f68e5dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.163.0", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT ASKE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT ASKE", "preceding_text": " trade in the country, and if the hon. Gentleman's proposals are carried out, our shipyards will be shut down for good and all. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] It is only with the greatest difficulty that it is possible to get any orders at all at the present time. One difficulty under the Clause as it stands is that the building of ships within the meaning of the Clause means the building of entire ships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-22", "file": "debates1932-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "f1afbf1f68e5dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.165.4", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose fault is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "I agree that it is a pity that time prevents us from having a full discussion on this very important question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.165.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-02-22", "file": "debates1932-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "f1afbf1f68e5dc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.166.2", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Are we not dealing with the refitting of ships?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "Precisely. I was aware of that, and so I believe is the whole Committee; because we are only dealing with shipbuilding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-22a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-23", "file": "debates1932-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "6db7bf882235b2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-23a.208.5", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BANK RATE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Were any minutes kept of those meetings?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-23a.208.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-23", "file": "debates1932-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "6db7bf882235b2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-23a.217.2", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA (MR. AND MRS. RUEGG).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "May I ask if the British Government take no responsibility for European citizens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-23a.217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-23", "file": "debates1932-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "6db7bf882235b2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-23a.217.2", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA (MR. AND MRS. RUEGG).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "May I ask if the British Government take no responsibility for European citizens—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—in the International Settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-23a.217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-23", "file": "debates1932-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "6db7bf882235b2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-23a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTS DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Gentleman. If he is to be there, we can largely trust him, but Ministers come and Ministers go, and we might have a Minister of the character and temperament of the right hon. Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill) or the hon. and gallant Member for Bournemouth (Sir H. Croft)—more warlike, more bellicose, who might come to a decision which would launch us into a serious tariff war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-23a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-23", "file": "debates1932-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "6db7bf882235b2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-23a.268.3", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTS DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "Sometimes I wonder whether the hon. Baronet has been asleep for 20 years. Does he consider that the McKenna Duties and the Safeguarding Duties carry Excise duties?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-23a.268.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-23", "file": "debates1932-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "6db7bf882235b2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-23a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTS DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "preceding_text": "As far as I understand, there was to be a free hand for the Government of the day to bring in certain legislation, but, surely, the electors of this country and the Members who came to the House of Commons never imagined that they were giving a free hand to the Government to bring forward legislation in which we signed away our ancient rights. What is the use of our attending here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-23a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-23", "file": "debates1932-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "6db7bf882235b2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-23a.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTS DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I should like to ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he can produce to-morrow a copy of the Schedule containing his proposed Amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-23a.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-23", "file": "debates1932-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "6db7bf882235b2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-23a.339.0", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTS DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount LYMINGTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount LYMINGTON", "preceding_text": "all get a new heaven possibly, somehow or other, under some form of Government protection, but we want something a little more certain and a little more sure before we dare trust ourselves to that or before even our bankers will let us do anything in the way of organising meat, which we know we can do if we get the chance. It is obvious that 10 per cent. on meat, here or there, \"Sir Robert\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-23a.339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-23", "file": "debates1932-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "6db7bf882235b2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-23a.341.2", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTS DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAMMERSLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Agriculture!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAMMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "they would continue to be part and parcel of our controversies for many years to come, if it had not been for the rising of a crisis in the country last year. That crisis was caused by one insistent fact, that side by side with the knowledge that we were closing down works week by week and month by month, we were importing into this country the very produce of those works in increasing quantities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-23a.341.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-23", "file": "debates1932-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "6db7bf882235b2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-23a.341.2", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTS DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAMMERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAMMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "is, and the point which must be realised, both inside and outside the House of Commons, is that the main virtue of a Tariff Bill is the fact that it will redress the fall in prices. The National Government had a mandate to deal with that fall in prices and decided to introduce protection of the home market for that purpose. If it is true, as I believe it is, that this Bill will raise prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-23a.341.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-23", "file": "debates1932-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "6db7bf882235b2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-23a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTS DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and gallant Friend who has just addressed the Committee has complained that this Bill must be condemned unless there were found in it something for every section of the community. While he was speaking for a section only of agriculture, he repeatedly spoke as though agriculture as a whole had nothing to gain from this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-23a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-23", "file": "debates1932-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "6db7bf882235b2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-23a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTS DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ing of his speech, because no one could fairly claim that this Bill will not extend a considerable amount of assistance to some sections of agriculture. My right hon. and gallant Friend, and others who spoke for particular sections of agriculture, asked, \"Why leave out this particular section, which is of such great importance, and which is treated in this way for reasons of political expediency?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-23a.350.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JUDGES (SALARIES).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister, seeing that the hon. and learned Member for Central Nottingham (Mr. O'Connor) has stated in his question that the reductions have impaired or have given cause to think that they might have impaired the course of justice in the courts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.587.8", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel SPENDER-CLAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel SPENDER-CLAY", "preceding_text": "While I appreciate the concession which my right hon. Friend is making in this Clause, I should like to ask him to consider the possibility of extending this concession to more modern works.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.587.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "years of age, suffering from senile decay, and that it was time they cleared out. The hon. Member must also remember that the Prince of Wales has criticised British industry as much as anybody. He never makes a speech but what he impresses the necessity of reorganisation of British industry, and criticises strongly the difficulties under which British industry suffers under its present management.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.610.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.611.2", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "I hope now that the hon. Member for Swansea West (Mr. L. Jones) is going to be just with Members of this House and will not be prepared to make misleading and lying statements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.611.4", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "With all respect to you, I will not withdraw to that man. He has been a nuisance ever since he came into this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.611.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.611.6", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "Out of respect to you, Sir, I do; and I will substitute it by saying that he is a perverter of the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.611.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.611.11", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "Then the hon. Member will please withdraw from the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.611.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.611.13", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "anisations here cannot sell to a third country without the transaction going through the country in which this scheme of arrangement exists. What is the use of talking about tariffs in those circumstances? The problem cannot be tinkered with by tariffs. It is not a little thing, which a tinker's soldering iron can put right. It is not a leaky kettle; the whole thing is bursting and breaking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.611.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.628.2", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "e minds of hon. Members who support it. It speaks of a trade or industry that \"is not conducted with efficiency and economy.\" What is meant by economy? I mean one thing by it, and other men mean something else. Hon. Members on the other side generally mean economy in wages and social conditions. This Amendment says, in effect, that if the Board of Trade do not think the wages are low enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.628.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.649.2", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Some Governments!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": "orward by this side that members of the Committee should divest themselves of all financial interest in questions that came within their purview. This Amendment merely proposes that they should surrender directorships in any concern which may come under the operation of the committee. There is no suggestion whatever of dishonesty. Members of the Government are men of the most impeccable character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.649.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.666.4", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVID MASON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Liberal party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVID MASON", "preceding_text": "ake place if a duty were enforced and then found to be unworkable. The right hon. and gallant Gentleman is probably anxious to make this machine efficient, and he regards the House of Commons in this connection, possibly, as a nuisance, but I ask him to consider the advantage, before these duties come into operation, of having the opinions of Members of the Labour party and the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.666.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.678.4", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": " zinc. I have to give these facts and figures—for troubling the House with them at this hour I apologise—because it is one of the main bases of my argument. The fact is that since this duty, or proposed duty, appeared in the Bill, the English consumers' contracts have been cancelled. That is to say, the price that they had been paying before the Bill is now different. It has increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.678.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.695.0", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLACE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLACE", "preceding_text": "matter of this kind is not revenue but the provision of employment. One may get revenue from a tax on raw materials, and that will be on the credit side, but there will be the debit side when the manufacturers who are using the raw materials find that in competition with the neutral markets of the world they are cut out by the fact that their raw material has a duty imposed upon it of 10 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.695.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "he discussion commenced. We are told that this marks a change in our fiscal policy. I can only contrast what is happening now with what happened when the great fiscal revolution was carried through some 80 or 90 years ago, a revolution carried through by famous men who rose to the height of their great argument. I contrast those proceedings with what is now taking place in reversal of that policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "ontrast them with the proceedings we have witnessed in the progress of this Measure through the House. I have now only time, in accordance with historic precedents of this House, to put on record on behalf of my friends and myself our protest against this Measure. I make that protest in association with what has been said by the Home Secretary whose speech I unreservedly and unrepentantly support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "ntantly support. [ Interruption. ] We have no part or lot in this Measure. We recognise that it means the breaking of many ties with those whom we have been associated in this House. I have here no complaints to make against my Liberal colleagues, but I am entitled to say that they do not speak for organised Liberalism outside this House, nor do they speak for the great body of Free Trade opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "re no complaints to make against my Liberal colleagues, but I am entitled to say that they do not speak for organised Liberalism outside this House, nor do they speak for the great body of Free Trade opinion. [ Interruption. ] There are many who laugh at me now who if it had wit been for the support of Free Traders in their constituencies would never have got within a hundred miles of Palace Yard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": " the poorest of our people. It will increase indirect taxation as compared with direct taxation. It. will tax raw materials, and therefore increase the cost of production, thus limiting our competitive powers in foreign markets, and causing increased unemployment. We oppose it because it looks in the wrong direction. It looks in the direction of national independence and national self-sufficiency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "t. We oppose it because it looks in the wrong direction. It looks in the direction of national independence and national self-sufficiency. [ Interruption. ] It looks in the direction of national self-sufficiency, and against this doctrine of isolation we put what we believe to be the only basis of the wellbeing and the peace of the world, and that is interdependence and international co-operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "d the peace of the world, and that is interdependence and international co-operation. [ Interruption. ] I have only a few moments to say this to hon. Members: After all, the power is with you. You are a very big majority. The sentence is going to fall upon Free Trade, and I want upon this occasion, in a few words, to say that Free Trade, even if it were a prisoner, has a right to speak for itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "nterruption, I were prevented from making that statement here, it would not assuage feeling outside. For 80 years Free Trade has placed us among the foremost nations of the world. It has made available for the people of this little crowded island all the resources of five Continents and the supplies of the whole world. It has enabled us to build up the biggest mercantile marine in the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do you not put it forward?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "the last desperate throw of the gambler. If it fails as we believe it will the National party, whether Liberal or Conservative have no other policy to put in its place. We have been accused during this Debate of having no alternative ourselves. I think that everybody who has the intelligence to read the \"Daily Herald\" must appreciate that we have a policy whether hon. Members agree with it or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"America!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "We shall wait to see if this country is to be an exception to the rule that in protected countries wage levels are low.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "of the receipts of industry between the producers and capital that will be rendered more uneven by the imposition of tariffs and that that very inequality is creating at the present time the lack of consuming power from which the world is suffering. The whole argument, as we see it, behind the policy of the present Bill is to reduce the standard of the workers and increase the standard of profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What has that got to do with it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "rgument, as we see it, behind the policy of the present Bill is to reduce the standard of the workers and increase the standard of profits. [An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"] The hon. Member who says \"No,\" I am sure, cannot really mean it, because I know he will agree with me that, according to his theory, it is essential to have a sufficiently large margin of profit in order to provide capital for industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And wages‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " order to provide capital for industry. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What has that got to do with it?\"] It has to do with it to this extent, that it is said by all capitalists that industry is suffering because there is not the necessary capital forthcoming for the purposes of industrial recorganisation and reform, and to achieve that they desire to increase profits in order that there may be more available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Room 13?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "te regulation. One hon. Member opposite said to-day that he appreciated the point of view that you could either have complete individual control of industry or complete social control, and I am glad there was one Member in the House who did appreciate that point of view. We take the point that you have got to have complete social control of industry and not complete individual control of industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "have thought that by now it was past doubt that any clog of this sort put upon international trade was bound in the long run to decrease the consuming power of the world. 10.30 p.m. Let me read a passage which is quoted in this month's \"Monthly Letter\" of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, a passage which comes from a report which is signed by more than 200 distinguished economists all over the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the date?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " Bank of Commerce, a passage which comes from a report which is signed by more than 200 distinguished economists all over the world. [ Laughter. ] I was waiting for that laughter. Let me give one or two names in Great Britain so that hon. Members may laugh again. There are Sir Arthur Balfour, Lord Bradbury, Mr. Goodenough, Mr. Montagu Norman, Mr. Walter Leaf, and many others of the same character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "report which is signed by more than 200 distinguished economists all over the world. [ Laughter. ] I was waiting for that laughter. Let me give one or two names in Great Britain so that hon. Members may laugh again. There are Sir Arthur Balfour, Lord Bradbury, Mr. Goodenough, Mr. Montagu Norman, Mr. Walter Leaf, and many others of the same character. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the date?\"] It is 1926.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "pps). That was not the speech of a Free Trader, it was the speech of a man whose alternative to Protection is said to be Socialism, but who sees in this Bill an opportunity for repeating once more all the efforts he has made on previous occasions to stir up class animosity and to suggest that a. Measure brought in with the support and approval of representatives of all parties in this State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " extraordinary ease and smoothness with which it has passed through all its stages. I have had some considerable experience in piloting large, and in some cases controversial, Bills through this House, but I have never seen any case where a Bill that was even comparable to this in magnitude has gone through with so little opposition and with so much general agreement from all parties in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "or generations past.\" It is absolutely useless for hon. Members to go on trying to rattle the dry bones of forgotten controversies on this subject. I would like to remind them of the oft-quoted pronouncement of Abraham Lincoln on the general art of fooling the people: You may fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.708.2", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I have explained that on another occasion. On this occasion I will say that the hon. and learned Gentleman deliberately put a false construction —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.708.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-25", "file": "debates1932-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f32f48944afbd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.708.2", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMDERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " the price of primary commodities, and, in my opinion, that rise will not now long be delayed. After it comes, we must expect that in due course it will be followed by a rise in the retail prices of commodities, and, therefore, we have in front of us a coming rise in prices. Although I have no doubt that hon. Members opposite will seek to attribute that rise to the operation of this Measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-25a.708.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-26", "file": "debates1932-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "1dbec818848acafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-26a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "They were responsible for the financial policy and this is a matter of finance. We have a right, I submit, to know why these additional amounts are required and how long these demands are to continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-26a.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-29", "file": "debates1932-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "d56c06ed2c34fef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "But is it a good one to use in regard to India? What is the effect of that phrase? People who have been cordial supporters of this country have resented bitterly a reference to them as though they were dogs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-29", "file": "debates1932-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "d56c06ed2c34fef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " they see would like to change the system of voting in India. Curious that they should not have known it before! One of the features of the Round Table Conference was that all parties, and all those great and good that sat around that Table, were agreed on one point, and one point only. Even Gandhi had to put up with it. They were agreed on the point that the ryots of India should not have a vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-29", "file": "debates1932-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "d56c06ed2c34fef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.835.0", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir REGINALD CRADDOCK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir REGINALD CRADDOCK", "preceding_text": " the hon. Member for Ladywood (Mr. Lloyd) had to say about trade in India. I am a great believer in the possibilities of India, and I echo what he said. What I feel about it is that we cannot expect India to agree to a fiscal system to the prejudice of her own industries. The greatest mistake ever made in our dealings with that country was the cotton Excise Duty. That mistake we must never repeat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.835.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-29", "file": "debates1932-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "d56c06ed2c34fef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"You have failed in England.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN", "preceding_text": " could be served in that particular way. I think that the hon. Member for Caerphilly has already traversed that ground. But if the intention of the Government at the present time is to kill a nationalist movement, to kill a movement with a nationalist ideal, then it is doomed to downfall. Governments of all ages have tried and failed. You have failed in Ireland, and you are going to fail in India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-29", "file": "debates1932-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "d56c06ed2c34fef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.873.5", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOLSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOLSON", "preceding_text": "I really did not recognise that the hon. Gentleman for Caerphilly (Mr. Morgan Jones) was referring to the question put this afternoon. That was not my understanding of the matter in the least.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.873.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-29", "file": "debates1932-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "d56c06ed2c34fef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.878.0", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "r other countries, particularly over smaller and more helpless countries, upon the sheer force of their weight, upon their power to dominate by the force of arms that which they have attained. Suppose the Indians take us at our own word, and use force against force. What right have we to grumble I There are 300,000,000 of them, and there are only about 50,000,000 of us. I happen to be one of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.878.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-29", "file": "debates1932-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "d56c06ed2c34fef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.878.0", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "t defenceless men and women, and the history of this country wilt prove it. In Westminster Hall there is a tablet commemorating the trial of a gentleman whose crimes were so great in India that we had to try him here for treason. The treason was against the will of the State. At that time he murdered the people of India. He had committed a crime against civilisation. We tried him. I am not guilty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.878.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-29", "file": "debates1932-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "d56c06ed2c34fef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.878.0", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Campbell case?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": " At that time he murdered the people of India. He had committed a crime against civilisation. We tried him. I am not guilty. [ Interruption. ] He was acquitted, yes, but he would not be acquitted now. He was acquitted in the days when trials were arranged so that if they wanted to get a certain person off, and there was Royal influence behind him, he could get away with it. Let him now come along.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.878.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-29", "file": "debates1932-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "d56c06ed2c34fef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.880.0", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "That is the reason why my hon. Friend belongs to the governing class. If he did not belong to that class, he would have been in prison long ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-29", "file": "debates1932-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "d56c06ed2c34fef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.880.0", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "hat they are up against—domination from the West. How long do you think it is going to continue? How long do you think that we, a small body of people here in the West of Europe, are going to dominate 600,000,000 people in the Eastern parts of the world? It may last your time, but it will not last all the time, and the sooner you make up your minds to be clean about the business, the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-29", "file": "debates1932-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "d56c06ed2c34fef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "y willing to give way to anyone who desires to make a mere correction, but not to the hon. Member to make a, speech which is full of inaccuracies. The hon. Member must learn to sit still and listen to other people. The statement I made was that in 1886 Mr. Gladstone's Home Rule Bill was rejected, and in that year the late Lord Salisbury said that 20 years of resolute government was required—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-29", "file": "debates1932-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "d56c06ed2c34fef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three years!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "e hon. Member to make a, speech which is full of inaccuracies. The hon. Member must learn to sit still and listen to other people. The statement I made was that in 1886 Mr. Gladstone's Home Rule Bill was rejected, and in that year the late Lord Salisbury said that 20 years of resolute government was required—[ Interruption. ] There was a short interregnum in 1892 for a couple of years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-29", "file": "debates1932-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "d56c06ed2c34fef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.896.0", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Well, I think that proves my point. The argument of the hon. and gallant Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.896.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-02-29", "file": "debates1932-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "d56c06ed2c34fef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.896.5", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Very well; if that is so, let us have an end to this nonsense about the Congress not representing this, and the people of India not wanting that. If that conference at St. James's Palace was not representative of India, I should like to know of what it was representative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-02-29a.896.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-01", "file": "debates1932-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d71c52d394a0554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.929.2", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "I would like to press this point further. The latest reply that I got shows that the proposals for the next 12 months will not meet the shortage, and I would like to ask further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.929.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-01", "file": "debates1932-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d71c52d394a0554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.948.8", "colnum": "948", "heading": "SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide for the humane and scientific slaughter of animals; and for purposes connected therewith. The title of the Bill which I am asking the leave of the House to introduce today is not unfamiliar to me or to many of my older colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.948.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-01", "file": "debates1932-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d71c52d394a0554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Far longer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": " Government are giving a subsidy to one section of producers, farmers, because they are depressed, and will make other sections of producers, equally or even more depressed, pay that subsidy. Some of the people who will have to pay the subsidy are living under conditions which I can only describe as utter destitution. There are 250,000 miners who have been out of work for two or three years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-01", "file": "debates1932-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d71c52d394a0554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": " in 1929 the number was 37,000, and this year the total is over 50,000. The American exports of these machines were 1,700 in 1925, and over 11,000 in 1929. In Western Canada there were only two in use in 1922, but there were close upon 8,000 in 1929, and there are 10,000 to-day. I suppose that we could count on the fingers of one hand the number of combine-harvesters in use in this country to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-01", "file": "debates1932-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d71c52d394a0554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "orts of these machines were 1,700 in 1925, and over 11,000 in 1929. In Western Canada there were only two in use in 1922, but there were close upon 8,000 in 1929, and there are 10,000 to-day. I suppose that we could count on the fingers of one hand the number of combine-harvesters in use in this country to-day. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I do not know whether there are any agricultural Members present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-01", "file": "debates1932-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d71c52d394a0554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "rn Canada there were only two in use in 1922, but there were close upon 8,000 in 1929, and there are 10,000 to-day. I suppose that we could count on the fingers of one hand the number of combine-harvesters in use in this country to-day. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I do not know whether there are any agricultural Members present. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Probably they are of a small and old-fashioned type.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-01", "file": "debates1932-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d71c52d394a0554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For labour!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "8212;that the cost of production of wheat in Western Canada is approximately from 15s. to 20s. per quarter, and nearer to the lower figure than to the higher. The figure stated for the Argentine is 14s. per quarter, while in the case of Russia, although, as the Minister has already said, the figures are not entirely to be relied upon, it is somewhere in the neighbourhood of 6s. or 7s. per quarter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-01", "file": "debates1932-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d71c52d394a0554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "e late Labour Government intended to make some experiments in this direction, and their Agricultural Land Utilisation Bill included a Clause which would have enabled them to establish some large-scale mechanised farms, and to test this thing out in our own country, in our own climate and on our own soil; but the right hon. Gentleman and his friends did their best to throw that provision out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-01", "file": "debates1932-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d71c52d394a0554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.997.1", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "bread. As four quarters make five sacks of flour and one sack only makes 90 quarterns of bread, you can see that the total amount of English flour used for bread making purposes will only make 18,000,000 quartern loaves in a whole year. Taking the average consumption of bread per head at four pounds per person per week, means that English flour supplies bread for 860,000 persons out of 44,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.997.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-01", "file": "debates1932-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d71c52d394a0554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "I will give a detailed answer to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-01", "file": "debates1932-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d71c52d394a0554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "e mass production in this country, not only must there be special machinery, special yeast and special factory organisation, but special flour as well. All sorts of flour will not do. I come to the point raised by my hon. Friend opposite. You may put English wheat or any old wheat you like into flour, and you will produce something which may have the semblance of a loaf, but it will not be edible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-01", "file": "debates1932-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d71c52d394a0554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.1001.3", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "millable wheat. The unanimous feeling of the meeting was that the term 'millable wheat' is well understood to-clay by sellers and buyers throughout the country, and that no need exists for the prescription of a standard. 6.30 p.m. In other words they want the full subsidy for any old wheat of any old quality they may happen to grow. The speakers at their meeting practically said so. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.1001.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-01", "file": "debates1932-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d71c52d394a0554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "preceding_text": "had to charge for the loaf. So the right hon. Gentleman in his agreement with the millers has agreed to collect between £5,000,000 and £6,000,000 as the result of an increase in the price of bread to the poorest of the poor people to assist just 3 or 4 per cent. of the agricultural industry. The agricultural industry is not the only depressed industry. I come from a coal mining district.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-01", "file": "debates1932-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d71c52d394a0554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.1043.0", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel SANDEMAN ALLEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel SANDEMAN ALLEN", "preceding_text": "will of necessity go to the consumer, but if it does not go to the consumer the Treasury will have to pay 25 per cent. of the subsidy, because it goes as an expense against Income Tax, which is 5s. in the £. That is 25 per cent. of the amount to be found. Either the consumer will pay or the Treasury will pay by loss of Income Tax. You cannot have it both ways. Money does not come from heaven.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.1043.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-01", "file": "debates1932-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d71c52d394a0554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.1057.0", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "rprise. It might be possible, even with nationalised land, to exact better tribute from the soil than we are exacting to-day. An hon. Member who spoke earlier in the Debate glorified the fact that the Minister is going to extend the area of arable cultivation. He could not have read the Bill, because one of the things that the Minister sets out to do is to avoid any extension of wheat cultivation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.1057.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-01", "file": "debates1932-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d71c52d394a0554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.1057.0", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "spoke earlier in the Debate glorified the fact that the Minister is going to extend the area of arable cultivation. He could not have read the Bill, because one of the things that the Minister sets out to do is to avoid any extension of wheat cultivation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] The Memorandum to the Bill states: without encouraging the extension of wheat cultivation to land unsuitable for the crop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-01a.1057.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-02", "file": "debates1932-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8bf4aef1636d6d47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-02a.1143.0", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKIN MORRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKIN MORRIS", "preceding_text": "he wheat grown in this country provides no more than 15 per cent. of the total wheat consumed in the country, and in order to assist the wheat farmers who are responsible for the production of that 15 per cent. we impose a duty of 100 per cent. That is the difference between the standard price and the actual price ruling to-day. It is a duty of 100 per cent. in protection of the home market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-02a.1143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-02", "file": "debates1932-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8bf4aef1636d6d47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-02a.1143.0", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKIN MORRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKIN MORRIS", "preceding_text": " year may not realise as good a price as another man who sells at a later period, not because he does not exercise as great care but because the movement of the market has been more favourable to the other. That farmer has done his best, but he has to suffer because the markets have been against him during the course of the year. There is no provision in the Bill to meet a case of that kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-02a.1143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-02", "file": "debates1932-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8bf4aef1636d6d47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-02a.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": " I can see growing up in this country a revolutionary movement created by hon. Members opposite by a misuse of their powers in carrying out these vicious schemes against the lowest-paid sections of the community. You are dealing death and destruction to some sections of the working classes. You may get by this Bill what you desire for the farming community, with its antiquated ideas of production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-02a.1165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-02", "file": "debates1932-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8bf4aef1636d6d47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-02a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "e told that we must trust the farmer. I would as soon trust an anti-betting league to a bookmaker or a temperance society to a brewery as trust the farmers to pay good wages to their workers. I know quite well that farmers are prepared to exploit their workers to the utmost degree. I have never known a more unreasonable section of the employing community than the farming community of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-02a.1168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-02", "file": "debates1932-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8bf4aef1636d6d47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-02a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": " opposite, you are acting on these methods fairly successfully. Some of us do not know a great deal about the farming industry, but we do know something about the ultimate punishment that is bound to ensue as a result of this Measure. We know that you are going to fill the pockets of your friends, but in the process you are also going to fill the graves of a large number of working-class children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-02a.1168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-02", "file": "debates1932-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8bf4aef1636d6d47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-02a.1219.0", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "mer is this: \"You will only get help if you grow wheat. If you want to take the benefit of this largesse you must grow wheat as one of the crops in your rotation.\" That will inevitably lead, in a number of counties, to an increased cultivation of wheat. In the county in which I live plans have already been made by the farmers to grow more wheat, in order that they may get the benefit of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-02a.1219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-02", "file": "debates1932-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8bf4aef1636d6d47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-02a.1219.0", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\") I should have thought that hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite would know. If they do not know, let me tell them. Meat. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Crops!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "arking on a policy of this sort we should at least be told whether the Government has unitedly made up its mind that the right policy for this country is to return to wheat growing as a key crop, rather than to discourage wheat growing and try to change over to those other crops which we believe are so much more likely to prove a profitable and permanent foundation for agriculture in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-02a.1219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-02", "file": "debates1932-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8bf4aef1636d6d47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-02a.1219.0", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"IS meat a crop?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "rather than to discourage wheat growing and try to change over to those other crops which we believe are so much more likely to prove a profitable and permanent foundation for agriculture in this country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\") I should have thought that hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite would know. If they do not know, let me tell them. Meat. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Crops!\"] Dairy produce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-02a.1219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-02", "file": "debates1932-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8bf4aef1636d6d47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-02a.1219.0", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"These lawyers again!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "culture in this country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\") I should have thought that hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite would know. If they do not know, let me tell them. Meat. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Crops!\"] Dairy produce. [An HON. MEMBER: \"IS meat a crop?\"] Certainly. Does the hon. Member think that the only thing that is a crop from a farmer's point of view is something that is rooted in the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-02a.1219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-03", "file": "debates1932-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "79eda8f848201bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-03a.1304.1", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ibly be done. But at the present time if anyone looks at the conditions they must realise that we are now dealing with a depressed and shrunken world. We have a world depression in trade which has reached a quite definite stage. It has reached the second stage, which is as marked as it is dangerous. Nearly every country in the world is trying, deliberately and consciously, to contract its imports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-03a.1304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-03", "file": "debates1932-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "79eda8f848201bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-03a.1345.0", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "preceding_text": "ing work for the unemployed. I think we may truly say that the two chief Measures which have been before the House are Measures which will give a direct benefit to certain sections of the community. While the Government are taking those steps, they are cutting down the benefits of the poor people who are unemployed and it is the poor who will be called upon to meet the cost of both those Measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-03a.1345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-03", "file": "debates1932-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "79eda8f848201bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-03a.1361.0", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir CYRIL COBB", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir CYRIL COBB", "preceding_text": "r preparation for sale. There is a very wide power for inspectors to inspect all butchers' shops and all places where meat, either raw or cooked, is offered for sale. Those are the only powers we have at the moment. Therefore, we are in a worse position with regard to sausages than with regard to ice-cream, for we do not know in all cases where the premises are situated in which sausages are made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-03a.1361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-03", "file": "debates1932-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "79eda8f848201bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-03a.1402.0", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Mr. R. S. Hudson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Mr. R. S. Hudson)", "preceding_text": "63;150,000,000 for Scotland. According to all the economic theories this huge expenditure, financed largely by loans, should have resulted in a, large expansion of credit and should have had direct beneficial results on industry. It has not had that effect, or at all events any effect it may have had has been entirely submerged by the industrial depression; and to that extent that money is wasted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-03a.1402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-03", "file": "debates1932-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "79eda8f848201bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-03a.1402.0", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Mr. R. S. Hudson)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about German coal?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Mr. R. S. Hudson)", "preceding_text": "ittee have sanctioned no schemes unless they were started by 31st January last. They have been subject to temporary abeyance, as he will see from a Command Paper which will shortly be issued. So much for the question of the immediate future of unemployment grants. As I have indicated, we propose to rely mainly for improved employment on cur tariff policy and on the result of the Ottawa Conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-03a.1402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-04", "file": "debates1932-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fdcd6878d5c6cfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-04a.1452.1", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADJOURNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": " him in view of the fact that there is time to spare, although I know that we all want to get away. It is the same with all people who do not want to work; none of us wants to work if it is possible to get out of it; but, so far as we are here, we want to made the best possible use of the time. I hope that the Government will consider this application from some of their most loyal followers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-04a.1452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-07", "file": "debates1932-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "6d19bd79ffb27307", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-07a.1606.2", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "that our arrears of work must be taken in hand some time, but, from our point of view, we feel that any such work could well be postponed until we see what the outcome of the Disarmament Conference may be. As far as net expenditure is concerned, ignoring arrears of work and ignoring future requirements, the net saving this year is almost wholly due to savings on wages and clothing and victualling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-07a.1606.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-08", "file": "debates1932-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "92fc0de60745d804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-08a.1682.0", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "e the Household Cavalry which appear to have no use at all and to be no good either to the Service or anybody else. If the people of London desire to have these cavalry for the purpose of attracting visitors, then let the cost go on the Civil Service Vote. Let us know exactly what the cost is for, or, if the cost cannot go into that Vote, then let the London County Council take it over themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-08a.1682.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-09", "file": "debates1932-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "f92afd5a0e38b436", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1825.0", "colnum": "1825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": " them to keep arable land under wheat. I think my hon. Friend opposite is justified in moving his Amendment, because it will throw a flood of daylight upon the real situation. I am informed by practical millers and by members of the wheat organisation that not more than 1 per cent. of British wheat actually goes into bread, and that is only in the country mills. It is not suitable; it is too damp.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1825.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-09", "file": "debates1932-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "f92afd5a0e38b436", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1840.8", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, in page 1, line 15, to leave out the words \"deficiency payment,\" and to insert instead thereof the words, \"wheat subsidy.\" 5.0 p.m. There are many definitions of what a deficiency is and what the word \"deficiency\" means. So far as this Bill is concerned we think that the words \"wheat subsidy,\" would define clearly that money is being given to agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1840.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-09", "file": "debates1932-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "f92afd5a0e38b436", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1840.8", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "cy is and what the word \"deficiency\" means. So far as this Bill is concerned we think that the words \"wheat subsidy,\" would define clearly that money is being given to agriculture. [ Interruption. ] We are satisfied that \"deficiency payment\" is not a term that ought to be used in these circumstances, and that in the interest of plain, honest truth the words \"wheat subsidy\" ought to be substituted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1840.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-09", "file": "debates1932-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "f92afd5a0e38b436", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1845.5", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "way? We have had some experience. It will probably mean about 50 years of hard struggle to take the privilege away. Why are the Government not straight and honest with the people? Why do they not tell the people what is meant? The Government mean to subsidise agriculture, and in this case the farmer is used only as a tool. The real intention is to improve the value of land for the landowner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1845.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-09", "file": "debates1932-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "f92afd5a0e38b436", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1846.2", "colnum": "1846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MICHAEL BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MICHAEL BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": " of no importance to the people who paid whether it was called a deficiency payment or a State subsidy. I suggest that there is a considerable difference. In the case of a State subsidy, administered from the Treasury, the money that is paid has to filter its way from the tax-collecting machinery to the Treasury, and some of it sticks on the way, and then it has to filter its way down again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1846.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-09", "file": "debates1932-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "f92afd5a0e38b436", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1849.1", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH LAMB", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH LAMB", "preceding_text": "f the Wheat Commission who have the right and the power to collect the fund for making the deficiency payment. Whether the deficiency is larger or smaller, the responsibility does not rest with the producer but with those who are administering the scheme. I hope the Minister will see the justice of the claim which I am making and in which, I may say, I am backed by the whole of the agriculturists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1849.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-03-09", "file": "debates1932-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "f92afd5a0e38b436", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1859.3", "colnum": "1859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. LAMB", "preceding_text": "May I thank the Minister for his statement, which is the first indication we have had of the size of the sum. We hope that his figures will prove to be a correct forecast of what the expenditure is likely to be. In view of his statement, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1859.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-09", "file": "debates1932-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "f92afd5a0e38b436", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1880.0", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EVERARD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EVERARD", "preceding_text": "I am surprised at the lack of knowledge of hon. Members opposite on all agricultural problems. I am not in the least surprised that there is not a single agricultural division, as far as I know, which sent a Member of the Labour party to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-09", "file": "debates1932-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "f92afd5a0e38b436", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1889.0", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, it was!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HALL", "preceding_text": "igher production of corn by guaranteeing a price. A guaranteed price is allowed for in this Bill, in order to stimulate production. When the Corn Production Act was introduced the Minister of Agriculture pointed out that it was unfair to give a guaranteed price to the farmers, without securing a better wage for the farm workers. The wages board was not dealt with at all in the Corn Production Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-09", "file": "debates1932-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "f92afd5a0e38b436", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1903.12", "colnum": "1903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Coal Bill!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ey do not live among them. There will be an immense amount of jealousy between different people, not only between purchasers and sellers, but also among all the unfortunate people whose wheat may or may not be sold at the advantageous figure. I knew this Bill would strike a few \"snags\" as soon as it came into operation. We have seen Bills like this before. There was the quota Bill for films—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1903.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-09", "file": "debates1932-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "f92afd5a0e38b436", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1903.12", "colnum": "1903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "nk they will get something—and will find that they do not—and bread will go up in price. A large number of the unemployed will be absorbed into the Wheat Commission, or find work as agents of the Wheat Commission or as agents of the millers; and the statisticians will be constantly getting out figures showing how much farmer Giles has sold out of his 13 bags of British malleable wheat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1903.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-09", "file": "debates1932-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "f92afd5a0e38b436", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1922.0", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"What is meant by the change?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "no individual is mentioned at all. There is no schedule. There is nothing. It is simply left as a general instruction that they are to buy from the registered growers to whom the order relates such part of those stocks as remains unsold. If the hon. and learned Gentleman had come into the Chamber earlier and listened to the speech of the Minister in charge, he would have learned what was intended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1922.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-09", "file": "debates1932-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "f92afd5a0e38b436", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1924.0", "colnum": "1924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " expected to be able to understand the House of Commons, although inside the House we are in a quandary because no Law Officer of the Crown has been able to give us a definition. Can we not have a Law Officer present, seeing that two legal gentlemen have given opposite opinions and that the Minister who introduced the Amendment is in a quandary? I am in a quandary. I do not know which way to vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-09", "file": "debates1932-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "f92afd5a0e38b436", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1929.3", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. SANDEMAN ALLEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. SANDEMAN ALLEN", "preceding_text": "In my view, the Amendment, if carried, would tend to increase the amount of wheat to be grown in the country, and that is one of the things that I rather oppose. In fact, the Opposition themselves do not wish to see any increase in the amount of wheat that is grown in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-09a.1929.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-10", "file": "debates1932-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbd542656f11696d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-10a.2026.1", "colnum": "2026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "There are some differences of opinion regarding that, but whether we are first, or fourth or fifth, is irrelevant to my argument. I want to urge that this country should be bold and courageous in its proposals to the Disarmament Conference, that all nations without distinction should press for the complete elimination of military aviation throughout the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-10a.2026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-10", "file": "debates1932-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cbd542656f11696d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-10a.2096.1", "colnum": "2096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BALFOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "e their dividends, sale and secure in the knowledge that the taxpayers will disgorge the necessary funds. At every step Imperial Airways have to study the interests of their shareholders at all costs, even at the cost of Imperial development. We have recently been discussing in this House a Tariff Bill, and fears have been expressed on all sides that inefficiency would be sheltered behind tariffs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-10a.2096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-11", "file": "debates1932-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "4fd97f72ed3fe14e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-11a.2134.0", "colnum": "2134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL EMERGENCY ENACTMENTS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "do not recommend them to speculate in gold. People in this country are selling gold at the present time. I think they are wise, for, once we are off that standard all over the world, once our currency is based upon the prices of selected raw materials, there will be a considerable slump in the price that the public and the nations of the world will be prepared to pay for this discredited currency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-11a.2134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-11", "file": "debates1932-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "4fd97f72ed3fe14e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-11a.2134.0", "colnum": "2134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL EMERGENCY ENACTMENTS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ods. The people of this country, the Press, and everyone else in the world, have apparently been so educated in the idea that prosperity depended on a high price for our currency that, when we open our paper in the morning and see that the pound has fallen to 14s. 3d., or whatever it is, we groan. We ought to cheer. The only chance of a revival of trade comes from a fall in the value of the pound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-11a.2134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-11", "file": "debates1932-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "4fd97f72ed3fe14e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-11a.2146.3", "colnum": "2146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL EMERGENCY ENACTMENTS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "preceding_text": "ur monetary policy and is perhaps one of the most important Measures that has been introduced since the General Election. It goes to the very root of all our transactions in trade, commerce and agriculture, and to suggest, as the hon. and learned Member suggested, that we should go back on that principle that the noteholder is entitled to receive an equivalent in gold for his notes is quite wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-11a.2146.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-11", "file": "debates1932-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "4fd97f72ed3fe14e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-11a.2164.2", "colnum": "2164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL EMERGENCY ENACTMENTS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": ". The dangers are obvious. One had only to listen to the speech of the hon. and learned Member for East Bristol (Sir S. Cripps) welcoming these emergency powers. He was mild; but if it had suited his purpose he could have made an excellent speech showing that these emergency powers might be very valuable in the course of the next three or four years if it were desired to manage the banks entirely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-11a.2164.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-11", "file": "debates1932-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "4fd97f72ed3fe14e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-11a.2164.2", "colnum": "2164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL EMERGENCY ENACTMENTS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " their feeding stuffs put up owing to the fall in the value of the pound. I wrote to the Minister of Agriculture at the time, and I believe that he was able to stop it, in the main. At any rate, we ought to have an assurance from the Government that they have the necessary powers to deal with a question which does affect the farming community. I apologise for having troubled the House for so long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-11a.2164.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-11", "file": "debates1932-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "4fd97f72ed3fe14e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-11a.2171.4", "colnum": "2171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREY SEALS PROTECTION BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir BASIL PETO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have had it; you were not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BASIL PETO", "preceding_text": "Surely, when a Bill for the protection of grey seals is before the House, we should have some explanation as to why the Measure is necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-11a.2171.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-11", "file": "debates1932-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "4fd97f72ed3fe14e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-11a.2171.4", "colnum": "2171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREY SEALS PROTECTION BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir BASIL PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BASIL PETO", "preceding_text": "give my constituents a nice little well-paid job, paid by the day or by the hour, or perhaps by the number of animals that they exterminate. It is clear that the movement for extermination came from Orkney and now that the hon. Gentleman is on the front bench the grey seal will not have a ghost of a chance. Why do the National Government want this Bill? Is this a part of any great national policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-11a.2171.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-14", "file": "debates1932-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8d2006f2b9bd77b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-14a.48.0", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL EMERGENCY ENACTMENTS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "ed me some apprehension, when he said that there were disadvantages in our having gone off the Gold Standard, and that one of those disadvantages was that we had not got the stability that we had when we were linked up to gold. I suggest that since we left the Gold Standard we have enjoyed far greater stability than at any time during the five or six years that we were on the Gold Standard —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-14a.48.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-14", "file": "debates1932-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8d2006f2b9bd77b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-14a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL EMERGENCY ENACTMENTS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": " sponsored the going back to the Gold Standard in 1925. That, again, has proved to be impracticable. What really—I will not say alarms me, but is to me a source of regret, is that the Treasury are not able to keep the best officials. Some Treasury officials, instead of remaining at the Treasury, to give advice, have gone into the service of the Bank of England. I regret that very much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-14a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-14", "file": "debates1932-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8d2006f2b9bd77b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-14a.74.2", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL EMERGENCY ENACTMENTS (CONTINUANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All wrong!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "n. Member for Torquay (Mr. C. Williams). Government control of the Bank of England would be a disaster to this country, because it is most important that the control of the finances of the country in their technical operations should be absolutely free from all political influence. The Bank of England has had during the last 10 years to take the most momentous decisions at the most critical times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-14a.74.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-14", "file": "debates1932-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8d2006f2b9bd77b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-14a.114.5", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "I have been elected as a representative of Rhondda, just as the members of the Rhondda Urban District Council have been elected, by the same ratepayers, and I am asked to take some part in protesting against the Second Reading of this Bill. The National Gas Council has exceeded the bounds of decency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-14a.114.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-14", "file": "debates1932-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8d2006f2b9bd77b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-14a.115.3", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "ed with the facts by my own local authority. They think that a new principle is being introduced and that it is not in the best interests of local authorities that Clauses 5 and 6 of this Bill should be discussed upstairs. I hope that the demand of the Gas Company will be rejected and that no step will be taken by this House to grant a condition which must impose a burden on the urban authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-14a.115.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-14", "file": "debates1932-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8d2006f2b9bd77b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-14a.116.2", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "case of the modern houses built under the more recent Acts, the cost of maintenance is a very serious problem for local authorities. It seems extraordinary to me that hon. Members opposite who are so keen about the rights of property owners as a, general rule, should argue that a local authority which happens to be a property owner ought not to possess the rights accorded to other property owners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-14a.116.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-14", "file": "debates1932-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8d2006f2b9bd77b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-14a.120.6", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The tenants!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "ters and supporters. I cannot help feeling that those who are supporting the Bill would not support any Measure in- troduced in the same way and for the same purpose which sought to interfere with the rights of the owners of privately-owned houses in the way in which it is proposed to interfere with the rights of the people who publicly own houses. The people have a right to determine this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-14a.120.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-14", "file": "debates1932-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8d2006f2b9bd77b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-14a.132.0", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIANT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Ridiculous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIANT", "preceding_text": "wonder what this House, or anyone, would think if the London County Council, because it happens to own the tramway service in London, were to say, \"As we own that tramway service, you may not travel on anything else but our trams.\" It is identically the same as if a local authority who owned a municipal washhouse were allowed to say that people must not wash anywhere except at the municipal baths.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-14a.132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-14", "file": "debates1932-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8d2006f2b9bd77b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-14a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ot incur the financial expense in which the Kettering Urban District Council will be involved if this Bill secures a Second Reading and goes to Committee. It is obvious that, if this Bill receives a Second Reading, it is almost bound to pass through Committee and to receive a Third Reading. The inevitable consequence would be that in all subsequent cases this Bill would be regarded as a precedent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-14a.148.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-03-14", "file": "debates1932-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8d2006f2b9bd77b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-14a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Divide!", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Mr. LEWIS rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-14a.154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-15", "file": "debates1932-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "1af70568029f48eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-15a.187.2", "colnum": "187", "heading": "GOODS MADE BY FORCED LABOUR.", "cue_speaker": "Commander OLIVER LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander OLIVER LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "ference, delivered in June of last year, in which he says that: He could offer very little hope of relief for the worker, and admits that the peasant can no longer be recruited voluntarily for industry. Therefore, I am not required to prove my case in that respect. I would, however, point out that none of the causes referred to operate in England. We have not in this country expropriated property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-15a.187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-15", "file": "debates1932-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "1af70568029f48eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-15a.191.5", "colnum": "191", "heading": "GOODS MADE BY FORCED LABOUR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I wanted, if you, Mr. Speaker, and the House would allow me, to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-15a.191.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-15", "file": "debates1932-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "1af70568029f48eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-15a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "reases in the strength of the Royal Air Force foreshadowed in last year's Memorandum, namely, three new regular Squadrons for home defence and one additional Flight for the Fleet Air Arm, have been duly implemented. That sentiment meets with the approbation of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite. On behalf of my hon. Friends I want to say clearly and specifically that it has our disapprobation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-15a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.294.2", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "I am going to suggest that there are many farmers and millers who pray every night that it will be made more just—and that it is the purpose of the Amendment I have put on the Order Paper. It may be said: What do I know about agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.294.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "them to be put into a position of advantage or disadvantage not, because of the nature of the land they work, but because of the marketing they do or of the villages they perform. He wants them to be rewarded according to their own efforts. I venture to suggest that the differences between types of land in a particular part of this country are less than the differences in the whole of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.308.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "This Amendment, I understand, is moved by hon. Members with a variety of motives. If I understand it aright, one motive is that there should be no wheat growing of any kind in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "orm of agriculture in this country as a whole, that the land which is still suited, and perhaps as well suited as any other land in any part of the world, for the production of wheat, should be used for that purpose. That view has dictated the policy which this Bill proposes to carry out. The theory of the sliding scale, if I understand it aright, is gradually to discourage this cultivation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.331.0", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sugar-beet!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "have lived in those villages and on those farms all their lives. Surely that is a practical policy in a period of crisis, and it does not lie with hon. Members opposite to hold up their hands in holy horror at the idea of a subsidy being given to an industry in distress. How many millions has the coal industry received from subsidies, and how many millions have been given to the building industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. LAMB", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. LAMB", "preceding_text": "eve that the price is the real condition which will show whether the Bill should be temporary or not. The real justification for this or any other Bill is the conditions under which the industry is working at the time. I am confident that if the conditions were so to improve that the guarantee would no longer be required, the farmer would be the last man to ask for the continuation of the Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. LAMB", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. LAMB", "preceding_text": "r to know the price he was to receive, provided it was an economic price, than to take a price which did not pay him and have the hope of a second payment which would bring back some of the loss he sustained on his first sale. I suggest that in the minds of some people, the real objection to the Bill and the real reason for putting forward these wrecking Amendments, for that is all they are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. LAMB", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. LAMB", "preceding_text": "id that the price mentioned in the Bill is too high, having regard to the cost of production. Although the price would probably be higher than the pre-War price, it must be remembered that the costs of production for the wheat producer are so much higher. The cost of labour—and I am not making any charges against labour—in agriculture is 110 per cent. higher than it was before the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "No, the Noble Lady is not prepared for that. It is because the Noble Lady has listened to people who are thinking of agriculture as a whole and not thinking only of the wheat-growing areas, that she has adopted her present attitude. I want to make an appeal to the Committee, as one who represents an urban constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " the Committee, as one who represents an urban constituency. [ Interruption. ] Do not put me off; I have been sitting waiting a long time. I want to explain why it is important that we should not give a permanent dole to the wheat-growing farmers. On the Second Reading of the Bill I was very much struck by a maiden speech made by the hon. and gallant Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Captain Heilgers).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.340.0", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ing about British industry want to put people on the land and not to put money into the pockets of foreign investors. That is what the beet-sugar subsidy has done. We have to go very slow in regard to subsidies, and the House of Commons must be very careful about it. The Minister of Agriculture referred to three years. Three years is going to be rather a, testing time for this National Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.340.0", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "arming, but we want to have a policy with a vision. It is no good calling the payment in the Bill \"deficiency payment.\" It is a dole. Where do hon. Members think the money is coming from? We know that the money for the wheat subsidy is not coming from the stars. It is not coming from heaven and it is not coming from the millers' pockets. It is coming out of the pockets of the people who buy bread.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.340.0", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "o give an indefinite subsidy to a certain section of farmers. I am very sorry that the Government will not accept the Amendment, and I hope that hon. Members will not listen to what the Government say on this point. Let them cast their minds to their constituencies and let them cast their minds three years ahead. It is because I have never seen a House with so many promising young men in it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major HILLS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major HILLS", "preceding_text": "The Noble Lady the Member for the Sutton Division of Plymouth (Viscountess Astor) wants to help agriculture, and she wants to help it—she and her family of promising young men by refusing a subsidy on wheat. The remarkable thing about her speech was that it was received by uproarious cheering from those who do not want to help it at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.344.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.346.3", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel SANDEMAN ALLEN", "preceding_text": "I am satisfied with the Minister's explanation that the Measure is a temporary one and, therefore, I ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.346.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who says so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "e eyes of agriculturists, and if you are going to make it permanent, you may bring to a halt this very desirable process of the changeover. I am not denying that it is very difficult to make the turn-over, particularly after the lean years which the farmers have experienced, but is the light way of encouraging the turn-over by guaranteeing a price for a product which you do not want to grow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.377.5", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "lf. That is typical of this Government. This is a Government of landlords, capitalists and profiteers. The party that runs the present Government, with a few exceptions—the exceptions are going to be greater after the speech delivered in another place to-day—may be divided into three branches, the Farmers Union, the Federation of British Industries, and the Federation of Manufacturers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.377.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.377.5", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ns that are mentioned. We are not, in the Amendment, asking the Committee to say whether the wages are good or indifferent, whether the hours are too long and whether there are holidays with pay. All we say is that these considerations ought to be taken into account by the Committee of three. That is not asking too much, and I cannot see any Member of any party bold enough to oppose the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.377.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.377.5", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A long time ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ations ought to be taken into account by the Committee of three. That is not asking too much, and I cannot see any Member of any party bold enough to oppose the Amendment. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member is not as optimistic as I am. What in fact are the conditions of employment in the agricultural industry? I speak with a little feeling on this subject because I have been a farm servant myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.377.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.377.5", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "r which I worked, and, if the hon. Member had worked for three years on a farm, he would never forget it either. Let me come to the point that ought really to have the consideration of the Committee of three. There is an Act of Parliament on the Statute Book to pro vide the agricultural labourer with a minimum wage, but I am informed on good authority that the poor fellow is so disorganised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.377.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.377.5", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "mer you had to belong to the same church or chapel as the farmer himself. That sort of thing, happily, has passed. There was a time when, if you lived in a tied cottage, you had to vote as the farmer or the landlord told you to vote, and in spite of the ballot he had a strange way of finding out how you voted. I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman's predecessors knew something about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.377.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.377.5", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In all industries!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "s in the field, and who deals with the livestock. I confess that I do not like him to be forgotten in our discussions. I have met decent landlords and I have met good farmers, but hon. Gentlemen will know that it is true when I say that in spite of all that can be said about landlordism and farmers of this country there are a few who have forgotten all standards of honour towards their workpeople.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.377.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.406.0", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "is guess at the anticipated supply without deducting a figure for wastage first, to make a deduction for wastage after he has made his guess at the anticipated supply. I feel certain that he will agree that it is a perfectly accurate thing to do to make the deduction for wastage, unless he assures us that, when he first makes his estimate of anticipated supply, he is going to take the wastage out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.406.0", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " first, to make a deduction for wastage after he has made his guess at the anticipated supply. I feel certain that he will agree that it is a perfectly accurate thing to do to make the deduction for wastage, unless he assures us that, when he first makes his estimate of anticipated supply, he is going to take the wastage out. [ Interruption. ] Then why does he not take his seed out in anticipation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-16", "file": "debates1932-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0e552390f82730cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.427.3", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "Do they grind wheat or merely crush wheat?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-16a.427.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-03-17", "file": "debates1932-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d09c0b66afdb4946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.462.14", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CONFERENCES, OTTAWA, LAUSANNE AND GENEVA (DELEGATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "He is going.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether, in view of the profound importance to the future of the Empire of the conference at Ottawa, the Prime Minister will consider the desirability, if at all possible, of sending the Chancellor of the Exchequer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.462.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-17", "file": "debates1932-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d09c0b66afdb4946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.477.0", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, in page 6, line 17, to leave out Subsection (3). Hon. Members opposite have frequently cast eyes at Members on these benches for wanting to give large concessions to foreigners and for wanting always to help every country but our own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-17", "file": "debates1932-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d09c0b66afdb4946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are on the wrong Bill!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to learn that we are discovering the imperfections of this Bill. Ireland is a very small country, but we are now being asked to give protection to one part of it against another part. We know that these tariffs are to be imposed by Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-17", "file": "debates1932-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d09c0b66afdb4946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": " Amendment means that hon. Members opposite want to keep the barrier between North and South. They are trying to use this protectionist policy to prevent the two parts of Ireland joining again. They would come together if it were not for the political opinions and economic power of the people on the other side of the border. There ought to be no border. Ireland is one country and one people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-17", "file": "debates1932-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d09c0b66afdb4946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.485.4", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "The Free State does not want to go out. The Free State will come in to-morrow, if you like—in fact, the Free State has come in. Mr. De Valera is not the boss in Ireland now. There are nine Labour members there —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.485.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-17", "file": "debates1932-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d09c0b66afdb4946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.518.0", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ce, and having on board, as ship's stores, some biscuits, for example, not exceeding in value £10 or £15, a fine of £100 were imposed. Would it not be better to put in \"not exceeding £100,\" if you want to have such a fine, which is, I suppose, desirable in the case of any serious failure to make an entry? I hope my right hon. Friend will take the opportunity, in replying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-17", "file": "debates1932-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d09c0b66afdb4946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.533.2", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "and it has been perfectly obvious since the Debate started that the Minister of Agriculture does not understand it. It is also perfectly certain that the First Commissioner of Works has some very decided views on the subject, while the Minister of Agriculture is apparently only able to repeat the views which are handed to him on a piece of paper or communicated to him orally from the official pew.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.533.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-17", "file": "debates1932-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d09c0b66afdb4946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.541.2", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "uditor approved by the Minister. I want to go a stage further than that. With my Amendment inserted the Sub-section will read: (2) The accounts of the Millers' Quota Fund shall be kept in the prescribed form and shall be audited annually by an auditor approved by the Minister, and shall be laid before Parliament. That is the passage upon which my argument will turn for about three or four minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.541.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-17", "file": "debates1932-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d09c0b66afdb4946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.570.2", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "preceding_text": "I regard this Amendment as a very important one. Whether or not it is the intention of the Minister to abuse this power, the Clause as it is worded does permit him to charge certain expenditure in promoting the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.570.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-17", "file": "debates1932-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d09c0b66afdb4946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.570.2", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This Act.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "preceding_text": "is Amendment as a very important one. Whether or not it is the intention of the Minister to abuse this power, the Clause as it is worded does permit him to charge certain expenditure in promoting the Bill. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Well, let us read it: Any expenditure certified by the Minister to have been incurred, whether before or after the passing of this Act, in bringing this Act into operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.570.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-17", "file": "debates1932-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d09c0b66afdb4946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.570.2", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "preceding_text": "spect of negotiations that took place before Parliament gave consent to the Measure, and is a dangerous proceeding. Not only is it dangerous in the case of the Wheat Bill, but it may form a dangerous precedent, because there may some a time when we shall occupy the benches opposite—I think there will—and we could encourage this procedure with, probably, beneficial results to our party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.570.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-17", "file": "debates1932-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d09c0b66afdb4946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.572.0", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said exactly the opposite!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "A Noble Lord told us a few minutes ago, as regards grammar, that in English it was quite correct, but in the drafting of Bills it would most likely be incorrect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.572.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-17", "file": "debates1932-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d09c0b66afdb4946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.580.6", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I am entirely with the Deputy-Chairman, and I shall follow his orders to the last word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.580.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-17", "file": "debates1932-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d09c0b66afdb4946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.580.9", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "As I said, we are merely parting with powers under the Bill, and we shall never be able to recover them. It is a very important point which the right hon. Gentleman ought to bear in mind. I will give another illustration. I remember the Betting Control Board. I was on the Committee upstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.580.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-17", "file": "debates1932-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d09c0b66afdb4946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.592.0", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "require more inspectors we cannot get them, and where we require fewer the Government propose to give us more. These inspectors ought not to be allowed to trespass upon the private domestic premises of any farm. The Government may be making friends of the farmers by passing this Bill, but the farmers' wives will not love them if they give the inspectors power to enter upon their domestic premises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-17a.592.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-18", "file": "debates1932-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "37491769b9e250fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-18a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "el Ruggles-Brise) has raised. I, too, have some experience of farming. I farmed for 10 years and I was brought up on a farm, so that I have some slight knowledge of the growing of wheat as well as of other crops. The hon. and gallant Member must appreciate that the logical conclusion of his argument is that it is impossible to lay down a standard of mill-able wheat because whatever standard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-18a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-18", "file": "debates1932-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "37491769b9e250fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-18a.620.0", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": " all, if these things cannot happen, there will be no liability on the farming community. All the arguments against the Amendment have been to the effect that what we suggest cannot happen, yet this Clause is to give the Minister powers for the protection of millable wheat. We are asking for those powers to be somewhat extended, so that if this gluten and other impurities get into the wheat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-18a.620.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-18", "file": "debates1932-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "37491769b9e250fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-18a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "m sorry that the Minister cannot accept this Amendment, finding himself so tied and bound by precedent. In our view the interference of the Treasury with other Departments has been carried a great deal too far. We think the Ministry of Agriculture ought to be capable of looking after these financial matters. Its finance branch is not used simply because, on every occasion, the Treasury intervenes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-18a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-18", "file": "debates1932-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "37491769b9e250fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-18a.649.1", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "ms at including agriculture and at helping the farmers, generally, to raise the standard of cultivation. I think that is not an unreasonable assumption, but if the Bill is to work smoothly it is quite clear that the farmers must cease to look upon themselves as isolated citizens who have no contact with their neighbours. Many years ago when I was a candidate for an agricultural constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-18a.649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-18", "file": "debates1932-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "37491769b9e250fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-18a.649.1", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "uage, the same skill—the whole atmosphere would be changed and they would become at once advocates of co-operation and up-to-date marketing. The result is that there they make the thing pay, although they get lower prices for their produce and have to send that produce across the Pacific and the Atlantic to be sold. The only hope to break down that tradition is in the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-18a.649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-18", "file": "debates1932-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "37491769b9e250fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-18a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "pon farmers here. May I ask whether the Government have not imposed Protection upon them? Now we are asking that a Marketing Board should be imposed upon them, which seems a reasonable request to make. Why is it that the right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues are still hankering after this individualism? Anybody who looks at this Bill must admit that they have been largely converted to Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-18a.655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-18", "file": "debates1932-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "37491769b9e250fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-18a.655.2", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "arketing scheme, which was very successful, and led to extra profits for the farmers, and which, for the first time, put English wool on the London Wool Market in properly graded and sorted qualities. But again, owing to the minority of the farmers who stood out, it was not fully successful, and got into a bad way as all co-operative efforts have always done. We are asking that in this case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-18a.655.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-18", "file": "debates1932-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "37491769b9e250fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-18a.656.1", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "The Scots are far less individualistic than the English.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-18a.656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-18", "file": "debates1932-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "37491769b9e250fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-18a.661.0", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear Hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "I think the point to be borne in mind in considering this question is that these Orders must come into force with great rapidity. It is essential that there should not be delay, because of the possible effect in certain directions", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-18a.661.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-18", "file": "debates1932-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "37491769b9e250fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-18a.665.0", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ISLE OF MAN (CUSTOMS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "to go outside the scope of the Bill, but these Celtic people in the Isle of Man and in Wales and Brittany have a different outlook on such principles as this from Saxon-minded folk. I want to protest, as a Celt, that the Saxons are now using another Celt in order to impose their will upon the small community which lives in the Isle of Man. The point raised by the Leader of our party is a good one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-18a.665.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-18", "file": "debates1932-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "37491769b9e250fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-18a.665.0", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ISLE OF MAN (CUSTOMS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "fer as to the best way of putting our case. If hon. Gentlemen opposite have other points to put, they ought to put them this afternoon. We have a right to complain that the whole of the Debates this week have rested on us on these benches. The Lord President of the Council will know that this cannot be a debating Chamber any longer unless hon. Gentlemen on the other side contribute to the Debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-18a.665.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-03-21", "file": "debates1932-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "578b6ff525c54a72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-21a.697.4", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. SUGDEN", "preceding_text": "In regard to that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-21a.697.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-21", "file": "debates1932-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "578b6ff525c54a72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-21a.732.6", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "ave it quite certain that there will be no doubt as to the precise meaning of those words. The Secretary of State for Scotland has told us that this Bill will only apply to wheat which would be ordinarily milled. We know from what has been said by the Minister of Agriculture and his Department that the wheat which would ordinarily be milled is 15 per cent. of the total wheat grown in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-21a.732.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-21", "file": "debates1932-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "578b6ff525c54a72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-21a.770.5", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "ith a header and threshed with a stationary thresher; and an average of three-fourths of an hour of labour when the combined harvester-thresher is used. Does this Bill mean a new era for agriculture? Does it mean that for the first time, with security to the farmer for good prices for his wheat, we are to have the introduction of the combined harvest-thresher and the latest methods in agriculture?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-21a.770.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-21", "file": "debates1932-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "578b6ff525c54a72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-21a.770.5", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "security to the farmer for good prices for his wheat, we are to have the introduction of the combined harvest-thresher and the latest methods in agriculture? [ Interruption. ] I understand from same remarks behind me that we are not. I say that we are, and that is why I move this new Clause. We are living in the 20th century, and we have to be realists. We cannot go on ignoring world causes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-21a.770.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-21", "file": "debates1932-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "578b6ff525c54a72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-21a.770.5", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "r, but he is a great agriculturist From all I hear, he has been a successful farmer, and that largely explains his occupation on this particular job. Let him show that he has a message to the farming community and to the nation. This is supposed to be a temporary Measure, and, to use the phrase of the Secretary of State for Scotland, a lifebuoy thrown out to farmers to help them over a stormy sea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-21a.770.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-21", "file": "debates1932-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "578b6ff525c54a72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-21a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " get on without the House of Commons. They want some money—a lot of money—£26,000,000, and when we say, \"Tell us how you are getting on, and what you are doing with the money,\" the hon. Member for South Edinburgh (Sir S. Chapman) gives us the sort of homily to which we have just listened. Are we not entitled to know what we get for our money? We do not let workmen off in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-21a.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-21", "file": "debates1932-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "578b6ff525c54a72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-21a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "#8212;even though he may give him a Bill which nobody understands. Not one of the hon. and right hon. Gentlemen now on the Treasury Bench can give a really good and conclusive exposition of this Bill and say what it will be when it becomes an Act But we will trust the Ministry of Agriculture to send out a form! All we ask the farmer to tell us is the acreage of wheat which he sows and the variety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-21a.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-21", "file": "debates1932-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "578b6ff525c54a72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-21a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " fill up a form in order that the country may know whether he is cultivating land which is economically suited for wheat growing, what he produces and whether our money is assisting efficient methods of cultivation. The hon. Member for South Edinburgh appears to think that all that is necessary is to say to the farmer, \"Here is this £6,000,000; do the best you can with it; we will trust you.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-21a.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-21", "file": "debates1932-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "578b6ff525c54a72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-21a.782.0", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "of statistics. Now, of course, he has improved; I do not think he would say the same thing at the present time. The real reason why such whole-hearted support has been given to this Clause is to be found in the proviso. If the farmer makes the slightest slip in sending in his record, or is a day late with it, he cannot get the quota payments. That is the real reason why this Clause is put forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-21a.782.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-21", "file": "debates1932-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "578b6ff525c54a72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-21a.786.0", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "If the chairman is going to be independent, why not say so in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-21a.786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-21", "file": "debates1932-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "578b6ff525c54a72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-21a.791.0", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "the vice-chairman will have to occupy, he will realise that it is necessary, in the case of a body of such importance as this, to have a \"second string.\" For instance, the chairman may be ill at some time or other. It is our intention to select for this post some person of outstanding public importance who will in fact be independent, although I do not know how it would be possible to define that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-21a.791.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-22", "file": "debates1932-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "1edbd18d28a8e6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-22a.881.0", "colnum": "881", "heading": "LOTTERIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKIN MORRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is very difficult now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKIN MORRIS", "preceding_text": "have still further regulations authorised by the Privy Council for safeguards, as far as safeguards can go. Notwithstanding that, you cannot restrict the area; you cannot enforce the law with regard to other lotteries once you have permitted it in one field. That has been the experience. It was the experience in 1823, when they had to abolish State lotteries because they could not enforce the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-22a.881.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-22", "file": "debates1932-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "1edbd18d28a8e6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-22a.897.4", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ggling, in the midst of civil disobedience, to maintain its position. China is not a small nation. We are told it has a population of 400,000,000, and it may very well be that, with the Powers intriguing one against the other, with the bribery and corruption which it is well known the Powers have used against each other in their dealings with the various chiefs in China, there are disorders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-22a.897.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-22", "file": "debates1932-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "1edbd18d28a8e6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-22a.948.5", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": " in favour of this Bill. The Architectural Associations of Edinburgh are hostile to this Bill. The Cockburn Association, which makes it its special duty to preserve the beauty of Edinburgh as it already exists, and to enhance it by whatever public buildings may require to be built in the future, is unanimously hostile to this Bill. The Town Council of Edinburgh is not in favour of this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-22a.948.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-22", "file": "debates1932-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "1edbd18d28a8e6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-22a.971.0", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL CHAPMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL CHAPMAN", "preceding_text": "an architectural or a library expert, but that your company feel that, if this proposal were rushed through an irreparable blunder would be made which future generations might regret.\" He said without hesitation, \"Yes\" in answer to that question. There was also examined before that special commission the chairman of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, a gentleman well known to us, Mr. J. R. Little.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-22a.971.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-22", "file": "debates1932-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "1edbd18d28a8e6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-22a.997.3", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For a big Navy…\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "d I am asking the hon. Member for West Leicester (Mr. Pickering) and other hon. Members, if they would justify the things being done in Australia which they are attempting to justify in Manchuria. Surely, I have a right to argue that what would be wrong in Australia, one of our own Dominions, cannot be right in Manchuria, a province of China. That is sufficient I think to show the necessity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-22a.997.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-03-23", "file": "debates1932-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3afc1b68cb32aa58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1023.6", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "It is laid down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PIKE", "preceding_text": "Would it not be fairer if a definite speed were laid down, so that the driver would know?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1023.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-03-23", "file": "debates1932-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3afc1b68cb32aa58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1031.13", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Read them.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I will give the figures to the hon. Member after questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1031.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-23", "file": "debates1932-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3afc1b68cb32aa58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1045.6", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRISH FREE STATE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "Is that a declaration of war by the right hon. Gentleman?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1045.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-23", "file": "debates1932-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3afc1b68cb32aa58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1046.1", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRISH FREE STATE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why should there be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " minority expressing its view also. I want to ask the right hon. Gentleman if his statement to-day does not amount to this, that there will be no negotiations with Ireland on the question of her relations with this country, that he has made a statement to-day, that our decision is taken on the issue of the Oath and the land annuities, and that there will be no ordinary friendly negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-23", "file": "debates1932-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3afc1b68cb32aa58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1047.2", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRISH FREE STATE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "I wish to ask one question. I do not want to get into difficulties in regard to this situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1047.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-23", "file": "debates1932-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3afc1b68cb32aa58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "y resumption of industrial activity. Nobody suggests that the subject of private profit should come in at all, but by little or no expenditure a good many of those centres could be set up, and especially at a time like the present, when the State itself is an enormous employer of labour. I suppose that the historian in the future will look upon us as the most absurd and insane people in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-23", "file": "debates1932-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3afc1b68cb32aa58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1097.1", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "as been debited against the fund for interest. The Government should take steps to reduce this interest. The interest charges vary from 4½ per cent. to 5¼ per cent. That is an excessive percentage, especially when we remember that we are sitting on this side of the House and the Government are in power because of the use that was made of the Post Office Savings Bank at the last election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1097.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-23", "file": "debates1932-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3afc1b68cb32aa58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1097.1", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "ho invest in the Post Office Savings Bank get only 2½ per cent., but the Unemployment Insurance Fund is having to pay up to 5 * per cent. for the selfsame money. The Minister should take some steps to reduce that. We are in a worse position than we have been for years in the provision of work. In 1929 the Labour Government laid upon the Lord Privy Seal's office the duty of finding employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1097.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-23", "file": "debates1932-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3afc1b68cb32aa58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1097.1", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "ustries and find out why they are unemployed, and we ought to be able at least to some extent to develop a policy for dealing with this problem at its source. That sounded hopeful then. I am wondering whether all the machinery of the Lord Privy Seal's office has been destroyed, or whether that machinery, which then looked so well, has been transferred to the Ministry of Labour. I want to hurry on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1097.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-23", "file": "debates1932-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3afc1b68cb32aa58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1099.3", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On part-time\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "l with the question of low wages, and I regret that the Minister of Mines has left the House. The very low wages received to-day by our people in Durham do not enable them to make any provision for the time when unemployment overtakes them. We have, roughly speaking, 100,000 people employed in the coal-mining industry in Durham, and the average earnings last year were only 35s. 5d. per week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1099.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-23", "file": "debates1932-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3afc1b68cb32aa58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1099.3", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": " year wan 27,000,000, compared with 35,000,000 in 1929. Those figures show that our people are getting wages which are not decent wages and do not enable them to provide for a single day's unemployment. I shall not attempt to go into the arguments about the loss of our export trade. We are one of the districts, with South Wales, which is suffering on account of the tariff policy of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1099.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-23", "file": "debates1932-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3afc1b68cb32aa58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1105.1", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. Hore-Belisha)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. Hore-Belisha)", "preceding_text": "best. I think a reference to the dates will be sufficient to disprove the charge which the hon Member has made. The Abnormal Importations Bill was introduced on 18th November, 1931, and the Import Duties Bill on 4th February, 1932, whereas the French quota system came into existence on 1st August, the Belgian on 15th October and the German, in so far as it is a matter of complaint, on 1st October.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-23", "file": "debates1932-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3afc1b68cb32aa58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1110.4", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "e of policy and the abandonment of the traditional course that we have pursued, and he recalled that, in moving the last Order under the Abnormal Importations (Customs Duties) Act, I had referred to the setting up of certain factories here. He poured scorn on the types of articles that he said were being made. He thought it monstrous that ladies' stockings should be made here instead of in Saxony.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1110.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-23", "file": "debates1932-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3afc1b68cb32aa58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1134.1", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "e trouble to have them checked. The first that I come across in reading through the list of alleged hardships is the case of a single man where the income for a family of three persons is 44s. a week, and the next is a case where the income for a family of three is 60s. a week. I suggest that those are not cases of real hardship, and if that is the best case that the Labour party can put up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-23a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-24", "file": "debates1932-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "2a73d2abc02cfc8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-24a.1205.4", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT, EASTER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVID GRENFELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVID GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "rmly believes that God is an Englishman. He has almost said so in this House. He did once say that wherever there is a specially difficult piece of work to do God calls upon an Englishman to do it. I doubt whether a Welshman, a Scotsman or an Irishman would be allowed even to hold the tools for the Englishman while he does the job. The Lord President of the Council believes in mahatma and pandits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-24a.1205.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-03-24", "file": "debates1932-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "2a73d2abc02cfc8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-24a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER).", "cue_speaker": "Captain TODD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain TODD", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has merely forestalled what I was just going on to say. The first disadvantage is that we are definitely disgracing the name of British people by our advantage being gained to the detriment of thousands or hundreds of thousands of poor Russian peasants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-03-24a.1252.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-04-05", "file": "debates1932-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "49eb59843c2c2c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-05a.36.2", "colnum": "36", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS PROLONGATION (UNEMPLOYED PERSONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Nonsense!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "When I have finished the sentence, I will tell the hon. and learned Member about their own exertions. I say that the rich and the comfortable in this country have become absolutely callous with regard to the great mass of the people who are suffering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-05a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-05", "file": "debates1932-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "49eb59843c2c2c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-05a.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS PROLONGATION (UNEMPLOYED PERSONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "I claim that my statement came within the limits of Parliamentary Debate. I am not surprised at the objections to the statement I made, but I repeat that the great bulk of the comfortable class in this country owe what they have to these men who are suffering, and they are absolutely callous in allowing this thing to go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-05a.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-05", "file": "debates1932-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "49eb59843c2c2c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-05a.55.3", "colnum": "55", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS PROLONGATION (UNEMPLOYED PERSONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "inistration of the test and for the fact that it has been acceptable. My own view is that it has only been possible to carry it on because the unemployed people, the masses, have lost faith. They have seen a great trade union movement do little or nothing for them. They have seen a Labour party in power and forming a Government. They have never seen the Independent Labour party a Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-05a.55.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-05", "file": "debates1932-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "49eb59843c2c2c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-05a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS PROLONGATION (UNEMPLOYED PERSONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the date?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "ly helpless to ameliorate these conditions until new legislation is passed, and that the Minister of Labour should then send instructions to the local authorities to the opposite effect. I have here a letter written by the Minister of Labour to the Monmouthshire County Council Public Assistance Committee in which the Minister informs the committee that he has consulted with the Minister of Health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-05a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-05", "file": "debates1932-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "49eb59843c2c2c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-05a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS PROLONGATION (UNEMPLOYED PERSONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "have declared, in effect, that a man must work six days in a pit, or a shipyard or a steel works for the equivalent of the Poor Law scale of relief, though I submit that there is hardly an hon. Member who would dare to go on a platform and support that action. If we are to do things honourably, we ought to say that any person over 18 years of age is entitled to the full enjoyment of what he earns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-05a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-05", "file": "debates1932-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "49eb59843c2c2c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-05a.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS PROLONGATION (UNEMPLOYED PERSONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "he Labour party have thrown over the means test without equivocation. Any party born of the working classes was bound to repudiate any form of a means test applied to the family incomes of those suffering from unemployment. The declaration made by the Minister of Labour was that this Vote for £20,000,000 is required to carry on transitional payments and the means test until June of next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-05a.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-05", "file": "debates1932-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "49eb59843c2c2c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-05a.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS PROLONGATION (UNEMPLOYED PERSONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "amina, they will make it impossible for you to go on to a public platform—you who defend conditions such as that. The Minister of Labour may be a kindly soul as an individual, but, as a Member of this Government, he is carrying out a policy that I would be ashamed to carry out in any shape or form. I would go to-night from this House and put my head in a gas oven before I would carry it out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-05a.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-05", "file": "debates1932-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "49eb59843c2c2c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-05a.97.0", "colnum": "97", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS PROLONGATION (UNEMPLOYED PERSONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "those days and from the newspapers, because they objected to the Government coming again and again to the House for an extension of borrowing powers. They said that we could not go on doing this indefinitely and that we must get on to some permanent basis. The Minister of Labour is now doing exactly the same as previous Labour Ministers of Labour; he is asking for an extension of borrowing powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-05a.97.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-04-05", "file": "debates1932-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "49eb59843c2c2c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-05a.102.0", "colnum": "102", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS PROLONGATION (UNEMPLOYED PERSONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Read it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Head. But I have my body still. The Parliamentary Secretary discussed my attitude on this question in relation to the present means test. It happens that I spoke when the National Economy Bill was brought in, and if the Committee will allow me I would like to read what I then said: I, too, have a big post bag. It comes from widows, and from ex-service men. Then I said something about the Liberals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-05a.101.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-05", "file": "debates1932-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "49eb59843c2c2c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-05a.108.2", "colnum": "108", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS PROLONGATION (UNEMPLOYED PERSONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "uite sure that our percentage is bigger than that of the party opposite. The thing that makes a difference is, as the hon. Member for Bridgeton (Mr. Maxton) said, that we are now told that we are to wait until 1933 before we get any relief from this; but we shall go on. I am certain that there is growing up in the country a profound disgust, not from Socialists only, but from decent men and women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-05a.108.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-05", "file": "debates1932-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "49eb59843c2c2c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-05a.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS PROLONGATION (UNEMPLOYED PERSONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": "ember asked whether anything will be done before June, 1933, and whether I cannot hurry up the Royal Commission. The Commission has had imposed upon it the most difficult task that could possibly be put upon any body of men. I say what is a historical truth, that this Royal Commission was set up, not by us, but by the last Government, and the terms of reference were imposed by the last Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-05a.109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-06", "file": "debates1932-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2401e2befd5fd04f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-06a.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "hing but a review of price, a review of how much is to be paid. He does contemplate, then, that the system is to be permanent, and the argument which he has just put forward suggesting that there will be a review, and that it is all to be open again to decide whether it is wise or not, is really camouflage. He himself now says that that review is not intended to decide whether this is wise or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-06a.162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-06", "file": "debates1932-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2401e2befd5fd04f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-06a.182.0", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He will be in the Lobby!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "entions in our Debates in this House. It seems to me that this Amendment is a mere vote-catching dodge. It cannot be put forward seriously, and I am not surprised that the hon. and learned Member for East Bristol (Sir S. Cripps) is not here, that his name is not attached to the Amendment, and that he has not even graced the House with his presence during the time that it has been under discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-06a.182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-06", "file": "debates1932-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2401e2befd5fd04f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-06a.189.1", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are no profits in agriculture!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "he satisfied, for it seems that the less we ask for the working class the more pleased he will be. This is not a new principle. In co-partnership schemes, one of which exists in London on a large scale, an inducement is given to the workpeople by way of a bonus paid at the end of the year out of profits. Surely, if hon. Gentlemen approve of a proposal like that, they ought to accept our Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-06a.189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-06", "file": "debates1932-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2401e2befd5fd04f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-06a.245.0", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "We are deeply indebted to the right hon. Gentleman for his endeavour to explain Clause 7—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-06a.245.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-06", "file": "debates1932-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2401e2befd5fd04f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-06a.253.2", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "cannot divorce himself from responsibility. He may want to get out of all liability as to its future transactions. I understand he does not want to take on more liabilities, but this House is directly concerned. A little later on there is on the Order Paper an Amendment proposing that the transactions shall be laid before Parliament. If we are going to engage in this kind of State Socialism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-06a.253.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-07", "file": "debates1932-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "895aeab05da7aa93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.331.0", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": ". Member for Torquay (Mr. C. Williams) knows more about loafers than he does about loaves. We stand for the rights of the common people to get a loaf of bread under the conditions under which they have been accustomed to get it. Apparently, we are going to have a new loaf of 14 ounces to the lb. When the ordinary working man's wife goes to the shop she is to be robbed of two ounces of bread—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-07", "file": "debates1932-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "895aeab05da7aa93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.331.0", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": " more about loafers than he does about loaves. We stand for the rights of the common people to get a loaf of bread under the conditions under which they have been accustomed to get it. Apparently, we are going to have a new loaf of 14 ounces to the lb. When the ordinary working man's wife goes to the shop she is to be robbed of two ounces of bread—[ Interruption ]—and it becomes legal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-07", "file": "debates1932-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "895aeab05da7aa93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "subject and he was trying to prove that black was white. Then a second lawyer got up and contradicted the first, although they both belonged to the same party. I do not want to argue legal matters but I do want to say that you cannot make a 14 1b. loaf into a 16 1b. loaf.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-07", "file": "debates1932-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "895aeab05da7aa93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.335.6", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Constitution and Proceedings of Wheat Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY CAUTLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY CAUTLEY", "preceding_text": "iency and effectiveness of the Measure. 5.0 p.m. The other drawback to the effectiveness of this Measure which I see is this. It is handing the growers still more over to the millers. It is putting their necks under the yoke of the millers and yet the Minister is giving the millers a representation of three on this Commission. The House is probably not aware of the hold which the millers have got.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.335.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-07", "file": "debates1932-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "895aeab05da7aa93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.335.6", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Constitution and Proceedings of Wheat Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY CAUTLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY CAUTLEY", "preceding_text": "this point, but I do not agree with them as to the remedy which they propose. As the Minister pointed out in his Second Reading speech, the millers are the people who supply the wheat offals which are one of the main feeding stuffs used by farmers from one end of the country to the other. They have a complete control of milling, which has been increased since the Import Duties Act came into force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.335.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-07", "file": "debates1932-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "895aeab05da7aa93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.351.3", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Constitution and Proceedings of Wheat Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Mr. Skelton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is Socialism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Mr. Skelton)", "preceding_text": " will tend to develop and organise combination among the wheat growers, because they will have to be registered. The farmers will come under the aegis of a central body, and for the first time we shall leave behind that extreme individual activity which has characterised a great many farmers. The farmers will come under the aegis of a simple organisation which will be definitely beneficial to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.351.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-07", "file": "debates1932-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "895aeab05da7aa93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.351.3", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Constitution and Proceedings of Wheat Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Mr. Skelton)", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Into the bog!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Mr. Skelton)", "preceding_text": "sh farmer some solid, firm platform in the middle of what may be described as a quaking bog of loss and uncertainty. The Bill has been described as a sort of lifebuoy, but a solid platform is, perhaps, a better description, because what you can do with a lifebuoy is to hold on to it till a boat comes, but if you stand on a solid platform you can remain there till it is safe to take a step forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.351.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-07", "file": "debates1932-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "895aeab05da7aa93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.357.0", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Constitution and Proceedings of Wheat Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruptions.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "I am afraid it has really been an elaborate farce. The First Commissioner of Works described it simply as a means of extracting certain sums of money from certain sections of the people of this country and for giving profits to certain other sections, all the rest being, as he said, legal verbiage. I approached the consideration of this Bill with considerable experience of examining quota schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-07", "file": "debates1932-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "895aeab05da7aa93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.357.0", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Constitution and Proceedings of Wheat Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": " forgotten that the farmers of Scotland, who are never at a loss when there is something to be got, have already announced that they are out to put as much as they can under wheat, because they see there is a good thing in this, and even in England, where, of course, we are slower, there are people who are already preparing to increase their cultivation of wheat. There is plenty of evidence of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-07", "file": "debates1932-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "895aeab05da7aa93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.374.2", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Constitution and Proceedings of Wheat Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ce your employment and, if you do not have mechanisation, you do not reduce your costs. Only to-day I met a large farmer who has decided, because of the quota, to go in for mechanisation, and who is delighted at the fact that he is able to reduce his labour from 12 men to three. That was an actual case given to me today of a farmer proposing to do that because the quota method is being introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-07", "file": "debates1932-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "895aeab05da7aa93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.374.2", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Constitution and Proceedings of Wheat Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " could complain if they had to pay, because a great many people recognise that, if agriculture is to be put on a proper basis, it is going to cost money, but it is because this Bill does nothing of the kind that I oppose it. As far as this Bill is concerned, 97 per cent. of agriculture is ignored, and, indeed, the 65 per cent., namely, the animal products of this country, are definitely penalised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-07", "file": "debates1932-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "895aeab05da7aa93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.374.2", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Constitution and Proceedings of Wheat Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " to be put on a proper basis, it is going to cost money, but it is because this Bill does nothing of the kind that I oppose it. As far as this Bill is concerned, 97 per cent. of agriculture is ignored, and, indeed, the 65 per cent., namely, the animal products of this country, are definitely penalised. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"] Because everything the farmers buy, including grain, will cost them more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-07", "file": "debates1932-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "895aeab05da7aa93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.381.0", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Constitution and Proceedings of Wheat Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. H. WILSON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. H. WILSON", "preceding_text": "illable wheat is represented by A cwts.; if the estimated supply of flour is represented by E cwts.; if P shillings per cwt. is the ascertained average price of home-grown millable wheat, and S shillings per cwt. is the standard price as laid down in the Bill, then the quota payment is represented by the simple formula A/E(S—P Shillings) and this sum shall be calculated to the nearest penny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.381.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-07", "file": "debates1932-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "895aeab05da7aa93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.382.0", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Constitution and Proceedings of Wheat Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALED ROBERTS", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALED ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "ertain that there are many hundreds of thousands of others who would like to know, what was the reason why this word \"quota,\" which still appears in the Bill, has now a totally different meaning from that which it bore when the policy was first mentioned in this House. At the commencement the quota was to be a proportion of British flour made from British wheat in every loaf. But that disappeared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-07", "file": "debates1932-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "895aeab05da7aa93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.396.1", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Constitution and Proceedings of Wheat Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": " fat dole is going to be put into their pockets. Without any desire to be offensive to colleagues in this House, I say it is perfectly well known that a considerable number of hon. Members sitting on the Government side are going to benefit very materially by this Bill. Let us be perfectly frank, they are going to make some thousands of pounds a year out of this Bill. There is no question of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.396.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-07", "file": "debates1932-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "895aeab05da7aa93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.398.2", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Constitution and Proceedings of Wheat Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": " of 3 per cent. of the total of our agricultural value—that is all that the most optimistic supporter of the Government can hope that this Bill will affect! Of course, the Minister, when he wrote that, was writing with his tongue in his cheek. There may be some simple folk who believe him. There appear to be some hon. Members on the benches opposite now who really believe that sort of stuff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.398.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-07", "file": "debates1932-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "895aeab05da7aa93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Constitution and Proceedings of Wheat Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "scount Wolmer) and others have referred to agriculture as a distressed industry, but there are many other distressed industries in the country. I have tried to represent a constituency which is partly agricultural and partly mining, and if I were to attempt to determine which of the two sections is the more distressed, I should say that the mining section is perhaps the more distressed of the two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-07", "file": "debates1932-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "895aeab05da7aa93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Constitution and Proceedings of Wheat Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "asis of leaving the poorest of the poor to make the biggest contributions. Secondly, we quite agree that the world price for heat is too low and that something may be done for wheat producers. We are willing always to avoid excessive losses, where we are satisfied that a deficiency exists, but our policy, instead of the policy embodied in this Bill, would be, first of all, to nationalise the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-07", "file": "debates1932-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "895aeab05da7aa93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Constitution and Proceedings of Wheat Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " and we are convinced that the burden is being placed upon a large body of people who can ill afford to carry any further burden, more particularly those who belong to the unemployed and are living on 15s. 3d. per week. For these reasons, we are obliged to oppose this Motion when otherwise we should have been delighted to do something that would be of lasting benefit to the agricultural community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-07a.422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-08", "file": "debates1932-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "192a67a9fc8c0b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-08a.443.2", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS PROLONGATION (UNEMPLOYED PERSONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Mr. R. S. Hudson)", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Mr. R. S. Hudson)", "preceding_text": "at I heard the hon. Member for Chester-le-Street (Mr. Lawson) state on Tuesday that As far as we are concerned, we are for ending the means test, root and branch, without equivocation or qualification.\"[OFFICIAL REPORT, 5th April, 1932; col. 40, Vol. 264.] On this point, I should like to ask one or two questions. Are we to take it that that declaration is the considered policy of the Labour party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-08a.443.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-08", "file": "debates1932-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "192a67a9fc8c0b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-08a.453.0", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS PROLONGATION (UNEMPLOYED PERSONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": " an opportunity of furnishing on such forms details of their normal weekly household expenses. I suggest that that is going too far. The forms ask for rent, insurance, income from pensions, and wages, and now we have proceeded to a stage where you ask for details of the normal weekly household expenditure. Do you want to check, in the weekly grocery bill, the two ounces of tobacco for the husband?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-08a.453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-08", "file": "debates1932-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "192a67a9fc8c0b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-08a.453.0", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS PROLONGATION (UNEMPLOYED PERSONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rail- way fares.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "s of their normal weekly household expenses. I suggest that that is going too far. The forms ask for rent, insurance, income from pensions, and wages, and now we have proceeded to a stage where you ask for details of the normal weekly household expenditure. Do you want to check, in the weekly grocery bill, the two ounces of tobacco for the husband? [ Interruption. ] Oh, yes, details are asked for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-08a.453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-08", "file": "debates1932-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "192a67a9fc8c0b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-08a.458.3", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS PROLONGATION (UNEMPLOYED PERSONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "I am very much obliged to the Minister for making that point perfectly clear. Then that criticism does not apply, and we may congratulate ourselves that that artificial swelling of the fund which went on so continuously under the Labour Government is entirely at an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-08a.458.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-08", "file": "debates1932-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "192a67a9fc8c0b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-08a.475.2", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS PROLONGATION (UNEMPLOYED PERSONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "enefit was not as the hon. Member for St. Pancras, North (Captain Fraser) suggested, that we might get the right man in order to give him more money. The reason why the means test and the cuts in unemployment pay were adopted was because the nation got into a state of hysteria about its financial condition. The Government of the day had been made to believe that the whole thing was going to crash.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-08a.475.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-08", "file": "debates1932-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "192a67a9fc8c0b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-08a.475.2", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS PROLONGATION (UNEMPLOYED PERSONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "riod. If it was going to crash, they ought to have said, as Socialists, \"Well, this is the day we have been waiting for for about 20 years.\" But when they were advised of the coming crash of the capitalist system, they said: \"We dare not let it go. We must cling to it for all we are worth.\" Our Socialist system is for happier men than we are, and our Socialist State is to be created for men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-08a.475.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-08", "file": "debates1932-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "192a67a9fc8c0b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-08a.475.2", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS PROLONGATION (UNEMPLOYED PERSONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Soviet?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "of the foreigners to do these things. If I could see any foreign nation that was making a bigger success of its own industry than we do, I might say that this great last hope of Conservatism that foreigners would revive British industry would have some foundation, but when we find the foreigners on their own pitch one does not see them doing it any better than, Britain has been doing it, up to now", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-08a.475.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-08", "file": "debates1932-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "192a67a9fc8c0b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-08a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS PROLONGATION (UNEMPLOYED PERSONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "amship lines have got, for the fact that half the mines of the country are derelict, for the condition of the cotton trade of Lancashire, the wool industry of Yorkshire, or the Clyde shipbuilding industry. He knows that it is cheapjack stuff to say that the crisis of 1931 was one of the responsibilities of the late Labour Government. They never did anything wrong from the capitalist point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-08a.481.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-04-08", "file": "debates1932-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "192a67a9fc8c0b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-08a.492.2", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS PROLONGATION (UNEMPLOYED PERSONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Why did not your Government do it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "certain persons who have never done anything for the State. They receive those annuities because they are the descendants of certain eminent men or women. If money can be given to those persons, there should not be an inquiry into the means of the genuinely unemployed man or woman. I advise hon. Members who wish to examine thrift and savings to press for the cutting off of some of those annuities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-08a.492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-08", "file": "debates1932-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "192a67a9fc8c0b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-08a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS PROLONGATION (UNEMPLOYED PERSONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "face the problem of dealing with 1,500,000 unemployed in June, 1933. Is there any hope of the Government being able to find work for them, or are the Government doing anything in order to find work for them? There is this to be said on behalf of the Labour Government, that they attempted to do what this Government are not trying to do. They did make some efforts to provide work for the unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-08a.507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-08", "file": "debates1932-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "192a67a9fc8c0b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-08a.508.4", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS PROLONGATION (UNEMPLOYED PERSONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the unemployment in that area?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "n just before the Recess, I drew the attention of the House to a statement made by the Prime Minister. I repeat it to-day, because the Minister of Labour wants the House to believe that the National Government are in favour of the means test. I want to know where the Prime Minister stands on this question. He sits for a seat in the county of Durham, and he delivered a speech there on 30th January.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-08a.508.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-11", "file": "debates1932-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8dc664ab445c1a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-11a.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Extension of period in, respect of which transitional payments may be made in, certain cases.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "This Parliament has been remarkable for the large number of maiden speeches that have been delivered, but in my experience very few of them by the younger Members of the House have been characterised by modesty. If I may say so, the speech to which we have just listened has not been characterised by much modesty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-11a.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-11", "file": "debates1932-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8dc664ab445c1a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-11a.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Extension of period in, respect of which transitional payments may be made in, certain cases.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Modesty!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "s been remarkable for the large number of maiden speeches that have been delivered, but in my experience very few of them by the younger Members of the House have been characterised by modesty. If I may say so, the speech to which we have just listened has not been characterised by much modesty. [ Interruption. ] If the hon. Member opposite will listen for a moment he will know something about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-11a.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-11", "file": "debates1932-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8dc664ab445c1a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-11a.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Extension of period in, respect of which transitional payments may be made in, certain cases.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "e have heard from younger Members opposite more than once in this Parliament, and it is, that if we are to cure unemployment, to relieve these people from the dire necessity of a means test, then the thing we have to do is to relieve taxation; it is taxation that is burdening industry, breaking its back, causing rampant unemployment throughout the country and the terrible poverty which now exists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-11a.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-11", "file": "debates1932-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8dc664ab445c1a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-11a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Extension of period in, respect of which transitional payments may be made in, certain cases.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-11a.615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-11", "file": "debates1932-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8dc664ab445c1a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-11a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Extension of period in, respect of which transitional payments may be made in, certain cases.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "Yes. [ Laughter. ] I mean no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-11a.615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-11", "file": "debates1932-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8dc664ab445c1a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-11a.616.3", "colnum": "616", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Extension of period in, respect of which transitional payments may be made in, certain cases.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "est because they are drawing State benefits? If he does, it applies to far more than these people. One would like the Parliamentary Secretary to take a leaf out of the book of his chief, because he has given the impression since he became Parliamentary Secretary that he delights in such things as the means test and the stopping of unemployment benefit, and that he takes a thorough delight in them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-11a.616.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-11", "file": "debates1932-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8dc664ab445c1a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-11a.622.0", "colnum": "622", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Extension of period in, respect of which transitional payments may be made in, certain cases.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": " means test, and expressing my satisfaction that this party, small as it is, will have an opportunity of making that protest. I do not know if I am in order in referring to the question of who originated the means test. The statement has been going round the country that the Minister of Health in the last Labour Government was the originator of the test. I consider that is a most unfair statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-11a.622.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-11", "file": "debates1932-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8dc664ab445c1a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-11a.622.0", "colnum": "622", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Extension of period in, respect of which transitional payments may be made in, certain cases.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Anomalies Act.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "in seeking to lay the blame there. As one who has been keenly interested in this Unemployment Fund over a long period, and who has followed closely the progress of every Bill concerning it for the last 10 years, I wish to say that that statement is one of the most unfair things that I know of. For anyone to attempt to say that the late Minister of Health was the originator of the means test—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-11a.622.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-11", "file": "debates1932-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8dc664ab445c1a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-11a.622.2", "colnum": "622", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Extension of period in, respect of which transitional payments may be made in, certain cases.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For Poor Law purposes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "responsibility. The late Minister of Health did one of the finest things that a man ever did in connection with this question, in January, 1930, long before there was any idea of sending the unemployed before the public assistance committees, when he issued a circular urging that men receiving disability pensions should be treated as kindly as possible when before the public assistance committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-11a.622.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-04-12", "file": "debates1932-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7d3c3c1aa61ae820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-12a.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Object!", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MORRIS-JONES", "preceding_text": "In view of the full explanation of my right hon. Friend, with the permission of the Seconder, I beg leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-12a.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-12", "file": "debates1932-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7d3c3c1aa61ae820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-12a.770.0", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was that in Scotland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "me time, we have members of a family, including children, suffering from tuberculosis compelled to live 8 or 10 to a single room or in a room-and-kitchen house, and the authorities are paying no attention to the matter and making no effort to house them better. One day I went myself to see the local authority in connection with a man and woman living in a single room with a family of eight.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-12a.770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-13", "file": "debates1932-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6a6b4bef2c5a29e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.857.0", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GORDON MACDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is the same practice!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GORDON MACDONALD", "preceding_text": "er of the present Government does not hold the same opinion. As the hon. Gentleman knows, the Prime Minister of the National Government believes in a little laxity, a little change, as he has shown within the last few months. Dealing with a Prime Minister who resists any change in constitutional practice is a vastly different matter from dealing with a Prime Minister who agrees with such a change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.857.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-13", "file": "debates1932-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6a6b4bef2c5a29e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.864.0", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "preceding_text": "our duty as parliamentary representatives to listen to the voice of our constituents. We each have our own way of estimating the value of the opinions expressed. There is no doubt about it that in the country there is deep and sincere anxiety about the Bill. You may, in the atmosphere in which we live in this great metropolis, with its horrid blot of over-development in this part of England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.864.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-13", "file": "debates1932-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6a6b4bef2c5a29e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "tation of the cinema will reach, and has reached at the present time. I was dealing with the character of the cinema. Why should it be selected? I observe that a well-known actor who recently went to America was asked what he was going to do at Hollywood, and he replied, \"Oh, the usual sex stuff.\" This is a Bill to enable the cinema, which cannot raise above the usual sex stuff, to open on Sunday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-13", "file": "debates1932-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6a6b4bef2c5a29e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The dance hall!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " part of my argument that if life is so drab that it requires the cinema to be opened on Sunday, why stop at the cinema? There are hundreds and thousands of people who take no interest in the cinema. If they live in slums and either do not want to go to the cinema or cannot afford to do so, why should we not open other opportunities of entertainment to them, however much Sunday labour it involves?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-13", "file": "debates1932-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6a6b4bef2c5a29e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "ial districts in this country is not drab. Of course, it is drab. All industrial life is drab, and we claim that the cinema, by bringing a change, brings perhaps the greatest form of rest and of mental relaxation that we can possibly have. I will go further and say that it brings warmth and life to many people to whom it is very difficult to bring those things. It has very great educational value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-13", "file": "debates1932-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6a6b4bef2c5a29e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "of mental relaxation that we can possibly have. I will go further and say that it brings warmth and life to many people to whom it is very difficult to bring those things. It has very great educational value. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I venture to say that hon. Members below the Gangway who interrupt have probably seen much more of the world through the cinema than they ever would have done otherwise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-13", "file": "debates1932-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6a6b4bef2c5a29e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "o say that hon. Members below the Gangway who interrupt have probably seen much more of the world through the cinema than they ever would have done otherwise. [ Interruption. ] Certainly. Over and over again I have been thrilled not by mere lurid drama, with strong sex interest, but by the display of commercial activity, native activity in various countries of the world, as revealed at the cinema.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-13", "file": "debates1932-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6a6b4bef2c5a29e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.878.4", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major OWEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Concerts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major OWEN", "preceding_text": "lation which tends in any way to detract from the sanctity and holiness of Sunday. The position in Wales with regard to Sunday is quite different from that which exists in England. In Wales no cinemas are opened on Sunday, and there is not, and never has been, any demand that they should be opened. The overwhelming opinion in the country is definitely against any inroads on the sanctity of Sunday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.878.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-13", "file": "debates1932-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6a6b4bef2c5a29e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.914.2", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "ed by certain people at certain times, but it is amazing to hear the argument of the Attorney-General that because certain Clauses in certain Bills may or can be evaded, therefore the whole law should be scrapped. A good deal of cant and humbug is being talked by certain Members of the House about our English Sunday. I doubt whether there are many Members in the House who mean what they say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.914.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-13", "file": "debates1932-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6a6b4bef2c5a29e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£13,000,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "nema tonight, I am given to understand, are about 30s. a week for 12 hours a day. When hon. Members talk about charity, I am informed—I cannot vouch for this figure—that the total amount collected for charity by the cinemas of this country last year was £180,000. I do not know the figure spent on all the hospitals, but I should not be surprised if it was £10,000,000 at least.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-13", "file": "debates1932-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6a6b4bef2c5a29e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.940.0", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "urch does not make any difference even saying prayers or singing hymns does not make any difference. It is what we are that determines what our creed really is. I take no stock in the argument which has been put forward again and again to-night about the effect of church-going or Sunday school teaching—as if only the people who run a theological Sunday school are doing self-sacrificing work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.940.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-13", "file": "debates1932-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6a6b4bef2c5a29e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.940.0", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "rayers or singing hymns does not make any difference. It is what we are that determines what our creed really is. I take no stock in the argument which has been put forward again and again to-night about the effect of church-going or Sunday school teaching—as if only the people who run a theological Sunday school are doing self-sacrificing work. [ Interruption. ] That was said here to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.940.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-13", "file": "debates1932-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6a6b4bef2c5a29e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.940.0", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " know what—like we do sometimes. Look at what now happens! I will give a very simple instance. A man and his wife and three or four children live in two rooms. In the old days there was no place for them to go to but the public-house, and the man went there, but now the man and his wife put the children to bed and go to the cinema. They go home and have a jolly nice couple of hours together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-13a.940.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-04-14", "file": "debates1932-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "e4cd55bf7fba42ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-14a.969.5", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I hope that the question which I am putting now is in order in relation to the original question. I received a definite answer and that was \"no,\" and my supplementary question, following upon that, asks whether the conditions in the country to-day do not demand that the Minister should do something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-14a.969.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-04-14", "file": "debates1932-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "e4cd55bf7fba42ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-14a.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Because you have spent it all.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDWARD WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Why cannot British capital be employed for this purpose?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-14a.1016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-14", "file": "debates1932-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "e4cd55bf7fba42ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-14a.1021.1", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "n look with hope unless there is a complete restoration of law and order throughout the whole Chinese Empire. The prospect of our extending our markets in Europe has become smaller as the prohibitions to which I have referred have extended, and as the new States develop narrow, national economic policies without any consideration for their own wider interests or for the state of Europe as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-14a.1021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-14", "file": "debates1932-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "e4cd55bf7fba42ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-14a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral TAYLOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral TAYLOR", "preceding_text": " in order to bring about the greatest possible freedom of trade throughout the Empire and by that means, with the power we obtain, to beat down the tariffs throughout the world which everyone admits are such a dire hindrance to world trade at the present time. The hon. Gentleman also rather objected to the setting up of foreign factories in this country. He talked of a swallow not making a summer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-14a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-14", "file": "debates1932-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "e4cd55bf7fba42ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-14a.1044.1", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "We were on the right path in 1924, when the hon. and gallant Member was not a Member of this House. The Labour party were in office in 1924. At that time the Prime Minister was a Socialist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-14a.1044.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-14", "file": "debates1932-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "e4cd55bf7fba42ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-14a.1083.0", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FREDERICK MILLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FREDERICK MILLS", "preceding_text": "world. In 1913 a 5 per cent. tariff would have done the trick. In 1929 a 10 per cent. tariff would have done the trick. Whether a 331 per cent. tariff, which I hope is what we are going to get, will be sufficient, I cannot say—at any rate, not immediately—but it will help. I am satisfied that it is no use giving a tariff for a short period. You must give a tariff for at least 10 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-14a.1083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-14", "file": "debates1932-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "e4cd55bf7fba42ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-14a.1119.0", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "ther to dispute with my hon. Friend, but that we had an adverse balance and that we had all the evidences of an adverse balance, in having to obtain credits abroad, and in a depreciated currency, is beyond dispute. It was desired by the electorate, indeed it was imposed upon us by necessity, that we should endeavour to redress this adverse balance of payments. There were only two ways of doing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-14a.1119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-14", "file": "debates1932-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "e4cd55bf7fba42ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-14a.1120.5", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "If it had not been for the crisis, how does my hon. Friend explain his presence in this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-14a.1120.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-14", "file": "debates1932-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "e4cd55bf7fba42ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-14a.1121.2", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "been disappointed at not receiving new industries in their constituencies, I can only say that there are no sanctions possessed by the Government to oblige any particular undertaking to establish itself at any particular spot. Naturally, any undertaker of a new industry will have regard to the rates, to the general conditions in the neighbourhood, to the rigidity of trade union restrictions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-14a.1121.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-15", "file": "debates1932-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44cebf62f80fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-15a.1150.0", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ore, for alteration in the existing law, and the matter is within the discretion of the courts. The Prison Commissioners are now engaged in several interesting developments with a view to making the reformatory effect on prisoners more effective. At Wakefield Prison now there are about 300 first offenders and about 100 others who are being subjected to a new system of training with intensive work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-15a.1150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-15", "file": "debates1932-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44cebf62f80fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-15a.1163.0", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir VIVIAN HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir VIVIAN HENDERSON", "preceding_text": " natural that many of them should come back with an entirely different mental outlook. But, with all due respect to that point of view. I am convinced, from personal contact with many of these lads, that their outlook with regard to property, and their disrespect for property, is also due to some extent, not to the War, but to the extreme Socialist teaching which has arisen as a result of the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-15a.1163.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-04-18", "file": "debates1932-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "425bebceb63b166f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-18a.1247.6", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENVILLE", "preceding_text": "Arising out of the right hon. Gentleman's reply, may I draw the attention of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-18a.1247.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-18", "file": "debates1932-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "425bebceb63b166f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-18a.1284.0", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "preceding_text": "technical education. In the last Parliament we had a proposal for raising the school-leaving age which caused a good deal of controversy. The right hon. Gentleman, I know, is in favour of the principle; indeed, I think he was the first to move a Resolution in favour of that principle, a fact which is to his credit. Now the possibility of raising the school age seems as remote as the Greek Kalends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-18a.1284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-18", "file": "debates1932-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "425bebceb63b166f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-18a.1292.0", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They should do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "preceding_text": "n he made his review of the situation in presenting these Estimates. He said that if he thought the Estimates he was putting before the Committee would impair the efficiency of education he would not be standing at that Box. But does the right hon. Gentleman seriously suggest that these Estimates can go forward without impairing education and elementary education in particular, even as we know it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-18a.1292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-18", "file": "debates1932-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "425bebceb63b166f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-18a.1336.0", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST EVANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A great deal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST EVANS", "preceding_text": "e manner in which the last speaker referred to the profession to which he belongs, that he must be a doctor because no other profession talks in that way about itself. Let him apply his mind to this phase of educational expenditure in which the need for economy is, I suggest, being exaggerated. If he has knowledge of public health and experience of work in health services as he probably has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-18a.1336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-18", "file": "debates1932-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "425bebceb63b166f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-18a.1340.0", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PICKERING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PICKERING", "preceding_text": "I rise as one who believes that education is the most important service in the world and that the teacher is the most important person in the world, and though I must say, in the presence of the President of the Board of Education, \"We find you not guilty,\" I also say, \"Do not do it again.\" I do not very well see how, in the circumstances, the right hon. Gentleman could have avoided the economies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-18a.1340.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-04-19", "file": "debates1932-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "2060fe832b903de6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-19a.1396.6", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DOMINIONS (DEPORTATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Yes!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well what I mean. Does he think that discussions in this House about trade generally are concerned with the welfare of poor people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-19a.1396.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-19", "file": "debates1932-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "2060fe832b903de6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-19a.1413.1", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "3;4,500,000. Actually we have only got £3,200,000, but, after all, in these hard times £3,200,000 is not to be sneezed at, and I make my acknowledgment to those who, as they have told me, have paid more money for worse beer rather than disappoint expectations of the country. Two more duties I must mention which have proceeded in opposite directions. Spirits continued their downward path.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-19a.1413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-19", "file": "debates1932-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "2060fe832b903de6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-19a.1440.0", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "n? I was much struck by the Chancellor's statement that we had reached the limit of direct taxation and I would like to ask someone who speaks to-morrow on behalf of the Government to tell us from where this other money is coming. It is not coming from heaven or out of the sea. It is coming out of the pockets of people somewhere or other. The right hon. Gentleman may say, \"Oh, the foreigner pays.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-19a.1440.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-04-20", "file": "debates1932-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ccdebc74733ffb23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1465.5", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BURNETT", "preceding_text": "My suggestion is that the changes were made in the period when—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1465.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-20", "file": "debates1932-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ccdebc74733ffb23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1481.9", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What does the 'Daily Herald' say?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "t is interesting to see what the various papers say about the Budget. The \"Times\" calls it \"hard;\" the \"Morning Post\" says that it is \"austere and cautious;\" the \"Yorkshire Post\" says it is \"stern;\" the \"Express\" says it is \"stand pat;\" the \"Manchester Guardian\" says it is \"bleak;\" and the hardest hit of all is that of the \"Birmingham Gazette\" which says it is an \"all round disappointment Budget.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1481.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-20", "file": "debates1932-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ccdebc74733ffb23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1481.9", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "tee what he said about a revenue tariff, because he said he would not accept a revenue tariff as being merely a revenue tariff, and not Protection. He said: A revenue tariff, apart from its Protectionist object, is a means of relieving the well-to-do at the expense of the poor, and is an indirect method of reducing wages. I shall never he a party to such an imposition. When is a party not a party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1481.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-20", "file": "debates1932-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ccdebc74733ffb23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1481.9", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Socialist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "id he would not accept a revenue tariff as being merely a revenue tariff, and not Protection. He said: A revenue tariff, apart from its Protectionist object, is a means of relieving the well-to-do at the expense of the poor, and is an indirect method of reducing wages. I shall never he a party to such an imposition. When is a party not a party? [ Interruption. ] The answer is, when it is National.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1481.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-20", "file": "debates1932-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ccdebc74733ffb23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1488.1", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Co-operators. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "rse, if the right hon. Gentleman says that it is his policy to support the individual trader against the multiple firm, we can understand it, but, from the point of view of pure equity, if there are two shops doing business in the same town, one a branch shop and the other an individual business, and one is to pay and the other is not, you are going to cause intense feeling throughout the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-20", "file": "debates1932-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ccdebc74733ffb23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1488.1", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Means test!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "d by which home-grown sugar received certain subsidies. We might call that the covenanted benefit. Last year there was a special appeal made to the Government, and an additional sum was given over and above the letter of the law, which we might call uncovenanted benefit. But last time a test was applied. It was only to be received by those sugar factories which gave a certain price to the growers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-20", "file": "debates1932-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ccdebc74733ffb23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1488.1", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "an talked about a wonderful revival of public confidence. I think it takes a, great deal of looking to see any great revival of public confidence. I do not believe that the people of this country have any confidence to-day in the financial machinery by which trade and industry are carried on. The events of the last few months have shown to everybody the dangerous position in which this country is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-20", "file": "debates1932-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ccdebc74733ffb23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1488.1", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "oods. The right hon. Gentleman's Budget may carry us on, or it may not. It depends almost entirely upon what happens to world affairs in general. We shall oppose this Budget. I do not say that the right hon. Gentleman, acting as a capitalist, taking care of the capitalist system, could have been expected to do much else. The National Government never professed to be doing anything for the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-20", "file": "debates1932-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ccdebc74733ffb23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1544.1", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "d the interest was reduced from 4 per cent. to 3½ per cent. by Act of Parliament. In 1750 another Act was passed reducing the interest another ½ per cent. to 3 per cent., and William Pitt himself commended the action of the Government in passing those two Acts by saying that it was a wise proceeding for the Government to have adopted. Goschen also reduced the interest upon certain funds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1544.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-04-20", "file": "debates1932-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ccdebc74733ffb23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1546.0", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "They got their money back!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": ". In 1750 another Act was passed reducing the interest another ½ per cent. to 3 per cent., and William Pitt himself commended the action of the Government in passing those two Acts by saying that it was a wise proceeding for the Government to have adopted. Goschen also reduced the interest upon certain funds. [ Interruption. ] I am not saying whether it was by conversion or Act of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-20", "file": "debates1932-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ccdebc74733ffb23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1561.2", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "But is it not the case that the Act of 1750 extended the time for those individuals who did not make full use of the time given under the Act of 1749? There was a time limit for them, either to transfer their holdings to a new and lower rate of interest or to receive the money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1561.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-20", "file": "debates1932-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ccdebc74733ffb23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1596.2", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "n he was dealing with a technical and complicated subject, but the Committee is entitled to a much more definite statement about it than they have had. I listened very carefully to what the Chancellor said, and I have since read his speech, but I find that there is nothing that indicates anything but that the Chancellor means to use the credit of the State for the benefit of a private corporation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1596.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-20", "file": "debates1932-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ccdebc74733ffb23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1601.0", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " for Chester-le-Street (Mr. Lawson) asked one or two specific questions, beginning with a joke or two—of which I do not complain—about the Government having secured a record by setting up two committees in one Budget speech. The difference between this Government and that Government is that, although both set up committees, this Government acts on their reports when they come in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1601.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-20", "file": "debates1932-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ccdebc74733ffb23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1601.0", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "porting—the Tariff Advisory Committee; and I think that hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite will find that there will be no delay whatever in acting upon its recommendations, and that its recommendations will be of an order which will leave little room for criticism about the determination of the Government in carrying out proposals which ore put before it by advisers of its own choosing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1601.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-20", "file": "debates1932-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ccdebc74733ffb23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1601.0", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "the Member for Sparkbrook (Mr. Amery), but it may be necessary to say once again that no Protectionist, and, indeed, no person at all, would deny that a tax upon a material which was not produced either in this country or anywhere else in the Empire would have an effect totally different from that of a tax upon a foreign material competing with a material which is produced somewhere in the Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1601.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-20", "file": "debates1932-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ccdebc74733ffb23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1603.1", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "I can only say that, when the hon. and learned Gentleman is in office, he is paid higher for these controversies than I am.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-20", "file": "debates1932-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ccdebc74733ffb23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1608.1", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ave to find this year a sum of not less than £65,000,000, including £20,000,000 for the fund, £41,750,000 for transitional payments and over £3,100,000 for deficiency grant, because the fund itself is not meeting by its incomings its inevitable outgoings. There we have a figure in regard to which it is possible to make economies with the good will of every section in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-20a.1608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-21", "file": "debates1932-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "604ed18e306d232f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-21a.1672.1", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You forget the drop in prices!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "It is still going on, as my hon. Friend says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-21a.1672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-21", "file": "debates1932-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "604ed18e306d232f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-21a.1689.0", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "in analysing the position and saying where economies ought to be made, dealt with the social services. I hope the Chancellor of the Exchequer will not follow that line of thought. If he does not, the only other step is indirect taxation. I claim that this has already gone far enough. The Abnormal Importations Act has imposed £1,000,000 of indirect taxation, and the people will have to pay it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-21a.1689.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-21", "file": "debates1932-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "604ed18e306d232f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-21a.1689.0", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "ther step is indirect taxation. I claim that this has already gone far enough. The Abnormal Importations Act has imposed £1,000,000 of indirect taxation, and the people will have to pay it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] That is my point of view. If not, someone else must explain how it is done. Then we get £27,000,000 from the 10 per cent. Imports Bill. The working-class people have to pay that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-21a.1689.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-21", "file": "debates1932-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "604ed18e306d232f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-21a.1693.0", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "ndirect, are enemies of the worker. I assure him, as one who has devoted all his life to the interests of the workers, that you can have no improvement in their conditions while taxation, direct or indirect, remains at such high levels. I believe that direct taxation directly concerns the workers. It is absorbing funds which are necessary for employment. The funds are not there to give employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-21a.1693.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-21", "file": "debates1932-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "604ed18e306d232f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-21a.1693.0", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "elves to-day is due to 14 years of extravagance. That extravagance was started by the Coalition Government of 1918. They laid, broadly and deeply, the foundations of expenditure. I remember that in 1920 I had the honour of moving a Motion rationing the Government to £800,000,000 a year. It was seconded by that good Conservative Sir John Marriott. I am sorry that he is not in the House to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-21a.1693.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-21", "file": "debates1932-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "604ed18e306d232f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-21a.1693.0", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the farmers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": " it for us. I have been sadly watching the House of Commons, and have come to the conclusion that it is no longer the guardian of the public purse. On every occasion that a Member speaks he demands more money to be spent, and that money must come from the taxpayer. If I said that we must economise, I should be cheered, but if one particularised the economies he would have opposition on every hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-21a.1693.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-21", "file": "debates1932-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "604ed18e306d232f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-21a.1696.3", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": ". There has been a great fall in the value of securities, great landed estates have been broken up, and I really do not think that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will get the £76,000,000 of Death Duties. Take the Stamps Account. Stamps depend upon Stock Exchange activities. The Stock Exchange was not very active yesterday, I understand. This is where I part company with my Socialist friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-21a.1696.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-21", "file": "debates1932-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "604ed18e306d232f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-21a.1707.1", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": ", for one section of the world's population. The right hon. Member for Epping always dates his misfortunes back to the outbreak of the General Strike in 1926. He talks as though that were some damnum fatale, something that an unkind providence threw down on the shoulders of the good man Christian struggling up the hill Difficulty. I think that the general strike was a tremendous catastrophe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-21a.1707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-21", "file": "debates1932-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "604ed18e306d232f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-21a.1764.5", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No; to maintain it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ich has been mentioned in several quarters and a reasoned case for which was put forward with great power a little while ago by my hon. Friend the Member for the Elland Division of Yorkshire (Mr. Levy). I am asked to remove the duty on raw silk. I estimate that that would cost £300,000. But it does not stop there. The object of the proposal is avowedly to start a new industry in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-21a.1764.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-22", "file": "debates1932-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "567be1bf6e1cb01b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-22a.1779.5", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "Clause 1 (Removal of disqualifica tion, of President of Board of Trade for sitting in Parliament) ordered to stand part of the Bill.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "preceding_text": "This morning we have had a lesson in Parliamentary procedure, and, when we get a majority in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-22a.1779.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-22", "file": "debates1932-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "567be1bf6e1cb01b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-22a.1819.2", "colnum": "1819", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Preamble.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "I think it is true to say that the only opportunity that this House and the world at large has of judging of the work of the Secretary of State for the Colonies is by his annual speech. The speech to which we have listened to-day has been, I think, the most pleasant speech of any Colonial Secretary that I have ever heard. I have to make that preloration, so to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-22a.1819.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-22", "file": "debates1932-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "567be1bf6e1cb01b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-22a.1823.5", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ial Empire solely—I am sure he does not—from the point of view of what we can get out of it in the way of trade or raw materials. Our administration of our Empire has not been, as has been thought of all Empires in the past, how best to exploit the native population. I ask the Committee to observe that throughout the whole of our tropical dependencies there is no unemployment whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-22a.1823.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-25", "file": "debates1932-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "95b4cfc4861e6bb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-25a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "It might have lost £300,000,000, and still have made a profitable transaction. The commercial honour of this country is valued far above that loss, and that the Bank of England should fulfil the obligations and undertakings into which it has entered in the face of the whole world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-25a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-25", "file": "debates1932-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "95b4cfc4861e6bb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-25a.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBKBS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " They sounded a forward note which is the essential spirit of great Britain to-day— the desire not merely to analyse the happenings of the past but to go forward from there, and confidently to embark upon new practices and new methods of procedure, which, it is true, may get us into difficulties, but which can scarcely get us into greater difficulties than our past experiences and practices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-25a.60.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-25", "file": "debates1932-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "95b4cfc4861e6bb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-25a.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Blücher.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "circumstances to the Government of the day. The whispering galleries of the world are ringing with rumours about financial affairs just now. The speculators of the world who have looted and plundered so many great currencies know well what a city this is to loot. \"What a city to loot\" said Bismarck. There are other financial Bismarcks with greater power to loot than ever he had watching this City.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-25a.60.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-25", "file": "debates1932-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "95b4cfc4861e6bb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-25a.73.0", "colnum": "73", "heading": "EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "I thought that loss of £22,000,000 was to be written off by the enhancement in the value of gold, and that therefore there was no loss to pass on to the Consolidated Fund?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-25a.73.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-25", "file": "debates1932-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "95b4cfc4861e6bb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-25a.74.4", "colnum": "74", "heading": "EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "d is regarded by us as a matter of the most vital importance. It may be used to ruin the country, and it may, similarly, be used to do a great deal to help trade and industry. For instance, if the right hon. Gentleman were to foe inoculated with the same virus as affected the right hon. Member for Epping in 1925 the country would, we think, be ruined by the operation of this Foreign Exchange Fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-25a.74.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-25", "file": "debates1932-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "95b4cfc4861e6bb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-25a.92.1", "colnum": "92", "heading": "EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. M. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. M. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "t of foreign investment securities, say, for £150,000,000 and tried to sell them in America we should not be able to sell them there. Sterling securities are not suitable. Dollar securities would be required. If, however, we did manage to sell them they would have to be sold at such a lowprice at the present American market rates that they would be practically worthless even in dollars—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-25a.92.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-25", "file": "debates1932-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "95b4cfc4861e6bb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-25a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "preceding_text": " advice of the Bank of England and of the Treasury experts? If it was not, whose advice was it? Upon whose advice were those statements made by the late Prime Minister, and by the present Prime Minister, during the election, and the period preceding the election? The advice was found to be wrong. Measures, subject to the advice of the Bank of England, were taken by a miscalled National Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-25a.137.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-04-26", "file": "debates1932-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "0dce1e93567cddfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-26a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Will the Committee when it is appointed be encouraged to report with the least possible delay?", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "I cannot promise it in a week's time, but I will discuss it with my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-26a.206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-26", "file": "debates1932-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "0dce1e93567cddfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-26a.232.8", "colnum": "232", "heading": "STAMP DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By how much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": " be able to carry the Government with us for once. Our first objection to this duty is that it is an indirect tax. It is imposed just to hoodwink the people that they are not contributing anything at all to the revenue, while in fact every time they drink a cup of tea, after the passage of this Budget, they will be contributing to the cost of the last War and the cost of armaments for future wars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-26a.232.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-26", "file": "debates1932-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "0dce1e93567cddfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-26a.232.8", "colnum": "232", "heading": "STAMP DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "hat some of these people are unemployed and that some of them are subject to the means test, we must recognise that 8d. means a great deal to them. The tragedy of it is that the incidence of this tax is grossly unfair. I should imagine that the poorest people buy the cheapest tea, probably at 1s. 6d. a lb. Hon. Gentlemen in this House probably have tea at 3s., 4s. or even 5s. a lb. in their homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-26a.232.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-26", "file": "debates1932-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "0dce1e93567cddfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-26a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "STAMP DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. SMILES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. SMILES", "preceding_text": "he same sort of unreasoning loyalty that you get from the six counties in Ulster—the more you illtreat them, the more loyal they get. Most of these planters are Scottish and many of them trade unionists, and if a man is a Scotsman and a trade unionist, he must be thrifty and energetic. Therefore, it cannot be the fault of the planter that the industry is not making money at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-26a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-26", "file": "debates1932-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "0dce1e93567cddfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-26a.253.0", "colnum": "253", "heading": "STAMP DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The co-operative societies!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "preceding_text": "ional payments and receiving, in some cases, less than 10s. a week to maintain a wife and children, will bear some of this additional taxation, and we protest against that strongly, and would emphasise the point that we do not agree that this time has arrived when all further taxation must be applied indirectly. There are plenty of riches in this country to bear all the taxation that is necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-26a.253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-26", "file": "debates1932-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "0dce1e93567cddfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-26a.261.4", "colnum": "261", "heading": "STAMP DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "ht, there was not the slightest doubt about it at the election. If Lord Snowden had any doubts about it, he was the only person who had. It must have been clear that the Conservatives were going to carry out their policy of laying as large a burden of taxation as they dare upon the great mass of the people, of standing for the rich against the poor, of standing for the employer against the worker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-26a.261.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-26", "file": "debates1932-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "0dce1e93567cddfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-26a.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "STAMP DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "y are being permitted to contribute their share towards the necessities of the nation. He must have been saying that with his tongue in his cheek. He told us that in his Division machinery is being exported to the Colonies, and that as a consequence of the imposition of this tax the people who are manufacturing that machinery will export more machinery to the Colonies than they have done hitherto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-26a.273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-26", "file": "debates1932-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "0dce1e93567cddfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-26a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "STAMP DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is unfair!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "But if he finds 2 lbs. more, he is rewarded for his visit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-26a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-26", "file": "debates1932-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "0dce1e93567cddfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-26a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "STAMP DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "because a tax of £8 6s. 8d. is levied upon a multiple store or shop which otherwise would not be levied upon it, is overstraining the effects of the remission. It cannot be suggested that the Home and Colonial Stores or the Co-operative Societies would suffer a very serious alteration in their revenues if they had 1,000 pounds of tea left free this year which otherwise would have to pay duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-26a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-26", "file": "debates1932-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "0dce1e93567cddfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-26a.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "STAMP DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruptions.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " that the Tea Duty has been imposed for all these years—for centuries, I am told; but it is also true that rates were levied for centuries on agricultural land and buildings and so on; and the same Chancellor of the Exchequer who got rid of the Tea Duty wiped the last remnant of rates off the farmers of this country. The mere fact that a thing is hoary-headed does not necessarily justify it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-26a.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-26", "file": "debates1932-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "0dce1e93567cddfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-26a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "STAMP DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member may know all about the multiple stores, but in my district they are charging more, and I am prepared to stand by that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-26a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-26", "file": "debates1932-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "0dce1e93567cddfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-26a.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "STAMP DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " an emergency the Government proceed to shell out money all round absolutely unconditionally. That is the \"rake's progress\" upon which they have embarked—nothing but handing out money to various sections of their supporters, without any guarantee of efficiency, without any test as to whether they ought to receive it, and without the slightest attempt to see that it gets into the right hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-26a.332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-27", "file": "debates1932-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6144ec1cd13d5584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.372.2", "colnum": "372", "heading": "OATHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You can stay out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "House in order to modify and change the form of the Oath. I am conforming to that advice. This is the first opportunity the House has had of making a modification or change in the form of the Oath, and if the Bill which I am asking leave to present is turned down you are encouraging, in my opinion, public perjury. You have no right to ask any person to perjure himself in order to enter this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.372.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-27", "file": "debates1932-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6144ec1cd13d5584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I hope it will not be taken that I was trying to make individual distinctions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-27", "file": "debates1932-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6144ec1cd13d5584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.406.0", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": "cretary is now in his place, I would like to know whether that is the case, and, if so, whether that contract, or compact, has been broken by the proposal which has now been put before the House by the Government. I should be grateful if the Home Secretary, perhaps later on in the course of this discussion, could reply to us on that point; or, if he would like to answer now, perhaps he will do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-27", "file": "debates1932-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6144ec1cd13d5584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.429.2", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "preceding_text": "nt of the Council prove that while tariffs would be considered, the matter was one of experiment. Do hon. Members honestly and sincerely believe that a proposal to tax wheat and meat was put before the country at the last election? Of course, they know that that question was never put before the electorate. I am sure that in their innermost souls hon. Members realise that what I have said is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.429.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-27", "file": "debates1932-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6144ec1cd13d5584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "er be made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and let any of the Members of the Tory party—I will not say the Liberal party—venture to vote against that order when it comes before the House, and we shall witness what we witnessed during the last Tory administration. Some of the Tory Members will have their whip stopped, and they will have some difficulty in getting back into the fold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-27", "file": "debates1932-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6144ec1cd13d5584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the whole House will wish to dissociate itself from the suggestion that the hon. Member has made that the President of the Board of Trade has any personal motive whatever in that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.482.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-27", "file": "debates1932-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6144ec1cd13d5584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.485.0", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "workman's family than in that of a well-to-do person. But this House is cynical and hardfaced. I have heard an old Parliamentarian say that the present House of Commons is infinitely more callous and more indifferent to the claims of the people than was the late Coalition House of Commons. Since we have been here we have been engaged in passing what has been predominately Conservative legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-27", "file": "debates1932-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6144ec1cd13d5584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.485.0", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear\"!] But hon. Members opposite did not go to the country as a Conservative party, they went as a National party. They went to the country to save the savings of the people, and under the banner of equality of sacrifice. Ever since this House met it has been attempting to transfer the burden of maintaining the structure of the State from the rich to the shoulders of the poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.485.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-27", "file": "debates1932-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6144ec1cd13d5584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "y for the solution of the world's problems. I do not believe that any solution of the currency question is to be obtained along those lines. The Government themselves, having thrown overboard, I suppose with the full assent of the Bank of England, their particular form of Gold Standard worship, are out, as they say, with the intention of extending as far as possible the sterling area of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.509.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-27", "file": "debates1932-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6144ec1cd13d5584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.518.1", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "The War Cabinet were the officers of this House, responsible to this House and if the War Cabinet had taken upon itself to tell the soldiers what to do it would have lost the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-27", "file": "debates1932-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6144ec1cd13d5584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.527.2", "colnum": "527", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "sions over the Import Duties Act, and they would extend to such a length that it would be impossible for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to get away to Lausanne. To get the proceedings on the Finance Bill concluded early in June, it will be necessary, either to have the limitation of this Resolution, or to have a very stringent Guillotine Resolution, and we ask the House to accept this Resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.527.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-27", "file": "debates1932-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6144ec1cd13d5584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.527.2", "colnum": "527", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "imitation of this Resolution, or to have a very stringent Guillotine Resolution, and we ask the House to accept this Resolution. [ Interruption. ] The precedent is the Autumn Budget of last year, when no Ways and Means Resolution such as this was put down. Surely a precedent for not allowing the House to discuss Customs arrangements at all is at any rate a precedent for a limitation of discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.527.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-27", "file": "debates1932-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6144ec1cd13d5584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.533.0", "colnum": "533", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "The House must have been astonished at the last two speeches, and Members on the Government Front Bench must be repeating the prayer, \"O Lord, save me from my two intimate friends.\" The gravest constitutional departure is being attempted under cover of what has almost amounted to a lie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.533.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-27", "file": "debates1932-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6144ec1cd13d5584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "I beg the hon. Gentle man's pardon. The point has been brought out with commendable clarity by the Noble Lord the Member for Horsham (Earl-Winterton) and the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Sparkbrook (Mr. Amery), that this proceeding is to prevent hon. Members from putting down detailed Amendments to the amending legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-27", "file": "debates1932-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6144ec1cd13d5584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.534.4", "colnum": "534", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "I hesitate to intervene at this late hour, and I am sure that the House will be sorry that I do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.534.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-27", "file": "debates1932-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6144ec1cd13d5584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "t when my hon. Friend the Member for Limehouse (Mr. Attlee) raised the point of Order must agree now that he was perfectly justified—that is to say if the right hon. and hon. Gentle men who have spoken are correct in their view. I rise to put it to you, Mr. Speaker—I do so very respectfully—I think the OFFICIAL REPORT will record the fact that you decided there was no innovation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-27", "file": "debates1932-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6144ec1cd13d5584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.542.2", "colnum": "542", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " bound to say that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill), the Noble Lord the Member for Horsham (Earl Winterton), and the hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Gainsborough (Captain Crookshank) have all agreed that this was a new pro- cedure and not the ordinary procedure on Financial Resolutions, and I do not know what the discussion has been about if that was not so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.542.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-27", "file": "debates1932-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6144ec1cd13d5584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.543.2", "colnum": "543", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I must be allowed to exercise whatever brain I possess. It is extremely difficult to talk of this, because right hon. and hon. Gentlemen are engaged in conversation that is heard all over the place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-27a.543.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-04-28", "file": "debates1932-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c51425c2af04f327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-28a.560.6", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEVY", "preceding_text": "May I ask. as it is the policy of the Government to encourage manufacturers to come to this country, how can that policy be carried out in face of the failure to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-28a.560.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-28", "file": "debates1932-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c51425c2af04f327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-28a.599.12", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Free Trade\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ulture was 7 per cent. of the total engaged population. That is a very small proportion. We employ 2 per cent. of our population upon the land, and it seems to me that, after 100 years of Liberal and Conservative administration, single and joint, it is a. very grave reflection upon their capacity to deal with agriculture that our rural population should have been reduced to such small proportions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-28a.599.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-28", "file": "debates1932-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c51425c2af04f327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-28a.599.12", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "two other counties, the wage fixed is 28s. per week. Even this miserable wage is not being paid by a large number of farmers. Of the number of persons visited over a period of time by inspectors from the Ministry, no less than 23 per cent. were evading the law. There are about half-a-million agricultural labourers, so that about 100,000 agricultural workers are not being paid according to the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-28a.599.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-28", "file": "debates1932-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c51425c2af04f327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-28a.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN GANZONI", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or to a public house!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN GANZONI", "preceding_text": "ries. From what I have said it will be implied that I associate myself with agriculture areas. I come from the middle of one. It is true that my own particular constituency of Ipswich is a borough, the only borough in that part of the country. It is a very compact borough. I can walk to any hall, chapel, church, or possibly circumstances may arise when I might walk to any cinema on a Sunday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-28a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-28", "file": "debates1932-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c51425c2af04f327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-28a.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "unemployment and their women and children. This is such a tiny thing, yet, spread all over the country, it would be a Godsend to tens of thousands of people. I most earnestly appeal to the right hon. Gentleman to worry the Exchequer and get this money. I wish he would also get the money for education and research, but if he cannot get both, he should get the one I have spoken about, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-28a.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-29", "file": "debates1932-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "99fc5278e23009b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-29a.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": ", he persevered, and, in the end, did bring the Conference into being, he did persuade Mr. Gandhi to come to this country, and when the late Government went out of office the Conference was in being. I know that there are Members in this House, Anglo-Indians and others, who think that the whole of the business was a mistake. They think that the Round Table Conference ought never to have been held.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-29a.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-29", "file": "debates1932-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "99fc5278e23009b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-29a.725.2", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ate, to tell us why it is that Roman civilisation prospered in this way at first and was then destroyed. Does anyone deny that this country relapsed into barbarism after the Roman occupation? Of course not. Why was it? It was simply because no one nation can impose civilisation or virtue on another nation. The Romans were in their day, relatively speaking, as strong and as powerful as the British.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-29a.725.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-29", "file": "debates1932-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "99fc5278e23009b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-29a.727.0", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Wing-Commander JAMES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wing-Commander JAMES", "preceding_text": "ysique, they have the most perfect manners, their hospitality is proverbial, they have a great sense of humour, the latter a rare characteristic in the Indian sub-continent; they are a people of very great intelligence. In complaining about their present predatory habits, it is only fair to remark that they are very much in the condition of the Highlanders of Scotland before the Rebellion of 1745.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-29a.727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-29", "file": "debates1932-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "99fc5278e23009b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-29a.736.0", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "f 15 years of age. Before I came to the House of Commons I was a teacher and I know perfectly well that in the interests of sound discipline that sort of thing is not necessary or desirable, and I would suggest that even if we accept the general policy of the mailed fist as being the natural one we should expect from the Government, it is not necessary to carry it to the extent of barbarism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-29a.736.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-29", "file": "debates1932-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "99fc5278e23009b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-29a.758.0", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBBES: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "by serious bloodshed or serious risk. What has hap-pended? The Government of India, and the National Government at home, have adopted this very policy of crushing Gandhi and the Indian Congress. For nearly four months, Mr. Gandhi and his principal lieutenants, together with many thousands of his followers, have been in gaol; the Indian Congress has been proclaimed as an illegal organisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-29a.758.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-29", "file": "debates1932-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "99fc5278e23009b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-29a.760.2", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Put it as you will; the Indian Congress has been proclaimed in many of its branches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-29a.760.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-29", "file": "debates1932-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "99fc5278e23009b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-29a.770.0", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I have several times stated that in those days \"Dominion status\" was always interpreted in its ceremonial aspect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-29a.770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-29", "file": "debates1932-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "99fc5278e23009b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-29a.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman may deplore the influence of Mr. Gandhi but he cannot deny the existence of the influence of Mr. Gandhi. After all Mr. Gandhi can speak authoritatively on behalf of a large number of Indian people. I go further and say that you cannot implement in India, now or in the future, a solution by agreement of this problem unless you secure the co-operation of Mr. Gandhi and his followers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-29a.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-04-29", "file": "debates1932-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "99fc5278e23009b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-29a.779.3", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "as often as people think. Then the right hon. Gentleman asked me about the policy of the Government in relation to the Emergency Ordinances. There, again, the position to-day is very much the same as that which I described to the Committee during the last debate on India. I said then and I say now that the Ordinances will be kept in force so long as the emergency requires. I can say no more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-04-29a.779.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-02", "file": "debates1932-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "f1825b35fc60ce96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-02a.821.8", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "the Home Secretary's statement when the Home Office Vote was before the Committee recently. I desire now to say something in connection with the administration of the prisons and the police. With regard to the prisons, no party issue is raised, but we want to put certain questions to the right hon. Gentleman and, in particular, to make a few suggestions for the humanisation of business conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-02a.821.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-02", "file": "debates1932-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "f1825b35fc60ce96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-02a.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"When has it met?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ct provided that the Federation should be represented on the Police Council. The Police Council consists not only of the representatives of the Federation, but of the police authorities including the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, and representatives of the Home Office, and the Police Council is the main method of communication between the Police Forces as a whole and the Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-02a.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-02", "file": "debates1932-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "f1825b35fc60ce96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-02a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "hat is being done but very thankful indeed to the chief constables and others who have inaugurated it. I would very much like to see something of the same kind in London. There is nothing much else I wish to say, except that I do hope the Home Secretary is right when he tells us the special constables have not been called up for any reason other than to give them a chance of exercising themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-02a.872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-02", "file": "debates1932-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "f1825b35fc60ce96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-02a.925.2", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRISONS, ENGLAND AND WALES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "rge library which they had, and at the large number of books which many of the prisoners had in their cells. Some of them had six or eight books of different kinds, which they were reading from time to time. I am informed that the cages used, to which the right hon. Gentleman referred, have now been abolished, and that the old- fashioned prison uniform with the broad arrow has also been abolished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-02a.925.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-02", "file": "debates1932-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "f1825b35fc60ce96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-02a.925.2", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRISONS, ENGLAND AND WALES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "h they were reading from time to time. I am informed that the cages used, to which the right hon. Gentleman referred, have now been abolished, and that the old- fashioned prison uniform with the broad arrow has also been abolished. [ Interruption. ] It is not lovely, I agree, and is still less beautiful after it has been washed several times, but we have to consider the interests of economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-02a.925.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-03", "file": "debates1932-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "76d33fd40ad739ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-03a.966.3", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "ons to 47,000,000 tons, and the percentage of output has increased from 12 per cent. to 2.1 per cent. The price of coal disposable commercially was 14s. per ton last year as compared with approximately 11s. per ton in 1913. The declared value f.o.b. of coal exported was 16s. 3d., as compared with 13s. 10d. I am quite aware that these figures constitute a melancholy record of serious retrogression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-03a.966.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-03", "file": "debates1932-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "76d33fd40ad739ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-03a.966.3", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "duced three months ago. Poland's power to conduct a competitive campaign is largely due to her low wages, and the wages in other countries are a very serious factor in this question. The progressive and recent reductions of miners' wages in the continental coalfields are a big factor, and I think we have reason to congratulate ourselves that we have not been generally driven in the same direction,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-03a.966.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-03", "file": "debates1932-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "76d33fd40ad739ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-03a.973.1", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "fic cause of accidents is the falls of ground. Next to that, of course, is haulage. One day we shall have protective equipment in our mines. I have no doubt that one of my successors will make obligatory the use of helmets, gloves, safety boots and goggles. I do not know why that has not been done before, but the British miner, so advanced in other ways, is often conservative in his customs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-03a.973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-03", "file": "debates1932-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "76d33fd40ad739ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-03a.1028.3", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLEWELLYN-JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLEWELLYN-JONES", "preceding_text": "ions to any extent, the Northern division, the Cardiff and Forest of Dean division and the Swansea division, where a very large number of inspections took place in pursuance of the provision. Judging from the report of the Chief Inspector of Mines those inspections must have resulted satisfactorily, and one is surprised that advantage has not been taken of the provisions of the Act in other areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-03a.1028.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-03", "file": "debates1932-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "76d33fd40ad739ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-03a.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "I can only give the figures which have been supplied to me. They may be qualified because of differences in some districts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-03a.1082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-03", "file": "debates1932-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "76d33fd40ad739ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-03a.1085.1", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "I should imagine that under recent legislation the power is put into our hands, and for myself, if that power is there, I cannot imagine that it could be used in a better cause than this. Some of the recent legislation may be criticised in some respects, but if it has any advantages I want those advantages to be utilised for the coal industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-03a.1085.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1112.2", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "; It is a special question arising out of the reply given by the Foreign Secretary. I beg to ask the right hon. Gentleman whether there is any truth in the statement that is being made throughout the world that he used his influence for the Japanese against the Chinese in those negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1112.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1121.2", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The Motion which stands in my name—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1121.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir Herbert Samuel)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir Herbert Samuel)", "preceding_text": "th truth, that in some circumstances a protective tariff may enable particular industries to work fuller time than before and to reduce their overhead charges, and thereby even to lower their prices. These cases are comparatively few. The safeguarded industries during the five years that the Safeguarding Duties were in operation did not show any such tendency, except perhaps in the motor industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir Herbert Samuel)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir Herbert Samuel)", "preceding_text": ", has said again and again that, in the case of the great new establishment at Dagenham for the production of Ford motor cars, the plans were laid and the land was bought even before the War, even before the McKenna Duties. He has declared on behalf of his company that it is a matter of entire indifference to them whether there is a protective tariff on motors and tractors or whether there is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1172.0", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "some service to my right hon. Friend and to those who are acting with him. Very high claims are made on behalf of His Majesty's present Government. A supreme crisis arose, and it still continues. The efforts of all well-meaning men are required. They have to combine together. They have to lay aside every impediment to stop the pound sterling from falling— no, I beg pardon, from rising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1172.0", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ers and leaders themselves? Is it not imperative for them to set an example? Ought not the conduct and the behaviour of a National Government to be upon a higher plane, and not upon a lower plane than that of an ordinary Government? Is it not an offence, even I think I might say a flagrant offence, in a Minister in a high position to lower the repute and weaken the actions of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1172.0", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "lways the duty of every man whole-heartedly, whatever his personal interest or his personal fortune may be, to hope and wish for the success of the national arms and the national cause. When we entered the Great War, there were many who disapproved, and some who expressed their disapproval, but there were very few who carried that expression of disapproval so far as to hamper the national defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAMER RUSSELL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAMER RUSSELL", "preceding_text": "r is absolutely at a disadvantage. The door which comes to this country from America is a very good door, but we could make such doors in England. The door is sent at 4s. 7½d. c.i.f. to any United Kingdom port. Of that sum 1s. 8d. has been paid by the Americans as freight and insurance, leaving the price of the door on the quay in America at 3s. The British door costs 9s. at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wakefield!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "thorough-going approval of the policy of His Majesty's Government. I have heard for the first time in this Parliament a Debate in which two right hon. Members of the Cabinet have taken part on opposite sides, and I have seen such an exhibition of national unity as I never expected to see during my political life. It is even more amusing to me than the screaming farce of the Marylebone by-election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "vernment which has not a united voice on what is, in the view of the great majority of this House, a fundamental issue, is not a Government but is a scratch team of competitors. This is a Protectionist issue. The complaint of hon. Members against the Government is that there has not been sufficient of it so far. The Order now before the House means a complete system of Protection for this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ue. The complaint of hon. Members against the Government is that there has not been sufficient of it so far. The Order now before the House means a complete system of Protection for this country. [ Interruption. ] I am very glad to have the admission of hon. Members. We have, in four or five short months, carried through a fiscal revolution which no other country in the world has done in 50 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "been done by this Government. The Lord President of the Council himself, and other Members of the Government, denied that the last election was an election on the issue of Protection. That cannot be denied. That was not only said during the election but has been said since the election by Members of the Government. The last General Election was the most stupendous political fraud ever perpetrated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " and other Members of the Government, denied that the last election was an election on the issue of Protection. That cannot be denied. That was not only said during the election but has been said since the election by Members of the Government. The last General Election was the most stupendous political fraud ever perpetrated. [ Interruption. ] I do not begrudge hon. Members their pyrrhic victory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " Government. The last General Election was the most stupendous political fraud ever perpetrated. [ Interruption. ] I do not begrudge hon. Members their pyrrhic victory. [ Interruption. ] It is a pyrrhic victory, and right hon. Gentlemen know it. I am simply making this point, that has not and cannot be denied from that Front Bench, that at the General Election this question was not an issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "without telling you that we were going to do it. In any event we must have this full and impartial inquiry.\" What has happened? That was said throughout the whole election campaign, and as soon as the results were declared, Members of the Government scuttled back to Whitehall, flushed with, victory, and, regardless of political honour and political honesty, started forging the bonds of Protection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " In any event we must have this full and impartial inquiry.\" What has happened? That was said throughout the whole election campaign, and as soon as the results were declared, Members of the Government scuttled back to Whitehall, flushed with, victory, and, regardless of political honour and political honesty, started forging the bonds of Protection. [ Interruption. ] That cannot be denied either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A National Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "appened? That was said throughout the whole election campaign, and as soon as the results were declared, Members of the Government scuttled back to Whitehall, flushed with, victory, and, regardless of political honour and political honesty, started forging the bonds of Protection. [ Interruption. ] That cannot be denied either. [ Interruption. ] Here is a Government, an emergency Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "f Commons. Everything from fresh fish to umbrellas, all in one Order! I am not sure that hon. Members opposite agree with the thousand and one things that are in the Order. They might like to vote for some and against others, but, oh, no! the new bureaucracy that sits there says: \"Swallow all or nothing,\" and, as most hon. Members who sit opposite are not coming back after the next election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "onths the rights of Members of Parliament have been trodden underfoot in a way that they never have been before, and we now have a Tariff Advisory Committee in a position of virtual dictatorship. It makes or issues decisions on a Friday, and they become operative on the following Monday without a word of Parliamentary discussion. Those very estimable gentlemen, who possess no human feelings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "power\"— as is now, of course, the case— on the steel industry. It would be the beginning; it might be the beginning of the end. 10.30 p.m. And yet when there was a Conservative Government sitting there from 1924–1929, when with timid fingers they were playing with Safeguarding, the question of iron and steel was forced upon them from their back benches. They had an inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " suppose, that tariffs are a bargaining weapon. We have heard that statement to-day. The history of tariffs in the world proves that that is not so. The facts of to-day prove that it is not so. One of the effects of tariffs is not lower tariffs, but reprisals and more tariffs. I am sure the Government cannot read. They have not read the handwriting on the wall yet. The Wakefield by-election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "fs is not lower tariffs, but reprisals and more tariffs. I am sure the Government cannot read. They have not read the handwriting on the wall yet. The Wakefield by-election—[ Interruption ]— ought to be a warning to the Government. The Lord President of the Council said the other night that Wakefield was won on beer. I suppose his party knows more about that beverage than we do —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "y. If the Government had gone to the country at the last election and said, \"In six months' time you are going to have a complete system of Protection,\" the National Government would not be sitting here to-day. They would have been ignominiously beaten. I can say about hon. Members opposite what was said by an old friend of mine over there, \"The day will come when we shall see your faces no more.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The means test.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ection is that you cannot fool the people of this country. You cannot go to the country with the highest patriotic motives, and with panic in the other hand if patriotism will not do, and then, behind their backs and without their knowledge, carry through a revolution. If we did that, what would be said? I hope we shall always have the manhood to go to the country on the things that we believe in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Three hundred.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " touch upon for a moment or two before I get on to the Debate in regard to which I should like to say a few words before the evening concludes. So much has been said about the Wakefield By-Election that we might have thought that a debate was being held upon the result of the by-election and the eminent deeds of the right hon. Gentleman who now represents that constituency by a majority of 30,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "hing whatever for the benefit of our industry. This must be as bitter a disappointment to you as it is to us. Mr. Greenwood, when in the Cabinet last year, voted in favour of Sunday Cinemas, and he is now pledged in favour of Sunday Cinemas and a reduction in the Entertainment Tax and the abolition of the tax in the case of the lower priced seat. We ask you, for the protection of our own business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-04", "file": "debates1932-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c94ca1a6e08ea3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1250.1", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ment. We believe that these experiments will have to be tried by some Government. If they are not to be tried by this Government, by what Government are they to be tried? By right hon. Gentlemen opposite, who do not even argue the case for their own Amendment, are incapable of making any speeches except the old, fusty, platform speeches which have done duty in half - a - hundred election campaigns", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-04a.1250.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-05", "file": "debates1932-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "24edb7dd655ec6cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1256.4", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Time will tell whether I am telling the truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1256.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-05", "file": "debates1932-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "24edb7dd655ec6cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1256.6", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I am not making a speech. I want to ask a supplementary question. Immediately I put a supplementary question hon. Members shout \"Speech!\" yet some of them put questions five minutes long, and if I ask a question for a couple of minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1256.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-05", "file": "debates1932-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "24edb7dd655ec6cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1287.0", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is not the Undersecretary of State for Scotland aware that there never were more house builders unemployed in Scotland than at the present moment, and that if he cares to accept the information we are prepared to lay before him, he will find that never before during the last five years were there so many unemployed in the building industry and greater need for houses to be built?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-05", "file": "debates1932-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "24edb7dd655ec6cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1303.1", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "preceding_text": "that they were very concerned about the question of raw material to enable them to produce goods which would compete in the world's markets. No less a person than Sir Herbert Austin has said: The additional duties should have been made consequent on the industries themselves undertaking that no increase in price would take place. I am very afraid of profiteering resulting, and that would be fatal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-05", "file": "debates1932-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "24edb7dd655ec6cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1323.1", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "quotations from other people's speeches are much more effective than the speeches he makes himself. I also want to thank him for proving to me once more, what I think we all realise, the extraordinary moderation of my right hon. Friend the Member for Epping, who never desires to overstate his case, and at that time wanted to make it perfectly clear that his future was guarded if anything happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-05", "file": "debates1932-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "24edb7dd655ec6cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1339.1", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "lone in 1929. The problem is not to stop foreign steel coming here, but to see what we can do to encourage once more the buying of British steel products outside, because it is obvious from the figures that it is not excessive importation that is responsible for the condition of the steel industry. We want to do something to stimulate the buying of British steel outside. Do these duties help that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-05", "file": "debates1932-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "24edb7dd655ec6cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1339.1", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "n of the steel industry. We want to do something to stimulate the buying of British steel outside. Do these duties help that? [ Interruption. ] Have hon. Members seen the figures for the first quarter of 1932? Have the manufactured steel exports from this country gone up? According to the figures that I have, they have gone down considerably. We can only go by the trade returns, and they are down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1339.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-05-05", "file": "debates1932-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "24edb7dd655ec6cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1343.0", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What is the date of that?", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "on in Germany, in Belgium, France or America. With reference to blast furnaces: Our works in that respect are inferior to those of our competitors. I hesitate to criticise people who are engaged in another industry. It is quite probable that I might not have done the job any better myself, but that would not have justified me going to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and begging for his assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-05", "file": "debates1932-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "24edb7dd655ec6cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1345.1", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "o see any proposal at all. Speaking for myself, I do not desire to see any proposals on these lines. In my judgment, they are quite unnecessary. The greatest stimulus that industry has received in the last few years was when we went off the Gold Standard. The greatest reduction in unemployment took place before a duty of any kind was put on. There was no Protection of any sort or kind at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-05", "file": "debates1932-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "24edb7dd655ec6cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1349.0", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "im for agriculture. Agriculture is vital. Thus the Committee state: We accept therefore the preliminary proposition that this industry shall be adequately protected, and protected at once. Why not give the same treatment to the agricultural industry? I shall put some facts before the Government to show that they are not only not protecting the agricultural industry, but that they are hampering it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-05", "file": "debates1932-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "24edb7dd655ec6cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1390.0", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nobody suggested it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "and to the various centres of distribution all over Great Britain, surely it cannot be said that it is not an inconsiderable trade. Surely it deserves consideration. As representing a great district of that character I have a right to enter a caveat against the people who are assuming that because they produce silk stockings they are more important to the nation than the men who work on the docks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-05", "file": "debates1932-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "24edb7dd655ec6cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1390.0", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They protect their goods!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "efit, and now they have to go to the public assistance committees. It has not changed the real situation at all. I was very pleased to hear—because it proves our case up to the hilt—the. hon. Lady the Member for West Willesden tell us about the conditions in other countries, and every one a protected country. Every country she mentioned is well protected—low wages and long hours!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-05", "file": "debates1932-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "24edb7dd655ec6cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1390.0", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They will have nothing at all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "e would be a reorganisation of our industries from the bottom to the top, with a different sort of ownership from that which we have now; and when that time comes it will not be a question of Tariff Reform or Free Trade. The workers will understand their own interests and will not be led up the garden path as they were last October. They will know exactly where they are, and where they want to go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-05", "file": "debates1932-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "24edb7dd655ec6cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "verse Orders of this sort are being dealt with, such as a temporary three months' duty on the iron and steel, and a whole lot of permanent duties on a lot of other subjects, those matters ought, to be put into different Orders, so that the House has an opportunity of discussing both on their merits. I have little doubt that if that had been done, the iron and steel one would have been turned down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-05", "file": "debates1932-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "24edb7dd655ec6cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1416.2", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "The purpose was in order that the House might decide on iron and steel as apart from the rest of the matters included.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-05", "file": "debates1932-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "24edb7dd655ec6cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1421.1", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rub it in!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "I think if the right hon. Gentleman will refresh his memory by reading the Debate of the 4th February he will find that is one of the illustrations he gave of the position in which we were to stand on the subject of food. I hope I am not misrepresenting him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-05", "file": "debates1932-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "24edb7dd655ec6cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1422.1", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": " HERBERT SAMUEL: Yes. Of the flour which is to be taxed 10 per cent. nearly half comes from foreign countries; of rice, two-thirds; and of butter, cheese and eggs, more than one-half comes from foreign countries.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 4th February, 1932; col. 323, Vol. 261.] If my right hon. Friend is not going to deal with these articles separately but is going to lump them all together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1422.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-05", "file": "debates1932-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "24edb7dd655ec6cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1424.2", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, you know perfectly well from long experience in this House that I would do anything rather than make any per sonal reference that was objectionable to you, and I therefore withdraw—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1424.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-05", "file": "debates1932-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "24edb7dd655ec6cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1424.3", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "s, there was a difference of views and that in some respects there was not great accuracy. What are the real objections taken to this policy as a whole? First of all, it was said that it would be likely to lead to a rise in prices. That argument was used as long ago as the beginning of February. Prices have not risen. They have persistently refused to do what the prophets desired them to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-05", "file": "debates1932-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "24edb7dd655ec6cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1427.0", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "vernment which is only earning contempt in every decent, honest mind? Nowhere in the world will they be able to understand what national unity means when they see two leading Ministers disagreeing on this vital question of national policy. What else is there so important as this matter which is to bring prosperity to the country? The right hon. Gentleman says that it will bring ruin to the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-05a.1427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-06", "file": "debates1932-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "145f4e7a80acb102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-06a.1452.4", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "preceding_text": "ttees seems to be infectious and every Department seems to have contracted the disease. It may have started with the Prime Minister. Nearly every head of a Department in the present Government is going along with a number of Committees. The Government twitted us that when we were in office we appointed a number of committees, but they are going to be a record-breaking Government in this direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-06a.1452.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-06", "file": "debates1932-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "145f4e7a80acb102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-06a.1490.1", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "ock of land at the present day valuation, plus 10 per cent., 25 per cent., or 30 per cent., and then when I have put down my road, these new transport facilities, it will be worth 200 or 300 times that amount\"? Why is not that section in operation? If that were done a great many new roads could be made for nothing. They could be paid for out of the increased value of the land which surrounds them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-06a.1490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-09", "file": "debates1932-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "7d8308d9aba52282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-09a.1561.3", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES BROWN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES BROWN", "preceding_text": "rect taxes on the masses of the people. In Clause 6 the Advisory Committee is empowered to remove goods from the Free List under the Import Duties Act. Behind this Clause is the clamant demand of interested parties for taxes upon meat and wheat. There can be no doubt that the power given to the Advisory Committee in this Clause foreshadows the coming of tariffs upon foreign meat and foreign wheat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-09a.1561.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-09", "file": "debates1932-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "7d8308d9aba52282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-09a.1561.3", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES BROWN", "preceding_text": "d the civilisation of to-day. Although there is a relative difference, I agree; although all people in the community reap, to some degree, the advantages of a long process of historical development, never let us forget that the terms \"poverty\" and \"wealth\" are relative terms, and, in relation to our powers to produce wealth, the people of this country are worse off than the slaves in ancient Rome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-09a.1561.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-09", "file": "debates1932-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "7d8308d9aba52282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-09a.1597.0", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ether. Recovery in trade means less unemployment and, therefore, better wages. We in this House, in this Debate, hold the key. We are responsible, and we are all equally anxious that the Government should take hold of the right end of the key and turn it. It is for this reason that I deplore that in this Budget we have the final consummation of the death of all hope of the taxation of land values.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-09a.1597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-09", "file": "debates1932-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "7d8308d9aba52282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-09a.1617.0", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "bondage into freedom\"? Will they be able to say that, in consequence of juggling with tariffs, they have made it more possible for the people of this country to get employment? Up to now they have not done very much in that respect. When the Labour party were in office—without a majority—we were continually gibed at on the ground that we were not able to solve the unemployment problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-09a.1617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-09", "file": "debates1932-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "7d8308d9aba52282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-09a.1617.0", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "inancial experts, sitting on their benches, and about once a month we are addressed by those experts, but when they have finished nobody knows any more than he did before they began. I have listened to these experts and I have been as wise when they finished as I was before they started. But they can come in here, and address the House when they like, while we have to sit here and wait our chance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-09a.1617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-09", "file": "debates1932-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "7d8308d9aba52282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-09a.1688.5", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SILK TRIAL, EDINBURGH.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "hat actually occurred, and, secondly, as to the pro- cedure and practice usually followed in criminal appeals. I think it is in the highest degree unfortunate that the hon. Members did not think it worth while to ascertain what is the ordinary procedure and practice before endeavouring, no doubt with the best of motives and in the public interest, to stir up controversy over a matter of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-09a.1688.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-10", "file": "debates1932-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "8af3ce10ca7e1b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1693.3", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Miss HORSBRUGH", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss HORSBRUGH", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Gentleman if he thinks that this feeling did not originate before the May Day protests, particularly when the ban on the processions was modified, and the officials of the Labour party had to call in the police to protect their speaker, a former Member of this House, and to clear the Caird Hall on that occasion, that being, I think I am right in saying, the first occasion this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-10", "file": "debates1932-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "8af3ce10ca7e1b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1716.1", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Leader of the House whether he is aware that in the North of England the view is held that the Government's policy is responsible for this situation, and, if the lamentable figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-10", "file": "debates1932-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "8af3ce10ca7e1b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1779.0", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give the people money to buy them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "system compels us to do so; otherwise, the system would go to smash and ruin. All the talk in the House now is that we must increase prices in order to estab- lish prosperity. Surely if we cannot sell goods when they are cheap, we are not going to sell them when they are dear. The world is full of cheap goods that cannot be consumed. How are we going to dispose of our goods if we make them dearer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-10", "file": "debates1932-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "8af3ce10ca7e1b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1779.0", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "y some means or other must begin to adopt a different outlook and a different social philosophy. It must get over the idea that by pettifogging, mean economies the problem will be solved. We cannot do it by 1s. a week off the civil servants' salary or by 2s. a week off the typists. That is not the way in which it will have to be done. It will have to be done by increasing the power of consumption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-10", "file": "debates1932-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "8af3ce10ca7e1b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1803.0", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN GANZONI", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You will be easier in your pockets!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN GANZONI", "preceding_text": "e of thinking, which leads them to think that it is a tax upon increased land value. If it were that, no doubt a larger number of people might approve of it, though it is entirely opposed to the Conservative view. But the Land Tax as imposed by Lord Snowden last year is certainly dormant, and I hope moribund, and I think we shall be much easier in our minds when we know that it is dead and buried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1803.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-10", "file": "debates1932-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "8af3ce10ca7e1b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1835.0", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Canada!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": " those who are now unemployed in our depressed export trades? We were told in our newspapers this morning that the increase in the number of unemployed is about 84,000, and that figure does not take into account people struck off the register long ago. Of those 84,000 over 60,000 are in the coal trade. What part of the Colonies or the Empire will give us the guarantee of a market for British coal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1835.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-10", "file": "debates1932-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "8af3ce10ca7e1b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1835.0", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman will not be able to say that, because every one of these Dominions, naturally, wants behind certain Tariff barriers to build up its own nascent industries, because the Dominions feel that they have a market at home for the very goods for which we are seeking to secure an export market. It seems to me that hon. Gentlemen opposite are already feeling some apprehension about this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1835.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-10", "file": "debates1932-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "8af3ce10ca7e1b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1835.0", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is a Protectionist himself!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "olicy. Further, I have before me a quotation from a speech delivered by a leading advocate of tariffs in this country, Sir Herbert Austin, in which, only yesterday, he indicated that he has become so alarmed lest this new tariff policy may become a cloak for inefficiency that he warns the country deliberately and of set purpose against those dire consequences which he apprehends in that direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1835.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-10", "file": "debates1932-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "8af3ce10ca7e1b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1844.0", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "emed to think that the Amendments as a whole were getting less attention than they deserved. He went so far as to say that the relation of direct taxation to indirect taxation was that direct taxation was insufficiently high just now, that it ought to be raised yet higher, and that the movement towards taxation of imports of this country was an attack upon the standards of living of the very poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-10", "file": "debates1932-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "8af3ce10ca7e1b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1844.2", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose maxim?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "Have hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite considered the relation of direct and indirect taxation as we have seen it in this country for the past few years? It was an old maxim of taxation that direct and indirect taxation should roughly balance each other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1844.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-10", "file": "debates1932-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "8af3ce10ca7e1b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1844.2", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "rom his policy of the lowering of tariffs by negotiation and what chance there was for the achievement of the policy on which he had pinned his faith, and time after time I heard him say, sorrowfully, that he was not getting the fruits that he expected, that the results he expected were not coming about, and that the policy to which he had pinned his faith was failing and breaking before his eyes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1844.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-10", "file": "debates1932-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "8af3ce10ca7e1b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1846.1", "colnum": "1846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "contained organised state of the Soviet Union. Everyone knows that they have organised themselves on a national basis, upon the basis upon which one would expect them to organise. Not only did hon. Members opposite push forward fiercely their policy of the national organisation of the coal trade, but they desired to start an aggressive economic warfare in other markets to which coal could be sent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-10", "file": "debates1932-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "8af3ce10ca7e1b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1850.1", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "completed their day's job and paid their insurances—9,500,000 of an insured population. Those are some of the great staple figures we have to remember in this country. There are 9,500,000 of insured population and 13,500,000 who are within the ambit of the health insurance. All these 9,500,000 at the end of their day's work know where they will get their jobs to-morrow and for weeks to come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1850.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-10", "file": "debates1932-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "8af3ce10ca7e1b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1850.1", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " were desirous of embarking upon it. The departure from the Gold Standard filled hon. Members and experts outside with fears lest the dragging of the anchor by which we have held for so long might be such as we could not control. Nobody will deny that hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite feared the dragging of that anchor so much that they abandoned and broke up the Government rather than—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1850.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-10", "file": "debates1932-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "8af3ce10ca7e1b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1865.0", "colnum": "1865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " and on the more hopeful tone of his speech than the one to which we listened last night. This Resolution is extraordinary, and the circumstances surrounding it are extraordinary. We had had the Budget, the Budget Resolutions, the Import Duties, the Finance Bill, and now at the eleventh hour the right hon. Gentleman appears with this Resolution; somewhat like Julia when she went to Don Juan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1865.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-10", "file": "debates1932-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "8af3ce10ca7e1b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1870.0", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Look at the time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "preceding_text": "nd spoil the pleasant harmony and the delight which apparently prevails among the majority of the Committee. It is one of my objections to this particular procedure that here, just before midnight, a new tax is imposed, which was devised by the right hon. Gentleman only yesterday and which is sprung on the House at this late hour when the majority of the House is sleepy and nobody wants to listen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-10", "file": "debates1932-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "8af3ce10ca7e1b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1870.0", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "preceding_text": "tee. It is one of my objections to this particular procedure that here, just before midnight, a new tax is imposed, which was devised by the right hon. Gentleman only yesterday and which is sprung on the House at this late hour when the majority of the House is sleepy and nobody wants to listen. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Look at the time!\"] I am quite conscious of it, but it makes the scandal the greater.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-10", "file": "debates1932-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "8af3ce10ca7e1b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1870.0", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "preceding_text": "cidence they had a distinct protectionist bias. I have heard hon. Members time after time maintaining that Protection has stimulated the production of artificial silk in this country. I did not agree. I have always maintained that the artificial silk industry grew to size and importance in this country long before those duties were introduced, but they had a certain amount of protective influence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-10a.1870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-11", "file": "debates1932-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4bcab47c84d193b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-11a.1906.2", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman's right hon. Friend aware that one of his colleagues has resigned and that a succession of officials have resigned, and, if he sees no ground for such action, then I must say that unless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-11a.1906.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-11", "file": "debates1932-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4bcab47c84d193b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-11a.1944.0", "colnum": "1944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ersons in this country who have suffered prolonged sickness. Were it not for the fact that the Ministry induced most of the approved societies to separate, for valuation purposes, the funds of the men from those of the women, I am positive that those societies would never have had reason to complain of the heavy claims of married women; they would not have been brought to light to the same extent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-11a.1944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-11", "file": "debates1932-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4bcab47c84d193b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-11a.1986.2", "colnum": "1986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "He did it quite effectively, but those who speak like that always overlook the fundamental fact that it is something to have safeguarded 5s., in preference to running the risk of having nought, which would be the inevitable result of a succession of years of a Labour Government's administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-11a.1986.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-11", "file": "debates1932-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4bcab47c84d193b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-11a.1989.0", "colnum": "1989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "Well, from 58¼ to 65 years is a goodish time. The hon. Member may call it \"limited,\" but it is a great deal better than nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-11a.1989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-11", "file": "debates1932-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4bcab47c84d193b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-11a.2026.1", "colnum": "2026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "peech made by him which would have made the point clear, because not only the hon. Member, but the society for which he has done such good service, stand for the contributory principle of insurance. I suggest that there could be no clearer proof of the lack of a case against this Bill than the fact that the hon. Member opposite spent three-quarters of his speech dealing with what was done in 1926.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-11a.2026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-11", "file": "debates1932-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4bcab47c84d193b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-11a.2045.0", "colnum": "2045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "was discussed in the House on a previous occasion some criticism was made of the definition, and the present Lords Amendment, and the next Amendment in line 10, to leave out \"article\" and to insert \"product\" seek to improve the definition. The subject is one of a very technical character, and, in drafting the fresh Amendments, we have consulted the National Association of Bakers and Confectioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-11a.2045.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2105.0", "colnum": "2105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " work in them? Hon. Members are now supporting people who have nothing to do and who have never worked in their lives. Their hands are unsoiled, and they do not know what it is to do an honest day's work. In these circumstances, I am supposed never to feel angry when those who are responsible, and who support that state of affairs, seem to my class-conscious mind to be insulting the working class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2107.2", "colnum": "2107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "or into the cowshed, any more than yours do; they are forced to do it, and they are forced to do it under that most cruel system, the power of starvation. Then think of the conditions under which they live, move and have their being in the agricultural areas of England—worse than in Scotland. The agricultural labourer in England has just about half the wages of the farm labourer in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2107.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2113.1", "colnum": "2113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "inimum age of employment, we have been told that this would encompass Britain's ruin. Hon. Members who have a little more leisure time now than I have at the moment, might refresh their memories in the Library of the House and go back to the old Debates on this very question. Of course, there are difficulties. We have to-day a National Government with two political parties represented in it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2119.3", "colnum": "2119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "been included. We looked for it. Evidently the Undersecretary was a little unhappy about it, because he said that he knew it would be a disappointment to a great many people to find that it was not included. I want to tell the House why some of us are not very willing to accept promises about the Bill. It is as well that this young, ardent and progressive House, and, I hope, this free House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2119.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2119.3", "colnum": "2119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "bour party are in, and they feel\"—as the hon. Member for Dumbarton Burghs (Mr. Kirkwood) said—\"passionately about the Bill.\" Mr. Sorensen brought in a Bill, and Mr. Clynes who was the Home Secretary, said that he was eager and willing to deal with the question, but still nothing happened. The year 1930 came, when that gallant man in another place, Lord Astor, again brought in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2119.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2124.1", "colnum": "2124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "the Clauses in the Bill were being included in a new Bill. He again withdrew the Bill, and nothing happened. In 1931— this is an interesting point—when the Bill was brought in again Lord Brentford, a Conservative of Conservatives, said that this question of the children had come before them, and he knew that it was being dealt with by the Home Office, and would be in the Children Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2126.2", "colnum": "2126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "e same arguments have always been used. He is perfectly right. I have read a great many of the Debates on this subject, and it is perfectly amazing to see the same arguments brought up over and over again. The same type of mind says the same thing; industry cannot afford it. The Under-Secretary of State did not deal with that point very much upstairs, because the Committee would not have stood it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2126.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2126.2", "colnum": "2126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "is perfectly amazing to see the same arguments brought up over and over again. The same type of mind says the same thing; industry cannot afford it. The Under-Secretary of State did not deal with that point very much upstairs, because the Committee would not have stood it. [ Interruption. ] He pointed out that we had made great strides in the regulation of children in industry without legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2126.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2130.3", "colnum": "2130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " of the community, and this output ultimately depends on the physique, character, and intelligence of the community. That is perfectly true. These children in these miscellaneous and unregulated trades come from the poorest families in the country. I do not want to be class conscious like the hon. Member for Dumbarton Burghs (Mr. Kirkwood). I do not believe in his heart that he is class conscious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2130.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2136.1", "colnum": "2136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " truth in regard to by-laws concerning this matter? At this moment there is, I believe, only one local authority which has secured powers to deal with this matter through the medium of by-laws, and that is the Corporation of the City of Liverpool, which has the powers for dealing with this matter, yet actually it has not yet drafted its by-laws. If it has done so, it has been very recently indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2145.1", "colnum": "2145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "I do not think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2145.5", "colnum": "2145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "If we had introduced this Clause into the Bill when it was introduced originally, and then left it to the free vote of the House, we should, in effect, have been saying, \"We will take this Jonah on board, but he may be thrown overboard at any time.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2145.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2147.5", "colnum": "2147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "he particular provision which the Noble Lady has now in mind. We cannot have two Bills—or it would be inconvenient to have two Bills—and the two proposals can be combined in one. The Government, therefore, have given an undertaking that, while they are not opposed in any way to the Clause proposed by the Noble Lady on merits—no one has argued that the proposal is a bad one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2147.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2153.0", "colnum": "2153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": "se have got very big hearts, but their heads are not in proportion, and they do not see the effect of their proposals. The effect would be to abolish jobs for young people and not to create them. The kind of work dealt with by these young people is not the sort which would be replaced by a man, because they are employed for the reason that it is convenient to employ them under suitable conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2155.0", "colnum": "2155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN", "preceding_text": "s have said to me that such a provision would infringe the rights of parents, that it would be a continuation of what they call Dora-ism. If there is anyone who is more opposed to Dora-ism generally than myself, I should like to meet him; but, when it comes to the exploitation of child labour, I embrace D.O.R.A. on every possible occasion, both publicly and privately, locally and nationally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2162.1", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "preceding_text": " to get something at all substantial in a matter of this kind. I have put on the Paper, as an Amendment, a proviso to this new Clause which precisely carries out the pledge that we have been given. I suggest in the proviso that this Clause shall not come into operation until a resolution has been passed by both Houses of Parliament declaring that the industrial situation has sufficiently improved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2170.1", "colnum": "2170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "preceding_text": "Sir Robert Peel introduced the first Act which limited the labour of children, but his Act referred only to one class of children, namely, children who were boarded-out. He did not attempt to limit the hours of children—that had to come much later—employed in factories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2172.3", "colnum": "2172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. NICHOLSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. NICHOLSON", "preceding_text": "I was asking the Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2196.0", "colnum": "2196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JANNER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JANNER", "preceding_text": "sistently said that you are not agreeable to the local authorities dealing with this question, when you have already given the local authorities opportunities of dealing with similar questions? The machinery is there, and it is a disgrace that the House at this stage should not be prepared to vote for a provision for the amelioration of the lot of those who cannot bo heard themselves in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2197.0", "colnum": "2197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "rty or the supporters of this proposed new Clause meant exactly what they say. There was a clear proposal before the House in another Amendment, which was rejected, and we are forced to accept this present Clause, with all its entanglements, as the lesser of two evils, since half a loaf is better than none, and it is necessary that some provision of this kind should be included in a Children Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2209.0", "colnum": "2209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "preceding_text": " as fantastic an argument which I advanced in Committee. Hon. Members will call to mind that by a recent Statute the age of marriage was raised to 16. It is possible that you might have one who is a child in law sent to a juvenile court, and it might be discovered at the last moment that he must go to the quarter sessions because he was a parent. We cannot have parents tried in a children's court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2216.2", "colnum": "2216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "preceding_text": "e is in favour of sending young persons to the juvenile court, and I am sure that neither the hon. and learned Member for Norwood nor my hon. Friend the Member for Finchley would wish the House for a moment to have the impression, which I rather got from their speeches, that every young person between the ages of 16 and 17 was inevitably a hooligan and unsuitable for treatment in a juvenile courts", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2216.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2274.9", "colnum": "2274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "commit himself to any such view. I have sat on the education authority of Glasgow when we were framing bylaws under the existing legislation, and I know that there were always hardy types of successful business men who told us about what wonderful things they did when they were boys. They 'always said \"Look at me! Look what I went through, and look at me now!\" And one looked at them, and wondered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2274.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2274.9", "colnum": "2274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "rning employment, although the other youngster might lose more sweat through his games. There always seemed to me a definite lowering of vitality. There is also the getting to the job every morning at seven o'clock. The youngster goes to bed knowing that he has got to be at a certain place at a certain hour, and that is a definite nervous strain which remains with the child even when he is asleep.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2274.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-12", "file": "debates1932-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c03ebeb62e350478", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2302.2", "colnum": "2302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "I will read the passage from the OFFICIAL REPORT if the hon. and gallant Member desires.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-12a.2302.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.13.3", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Circulate it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "preceding_text": "As it is now only ten minutes past Three o'clock, I would like the Minister to give the answer to the House. Not long ago, I was told by the Minister that 1,000 schemes had been turned down in the last four months by this Government, and it would be interesting to know what is the position now in that respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.13.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.21.4", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ST. MARY'S SHIPPING COMPANY, CARDIFF.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "preceding_text": "Is it the fact that a case of this kind can arise in this country without Members of this House having the right to investigate it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.21.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.40.2", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "m. I have been frankly astonished that the Government should have taken this step at the present time, because if the Government have a mandate for anything, it is not a mandate for this. The last election, if it was fought upon anything at all, was fought upon this prin- ciple, that in the national crisis the national burden should be equally distributed over the various classes of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.40.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "his is Imperial Preference or not. Hon. and right hon. Members opposite are only too pleased to get away from the relevance of the situation to some discussion about Imperial tariffs and things of that kind; but, progressively from now onwards, this House will have its nose kept to this proposition, that the crisis into which this country has been got as a consequence of incompetent banking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "ed tea planters who have come here to argue on behalf of their colleagues overseas. I am estopped, I understand, from arguing on the general question of direct or indirect taxation in connection with this proposal, but, if this rake's progress continues, and if the spending power of the masses, which is the only thing that is saving the country from economic catastrophe at the present time —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "Member in the Committee to-day. I presume that he knows something of what is known in the banking world as window dressing. I suppose that he is aware of the fact that one bank passes on its funds week after week to another bank, the balance-sheet of which shows money which has previously been submitted by another bank. The banks pass on the same money, and it is accounted for over and over again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": ". If the hon. Member has read the report, I advise him to read it again, and, if he has not read it, I advise him to read it. Window dressing is definitely referred to, and, although the report does not make charges, it says that such matters ought to be discontinued. That is as far as one can expect the report to go, considering that it was drawn up by a body consisting to some extent of bankers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.54.2", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "funds.\" After all, those are the people who give you large donations. They do not give donations because of the colour of your eyes or anything like that, but because they know, in the words of a late Noble Lord, \"You are looking after your friends.\" Your friends, of course, are the people who look after you when your political party funds need replenishing. I will not go further into that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.54.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.61.0", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAV1ES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAV1ES", "preceding_text": "more than £8 6s. 8d. That is the only sum which is at stake in this matter.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 26th April, 1932; col. 293, Vol. 265.] The difference in the attitude of hon. Members opposite and of hon. Members on this side of the House is very definite. To them £8 6s. 8d. is only a small matter, not very much, but it means a great deal to some small struggling co-operative society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.61.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.83.2", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Beer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "e took previously. As he is not here, we must assume that he agrees with the National Government in levying further indirect taxation. May I give one illustration to show the effect of this particular duty, because it will be more effective than anything else I can say? When we are knocking about the country on a cold winter day nothing is more inviting than to see a roadman enjoying a can of tea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.83.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.83.2", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "levying further indirect taxation. May I give one illustration to show the effect of this particular duty, because it will be more effective than anything else I can say? When we are knocking about the country on a cold winter day nothing is more inviting than to see a roadman enjoying a can of tea. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Beer.\"] Round about noon you will see them making preparations to get a can of tea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.83.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.93.2", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "th the spread of education and of knowledge of politics and of the tendencies and attitude of mind of governments, the people of this country will some day come to the conclusion that we have reached, that the fact that the Budget of this country has been diffiult to balance is no indication that all the people of the country are poor. A goodly number of them are richer to-day than ever they were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.93.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.95.0", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " the poorest of the people. I have noticed on the opposite benches a strong contingent from the gallant country of Wales. There is a great Welshman who fought as keenly as most people for the good of the people, and who brought forward a great Budget, which was called the People's Budget, and which introduced great social services and altered enormously the balance of direct and indirect taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.95.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.95.0", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "nvestigated the matter myself, and I find that there is no case in which the price has gone up by 4d. a pound, unless it be in the case of the most expensive blends of pure China tea. Surely, the hon. Member is not going to suggest that the cold tea of the miner, or the tea which the mother of the hon. Member for Silvertown (Mr. J. Jones) keeps on the hob of her fireplace, is the purest China tea?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.95.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.99.0", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "preceding_text": ". My hon. Friend, who was twitted for coming here to advance what he considers the point of view of his people, is indeed an ideal representative. It might, of course, be that the people want disastrous things. It might happen that what democracy requires at any particular time it is not good for democracy to have, but, so long as this is a democratic nation, you must give democracy what it wants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.99.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.99.0", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The House of Commons.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "ople want disastrous things. It might happen that what democracy requires at any particular time it is not good for democracy to have, but, so long as this is a democratic nation, you must give democracy what it wants. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"!] Here we have strange reasoning. Hon. Members say that the arbiters of what the nation should have should be not the people themselves but self-elected persons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.99.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.101.3", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "election working-class people all over the country voted for people who were inflicting upon them a 10 per cent. reduction in Unemployment Insurance benefit. Unemployed men in thousands must have voted for men who were imposing a 10 per cent. reduction. Working-class people all over the country must have voted for the people who are now going to vote for the imposition of this £4,000,000 tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.137.0", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVID GRENFELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVID GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "ent. of the present Budget is paid by direct taxpayers, more than the whole of the taxation paid by direct taxpayers is an additional burden due to the War, and has to be borne year after year. £300,000,000 has to be paid for the use of money spent during the War. Out of that amount a sum almost equal to the Income Tax and Super-tax goes largely to the class of people who pay direct taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "ble to supply 57 per cent. of the beef requirements of the nation at the high price he is compelled to charge for it owing to his high costs. … The average price of chilled beef in Smithfield Market in 1931 was 4⅝d. per lb. …. Who would dare to suggest that the cost of beef should be raised to a figure that it could only be afforded as an occasional luxury by the working classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": ". They are by Sir Edmund Vestey. That is what must happen if butchers are to be forced to buy British beef by tariffs or quotas at 8⅝d. per lb. in place of the South American product costing our working people 4⅝d. per lb. Obviously the wholesale price cannot be increased 100 per cent. without increasing the retail price still more. Those are the views of a man who is outside politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "n. We have a larger body of trained artisans than any other nation of the game size. Our future success and prosperity depend fundamentally upon finding for those skilled artisans markets for the products of their hands, and the market cannot be found exclusively inside Great Britain. It must be found by sending manufactured goods to countries in exchange for primary products from those countries,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "!\"] That is a proposition to which every Socialist, Liberal and Conservative subscribes, because we know that only by Great Britain occupying an important place in the world's division of labour can we hope to maintain our standard of life. It is the contention of Conservative Members that a market for our manufactured goods can be found exclusively inside the agrarian areas of the British Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not exclusively.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "he aggravation of our industrial crisis. If those areas could be suitably opened up for our products, the fate of capitalism could be postponed for another decade. It is because of the difficulties in those countries that we cannot export there and we are driven to find a market for our manufactured goods among the white population of the British Empire, which is entirely adequate for the purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did not say that before!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "preceding_text": " be suitably opened up for our products, the fate of capitalism could be postponed for another decade. It is because of the difficulties in those countries that we cannot export there and we are driven to find a market for our manufactured goods among the white population of the British Empire, which is entirely adequate for the purpose. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Not exclusively.\"] I say, not exclusively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "I agree, but the hon. Gentleman was objecting to our policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "I agree, but the hon. Gentleman was objecting to our policy. [ Interruption. ] I want to know to what aspects of that policy he objects?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "on the ideas of my hon. Friend. He wrote a book, a very able and lucid book in which he never used two adjectives where one would do. His book was called \"A National Policy\"—a National policy for a National Government in a National emergency. What we had to do according to this book—and it had to be done at once—was to legislate by Orders-in-Council. Three Wise Men were to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "rstand why my hon. Friend included in his speech to-night so many adjectives. The dictionary might be searched for appropriate adjectives to describe an hon. Gentleman who asked of my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade where is his political probity, when he, having put forward this identical policy, ventures to come down to the House and, for political ends, to attack it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They could not do it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "he Exchequer announced that he was going to move this Clause. He tried to move, during the Committee stage of the Import Duties Bill, a Clause empowering the Advisory Committee to recommend subtractions from the Free List, but it was ruled out of order by the Chair. My right hon. Friend then said, \"I will move that Clause on the Finance Bill,\" and nobody raised one murmur of objection at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.158.0", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "ation of wheat and meat. If that is what the Government want, they will go forward and do it, quite apart from any question of the promises given to the country, or the understanding of the poor, deluded Cabinet Ministers who now sit at the latter end of the Front Bench in order that they may be less seen when they blush at the terrible betrayal which is now being brought upon them by this Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.158.0", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "him that on the passing of the Import Duties Act the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for Scotland believed as most of us believed, that wheat and meat had been safely put into a Schedule from whence they would never be removed except by the order of this House. I am satisfied that all the Liberals in the National Government, all the real Liberals in the National Government believed that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.164.2", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "This is the second time to-night that the hon. Member for Moseley (Mr. Hannon) has thought it necessary to interrupt me on a point of Order, which turns out to be not a point of Order at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.164.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-23", "file": "debates1932-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "549515baec00ddd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.164.2", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "the hon. Member for Moseley (Mr. Hannon) has thought it necessary to interrupt me on a point of Order, which turns out to be not a point of Order at all. [ Interruption. ] I was sent here to express my opinions. The Chairman has given me permission to do so, and I am going to do so. I am not going to allow any Member other than the Chairman to determine how long I shall speak, or what I shall say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-23a.164.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-24", "file": "debates1932-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5e02228d945f7e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.204.0", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "ve much of the work to those who do pay close attention to it, knowing all the time that they cannot get into difficulties because of the strength of the party's voting power. I would ask hon. Members to read the marginal note to Clause 6. Power to remove goods from Schedule I of 22 Geo. 5, c. 8. That gives power to three commissioners to remove goods from the Free List if they think proper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-24", "file": "debates1932-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5e02228d945f7e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.204.0", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": " why I do not want to see any attempt to belittle the powers of the House. Let us assume—and it is within the bounds of possibility—that in four or five years' time we may get a Labour Government. Suppose that in that event we say we will set up an Advisory Committee, consisting of three members of the Miners' Federation, to decide whether the mines should be nationalised or not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-24", "file": "debates1932-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5e02228d945f7e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.204.0", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "mmons? What is now going to be done will lead up to what we may do when we come into power. Assume that the hon. Member for Bridgeton (Mr. Maxton) does not get in at the next election—I know that he will, but let us assume for the moment that he does not—and that we get into power and say that we will nationalise the Bank of England, and will put Maxton and certain of his people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-24", "file": "debates1932-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5e02228d945f7e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.218.3", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Member is, I think, a little inaccurate in his suggestion. A Financial Resolution can and does have its effect immediately.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.218.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-24", "file": "debates1932-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5e02228d945f7e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.218.5", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "l. I was pointing out to the Committee that the procedure of the Finance Bill is appropriate to the annual finances of the year. It is not, I was contending, appropriate to all the initial stages of bringing in experiments such as we are trying, but in both of those cases there is the authority of the House, in the one ease of that day, and in the other case of not more than 28 Parliamentary days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.218.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-24", "file": "debates1932-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5e02228d945f7e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.219.3", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "Really the hon. Baronet does himself greater and greater injustice every time. I am making a broad, general contention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-24", "file": "debates1932-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5e02228d945f7e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.220.3", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ght by the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. A. Bevan). I went to some trouble to secure a copy of that most excellent book on the subject. It is an exposition of the emergency policy put forward by Sir Oswald Mosley and 16 other Labour Members of Parliament. It was drafted by Aneurin Bevan, M.P., and three others. It runs in very close parallel to some of the proposals which we have brought forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.220.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-24", "file": "debates1932-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5e02228d945f7e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.221.1", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not noble!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and gallant Gentleman has done me some slight disservice. He suggests that it is not quite fair on my part to desert my Noble Friend in his present adversity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-24", "file": "debates1932-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5e02228d945f7e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "tion. Did he not say that? Is that not true? The whole implication of the election was that in no circumstances would the policy of the National Government reduce the purchasing power of the pound. That was the whole case for the election. It was to save the value of the pound. That was the whole purpose of it. The purpose of Protection is to reduce the purchasing power of the working-class pound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-24", "file": "debates1932-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5e02228d945f7e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.225.2", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: The \"Sunday Express!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "arily some of its methods of legislation. It is not in the service of a policy of that kind that this machinery is suggested but in order to save the Government political embarrassment, to fill up the chinks in the National Government front and prevent the country realising the real character of the Government it has selected. I was reading a newspaper this morning, a Conservative newspaper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.225.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-24", "file": "debates1932-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5e02228d945f7e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "appreciate that they are not necessarily here for four years, but that as a result of the powers that they are putting into the hands of the Government and the Advisory Committee under this Clause they might get a break-up of the Government and a premature dissolution of Parliament. I do not suppose there are many people in this House or in the country who desire to see a development of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-24", "file": "debates1932-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5e02228d945f7e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.234.0", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BAILEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did you say about it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BAILEY", "preceding_text": "t the election was being fought on the issue of the breakfast-table of the people. The \"Daily Herald\" published that statement every day of the election and the \"Manchester Guardian\" represented by a distinguished gentleman opposite did the same. How can the Opposition come forward now, having been beaten and disgraced at the election and say that the issue of the election was nothing of the sort?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-24", "file": "debates1932-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5e02228d945f7e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JANNER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JANNER", "preceding_text": "of putting a tax on food. You may as well say that if you give a person the right to remove any article from the Free List, it is not putting a tax on that article. It is utter nonsense to say that it is not imposing a tax. Of course it is. It means that if the Advisory Committee decide that certain goods must be taken out of the Free List, a tax will be put upon them, and among those items—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-24", "file": "debates1932-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5e02228d945f7e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "My case is that, if a man abroad is selling normally at £5 a ton in this market and at £5 a ton in his home market, and if we put on a tariff of £1 a ton, the foreigner, in order not to lose his trade, may decide to sell at £4 10s. in this market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-24", "file": "debates1932-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5e02228d945f7e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.301.2", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "May I ask you, very respectfully, to tell me what the Clause does do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.301.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-24", "file": "debates1932-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5e02228d945f7e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Look at the position in which you have put us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-24", "file": "debates1932-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5e02228d945f7e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "Without falling out of order again, may I simply say that the Clause is in the Bill because we are varying the fixed Debt charge? We are varying it because our liabilities are not as great as we expected them to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-24", "file": "debates1932-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5e02228d945f7e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.318.0", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": ", and therefore it would have been perfectly simple, at any rate, to move that it should have been reduced to a sum just necessary to meet the statutory charges, instead of excessive. I want, in conclusion, to say that if this had been a case of reducing our provision for meeting debt by cutting off just that one item which we owe to America, I think we should have been very wrong indeed to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-24", "file": "debates1932-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5e02228d945f7e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.322.2", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "t from the hon. Member for East Edinburgh (Mr. D. Mason) and the right hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Colonel Wedgwood), both of whom have constituted themselves the defenders of the United States. I do not know what title the hon. Member for East Edinburgh has to speak for the American nation, except that he appears to-night attired like the American Ambassador on some ceremonial occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-24", "file": "debates1932-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "5e02228d945f7e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.325.3", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Five per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "The words are: contained in any prospectus. Surely the Clause ought to state what prospectus is referred to. What has led us astray has been the fact that we understand that the Government are proposing at some time to try to convert a very large batch of War Loan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-24a.325.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-25", "file": "debates1932-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "379035e0b47e31f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-25a.382.0", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "f a desirable objective, internal stabilisation at a higher level is equally desirable. We want, therefore, to bring this argument to bear upon the financial policy of the country. We suspect that one of the purposes behind the present financial policy of the Treasury is to secure a rise in internal prices so as to bring about an effective reduction in the purchasing power of working-class people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-25a.382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-25", "file": "debates1932-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "379035e0b47e31f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-25a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": " a very great advocate of bimetallism; and a large number of other Members of all parties in the House were also supporters of that policy, believing that the best way in this world was to get the best you could out of the world, and that you must have two standards of purchasing power, gold and silver. Silver and gold have I none, but I understand the economic implications of the Amendmentߞ", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-25a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-25", "file": "debates1932-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "379035e0b47e31f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-25a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Much more!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "en said upon that point. There has been a good deal of talk about increasing prices and restoring trade prosperity, but is there any guarantee that, in the event of prices being increased, wages will go up to enable the workers to buy as much as they did before prices increased? Wages have gone down to the extent of £200,000,000 since the War, and prices have not gone down to the same extent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-25a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-25", "file": "debates1932-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "379035e0b47e31f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-25a.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and gallant Gentleman is apparently relying on the fact that he persuaded Members by means of the Whips to vote against the last Amendment, in order to treat this Amendment as if it had been already passed by the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-25a.421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-25", "file": "debates1932-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "379035e0b47e31f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-25a.434.3", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " make one point clear before we come to a decision upon the matter. He said that the purchase of £3,000,000 worth of gold took place before the passing of the Bill. There have also been recent purchases of £60,000,000 worth of foreign bills-of-exchange. I wish to point out to the hon. Member for East Aberdeen (Mr. Boothby) that the purchase of bills-of-exchange is for goods and not gold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-25a.434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-25", "file": "debates1932-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "379035e0b47e31f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-25a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "I really must say a word. I have the highest authority for saying that it is inflation. I have the authority of the President of the Board of Trade, who says that to borrow on Ways and Means is inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-25a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-25", "file": "debates1932-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "379035e0b47e31f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-25a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "de, who says that to borrow on Ways and Means is inflation. [ Interruption. ] It all depends on how you spend the money. You raise this money and you buy foreign securities. You buy so many thousand dollar bonds. In so far as you are buying dollar bonds and putting them into the Bank of England you are inflating currency. You are doing exactly the same thing as if you spent it on a printing press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-25a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-25", "file": "debates1932-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "379035e0b47e31f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-25a.483.5", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " transactions in connection with the Account have been in accordance with the provisions of this Part of this Act, and he shall certify to the Commons House of Parliament whether in his opinion, having regard to the result of the examination, the operations on and the transactions in connection with the Account have or have not been in accordance with the provisions of this Part of this Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-25a.483.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-25", "file": "debates1932-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "379035e0b47e31f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-25a.500.0", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "May I add a word? We have had a report to-day of a transaction undertaken by this fund already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-25a.500.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-25", "file": "debates1932-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "379035e0b47e31f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-25a.506.3", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD PRESIDENT of the COUNCIL (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD PRESIDENT of the COUNCIL (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "I think we ought to get to the end of Clause 28 to-night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-25a.506.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-25", "file": "debates1932-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "379035e0b47e31f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-25a.506.6", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "discuss it not in the small hours of the morning but in the early part of the day. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury must agree that there has been no waste of time by any Members of the Opposition, and they are entitled to a little better treatment. If we are met fairly to-night, I think we can make arrangements so that the Government could get the Finance Bill within a reasonable time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-25a.506.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-25", "file": "debates1932-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "379035e0b47e31f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-25a.507.5", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, in page 14, line 3, to leave out Sub-section (1). This Sub-section seems to me to be a device to avoid showing that the Budget does not balance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-25a.507.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": ". There are on the Order Paper two Motions for which no date has been fixed, one by supporters of the Government, dealing with Mr. Justice McCardie and Lord Justice Scrutton—that is by the back bench supporters of the Government—and one by my hon. Friends and myself demanding the recall of the Governor of New South Wales because of his actions there against Mr. Lang and his Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.555.4", "colnum": "555", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The King.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "Apart from the question of whether a general election is held in New South Wales or not, a definite action has been taken by a Governor who is appointed by the Government of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.555.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.555.4", "colnum": "555", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "Apart from the question of whether a general election is held in New South Wales or not, a definite action has been taken by a Governor who is appointed by the Government of this country—[An HON. MEMBER: \"The King.\"]—and whose salary is found by the British Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.555.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.555.4", "colnum": "555", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "Apart from the question of whether a general election is held in New South Wales or not, a definite action has been taken by a Governor who is appointed by the Government of this country—[An HON. MEMBER: \"The King.\"]—and whose salary is found by the British Government. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"] He is certainly appointed by us and is responsible to our Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.555.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MBMBEKS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "There is one observation which fell from my hon. and gallant colleague in the representation of Devonshire (Lieut.-Colonel Acland-Troyte) that I thoroughly endorse. I ask the Government to have a little courage. Their action in this matter fills me with a good deal of despair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "hose cheers from the other side. I say to the Government that infirmity of purpose is fatal to good government. We know that the Measure in question was the principal Measure of the late Socialist Government. It was, as my hon. and gallant Friend said, guillotined through the House of Commons. There was a good deal of bargaining with the party to which I belong, although I did not take part in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "take part in it. [ Interruption. ] I am a Liberal now. I say I did not take any part in that bargaining, because I opposed the Bill root and branch. Well, the Bill was passed, and within six weeks after it was passed the Government floundered in the waters of political bankruptcy. There is no question about that. There was an election, short, sharp and decisive, and hon. Gentlemen know the result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Lord Beaverbrook!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "he Bill was passed, and within six weeks after it was passed the Government floundered in the waters of political bankruptcy. There is no question about that. There was an election, short, sharp and decisive, and hon. Gentlemen know the result. [ Interruption. ] This is a very serious matter. That decisive condemnation was led by the Prime Minister, the Lord Privy Seal and the Dominions Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "all transactions in land…. Either that statement is right or it is wrong. I and others voted with the Conservative party in support of that Amendment, which declared that Part III of the Finance Act, 1931, \"destroys confidence in all transactions in land.\" If it destroyed confidence in transactions in land in May, 1931, why does it not destroy confidence in transactions in land in May, 1932?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Home Rule Act?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "g? What is to happen? Is that procedure not unprecedented? It has never been done in my political lifetime. Can the Government give a precedent for hanging up an Act and saying that it shall not come into operation until Parliament otherwise determines? This Act is the law of the land, but it is to be suspended between heaven and earth until Parliament otherwise determines. I do not understand it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "ecedent for hanging up an Act and saying that it shall not come into operation until Parliament otherwise determines? This Act is the law of the land, but it is to be suspended between heaven and earth until Parliament otherwise determines. I do not understand it. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Home Rule Act?\"] My hon. Friend must know that that was suspended during the War. There is no war now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.589.0", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "I should have been content to have remained in my place except for the fact that, although an arrangement was come to an hour ago, supporters of the Government are breaking the agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.589.2", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "ew, but in all the Debates that have taken place since the National Government was instituted, the Socialist supporters of the Government have been conspicuous by their silence. I have never heard their voices raised from that point of view. I should have thought that they would have been in friendly contention with their Conservative colleagues in maintaining the authority of the Lord Privy Seal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.589.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "been very much to blame in regard to certain measures. These taxes are of no use. If you want to get at unearned income on land then you ought to empower the Government to buy the land and take the chance of the income. But do not take the money off the poor shivering wretches who are burdened with the ownership of land. It is not the man who owns the land nowadays but the land which owns the man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WALTER GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WALTER GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "put into operation, and it does seem rather ridiculous to suspend the tax and at the same time continue a piece of machinery which is merely a source of irritation, a clog upon transfers of land, and a means of putting money into the pockets of solicitors with no advantage to the revenue at all. It is interesting, as a matter of fact, to know that it is the solicitors who want this Amendment made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ancient history!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "illings in the pound. When I am reproached by the hon. Member for Leigh with having followed a Chancellor of the Exchequer who was not at that time a Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer—so the hon. Member contends—let me ask what that Chancellor of the Exchequer did, when he was admittedly a Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1924 and when he was in command of considerable surpluses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.657.2", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "n the law whereby the Income Tax was simplified. Everybody is suffering from that cause just now. If we make this concession for the Schedule E assessments, how can we refuse a similar concession to all the taxpayers who are assessed under Schedule D? The fact that the preceding-year basis sometimes operates in favour of the Exchequer seems to me to afford no adequate ground for departing from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.657.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ns its character in the hands of the recipient, and being a gift or a voluntary payment it will be excluded from the computation of the profits of the undertaking. In other words, the full salary will be admissible as working expenses, and there will be no double charge for taxation. A small injustice will be removed by the proposal of the Mover of the Clause, but what about the greater injustice?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "Obviously, that is a matter for the local authority. The fixing of superannuation allowances is clearly a matter for the local authority. If, however, the officer's salary is cut, the Inland Revenue will assess him upon the cut salary and not upon the higher salary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Chairman do report Progress and ask leave to sit again. I venture to rise to move this Motion in order to elicit from the Government a statement of how they view the situation which has arisen this evening owing to the accidental non-discussion of the proposed new Clauses relating to the Beer Duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "over the whole area of public business. I have no complaint against the Government at all. They have done absolutely nothing wrong. The fault rests, undoubtedly, with those who were in charge of these important Amendments. I am stating the case quite fairly—the fault lies with them. My hon. Friend the Member for Canterbury (Sir W. Wayland) has been incessant in his attendance in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where was he? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "rnment at all. They have done absolutely nothing wrong. The fault rests, undoubtedly, with those who were in charge of these important Amendments. I am stating the case quite fairly—the fault lies with them. My hon. Friend the Member for Canterbury (Sir W. Wayland) has been incessant in his attendance in the Chamber. [ Interruption. ] I mean it. I say he has been incessant in his attendance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": ";as a matter of fact his was an absence for only two minutes out of an hour or an hour and a half when this matter was likely to come on—it is altogether unworthy of His Majesty's Government—it would be unworthy, I do not say it is— or of the House of Commons to penalise this trade and this interest in this way. They must offer us a Debate, a reasonable opportunity of discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "rest in this way. They must offer us a Debate, a reasonable opportunity of discussion. [ Interruption. ] I do not say anything that the Government have done is unworthy; on the contrary, they have done nothing. No one is in the wrong except those who now appeal to the Government, but we are quite determined, and in my judgment it rests with the Government to offer some solution of this difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "rruption. ] I do not say anything that the Government have done is unworthy; on the contrary, they have done nothing. No one is in the wrong except those who now appeal to the Government, but we are quite determined, and in my judgment it rests with the Government to offer some solution of this difficulty. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because it will fee in the general interest that that should be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " is unworthy; on the contrary, they have done nothing. No one is in the wrong except those who now appeal to the Government, but we are quite determined, and in my judgment it rests with the Government to offer some solution of this difficulty. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because it will fee in the general interest that that should be done. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I hear some Liberal cries of \"No\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "question no one has any right to make any complaint whatsoever. There was a Division, and any hon. Member who chose to take any interest in the proceedings of the Committee other than those in which they happen to have a particular personal interest, any Member who took that trouble would know that the next Amendment that was going to be called was quite a small one and would not have taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "example of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill), who continually, when he addresses the House, takes occasion to say the most unpleasant things possible about my hon. Friends who sit on this side. But that is all beside the point. The point to which I now want to address myself on this Motion is that no one has any right to complain about what happened this evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "sant things possible about my hon. Friends who sit on this side. But that is all beside the point. The point to which I now want to address myself on this Motion is that no one has any right to complain about what happened this evening— [ Interruption. ] May I ask you to ask the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping whether it is possible for him to behave himself by holding his tongue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "one of the six hon. Members might have been sufficiently interested in it to be present. It is not for me to offer the Government any advice. In a matter of this kind I myself, if I were one of the six, should have taken the ordinary course of approaching the right hon. Gentleman the Lord President of the Council, and should have been quite sure that whatever it was right to do he would have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ve been sufficiently interested in it to be present. It is not for me to offer the Government any advice. In a matter of this kind I myself, if I were one of the six, should have taken the ordinary course of approaching the right hon. Gentleman the Lord President of the Council, and should have been quite sure that whatever it was right to do he would have done. [ Interruption. ] I must ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.689.2", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM WAYLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not later than!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM WAYLAND", "preceding_text": "ve taken part in every Division. I took part in the last Division prior to the Clause being reached. I understood that the Clause prior to mine was to be debated, and I left the House for exactly six minutes. When I returned, I was only one or two seconds too late. I certainly did listen to the Leader of the House this afternoon and heard him say that the Debate would be taken probably about 9.45.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.689.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.692.0", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "I am glad to hear what my hon. and gallant Friend has said and I accept it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.692.0", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "I am glad to hear what my hon. and gallant Friend has said and I accept it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] I did not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-26", "file": "debates1932-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ccf4fc98cdbe4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.692.0", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": " point out that we have seen Debates carried through much more quickly than has been usual. In view of the fact that the right hon. Gentleman has given an indication that this question so far as the Government are concerned will receive full consideration on the Report stage, I urge that the Debate should not be carried on to-night, because this is a question which affects the whole country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-26a.692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-27", "file": "debates1932-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "49ddb91921e2340f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-27a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There were only two days.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "then henceforth; and not only the cinemas, but numbers of concerts, debates and other activities would be in peril of being stopped not only in London but throughout the country. In view of such an eventuality my predecessor (Mr. Clynes) introduced a Bill to deal with the subject in 1931. It was carried on Second reading by a majority of 48, but it met with a slow and lingering death in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-27a.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-27", "file": "debates1932-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "49ddb91921e2340f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-27a.726.2", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "only two which could be called places of any importance, namely Hexham and Morpeth. The others are mostly places which at any rate my knowledge of geography does not enable me to identify as being in any way distinguished for their importance, either numerically or otherwise. Sussex has six, which are entirely seaside resorts—Bognor, Brighton, Horsham, Hove, Littlehampton and Worthing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-27a.726.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-27", "file": "debates1932-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "49ddb91921e2340f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-27a.747.2", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BUTT", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BUTT", "preceding_text": "Yes, but if the hon. Member would allow me to finish my sentence, I was going to say that I hope the House will reject this Measure when we come to the Third Heading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-27a.747.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-27", "file": "debates1932-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "49ddb91921e2340f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-27a.748.0", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "preceding_text": "d like to see something of a national character, something calculated to add to the honour of this country and of this Government, and not delegating this authority to local councils. In the first place with regard to the question of profits, the Bill says: The whole, or such proportion as may be determined by the authority, shall be given to charity. I understand that this is a compromising Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-27a.748.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-27", "file": "debates1932-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "49ddb91921e2340f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-27a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. OMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did you see this one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. OMAN", "preceding_text": "ple to come in. Posters of that kind are like magnets to people with nasty minds.\" Another observation in reply to the question, \"What do you learn?\" made by one of those Birmingham children was, \"How to murder people\". That is really interesting. Another was, \"how to kiss\". A further comment perhaps is still more worth preserving, \"When you have a woman without clothes it is called a love story\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-27a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-27", "file": "debates1932-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "49ddb91921e2340f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-27a.775.2", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "eistic Russia. At the same time all kinds of amusements were going on in those places on Sundays, and, balancing the two things together, it seemed to me that the people there were rather more rational than the Sabbatarians in England who buy their Monday newspaper and never trouble to inquire how or under what conditions it is produced. The proprietors of our newspapers are nearly all Christians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-27a.775.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-27", "file": "debates1932-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "49ddb91921e2340f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-27a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": " sorts of funny little differences. Before, you had to make publication in two newspapers circulating in the area. This time it is enough if you put it in one newspaper two weeks running—a very important difference. Last time my hon. and gallant Friend was like the boy standing on the burning deck, but this time he is supported by the Lord President and, if I may say so, the law and profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-27a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-27", "file": "debates1932-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "49ddb91921e2340f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-27a.785.0", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "preceding_text": "e people of Durham who went to the cinemas but the people from outside. Further, I say that operators in cinemas do not want Sunday opening. I have been amazed at the number of letters I have received from all parts of the country—asking me for Heaven's sake not to give their names or addresses away—saying that 90 per cent. of the operators in cinemas would vote against Sunday opening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-27a.785.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-30", "file": "debates1932-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "22452921843627cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-30a.847.2", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. Runciman)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. Runciman)", "preceding_text": " for. It might be provided for by a definite and direct statement in the Act of Parliament itself, or it might be done by ordinary arrangement, by voluntary negotiation outside. The objection to the first is obvious. Once you start putting wage conditions into Acts of Parliament, you are embarking on a new line of policy which carries with it some very severe penalties, as well as some advantages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-30a.847.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-30", "file": "debates1932-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "22452921843627cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-30a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": " it. It is obvious, when dealing with the subject of wages, that wages must bear some relation to the state of world trade and the coal trade in particular. Is there anyone who can prophesy as to what will be the condition of the coal trade next year? Indeed, some people most intimately connected with the coal trade declare that the coalowners have been rash to give a guarantee even for 12 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-30a.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-30", "file": "debates1932-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "22452921843627cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-30a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "bility and as great a degree of permanence in an ever-changing world of commerce and industry as is possible by any Act of Parliament. We are giving to the miners safety from a decline in wages during the next 12 months—a decline which has been almost universal. We are, I hope, when the Bill has been passed, taking coal mining out of the arena of politics for at least a period of five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-30a.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-30", "file": "debates1932-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "22452921843627cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-30a.860.4", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Men and boys‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "preceding_text": "munity in this country which had made greater sacrifices to bring about the economic stability of the industry in which they were employed than the miners. From 1920 until the present time miners' wages have been reduced by over 50 per cent. In 1920 the cash wages per person employed amounted to £224 per annum. In 1931 the cash wages per person employed worked out at £lll 10s. per annum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-30a.860.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-30", "file": "debates1932-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "22452921843627cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-30a.870.1", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Per hour\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "preceding_text": "actment giving a minimum wage shall apply to the mining industry? He must remember that the Trade Boards Act applies to sweated industries, and I make him this challenge, that if he will agree, we will prove to him that in the so-called sweated industries of this country the wages paid to the workpeople are higher than the wages which are paid in some of the mining districts of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-30a.870.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-30", "file": "debates1932-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "22452921843627cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-30a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACDONALD", "preceding_text": "nd he said, \"Go again and you will find them in a different frame of mind.\" They went again, and their different frame of mind is that they are prepared to give all that is in the Bill. The Government cannot deny that the Bill carries out the wishes of the owners. I know that the President of the Board of Trade earlier in the day said, \"Ah, but they came to that because of my reasoning with them.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-30a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-31", "file": "debates1932-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "80dea1bdb243f383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-31a.1019.3", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A strong National Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": " of the depressing economic circumstances. What are they to-day compared with July last year? This is not a case for scoring debating points over each other, but I want Members opposite to address themselves to this fact and answer this question: What is there in the circumstances of this year as compared with July of last year which makes possible now what was declared to be impossible then£", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-31a.1019.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-31", "file": "debates1932-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "80dea1bdb243f383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-31a.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": " regulation of hours internationally. I have taken so long a time on these matters that I must come now to the question of wages, which I suppose is uppermost in the minds of hon. Members. We are offering, or we have secured, a guarantee in place of the statutory provision. I think it will be generally agreed that the statutory provision last year was an awkward and difficult precedent in our law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-31a.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-31", "file": "debates1932-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "80dea1bdb243f383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-31a.1033.2", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "her and bringing each to ruin. The present arrangements in the coal industry are admittedly altogether wrong. The right hon. Gentleman must know that his colleague the Home Secretary sat on a Commission. He is in the Cabinet. The Home Secretary was Chairman of a Commission, and the Lord Chancellor also was Chairman of a Commission, and I believe the Prime Minister appointed one of the Commissions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-31a.1033.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-31", "file": "debates1932-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "80dea1bdb243f383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-31a.1043.0", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GODFREY NICHOLSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GODFREY NICHOLSON", "preceding_text": "y other Member of the House, and I cannot help regretting that his ability cannot be displayed as a representative of a mining seat. In that case perhaps his remarks would have had more reference to the realities of the situation. As it is, I picture my hon. Friends who represent mining districts trembling at the leadership of the mining industry getting into the hands of the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-31a.1043.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-31", "file": "debates1932-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "80dea1bdb243f383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-31a.1085.3", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CURRY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It may go on for 50!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CURRY", "preceding_text": "None at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-31a.1085.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-31", "file": "debates1932-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "80dea1bdb243f383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-31a.1090.1", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "lds in Britain. Taking the County of Durham—his own county—and the counties oi York, Lancaster, Glamorgan and Monmouth, in those five counties, between 1851 and 1908, there were 120 colliery explosions, involving the lives of nearly 7,000 men, and that takes no note of explosions in which fewer than 10 men were killed. And we are told that we ought to keep politics out of the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-31a.1090.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-31", "file": "debates1932-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "80dea1bdb243f383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-31a.1090.1", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "emove it from the scene so far as this House is concerned. In the meantime, this Bill does not, and cannot, satisfy the miners. No one who has spoken on the Bill from the other side of the House can do anything but vote according to what someone else has said—on the basis of some letter that he has received, or of the fact that he has had the temerity on some occasions to go into a coal-pit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-31a.1090.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-31", "file": "debates1932-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "80dea1bdb243f383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-31a.1101.0", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVID DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVID DAVIES", "preceding_text": " I asked for pulverised fuel to-morrow for a great electrical generating station I could not get it from a colliery in this country. I should have to pulverise it myself. Why do not the coalowners attempt to push that side of the industry? If the Gov- ernment want to assist the mining industry, why do not they urge the Navy to go bad: to coal. Is that an impossible or an impracticable proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-31a.1101.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-31", "file": "debates1932-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "80dea1bdb243f383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-31a.1107.0", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER RAMSAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER RAMSAY", "preceding_text": "his House that in carrying on discussion a little political invective and Parliamentary vituperation is a good thing, but one should surely not deal with this industry from the point of view of Parliamentary tactics. Is it not true that this House has a different temperament and that hon. Members are seriously concerned with the grave national problems that confront the country and the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-31a.1107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-31", "file": "debates1932-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "80dea1bdb243f383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-31a.1107.0", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER RAMSAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER RAMSAY", "preceding_text": "usly concerned with the grave national problems that confront the country and the Government? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"] I do not propose to enter into any mutual recrimination with hon. Members from the Clydeside, but when they reproach hon. Members for not being in the House will they bear in mind that two of their number arrived in the House only an hour ago for the first time this week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-31a.1107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-31", "file": "debates1932-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "80dea1bdb243f383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-31a.1107.0", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER RAMSAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER RAMSAY", "preceding_text": "antages; they are getting cheap coal, cheap coke, abundant power from which they produce the oil and cheap chemicals for the dyestuffs and other trades. They are creating a bigger demand for raw coal. I went the length of asking the Secretary for Mines a question last week on hydrogenation. Why that question has not been pursued energetically by someone representing the miners I cannot understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-31a.1107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-05-31", "file": "debates1932-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "80dea1bdb243f383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-31a.1133.3", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why give it now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " realised, especially to-day, that it is a very reasonable thing for a coalowner to say, \"I give you a guarantee as far as I can see, but I will not give a guarantee if it would be unreasonable or even dishonest to give it.\" Does anybody pretend that an owner would be honest or reasonable if he gave a guarantee to maintain a particular rate of wages at this present time for a period of five years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-05-31a.1133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-01", "file": "debates1932-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "20117db5b6768713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1187.2", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "last year. and I can quite understand hon. Members who speak for mining constituencies pressing us upon the point, but a decision was taken upon it, and upon that decision this Bill rested, and the arrangement that has been made outside the House rests now upon the proposals that we submit to the House. There was brought in last time, for the first time in our history, some new feature in our law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-01", "file": "debates1932-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "20117db5b6768713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1192.0", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That has been settled.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "those coalowners who happen to be members of the Coalowners Association in South Wales? So we might go on all over the country. Clearly, according to the speech of the Secretary for Mines himself, the coalowners outside the Coalowners Association are not bound by these guarantees. We have already been informed that the Kent Coalowners cannot be regarded as being bound by these verbal undertakings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-01", "file": "debates1932-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "20117db5b6768713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1206.0", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "preceding_text": "port to the National Government, I am profoundly astonished and bitterly disappointed that the National Government could bring forward, in order to deal with this fundamental, basic industry, only a proposal perpetuating and stabilising an Act of Parliament which many Ministers themselves condemned when it was introduced and which in my judgment has done very serious injury to the export industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-01", "file": "debates1932-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "20117db5b6768713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1206.0", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "preceding_text": "ween 1913 and 1929. In 16 years the drop was only 13,000,000 tons, yet there is the extremely significant fact that from 1929 to 1931 the export trade in coal declined by no less than 17,000,000 tons. In the first year of the operation of the Act of Parliament the export trade in coal declined by no less than 12,000,000 tons. That was immediately after the placing of the Act upon the Statute Book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-01", "file": "debates1932-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "20117db5b6768713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1212.1", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "preceding_text": "I have not the whole of the figures. I am putting the figures which I thought would justify my argument. I have not the slightest doubt that the full figures would be illuminating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-01", "file": "debates1932-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "20117db5b6768713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1212.1", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "preceding_text": "rgument. I have not the slightest doubt that the full figures would be illuminating. [ Interruption. ] I have taken the period 1929–30. The figures are available and I have shown that they were steadily coming back. I have not the slightest doubt that if the hon. Member will look at the figures he will see that I was right in saying that we were slowly climbing back to our original position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-01", "file": "debates1932-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "20117db5b6768713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1232.2", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "preceding_text": "r memorial, but both country and Parliament, as the bridge neared completion, were struck by its extraordinary beauty and magnificence; and if hon. Members will refer to the history books of the day, they will find that it was the unanimous desire both of the nation and of Parliament that the bridge should be accepted by Parliament and the nation as the national memorial of the Battle of Waterloo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1232.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-01", "file": "debates1932-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "20117db5b6768713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1232.2", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "preceding_text": "ription of it that to see Waterloo Bridge alone was worth coming all the way from Rome to London. As we look at this Bill to-night, the House might well exclaim with Wordsworth: Is there no nook of English ground secure from rash assault? It was said to me in this House a few days ago, \"Why did no one realise or speak of the wonderful beauty of Waterloo Bridge until its centre arch began to sink?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1232.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-01", "file": "debates1932-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "20117db5b6768713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1232.2", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "preceding_text": "gure of £988,000 was arrived at. I will give some actual figures, which are what the House wants. The House wants facts, and I will give them. The whole of Waterloo Bridge can be underpinned as it is at present and made perfectly safe without any of the deformed arches being dealt with. It is not necessary for the stability of the structure to rebuild the arches at all. It can be underpinned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1232.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-01", "file": "debates1932-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "20117db5b6768713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1232.2", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "preceding_text": "hat Mr. Dalrymple-Hay and Mr. William Muirhead are not outside their book when they say that it is impossible to do it at the sum mentioned by the committee of the County Council. As I said, time is an urgent consideration. Once they have got this bridge away we shall be left with a' temporary bridge, and a further 4½ years will be required to build the new Waterloo Bridge, nine years in all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1232.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-01", "file": "debates1932-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "20117db5b6768713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1232.2", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "preceding_text": "de their book when they say that it is impossible to do it at the sum mentioned by the committee of the County Council. As I said, time is an urgent consideration. Once they have got this bridge away we shall be left with a' temporary bridge, and a further 4½ years will be required to build the new Waterloo Bridge, nine years in all. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I am advised it will take nine years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1232.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-01", "file": "debates1932-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "20117db5b6768713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1245.0", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Marquess of HARTINGTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Vicariously!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Marquess of HARTINGTON", "preceding_text": "t prepared to spend a single farthing of their money unnecessarily. We have now a chance to make an economy. Economy usually means something very unpleasant indeed, and the economies which we must carry out if we are to keep out of Carey Street for another year will all, or nearly all, be extremely unpleasant; they will involve real sacrifices. Here we have an almost unique chance of saving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1245.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-01", "file": "debates1932-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "20117db5b6768713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1250.0", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GEORGE HUME", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At what cost?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GEORGE HUME", "preceding_text": "s considerable difficulty in approaching the bridge. The Noble Marquess the hon. Member for West Derbyshire (Marquess of Hartington) rather fancies bottle-necks, apparently, but I do not know that traffic generally does. As a matter of fact, we are advised that there would be no difficulty whatever in carrying over the traffic, and, if necessary, the roadway can be carried through into the Strand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-01", "file": "debates1932-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "20117db5b6768713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1272.0", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ind employment. This was a scheme on which there were many differences of opinion, and I brought the parties together in an effort to get agreement. The Mover of this Motion to-night based his case on Charing Cross as being the means of dealing with the traffic problem, but the rejection of the Charing Cross scheme made it inevitable that the London County Council should bring for- ward this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-01", "file": "debates1932-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "20117db5b6768713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1273.2", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " not Members for London, how very unfairly they are treating London in dealing with this question at all. How many new Members of this House realise that when they vote they are voting on a question on which, if the expenditure were £1,500,000 or £3,000,000 and it concerned a bridge for Manchester, or Liverpool, or Newcastle, or any other town, not one of them would have a right to vote?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-01", "file": "debates1932-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "20117db5b6768713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1274.1", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "rse?\" They then call all the parties together and say, \"Let us go into this question without prejudice, without bias, and with a single-minded desire to find some other solution.\" That solution, unanimously agreed to, is the one presented to the House to-night, and if we rule it out are we, the House of Commons, to take over the responsibility of the London County Council in regard to this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-01", "file": "debates1932-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "20117db5b6768713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1278.0", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM RAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM RAY", "preceding_text": ". We have put away £550,000 for any contingencies which may happen because of duties imposed upon us by this House. I submit that, having done those things, no Member in this House has a right to call us an extravagant body. The Government have passed on to us the duty of administering transitional benefit. We shall save them within the first 12 months £1,000,000 upon that service alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-01", "file": "debates1932-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "20117db5b6768713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1286.1", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "preceding_text": " a proposal of this kind, the Government would do nothing to obstruct it. The Government have done nothing to obstruct it, and they have amply fulfilled that undertaking. This is not a party question, but perhaps I may be forgiven if I make an appeal to-night to Members of my own party, the Conservative party. Here we have a memorial set up 100 years ago to one of the greatest battles ever fought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-01", "file": "debates1932-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "20117db5b6768713", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1290.0", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That has done it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I would not intervene were it not that I desire to say that we who sit here have made up our minds for once to support the Conservative London County Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-01a.1290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-02", "file": "debates1932-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "507d5aa93ab4fdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1319.1", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IMPERIAL ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Because as I have explained to the House, at the present moment the Irish Free State Government have repudiated an agreement entered into between representatives of Ireland and ourselves. We feel that no good purpose will be served by entering into further negotiations with people until they show that they are ready to observe agreements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-02", "file": "debates1932-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "507d5aa93ab4fdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1319.5", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IMPERIAL ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I have not the remotest idea what will happen at Ottawa—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1319.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-02", "file": "debates1932-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "507d5aa93ab4fdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1322.2", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "May I ask if the Financial Secretary will take an opportunity, as there is some regulation which prevents the question being put direct—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-02", "file": "debates1932-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "507d5aa93ab4fdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1340.0", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (DURATION OF SPEECHES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLACE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLACE", "preceding_text": "May I be permitted to thank you for your very courteous reply, and may I further very respectfully assure you that there is a growing feeling of resentment and impatience in the House at the great breach of the privilege of being called by you to take part in Debate? May I further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-02", "file": "debates1932-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "507d5aa93ab4fdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1357.0", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CONANT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nationalisation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CONANT", "preceding_text": " that these uneconomic proposals contained in Part I of the Act are not permanent and are not a real part of a coal policy for this country, but are only given conditionally and temporarily, to enable reorganisation to take place, and that their continuance is conditional on the industry taking some steps in that direction. I believe that the only solution lies in the direction of rationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-02", "file": "debates1932-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "507d5aa93ab4fdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1359.0", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "age them. I congratulate them, but I would like to remind the Committee, as one who has listened to a vast number of coal Debates in the last eight or 10 years, of what has been the position. In this industry we have had continual disagree- ments. If there is one thing on which we are all agreed, it is that it is essential that you should have peace between the owners and the men in this industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-02", "file": "debates1932-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "507d5aa93ab4fdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "the trade which has been quietly done from day to day and from week to week. In touching upon the export trade I have gone further than I had intended, and have taken longer than I had proposed. As to the limit of time put forward by my hon. Friend the Member for Torquay (Mr. C. Williams), it is difficult, if you are going to continue the Act, to decide the period for which it should be continued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-02", "file": "debates1932-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "507d5aa93ab4fdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1371.0", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN", "preceding_text": "r cent. The German output for the same period has declined from 27.44 to 23.28 per cent., or a decrease of 4.16. Germany has not had the equivalent of Part I in operation, while South Wales has operated Part I, and notwithstanding that fact South Wales has increased her export trade by 3.43 per cent. The contention yesterday and to-day is that the coalowners of this country want to abandon Part I.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-02", "file": "debates1932-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "507d5aa93ab4fdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1376.2", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "preceding_text": " upon it now, but I gave a definite and categorical assurance on that point. I said that we were awaiting from the Mining Association the Amendments that they had under consideration, and that, as soon as those Amendments had been notified to us, they would be correlated with the Amendments that we had in our own minds, and the Government would decide what Amendments would then be brought forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-02", "file": "debates1932-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "507d5aa93ab4fdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1378.1", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "It is all British coal. Have we two kinds of coal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-02", "file": "debates1932-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "507d5aa93ab4fdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1398.1", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "did not want this Bill and nobody else wanted it. We had no request from the Miners' Federation or anyone else for legislation. We are not legislating because of any request from the industry but because of the calendar which was marked at 8th July, 1932. We submit that what the industry needs is freedom from apprehension and a chance to look forward without having other legislation looming ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-02", "file": "debates1932-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "507d5aa93ab4fdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1413.1", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "r industry which can be taken as a parallel indicates a mind that has gone back to ideas which I had hoped were long forgotten. It is said that we should not introduce sentiment into this matter. I heard one miner's Member sneered at for introducing human sentiment. Last night I listened to human sentiment about a bridge. The cry was, \"Keep the old bridge up; keep it going, this beautiful bridge.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-02", "file": "debates1932-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "507d5aa93ab4fdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1413.1", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did not the late Government do so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "ist; that it is sympathetic, in some ways, towards socialism. They say, \"We will give you a Town and Country Planning Bill\" and \"We will give you a Transport Bill.\" I looked to see what else they were going to give us. Nothing! I ask them to prove that they are a Socialist Government, a Labour Government—not wholly of course, because a Socialist Government would establish the seven hour day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-02", "file": "debates1932-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "507d5aa93ab4fdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1418.0", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "preceding_text": "ontinue in force until the coming into operation of an Act to enable effect to be given to the draft International Convention limiting the hours of work underground in coal mines adopted by the general conference of the International Labour Organisation of the League of Nations on the eighteenth day of June, nineteen hundred and thirty-one. That was an admission that seven hours was impracticable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-02", "file": "debates1932-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "507d5aa93ab4fdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1419.2", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "debating point, but as a fair statement, because hon. Members opposite must accept responsibility for that Measure. We were convinced by the argument used that there were insuperable difficulties to going back to seven hours, and therefore, if the Convention recommendation were carried through, the hours would be seven and a-quarter, which corresponds to seven and three-quarter hours bank-to-bank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1419.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-02", "file": "debates1932-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "507d5aa93ab4fdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1421.4", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "g brought into contempt in the country because, when the Government bring in Bills, although there is ample discussion and plenty of helpful suggestions from the Opposition, they do not intend to accept any of those suggestions or any of that criticism in a proper manner, or to grant concessions to the people involved. Therefore, it becomes a waste of time to talk on the Floor of the House at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1421.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-02", "file": "debates1932-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "507d5aa93ab4fdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1453.1", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BAILLIE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are starving anyway.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BAILLIE", "preceding_text": "ents in a, mining constituency: However low the wages of miners to-day are—and we all admit that they should not be lower, and we do not say that in any spirit of sentimentality—even taking that state of wages in the industry to-day, I would ask hon. Members opposite, is a miner to-day, with the conditions in the industry and the wages of to-day, better off in employment or unemployed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-02a.1453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-03", "file": "debates1932-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "49137ec38b301035", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-03a.1498.4", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Plans!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " which will enable the local authority to be warned when land is likely to be changed by the owner from what would then be the unplanable category into the planable category. I am sure that hon. Members opposite will see the reasonableness of that, because any local authority in a rural district cannot of its own knowledge know when land is likely to change from the character of static to dynamic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-03a.1498.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-06", "file": "debates1932-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "1ac560709ed7608c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-06a.1590.0", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And common honesty!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ion to discuss prior to this. The Irish Government prior to this, acted on their own without, consultation with us. On that intimation being made, we declared our policy and our intention. We had never departed from that. We have not departed now. That is the first invitation we have received. But I would respectfully suggest that if, as I hope, it is the desire of everyone for common sense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-06a.1590.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-06", "file": "debates1932-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "1ac560709ed7608c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-06a.1716.4", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "Let me assure him that that is not my impression. On the contrary, the impression that I have received has been that there has hardly ever been a Bill in which so many Members of the House of Commons took such a lively and active interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-06a.1716.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-06", "file": "debates1932-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "1ac560709ed7608c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-06a.1716.4", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "ht be such circumstances, but I suggest to the House today that the conditions in which we are dealing with this Bill have no resemblance of any sort or kind to those conditions, and the House showed its appreciation of that fact when it adopted the Bill on Second Reading. This is not a piece of luxury expenditure; it is a piece of essential economy for making the best of the assets of the county.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-06a.1716.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-06", "file": "debates1932-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "1ac560709ed7608c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-06a.1729.0", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "t and who seeks an assurance that no expenditure will be forced on local authorities, including his own powerful and important local authority, in advance, as I understand, of what may be considered as their own policy in the matter. He may be assured that that is not possible, and that the initiative in such matters must rest with the greater authorities and can hardly be forced from the outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-06a.1729.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-07", "file": "debates1932-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "91b81ceede8d2031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-07a.1795.6", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "presenting the views.\" If the Noble Lord had listened carefully he would know that I said that it is unfortunate that the Minister should have made this concession and capitulated on this Bill to the little group who were slapped very hard by their own leaders in the House of Commons last year. What has happened in fact is that this Bill has been butchered to make a holiday for the Diehard Tories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-07a.1795.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-07", "file": "debates1932-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "91b81ceede8d2031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-07a.1796.3", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I do not want to misrepresent the hon. Gentleman. It is true that he said he hated the principle of the Bill. This is the kind of levity with which this serious subject has been treated. The Noble Lord in Standing Committee moved an Amendment, I thought rather unnecessarily, to leave out \"April 1st\" and to insert All Fools' Day.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-07a.1796.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-07", "file": "debates1932-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "91b81ceede8d2031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-07a.1796.3", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "e resolution goes on to ask that the Government shall bring back the purpose of the Bill to its original intention. That is the view expressed at a very large conference of local authorities and other representative bodies, by people who thought that a serious disservice had been done by the Minister's capitulation to the little knot of gentlemen who now decorate the third bench above the Gangway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-07a.1796.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-07", "file": "debates1932-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "91b81ceede8d2031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-07a.1796.3", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ade by Lord Phillimore at the Bonar Law College, Ashridge, which must be a highly respectable place, when he spoke on \"Agriculture and the Preservation of the Countryside.\" He asked whether the Amendment, which was the chief Amendment on Clause 6, has been helpful or the reverse to agriculture, and he went on to say: It is an argument of Sir Henry Cautley and those who are acting with him \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-07a.1796.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-07", "file": "debates1932-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "91b81ceede8d2031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-07a.1798.1", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "resume my quotation from Lord Phillimore's speech: It is an argument of Sir Henry Cautley, and those who are acting with him that it was not necessary to subject those areas to the restriction where there was no chance of development taking place. Then Lord Phillimore goes on: Well, of course, this leaves a good deal of latitude for the Minister—too much I think. How is the poor man \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-07a.1798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-07", "file": "debates1932-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "91b81ceede8d2031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-07a.1798.1", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "Committee. I can understand how hon. Members on the Front Bench opposite, soaked as they were in 23 days of discussion last year, came armed to the teeth with all their arguments against the Bill. They had, in a way, a start of the Minister, which was a little unfortunate; but I should hope that the Minister will be prepared on this question to take the free unfettered view of this Committee here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-07a.1798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-07", "file": "debates1932-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "91b81ceede8d2031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-07a.1798.1", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " to take the free unfettered view of this Committee here. [ Interruption. ] If there were a free and unfettered vote, I am quite satisfied as to what the result would be. If Members of the House of Commons representing a National Government really want to express here a national point of view on a particular problem, they have an opportunity of doing so now, when everybody outside is united—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-07a.1798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-07", "file": "debates1932-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "91b81ceede8d2031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-07a.1798.1", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " Members of the House of Commons representing a National Government really want to express here a national point of view on a particular problem, they have an opportunity of doing so now, when everybody outside is united—[ Interruption. ] I am not speaking of the ignoramuses and people who are not interested; I am speaking, as I have said, of bodies who can claim to be regarded with respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-07a.1798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-07", "file": "debates1932-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "91b81ceede8d2031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-07a.1855.4", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " assumed to be his supporters, but who have used their position to snipe him from behind. The Bill, as I have said, misses a great opportunity. Town Planning Bills rarely come to this House. A Town Planning Bill is a complicated Measure. I have no doubt that the right hon. Gentleman realises—I realise it fully—that there is not going to be another Town Planning Bill for many years now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-07a.1855.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-07", "file": "debates1932-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "91b81ceede8d2031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-07a.1872.1", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TRAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TRAIN", "preceding_text": "I am talking of what I have seen. There was never anything like this bungaloid growth built by private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-07a.1872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-08", "file": "debates1932-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "a8d504cea15c7a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1942.2", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nobody has!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "t it. I lave a case which I sent to the Minister, who replied to it courteously saying that nothing could be done. The man is being called upon to pay Income Tax during a period when he has to maintain a wife and certain relatives. To make matters worse, he is on short time and not earning sufficient to pay his Income Tax demand. We on this side have had no concessions in this Finance Bill at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1942.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-08", "file": "debates1932-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "a8d504cea15c7a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1946.0", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Major Elliot)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do agricultural labourers pay Income Tax?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Major Elliot)", "preceding_text": "ve no relief. Under these proposals, no relief is given in respect of anybody except the ex-insured persons, and the relatives of the middle-class, who suffer as much as anybody from such circumstances, and the relatives of agricultural labourers, who also suffer under those circumstances, would not receive any relief whatever under the proposals. I do not want to do more than just make the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1946.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-08", "file": "debates1932-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "a8d504cea15c7a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1953.1", "colnum": "1953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£135.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "he members of the family, That is a perfectly reasonable and logical stand to take. What is the actual nature of the injustice which the Financial Secretary is defending? The law up to now has said that it is unjust to tax an income below £120 a year. The law said that it was unreasonable to pay taxation to the State when living at a standard of life represented by less than £120 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1953.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-08", "file": "debates1932-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "a8d504cea15c7a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1954.0", "colnum": "1954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ble-bodied person was obliged to support a non-able-bodied relative, whether living with him or not, but I always understood, also, that no person was obliged under the Poor Law to help to maintain an able-bodied relative. I do not know of any legal right by which the Government, through the public assistance committees, are compelling relatives to maintain able-bodied persons who are out of work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1954.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-08", "file": "debates1932-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "a8d504cea15c7a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1963.8", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Over £1,000,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "e in the United Kingdom. There is a strong case for a complete reconstruction of the duties upon cocoa both from the point of view of Imperial preference, though of course the Empire has established an amazingly strong position in this country, and from the point of view of employment. We import at the moment very large quantities of chocolate confectionary which amounts nearly to £1,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1963.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-08", "file": "debates1932-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "a8d504cea15c7a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1963.8", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "tion in this country, and from the point of view of employment. We import at the moment very large quantities of chocolate confectionary which amounts nearly to £1,000,000. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Over £1,000,000.\"] The chocolate manufactures could with great advantage be made in this country, offering employment to a large number of people, by firms who have been opposed to protective duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1963.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-08", "file": "debates1932-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "a8d504cea15c7a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1969.2", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "e, but I can say that it will be considered even before the next Finance Bill, because it will be considered in the discussions which are about to take place, in which it is our desire to obtain a greater share of trade with our Colonies and our Dependencies than we have had in the past. It would be rather foolish for us to give away the whole of our bargaining power before the discussion started.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1969.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-06-08", "file": "debates1932-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "a8d504cea15c7a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1988.2", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "m glad to note that it has met with a large body of support in all quarters of the House and from all parties. I hope that, attention having been called to the idea, it will be studied and thought over during the next 12 months, and that when the next Finance Bill comes up this or something on these lines may perhaps find a place within it. In the circumstances, I ask leave to withdraw the Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-08", "file": "debates1932-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "a8d504cea15c7a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1989.3", "colnum": "1989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM WAYLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM WAYLAND", "preceding_text": "ax is a bad one, we should not hesitate to go into the Lobby against it. I am not only pleading for the trades I have mentioned, and for the exercise of common sense in this matter, but for the man in the street, that inarticulate being who has no means of voicing his opinions, the man who finds that it is a hard struggle to get any joy out of his existence. One of his principal pleasures is beer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1989.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-08", "file": "debates1932-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "a8d504cea15c7a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1995.0", "colnum": "1995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "and said with great frankness what they thought of one another. I would like to know frankly what the right hon. Gentleman really thinks about the decision not to allow this particular remission of duty, which the country as a whole desires. It cannot be a question of money. Some of us in this House hold strong views on tariffs and say to the Government, \"You are responsible for delaying tariffs.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1995.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-08", "file": "debates1932-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "a8d504cea15c7a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1995.0", "colnum": "1995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "untry as a whole desires. It cannot be a question of money. Some of us in this House hold strong views on tariffs and say to the Government, \"You are responsible for delaying tariffs.\" [ Interruption. ] Surely my right hon. Friend must know as well as I do that had a Conservative Government, with such a majority, been returned to power as a party Government, we should have had tariffs immediately?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1995.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-08", "file": "debates1932-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "a8d504cea15c7a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1995.0", "colnum": "1995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "e that point. A very strong representation was made by the country for an arrangement with respect to State lotteries. There was a majority in favour of State lotteries in this House, and a very substantial revenue could have been obtained by their institution. The other week hon. and right hon. Gentlemen who probably voted against State lotteries here paid certain revenue to the Irish Free State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1995.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-08", "file": "debates1932-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "a8d504cea15c7a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1995.0", "colnum": "1995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "nment at the election are entitled to say to them, \"Before you refuse this remission of duty on beer, you should do two things—you should tackle the provision of revenue\"—in the ways I have already pointed out—\" and, in addition, you should introduce economies.\" There are a large number of economies which might be effected were Members of Parliament not afraid of the party Whips.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1995.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-08", "file": "debates1932-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "a8d504cea15c7a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1997.0", "colnum": "1997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major the Marquess of TITCHFIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major the Marquess of TITCHFIELD", "preceding_text": "on to other schemes of this sort which may be put before him between now and the next few months. I hope that before the Debate is over, I shall get a favourable reply from my right hon. Friend. I would like to say one or two words to my hon. Friend the Member for Canterbury and to other hon. Members who have put down this Clause. They have put it down in order that they may defeat the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-08", "file": "debates1932-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "a8d504cea15c7a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1997.0", "colnum": "1997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major the Marquess of TITCHFIELD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On its merits.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major the Marquess of TITCHFIELD", "preceding_text": "t before him between now and the next few months. I hope that before the Debate is over, I shall get a favourable reply from my right hon. Friend. I would like to say one or two words to my hon. Friend the Member for Canterbury and to other hon. Members who have put down this Clause. They have put it down in order that they may defeat the Government. [ Interruption. ] There can be no other reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-08", "file": "debates1932-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "a8d504cea15c7a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1997.0", "colnum": "1997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major the Marquess of TITCHFIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major the Marquess of TITCHFIELD", "preceding_text": ": \"On its merits.\"] I can assure my right hon. Friend and the Member for Canterbury that the maltsters of my constituency are just as hard hit by this tax as are the hop-growers in Kent. Early in the year my maltsters said to me, \"You go and vote against the Government,\" and my reply to that was: \"Not likely. No one out of Bedlam would do a thing like that, and I have not gone as far as that yet.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.1997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-08", "file": "debates1932-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "a8d504cea15c7a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.2002.0", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "I am bound to comment, in the first instance, on the fact that for the discussion on the Beer Duty the House is very full, whereas last week, during the Debate on the very important mining question, the House was very empty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.2002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-08", "file": "debates1932-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "a8d504cea15c7a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.2005.2", "colnum": "2005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "beer a day, or on the average 14 pints a week, at 5d. per pint, decides, because the price is raised to 6d., to give up beer altogether, he has 5s. 10d. a week to spend on something else. That money does not simply disappear into nothingness, nor is it washed down the drain; it is used, in such circumstances, for expenditure upon additional household requisites and necessaries—on milk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.2005.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-08", "file": "debates1932-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "a8d504cea15c7a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.2067.7", "colnum": "2067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN WITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN WITHERS", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Clause be read a Second time.\" The object of this Amendment is to ensure that certain stipends paid to research students at universities shall be treated, for the purposes of taxation, as earned income and not as unearned income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.2067.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-08", "file": "debates1932-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "a8d504cea15c7a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.2067.7", "colnum": "2067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN WITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN WITHERS", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Clause be read a Second time.\" The object of this Amendment is to ensure that certain stipends paid to research students at universities shall be treated, for the purposes of taxation, as earned income and not as unearned income. [ Interruption. ] The question has arisen owing to the decision of the Inland Revenue authorities, and calls for", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.2067.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-08", "file": "debates1932-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "a8d504cea15c7a4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.2068.0", "colnum": "2068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. WITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. WITHERS", "preceding_text": "eligible for research work, there are, at Cambridge, for instance, 25 different funds in the hands of trustees which are set aside for the purpose of research work; that is to say, a student is paid a certain amount of income to enable him to carry out a definite scheme of research work in a definite direction. First, the student has to satisfy the experts that he has the ability for research work", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-08a.2068.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-09", "file": "debates1932-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a09857b69a7a58d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2111.8", "colnum": "2111", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "My reference to \"a Dominion\" was that the Irish Free State was a Dominion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2111.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-09", "file": "debates1932-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a09857b69a7a58d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2111.8", "colnum": "2111", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "My reference to \"a Dominion\" was that the Irish Free State was a Dominion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—but let there be no misunderstanding, under the British Commonwealth of Nations that equally applies to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2111.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-09", "file": "debates1932-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a09857b69a7a58d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2118.1", "colnum": "2118", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "My experience has always been that the supporters of a Government have been responsible for considerable waste of time, and I am not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-09", "file": "debates1932-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a09857b69a7a58d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2148.1", "colnum": "2148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "One of the difficulties of the situation is that this House at pre sent is discussing a Clause which gives to the Treasury the right of recommending to the Advisory Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-09", "file": "debates1932-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a09857b69a7a58d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2156.1", "colnum": "2156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " but what was the decision at the Election? It was to give the Government machinery to carry out its full policy and that is why it is better that the Government should have power to act on this matter. When they have acted they can come back and talk about it if necessary. We have full powers of discussion and full powers to talk about it and a lot of people in this House are too fond of talking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-09", "file": "debates1932-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a09857b69a7a58d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2157.2", "colnum": "2157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "preceding_text": "ive party will regret that they are handing over the rights of this House to unappointed representatives outside. You are teaching us a lesson, and we shall probably copy it. There may be a time, there will be a time, when the Conservative party, who are ruling this Government which is termed the National Government, will lose power, and we on these benches will have power, and we shall copy them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2157.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-09", "file": "debates1932-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a09857b69a7a58d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2161.0", "colnum": "2161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GURNEY BRAITHWAITE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What did you say? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GURNEY BRAITHWAITE", "preceding_text": "election address: We are entering a General Election in which the national emergency is being exploited to stampede the country into accepting the Tory policy of tariffs, including taxes on food. 6.0 p.m. There is therefore no doubt as to the situation of the electorate in my division as the right hon. Gentleman put before them in such clear language that the taxation of food was a definite issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-09", "file": "debates1932-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a09857b69a7a58d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2169.0", "colnum": "2169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "preceding_text": "We cannot allow that statement to go unchallenged. Sir George May and his friends, the members of the Advisory Committee, have no power to impose a reorganisation upon the steel industry, and have not, in fact, undertaken the reorganisation of the steel industry, but have merely offered a bribe to the steel industry that if they will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-09", "file": "debates1932-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a09857b69a7a58d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2169.1", "colnum": "2169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not what you said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "I think, in the circumstances, it was hardly fair of my hon. Friend to interrupt me, for he has only said in his own inimitable way what I was trying to say with propriety. He speaks of a bribe offered by the Advisory Committee. I should prefer to say that the Advisory Committee tell the steel industry that if it is to enjoy the benefits of protection it must take steps to put itself in order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-09", "file": "debates1932-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a09857b69a7a58d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2182.3", "colnum": "2182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "w Exchange Equalisation Fund—why cannot they use these transactions towards that end? I am afraid the real reason is that the Government cannot make up their mind. Has the Financial Secretary to the Treasury a plan? Is his desire to get wholesale prices back to the 1928 level an honest desire? There is no other way of restoring prices except by depressing sterling. On that we are all agreed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-09", "file": "debates1932-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a09857b69a7a58d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2197.0", "colnum": "2197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "ng enough at the Treasury to sort them out. The point that impresses us on this Bill is that it is all very well to have an academic Debate and that it may be a beautiful work of art, but meanwhile the world is tumbling rapidly down. We understand that the Government hope to take a leading part in bringing about some sort of stability out of the chaos. They hope to bring about a world controversy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-09", "file": "debates1932-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a09857b69a7a58d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2229.3", "colnum": "2229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "eady indicated that at the present time, indeed this week, we have only just concluded our examination of the accounts of the Government for the year ended 31st March, 1931. If, therefore, we carried the Amendment, at the very earliest the accounts of this fund could not, in practice, be reviewed by the Public Accounts Committee until January, 1934, nine months after the end of the financial year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2229.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-09", "file": "debates1932-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a09857b69a7a58d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2251.0", "colnum": "2251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " and the world if we inflate our currency, and, at the same time, say that it will improve the position of this country and of China and the rest of the world if we deflate the currency of China. I think that we ought to know where we are. The truth is that it is a matter of complete indifference at what level you return to the Gold Standard provided it is the level at which you are at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-09a.2251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-10", "file": "debates1932-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "b3dbcc8370d3a781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-10a.2279.3", "colnum": "2279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "l bars, and being idle because of the importation of Indian bars? My men are still idle. I want to try to be helpful, but I want to see my men back at work. We want to see the steel trade revived, because we are the biggest consumers of coal in the country, and we shall be able to set collieries and engineering works going. If we are to embark on this protectionist policy, let us do it thoroughly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-10a.2279.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-10", "file": "debates1932-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "b3dbcc8370d3a781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-10a.2283.0", "colnum": "2283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": " a monetary policy in every way to be desired and pursued to ultimate fruition. The Bank Rate is down, bank deposits have increased and it may well be that the Bank of England is pursuing this very policy which so many people desire at the present moment. One must, of course, admit that there are a number of economists who believe that such measures will not produce the desired or expected result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-10a.2283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-10", "file": "debates1932-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "b3dbcc8370d3a781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-10a.2292.1", "colnum": "2292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "The poor always pay for all things. You will not save the poor by cutting social services. All the endeavour on the part of hon. Members is not to save the poor by cutting social services but to save themselves. In this Finance Bill we find that practically three-fourths of the total has to be expended either in the payment of War debts or in the maintenance of war services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-10a.2292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-10", "file": "debates1932-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "b3dbcc8370d3a781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-10a.2292.1", "colnum": "2292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "he total has to be expended either in the payment of War debts or in the maintenance of war services. [ Interruption. ] Shall I say about 50 per cent. of it? There has been no speech from hon. Members opposite, not even one of the maiden speeches, in which the vital cause of the trouble has been attacked. Would it do radical harm if the rentiers were deprived of the total amount of their interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-10a.2292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-10", "file": "debates1932-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "b3dbcc8370d3a781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-10a.2293.1", "colnum": "2293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "You might damage a few people who have £100 here or £100 there, but the people who would be damaged, and damaged radically, and I think that is fully appreciated by hon. Members, would be the bankers, who hold most of the stock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-10a.2293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-10", "file": "debates1932-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "b3dbcc8370d3a781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-10a.2293.1", "colnum": "2293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ry. I read of the number of new industries which have been set up and the number of persons employed, but they are infinitesimal as compared with the number of miners who have been rendered idle as the result of this policy. This is not nonsense; this is not bunk. Thousands of men have been rendered idle during the last few months from the repercussions of the protectionist policy of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-10a.2293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-10", "file": "debates1932-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "b3dbcc8370d3a781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-10a.2304.2", "colnum": "2304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "good trying to stabilise or raise the commodity price level, unless the world as a whole will first deal with the economic policy of Russia. To-day there are two units in the world, Russia and the rest. It is perfectly open and fair for the world to say to Russia: \"We will only treat you as you treat us.\" Russia has, in fact, economically and financially ostracised the world. It is up to us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-10a.2304.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-10", "file": "debates1932-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "b3dbcc8370d3a781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-10a.2329.3", "colnum": "2329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "nt to put the ordinary person's point of view. I am one of those who has to deal only with small transactions. The Chancellor of the Exchequer told me on one occasion, when I very timorously dealt with this matter, that, of course, I did not understand. I dare say he does understand, but I am rather doubtful about him. The point that we have to get to in this matter is that things are as they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-10a.2329.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-10", "file": "debates1932-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "b3dbcc8370d3a781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-10a.2329.3", "colnum": "2329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " and wheat, Australia has an abundance of raw materials and goods, and yet these nations cannot pay their way. Why cannot they pay their way? The world wants their goods, but something stops the flow of the goods to those who need them. In my view, the thing that is wrong is that in this world the thing that men and women think most of is how to get something for nothing. That is what the evil is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-10a.2329.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-10", "file": "debates1932-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "b3dbcc8370d3a781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-10a.2329.3", "colnum": "2329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ary in that statement. I should not have thought myself that that statement was one which would have caused any amusement. I should have thought the whole House could have supported me in it. I repeat that the thing that is wrong in the world to-day is that the mass of mankind are trained to believe that it is better that you should get money without working by manual labour than in any other way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-10a.2329.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-10", "file": "debates1932-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "b3dbcc8370d3a781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-10a.2337.0", "colnum": "2337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "t hon. and gallant Friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury who has won the admiration of the whole House,, and whose achievements in that respect gave to no one greater pleasure than to his official chief, who has the most complete confidence in him. Also I can pay my tribute to the hon. Member for Canterbury (Sir W. Wayland) who was good enough to reserve until I could be back again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-10a.2337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-13", "file": "debates1932-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "1ea41d5876abb061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-13a.37.6", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Without limit?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "50 stamps on their cards in a year, there would be no necessity for an insurance scheme; but in a state of society where men are unemployed, where it is a question of mutual cooperation, and where risks have to be covered, those risks can only be covered by insurance, and, therefore, those who are lucky in being employed must meet the eventuality of the unemployment of others who are not so lucky.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-13a.37.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-13", "file": "debates1932-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "1ea41d5876abb061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-13a.79.2", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "hat these weeks of test, to people who want to avoid them, are really no test at all; often they are only tests to the decent, honest folk. A stamp does not mean a week's work; it means a day's work; and I can imagine cute people arranging, instead of working eight days straight off, which would only mean two stamps, to work on eight separate days in eight separate weeks, which would qualify them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-13a.79.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-13", "file": "debates1932-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "1ea41d5876abb061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-13a.106.0", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKW00D", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKW00D", "preceding_text": "e means test. If ever there was a mean action, that is it. When a Minister rises so calmly in this House and talks, as the Minister of Health has talked, quite confidently, as if it all was better than well and as if he was not dealing with a problem that represents tens of thousands of people who are suffering agonies untold, when he is dealing with unemployment insurance or any part of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-13a.106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-13", "file": "debates1932-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "1ea41d5876abb061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-13a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "vidence that a large section of the people is unable to bear the burden of the men and women at the very bottom of the social ladder who are being crushed by this Bill? There is no evidence. Complaints are being made that not enough provision is made for hon. Members of the House, and that not enough money is expended to allow them to attend the Trooping of the Colour. Go to the Derby or to Ascot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-13a.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-13", "file": "debates1932-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "1ea41d5876abb061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-13a.133.2", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "own trade union, the Amalgamated Society of Engineers. To meet the abnormal situation as a trade union we have spent over £10,000,000 in the last 10 years. That represented pennies contributed by ordinary members of the working class to protect themselves against what we call a rainy day. All the days now are rainy days for them. They are unemployed. I know men. who are as good as I am—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-13a.133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-13", "file": "debates1932-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "1ea41d5876abb061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-13a.133.2", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "epresented pennies contributed by ordinary members of the working class to protect themselves against what we call a rainy day. All the days now are rainy days for them. They are unemployed. I know men. who are as good as I am—[ Interruption ]—and I am as good as anything in this House, and those men are right up against it. They do not know where they are going to get their breakfast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-13a.133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-13", "file": "debates1932-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "1ea41d5876abb061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-13a.133.2", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " our boast that ours is a kindlier generation than former generations. We have organised the medical faculty, not entirely to our satisfaction I agree, but better than it was ever organised before so that the poorest people could get medical attention and medicine without being required to pay for it. That was a tremendous boon to the poor people of this country. Here is this well-fed House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-13a.133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-13", "file": "debates1932-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "1ea41d5876abb061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-13a.133.2", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "thing. They are not lacking in food, they are not lacking in clothing, they are not lacking in all the pleasures in which they indulge to such an extent that they do not know what to do to enjoy them. They have killed all the joys of nature and have to get artificial joys to appease their delicate appetites for pleasure, instead of the intelligent, healthy enjoyments. That is the situation to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-13a.133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-13", "file": "debates1932-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "1ea41d5876abb061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-13a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": " the greater its burden will be. Durham, for instance, will have to bear a far heavier burden than, say, Eastbourne or Southend. We do not escape this as a public charge, only the locality has to pay it instead of the nation—or else the medical profession will be left to bear the burden, and, to the credit to the medical profession, I say that already they do bear a great part of the burden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-13a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-13", "file": "debates1932-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "1ea41d5876abb061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-13a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPREME COURT (RULES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": " them. They practically say they care nothing for justice but only for sentiment. If I say the same about judges, I am told it is not right and I must table my charges, but they can sling their charges about without the decency that should become a lawyer. Hon. and learned Gentlemen have not given a single instance that has happened. Both these hon. and learned Gentlemen hope to be judges one day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-13a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-14", "file": "debates1932-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "2ca2c9c7e97d2c74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.222.0", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "the Bill might have to make speedier progress. I have some sympathy with the hon. Lady, who is not now in her place, who protested that time was being consumed on Clause 1 which she wanted to devote to a later Clause. Her complaint, however, is not against those of us who are interested in Clause 1, but against the Government which only provides two days for the Committee stage of this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-14", "file": "debates1932-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "2ca2c9c7e97d2c74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "y him. If he came in over the age of 16, he was never contributing his proper quota to the general fund unless from the beginning, varying according to his age and entry, a credit was attributed to him by those who administer the fund. He, as an individual, would only contribute his quota to make the fund financially solvent if he was credited with something that he did not personally con-tribute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-14", "file": "debates1932-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "2ca2c9c7e97d2c74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "o are the worst offenders of all? There is a worse case against Welshmen than against married women. When there is a crisis at sea the sailor's cry is, \"Women and children first,\" for safety. The cry here is, \"Women and children first,\" but to the point of letting them down. We resent it very much indeed, and I hope that the Government realise that the feeling of resentment among women is growing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-14", "file": "debates1932-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "2ca2c9c7e97d2c74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " first,\" for safety. The cry here is, \"Women and children first,\" but to the point of letting them down. We resent it very much indeed, and I hope that the Government realise that the feeling of resentment among women is growing. [ Interruption. ] Members of the Labour party cannot say anything about it, because they brought in the Anomalies Act, the worst thing that has ever been done with women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-14", "file": "debates1932-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "2ca2c9c7e97d2c74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "rs of the Labour party cannot say anything about it, because they brought in the Anomalies Act, the worst thing that has ever been done with women. [ Interruption. ] I will not talk with hon. Members who interrupt, because they are a lot of humbugs. They passed the Anomalies Act; they opened the sluice-gate of injustice on women. They can have nothing to say about it, but we have something to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-14", "file": "debates1932-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "2ca2c9c7e97d2c74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.266.3", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is dinner time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "the outside world on the miserable pittance of 5s. per week. Yet we call ourselves a Christian nation, and the Members of this House open the proceedings each day by saying a prayer. These decisions are vicious in the extreme against the women of this country. I am sorry to see the small attendance here for this discussion, which affects, taking the whole of the Bill, 17, 000, 000 insured persons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-14", "file": "debates1932-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "2ca2c9c7e97d2c74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.271.1", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "s out honourable women for dishonourable treatment. I know of nothing more honourable than that women should get married. This Clause picks out single women also. One of the tragedies of modern society is the single woman of about 44 years of age. Anybody who knows anything about that knows that it is a fearful tragedy. It is all very well for those in Governmental or semi-Governmental employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-14", "file": "debates1932-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "2ca2c9c7e97d2c74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " do not require them and give them to the women who do. There is not an hon. Member in this House who would say that the amount it is proposed to allow to women would be sufficient for their own wives and daughters. It would not be enough pocket money for a day, let alone keep them for a week. Confiscation; the word has no terrors for us. We have always stood for confiscation without compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-14", "file": "debates1932-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "2ca2c9c7e97d2c74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So has the cost of living!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "as at the back of his mind the thought, \"Well that is not all that will be going into a house. There will be other forms of contribution going into the home where the single woman is living, and she will share with all the others.\" I ask hon. Members who are going to vote against us to bear in mind that all the incomes going into a house, no matter how small they may be, have been reduced already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-14", "file": "debates1932-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "2ca2c9c7e97d2c74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.308.3", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ity is, that where he might have taken five shillings, he has only taken half-a-crown. That is the extent of his generosity. He can go no further than that, and I do not expect that we can have a majority in the Committee to carry the Amendment which we are proposing. I have said before, and my hon. Friends have said it, that we have seen several Parliaments. We are not callow Parliamentary waifs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.308.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-14", "file": "debates1932-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "2ca2c9c7e97d2c74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.310.2", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACMILLAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACMILLAN", "preceding_text": "I should not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.310.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-14", "file": "debates1932-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "2ca2c9c7e97d2c74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": " technical, very detailed, and very involved. In all my years in this House I do not remember any Bill so technical and so important which was so difficult to follow. I appeal to the Minister to be lenient towards the Opposition. The Opposition are comparatively few and the burden upon them is correspondingly great. Is it not possible to adjourn now and to take the rest of the Bill on another day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-14", "file": "debates1932-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "2ca2c9c7e97d2c74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "this unusual hour. He is quite wrong in that. At a normal hour of the day and in his normal mood he would admit at once that I did everything which it was possible for a private Member to do to get the Government to allocate more time to the discussion of this Bill. There has been no speech delivered by any Member of the party on this bench which could fairly be described as an obstructive speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-14", "file": "debates1932-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "2ca2c9c7e97d2c74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "not interested to do anything in this Bill except what the Government tell us to do, and therefore you five, six, eight or twenty must conduct your job at an un- earthly hour of the night. \"We are ready to work an extended Session so as to give time for adequate discussion. We are ready to keep our mouths shut, as we have kept them shut on a number of topics that have been discussed in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-14", "file": "debates1932-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "2ca2c9c7e97d2c74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "hut, as we have kept them shut on a number of topics that have been discussed in this House. [ Interruption. ] I can go through the columns of the OFFICIAL REPORT and show that in a number of discussions not one member of this party intervened. We are interested in this Bill, and I appeal to the Patronage Secretary. There are a number who have come here not to take part in a responsible discussion", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-14", "file": "debates1932-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "2ca2c9c7e97d2c74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "n a slum in Batter-sea. Thank God I have never had to live in a slum, but I have never been ashamed of living among the common people and the hon. Member knows the flat in which I live. I know that, because in has climbed up the stairs many times, to shove his literature through the door, and he knows when he has climbed up to our flat that he is then nearer to-heaven than he is ever likely to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-14", "file": "debates1932-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "2ca2c9c7e97d2c74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.361.5", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "I beg to move in page 8, line 8, to leave out the words \"twelve months\" and to insert instead thereof the words \"three years.\" I think this is a very clear and simple Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-14a.361.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-15", "file": "debates1932-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "bda8c3f6f6872df1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-15a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Smallholdings?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "It is my view. I may be wrong. The trouble is that these officials always want to get something to do; they want to find work for themselves. Of course we had it in the last Parliament. We had schemes of land utilisation and large-scale farming. I object to all this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-15a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-15", "file": "debates1932-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "bda8c3f6f6872df1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-15a.475.0", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major BRAITHWAITE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BRAITHWAITE", "preceding_text": "es to the Ottawa Conference he will make such arrangements as will leave plenty of margin for the sale of our own home stock before any comes in, either from the Empire or anywhere else. I would also ask the Minister to give the farming public a little more information about the quantity of foreign meat consumed in this country and in \"foreign\" I include that which comes from the Colonies as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-15a.475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-15", "file": "debates1932-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "bda8c3f6f6872df1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-15a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUNCAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUNCAN", "preceding_text": " beneficial schemes ever introduced into any civilised country. I think that before the world is very much older every civilised country will follow suit where Britain has led, and that circumstances in those countries where it may be opposed at the moment will force them along the same lines as this country has taken. Unemployment insurance could be easily extended to the agricultural population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-15a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-16", "file": "debates1932-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "67154b7c5c1f2ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-16a.538.8", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. J. H. Thomas)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. J. H. Thomas)", "preceding_text": "ing the British Commonwealth, equally directing our efforts to getting freer trade and more trade throughout the world. I put it to the Committee that that short statement of our ideal is one that no one can challenge. I am quite aware that when I talked of trade barriers and tariffs, there was the sort of response which says. \"Yes, but how does that square with your tariffs and your preferences\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-16a.538.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-16", "file": "debates1932-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "67154b7c5c1f2ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-16a.538.8", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. J. H. Thomas)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And gold.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. J. H. Thomas)", "preceding_text": " Australia and Canada are very concerned with an outlet for their prime commodities. To Canada, wheat is the all-important factor. To Australia, wool and meat are much more important. New Zealand is mainly interested in butter and cheese. Then you have Australia and New Zealand both interested in meat. When you come to South Africa, neither wheat nor meat is a main factor, but maize and fruit are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-16a.538.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-16", "file": "debates1932-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "67154b7c5c1f2ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-16a.560.0", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "ith an offer to tax wheat and meat if the Dominions want it. That is a vital question to millions of people in this country, and one to which we are entitled to have an answer on their behalf, because we believe there is nothing more certain to disrupt the British Empire than a proposal to make the people of this country pay a tax on meat and wheat in order to subsidise or assist Dominion farmers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-16a.560.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-16", "file": "debates1932-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "67154b7c5c1f2ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-16a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ry? Take the Argentine. In 1930 we imported £50,000,000 worth of goods and £35,000,000 of it was in meat and wheat. What is going to happen to the trade of this country if you seriously curtail the importation of these commodities, which are the only commodities the Argentine has to export? Have the Government worked out an estimate of the loss to us? What do we get out of the Argentine?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-16a.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-16", "file": "debates1932-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "67154b7c5c1f2ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-16a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "the Dominions which will compensate us for the loss of the South American trade or the European trade. What about meat? Suppose you tax meat; where is it to come from? Which Dominion is going to supply us with the meat which you stop coming from the Argentine? That is an interesting point. At the present time there is no Dominion which can supply us with the same meat as we get from the Argentine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-16a.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-16", "file": "debates1932-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "67154b7c5c1f2ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-16a.588.2", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "t portion of his speech in which he talked as if this was purely a Dominions question. It is not at all. This Conference affects India, and India and the Colonial Empire will be considered together with the Dominions, and they make one of the greatest markets in the world. I challenge the hon. and gallant Gentleman or anyone else who speaks from the point of view of knocking this Conferenceߞ", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-16a.588.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-16", "file": "debates1932-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "67154b7c5c1f2ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-16a.619.2", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROSS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROSS", "preceding_text": "tainly in some cases, as the result of the ad valorem tariffs, the Package Duty and the Customs Entry Duty, 400 per cent, on the cost of the article is by no means impossible. That is the position as it exists now. There is no doubt, of course, that those inside the Irish Free State are also suffering. They are probably having the worst time of all, because their cost of living is rising steadily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-16a.619.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-16", "file": "debates1932-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "67154b7c5c1f2ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-16a.630.0", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES BROWN", "preceding_text": "oom for the development of machinery for the social control of production and distribution, which are essential if you are not only to have a planned State but a planned Empire. All that the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook sought to convey to us by the policy which he proposes to carry out at Ottawa, was that we might make trade move in what he called Empire channels more freely than it does now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-16a.630.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-16", "file": "debates1932-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "67154b7c5c1f2ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-16a.643.0", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": " any better prices as a result—and then see how much they thank him for it. Tell them, \"You are going to have a tariff system, but you will have to pay for it,\" and see how far you get with your bargaining. It is obvious that the real danger in this whole tariff policy is that you are trying to set up an elaborate system which is in fact going to reduce the standard of living of the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-16a.643.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-16", "file": "debates1932-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "67154b7c5c1f2ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-16a.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "ought the House was entitled to have it, that some years ago there was made in Europe—not at Ottawa—perhaps one of the most important treaties in the history of the world, which affected the lives and interests of half the. world. We were represented by a great Prime Minister, and I remember that he never told the House of Commons a single word of what he was going to do at Versailles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-16a.644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-16", "file": "debates1932-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "67154b7c5c1f2ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-16a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX (CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES).", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "tion of the committee was announced, or, indeed, before it was adumbrated, to say that he and his friends suggested that it was unnecessary that any inquiry should be held, and that they would offer the most uncompromising hostility to any proposal to alter the taxation position in regard to co-operative societies, however great might be the authority on which these proposals were brought forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-16a.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-16", "file": "debates1932-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "67154b7c5c1f2ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-16a.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX (CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES).", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "We have the President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-16a.668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-17", "file": "debates1932-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4207a668a5a7158f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ces between the Governments might be. Therefore, it was for that reason that I did it. Mr. De Valera's intimation to us in Dublin can be very briefly summarised under two heads. First, his views as to the only basis of lasting peace and good will in Ireland—what he called his ultimate aim. They were, first, the union with the Irish Free State of the six counties now forming Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-17", "file": "debates1932-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4207a668a5a7158f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.690.1", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "I quite appreciate that, but I am afraid that in regard to the somewhat ingenious argument of the right hon. Gentleman", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-17", "file": "debates1932-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4207a668a5a7158f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.695.5", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Why so-called?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " treaty, we could have said, \"We want to refer this to that tribunal which is there to decide on the facts as to whether it is a breach of an agreement or a treaty.\" That, after all, is the first stage in deciding whether or not we have a reason for complaint against the Free State. I know the right hon. Gentleman takes a very positive view as regards the position under the so-called Treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.695.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-17", "file": "debates1932-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4207a668a5a7158f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.695.7", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "nt between Great Britain and Ireland, but that does not alter the legal position, and I am sure the right hon. Gentleman the Attorney-General will agree with me that in law you cannot have a treaty in fact except between independent sovereigns. You can have an agreement between two Dominions under one Sovereign. It does not perhaps matter very strictly whether you call it an agreement or a treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.695.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-17", "file": "debates1932-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4207a668a5a7158f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " Free State. As to Canada, I think that almost undoubtedly the constitutional position is that if both Houses in Canada pass a Resolution asking this House to abolish the Oath of the Canadian Parliament, this House will constitutionally be bound to pass such an Act. That is to say, any alteration desired by Canada of the Canadian Constitution would have to be made under the Statute of Westminster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-17", "file": "debates1932-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4207a668a5a7158f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "sh Commonwealth of Nations. That declaration made in 1926 stated in the clearest possible way that they were autonomous, that they were equal in status to ourselves, that they were do no way subordinate. Now what can the threat, if I may put it in that way, or the suggestion which the right hon. Gentleman has made, mean except that we are trying to make them subordinate in some way to our desires?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-17", "file": "debates1932-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4207a668a5a7158f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have a choice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "n. Members may say \"No,\" but do let us face the position. Let us assume for a moment that the Irish people do want to abolish the Oath. Let us assume that in that case we say we are going to withdraw these preferences unless they come to some arrangement. Is not that a suggestion that we should make them do something because of the economic situation in which they will be put if they do not do it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-17", "file": "debates1932-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4207a668a5a7158f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do you object?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "I quite agree with the right hon. Gentleman that in so doing he is bringing pressure to bear. That would be his object in saying \"If you do not do this, we will strike.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-17", "file": "debates1932-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4207a668a5a7158f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.700.3", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": ", which is obviously the appropriate way to deal with such a financial matter; and I do not think we should be too hard on the suggestion of Ireland that other financial matters should be brought into consideration. In view of what is going on at Lausanne, the repudiations going on all over the world, our own attitude vis-à-vis the American Debt, and everything else at the present time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.700.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-17", "file": "debates1932-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4207a668a5a7158f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "Treaty. We realised that it was a danger to this country to have a gallant people like the Irish people there with a legitimate grievance at a time when we were engaged in a great world struggle. That is what was brought home to us, and that is why we signed that Treaty. We removed the grievance. We accorded to Ireland all the liberties demanded for it by every great leader the Irish race has had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-17", "file": "debates1932-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4207a668a5a7158f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "aty? Can he point out any particular in respect of which we have interfered with Ireland? They have carried their own legislation for their own domestic concerns; they have passed a tariff against us; and there never was the slightest protest. What is the good of going back hundreds of years? Why, the very ground on which I am standing now was at one time the exclusive possession of my race—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-17", "file": "debates1932-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4207a668a5a7158f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.744.1", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I do not think that that is quite right. This House changes its composition and the policy of the Government to-day might be changed tomorrow", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-17", "file": "debates1932-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4207a668a5a7158f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.744.1", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We do not want to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " really, quietly, contemplate saying that because of this agreement the people in Southern Ireland are to be looked upon as aliens? Are we going to say that the millions of Irish men and women and children in this country and in other parts of the British Dominions are now to be looked upon as aliens? It has been said to-day that the Irish Free State cannot have it both ways. Neither can we—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-17", "file": "debates1932-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4207a668a5a7158f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.744.1", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Neither can we—[An HON. MEMBER: \"We do not want to.\"] Yes, but it appears to me, from the attitude we are taking up, that we are being carried along to that position whether we want it or not. If you say that because Irish Members of Parliament have not taken a certain oath in the Dail that fact of necessity puts Ireland outside the British Commonwealth of Nations, then it seems to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-17", "file": "debates1932-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4207a668a5a7158f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Give him a chance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I understood that the right hon. Gentleman desired to speak and there is no reason why he should not take part in a Debate of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-17", "file": "debates1932-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4207a668a5a7158f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " make a great blunder, as regards the question of the annuities and the other questions connected with finance which Mr. De Valera has raised, if they do not accept this offer to refer them to arbitration. The other thing I want to say is that no one here has yet controverted the right of the Free State in the matter of the Oath. No one has challenged their right; no one can challenge their right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-17", "file": "debates1932-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4207a668a5a7158f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "has controverted it up to the present. The point I want to make is that I hope in Southern Ireland Mr. De Valera will see that if any approaches are made on this side, approaches ought to be made from his side, too. I do not think that this question can be really settled by either one side or the other without tremendous difficulties. If one side attempts to force their views upon the other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-17a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-20", "file": "debates1932-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "44d4194f09855bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-20a.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": " cannot spend it in Hastings, so that what the people of Hastings gain on the swings they lose on the roundabouts. Therefore, this talk about economy on the things that matter is simply an attempt to throw dust in the eyes of the people. I believe in economy; I have to practise it, because I cannot afford to do anything else. My greatest extravagance is a thing that most people do not like —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-20a.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-20", "file": "debates1932-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "44d4194f09855bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-20a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ment must be abolished and the job handed over to the Home Office. But even if the work were handed over and divided between the Home Office and the Board of Trade it would still be in the hands of the Liberal party, and accordingly the Conservative element in the House of Commons would not get what they want. What they really want is to deprive a Liberal Minister in this Government of his salary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-20a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-20", "file": "debates1932-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "44d4194f09855bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-20a.855.1", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE PURCHASE (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain STRICKLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain STRICKLAND", "preceding_text": "imself at any rate half the original value. That means that, for the sake of the comparatively few people who meet with misfortune and have to break their contracts, the vast number of people to whom hire purchase is of the greatest advantage, and particularly those of whom we hear so often in this House, the poorest of the poor, who are only represented, apparently, on the opposite benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-20a.855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-20", "file": "debates1932-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "44d4194f09855bac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-20a.869.0", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE PURCHASE (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUNCAN GRAHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUNCAN GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the Solicitor-General has refused to accept the Amendment. I am informed that the custom in operation in Scotland with regard to imprisonment is comparatively new.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-20a.869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-21", "file": "debates1932-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "73698d0df8d180d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-21a.949.0", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MELLER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MELLER", "preceding_text": "Clause is intended to do? In the first place, Health Insurance postulates a contract of insurance, largely dependent upon employment of a normal and regular character. The people with whom we are endeavouring to deal under this Clause are people who are not in regular and normal employment, but people who come in quite haphazardly. The hon. Member for Dundee (Miss Horsbrugh) shakes her head—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-21a.949.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-21", "file": "debates1932-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "73698d0df8d180d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-21a.951.0", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MELLER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MELLER", "preceding_text": "hardship, if it be a hardship, upon these women who are continuing their work is not a new one in Health Insurance. These people who have taken on marriage as a new occupation, and have left off work for a period of eight weeks, had to go into Class K under the old order. We say that there are so many women now taking on marriage, not as their ordinary occupation in life, but as a side-line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-21a.951.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-21", "file": "debates1932-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "73698d0df8d180d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-21a.951.0", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MELLER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MELLER", "preceding_text": "urance. These people who have taken on marriage as a new occupation, and have left off work for a period of eight weeks, had to go into Class K under the old order. We say that there are so many women now taking on marriage, not as their ordinary occupation in life, but as a side-line—[ Interruption. ]—I could give many instances where it is nothing more or less than a side-line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-21a.951.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-21", "file": "debates1932-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "73698d0df8d180d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-21a.1054.0", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "ace, to the Minister of Health, and to make their statement in writing in order that the doctors who are doing those things against the common weal should face a tribunal. They should make their charges in proper fashion. It is not sufficient for ill-considered statements to be made here. Doctors who are on trial should be given the opportunities that you give to the ordinary murderer or criminal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-21a.1054.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-21", "file": "debates1932-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "73698d0df8d180d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-21a.1061.0", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "two characteristics of a contributory basis and solvency. Let me ask the House to consider what would happen if it came to any other decision, if the counsels of hon. Members opposite were to prevail, and on this and every other occasion, whenever and difficulty occurred, we were always prepared to overcome it by omitting all painful effort and by making up the gap with a grant from the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-21a.1061.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-22", "file": "debates1932-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "17341594dd59eb76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-22a.1114.5", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "ese more elaborate calculations take more time, and I think that we have been lucky in getting the figures I have given. I felt a figure so important as that, showing that in every second house in Scotland there is one person less than there was 20 years ago, must be given to the Committee at once, because it is a point of real importance to all who are interested in the question of over-crowding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-22a.1114.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-22", "file": "debates1932-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "17341594dd59eb76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-22a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Rent Restrictions Act!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "e is no matter more important, in connection with housing in Scotland, than to restore private enterprise to its function. How to do it I do not know. No one has yet agreed as to the causes of its decline. I will not weary the Committee with the various explanations offered, further than to say that some think it is the rating system. But the rating system is the same now as it was before the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-22a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-22", "file": "debates1932-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "17341594dd59eb76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-22a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "considerable number the 14,000 who are unemployed. An hon. Member wanted to know if any Members of Parliament are living in any of the subsidy houses. I can speak with authority, as I am the oldest Labour Member for Glasgow in this House, having been here for 14 years. To my knowledge there is not one Member of Parliament, Liberal, Tory or Labour inhabiting an Addison house in the city of Glasgow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-22a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-22", "file": "debates1932-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "17341594dd59eb76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-22a.1161.0", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "their fellows, which tends to dissipate one's intelligence. Now I want to say a word about the Highland medical service. There used to be practically none at all. I remember when I was a boy in a remote part of the Highlands there was a man who had broken his leg 25 years before and was still in bed. These things can happen. There was nobody to attend to him. The Highland medical service is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-22a.1161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-22", "file": "debates1932-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "17341594dd59eb76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-22a.1171.2", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "o every apartment in Scotland, and now the boast is made that there is one person less in every second house. That is a great deal to boast about. The next question to which I want to draw attention is one that all Scotsmen who have any love of their native land ought to be asking: What is the reason for the decrease of 42,000 in the population of Scotland? The Government are responsible for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-22a.1171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-22", "file": "debates1932-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "17341594dd59eb76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-22a.1219.1", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CHAPMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has been here all the time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CHAPMAN", "preceding_text": "em, the Department should see that they do not escape from the large enclosures in which they are encaged. Just this one other thing: The right hon. Gentleman at the commencement of his most excellent speech said that he would not go into any details with regard to agriculture, because the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Agriculture, who, I am glad to see, has just come into his place —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-22a.1219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-22", "file": "debates1932-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "17341594dd59eb76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-22a.1222.0", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "ould produce ourselves. Our climate is better, our soil is better, and it was instilled into me in my youthful days whether it is true or not I cannot affirm, that the Scottish farmer is the finest farmer in the world. Here you have the finest material in the world on which to work as against Denmark. You have the soil, the climate and the men. But what do we find? Only 2,000 put on smallholdings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-22a.1222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1273.1", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " themselves as to what the \"free hand\" really meant. We say it means that the Government were elected with an unparalleled majority to carry out such a policy as in their judgment would restore trade and industry. Now, after many months have passed, it is acknowledged, I suppose, on all sides of the House, that trade and industry are in a much worse plight than when the Government came into power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1273.1", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "uties Act. Then it seemed that hon. Members believed that we were starting on a new road that would lead very speedily to the promised land. We were told to \"Wait and see.\" I think that was one statement of the President of the Board of Trade. Other hon. Friends of mine will probably elaborate this point, but the effect of tariffs up to now has been to increase unemployment throughout the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1273.1", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "t the crisis last year. I never denied the crisis; what I did deny was the infamous lie that that crisis was brought about because of British expenditure on the poor of the country. The right hon. Gentleman knows now, and the country knows—tens of thousands of people know who did not know it a year ago—that that crisis was brought about by the gambling of the men in the City of London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "We believe that masses of the unemployed could have been put to quite good, useful work at proper wages. I travelled to Yorkshire at the week-end, right across the Fens to Cambridgeshire and, although parts of Cambridge, Huntingdon and Lincolnshire are better cultivated than others, there are still miles of land where there is not a human being. You never meet anyone. You can go hundreds of miles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I have done it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " although parts of Cambridge, Huntingdon and Lincolnshire are better cultivated than others, there are still miles of land where there is not a human being. You never meet anyone. You can go hundreds of miles. [ Interruption. ] I will repeat that so that you can laugh again. You can go hundreds of miles and scarcely meet a human being. You can ride on the North-Eastern Railway from London to York.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "t anyone. You can go hundreds of miles. [ Interruption. ] I will repeat that so that you can laugh again. You can go hundreds of miles and scarcely meet a human being. You can ride on the North-Eastern Railway from London to York. [An HON. MEMBER: \"I have done it.\"] I invite you to skin your eyes next time you are travelling and you will see what I have seen— hundreds of miles of land—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "that you can laugh again. You can go hundreds of miles and scarcely meet a human being. You can ride on the North-Eastern Railway from London to York. [An HON. MEMBER: \"I have done it.\"] I invite you to skin your eyes next time you are travelling and you will see what I have seen— hundreds of miles of land—[ Interruption. ] I can only give you argument; I cannot give you anything else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Would never stay there!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " as to the political system that is operating in Germany, France, or Russia. If we are to believe Mr. Selfridge, all the systems are wrong except one of which he would be dictator. We may disagree as to how things ought to be run, but it is a fact that that country, rising from the ruins of war, revolution and Tsardom, is creating a new life. You may not like it, but everyone who goes there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, no! plenty of time \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "he Dominions want to come in with us in the business of developing their countries, let us do what we can, but not shut ourselves out from the rest of the world. 4.30 p.m. The last thing I want to say is this, and I ask the House to forgive me because I know that in this case, probably, I ought not to say it; but I am my age, and I have not a long number of years, perhaps only days or weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1301.0", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KINGSLEY GRIFFITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KINGSLEY GRIFFITH", "preceding_text": "ctically no use has been made of the Free Trade case by Labour Members, except as a stick with which to beat the Government. The only Free Trade speeches which have carried with them any ring of conviction have come from the hon. and gallant Member for Pembroke (Major G. Lloyd George). From the Labour party we have had nothing which upholds the Free Trade case as we on these benches understand it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1301.0", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KINGSLEY GRIFFITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KINGSLEY GRIFFITH", "preceding_text": "hich we who sit for industrial districts are painfully familiar. I say that the necessity for these cuts and their probable effect and justification, were fully canvassed at the last General Election, and every hon. Member will remember that every ounce of political capital was made out of the proposed cuts, the most serious parts of which were already in being at the time of the General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "r them to buy suits at £3 10s. I put it to the right hon. Gentleman that if either in the manufacture of buckets or in the manufacture of suits there is a real, genuine increase of what is called efficiency in their production to get that lower price, it means that at some point in the productive process human labour has been dispensed with, that some men have gone out on to the street—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "makes no complaint, and he says, by implication, that it will take three or four years until we see whether this policy is to be successful or not; and, of course, there ought to be no Votes of Censure meanwhile. During the period of the last Labour Government, I think, there was a Vote of Censure every week, and when the Prime Minister Was announcing business, he always left Thursday blank—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "could logically follow was the nomination of the May Committee. Then there are the gallant 200, who are going to rampage through the Government offices during their summer recess—I do not think they will rampage very long—looking for more economies. They are carrying to its logical conclusion the policy that was initiated by the May Committee, which was set up by the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was only this week!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "d in complete catastrophe. I know that the right hon. Gentleman the Lord President of the Council said to-day that that is not the course that events have taken, but, remember, it is only a week ago since the Government came into the House and insisted that the situation was so much worse than it was 12 months ago that reductions had to be made in what the State could allow to the sick workpeople.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1319.0", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES BROWN", "preceding_text": "s are advocating as a is policy for this country. We have seen some of those who boast about the superlative quality of their British sentiment and patriotism glorying in the fact that foreign factories have been established in Great Britain, and that foreign machines have been introduced into some of those factories when, in some instances, those machines could have been obtained in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1319.0", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES BROWN", "preceding_text": "s,' but his labels are much larger than mine.\" We must remember that all the luggage may come back labelled \"Failure.\" We have heard something about the schoolboy's motto, \"If at first you don't succeed, try again!\" That is the motto which has been put before the House by the Lord President of the Council this afternoon, and he hopes that something may come out of it in the dim and distant future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1328.1", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "I at once agree with the hon. Member that, as regards a certain section of specialised operatives in one branch of the industry, that is true, and I gladly give him credit for it. In my opinion—and I am entitled to express my opinion as well as the hon. Member—they have benefited temporarily by the policy which has been pursued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1360.3", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "preceding_text": "Exactly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1360.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1363.1", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "preceding_text": "the next few weeks. I can only reiterate what I said in this House in the course of the Debate on the mining question a fortnight ago, namely, that, while I agree that the restrictions imposed by foreign countries have had some effect on the export of coal, by far the greatest effect in diminishing the quantity of coal exported from this country is due to the operation of the Coal Mines Act, 1930.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1363.1", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "preceding_text": "gree that the restrictions imposed by foreign countries have had some effect on the export of coal, by far the greatest effect in diminishing the quantity of coal exported from this country is due to the operation of the Coal Mines Act, 1930. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Hon. Members opposite, because it was a Socialist Act of Parliament, feel compelled to back it up, but I have stated a well-known fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1363.1", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "preceding_text": " well-known fact. [ Interruption. ] I do not wish to go over the ground again, but I showed in this House—I had the minutes in my pocket at the time—that the coalowners of the county of Northumberland were overwhelmingly against the Act, and I showed that the coalowners of the county of Durham were so evenly divided that there was practically nothing in it. There was a slight majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1365.1", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "preceding_text": "o know perfectly well that the difficulty has been to get the Durham coalowners, or coalowners in any part of the country, to speak with a united voice. I appeal to the Government to reconsider this matter. The Lord President of the Council mentioned, as an illustration, the case of an up-to-date gentleman who had his eyes wide open so far as his own industry was concerned. He made buckets —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1365.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1369.0", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ought fit to restore national prosperity and to deal with unemployment, and having entirely failed in these objects as is shown by the steady diminution of trade and industry at Home and abroad \"— mark the words \"and abroad\"— and the increase of unemployment, together with the deplorable conditions to which the unemployed are being subjected, has forfeited the confidence of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1368.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "rld depression. They occurred largely before this Government came into office. They now come, with the audacity that is borne of despair, to ask the House to condemn this Government because of unemployment that has existed abroad. But let me come to the responsibility, which, is of course true, of the Government at home. Judge what has happened here and the responsibility of the Government for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "of despair, to ask the House to condemn this Government because of unemployment that has existed abroad. But let me come to the responsibility, which, is of course true, of the Government at home. Judge what has happened here and the responsibility of the Government for it. [ Interruption. ] There is the same enthusiasm coming from the hon. Member for Chester-le-Street. He is a confirmed optimist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1376.3", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How long ago?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "came into office, for such a conference, but the months have slipped by and events have happened. We have a situation now in Germany of the utmost possible danger. We have a world situation in regard to which persons of great authority all agree that it is extremely difficult and doubtful whether it can be saved. We consider that in that matter the Government should have taken action much earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1376.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1381.2", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "e when they talk about economy. They think of the old Gladstonian phrase of money fructifying in the pockets of the people, and they imagine that money is always sterilised if it is in the pockets of the State or municipalities. Mr. Gladstone, although a great authority in his day, was a man of his day. In the nineteenth century we were in much the same position as the people of Russia are to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1381.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1381.2", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "ecause they have never had the opportunity. No doubt it is an economy, but you will pay a heavy price in the future in respect of that generation. We on these benches are not in the least afraid of putting forward this Vote of no confidence in the Government. We have no confidence in this Government. We have no confidence in the system which they represent. We are not afraid to face the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1381.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1381.2", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is the enemy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "ion. [ Laughter. ] I expected that kind of laughter. I suppose that we shall have the old canard, \"You ran away.\" Well, in regard to the subject of running away, I will only say that there are some hon. Members opposite who have been soldiers, and I think they will agree with me that the time when one is justified in disobeying the orders of one's captain is when he surrenders to. the enemy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1381.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1381.2", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "ou ran away.\" Well, in regard to the subject of running away, I will only say that there are some hon. Members opposite who have been soldiers, and I think they will agree with me that the time when one is justified in disobeying the orders of one's captain is when he surrenders to. the enemy—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is the enemy?\"] For five and twenty years I followed the present Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1381.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-23", "file": "debates1932-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "a173f94a96b63979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1389.1", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": "owance for what the hon. Member for Chester-le-Street says, this broad fact remains, that whereas the figures were going up by leaps and bounds last, year-and unless they had been checked they would probably have been between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000., and probably nearer 4,000,000 than 3,000,000-we have at least arrested that increase, and the position is infinitely better to-day than it was then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-23a.1389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-27", "file": "debates1932-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "877b04873cbbef6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1518.0", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"China,\" \"Russia!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "preceding_text": " the conditions. Indian industry established on the present modern lines on the shoulders of the cheapest labour on earth is the greatest industrial Frankenstein within this Empire. Let me try to impress upon the Committee the importance of that point. Indian industry is based upon the cheapest labour on earth. There is no labour of which I know in any part of the world cheaper than Indian labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-27", "file": "debates1932-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "877b04873cbbef6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "preceding_text": "f Babel. Some remarks have been made in regard to the cruelty and brutality of the British towards Indians. I may possibly be credited with being an average intelligent human being, and I have gone out of my way as far as possible, as a European, to enter into the mentality of the Indian. What is more, there are many Englishmen who have been in India for many years who do not yet understand India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-27", "file": "debates1932-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "877b04873cbbef6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "preceding_text": "ying four days and nights, sleeping in the trains and eating with them, and you can form a better opinion and a more correct idea of a nation if you live with them than by merely living in the European quarters. I have crossed that invisible line between the European and the Indians which enables me to speak here to-night with a definite understanding; to which I ask the attention of hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-27", "file": "debates1932-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "877b04873cbbef6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "preceding_text": "r in something which can never take place. In 1923 you may remember that there was a great crusade to boycott British goods. There was a burning of British cloth. I went to see what they were doing, to view the proceedings. They provided me with a seat on the platform and placed a topee under my chair, and I was astonished that they also burned my topee as being a foreign article made in Calcutta.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-27", "file": "debates1932-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "877b04873cbbef6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "preceding_text": ", and you will there see some of the beneficent work which Great Britain has done in India. Famine a few years ago was a frequent occurrence, but it is now unknown. They have never known a whisper of such a catastrophe during later years, and India has to thank Great Britain for what she has done in regard to irrigation and for making the land fit to live in. What are the troubles in India to-day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-27", "file": "debates1932-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "877b04873cbbef6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "preceding_text": "Britain has done in India. Famine a few years ago was a frequent occurrence, but it is now unknown. They have never known a whisper of such a catastrophe during later years, and India has to thank Great Britain for what she has done in regard to irrigation and for making the land fit to live in. What are the troubles in India to-day? [ Interruption. ] What is the Indian complaint? I will tell you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-27", "file": "debates1932-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "877b04873cbbef6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "preceding_text": "s with the British Fleet on the waters. Mr. Gandhi also says that he would prefer to go into chaos and be their own masters rather than have a paradise under an alien government. In regard also to the communal question, he says that he would rather see one or other of the communities extinguished, massacred, than have any outside settlement of the question. That brings me to the communal question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-27", "file": "debates1932-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "877b04873cbbef6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "preceding_text": "e fact that the massacres which may take place will be set at your door, and you will not be able to evade responsibility for what you have done. You may say that you have done it all for the best, but beware what I say: Keep your fingers off the communal question and do not interfere. I am speaking feelingly because I know what is going to happen. I arrived in Bombay on the 2nd January last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-27", "file": "debates1932-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "877b04873cbbef6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "preceding_text": "hat is going to happen. I arrived in Bombay on the 2nd January last year. [ Interruption. ] What did I find? I found the city almost in revolution, the military, the; police in the streets, tramcars stopped, bricks being thrown, every European store picketed and the whole place in chaos. There is not a Member of this House but what thinks that he can put the whole world right if he had the chance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-27", "file": "debates1932-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "877b04873cbbef6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "preceding_text": " January last year. [ Interruption. ] What did I find? I found the city almost in revolution, the military, the; police in the streets, tramcars stopped, bricks being thrown, every European store picketed and the whole place in chaos. There is not a Member of this House but what thinks that he can put the whole world right if he had the chance. [ Interruption. ] I felt that sort of impulse myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-27", "file": "debates1932-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "877b04873cbbef6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1587.1", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ou can probably beat the Congress. None of us denies that in all probability you can hold down tens of thousands of these people, but I ask the Committee, is it worth while? Should we not make one more effort? I understand it is said that, if Mr. Gandhi has anything to say he can say it, but why should not we have something to say? Why should not we, the stronger Power, go to Mr. Gandhi once more?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-27", "file": "debates1932-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "877b04873cbbef6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1587.1", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "e time, the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George), and the late Lord Birkenhead, to their eternal credit, called the Irishmen over here to this country in a worse condition of things than now, and without, I think, giving away anything they negotiated peace. There are 300,000,000 people in India, and you are holding in gaol, everyone knows, the best and the brightest of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-27", "file": "debates1932-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "877b04873cbbef6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1593.1", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " I wish I had time to point out how many people have meddled in this Indian affair and given our interests a push downhill and then have faded out of the picture. There was Lord Reading, who made his speech at the landslide conference. He said that never would he agree to give them responsible government at the centre unless there was agreement between Hindus and Mohammedans. Where is that to-day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-27", "file": "debates1932-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "877b04873cbbef6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1593.1", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"GO on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "le whom the right hon. Gentleman has administered and kept in order are to be disturbed by being told they are all to be plunged, into an election where 36,000,000 illiterates will vote by coloured cards, and where the Indian Congress will see that they vote in the right direction. I do not wonder at the difficulties of my right hon. Friend. 10.30 p.m. I am sorry that I cannot develop the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-27", "file": "debates1932-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "877b04873cbbef6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1593.1", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "sentatives of both sides in this case. The sides are united, and there are only those who differ from the Round Table policy and happen to be people who have either lived their lives in India or who know a great deal about it. I hope that all the points of view will be represented, and that the Committee will not simply be made up of the tame supporters of the Government and of would-be Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-27a.1593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-28", "file": "debates1932-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4e6b3247c869bd28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-28a.1651.9", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "cotland, and all that is necessary at the present time is that an effective dredger should be sent in order to make it an even safer haven of refuge in the time of stress and storm to the harassed mariners. There was another new piece of legislation in 1930. I refer to the Drainage Act. Last year the grant for drainage was cut down, and I gather that this year there is no attempt to cut the grant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-28a.1651.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-30", "file": "debates1932-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3b99316e187d5a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-30a.2056.4", "colnum": "2056", "heading": "SOLICITORS BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "unately, has been to affect barristers of five years' standing who, under Clause 34, are entitled to become solicitors, after fulfilling the proper conditions, without being articled to a solicitor. If, therefore, the wording were left in its present form, a barrister of five years' standing would be liable to have to attend a solicitors' law school for a year before being admitted as a solicitor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-30a.2056.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-30", "file": "debates1932-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3b99316e187d5a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-30a.2067.0", "colnum": "2067", "heading": "CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "preceding_text": "in rural areas in always having exactly the same court constituted., and that possibly the adherence to theoretical perfection may mean intolerable delay in the remanding of the young person before you can constitute exactly the same court, which will then be in a position to finish the case. In those circumstances I think that we had better abandon theoretical perfection and accept the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-30a.2067.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-30", "file": "debates1932-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3b99316e187d5a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-30a.2072.0", "colnum": "2072", "heading": "CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I am sure that I am voicing the feelings of nearly every Member when I congratulate the Government on their attitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-30a.2072.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-30", "file": "debates1932-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3b99316e187d5a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-30a.2074.0", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ANNESLEY SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ANNESLEY SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "The Front Benches seem to be in agreement on this matter. We have heard from the hon. Member opposite that everybody in the House is likely to agree with him. I suppose that I shall be one against the whole House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-30a.2074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-30", "file": "debates1932-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3b99316e187d5a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-30a.2077.0", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "lly elected to give expression to the will of the people. The House of Lords is not democratically elected. It is responsible to nobody but themselves. If they were dealing with their own sons or their own daughters I would not care; but they are dealing with the sons and daughters of my class, the working classes. None of the Lords would like to see their sons of eight years of age being birched.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-30a.2077.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-30", "file": "debates1932-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3b99316e187d5a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-30a.2091.0", "colnum": "2091", "heading": "CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "preceding_text": "to ask the House to reject the Lords Amendment. I could not believe that a National Government could reject such a sensible Amendment. I could not imagine that so virile a thing as a National Government, representing Great Britain, the most virile of nationalities could say that a properly constituted court should be forbidden any discretion to give six smacks with the birch to a very naughty boy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-30a.2091.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-30", "file": "debates1932-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3b99316e187d5a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-30a.2091.0", "colnum": "2091", "heading": "CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "preceding_text": " could reject such a sensible Amendment. I could not imagine that so virile a thing as a National Government, representing Great Britain, the most virile of nationalities could say that a properly constituted court should be forbidden any discretion to give six smacks with the birch to a very naughty boy. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"] Somebody says \"Nonsense,\" but it is nonsense for him to say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-30a.2091.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-30", "file": "debates1932-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3b99316e187d5a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-30a.2092.1", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And girls.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "s a most deplorable case of boys killing sheep and calves by beating them with iron bars—a most horrible case of brutality—and we know that there are cases of brutality of that kind. Do you mean to tell me that boys who do such an act as that should not be whipped? I am glad to say it is not common, though, mind you, young boys of all classes are perhaps the cruelest thing in creation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-30a.2092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-30", "file": "debates1932-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3b99316e187d5a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-30a.2092.1", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": " Eton got very excited at a cricket match at Winchester, and did certain damage to a railway carriage on their way back to Eton, breaking windows and so on. There has been no talk of any injustice, and every one of those boys has been soundly birched, and has received a good many more than six strokes with the birch. There is no outcry throughout the country about this terrible abuse of authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-30a.2092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-06-30", "file": "debates1932-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3b99316e187d5a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-30a.2106.0", "colnum": "2106", "heading": "CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I have summed up the situation rightly. I must say I am very sorry that the Government have not been able to accept the Lords Amendment, because, for once in a way, their Lordships have made a great advance on the present Government. I do not know why they reached that decision; that is their own business; but for my part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-06-30a.2106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-01", "file": "debates1932-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "68ebc388c16a4aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-01a.2152.0", "colnum": "2152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "inks it a step in the right direction, which may be followed in the future, but apart from that report I do not think it can be said that there is any affection due to us for benefits conferred upon the natives in Kenya. I really think it can only be a pretence to say that our attitude to the natives there is solely one of benevolence. The blighters in Kenya have got to work and we make them work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-01a.2152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-01", "file": "debates1932-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "68ebc388c16a4aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-01a.2152.0", "colnum": "2152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about this country?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " and the complaint of the natives in Kenya is that under the British administration they are compelled to work. Of course a great many people think that they ought to be made to work, but it is a perfectly reasonable grievance on the part of the natives of that country that they have to work for two months in the year for a master, solely in order to earn the money which they have to pay in taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-01a.2152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-01", "file": "debates1932-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "68ebc388c16a4aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-01a.2152.0", "colnum": "2152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A five-shilling Income Tax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "on they are compelled to work. Of course a great many people think that they ought to be made to work, but it is a perfectly reasonable grievance on the part of the natives of that country that they have to work for two months in the year for a master, solely in order to earn the money which they have to pay in taxes. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about this country?\"] And how long do we work, for example?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-01a.2152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-01", "file": "debates1932-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "68ebc388c16a4aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-01a.2188.2", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "een very glad if the right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues could have found it possible to have given the same measure of support to the Labour Government when they, in a much more modest way, were trying to move in the same direction round about the year 1930 in regard to domestic affairs. However, there it is. I am glad to see some indication of repentance coming from the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-01a.2188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.21.6", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will admit that this is a very serious matter for the people in the neighbourhood. For the sake of delaying the ship one day, is it right to subject them to the risk which the War Office admits exists. They are all poor people in Poplar, and we do not think the same thing would happen in Westminster without a protest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.21.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "n perfectly clear. I am not going to define to the Committee what may be done. It is no good any Member asking us to exclude butter, eggs, cheese or anything else. It is no good any Member getting up and asking me which will be the first or which will be the second. The Government ask with confidence for power from the Committee to impose in their own way, at their own time, but immediately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.55.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.58.3", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "How do you know?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "My information is that that is the fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.58.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.59.0", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "This was merely said in passing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.59.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Shut up and sit down \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. If an hon. Member states that he has authority for saying that a certain decision has been arrived at by a foreign Government, are we not entitled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.59.4", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "What I said was that it was a fact that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.59.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.59.4", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "What I said was that it was a fact that—[ Interruption. ] I am not in a position to speak for the Free State. Government; indeed I have had no communication with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.59.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.59.4", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who says so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "s that it was a fact that—[ Interruption. ] I am not in a position to speak for the Free State. Government; indeed I have had no communication with them. [ Interruption. ] There are other sources of information than the President of the Irish Free State. I say that, according to my information, it is the intention of the Free State Government to set aside the receipts from these funds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.59.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "There are two entirely different questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.60.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "grams to newspapers saying, \"We have arrived at a deadlock,\" or somebody \"has arrived at a deadlock,\" Lausanne has continued, and as long as statesmanship is in evidence their discussions will continue, and will not come to an end until there is some result. If the right hon. Gentleman, when this difficulty became a real one between the two countries, had gone to Dublin and stayed in Dublin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.60.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.62.0", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have not done it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is a past master of this kind of evasion. In the first place, there is all the difference between what has been the practice and what is the law. In fact, that payment was not legally due until the 30th June. In the second place, it may be that M r. de Valera said that he was not going to pay, but nobody would put the brokers in until they were legally entitled to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.62.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.62.0", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "\"We have not done it.\"] You have started a legal process to enable you to do it. I submit to the Committee that it is serious enough to take a step which might prove to be irrevocable, but it is even more serious to take it before you are legally entitled to do so. There is bound to be misunderstanding. The Government have to be condemned for declaring war before there was real casus belli —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.62.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.62.0", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ience which they are prepared to exercise in negotiation with other Governments have been thrown to the winds, and the Government have, by this Motion and the Bill to follow it, simply seized the thick stick. Instead of the Free State being treated as a coequal, as she is entitled to be treated, she has been treated with a lack of courtesy and with a brusqueness—and indeed a brutality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.62.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.62.0", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " the Government mean to use their powers, there is little doubt that there will be certain serious economic consequences. The right hon. Gentleman has told us that the Government do mean to use their powers, and that they mean to use thorn \"in their own way, and in their own time, but immediately,\" from which I gather that it is the intention of the Government forthwith to impose these new duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.62.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are not trying to do so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "mic life of a struggling nation still in the throes of nationalism, and with a long tragic history behind it. What is the alternative? The alternative is not an easy one. It is the exercise of patience, and still more patience, and a determination to find a solution which will leave no festering sore. We cannot by force majeure impose our will on a member of the free commonwealth of nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "h of nations—[An HON. MEMBER: \"We are not trying to do so!\"] We have, in this world of nations, to learn to live together; we must learn to live in amity even with nations with whose policy and actions we are not in agreement. We come, therefore, to the only way out of this difficulty. The Government have applied the thick stick. The Government insist on going through with this policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "tly accurate; he put a. higher value and importance on the recommendations of the Imperial Conference than the Conference itself did. But I am not running away from that, and neither is my right hon. Friend. We would still prefer, and we would still try and try again, to get arbitration under the auspices of the Imperial Conference. Because it has been turned down once or twice is no reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " it has been turned down once or twice is no reason—[ interruption. ] It has happened in his lifetime many a time. There is no reason why this painstaking, long-distance industrial negotiator should become a narrow nationalist. It is his business to try again. I would quote a phrase which I have heard him use scores of times: it is his duty to explore every avenue; and pertinacity is needed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I think that before the Debate is over one of my hon. Friends may be able to give the infornation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.71.0", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Backed by gunmen!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "l leader of the Irish people from 1915 or 1916 up to the time of the Treaty, because he could not honestly and genuinely accept the Treaty, he fell from the position of greatest influence in Ireland to being the leader of a Parliamentary fraction, and for a dozen years he has patiently by agitation, by Parliamentary opposition, by all the methods which are open to a constitutional democracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.71.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.73.3", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "t programme were the abolition of the Oath, and the denunciation of the Land Annuities. He is elected. He gets power. He gets the mandate of the Irish people. He assumes office under the constitution which has been laid down for Ireland along perfectly constitutional lines and then proposes, by Parliamentary action again, to put into operation the things which he was elected to put into operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.73.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.73.3", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ith my point of view, elected by the votes of my people, I also would do what he has done, attempt to put into immediate operation the things I was elected to do. As far as repudiation is concerned, I am afraid that I should have a very strong disinclination to be hound by the agreements which had been entered into 50 years before by people whose political views were diametrically opposed to mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.73.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.74.1", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "objective from that of Mr. de Valera. I should do things which Mr. de Valera is not doing. But you can take it as being very definite, that the repudiation of the Oath of Allegiance would be one thing and that the repudiation of Land Annuities would be a minor detail on the economic side. According to all the rules of democracy which have governed the world hitherto, I should be entitled to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.74.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.74.1", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " ] My hon. Friend says: \"What about Treaties?\" I am not learned in foreign affairs. I have never regarded myself as one of the experts on foreign affairs in this House, but I have heard, in the last Parliament and in the present, strong agitation from the Conservative benches for the denunciation of certain treaties which stood in the way of the full development of a tariff policy in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.74.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Who started it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "Or of the Dominions Secretary. We start a new war with the Irish people, who are our blood brothers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.76.5", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " of Land Annuities, because I can remember, as a very callow youth politically, hearing the great song about God giving the land to the people, and the fervour which was worked up by the right hon. Gentleman. That has to be modified to meet the practical exigencies of the Irish case. God gave the land to the Irish people on condition that the bondholders should continue drawing rent in perpetuity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.76.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.77.0", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "youth politically, hearing the great song about God giving the land to the people, and the fervour which was worked up by the right hon. Gentleman. That has to be modified to meet the practical exigencies of the Irish case. God gave the land to the Irish people on condition that the bondholders should continue drawing rent in perpetuity. [ Interruption. ] I beg pardon. To all intents and purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.76.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "gs, butter, bacon, cheese, livestock from coming into this country. We are to impose such a very high tariff as will make it prohibitive, but if produce comes in it will come in under such a penalty as to make essential foodstuffs for the poorest section of the British people excessively dear. The poor in the part of the country from where I come eat Irish butter, Irish eggs and Irish bacon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "on— [ Interruption ]. The hon. and gallant Member for Ayr Burghs (Lieut.-Colonel Moore) must not be unfair. He knows perfectly well that Irish foodstuffs form an important proportion of the food supply of the working population in various parts of the country, and if this 100 per cent. tariff is going to be effective in producing the revenue then these foodstuffs must pay 100 per cent. duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " far as this House is concerned. The matter is left entirely in the hands of the right hon. Gentleman to decide, with a simplicity and trust which do them credit but which are not in keeping with the attitude of responsible parliamentarians who know the right hon. Gentleman. The people who are going to pay this, if it is paid, are the people of Great Britain, and the poorest section of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "sponsible parliamentarians who know the right hon. Gentleman. The people who are going to pay this, if it is paid, are the people of Great Britain, and the poorest section of the people. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] What it boils down to, this practical measure of high Imperial statesmanship, is that the poor of Great Britain are to have their incomes taxed to pay the land annuities of Irish bondholders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.80.2", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "If there are other sources of supply, if the people of Great Britain turn to other countries to get these particular commodities, then this will not raise the necessary revenue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.80.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.80.2", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ds is intimating to the world that it cannot manage to work in peaceful association with its nearest neighbour, and is announcing to the other self-governing Dominions of the British Empire that self-government is only a reality as long as self-government is only exercised to the extent that the home Government thinks right, proper and desirable. That is what we are announcing to the world to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.80.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is taking it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "ry simple proposition. What is that proposition? To hear English Members one would imagine that this was a most preposterous demand which Mr. de Valera was making. He is asking the right to withhold or to keep for Irish purposes—and in my judgment to relieve the Irish farmers who are in a much worse position, in Southern Ireland, than this House can understand—a sum of £3,500,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.87.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A foreign tribunal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "e says belongs to Ireland and not to this country. He goes further and he says: \"I am not withholding it if an impartial tribunal set up to discuss the question decides that I have to pay it. In that case I will pay it, but if they decide that we have not to pay it then England will not press for it.\" That is his position. What are you afraid of? Are you afraid of setting up an impartial tribunal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.87.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.90.4", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "These are friends of yours. You belong to the party who traditionally believe in breaking Treaties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.90.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.90.4", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "as been specially requisitioned to answer on this point, and I will give him some figures. After it was agreed that Northern Ireland should pay £7,000,000, she paid, in 1922, £4,641,000; in 1923–4, £3,900,000; in 1925–26, £2,700,000; in 1927–28, £1,680,000; in 1929–30, 21,253,000; in 1930–31, £1,489,000; in 1931–32, £1,128,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.90.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.90.4", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is already doing so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "ee anything done here unless something to avoid a deep and bitter political and economic quarrel between this country and Ireland. What are you going to do if these proposals which you have submitted to the House are carried out? You will tax Irish produce coming into this country until you secure your £3,500,000. Mr. de Valera will proceed to tax your goods in return until he repays himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.90.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.90.4", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What do you suggest?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "out? You will tax Irish produce coming into this country until you secure your £3,500,000. Mr. de Valera will proceed to tax your goods in return until he repays himself. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He is already doing so.\"] Very well, but where is the advantage to accrue to this country by that? Ireland is your best customer, and you are the best customer of Ireland. Is this a patriotic method to adopt?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.90.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.90.4", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": " right or wrong. At a time when the whole heart of all Christian men is moving them to desire and to labour for universal peace and friendship among the nations and the peoples, are you going to engage in a puny war of reprisals of this character? The principle of good win is more to you than your petty £3,500,000. It would he a far more generous thing to do than even setting up a commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.90.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " to insist upon it. We can say that the tribunal is the only one that we can accept, and Ireland may say that the only one that they will accept is another method. The result is that we arrive at an impasse, and the only thing to do is to find some way to cut the Gordian knot. What is to happen? Are we to accept the spirit of reprisal and revenge which seems to he in the ascendant at this moment I", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.113.0", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I do not care why you said it. It is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "Nor do I care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.113.6", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "on them, and it was perfectly clear to everybody. In order to satisfy international feeling in the matter, a commission of inquiry was set up to find out the facts. Subsequently, when all the heat had cooled down, it was decided that Russia should pay £65,000, or whatever the stun was. How very different to the procedure in the present case when we are dealing, not with a foreign Power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.113.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.113.6", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "uption ]. I quite agree that there is no comparison, because in that case we were dealing with a foreign Power and not with a Dominion or a fellow member of the Commonwealth, and we were dealing with the lives of British subjects and not with mere money. In that case, nobody suggested that we should institute an economic war against Russia to get back the value of the trawlers. After years —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.113.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.121.4", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "There is not a word in the White Paper about the chairman. The dispute has never been as to the chairman or the personnel. Mr. de Valera has been quite consistent. He has left me in no doubt whatever. He says: \"I want a court not limited to the British Commonwealth.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.121.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.144.6", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "preceding_text": "character. We feel that in this business we have not seen the best that can be done by the Secretary of State for the Dominions in negotiations. If it had not been for the over-riding, monstrous powers of this Government we feel that we would not have been discussing this question to-day. The Government seem determined not to accept any policy which means peace and amity between the two countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.144.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not under this Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "preceding_text": "f we come to examine the matter we shall find that, properly speaking, it is not the Irish nation which will meet the charges which are being imposed but, in the last instance, the consumer. The poorer people will feel these charges more directly than anybody else, as time passes. It has been stated here to-night that the consumer will eventually have to pay all the duties which are being imposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "nough to buy butter, and the people are reduced to margarine. There is a good deal of truth in the statement that it is margarine. The artisan class for whom I can speak authoritatively in the West of Scotland get Irish butter, Irish eggs, and Irish pork. As I said to the hon. and gallant Member for Ayr Burghs, if he had had some more Irish stuff he would have been a better looking man than he is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " I can speak authoritatively in the West of Scotland get Irish butter, Irish eggs, and Irish pork. As I said to the hon. and gallant Member for Ayr Burghs, if he had had some more Irish stuff he would have been a better looking man than he is. [ Interruption. ] Here you are going to deprive the artisans of Britain of good, fresh food, and you are going to condemn them to Egyptian and Chinese eggs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "order to prove that they are statesmen than by hammering the British working-class? Every trouble that this Government get up against they heave on to the British working-class. Here they are up against a tight place with the Irish, and again they make the British working-class pay, because it is not the well-off folk that buy Irish butter and Irish eggs in this country; they get fresh eggs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.151.0", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "he second place, this Amendment, if carried, would defeat the Resolution. I make no bones about that. An Opposition has a. perfect right to use every legitimate means to defeat the intentions of the other side. A third reason for bringing the Amendment forward is that eventually, even though it affects only 7 per cent. of the food that comes into the country, it will make some material difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.151.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.152.4", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ay be the constitutional diffi- culties upon the short simple issue of being bound by an agreement made on their behalf, the Irish people as a whole, when the issue is put to them, will be the first to repudiate those who repudiate their obligations. That is my answer. With regard to British democracy, I suppose that it will be argued from the other side that only they speak for British democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.152.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.155.3", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "h are put forward something which is very dear to their hearts—the imposition of taxation on foodstuffs coming in from what is termed a part of the British Empire, and they are prepared to try it out and impose food taxes on the exports from the Irish Free State in the hope that it will be extended to all countries. Then they will have completed their ideas in regard to the taxation of food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.158.0", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And England!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "preceding_text": "I only wish to put forward one or two comments upon this proposal. It seems to be taken for granted that prices in this country will go up as a result of these duties. May I suggest that immediately the duties are put on other sources of supply will be found? It required a great stretch of the imagination that Denmark, Holland, Norway and Sweden—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.166.3", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "That is really a different question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.166.3", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "That is really a different question. [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members may think it a very laughable matter that store stock in this country is going to be cut off from supply. A great number of these cattle can be fed and slaughtered in Ireland and exported as meat. Alternatively the Irish need not continue to breed cattle for this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.166.4", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "rs, feeders of cattle, auctioneers, dealers of one kind and another, people at the docks, stevedores, shipping people, are all to be placed in danger of financial ruin and bankruptcy in order that mere interest drawers must get the income to which they have been accustomed from Irish Land Annuities? That is the position, as I understand it, put to us by the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.166.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.170.2", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Any duty?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "I am trying to get back to that. I am one of those who came from Ireland to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.170.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.170.4", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "No, but I suppose I should come within the definition of livestock. Here you are hitting at one of the largest trades between Great Britain and Ireland. What is the object? Are you hitting Mr. De Valera and his friends 7 Livestock in Ireland is raised in the fertile plains of the south and west, not on the mountain side where Mr. De Valera comes from.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.170.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.170.4", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "t, not on the mountain side where Mr. De Valera comes from. [ Interruption. ] You are doing no good to England or Ireland by this policy of economic reprisal. This attempt to enforce a policy of coercion will only unite the people of Ireland. Those who do not agree with Mr. De Valera will come together and fight you. They are prepared to make any sacrifice. You have tried coercion in days gone by.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.170.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.170.6", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "ire. You must remember that there are Irishmen in Australia; in every part of the Empire. I have known the Secretary of State when he was a vehement advocate of Home Rule for Ireland. Does he realise that there are Irish citizens in all our Colonies? We want to know the implications of this policy to break up the trade relations between Great Britain and Ireland. I do not know much about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.170.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.171.2", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "I make no apology for intervening in the debate at this hour. I have waited all the day, and it is now twenty-five minutes to twelve. I represent a Division where there is a large Irish population as much concerned with this question as anyone in this Committee. I have listened to a lot of nonsense about many things during the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-04", "file": "debates1932-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b6ad2c906518ff2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "I will not get away from it. I am getting close to it. What I am pointing out to the Committee is that a Vote is to be taken on the imposition of a tariff on livestock, as a vendetta, or as a means of raising £3,000,000 of revenue. Whatever you may do, I ask you not to imperil business in this country, or the loss will be felt here in the near future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-04a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-05", "file": "debates1932-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1a5966be42058600", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-05a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "ght just as well have been abolished then for all that it has meant to the mining classes. It seems that we are to go on year after year without getting any improvement. I consider that on a mining Debate we should have not only the Secretary for Mines but a representative of the Cabinet on the Front Bench. It is not sufficient for Members of the Cabinet to be away enjoying themselves in Lausanne.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-05a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-05", "file": "debates1932-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1a5966be42058600", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-05a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "en are luxuriating in Lausanne and the old guard of British statesmen will shortly congregate at Ottawa. The Prime Minister has scarcely been two hours in the House during the last 12 months. Either he wants to be away or the Conservative Members want to have him away. So long as he has an opportunity of taking the big chair and enjoying himself he has never troubled a little bit about this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-05a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-05", "file": "debates1932-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1a5966be42058600", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-05a.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "or which they have absolutely no power whatever. It is the strongest evidence that we were right in saying that the steel industry requires reorganisation. The Committee have said so in no uncertain terms but that reorganisation should not be carried out in a secret manner under the control of this Tariff Committee, but should be carried out in public and under the control of the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-05a.386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-05", "file": "debates1932-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1a5966be42058600", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-05a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He says he did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "All right. Sir George May was at the meeting—was in the chair—and the meeting resolved itself into a national committee. That report says that he has appointed regional committees. Two or three representatives from each district were appointed at the meeting. Sir George May did not appoint the regional committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-05a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-05", "file": "debates1932-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1a5966be42058600", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-05a.393.2", "colnum": "393", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "preceding_text": "rs of pig-iron. They see the dangers, and they realise them. It is very interesting to look at what has been happening during the first five months of this year. The home production, I am informed, works out at something like 1,624,000 tons and the imports at only 80,000 tons, of which forge and foundry pig-iron constituted 16,000 tons, of which again no less than 7,735 tons came from India—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-05a.393.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-05", "file": "debates1932-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1a5966be42058600", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-05a.400.4", "colnum": "400", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "hich we want cleared up, and which is of vital importance to the House, is whether this committee has or has not exceeded its statutory duty. If the committee is carrying out work which it had no statutory, legal right to carry out, we want to know. If not, we want someone to explain what the words in the Memorandum really mean, and I think the Financial Secretary to the Treasury ought to tell us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-05a.400.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-05", "file": "debates1932-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1a5966be42058600", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-05a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Major Elliot)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Major Elliot)", "preceding_text": "I rise out of courtesy to the Leader of the Opposition, who has asked me what is the exact position in regard to the committee. Surely the exact position is as has been stated by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade. Sir George May had power to appoint a committee, and has appointed a committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-05a.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-05", "file": "debates1932-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "1a5966be42058600", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-05a.402.2", "colnum": "402", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"HOW do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "l you can say for him is that certain Members of the House of Commons have asked for it and in consequence of that he is asking a committee to be set up. I ask hon. Members to apply their minds to the problem whether re-organisation is necessary or not. Before you can find out whether it is necessary or not evidence must be explored. What evidence has Sir George May explored? He has explored none.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-05a.402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.531.5", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "If it is \"exactly,\" then we are exactly right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.531.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.531.7", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "t it is a recommendation of those who negotiated for you.\" That is the commonsense of the situation. When it is boiled down we know perfectly well that, while it was not binding, the recommendation meant that in the judgment of those who made the recommendation, or the Government of the day, that in their view was the fairest way of dealing with the situation. I do not put it any higher than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.531.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.531.7", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too far!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " them, \"Could we go further than that?\" Is there anyone in this House genuinely and sincerely anxious for peace, but also anxious to preserve the sanctity of agreements and what is fundamental in business life, yes, and is essential in good government—who thinks that any Government would have gone to a further length than that to which we have gone in our anxiety to find a peaceful solution?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.531.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "sis of their official Amendment, they might at least have taken the trouble to ascertain the facts. It is not English law that deals with this matter: it is Irish Free State legislation. I am sure that the Opposi- tion cannot have observed that the Irish Free State—not the English—Land Act of 1923 makes it compulsory by statute law that this money shall be paid into-a suspense account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ch we never agreed, and after 10 years' fight we are in power and we are going to have them settled.\" From the beginning he has not said a single word to indicate that he would not have arbitration. I want the Dominions Secretary and the House to remember that there are many men, relatives of those who are backing Mr. de Valera to-day, many hundreds of whom gave their lives in this business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.541.3", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Then the hon. Member must really be quiet for a minute or two. I want this dispute to be settled on lines of good will. You must first of all appreciate the other man's point of view. When you are given a guarantee of good faith you must stop all talk about dishonesty. We have to treat the Irish as equals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.541.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ule, Englishmen who were for it, and Englishmen who were against it. They all fought, as they thought, for freedom. Now, years after the War, the sort of thing which Willie Redmond imagined he was helping to obliterate and blot out for ever by joining up, is springing up again. It is a most terrible thing I think for this House to visualise and it is no use saying that it is Mr. de Valera's fault.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.544.4", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE-BRABAZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE-BRABAZON", "preceding_text": "swing. We may, by this legislation, just be pushing the people of Ireland into the de Valera camp. We know how divided the country is to-day, and the issue at the next election in Ireland may he a whole Republic or nothing. It all depends on the votes of 100,000 people which way that result will swing. If it swings towards a Republic, the right hon. Gentleman is more responsible than anybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.544.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "preceding_text": "w Zealand. When the great experiment in Ireland took place in 1922 our people viewed with the fear and trepidation what would happen. The prophets of ill saw dangers ahead. Then after a cruel civil war we saw the country under President Cosgrave becoming a State, showing that the Irish people could govern themselves, tints justifying the principle which the Liberals had preached for so many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.561.0", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " and that we desire it to be part of the British Empire. The other point that I wish to refer to is his reiteration that he has gone to the absolute limit of compromise. From the beginning I took upon myself the responsibility of questioning him on this issue and pressing for a Debate on the subject. He has said to-night precisely the same things as he said to the very earliest question I put him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.561.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.562.0", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my hon. Friend on his perspicacity, but what the right hon. Gentleman from the very earliest point was prepared to offer was a Dominions arbitration, and to-night what he is prepared to offer to Ireland is a Dominions tribunal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.562.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.562.0", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Liberals, too!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "d easy about the personnel, and would go a long way to meet Ireland's demands. That is not my contention, because at the beginning that issue was never raised. What the Dominions Secretary said at the beginning was an Empire tribunal. What he says to-night is an Empire tribunal. The good Conservatives in the House whose view the right hon. Gentleman is speaking are satisfied that that is the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.562.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.562.0", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "mpire tribunal. What he says to-night is an Empire tribunal. The good Conservatives in the House whose view the right hon. Gentleman is speaking are satisfied that that is the case. [An HON. MEMBER: \"And Liberals, too!\"] Other Liberals who may not be quite as good are very anxious to try to get something which seems to indicate a Liberal and not a Conservative attitude on this particular question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.562.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.569.0", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I intervene merely because someone who is speaking as an Irishman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.569.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.570.0", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are not obeying his orders!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "o our policy. That was a very deep-laid scheme of Mr. de Valera's to win the election last year. I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman will not suggest that I was making an accusation which would be the last thing in the world that I would endeavour to convey or wish to convey. I hesitate now to go on with what I was about to say, lest the right hon. Gentleman might take it as a personal matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.570.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.570.0", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Keep that out of it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "aken during the last few months. I think it would have been better to have kept aloof entirely from the position in Ireland. I think the attitude of the Government strengthened Mr. de Valera's hand at that time by restoring him to a position in the country which otherwise he was quickly losing. He gained a certain position at the election and the Eucharistic Congress rather added to that position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.570.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.574.3", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman was so busy with his anti-Socialist propaganda that. he had no time to watch my performances in other pursuits. I have told the House what is my opinion, but we come now to the question of whether, even if the legal opinion that has been expressed is against these annuities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.574.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "That is not my point of view. My point of view is that if there is a tribunal, and if I am a consenting party to it, I want it to be a tribunal in which we can place confidence and the result of which will be just to both sides. It was not just, and nobody can defend it, in the case of the boundary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "a consenting party to it, I want it to be a tribunal in which we can place confidence and the result of which will be just to both sides. It was not just, and nobody can defend it, in the case of the boundary. [ Interruption. ] If it is to be defended, it must be by some greater genius than the hon. and gallant Gentleman who is to reply. I do not want to go into the merits of this question at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": ". Friend from Scotland on the other side. The less said about Northern Ireland the better. I come to another point as to what was said about the Liberals. I noticed that it was a curious thing that the first Vote given in this House in favour of food taxes was given by the Liberal party. I do not know who was the leader in that campaign but I know that Sir John Simon and Sir Herbert Samuel —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has done it already!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "ti-Irish feeling than any of the Conservative party. I notice a certain feeling of responsibility on the part of Conservative Members, and a manifestation of a rather sane spirit of hope that there may be some means out of this difficulty. You may put your taxes upon Irish food and raise your £3,500,000, and then Mr. de Valera will call his Dail together, and he will put on taxes against you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "ing of responsibility on the part of Conservative Members, and a manifestation of a rather sane spirit of hope that there may be some means out of this difficulty. You may put your taxes upon Irish food and raise your £3,500,000, and then Mr. de Valera will call his Dail together, and he will put on taxes against you. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He has done it already!\"] He will put on fresh taxes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Dail together, and he will put on taxes against you. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He has done it already!\"] He will put on fresh taxes—[ Interruption. ] 11.0 p.m. If there is going to be a war of this character, neither nation will benefit. The only result of it will be that it will make the essential commodities of people, the food-stuffs of the people of England, dearer for the English working classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "der what is to be done with countless millions of money. Debts are to be forgiven, reparations are to disappear, the finances of the world are to be readjusted. Here, in the midst of all this, when your most important Ministers and representatives are attending European conferences, this mighty Imperial Parliament is discussing here how best we can wage war upon a pacific nation of agriculturists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "ittle cousin people, who, no doubt, are not very strong and prosperous. Perhaps you think you can beat them; I do not know; but it will not add to the glory of your Empire, your strength in the world, your capacity for appealing for more considerate and generous treatment from America and other nations, if you pursue this policy. It would be a noble act to say, \"Let this £3,500,000 go\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": " do what I suggested to-day, that is to say, withdraw this Bill and try to come by some other method to some agreement, or at all events, to agree to the proposition in favour of arbitration which has been made, by allowing someone to be selected as has been suggested by Mr. de Valera. If you have a good case, what need you be afraid of? People who are in the right need not be afraid of tribunals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.579.0", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "d be unbalanced, as if Budgets had not been unbalanced before. Older Members will remember that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill) had singular ill-fortune in balancing his Budget. He was more than £5,000,000 out. We are not sure yet whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer will balance his Budget, because it depends on what happens with regard to the American debt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-06", "file": "debates1932-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c7406ca2d304ebc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.582.1", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "nk the hon. Member had better wait until he has been a Member of this House for a longer period before he interrupts in that way. Everyone who has spoken from the Labour Benches has explicitly said that we are not passing judgment on the merits of the case. We have not said that Mr. de Valera is bound to pay, or that he is not bound to pay. We have dealt entirely with the question of the tribunal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-06a.582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "hem would have shown that they would hardly have the effect which the hon. and learned Gentleman seeks to give them. It is an agreement for pooling receipts. When the evidence is completed and the Advisory Committee have made their report, my hon. Friend the Minister of Transport will be under a public duty to give his consent or to withhold it, but he really cannot be asked to prejudge the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "If all that the hon. and learned Gentleman meant was that it was unfortunate that the present time should be the time the matter should come up, I do not com- plain in the least. I understood him rather to suggest that an unfortunate time, to use his expression, had been deliberately selected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.665.0", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "preceding_text": "they said that, as far as they could judge—and it appeared they had gone very minutely into the matter—the arrangement would mean that between 30,000 and 40,000 employés on the railways would eventually be dismissed, and they asked the management whether there was any possibility of coming to an arrangement whereby the railway clerks and other railway workers would be compensated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.665.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.695.2", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "ittee should understand his motives. He declares that, in his opinion, no treaty is binding on the Free State unless it has the assent of the present Prime Minister of Ireland, Mr. de Valera. What is the logical sequence to that? It stands to reason that any agreement which is arrived at to-day can be broken if there is a change of Government in the next month, or two months, or even a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.695.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "been pampered, and special considerations have been given to Northern Ireland by this House, differently from Southern Ireland. The chief of the Free State believes that Ireland has been robbed in this agreement. The British public knew quite well. This is almost the first man who in our time has kept faith with the people who voted for him. When he went into power he did what he said he would do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HASLAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HASLAM", "preceding_text": "ified when we consider that the Irish produce imported into this country is only 7 per cent. of the total food supplies imported. That is so small that no rise in prices can possibly be anticipated. The hon. Member talks about discrimination against other countries. Surely the whole object of this Bill is to discriminate and to collect a debt. Denmark does not owe us money, nor do other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.736.0", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Major MILNER", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major MILNER", "preceding_text": "ys which are in dispute into a separate suspense banking account. That indicates beyond any possibility of doubt their bona fides in this matter. I see the learned Attorney-General. I would like to ask him in how many cases, where there has been a dispute, he has known the defendants, either voluntarily pay money into court, or themselves put that money on one side into a private suspense account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.736.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "voured to try and simplify the issue as between what I would call any legal quibble and something that the ordinary man in the street could understand. The last speech, delivered by a very distinguished legal representative, confirms me in my view that, if I had been consulting him as a, lawyer, he would not have given the opinion that he publicly gives as a Member of the British House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.740.2", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disputed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I do not want to be unfair. I do not mind dealing with the lawyers, but I am now dealing with trade union leaders, and I put to them this situation. I will apply to this question the ordinary trade union method. There was in existence, between a particular trade union and their employers, an agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.740.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.740.2", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "o not mind dealing with the lawyers, but I am now dealing with trade union leaders, and I put to them this situation. I will apply to this question the ordinary trade union method. There was in existence, between a particular trade union and their employers, an agreement—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Disputed!\"] Perhaps hon. Members will allow trade unionists, who know trade union practice, to correct me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.740.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.742.3", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ster. I ask the hon. Gentleman who intervened—I am putting it purely on trade union practice—how would he feel if, the executive committee and general secretary of a union having made an agreement, and. having gone to a vote of the membership, in which the membership endorsed their action, subsequently, because there were changes, someone else comes along and says, \"That is not legal\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.742.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.743.8", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "t is arousing world-wide attention, one expects to find a responsible Minister. I have always been taught that, when matters are serious, frivolity must go. Every attention must be paid to the utterances of those in a responsible position. The right hon. Gentleman to-day made this remarkable statement to the hon. Member for Gorbals (Mr. Buchanan). He said: \"I am not going to accept any Amendment.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.743.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.743.8", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "his remarkable statement to the hon. Member for Gorbals (Mr. Buchanan). He said: \"I am not going to accept any Amendment.\" [ Interruption. ] I am not concerned with you. I will deal with you afterwards if you are going to speak. I am dealing with someone who is responsible and not irresponsible. I should not like it to be thought by the outside world that we are irresponsible on so great an issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.743.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.743.8", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "hat is the use of the right hon. Gentleman talking about what they do in trade unions? I am not concerned about what they do in trade unions. I belong to no trade union, I am independent of trade unions. I am here to represent my people, and I am not concerned with the petty disputes that go on in trade unions. Why lower the dignity of the House of Commons by talking about what trade unionists do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.743.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.743.8", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "n of £3,000,000 or £5,000,000 due from Ireland, but the greater possibility of trouble, and, what is more, the honest, equitable manner in which you ought to deal with those debts. That there may be debts and that you may have a right to recover them it is not my purpose to dispute, but the question at issue is, Cannot a way be found without putting into operation such a drastic Measure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.743.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.753.0", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "ntleman has done, I do not think wittingly, has been to misrepresent the whole situation. What is the situation? I challenge him to confess this. The British Government agreed in 1925 that neither Northern Ireland nor Southern Ireland was to bear any portion of the National Debt. They also agreed, and we all agreed, and no one can contest it, that the Land Annuities were part of the National Debt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.753.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.753.0", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "S: \"No!\"] If those in power at the time did not choose to raise that question it was perfectly within the honourable ambit of the purposes of a subsequent Prime Minister or President to raise that question and to contest it. Therefore, I do not think that upon that basis you have any case it all. You are not satisfied yourselves that you have a ease which you are prepared to submit to arbitration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.753.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.753.0", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "ention to pass these annuities into a suspense account and retain them, pending the decision of the arbitration tribunal. The right hon. Gentleman the Dominions Secretary became excited. He was more than excited he was joyfully hysterical. Not only did he become joyfully hysterical, but an atmosphere of joy permeated this Chamber and everyone said, \"Now, we have found a way out of the difficulty.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.753.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.754.2", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member, I presume, is secretary to the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.754.6", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "ittle war about £3,500,000, a dirty little economic war, in which you will suffer as well as the Irish people, because this, as I have said, is to be a food tax, which will have to be borne by the common people of England, by the working classes in the industrial centres of this island. And you will not get any advantage financially in the slightest extent. What I foresee—I may be wrong", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.754.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.754.6", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": " you throughout the world. But this is a meaner sort of reprisals. It is to make not only the Irish people suffer, but the great masses of the English people to suffer as well. That is what it means, and Mr. de Valera will proceed to put taxes upon English articles, and he will get back the £5,000,000 that you obtain from him through the process of this Measure. I cannot understand this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.754.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.769.2", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "My answer is that if Mr. de Valera, on behalf of the Irish Free State, accepts the last offer that I made on behalf of the British Government for an Imperial tribunal, this Bill will not operate, but if he does not accept it this Bill with all its consequences will operate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.769.3", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman really ought to regard those cheers as most unfortunate. I am not striving to make a party point at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.769.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.770.0", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Yes; not from the standpoint of the House of Commons, but from the standpoint of the people in Ireland. If Mr. de Valera accepts the offer of arbitration made on behalf of the Government by me yesterday, this Bill will not operate, but if Mr. de Valera does not accept arbitration within the Empire, this Bill operates immediately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.769.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.770.3", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "d, apart from certain reservations, a sovereign power, and there does not exist an agreed constitutional way of settling this matter. That is what is forgotten, and that is the central point. At the expense of labouring the matter, I would ask the Committee to think over that point carefully. The next question which we have to consider is this. Is Ireland reasonable in refusing an Empire tribunal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.770.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.770.3", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "at point carefully. The next question which we have to consider is this. Is Ireland reasonable in refusing an Empire tribunal? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The Imperial Conference discussed the matter and failed to arrive at an agreement. South Africa and Ireland said, \"We will not.accept a permanent tribunal as a way of settling inter-Dominions differences.\" Is Ireland less reasonable than South Africa?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.770.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.777.5", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "\"Around this circle, my compliments will go.\" The hon. Gentleman has selected a very evil moment for a speech. He talks about the \"decent people\" that he represents; only within the last fortnight we read the story, the most disgraceful story recorded in modern history, of how his followers wrecked trains, beat women—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.777.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.779.0", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXON", "preceding_text": "That is quite incorrect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.779.2", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D EVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D EVLIN", "preceding_text": " face to face with me in the Ulster Parliament, dare not make there. He comes here because he thinks he has his friends around him. I have spoken in hostile assemblies before, and I am not afraid of them here and now. Let the right hon. Gentleman not deal with my figures when he comes here to talk about loyal Ulster; let him deal with the figures recited by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.779.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should have given me notice. This is not a Parliamentary or political contribution to the Debate. I have no doubt spoken strongly in the House. I may have spoken violently and passionately, but I have made no personal attacks upon anyone. I regret that these altercations should take place in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.782.4", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman's next point is a purely hypothetical one, such as I have often complained of his raising before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.782.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.785.0", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "satisfaction of the Committee. I have no desire to put forward anything which will place any hon. Members in a difficulty. What I suggest is that, in accordance with your Ruling, I may be permitted to put the question now. I do not propose that an answer should be given to-day. Unfortunately, I shall not be able to be here to-morrow but perhaps the Government will be good enough to give an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.784.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.785.5", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Splen-did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "politically with those in the North of Ireland holding an entirely different point of view, I want to say that I left my own country because of what I saw in Northern Ireland. It compelled me to think and I joined another party. But I can say this. I have never been an Irish Nationalist. I have never devoted one moment of my time to Irish Nationalism. I have never been an admirer of Mr. de Valera.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.785.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.785.5", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "this. I have never been an Irish Nationalist. I have never devoted one moment of my time to Irish Nationalism. I have never been an admirer of Mr. de Valera. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Splen-did!\"] The hon. Lady who interrupts might keep her interruptions to herself. 12.30 a.m. When Mr. de Valera made his first statement in regard to retaining the money now in dispute I wrote a letter to a brother of mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.785.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "o will have to pay. The poor people will be the victims. But if the tax is not recovered and the goods are kept out, how will the Government get the £5,000,000? I have heard a threat in this House that this is a game which the other side can play. They in their turn can also impose a tariff to recover the money you are recovering from them. I wonder where this stupid, ridiculous war will end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.788.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.789.0", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "nment get the £5,000,000? I have heard a threat in this House that this is a game which the other side can play. They in their turn can also impose a tariff to recover the money you are recovering from them. I wonder where this stupid, ridiculous war will end. [ Interruption. ] It will not be ended by a few laughs from a. few stupid, ridiculous over-fed people on the other side of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.790.2", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "rent point of view, and he will regret the action which he has taken to-day. He will regret it because of its consequences and of its operation to which he is so anxious to give effect. He said he would accept nothing. I am not like other people; I am in position; I have power, and I am going to wield it. I say to both of you, you can pass your insulting remarks one to another as long as you like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.790.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-07", "file": "debates1932-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ab512ff2e176e87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.790.4", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "Of course you are,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-07a.790.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-08", "file": "debates1932-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "c63d344afc4e9c6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-08a.826.3", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HEALY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HEALY", "preceding_text": " good out of revenue. On the merits of the case the Irish people have a perfectly good case to make, and there is all the more reason why you should refer this to some independent tribunal. Mr. de Valera and the Irish people remember the unfortunate result of the Boundary Commission. Words which on the face of them meant that the wishes of the inhabitants would be consulted were never carried out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-08a.826.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-08", "file": "debates1932-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "c63d344afc4e9c6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-08a.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PIKE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PIKE", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has said quite definitely that he is prepared, if Mr. de Valera is also prepared, to let the matter go to the arbitration of an Imperial tribunal and to submit to whatever ruling that tribunal chooses to give.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-08a.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-08", "file": "debates1932-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "c63d344afc4e9c6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-08a.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "d be determined by a tribunal drawn from the Empire, he should meet the desire of the British Government that this matter should be kept within the Empire. It is not the case that anyone believes that outside the British Empire there are not to be found men of integrity and of responsibility who could be trusted to undertake the determination of this matter. Let us try to keep prejudice out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-08a.851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-08", "file": "debates1932-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "c63d344afc4e9c6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-08a.853.0", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "preceding_text": "roducts, that is to say, food. I remember the Empire Marketing Board, of which the right hon. Gentleman is the Chairman. We have spent money in campaigns to encourage an increase in the sales of Irish produce in various parts of this country, but to-day a step is being taken to prevent it from coming, or, even if it does come, to see that our people pay more for it than they have paid in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-08a.853.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-08", "file": "debates1932-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "c63d344afc4e9c6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-08a.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "tion have for 30 years or more. But the Miners' Federation always said: \"While not agreeing to compulsory arbitration, that does not prevent us at any time agreeing to voluntary arbitration.\" That is exactly the position with the Imperial Conference. They said: \"We will not agree to compulsory arbitration, but we will agree that, if arbitration takes place, it shall be limited to to Empire Court.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-08a.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-08", "file": "debates1932-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "c63d344afc4e9c6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-08a.859.3", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ference, it must be limited to those within the British Empire. That is the qualification which we made. The very fact that the late Labour Government themselves were responsible in the Optional Clause for making the same provision that no internal dispute within the British Commonwealth had to go outside shows that, and the hon. Gentlemen opposite know perfectly well that they were a party to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-08a.859.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-08", "file": "debates1932-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "c63d344afc4e9c6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-08a.861.0", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I have not risen to continue the debate, but the right hon. Gentleman has repeated something in connection with myself, which I ask your permission, Mr. Speaker, to clear up. I did not attempt to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman, because, after all, there have been two or three interruptions. It is on the question of my responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-08a.861.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-08", "file": "debates1932-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "c63d344afc4e9c6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-08a.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that if this is a common sense job it has been left to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-08a.864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.923.4", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "ave had of the operations of that body in the last decade. But, till that control has been made complete over the whole of the functions of the Central Bank, I quite agree with some critics that there is a serious risk of the Government losing their £150,000,000 in the gamble on the Exchange. Secondly, there is the War Loan conversion. That is a measure for which we have pressed continuously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.923.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are you gobbling up?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": ", there has been no sort of constructive suggestion or solution, and only appeals to prejudice against all who work for profit, and contempt of the profit-maker, which comes so glibly from the lips of a late Law Officer of the Crown who, in a few undistinguished months of office, gobbled up the salaries of four or five Cabinet Ministers, and probably the livelihood of 20 or 30 working-class homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "t was tempered, modest as it was, by praise of the Government's principal and most recent actions—the Conversion Loan and the treaty at Lausanne. It was not very generous praise, it is true. It was more on the lines of \"We did it. We, the Socialist party, did it. You have only done what we told you to do, but what we did not do ourselves. In fact, we did the opposite.\" They did the opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.936.1", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I am talking of the evils which are causing all the trouble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.936.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "e. I say deliberately that I believe no more unfortunate approach towards debt cancellation could have been made than the procedure adopted at Lausanne. First of all, there is the time. When I spoke six weeks ago on this subject in the House I begged the Government not to bring this debt question to an issue, to a head, until after the Presidential election campaign had ended in the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.984.2", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "is that we shall not have sufficient people to do the work as we had when our forefathers had so many children.\" So we are going to come down and lower our resources. The Noble Lord went on to make a most amazing statement. He seemed to be under an illusion that Members on this side of the House thought that the only way to get money for social services was by taking the accumulations of the rich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.984.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1021.1", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "all parties are agreed that something should be done to settle people on the land, but it should be something which is to be done to-morrow—always to-morrow. Hon. Members opposite are not prepared to spend money in settling people upon the land. I do not believe that you can do it unless you do spend money, and it is far hotter and more honest to say so. You cannot get something for nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1021.1", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Protection.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "y so. You cannot get something for nothing. [ Interruption. ] I do not think I have ever said that. Even under ideal conditions you had to pay 4d. to get 9d. Other countries are putting in hand schemes of this kind. In Italy, the Government has spent and is spending millions of money upon these schemes, and they have a far larger proportion of their people on the land than we have in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1027.0", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir REGINALD BANKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir REGINALD BANKS", "preceding_text": "on with the efforts of the Labour party; they had us beaten to a frazzle in 1929, and they did not redeem one of their promises. And after two and a-half years in office the nation was in danger of imminent financial collapse. Now the hon. and learned Member says: \"What have you been doing about it? You have been behaving like a lot of lunatics trying to bale out the bath with the aid of a spoon.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1027.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1030.3", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. BANKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. BANKS", "preceding_text": "ationalise industry, nationalise the land, nationalise every blessed thing and reconstruct the whole of the world according to Socialistic ideas without counting the cost at all. That, we were told, would instantly restore our credit, expand our trade and put the pound sterling upon a reasonable basis. Well might Mr. Snowden have said \"Bolshevism run mad.\" That is where we were in September, 1931.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1030.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. BANKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has since gone!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. BANKS", "preceding_text": "e Labour party offers to the people of this country planned reconstruction, national and international, instead of chaos and anarchy which are the parents of disaster. Then we shall all have a fuller and richer life. Yet the Unemployment Insurance Fund ran up a debt of £115,000,000, the unemployed rose from 1,000,000 to 2,800,000, the pound was crashing and our credit was practically at zero.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. BANKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. BANKS", "preceding_text": "o the department; he had, however, got himself somehow or other, thrust into employment—and as he went through the business with a grave face, my father had a high opinion of him. But there was no calf—and the local cows were accused of sterility. Hon. Members of the Opposition when they were in office were equally sterile and incompetent. I am not going to bore the House with figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. BANKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. BANKS", "preceding_text": " grown more fiercely since and the world depression has grown blacker. The only beacon still showing—\"a light to lighten the Gentiles\"—is this country, which has, under the National Government, done what hon. Members of the Opposition were too much poltroons to do when they were in office. It has faced the unpalatable and the awkward. It has balanced its Budget and restored its credit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. BANKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is it now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. BANKS", "preceding_text": "high as ever it did, and it has enabled this great conversion scheme, to which the Chancellor of the Exchequer has referred already, to exceed expectations. We know that ultimately that scheme is going to be a success in every way. After nine months we can say that if we have not reduced unemployment, at least we have checked the increase of unemployment and corrected the adverse balance of trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Major MILNER", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major MILNER", "preceding_text": "y conclude by suggesting to him and to the Govern ment that they would do well to adopt some more of the remedies which are so frequently prescribed from these benches —to take steps to convert more War Loan, and, above all things, to do away with the tariffs which, as we heard at Question Time this afternoon, have during the last month caused no less than 87,000 miners to become unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Major MILNER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major MILNER", "preceding_text": "ch are so frequently prescribed from these benches —to take steps to convert more War Loan, and, above all things, to do away with the tariffs which, as we heard at Question Time this afternoon, have during the last month caused no less than 87,000 miners to become unemployed. [ interruption. ] Those were the figures given in answer to a question put by one of my hon. Friends this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Major MILNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major MILNER", "preceding_text": "s to convert more War Loan, and, above all things, to do away with the tariffs which, as we heard at Question Time this afternoon, have during the last month caused no less than 87,000 miners to become unemployed. [ interruption. ] Those were the figures given in answer to a question put by one of my hon. Friends this afternoon. [ Interruption. ] The result of the Government's tariff policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Major MILNER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major MILNER", "preceding_text": "afternoon, have during the last month caused no less than 87,000 miners to become unemployed. [ interruption. ] Those were the figures given in answer to a question put by one of my hon. Friends this afternoon. [ Interruption. ] The result of the Government's tariff policy—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—the result of the Government's policy, whether it is their tariff policy or otherwise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " years 1907, 1924 and 1931. The report shows that the nine and 13 year children, growing children who are more particularly affected by contractions in the earning-power of the breadwinner which have taken place within recent years, the height and weight of children from one-apartment houses in 1931 surpassed those of the children from the two-apartment and three-apartment houses in the year 1907.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1069.0", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIFTH SCHEDULE.—(Adaptations and modifications of this Act in its application to Scotland.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "id by hon. Members who support whipping, \"Oh, look at all these motor bandits.\" They ought to know that we are dealing here with juveniles. Hon. Members have argued as if whipping was a deterrent. As a matter of fact, the hon. Gentleman opposite knows full well that the number of orders for whipping have declined in this country, and there has been a decline in the number of juvenile offences too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1069.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1069.0", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIFTH SCHEDULE.—(Adaptations and modifications of this Act in its application to Scotland.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "in the rural districts of England, but in the most enlightened communities the magistrates are declining to order the whipping of children. I hope that it will go forth from, this House if the House of Gammons accepts the Amendment put forward by the other place that, in spite of it all, the decision of the House of Commons is practically unanimous against whipping children by order of the courts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1069.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1072.0", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIFTH SCHEDULE.—(Adaptations and modifications of this Act in its application to Scotland.)", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "at argument and then goes back on it to-night? I cannot understand how he has the face to ask us to do this, nor can I understand how the Government have the face to allow the House of Commons to be put in its place in this way by the House of Lords. The whole conduct of this Bill has been desperately disappointing, and nothing has been so disappointing as the position taken up by the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1072.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1077.3", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIFTH SCHEDULE.—(Adaptations and modifications of this Act in its application to Scotland.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether it is the case that, although this House has already amended the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1077.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1078.2", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIFTH SCHEDULE.—(Adaptations and modifications of this Act in its application to Scotland.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "that probably aggravated the complaint from which the boy suffered, and which compelled him to commit the crimes for which he was birched. The impression that was made upon me at that time was that it should not be supported in any circumstances. I have seen many boys birched, and I have never known one who did not come back for birching for crimes of other kinds. It certainly was not a deterrent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1078.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-11", "file": "debates1932-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "16730643b7950a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1079.0", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIFTH SCHEDULE.—(Adaptations and modifications of this Act in its application to Scotland.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": " has been a good deal of quite irrelevant discussion going on. I should like to recall the House to the Amendment we are discussing which gives a bench of magistrates discretionary powers in suitable cases—cruelty or that kind of thing—if they think fit to impose not more than six strokes of the birch rod on a boy of 14. It is idle to talk as if this is a resolution of the constitution", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-11a.1079.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-12", "file": "debates1932-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e051a7dcea345426", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1120.5", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Russia!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Will there be any discussion as to the relationships between the British Commonwealth of Nations and the rest of the world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1120.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-12", "file": "debates1932-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e051a7dcea345426", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1147.0", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAUSANNE AND GENEVA CONFERENCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " (Mr. Churchill) yesterday, and the right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister to-day, that you did more harm to yourself by receiving reparations, if that were possible, than you did to those from whom you received them. That is now an acknowledged fact. The despised Labour party, whom we represent to-day, and who on every conceivable occasion in this House are held up to ridicule and obloquy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-12", "file": "debates1932-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e051a7dcea345426", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1148.1", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAUSANNE AND GENEVA CONFERENCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "be made quite impossible. As that remark appears to cause some amusement to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping may I add that mere writing on a piece of paper does not create wealth. It may transfer wealth, but there is no creation of wealth, and every penny that has been gambled for and won in the City of London over this transaction has had to come out of the labour of men and women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-12", "file": "debates1932-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e051a7dcea345426", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1152.2", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAUSANNE AND GENEVA CONFERENCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "The literary men and the Noble Lady and myself would not live for a single day unless some man somewhere did dirty, miserable work. Like the right hon. Gentleman I have made money by writing articles and so on but my life, and the life of the right hon. Gentleman, depend upon the men and women who dig and delve and toil in order to give us the means of living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1152.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-12", "file": "debates1932-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e051a7dcea345426", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAUSANNE AND GENEVA CONFERENCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ts, Britain must stand by her bond. In the words of the old legal saying, he who comes to equity must come with clean hands and he who asks for forgiveness of his debts must forgive his debtors. But you have not. You have gone to Germany, and you have said to Germany, with 6,000,000 unemployed, and with debts which she has incurred to carry on her industries, \"On the basis of your capacity—\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-12", "file": "debates1932-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e051a7dcea345426", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAUSANNE AND GENEVA CONFERENCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "rmany, with 6,000,000 unemployed, and with debts which she has incurred to carry on her industries, \"On the basis of your capacity—\" [ Interruption. ] You must have judged capacity; you have not asked beyond her capacity. You are going to ask Germany for £150,000,000, and say to her, \"You are not capable of paying in three years, but you may be.\" That is what I mean by judging capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-12", "file": "debates1932-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e051a7dcea345426", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAUSANNE AND GENEVA CONFERENCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " signed the Pact on the 9th, and the Gentlemen's Agreement entered into six days before that-to be withheld from the British Parliament? We ought to know. The public ought to know. The next question I ask is this: Did von Papen know when he signed that agreement that there was another agreement entered into Which might render the whole of it nugatory? Were the terms of that agreement given to him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-12", "file": "debates1932-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e051a7dcea345426", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAUSANNE AND GENEVA CONFERENCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ou had something that Germany and France signed together. It looked like the final word on Reparations. It was not. You have got to discuss something in three years hence with the other Powers. There was great satisfaction, and there was great satisfaction, too, in America—and that is vital. I am just as anxious as the right hon. Gentleman not to say a word that will create any difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-12", "file": "debates1932-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e051a7dcea345426", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAUSANNE AND GENEVA CONFERENCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "t. Parity and prosperity were interchangeable terms, just as Protection and patriotism are interchangeable terms to-day—or were yesterday. I think there were just three Members in this House who protested at that time. I am glad to see here my hon. Friend the Member for East Aberdeen (Mr. Boothby), who was one of them, and there were also the late Sir Alfred Mond, as he then was, and myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-12", "file": "debates1932-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e051a7dcea345426", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ill, without loss of time, make full use of such powers as you have for the purpose of beating out the barriers which are strangling the trade of the world. \"Let Britain lead the way\" I have heard it said. Britain cannot lead the way unless the Government lead Britain. The Government were not elected specially for the purpose of initiating a Protectionist regime. I am not charging breach of faith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-12", "file": "debates1932-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e051a7dcea345426", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "in shell, by 14.7 per cent., apples—we can grow the most beautiful apples in the world—up by 25 per cent., milk, condensed and unsweetened, up by 13.4 per cent., and miscellaneous vegetables up by 8.2 per cent.? You think that you can do it merely by Protection. All I can say is that all that you have clone at the present moment is to put up all the prices of the things we have to buy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-12", "file": "debates1932-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e051a7dcea345426", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " per cent., milk, condensed and unsweetened, up by 13.4 per cent., and miscellaneous vegetables up by 8.2 per cent.? You think that you can do it merely by Protection. All I can say is that all that you have clone at the present moment is to put up all the prices of the things we have to buy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I know that prices have gone up. But the prices of all the things you sell are down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-12", "file": "debates1932-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e051a7dcea345426", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ke to ask my right hon. Friend whether I understood from him that the documents asked for by the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) will in due course be made public with the other documents upon this subject. I gathered that that was the answer he gave, that it was in the affirmative, and that, there was no objection to the publication of these documents. Is that not. so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-12", "file": "debates1932-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e051a7dcea345426", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I think the Government would act very wisely in making it clear that they have no objection whatever to the publication of these documents, because the mere fact that they had not been published would undoubtedly lead to all kinds of comments in many countries upon the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-12", "file": "debates1932-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e051a7dcea345426", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "y had not been published would undoubtedly lead to all kinds of comments in many countries upon the subject. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because these are matters of great consequence to many countries, because these subsidiary agreements are the essence of the whole controversy and because they entirely alter the whole effect of the Act of Lausanne, as published. All these matters will be pressed for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-12a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-07-13", "file": "debates1932-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d0ce42189d5bc432", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-13a.1271.8", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Major PROCTER", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that this fund is now showing a profit of some £400,000, and that the textile machinery manufacturers have not received very much of this money? I hold in my hand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-13a.1271.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-13", "file": "debates1932-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d0ce42189d5bc432", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-13a.1315.0", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT (TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "preceding_text": "rents. I would draw attention to something which is rather a tragedy. The Act in some cases is having a bad effect on family life in Bradford. I know of many cases where men have to depend on one or two children to keep the home going, and, although I am not defending the action of the son or daughter, I know of cases where sons and daughters have left home because of having to keep their parents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-13a.1315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-13", "file": "debates1932-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d0ce42189d5bc432", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-13a.1359.0", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "deal with cases of transitional payment. I do not think that it is outside the ambit of the Minister to give some preferential treatment to the distressed areas. I dare say that legislation would be required, and that would mean delay. There are three points that might be dealt with. There is, first, the burden of unemployment. I am convinced that we all agree that that should be borne nationally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-13a.1359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-20", "file": "debates1932-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c9524daa2dd5f0a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-20a.2283.0", "colnum": "2283", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GEE", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GEE", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member said it was the expressed intention of the hon. and gallant Member to enter Turkey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-20a.2283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-20", "file": "debates1932-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "c9524daa2dd5f0a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-20a.2285.1", "colnum": "2285", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "Would it meet with general consent if the Bill were taken as the first Order to-morrow?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-20a.2285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-21", "file": "debates1932-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "b4e6fc5467124b88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-21a.2438.0", "colnum": "2438", "heading": "WAR SERVICES CANTEENS (DISPOSAL OF SURPLUS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ng general sympathy with the complaints of the traders in garrison towns. Hull is not a garrison town, and I have had no personal complaint in writing or verbally from any of my constituents. As far as my constituents are concerned, I am absolutely disinterested in the matter, and I say that if in normal times the Government had attempted to perpetrate this wholesale robbery on the soldiers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-21a.2438.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-21", "file": "debates1932-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "b4e6fc5467124b88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-21a.2440.3", "colnum": "2440", "heading": "WAR SERVICES CANTEENS (DISPOSAL OF SURPLUS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "of obstruction, of giving no information at all and of long delay. They gave no information, not even to my Noble Friend the Member for Aldershot (Viscount Wolmer) and others who raised the matter. But an inter-departmental Committee was set up, presided over by one of the persons who was being attacked in the House, namely, the Financial Secretary to the War Office, and there was a secret report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-21a.2440.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-07-21", "file": "debates1932-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "b4e6fc5467124b88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-21a.2463.1", "colnum": "2463", "heading": "WAR SERVICES CANTEENS (DISPOSAL OF SURPLUS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, no!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Might I, by the leave of the House, say a word—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-21a.2463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-21", "file": "debates1932-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "b4e6fc5467124b88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-21a.2467.0", "colnum": "2467", "heading": "WAR SERVICES CANTEENS (DISPOSAL OF SURPLUS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON EVANS", "preceding_text": "There has been considerable discussion going on for the last three or four hours when I do not think the hon. Member was in the House. Had he been in his place, he would have heard the whole of these points discussed, except the one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-21a.2467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-29", "file": "debates1932-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "b7a61f6c6354ca8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1852.1", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "tion,\" but I do not know where it comes in. It has no definite purpose. The whole thing was drafted in a fashion creditable to none of its supporters. The Bill was carried by a small majority in the House, but every concession has been given to those who opposed the Bill, and one would almost think they were the majority. This concession also pleases certain elements that were opposed to the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-29", "file": "debates1932-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "b7a61f6c6354ca8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1859.0", "colnum": "1859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "my hon. and learned Friend has made the position very clear, and I have some further questions to ask which I hope may be answered by some other Member of the Government. I am speaking only for myself, but I believe I am right in saying that the greater number of those, in whichever quarter of the House they sit, who supported the Government in Committee on this Bill, are opposed to this proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1859.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-29", "file": "debates1932-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "b7a61f6c6354ca8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1859.0", "colnum": "1859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": " and laid before Parliament, 6.0 p.m. If that is not a leap in the dark, I do not know the meaning of the words. I should like to ask the Government a few questions about the conditions, so far as there are any, that they propose to lay down. I understand, from what my hon. and learned Friend has just said, that the constitution of this new body, when it is set up, will be discussed by Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1859.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-29", "file": "debates1932-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "b7a61f6c6354ca8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1905.4", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman certain about there being film societies only in London?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1905.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-29", "file": "debates1932-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "b7a61f6c6354ca8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1907.1", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "preceding_text": "I asked the hon. Baronet a question which he has not answered, and which I will now ask the House. I ask the House whether, in view of the facts as I have now detailed them, they distrust the sincerity of the Government? Do they believe that we acted in bad faith?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-29", "file": "debates1932-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "b7a61f6c6354ca8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1907.1", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "preceding_text": "I asked the hon. Baronet a question which he has not answered, and which I will now ask the House. I ask the House whether, in view of the facts as I have now detailed them, they distrust the sincerity of the Government? Do they believe that we acted in bad faith? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Do they think that we deliberately used some means of going back on a pledge which we were sorry we had given?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-29", "file": "debates1932-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "b7a61f6c6354ca8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1911.0", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "er-Secretary to support him against the charges which my hon. Friend across the Gangway and the hon. Member opposite have made against the Government and against him. The speech we have just heard betrayed a curious suspicion of local authorities, coming from the quarter from which it came. I understand that the hon. Member is a Member of the Liberal party, which has always advocated local option.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1911.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-29", "file": "debates1932-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "b7a61f6c6354ca8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1940.4", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLEWELLYN-JONES", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Read them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLEWELLYN-JONES", "preceding_text": "les representing the three political parties in the State? Apart from that, there has been an expression of opinion in various parts of Wales by means of resolutions from all the organised Free Church Associations. I have also heard from a large number of churches who have sent me copies of resolutions which have been passed. Many of them have gone to the Home Secretary. Most of them are in Welsh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1940.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-29", "file": "debates1932-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "b7a61f6c6354ca8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1958.2", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EVANS", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EVANS", "preceding_text": "I am not the only one who thought that. Not only was the phrase offensive, but the tone in which it was said added to the offence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1958.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-29", "file": "debates1932-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "b7a61f6c6354ca8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1960.0", "colnum": "1960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKIN MORRIS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKIN MORRIS", "preceding_text": "ek? He is the better for it, and that position has been built up by the character of the British peoples. We are to-day opening the doors to the deluge from Eastern Europe. A material conception of life is flowing in from Eastern Europe and lowering our moral outlook. This is the first time in our history that we have departed from the Gold Standard. That is not unconnected with our moral outlook.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-29", "file": "debates1932-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "b7a61f6c6354ca8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1960.0", "colnum": "1960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKIN MORRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKIN MORRIS", "preceding_text": "he doors to the deluge from Eastern Europe. A material conception of life is flowing in from Eastern Europe and lowering our moral outlook. This is the first time in our history that we have departed from the Gold Standard. That is not unconnected with our moral outlook. [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members may laugh, but I would ask them why is it that sterling is accepted as currency throughout the world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-29", "file": "debates1932-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "b7a61f6c6354ca8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1963.0", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN", "preceding_text": "I would like to add my appeal to the Under-Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1963.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-29", "file": "debates1932-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "b7a61f6c6354ca8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1969.0", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTLAND", "preceding_text": "ct that this is the third Measure that has been before the House. On a free vote it was defeated, and, if it were not for the fact that the Government have taken it under its wing, and that the Division Lobbies to-night are packed by forced cohorts, their are many Amendments which would have been defeated, and it is very doubtful whether the Bill would have had a renaissance from its final defeat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-29", "file": "debates1932-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "b7a61f6c6354ca8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1969.0", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTLAND", "preceding_text": "he belief that it is worth something to them. Sunday opening might be a valuable perquisite to the British theatres. It might perhaps enable plays to keep on that now have to go off after two or three weeks; it might keep our people in employment; and that is my only reason for almost violating my conscience by supporting an extension of the operation of a Bill which I loathe from start to finish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-29", "file": "debates1932-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "b7a61f6c6354ca8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1969.0", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTLAND", "preceding_text": " who think there is something very serious, not only in the particular point that I am now putting, but in the whole Bill, and' there are many Members of the House who will have something to answer for when they go back to meet their constituents. I cordially support this Amendment on two grounds: first, that if we are going to desecrate the Sabbath, we must desecrate it for our own benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-07-29", "file": "debates1932-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "b7a61f6c6354ca8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1972.2", "colnum": "1972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENVILLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENVILLE", "preceding_text": "irman, muzzled the whole lot of us. At that meeting one member—one of the vested interests of whom the hon. and learned Member speaks—actually issued to the Press a notice in which he advised all the theatrical managers of this country to open their theatres on Sunday and to defy the law. One or two of the important actresses at that meeting whom I met and with whom I had a chat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-07-29a.1972.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-18", "file": "debates1932-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "df48ac38b717e069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.12.2", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "So far as the Ottawa Agreements are concerned, the Government have undertaken to take action against any Government that would be responsible for preventing the preferences given being maintained, and therefore, if my hon. Friend has any fear of sweated goods from other foreign countries, I am quite sure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.12.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-18", "file": "debates1932-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "df48ac38b717e069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must not make statements of that sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-18", "file": "debates1932-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "df48ac38b717e069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.24.2", "colnum": "24", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "Orders of the Day. We presented ourselves about half-past ten, and were told that the Order Papers had been withdrawn. I submit that this is a source of grave inconvenience to many hon. Members, because on the first morning after a long holiday we assumed that the Government would be ready with its business. May I ask whether steps will be taken to get the Government more businesslike in its work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.24.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-18", "file": "debates1932-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "df48ac38b717e069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.44.3", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "an was shocked when I asked him who were the people who are to man the various commissions which are to determine whether an industry may be competed with or not. I cast no aspersions on any Canadian business man or any persons in Canada or Australia who may form part of these commissions, but blood is thicker than water, and it is difficult when you are trying to decide whether an industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.44.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-18", "file": "debates1932-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "df48ac38b717e069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.44.3", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "nd novel policy which has never been before the electorate. I think that neither the Prime Minister, nor the Lord President of the Council, nor the Chancellor of the Exchequer will say that at the last election the electors gave them a mandate to do what is being done now. I know it is said they gave them what has been called a \"doctor's mandate,\" but they did not give them a mandate for quackery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.44.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-18", "file": "debates1932-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "df48ac38b717e069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.44.3", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "re that they intend to break away from them. It is no use talking as if even we had something fixed with the Dominions. Then we come to the Colonies. I see the Secretary of State for the Colonies is here. Perhaps when he speaks in the discussion he will tell us whether the people of the Colonies have been consulted in this matter. So far as I understand things, they have not been consulted at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.44.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-18", "file": "debates1932-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "df48ac38b717e069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Certainly, but you never consulted the people of the Colonies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-18", "file": "debates1932-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "df48ac38b717e069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "cel the trading agreement in order that we may be free to deal with something that may not be there, namely, dumping. Everybody knows that what Canada wanted was to have the advantage of the markets without Russian competition. When we come to the question of cheapness and the question of dumping, what really is meant? I think this country dumps when it wants to, just as much as any other country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-18", "file": "debates1932-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "df48ac38b717e069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.62.0", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " the whole of the world may share in the benefits of order and progress, railway building and the promotion of commerce. They recognise that. But now for the first time our Colonial Empire—and this may be only the beginning—is to be made, to as great an extent as we find it possible to do it, into a preserve for British manufacturers. It may be an immediate financial and material gain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.62.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-18", "file": "debates1932-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "df48ac38b717e069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.85.0", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "y other period of history. These great self-governing Dominions were growing up with all the vices of that economic nationalism which is so curiously denounced by the remnants of the Liberal party although by implication they have been advocating economic nationalism this afternoon, in saying that in no circumstances should we consent to an agreement under which its barriers should be broken down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.85.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-18", "file": "debates1932-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "df48ac38b717e069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "preceding_text": "ct that, as we all know, all foreign trade is in the hands of the Soviet Government. Therefore, I submit to the right hon. Gentleman that there should be no difficulty whatever in the Board of Trade discovering whether or not any very cheap Russian goods being offered here come within the terms of the Resolution, because we all know that everything exported from Russia is exported by State action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.94.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-18", "file": "debates1932-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "df48ac38b717e069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.103.0", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To Canada.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "e the Prime Minister is in his place, because I wish to put a question in regard to that claim. May I have the attention of the right hon. Gentleman for a moment? What has the South Wales coal trade done to him that he has ceased to have regard to its well being? Will he point to one single item in these Agreements whereby one extra ounce of South Wales coal is to be sold as a consequence of them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-18", "file": "debates1932-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "df48ac38b717e069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.103.0", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To the iron and steel industry!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "are going to call upon our people to give preferences on wheat and meat from Canada and Australia. I am trying to argue it fairly. I hope that if I show some bitterness about it I shall not forget my duty to present a fair argument. I ask the right hon. Gentleman to answer this question. Where, in the future, are we to send the quantity of coal which we are now accustomed to send to the Argentine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-18", "file": "debates1932-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "df48ac38b717e069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You will offend your friends.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "p since tariffs have been introduced. Is that true? Only a month or two ago those who were in favour of tariffs were telling us that unemployment, which was going up more rapidly then than it has been going up since tariffs were introduced, was going up on account of Free Trade. There is this problem, which is a social problem relating to the constitution of society itself, and are we going—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-18a.144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-19", "file": "debates1932-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "5531bce32b899b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-19a.155.0", "colnum": "155", "heading": "NEW DUTIES (PROCEDURE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cod liver oil.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "preceding_text": "t Protection, and even Preference, gave solemn pledges that on no account would they agree to taxes on meat or wheat. The President of the Board of Trade had an unopposed election. He got a very free hand. He stated that on no account would he agree to a tax on wheat. We want to give him and others an opportunity to express their views under each head. No doubt, they will swallow castor oil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-19a.155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-19", "file": "debates1932-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "5531bce32b899b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-19a.166.0", "colnum": "166", "heading": "NEW DUTIES (PROCEDURE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "preceding_text": "ver, that their views are not the views of this House or of the people of the country, and, having failed in their frontal attack, they are now trying to achieve their purpose by means of small saps and mines. They very well know that the Ottawa Agreement has to be taken as a whole, and that they cannot say, \"We will or we will not have a duty on cod liver oil. We would like a duty on castor oil.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-19a.166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-19", "file": "debates1932-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "5531bce32b899b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-19a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " the Prime Minister in his place, because I would remind him that before they went to Ottawa I asked him across the Floor of the House if he expected any good thing to come out of Ottawa. There was no answer forthcoming, but we got the answer yesterday in his speech to the effect that he does not expect anything to come out of Ottawa which will be beneficial to the working classes of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-19a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-19", "file": "debates1932-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "5531bce32b899b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-19a.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYONS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYONS", "preceding_text": "I do not propose to attempt to reply, however sorely one might be tempted, to the provocative statements made by the hon. Member opposite, the latest recruit to the official Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-19a.211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-19", "file": "debates1932-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "5531bce32b899b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-19a.263.0", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only reasonable!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "I venture to answer that point by saying that Article 10 of the Australian Agreement—and it is the same in the other Agreements—says: Protective duties shall not exceed such a level as will give United Kingdom producers full opportunity of reasonable competition. 9.30 p.m.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-19a.263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-19", "file": "debates1932-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "5531bce32b899b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-19a.264.5", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTURBANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "m also interested in this case, because I am told that one of my constituents is among those who were injured. I am told that there is a place in Lambeth—one of the centres where disturbance took place—where young men gather together every night and simply talk and pass the time away. There is no meeting. It is simply a matter of standing around, and last night, down that street—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-19a.264.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-19", "file": "debates1932-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "5531bce32b899b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-19a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTURBANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "o spend their time at the street corners, and British ships are manned by coolies and black labour, when some most efficient officers have to sail as able seamen while coolies can sail out of a British port in British ships? When I raised this matter I was told in this House that it does not matter. Sailors and firemen come to me and ask, \"What are you doing?\" and I ask myself: what are you doing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-19a.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-19", "file": "debates1932-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "5531bce32b899b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-19a.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTURBANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "preceding_text": "per the application of force to the situation and give the people the right to meet and express their grievances. We know the heartbreaking condition of these millions of people, dreading as they do this winter and with no hope as to what is going to happen to them in the next few months. Their cup of misery is full to overflowing and I say \"Do not, by battery and assault, aggravate their misery.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-19a.283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-19", "file": "debates1932-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "5531bce32b899b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-19a.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTURBANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You could have listened to them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "preceding_text": "up of misery is full to overflowing and I say \"Do not, by battery and assault, aggravate their misery.\" [ Interruption. ] I know that the hon. Member opposite wants to ask me why the Trades Union Congress did not receive them. I will anticipate his question and answer him by saying that the Trades Union Congress cannot give them relief. They have already tabulated their demands for the unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-19a.283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-19", "file": "debates1932-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "5531bce32b899b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-19a.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTURBANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVID MASON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVID MASON", "preceding_text": "House ought to do something? One hon. Member asked, \"What are you going to do?\" and the question was received with laughter. I see nothing to laugh at. I agree with him. The question is, \"What are you going to do?\" What have the Government done? The Home Secretary, who was formerly Minister of Agriculture, has been a contributing factor in raising the cost of food to the people. That is something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-19a.288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-20", "file": "debates1932-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "7137c4faff5a704e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.320.7", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CUNARD STEAMSHIP COMPANY (NEW VESSEL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "ly. I want to know if that is the position that the Government are going to take up. They are going to do nothing. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\") Of course, I am going to make a speech. I want a reply from the President of the Board of Trade. I put the question down to the Prime Minister, and it has been turned over to the President of the Board of Trade. I want to know if he is in a position to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.320.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-20", "file": "debates1932-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "7137c4faff5a704e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.375.0", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "ts trade. The electors never suspected for one moment, and here challenge denial from any quarter of the House, that full-blooded tariffs would be imposed as a result of the election. They never suspected that full-blooded tariffs were under responsible consideration. No one will deny that. What they thought was that there would be a little adjustment of tariffs here and a little adjustment there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-20", "file": "debates1932-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "7137c4faff5a704e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SLATER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SLATER", "preceding_text": "rers have one object from morning to night, and that is to sell the products of machinery which is the best that our inventive geniuses can devise. That machinery we have supplied to them, in Russia, in Japan and in India. These people seek not only to sell their products in their own countries, but to send them back to Western civilisation, where they destroy the standard of living of our people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-20", "file": "debates1932-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "7137c4faff5a704e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CR0FT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CR0FT", "preceding_text": "ry branch of industry in this country. Tell me of a man in the steel trade who does not agree that a wonderful Agreement has been pulled off. I have heard only in the last week, on two occasions, that blast furnaces are going to be reopened on account of these Agreements. I heard the other day in the West Riding of Yorkshire that another mill has been opened simply and solely because of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-20", "file": "debates1932-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "7137c4faff5a704e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: 'You will offend your friends !'", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " since tariffs have been introduced. Is that true? Only a month or two ago those who were in favour of tariffs were telling us that unemployment, which was going up more rapidly then than it bar; been going up since tariffs were introduced, was going up on account of Free Trade. There is this problem, which is a social problem relating to the constitution or society itself, and are we going—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-20", "file": "debates1932-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "7137c4faff5a704e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "hat has been brought hack fails to deal with great matters like currency and migration. Instead of that we find these long lists—some items in which the hon. Baronet mentioned—which it is quite impossible for any person without special information to understand but which seem to have been received in the country with extreme coldness. Disillusionment is bound to come as regards Ottawa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-20", "file": "debates1932-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "7137c4faff5a704e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "d of that we find these long lists—some items in which the hon. Baronet mentioned—which it is quite impossible for any person without special information to understand but which seem to have been received in the country with extreme coldness. Disillusionment is bound to come as regards Ottawa. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Time will show why. I am quite prepared to wait for that time to come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-20", "file": "debates1932-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "7137c4faff5a704e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.442.2", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "Agreements which have been brought back are so biased in favour of the Dominions. Any results that may accrue to this country are at least problematical. Even hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite say we must wait and see what the results will be. So far as what this country has to pay it is not problematical, it is certain, fixed. There is no waiting to see what the results will he in that case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.442.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-20", "file": "debates1932-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "7137c4faff5a704e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "I will deal with Ottawa in a moment. Otherwise, why, with all these fully equipped bargainers in the world in the past, have we seen gradually rising walls of tariffs? It is to be borne in mind that we have at least been able to obtain the Most Favoured Nation Clause in all our commercial treaties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-20", "file": "debates1932-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "7137c4faff5a704e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Within the Empire.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "eneral objective is freer trade or, if you like the phrase better, reciprocal Free Trade within the Empire, or the nearest practicable approach to it.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th June; col. 654–55, Vol. 267.] The approach has not been very close. In the case of Australia, in every instance except two, duties have been raised against the foreigner. That is not going to make for freer trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-20", "file": "debates1932-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "7137c4faff5a704e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "e than one occasion, and it has been said by many people—[HON. MFIMBES: \"Read it again!\"]—I am not going to read it again. Any hon. Member can read it in the OFFICIAL REPORT. The right hon. Gentleman, I know, will not deny the proposition that he has always held the view that it was desirable that Ottawa should lead to freer trade conditions as a whole. He agrees with that proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-20", "file": "debates1932-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "7137c4faff5a704e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "ted by some hon. Members that that will not have any effect upon Russian trade. We had the experience in 1925 of the rupture of the trade agreement with Russia. Anybody who likes to look at the figures of the exports to Russia from this country can easily see what effect that rupture had. We are not dealing, in Russia, with a country where orders come through ordinary exporting or importing firms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-20", "file": "debates1932-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "7137c4faff5a704e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "xperience in 1925 of the rupture of the trade agreement with Russia. Anybody who likes to look at the figures of the exports to Russia from this country can easily see what effect that rupture had. We are not dealing, in Russia, with a country where orders come through ordinary exporting or importing firms. [ Interruption. ] We are dealing with a country where the Government give the orders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-20", "file": "debates1932-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "7137c4faff5a704e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "y are quotas with unregulated retail prices. As he noticed, and mentioned, that is a fatal defect in any quota. They are quotas that are put on in a State where there is no planned control of imports as a whole. We believe that this method of arranging trade, on pressure from private vested interest, is essentially a different thing from arranging it under the control of the Government as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-20", "file": "debates1932-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "7137c4faff5a704e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " be told that we must support every bit of Tory policy because there is a crisis? Is everything, whether we believe it to be for good or for bad, to be supported because the Tory party in a large majority want it? I suggest to the Committee that, when it comes to being unable to argue on the merits of a proposal, when it becomes necessary to appeal to sentiment, the proposal stands self-condemned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-20a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-21", "file": "debates1932-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1f640ab0571e174c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-21a.507.2", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 3. INCREASE OF CUSTOMS DUTY ON CERTAIN WINE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANCIS ACLAND", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANCIS ACLAND", "preceding_text": "In rising for the first time after an absence of eight years from the House, I am already, I regret to say, breaking a good resolution. When I came back 'here I made a good resolution that if I spoke at all it would only be on subjects that I knew something about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-21a.507.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-21", "file": "debates1932-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1f640ab0571e174c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-21a.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 3. INCREASE OF CUSTOMS DUTY ON CERTAIN WINE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In some cases it has been four months.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "preceding_text": " furniture trade, and I am informed that at present suitable woods are not available at reasonable prices from the Dominions. There ought to be a careful examination before a, decision is arrived at. Witnesses should be examined and the various interests should have a dance to state their case. This Committee have been very quick in coming to their decisions—in some cases too quick, I think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-21a.548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-21", "file": "debates1932-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1f640ab0571e174c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-21a.555.0", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 3. INCREASE OF CUSTOMS DUTY ON CERTAIN WINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "it right to allow their goods to come in to the exclusion of other goods? The National Government have a great chance before them of taking up the position that we take up, and of dealing with the question of sweating, without leaving it to us every time to get all the plums in advocating these things. It is evident that the present Government are going to be in power for a long time——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-21a.555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-21", "file": "debates1932-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1f640ab0571e174c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-21a.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 3. INCREASE OF CUSTOMS DUTY ON CERTAIN WINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In any country.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "he question which has been raised by the hon. Member for Limehouse (Mr. Attlee) in this Amendment. Under paragraph ( b ) the Government are granted power by Order to prohibit the importation of goods of any class or description grown, produced or manufactured in a foreign country. Surely that is good enough. Why is it necessary to have this Amendment about sweated conditions in any foreign country", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-21a.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-21", "file": "debates1932-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1f640ab0571e174c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-21a.558.4", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 3. INCREASE OF CUSTOMS DUTY ON CERTAIN WINE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. M. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. M. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ainst goods produced under sweated conditions coming from Empire countries? Mr. THOMAS: So far as the Ottawa Agreements are concerned, the Government have undertaken to take action against any Government that would he responsible for preventing the preferences given being maintained, and therefore, if my hon. Friend has any fear of sweated goods from other foreign countries, I am quite sure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-21a.558.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-21", "file": "debates1932-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1f640ab0571e174c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-21a.574.1", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 3. INCREASE OF CUSTOMS DUTY ON CERTAIN WINE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Welsh mutton! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "I was referring to the hon. Gentleman's peroration. I am very glad to hear that the first part of his speech really represented his views, and that the peroration was only verbosity. Certainly his peroration suggested that this particular proposal was like dead mutton, and would not have any material effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-21a.574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-24", "file": "debates1932-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c03defdfb6d68f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.579.0", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "Some years ago there were certain charges made against the state of affairs in the Andamans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.579.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-10-24", "file": "debates1932-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c03defdfb6d68f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.601.3", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOODD", "preceding_text": "Arising from the original reply, in which the Minister said that these men were organised by Communists, apart from who is organising them, the fact remains that they are here, strangers within our gates. If they were refugees from another country we should treat them accordingly, but they are the the victims of this system——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.601.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-24", "file": "debates1932-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c03defdfb6d68f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "ing the country of the advantage of low wholesale prices. It is an argument for an inquiry into the problem of prices; it makes no case for cutting off our supplies of cheap food. Inquiry shows that the margin between home produced meat and foreign meat is very large. Take New Zealand lamb. The retail price of Canterbury lamb is about 1s. 1d., whereas the English is 1s. 4d., 1s. 5d. and even more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-24", "file": "debates1932-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c03defdfb6d68f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": " Take New Zealand lamb. The retail price of Canterbury lamb is about 1s. 1d., whereas the English is 1s. 4d., 1s. 5d. and even more. [ Interruption .] Here is a printed list: Hind quarter, English, Is. per lb. New Zealand, 9d.; fore quarter, 9d. and 6½., respectively. This is Mr. Sainsbury's printed list, and I am rather more inclined to accept that printed list than what my hon. Friend says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-24", "file": "debates1932-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c03defdfb6d68f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.637.2", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "ozen meat coming into the market, because the Devonshire farmers are not getting the prices that the hon. Baronet thinks that they should get. Who controls prices? I would undertake to say that the hon. Baronet knows as well as I do that the very people who control the importation and exportation of goods are members of the party to which he belongs. They are the importers and the exporters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.637.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-24", "file": "debates1932-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c03defdfb6d68f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.637.2", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "we want to consume, and by reduction of the wages which the workers receive. Now, this demand is put forward. The Government have gone to Ottawa, and have talked through the backs of their necks. They have come back with nothing. Even their own supporters are not satisfied. They have not got what they wanted; they will not want what they will get. They will get it in the neck at the next election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.637.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-24", "file": "debates1932-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c03defdfb6d68f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.637.2", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "s for earthquakes. We are up against it, and whatever this Parliament may do in the time of its existence, which will not be long, it will have to face up to the issue that it will be a question of the workers taking advantage of the opportunity, when they get it, to substitute a different form of government, a government of the workers, for the workers, by the workers. That will come along—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.637.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-24", "file": "debates1932-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c03defdfb6d68f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.640.1", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "But I am talking about chilled meat, Sir. That is the reason why I am talking about the hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-24", "file": "debates1932-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c03defdfb6d68f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.643.1", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "p to the present we do not know exactly how they are going to put it into operation. Like my hon. Friend the Member for Barn-staple, I shall support this proposal, because it is better than doing nothing. I realise that the Ottawa Agreement stands as a whole, and I shall vote for every part of it as part of a whole. I think it has been a brilliant success—far better than many of us expected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-24", "file": "debates1932-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c03defdfb6d68f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HALL", "preceding_text": "ch protection as this was not put into the Coal Mines Act, and it ill becomes him to chide us because we did not, in the Coal Mines Act, take the protection which we think ought to be taken under these proposals. He knows why we did not take that protection and the possibilities are that now that a certain section has left it, this party has become a little more wide-awake, a little more sensible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-24", "file": "debates1932-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c03defdfb6d68f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.685.1", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "se, where food is concerned and the reputation of the President of the Board of Trade is at stake, he would readily agree that the only intention and purpose of the Government is to provide the Dominions with a preference. In that case may I ask the Chancellor whether the duty which flows to the Exchequer as a result of this scheme, and which will amount to round about£1,500,000 a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-24", "file": "debates1932-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c03defdfb6d68f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHITE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHITE", "preceding_text": "am (Mr. A. Roberts), which placed before the House the most salient features with regard to this proposal. There is, however, one aspect of these Debates which has been brought to my attention, and probably to the attention of other Members, day by day as these discussions have proceeded, and that is that the public outside this House are not aware of the wholly unreal nature of these discussions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-24", "file": "debates1932-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c03defdfb6d68f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.707.3", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "I have far too much respect for my right hon. Friend's intelligence to believe that he is really serious. If the Canadian wheat seller is exploiting us, then we shall deal with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.707.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-24", "file": "debates1932-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c03defdfb6d68f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "whole range of other things. A little here and a little there—it does not matter, of course! It does not matter so long as you are not depending on 15s. a week, like an unemployed man. In response to these arguments about additions to the cost of living it is said, \"But see what you are going to get! As a reward for paying this taxation you will get increased trade and increased employment.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-24", "file": "debates1932-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c03defdfb6d68f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.727.0", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JANNER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JANNER", "preceding_text": "street tradesmen, who dispose of it to the poorest classes in the community. As a result of that, not only is the food sold at a cheap price to those who need it most, but a form of new health, and of opportunities for health is brought within the range of the purchasing power of the poorest people in the land. Fruit is not only a food; it is something whose value goes beyond ordinary food values.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-24", "file": "debates1932-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c03defdfb6d68f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.730.4", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JANNER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Foreign apples.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JANNER", "preceding_text": "ked the question, I think that I ought perhaps to bring another commodity into the picture which may amplify what I had to say on the question of grape fruit. Let me take the question of apples. In this case the same amount of duty is going to be charged on every grade of apples. It is proposed to put, on a barrel of 140 lbs. of apples, a duty of 5s. 9d., no matter what the grade of apples may be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.730.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-24", "file": "debates1932-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c03defdfb6d68f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.734.0", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Without a preference!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "e that that new planting is only going to start now, and that from the moment of this duty, if the House accepts it, the South Africans and Southern Rhodesians are going to start a great extension of orange groves, and he told the House that we should have to wait for five years until the fruit first come to our markets. That extension has been going on during recent years. It has already started.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-24", "file": "debates1932-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c03defdfb6d68f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "The purpose of the Resolution is to implement the Agreements with South Africa and Australia—Agreements to increase the preference on Empire light wines by a shilling. That can either be done by increasing the duty on foreign wines or by lowering the duty on Empire wines. We have decided to increase the duty on foreign wines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-24a.774.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.797.7", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. M. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.797.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Secretary of State if he is aware that the Government have had the hope for many months that this corporation would be set up at an early date; that in May of last year we were told that the delay was then over; that in June we were told that the matter was settled; and that at the end of July the then Financial Secretary told us——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "nditions are that everywhere in this country and abroad, in the Dominions and foreign countries, there are more goods, more commodities, than within the capitalist system the workers are allowed to use. When I say \"workers,\" I mean the general body of the people. About that there cannot be any dispute. Everywhere there is superabundance, and how have the Government met this during the coming year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "y tell everybody that economy must be the order of the day, and in their own Departments they have cut down in every direction, and have supported directly or indirectly the chimand that wages must come down, with the result that there is everywhere a restriction of consumption. I do not know whether people understand that in a place like Poplar, which is cursed with exceedingly high rates —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " party, up to a year ago, under the leadership of the Prime Minister, thought that we could work within the capitalist system and work outwards towards Socialism. We are convinced that the economic development of the world will prevent that being done. We are quite certain that it is no use trying to palliate or cure the evils that capitalism produces. Therefore, when we get the opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.841.3", "colnum": "841", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "e country with whom we come into contact that there is no cure, no short cut, and no roundabout way out of the evils from which they are suffering. We shall tell them that—and no one knows that better than the Prime Minister—and we shall ask them to give us power, or to give some party in the State power to take over the industries of the country, reorganise them, and rationalise them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.841.3", "colnum": "841", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "er, or to give some party in the State power to take over the industries of the country, reorganise them, and rationalise them. [ Interruption. ] We cannot make a worse mess of it than other people have done. We shall rationalise them so that, instead of every increase in the power to produce meaning more unemployment and poverty, it will produce a higher standard of life. There is no sense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.841.3", "colnum": "841", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "or contentment. Against it, we put the old Socialist principle that industry must be organised, that money must be used for the purpose of bringing to mankind all the good things that capitalism has enabled us to produce, and which Capitalism does not know how to distribute. Part of the House apparently is in a mood to think that we are moving this Motion from political and ordinary party motives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.841.3", "colnum": "841", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "hich Capitalism does not know how to distribute. Part of the House apparently is in a mood to think that we are moving this Motion from political and ordinary party motives. [ Interruption. ] I am quite willing that those who are impeccable in their conduct, and who are so unimpeachable in their virtues should think that. We must be responsible for whatever of conscience yet remains to many of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "The difference between myself and the Leader of the Opposition is that he is not allowed to be responsible for his conscience. He is responsible for the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.845.1", "colnum": "845", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "y chief emphasis upon the increase of unemployment. Hon. Members will discover, from the wording of the Resolution, that that is the central fact, upon which everything else hinges. I thought the right hon. Gentleman might have examined that; I am sorry he did not. May I remind him of some of his own connections with it? This Government did not come into office, as I have said, with a clean slate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.845.1", "colnum": "845", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Advised by you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "g else hinges. I thought the right hon. Gentleman might have examined that; I am sorry he did not. May I remind him of some of his own connections with it? This Government did not come into office, as I have said, with a clean slate. [ Interruption. ] Certainly not. This Government came into office with a condition of things that right hon. Gentlemen there had to face by passing an Anomalies Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "It may ease the right hon. Gentleman and other people if I say that I stood here a year ago and said what I will now repeat. Whatever sins of omission or commission or whatever virtues attached to the Cabinet as a whole of which I was a member, I shall accept my share of the blame or praise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ccept my share of the blame or praise—[ Interruption. ] I do not want to get out of it; I am not such a contemptible skunk as that. It may save a very great deal of this vituperation about my action and my responsibility. If I stayed in the Cabinet longer than I ought to have done, or did anything that I ought not to have done, the public can blame me, but I am free now to state my opinions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.847.3", "colnum": "847", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ence—the committee to which I made reference in answering a question to-day—which was private, and which, consequently, cannot be referred to, at any rate so far as the substance of its work was concerned. But, in order to get out of the difficulty, the Royal Commission, whose report we have been awaiting for weeks and months, was appointed by the right hon. Gentleman and myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.847.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.848.3", "colnum": "848", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You were Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "t over 12 months. Our increase, not counting in those who have been knocked off, is 66,491 and, if we add the Anomalies Bill and the others, we only have to add to that something between 170,000 and 175,000. The very people who were responsible for an annual average increase of 800,000 in unemployment censures a Government which has been responsible for an annual increase of a little over 230,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.848.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not say that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "han this Government happens to have been. The Minister of Labour later on will deal with details that may arise, but I felt that it was necessary that the general situation should be stated quite plainly—the work that is being done now, the work of new administration, the means test, changes in the means test—another revolution by the by. They are no longer in favour of any means test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.853.0", "colnum": "853", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Sir WILLIAM BRASS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who by?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Sir WILLIAM BRASS", "preceding_text": "suring the Government on the administration of the means test I am not at all sure whether I would not have found myself in the Lobby with the Opposition, because I do not think that the Government have dealt with the means test in a proper fashion. I have raised the question on many occasions in this House because I think that the administration of the means test at the present time is all wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.853.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.853.0", "colnum": "853", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Sir WILLIAM BRASS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"By your people!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Sir WILLIAM BRASS", "preceding_text": "s test I am not at all sure whether I would not have found myself in the Lobby with the Opposition, because I do not think that the Government have dealt with the means test in a proper fashion. I have raised the question on many occasions in this House because I think that the administration of the means test at the present time is all wrong. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Who by?\"] By the present Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.853.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " one or two suggestions about that let me enumerate others. You could cleanse the slums. Nobody was keener about that when he was Minister of Health than the right hon. Gentleman who is now Chancellor of the Exchequer. But every effort hitherto has been timid, tentative. That is not the way to eradicate a sore like that, with which there is nothing comparable in any civilised country in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ure in this country. The right hon. Gentleman and his friends will say, \"Where are you going to get the money? You are going to burden the taxpayer.\" No, you are not; you can do this in a way which will lighten the burden of the taxpayer temporarily, leaving him a margin, and will permanently add to the resources of this country by doing something. Reclaim your derelict lands and recodition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.914.0", "colnum": "914", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": "e with regard to the means test and that he was not going to support the Motion. We shall have to put up with that with the best grace we can. His speech showed that though he has crossed the Gangway, he has not crossed the Floor of the House. He has crossed the Jordan, but not the Red Sea. As far as the means test is concerned, the position of the Labour party is very simple, clear, and definite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.914.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": "tself, has been enormously intensified during the last 10 or 11 years by the enormous debts which are burdening nations and which have been increased by the operation of the deflationary methods pursued by the banks which have been advised by Mr. Montagu Norman. Mr. Norman, who is the favourite financier apparently of Lord Snowden, is the man who has done more harm in this country than the Kaiser.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.925.2", "colnum": "925", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "it was MacDonald, Snowden, and Thomas who led them up the street, but now they are away we have recovered our Socialist souls again. First of all, I want to ask hon. Members above the Gangway if it is a very manly defence for them to say they allowed themselves to be manipulated here, there, and the next place by three men. I think I heard hon. Members say to-day in the course of the Debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.925.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.926.5", "colnum": "926", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "e system work. Make it run so that we will get employment and wages, and that everything will go on.\" The Government have been trying for 12 months, and, in spite of the Prime Minister's assurances, the position is worse than ever it has been. Imports and exports are steadily falling; the confidence of the nations of the world in British finance is less to-day than it has been since the day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.926.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ing. I do not believe that anybody in this House would deny that that was the case. It may be that unemployment was increasing because of the increasing gravity of the world situation, but the home market was improving. That is the market which is more directly under the control of the Government than the foreign market. It was improving as far as the Government could influence it for two reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "is year, I understand from questions answered by the Government in the House, not a single new scheme of work or development has been initiated by the Government. Since they took office it has been admitted by the Ministry of Transport that they have slaughtered no less than one thousand schemes of road development. Thirty million pounds of work have been slaughtered with pride by this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.935.1", "colnum": "935", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Home Secretary said it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "cy of restricting public work of an important kind. The problem of unemployment is a serious one to-day. It is no use the Secretary of State for Scotland—changes take place in this Government so frequently that I am not quite sure whether he was the Minister —arguing that the serious discontent among the unemployed is the result of a carefully engineered agitation. It is no such thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.935.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.935.1", "colnum": "935", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " a very twisty road they are following, and they are always turning the corner. Alternatively, if the atmosphere or the audience calls for it, they are the strong, noble men who are still standing in the breach against the terrific, abnormal, terrifying, overwhelming difficulties of the times. They can have it which way they will. I will argue either way. This twisty lane that has no ending—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.935.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.935.1", "colnum": "935", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "will view the consequences of it honestly, and that is the curtailment of the social services. It has been said from these benches that the Government have swallowed the policy enunciated within these precincts, but not in this House, last year by Mr. Montagu Norman and his colleagues. It is also true that the Government have accepted holus bolus the policy of the Federation of British Industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.935.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.935.1", "colnum": "935", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " the number of leading articles in papers supporting the National Government saying all that we said a year ago about the means test. It is becoming quite fashionable and respectable to say that the means test is not quite nice. The means test which the Government introduced has humiliated hundreds of thousands of decent workers. I am glad to think that we are not accused of responsibility for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.935.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "It is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "support to-day of hon. Members behind the Government. We have had statements about the harsh administration. A semi supporter of the Government, the hon. Member for Wolverhampton East (Mr. Mander), I heard his speech myself, said that in two local authorities, which he named, every member, whatever his political party, protested against the harsh administration imposed by the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.938.3", "colnum": "938", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "The result of this harsh administration imposed on local authorities has been to increase", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.938.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.938.3", "colnum": "938", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "The result of this harsh administration imposed on local authorities has been to increase [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member behind me has called me a liar, and he must withdraw that statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.938.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.939.2", "colnum": "939", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"You are running away.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": ". He does not think the administration is harsh; I do, and I prove it by the statement that members of local authorities of his own political colour take the same view. I could quote case after case of local authorities who have been asked to administer the means test, and who, having done so, have to face a larger rate burden on the Poor Law as a consequence. That is happening in Sheffield—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.939.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "y the anomalies, the difficulties, the inconsistencies in the application of the means test. It has been a gigantic experiment. The Government have indicated their intention of moving remedial measures. The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition has pledged himself, very readily and frankly, to help the Government to get a Bill through, whatever the Bill is which the Government propose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.943.0", "colnum": "943", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "is that a Bill is to be introduced and that the right hon. Gentleman will give it at any rate benevolent consideration; and we are one and all of us agreed upon this, that some alteration in the law is required. But then I am left in considerable doubt as to whether the Opposition have pledged themselves to that motto inscribed on the banners of the unemployed marchers that the means test must go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.943.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.943.0", "colnum": "943", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "eans test or not? Is the Motion intended to be a repudiation of any means test? The right hon. Gentleman is perfectly within his rights in refusing to reply, and I do not want to put him in any rhetorical difficulty. It is merely that the country is entitled to know whether or not the issue between the two parties is as to the form of the means test or as to the existence of any means test at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.943.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-25", "file": "debates1932-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "84290af1927090cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.943.0", "colnum": "943", "heading": "CONDUCT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ed over the past 12 months instead of the policy for which the present Government, have been responsible? They would have poured out money like water. To take the illustration of the Leader of the Opposition, they would have taken the wealth from the rich people who were going to spend it upon motor cars and distributed it in largesse amongst thousands of persons to support them for a day or week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-25a.943.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-26", "file": "debates1932-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc4dca5268bf75a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.981.7", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HONG KONG (SMUGGLING).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that these ashes are not cooled, and that by the introduction of material of a higher temperature than the normal temperature of the mine hydrogen absorbed by such material will reach combustion point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.981.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-26", "file": "debates1932-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc4dca5268bf75a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1001.2", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. J. H. Thomas)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. J. H. Thomas)", "preceding_text": "n the \"Agree to Differ\" Clause in those circumstances would have tempted me to go. During these Debates we have heard various definitions of parties in this House. The hon. and learned Member for East Bristol (Sir S. Cripps) attached to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Darwen (Sir H. Samuel) and his friends the descriptive of \"Levites.\" I think we were included under the name of \"Sittites.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1001.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-26", "file": "debates1932-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc4dca5268bf75a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1004.3", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does it represent?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend's speech was not only an attack on the Prime Minister, but to say in substance, \"You have neglected, you have ignored, you have done nothing for, the miners of this country.\" Why does he run away from it now? As I have already pointed out, the steel agreement is not only of value to the steel trade, but it is indirectly of value to the miners. That, at least, is one part of the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1004.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-26", "file": "debates1932-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc4dca5268bf75a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1004.3", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was prior to the agreement!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "nded to give a benefit to this country, aimed so as to prevent what they call dumping. I have already said that for 1928 the total export was 453,000 tons. For the nine months of this year it is more than double; it is 953,000 tons. Incidentally, there is also the bituminous coal which, for the nine months of this year, is nearly 100,000 tons more than the peak period in the past for Canada alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1004.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-26", "file": "debates1932-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc4dca5268bf75a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "will give the reason. Follow the significance. When this Agreement was published, Mr. Scullin was opposed to it root and branch. He said, \"I oppose it because, in my judgment, it compels a reduction of tariffs.\" That is why Mr. Scullin opposes it, and that is why hon. Gentlemen on the other side of the House quote Mr. Scullin in support of their particular case. There never was such inconsistency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-26", "file": "debates1932-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc4dca5268bf75a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "s opposed to it root and branch. He said, \"I oppose it because, in my judgment, it compels a reduction of tariffs.\" That is why Mr. Scullin opposes it, and that is why hon. Gentlemen on the other side of the House quote Mr. Scullin in support of their particular case. There never was such inconsistency. [ Interruption. ] I was very nearly tempted to use another word. Although I used it once—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-26", "file": "debates1932-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc4dca5268bf75a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "tion. ] I was very nearly tempted to use another word. Although I used it once—[ Interruption ]—and got into trouble, and although I know perfectly well that there are some phrases that are applicable at a given moment and others that are applicable to other circumstances, I was seriously tempted, having heard all the speeches against this Bill and read those that I did not hear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-26", "file": "debates1932-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc4dca5268bf75a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1033.0", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ENTWISTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ENTWISTLE", "preceding_text": "ing, because during the first nine months of this year the exports of cotton goods from this country have increased in value by 20 per cent. and in volume, which is far more important, as directly affecting employment, by 32 per cent., as compared with last year. Those are really astonishing figures. I will not venture to be so bold as to assign the precise causes for that increase in trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1033.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-26", "file": "debates1932-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc4dca5268bf75a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1053.1", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "consul—High Commissioner of Palestine—and I am sorry to tell the House that a more arrant Protectionist than he was it would be difficult to find when he had the particular responsibility of administrating that Province. There was salt. He had a good high protection for salt and, in fact, he went so far as to carry on a system under which the Government became the sole purchaser—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-26", "file": "debates1932-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc4dca5268bf75a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1058.7", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "s, on manufactured tobacco, and on an article which I believe is called \"tombac,\" and which I understand is the kind of tobacco that the Arab smokes in a water-pipe. I should have thought that my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook (Mr. Amery), who had succeeded my right hon. Friend as Colonial Secretary, would have jumped at this form of Protection, but he was a little diffident about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1058.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-26", "file": "debates1932-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc4dca5268bf75a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "udiced view of our industrial competitors than the prejudiced view of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Darwen. The hon. Member for Rothwell (Mr. Lunn), who moved the Amendment for rejection, said that the Canadian tariff alone was said by the Americans to be worth £50,000,000 a year to us. Really, if it is worth anything like that, can anyone say that we have not got a great advantage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-26", "file": "debates1932-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc4dca5268bf75a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1062.2", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "I took the words down. The hon. Gentleman said that that statement was made by the President of the United states,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1062.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-26", "file": "debates1932-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc4dca5268bf75a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1062.2", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "hat in a bad year. Since the Ottawa Conference that has been followed up, and we have an Agreement in regard to galvanised sheets, which will be added to and form part of the Agreement. I attach less importance to the immediate gain than to the principle on which the Tariff Boards are to work, granting the minimum protection which an efficient industry needs as against an industry in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1062.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-26", "file": "debates1932-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc4dca5268bf75a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1068.1", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major BEAUMONT THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major BEAUMONT THOMAS", "preceding_text": " raised by the hon. Member for Pontypool (Mr. T. Griffiths). It is rather difficult to understand the position of the hon. Member. Some years ago we had the pleasure of entertaining one another at a general election and on that occasion he very strongly and forcibly opposed the policy which is being carried out by this Government, namely, the policy of protecting the iron and steel industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1068.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-26", "file": "debates1932-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc4dca5268bf75a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1075.1", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "preceding_text": "tile manufactures, the whole of which could be put in four of the mills of the West Riding. One single thing Bradford knows with regard to these particular Agreements. The remarkable thing to me is that this country knows in actual terms what it is going to pay for these Agreements, but it does not know in actual terms what it is going to get. Those things are to be left to other people to decide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-26", "file": "debates1932-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc4dca5268bf75a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1075.1", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "preceding_text": ". Bennett: It is a curious thing, Mr. Prime Minister, how typical of the Conference has been your weather in Canada this summer. We were met with blue sky and sunshine and we have had a great deal of that. We have also had storms; we have had thunder and lightning; and we have very nearly been washed out. But we up the Conference on the most beautiful day that we have yet had, and that is an omen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-26", "file": "debates1932-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "cc4dca5268bf75a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1087.1", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "hs, in prospect of the Ottawa Conference and the arrangements to be made there. Even if the increased purchases of coal by Canada are maintained during the whole year at the same rare as during the first nine months she will not have bought more than 2,000,000 tons of our coal during the year. Last year she bought 11,000,000 tons of coal from America and less than 1,000,000 tons from this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-26a.1087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-27", "file": "debates1932-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "14ee365b322053a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1140.3", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman think it decent on the part of the hon. Member to canvass—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-27", "file": "debates1932-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "14ee365b322053a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1161.1", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "UNEMPLOYED MARCHERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This Session.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the Government have only announced their intention to bring in a Bill next Session—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1161.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-10-27", "file": "debates1932-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "14ee365b322053a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1161.2", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "UNEMPLOYED MARCHERS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "This Session.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the Government have only announced their intention to bring in a Bill next Session—[HON. MEMBERS: \"This Session.\"]—Passing it next Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-27", "file": "debates1932-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "14ee365b322053a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1161.4", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "UNEMPLOYED MARCHERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "If I am making a mistake, I am prepared to be corrected. The Prime Minister will correct me. But that is not the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1161.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-27", "file": "debates1932-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "14ee365b322053a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1162.1", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "UNEMPLOYED MARCHERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-27", "file": "debates1932-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "14ee365b322053a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1193.4", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "preceding_text": ", of dictating to Parliament. I know we are in a difficulty in this Debate. The \"Times\" yesterday said we were \"beating the air\", and a suggestion has been made that we might get rid of this Bill in a day or two. The very fact that the leading newspaper in the country could speak of the discussions upon this important Bill as beating the air is a measure of the degradation of the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1193.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-27", "file": "debates1932-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "14ee365b322053a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1206.1", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "ans danger to the Empire. I ask my Conservative friends to turn to a speech which is unanswered and unanswerable, by perhaps the greatest master of political oratory in this country to-day, the right hon. Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill). In a book which he wrote on Liberalism and the Social Problem they will find the answer which he gave to the Imperial representatives at the Conference of 1907.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-27", "file": "debates1932-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "14ee365b322053a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1206.1", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "ure. What will this Bill do to lessen that discontent? The Dominions Secretary asked the miners' representatives to go into South Wales and talk to the miners. Will he go and tell the unemployed all about this Bill? They are not far away, they are only the other side of Westminster Bridge. Will he go and tell them that this is the Government's contribution towards solving the unemployment problem?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-27", "file": "debates1932-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "14ee365b322053a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1230.0", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There has been no default!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HALL", "preceding_text": "ive legislative effect. The Lord President of the Council referred to the part played by this country in the development of the Dominions. He said that before the War it was estimated that about a half of the £3,800,000,000 invested overseas was placed in Empire countries, and that since the War, out of a total of £1,400,000,000 sent overseas, £848,000,000 was sent to the Dominions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-27", "file": "debates1932-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "14ee365b322053a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1230.0", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HALL", "preceding_text": "igher price for the product which he produces. Have the Dominions done all that they might have done with regard to increasing the price of butter? I find that, as far as New Zealand and Australia are concerned, the price at which butter is imported into this country is shillings per cwt. cheaper than the price of butter imported from Denmark. Taking the figures for 1929, New Zealand butter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-27", "file": "debates1932-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "14ee365b322053a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1230.0", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HALL", "preceding_text": "r for Wigan (Mr. Parkinson) last night, said that not a single ton of coal had been affected as a result of the tariff policy of this country, but during the first nine months of this year we have lost to just five countries—Germany, Italy, France, Belgium and the Netherlands—a market for no less than 3,500,000 tons of coal very largely as a result of the tariff policy of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-27", "file": "debates1932-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "14ee365b322053a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1243.1", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "hat matter most for the employment of our people. I am leaving coal out of account, for the present, because the Ottawa Agreements do not really touch coal. That is a different problem which should be dealt with in a different way. I take first of all the wool textile trade. The Canadian tax on wool textiles is very high. It has been reduced, but it has not been reduced, in my opinion, far enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-27", "file": "debates1932-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "14ee365b322053a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1300.1", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. RAY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. RAY", "preceding_text": ". If the Government were asking the House to refer the Bill once more to a Select Committee, there would not be a word to be said against it. I for one would not say a single word in protest against an action of that kind; but I do suggest to those in charge of the Bill that to come to this House and ask that a Bill which only went through Committee in this House by the vote of the Chairman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-27", "file": "debates1932-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "14ee365b322053a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1300.1", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. RAY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. RAY", "preceding_text": "cing new problems and facing the demand of some people, at all events, who know what this problem is. I beg those on the Government Front Bench to satisfy some people who are longing to follow them on all occasions and regret it very bitterly when they cannot. I beg them to throw a sop to us. We will withdraw all our opposition to-night if they say the Bill will be sent back to a Select Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-27", "file": "debates1932-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "14ee365b322053a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1300.1", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. RAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Soviet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. RAY", "preceding_text": " public company, which would allow its officials to dictate its policy. I believe that the London County Council was quite correct in asking that a policy board should be placed over the officials who are appointed to carry out the day-to-day administration. I think the Government is wrong in its efforts to let paid officials dictate the policy of the great area of which London will be the centre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-27", "file": "debates1932-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "14ee365b322053a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1300.1", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. RAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. RAY", "preceding_text": "xed undertaking, and those hon. Members who feel that this is the only solution can disabuse their minds of that idea to a considerable extent, because we are not so little public-spirited that we are not prepared to take our share in whatever burden is necessary in the interests of London traffic. That is all that I have to say on this matter. I recognise that the battalions are against us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-27", "file": "debates1932-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "14ee365b322053a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1304.0", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Take the Whips off.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ive the Bill a quiet burial and to see that it died. It would really have been more accurate for him to have said: \"Let us see that the Bill is strangled at birth. That is what we wish to do and that is the issue that the House will decide.\" I am all for getting the opinion of the House, supporters and opponents, and of the Whole House, on the principle, and on that principle we are going to vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1304.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-27", "file": "debates1932-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "14ee365b322053a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1307.4", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "oken pledges. No pledge was given about introducing non-controversial Measures assuming this to be a controversial Measure. On the contrary, this Government asked Parliament to pass the Bill over to the next Parliament. Automatically the Bill comes up for consideration, not before a Select Committee, but before a Committee of the whole House. That was why the thing was done, and it had to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-27a.1307.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-28", "file": "debates1932-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b3e4228912021b2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1324.0", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " object. We do not intend, if we can help it, to give food for speeches in the future, when a Socialist Government is there and will be using the same method. We think the House of Commons has had, or ought to have had, sufficient of that sort of discussion. All Governments do this, and I remember Liberal Governments doing it a long, long time ago; but, then, it is a long time since there was one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-28", "file": "debates1932-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b3e4228912021b2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1325.3", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Well, we might talk about something of very great importance. It is all very well for the right hon. and gallant Gentleman to say, \"What else can we do?\" We might at least try to discover whether the collective brains of this House can do anything at the moment to help the condition of affairs outside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1325.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-28", "file": "debates1932-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b3e4228912021b2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1326.0", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "plained and of which the House will require an explanation. Certainly they very much need explanation, and I am glad that the Debates so far have elicited a good deal of information which otherwise had not been forthcoming; and so it will be in the discussion of the future stages of the Bill. We on our part have no desire to engage in any unduly prolonged discussions. We have not done so hitherto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-28", "file": "debates1932-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b3e4228912021b2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1342.3", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "From the Dominions or anywhere else and, unless that is done, all sorts of doubts and anxieties crop up in the minds of individuals that certain interests can press their claims to the detriment of other interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1342.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-28", "file": "debates1932-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b3e4228912021b2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1349.5", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "preceding_text": "The Argentine people have been very good purchasers of many of our goods. If we analyse this Bill from the point of view of a quid pro quo as miners we ask ourselves why our people should be called upon to pay an increased price for their bread, for the purpose of protecting Canada, by placing a tax on wheat from a country which has been a very good customer so far as British miners are concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1349.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-28", "file": "debates1932-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b3e4228912021b2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1356.1", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CURRY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CURRY", "preceding_text": "portion of imported wheat comes from foreign parts and not from the Dominions as a whole? The hon. Member for South Croydon (Mr. H. Williams) said it came in equal pro-portions from the Empire and from other countries. I am not going to argue with him, but if it comes in equal parts it is a strange coincidence in general trade. The greater proportion comes from foreign parts, at any rate in value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-28", "file": "debates1932-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b3e4228912021b2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1361.3", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Foreign wheat\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ill; and I again put it that the reason I stress this is because the hon. Member for South Croydon endeavoured to show that trade would expand by adopting these methods. I put it that it is impossible for trade to expand or for unemployment to be ameliorated by reducing the purchasing power of the people, as this Bill proposes to do, and particularly by imposing an additional tax upon wheat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1361.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-28", "file": "debates1932-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b3e4228912021b2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1370.2", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "The world price is the quoted price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1370.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-28", "file": "debates1932-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b3e4228912021b2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1372.0", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "roposal is going to work. The hon. Member for South Croydon assured us that the result would not be to increase the price of wheat in this country by a penny. If that be so, will the hon. Gentleman, or some other hon. Member, explain how the grower in Canada is going to get any advantage from this proposal? How is he going to get any increased price for his commodity when he puts it on the market?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-28", "file": "debates1932-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b3e4228912021b2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1383.1", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "o earn low wages or whose wages have been reduced. Almost concurrently with the passage of this Bill which will enhance the prices of the necessities of life, plans are being put through which will take away from large numbers of people in this country a portion of their already low purchasing power in the form of wages. The unemployed cannot indulge in these days in butter, cheese, milk and eggs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-28", "file": "debates1932-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b3e4228912021b2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1387.2", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST EVANS", "preceding_text": "ave invited this country to take part in negotiations with a view to arriving at agreement on tariffs. It is one of five countries which have done that. Denmark has been the great source from which this country in past years has bought many of the products with which we are concerned, particularly butter. We have not bought those things from Denmark without Denmark in return buying things from us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1387.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-28", "file": "debates1932-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b3e4228912021b2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1393.0", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKIE", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKIE", "preceding_text": "e to control foreign imports. It has been said that even if we had drastic control of foreign imports in this direction it might not be enough to give the home producer the chance he wants in view of the imports that will come in from the British Commonwealth. The Committee will realise, in view of this fact, how strongly I feel with regard to the necessity for decisively rejecting this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-28", "file": "debates1932-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "b3e4228912021b2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1399.4", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CURRY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CURRY", "preceding_text": "ectional effect can only be achieved by alteration of price. Long years ago, when this tariff policy first became a great contraversy, men of my age who were coming into politics listened with great interest and attention to the masters of that time. Mr. Balfour defined protection as manipulation of the fiscal system in order to raise home prices, and that remains a perfect definition to this day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-28a.1399.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-31", "file": "debates1932-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "743b976dd6d492ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-31a.1494.5", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "preceding_text": "might be injured or the country as a whole suffer from some of the proposed duties. The duties cannot be altered. I have a great respect for the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade. Nobody questions his ability and capacity. He is convinced, I am sure of it, and I am sure that he is not going to try—I am certain that he will not succeed—to answer according to his convictions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-31a.1494.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-31", "file": "debates1932-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "743b976dd6d492ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-31a.1497.0", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. WALLACE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. WALLACE", "preceding_text": "I listened with very great attention to the robust eloquence of my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Bethnal Green (Sir P. Harris). He is always prepared to give his services in the interests of the oppressed and downtrodden, and he has not failed in that role this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-31a.1497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-31", "file": "debates1932-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "743b976dd6d492ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-31a.1497.0", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. WALLACE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. WALLACE", "preceding_text": " be the case. But I do not view without concern the suggested effect upon the linseed trade in this country which was outlined in my hon. Friend's speech. That is more or less what is in my own mind, but the trouble is this, that, so far as I understand the Ottawa Agreement, it is signed, sealed and delivered, and we have no chance in this House of making any alteration whatever in that Agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-31a.1497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-31", "file": "debates1932-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "743b976dd6d492ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-31a.1500.1", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MALLALIELU", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALLALIELU", "preceding_text": "r Oil has greatly advanced in price. We, in anticipation of this increased price, purchased before the increase considerable quantities of new season's Cod Liver Oil, which we can offer to our members at the old price. 6.30 p.m. Ordinary business prudence has been exercised by those responsible for that store. I would draw attention to the fact that already the price has very materially increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-31a.1500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-31", "file": "debates1932-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "743b976dd6d492ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-31a.1504.0", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "is really time that that section of the Liberal party which is opposing this Bill should abandon the vote-catching device of trying to terrify electors by saying that the health of their children is going to be imperilled. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Darwen (Sir H. Samuel) started it, but he has had the good grace to drop it since he found out that his information was not too accurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-31a.1504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-31", "file": "debates1932-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "743b976dd6d492ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-31a.1559.0", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "I have rarely heard a more irrelevant speech than the speech just made by the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-31a.1559.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-31", "file": "debates1932-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "743b976dd6d492ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-31a.1562.1", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "art of the fresh arrangement with the Free State, if this Clause is passed, that the full duties are placed upon all Irish goods coming into this country. Surely the right hon. Gentleman is not going to suggest that he is going to start a negotiation with the Free State on the basis that under an Act passed by Parliament he is bound to charge them the full duties as if they were a foreign country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-31a.1562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-31", "file": "debates1932-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "743b976dd6d492ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-31a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "I am coming to the last words. The right hon. Gentleman may say that it is possible by a special Resolution of this House to postpone. But the point that has been put time and time again to the Front Bench opposite is, What happens when Parliament is not sitting?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-31a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-31", "file": "debates1932-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "743b976dd6d492ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-31a.1565.0", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "uld cease on 15th November. That is common agreement. We have tried and are trying at this moment to make a new agreement because we do not desire that this should operate, but the House of Commons will make a profound mistake, as I have already pointed out, if you are going to say in advance, no matter whether Ireland remains adamant or not—because that is the effect of the Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-31a.1565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-31", "file": "debates1932-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "743b976dd6d492ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-31a.1565.0", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "this should operate, but the House of Commons will make a profound mistake, as I have already pointed out, if you are going to say in advance, no matter whether Ireland remains adamant or not—because that is the effect of the Amendment—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] The effect of the Amendment if carried would be that no matter what the circumstances might be, the Ottawa Duties would not apply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-31a.1565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-10-31", "file": "debates1932-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "743b976dd6d492ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-31a.1578.1", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is it the law of the land?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "That is what Mr. Bennett says, and I must trouble the House by reading it again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-10-31a.1578.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-01", "file": "debates1932-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "e96a9f806a4feb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-01a.1605.5", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CRAVEN-ELLIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CRAVEN-ELLIS", "preceding_text": "In that case, may I ask how the £8,000 difference between the profit arising out of British Air Services and the £5,000 arising out of Foreign Air Services is made up? There is a difference of £8,000. The correct profit from Air Services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-01a.1605.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-11-01", "file": "debates1932-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "e96a9f806a4feb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-01a.1607.6", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "You must not read a supplementary question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENVILLE", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that representations were made on behalf of the lady who had to resign because she adopted the Catholic faith; and is he aware that the reply of the secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-01a.1607.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-01", "file": "debates1932-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "e96a9f806a4feb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-01a.1647.3", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "and it is not possible to bring timber at anything like an economic price from British Columbia to compete with Russian timber. Unless it is brought about 4,000 miles overland, it has to go round the Pacific and through the Panama Canal, and we have to pay the price of that, in order to suit Mr. Bennett's purpose and the purpose of the people in whose pocket he is—the Canadian lumber barons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-01a.1647.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-01", "file": "debates1932-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "e96a9f806a4feb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-01a.1648.3", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "Well, the timber trade says it is true, and the hon. Member must have it out with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-01a.1648.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-01", "file": "debates1932-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "e96a9f806a4feb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-01a.1651.2", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "I am prepared to accept the Noble Lady's admission that prison labour is not sweated labour, and that people outside prison have to sweat more than those who are in prison. But we are getting rather tired—I think the whole House is—of these diatribes about the awful labour conditions in Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-01a.1651.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-01", "file": "debates1932-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "e96a9f806a4feb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-01a.1654.2", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": " House of Commons to get into. If you study the history of the economic relations between the Soviet and European countries in the last three or four years, you will see how Governments with a much smaller consumer interest than Great Britain have failed to discriminate in this way. This discrimination was obtained as a result of pressure from Canada, and it is to be extended to all the Dominions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-01a.1654.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-01", "file": "debates1932-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "e96a9f806a4feb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-01a.1678.1", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "triction Scheme? The test is this. Is the particular kind of State action calculated to frustrate the Agreement? It is the only question which we have to answer before putting this Clause into operation, and it is a question which we shall be able to answer if and when the time comes. The House will then, of course, either approve our action or disapprove it. That, I think, disposes of that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-01a.1678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-01", "file": "debates1932-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "e96a9f806a4feb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-01a.1682.4", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. WOOD", "preceding_text": "e. So confident were they that they would bring off another deal, that they had actually started to cure the herrings, and the fishermen had delivered herrings at a cheap price to the fishcurers for this special purpose of being sent to Russia. The herrings are lying there now, and no one knows what to do with them. Yet I am told there was never any question of Russia taking these herrings at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-01a.1682.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-01", "file": "debates1932-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "e96a9f806a4feb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-01a.1702.0", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "n provided for larger im- ports than are contemplated in what is called the agreed programme, because the figures in the agreed programme are called the maximum figures, as I pointed out the other day. Therefore, under the agreed programme, there would not be any breach of the Agreement were the Government to introduce further legislation with a view to a still further limitation of these imports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-01a.1702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-01", "file": "debates1932-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "e96a9f806a4feb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-01a.1739.2", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "e shall find out whether the experiment has succeeded or not. I ask my right hon. Friend to deal with the present situation—and I am very glad to see, throughout this Debate, how deep an interest the Committee are taking in this subject, because there has never been a subject in my recollection as a Member of Parliament which has so agitated the minds of the rural community as this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-01a.1739.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-01", "file": "debates1932-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "e96a9f806a4feb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-01a.1739.2", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "e full-throated Tory cheers will, I hope, enable my right hon. Friend to realise that that is so. We are really not politicians in this matter at all. I speak for many Members of Parliament when I say that I do not care whether any line that we take on this matter helps or harms the National Government. The interest of agriculture is far more important than the interest of the National Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-01a.1739.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-01", "file": "debates1932-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "e96a9f806a4feb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-01a.1749.1", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Turn them out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ot ruled out other action. But this Session of Parliament will come to an end in less than three weeks as far as we know and a new Session will begin, with its week or 10 days of general preliminaries and, from what I know of the agricultural situation, unless some action is taken before Christmas there may be a. first-class disaster in the rural districts. We do not want to hamper the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-01a.1749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-02", "file": "debates1932-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6eeea5b7e7ab282a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1771.4", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister not aware that the great diminution in goods traffic is due to the Government's tariff policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1771.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-02", "file": "debates1932-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6eeea5b7e7ab282a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1818.0", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel SANDEMAN ALLEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel SANDEMAN ALLEN", "preceding_text": "e whole trouble is that the hon. Member looks at this matter from quite a different point of view from that taken by the Government. He talked about the difficulties of the consumer and the difficulties in trade. There may be difficulties in trade but the hon. Member always puts the consumer first, and I submit that that is putting it the wrong way round. Man is a producer before he is a consumer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-02", "file": "debates1932-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6eeea5b7e7ab282a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1822.3", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "But despite his iniquities he was forgiven by the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1822.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-02", "file": "debates1932-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6eeea5b7e7ab282a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1822.3", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"] I do not know why the hon. Member for Wrexham cannot indulge in his own interruptions upon this point. I think he is capable of doing so without praying the assistance of the hon. Member for South Shields (Mr. Harcourt Johnstone). This discussion has proceeded on the assumption that these Orders are to impose taxes, but the Treasury Orders in question are Orders removing taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1822.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-02", "file": "debates1932-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6eeea5b7e7ab282a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1832.0", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": " a whole, within 28 Parliamentary days. My 'hon. Friend dislikes all these provisions, and accordingly we place two checks upon their coming into operation. The House of Commons may reject them, and the House of Lords may reject them, because we are dealing here with matters not directly concerned with taxation. That is what we propose. My hon. Friend wants to leave this Subsection out altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1832.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-02", "file": "debates1932-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6eeea5b7e7ab282a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1832.0", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": " upon their coming into operation. The House of Commons may reject them, and the House of Lords may reject them, because we are dealing here with matters not directly concerned with taxation. That is what we propose. My hon. Friend wants to leave this Subsection out altogether. [ Interruption .] I am taking his argument in two parts. First of all, he wants to leave out this Sub-section altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1832.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-02", "file": "debates1932-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6eeea5b7e7ab282a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1839.0", "colnum": "1839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "ry did not reply to this—that if a new Government is elected, both Houses of Parliament will have to cancel the Orders that the new House may think it wise to cancel. That is the danger of it. It is the danger in regard to the other House. A Constitutional question is raised. My hon. Friends on the Front Opposition Bench have made it perfectly clear that when they get into power again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1839.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-02", "file": "debates1932-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6eeea5b7e7ab282a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1839.0", "colnum": "1839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER \"Sheffield\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "of Parliament will have to cancel the Orders that the new House may think it wise to cancel. That is the danger of it. It is the danger in regard to the other House. A Constitutional question is raised. My hon. Friends on the Front Opposition Bench have made it perfectly clear that when they get into power again—[HON. MEMBERS: \"When\"!]—Well, read the results of the municipal elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1839.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-11-02", "file": "debates1932-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6eeea5b7e7ab282a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1866.1", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLACE", "preceding_text": "I must point out to the hon. Gentleman that he is misrepresenting me, no doubt unintentionally, and I would be sorry if he thought I was talking about a question of honour. My reference to sacrifices was to the trades which had to make sacrifices now owing to the passing of this Bill. Any sacrifice of my own party was not even mentioned or hinted at.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1866.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-11-02", "file": "debates1932-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6eeea5b7e7ab282a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1870.2", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "atement, is a fair answer. The obligation is transferred now to the industry. There is something in the Parliamentary Secretary's point that the industry may be longer in preparing a case than the Advisory Committee would be in deciding it. I hope that the industries concerned will take advantage of the very fair offer made, and in the circumstances I ask leave to withdraw the proposed new Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-02", "file": "debates1932-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6eeea5b7e7ab282a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1884.2", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "preceding_text": "When the hon. Member for Attercliffe (Mr. Pike) referred to the suggestion of an hon. Member on this side that these Agreements are a surrender, he alluded to an incident at the Leicester Conference of the Labour party. I would remind him that the executive at Leicester at least surrendered to their own countrymen, and not to foreigners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1884.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-02", "file": "debates1932-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6eeea5b7e7ab282a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1889.7", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "I have been here long enough to know that a question can be asked——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1889.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-02", "file": "debates1932-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6eeea5b7e7ab282a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1895.0", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": " country was first led to believe, and different, I believe, from what the Dominions were led to believe at Ottawa. I hope that all those concerned, particularly overseas, will take due note of it, and will express no surprise at the action which may be taken at the earliest opportunity by the Liberal party or the Labour party, if they happen to come into office, or if they are in office together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-02", "file": "debates1932-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6eeea5b7e7ab282a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1907.0", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or Vancouver!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "g and Chicago and Liverpool, the grain is moved. If the new Clause is not passed one of two things will happen. Either the wheat will have to be rushed into Great Britain before the end of October, that is before the Great Lakes are frozen over and before the River St. Lawrence is congested with ice, or it will have to bear the increased railway rates necessary to take it by Hudson Bay or Halifax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1907.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-11-02", "file": "debates1932-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6eeea5b7e7ab282a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1919.0", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": "had a duty of 21.5 per cent. two years ago which was increased to 49 per cent. and the duty still remains at the same level. Cotton and art silk piece fabrics before 1930 had an ad valorem duty of 25 per cent, which was put up two years ago to no less than 73 per cent. and remains at 70 per cent. Wool blankets were 21 per cent. two years ago and were put up to 92 per cent. and are now 66 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1915.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-02", "file": "debates1932-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6eeea5b7e7ab282a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1925.1", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "manufacture it in South Wales ourselves. That is the arrangement so far as Belgian and French steel is concerned. The tariff was imposed in order that the members of my trade in South Wales should be set to work, that the furnaces should be started and the mills set going; but under this Agreement we are allowing Indian pig iron and Indian steel bars to be imported into South Wales free of charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-02", "file": "debates1932-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6eeea5b7e7ab282a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1925.1", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "ng an agreement to benefit men working under the conditions stated by the hon. Member for West Swansea, the Government are going to ratify an agreement that was entered into to allow people who have the lowest wages, the longest hours and the worst conditions in the world, to send iron and steel into this country. Why is the hon. Member for West Swansea not here protesting against it? Where is he?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-02", "file": "debates1932-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6eeea5b7e7ab282a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1929.0", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PICKERING", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PICKERING", "preceding_text": "industry in this country is as high as, or higher than that in any part of the Empire. In spite of that fact, owing to our efficiency, and to the fact that our industry has grown up under Free Trade, we are able to send our goods into Australia provided there is no higher duty than 50 per cent. against us. We hoped, when we heard what we were giving to Australia, that some reduction would be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1929.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-02", "file": "debates1932-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6eeea5b7e7ab282a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1929.0", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PICKERING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What was the reply?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PICKERING", "preceding_text": " time— your replies to which, coupled with the provisions of the preliminary Agreements reached at Ottawa, justified the assumption that evidence of your desire to implement the undertaking to allow British goods to enter Canadian market on competitive basis might be forthcoming in the shape of the total abolition of such duty. They are only asking that the specific duty should be abolished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1929.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-02", "file": "debates1932-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6eeea5b7e7ab282a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1932.2", "colnum": "1932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": ", and a premium has been asked on Dominion lead varying from half the duty up to 15s. and between 15s. and 7s. 6d. per ton, a very heavy charge. It is significant that this rate, which has been round about 7s. 6d. for the last few weeks, to-day for the first time has gone down to 2s. 6d., and it is perfectly clear that it has been put down in view of the Debate taking place in this House to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1932.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-02", "file": "debates1932-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6eeea5b7e7ab282a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1937.5", "colnum": "1937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JANNER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JANNER", "preceding_text": "ome immediately to the apple of discontent as far as we are concerned and deal with the question of apples under this Schedule. The statements of those who have attempted to reply to the arguments advanced earlier on this point, indicate that there is no possibility of gain coining to anyone in this country or the Dominions in respect of certain periods during which these duties are to be imposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1937.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-02", "file": "debates1932-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6eeea5b7e7ab282a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1937.5", "colnum": "1937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JANNER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JANNER", "preceding_text": "ngthen and remain strong until the arrival of the Australian, New Zealand and South African crop. I was under the impression that the Government were not prepared to rectify mistakes. This, which is a definite statement from an authentic quarter, indicates that we shall shortly be faced with a position where we shall not be able to obtain anything in the nature of the necessary supplies of apples.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-02a.1937.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-11-03", "file": "debates1932-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e873df4e19e80f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-03a.1981.0", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY,", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Circulate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "If the hon. and gallant Member desires that information, I must ask permission to read the whole statement, because it is a balanced one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-03a.1980.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-03", "file": "debates1932-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e873df4e19e80f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-03a.1991.3", "colnum": "1991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Hore-Belisha)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Hore-Belisha)", "preceding_text": "t we may make a success of some other conference.\" We could have taken that course and intensified thereby the tendencies which were drawing us apart and which have been dwelt upon in this Debate. Canada, India, South Africa—I will not refer to them again. But it will be appreciated by anyone who thinks that the failure of this Conference would have meant the end of the British Empire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-03a.1991.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-03", "file": "debates1932-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e873df4e19e80f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-03a.2031.1", "colnum": "2031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": " on these benches who, after all, form by far the greatest number of the Members of this House, care very little and did not think that it mattered much whether those right hon. Gentlemen went into the Cabinet or not. We did not think that the Cabinet was any more national with them, and we do not think that it is any less national without them. The Government to-day is as national as it ever was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-03a.2031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-03", "file": "debates1932-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e873df4e19e80f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-03a.2031.1", "colnum": "2031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "ink that it mattered much whether those right hon. Gentlemen went into the Cabinet or not. We did not think that the Cabinet was any more national with them, and we do not think that it is any less national without them. The Government to-day is as national as it ever was. [ Interruption. ] Am I not right? It contains all the best of the Labour party. It contains all the best of the Liberal party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-03a.2031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-03", "file": "debates1932-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e873df4e19e80f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-03a.2031.1", "colnum": "2031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose game?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "y is as national as it ever was. [ Interruption. ] Am I not right? It contains all the best of the Labour party. It contains all the best of the Liberal party. [ Interruption. ] It contains some of the best of the Tory party. All we asked of them—and, after all, our acquiescence was necessary if the Government were to carry on—was that they should play the game. In that they failed us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-03a.2031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-03", "file": "debates1932-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e873df4e19e80f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-03a.2031.1", "colnum": "2031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "have reduced the price, and the reason is because we have been able to extend our capacity of production with the more or less confident assurance that the British market is available to us with the Empire market to follow. In practice the right hon. Gentleman will find time after time that instead of a duty being the cause of raising the price of a commodity it is the cause of it being decreased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-03a.2031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-03", "file": "debates1932-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e873df4e19e80f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-03a.2042.1", "colnum": "2042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "untry, and in all industrial countries of the world, which have not the remotest relation to Free Trade or tariffs; and that is the reason why we are constantly saying that neither of these two policies by themselves are going to solve our problems. When the right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer was Minister of Health he made a most remarkable statement; and it was a true statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-03a.2042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-03", "file": "debates1932-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e873df4e19e80f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-03a.2092.1", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Cromwell.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKIE", "preceding_text": "emand new measures. I have no patience with all this talk about precedents. Our forefathers did not go looking for precedents. They did not dig into the musty records of the past when they were faced with a situation which required action. I ask the hon. Member for Bodmin, did the Elizabethan founders of the British Empire, did Raleigh and Drake and all the rest of them, go looking for precedents?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-03a.2092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-03", "file": "debates1932-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e873df4e19e80f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-03a.2098.1", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman used the phrase in general terms and said that it was in accordance with our general policy to placate our enemies and neglect our friends. I would like to remind him that some of these enemies give us fiscally far better terms than some of the friends to whom reference has been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-03a.2098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-03", "file": "debates1932-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e873df4e19e80f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-03a.2099.1", "colnum": "2099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "he other parts of His Majesty's Dominions, happily do not depend upon these financial arrangements, as was shown when their men came to the help of this country when she was in distress. They came readily, and they did not before they came consult all the schedules of international and inter-Imperial agreements. The words which I will read to the House are the words Burke used on a great occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-03a.2099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-03", "file": "debates1932-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e873df4e19e80f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-03a.2120.0", "colnum": "2120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thank God!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ments resigned from the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-03a.2120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-04", "file": "debates1932-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0c173ac32a766e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-04a.2179.0", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman was ready to kiss the soil, is because he knows that this is a country where liberty and freedom go further than in any other country in the world, where wealth has contributed a greater share than in any other land for the uplifting of the under-dog, a country where our general effort towards alleviation and social service is certainly incomparable anywhere on the face of the earth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-04a.2179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-04", "file": "debates1932-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0c173ac32a766e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-04a.2179.0", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "of time before we set industry on its feet and get back to the employment of our people. I suggest that what we need, and perhaps what we might give to the world in a certain measure, as I think we have done already, is something in the nature of a moral tonic, instead of yielding to clamour and extremists anywhere, whether in India or in Trafalgar Square. Let us go steadily forward with our task.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-04a.2179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-04", "file": "debates1932-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0c173ac32a766e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-04a.2181.1", "colnum": "2181", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": " to get some sort of a slogan. I hope that my right hon. Friend the leader of the Conservative party, with the Prime Minister and leaders of all parties, it may be, will make a great appeal to the nation wherever possible to spend their spare cash now, in order to start the circulation of wealth once more. I am not urging that anyone should spend money which they do not possess. We have seen that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-04a.2181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-04", "file": "debates1932-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0c173ac32a766e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-04a.2181.1", "colnum": "2181", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"New drinks\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "at has existed all through the country, there is a certain amount of money which might most patriotically and wisely be expended at the present time. Therefore, I suggest that you should throw out the idea that everyone, in addition to their normal expenditure, should take, say, one-fiftieth of their income, a week's income, and spend it at once, in addition, on new clothes, new boots, food—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-04a.2181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-04", "file": "debates1932-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0c173ac32a766e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-04a.2181.1", "colnum": "2181", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "at themselves on the back that under their constructive policy we have got back to the position of the first exporting nation of the world. It is something to encourage us, at least, that we are doing our best as a nation, although it may not be good enough. Certainly it is not good enough, as our exports are still going down, but we certainly have fared better than any other country in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-04a.2181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-07", "file": "debates1932-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "77a4f9fbe9999681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-07a.39.3", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "past experience. I believe there is no body of men who entered with more energy of mind and more determination than did my late colleagues to use this to its very utmost extent. In any event no Government of this country provided for more schemes of work of that kind and put behind the schemes more public assistance, both Exchequer and local, than did the Labour Government. They worked hard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-07a.39.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-07", "file": "debates1932-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "77a4f9fbe9999681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-07a.39.3", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"5,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "l never be absorbed in the ordinary large industrial operations of the country. We have to consider, moreover, that when my hon. Friends opposite and I started last time to undertake this expenditure in order to relieve labour it was roughly assumed, and it was a very good and proved assumption, that for every £1,000,000 spent we directly and indirectly put into work something like 4,000 men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-07a.39.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-07", "file": "debates1932-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "77a4f9fbe9999681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-07a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "han as ends in themselves. I am sure, however, that if once we can persuade the whole population that that is being done, the case of agriculture and the settlement of the agricultural problem will be comparatively easy. If I dealt with this question further now, I could not go so far as my right hon. and gallant Friend will be able to go later this evening. This is going to be a very hard winter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-07a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-07", "file": "debates1932-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "77a4f9fbe9999681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-07a.63.0", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": ". You claim that in future a decent price will be guaranteed. For the moment I am not going to consider at whose expense, because that is controversial. You claim by your legislation, the legislation you have carried, or the legislation you are about to carry, that you have guaranteed a decent price to the cultivator of the soil. If you have, get on with the next step. Do not leave it where it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-07a.63.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-07", "file": "debates1932-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "77a4f9fbe9999681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-07a.63.0", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "anybody taken the trouble to take pencil and paper and work out what unemployment has cost and is going to cost? Since October of last year unemployment, between the allowances under the Unemployment Insurance Act and outdoor relief, which is always ignored—outdoor relief has gone up 200,000 or 300,000 since the changes in unemployment insurance—has cost this country £120,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-07a.63.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-07", "file": "debates1932-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "77a4f9fbe9999681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-07a.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He opposed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "nd money on insuring our people in time of stress against starvation. But again I have to say to the Government—they must please realise this—that they have injured the farmer in many respects, especially the stock raiser. They have taxed his feeding stuffs. The right hon. Member for Darwen (Sir H. Samuel) was in the Government at the time, and I do not know whether he approved or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-07a.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-07", "file": "debates1932-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "77a4f9fbe9999681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-07a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORFOLK CRASH FEARED.", "cue_speaker": "Major the Marquess of TITCHFIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major the Marquess of TITCHFIELD", "preceding_text": "ister of Agriculture to continue his work on those lines. I think we are all delighted with the Government's wheat policy, and, as far as I can see, the report of the Lane-Fox Committee on the pig industry is an exceedingly useful one. I hope that when the next election comes along the farmers of this country will be able to say to my right hon. Friend: \"Well done, thou good and faithful servant.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-07a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-07", "file": "debates1932-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "77a4f9fbe9999681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-07a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORFOLK CRASH FEARED.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Major Elliot)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Major Elliot)", "preceding_text": "Yes, but I was a little sorry that he did not review the position of his own country, Wales. What is the position there, a sheep-rearing country, a stock-rearing country? The county of Carnarvon does many great things, so does Anglesey and Pembrokeshire, they are all notable and famous places. In Anglesey there are 158,000 sheep, in Pembrokeshire 166,000 sheep, and in Carnarvonshire 315,000 sheep.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-07a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.214.0", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "he Member for Hillhead that we shall never return to it, even in conjunction with silver. Leave silver and gold alone. What we want is stability of prices and not a metallic basis for prices. I do not think that we shall ever re-return to either gold or silver, but if it is a question of returning to something solid in the Bank of England on which to build our credit, let us choose Wedgwood china.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "kbrook (Mr. Amery). Indeed, all the statesmen who have been thinking about this matter are in agreement with the economists on this point, and, best of all, the \"Times\" newspaper on Friday published a special article on its \"splash\" front page—an admirable article. I wonder how many of those hon. Members opposite who are supposed to be guiding this country to-day have even read that article.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "fect in employing people who would otherwise be idle, and in doing good work. I want, therefore, to clear away altogether the idea that it is good for private people to spend money and is bad for the public to do so. What happens is this: Supposing that I absolutely run out of clothes and order some new ones, I employ labour. It is quite possible for all of us here to order some new clothes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "h the hon. and learned Gentleman who talks as though the population in the towns were going to bear the whole burden of the assistance given to agriculture. The prices of meat, which are now the great problem of agriculture, have tumbled down in the last two or three months. But what prices are they? They are the wholesale prices. Have the retail prices tumbled down in the last two or three months", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Quite true. I do not gather that we have reached the stage in political history or constitutional government where we are to assume that the representatives of one Government can be repudiated by another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "we have reached the stage in political history or constitutional government where we are to assume that the representatives of one Government can be repudiated by another. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] That may be a doctrine that will be practised by my hon. Friends if ever they get the opportunity, but it is equally certain that the wish will be father to the thought, and they will never get that chance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "the steps that are open to us to obtain what we believe is due to us.\" We were then faced with dm question of the ways and means of doing it, and we came, very reluctantly, I repeat, to the conclusion that the only means open to us was to impose a tax upon certain imports coming into this country. When I introduced the Bill to the House, I explained that it was not intended as a vindictive policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.268.7", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You did not question that at the time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "he Irish Free State Government have by retaliatory duties not only inflicted hardship and inconvenience but, I frankly admit, caused unemployment in this country, and it would be not only idle for me to deny it but it would be unfair. In coal and in other commodities the retaliation of the Irish Free State has unquestionably adversely affected our people. That is a fair statement of the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.268.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": ".\" It would be a surprise to me if you could find any indication in my speeches that from the moment I dealt with this question I was not alive not only to the possibility but to the certainty that our trade would be affected. The problem that faces the House is this. If they believe, as the Government believe, and as the great overwhelming mass of the people in the Irish Free State believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " mass of the people in the Irish Free State believe—[ Interruption. ] You may doubt it, but you cannot ignore the Debates in the Dail. You may doubt it, but you cannot change the representations made in the Free State Parliament by those who are as representative of Irish opinion as you are. It is idle to pretend that members of the Dail are not as representative of Irish opinion as you are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.271.2", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "I have listened with very great care to the right hon. Gentleman's speech and I make haste to tell him here and now that I listened to him with growing apprehension. I think when he comes to reflect upon it, especially certain passages of it, and reads it to-morrow, having regard to his great responsibility, he will regret having used some of the expressions that he did use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.274.1", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "I will take my stand upon the first paragraph of Mr. de Valera's recent document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I do not want there to be any misunderstanding. Do I gather now that, speaking quite officially as he has done, the hon. Member now throws over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.280.8", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Major HILLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HILLS", "preceding_text": " becoming graver, that it had been mishandled, that it could not go on, and that his policy was leading nowhere. Does he not realise that we who speak, I think impartially, but also for the British taxpayer, appreciate that my right hon. Friend went to the very limit of concessions. First of all he offered arbitration and he offered the apt tribunal for inter-Imperial disputes, an Empire tribunal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.280.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I want to make it quite clear to the House and to the country that this is not a punitive measure on my part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "I was very interested in the ease that the right hon. Gentleman made to-night. He comes down to ask this House to consent to the doubling of the duties which he assured us some months ago would be sufficient to collect this debt from Ireland. He now comes and tells us that that policy has been a complete failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.289.5", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "e taxes were to be limited to the question of the land annuities or if they were to include the other things concerned; and he said that they were to include them all, and that the total amount was £5,000,000. Now he comes here and tells us that the rate of tax which, according to the best advice of his experts four or five months ago, would raise £5,000,000, is now proving—℔", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.289.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "eman at the christening of his two grandsons, James Henry and Henry James; those pictures delighted all our hearts and made it impossible for us to believe that this beautiful picture of domestic bliss could really occur in the home of the harsh Irish tyrant. In that paper we read about Mr. Cosgrave endeavouring to address a meeting in some part of Ireland and having to escape through a back door.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.294.0", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Major PROCTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major PROCTER", "preceding_text": " to the agitators over there and to these hot-headed people in Ireland, is what the devil is supposed to have said to a very well known agitator: \"Here, take this shovel and lump of coal, and go and make a hell of your own.\" In Australia, in Canada and on the Clydeside there are Irish centres of sedition which are the ulcer, the cancer, in the Empire, arid the sooner we get rid of them the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.298.2", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HEALY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HEALY", "preceding_text": "Mr. Cosgrave could not have gone to an election on a document which none of the Opposition had ever seen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.298.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROSS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROSS", "preceding_text": "sented by a nominated member who was not a representative of the Northern Ireland Government. Because that Commission, after due and careful and impartial consideration, decided against the case of Southern Ireland and proposed a just boundary for Northern Ireland, which Northern Ireland had never had, it has always been denounced by the hon. Member and people of his way of thinking as an outrage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By agreement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " State had ever agreed that in the case of a dispute between themselves and other Dominions it should go to an Empire tribunal, himself answered me, \"No, that was not so.\" I put it to him that if there was a dispute between the Irish Free State and South Africa, could anyone prevent those two States taking this to a court outside the British Empire? The right hon. Gentleman said that nobody could.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "e the right hon. Gentleman will challenge that. He stands there and says what I know, as a Member of the Cabinet, I agreed to. I agreed that, so far as the British Government were concerned, we wanted a tribunal within the British Empire, but the Irish Free State has never agreed to that, and the right hon. Gentleman knows it, and we cannot impose it upon the Irish Free State. That being so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By agreement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " the Irish Free State has ever agreed to an Empire tribunal on this matter. If the right hon. Gentleman challenges that, I will undertake tomorrow, if Mr. Speaker will allow me, to read out his categorical answer to my categorical question to him. First, is it a fact that Ireland and South Africa can take a dispute to an outside tribunal? Does the right hon. Gentleman say that that cannot be done?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do not agree.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "morrow, if Mr. Speaker will allow me, to read out his categorical answer to my categorical question to him. First, is it a fact that Ireland and South Africa can take a dispute to an outside tribunal? Does the right hon. Gentleman say that that cannot be done? [HON. MEMBERS: \"By agreement.\"] If that is true, then it is true that this country, by agreement, can do the same thing with Mr. de Valera.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-08", "file": "debates1932-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "9c814e17039d657a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (SPECIAL DUTIES) ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE-BRABAZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE-BRABAZON", "preceding_text": "p what to the ordinary English mind is a perfectly fantastic claim, but which to the Irishman is a very real one. When we were negotiating with France about debts, did anyone, in order to get a cheap laugh, bring up the question of France asking us to pay rent for our own trenches? Nobody did. But the right hon. Gentleman will employ anything that is meant to disparage and make fools of the Irish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-08a.314.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-09", "file": "debates1932-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9ea5e1cd1138b841", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "I do not desire to raise the whole matter of family income, but do we now understand that as the applicant is allowed to have £49 19s. 11d., a member of the family to which the applicant belongs must be completely impoverished?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-09", "file": "debates1932-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9ea5e1cd1138b841", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I estimate it in the case of the man with £300 of savings, regarded £23 8s. as income, so that the Government are not doing as well as the Royal Commission's report. The Royal Commission assumed only a mere 7⅘ per cent. return on the capital of these industrial capitalists with £300, while the right hon. Gentleman assumes 9½ per cent. What justification is there for that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-09", "file": "debates1932-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9ea5e1cd1138b841", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.366.0", "colnum": "366", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "It is not true. You drove them on to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-09", "file": "debates1932-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9ea5e1cd1138b841", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.366.8", "colnum": "366", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "They are being sent there to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.366.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-09", "file": "debates1932-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9ea5e1cd1138b841", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.368.3", "colnum": "368", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PIKE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PIKE", "preceding_text": "It would be a change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.368.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-09", "file": "debates1932-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9ea5e1cd1138b841", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.377.0", "colnum": "377", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain FRASER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are compelled.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FRASER", "preceding_text": "figure of 15s., and by a minimum figure I mean that at any rate up to 15s. of a man's disability pension should be left out of account, or 50 per cent., whichever is the greater. The Minister I thought pleaded a little speciously when he said that a public assistance committee might make my minimum a maximum. They might also make the Minister's percentage a maximum. I hope they will not do either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.377.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-09", "file": "debates1932-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9ea5e1cd1138b841", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.391.3", "colnum": "391", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "n Health Insurance. That law may be good or bad but until it is changed it ought to be operated. I interviewed the Director of Public Assistance in Glasgow and asked him if he was aware that he was defying the law in this respect and he said that he was aware of it and that he would continue to defy the law and what was more that he would make Parliament bring its law into conformity with his law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.391.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-09", "file": "debates1932-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9ea5e1cd1138b841", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": " has not succeeded in discerning many difficulties in the actual Resolution before us. That, surely, has been the general course of to-day's Debate. We have heard much argument and even declamation. We have heard a demand that the Resolution should go further, but I do not think we have heard anything in the way of destructive criticism of the actual proposals themselves. That is very encouraging.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-09", "file": "debates1932-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9ea5e1cd1138b841", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "s, the North, the South, the East or the West. The authorities are complaining that people are being thrown upon the Poor Law. The other day the Minister of Labour said that there were about 170,000 who had ceased to register, and the fact that they did not register was a proof that they were not seeking work. The fact is that there are about 200,000 more on the Poor Law than there were last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-09", "file": "debates1932-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9ea5e1cd1138b841", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.462.0", "colnum": "462", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Minority Report.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "been impossible in the Parliamentary time available to have got it through the Committee. We decided, therefore, not to include this particular subject. I realise as well as every hon. Member who is in touch with this subject that there are still considerable discrepancies in practice. I hope that local authorities will read the recommendations of the Majority Report of the Royal Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-09", "file": "debates1932-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9ea5e1cd1138b841", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "authorities who are at present committing grave illegalities are brought to heel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-09", "file": "debates1932-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9ea5e1cd1138b841", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "authorities who are at present committing grave illegalities are brought to heel. [ Interruption. ] It only remains for me to remind the Committee that this is a purely temporary Measure which does not set out to do more than deal with three particular classes. The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition said that he was going to help this Bill. We are now told that he is against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-09", "file": "debates1932-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9ea5e1cd1138b841", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Opposition said that he was going to help this Bill. We are now told that he is against it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I ask the Committee to realise what the action of the Opposition in voting against this Bill will mean. For the first time in the history of this country, statutory protection is being given to 50 per cent. of the ex-service man's pension. The Opposition are going to vote against that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-09", "file": "debates1932-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9ea5e1cd1138b841", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " to realise what the action of the Opposition in voting against this Bill will mean. For the first time in the history of this country, statutory protection is being given to 50 per cent. of the ex-service man's pension. The Opposition are going to vote against that. [ Interruption. ] There will be protection for 50 per cent. of workmen's compensation, a thing that not even the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-09a.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-10", "file": "debates1932-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf01a23cbfff16b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-10a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not read it\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "onomic Conference that the British Government should give clear and unequivocal support to an immediate, universal, and substantial reduction of armaments on the basis of equality of status for all nations, and should maintain the principles of the covenant of the League of Nations by supporting the findings of the Lytton Commission on the Sino-Japanese dispute. I think the House will agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-10a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-10", "file": "debates1932-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf01a23cbfff16b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-10a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "les of the covenant of the League of Nations by supporting the findings of the Lytton Commission on the Sino-Japanese dispute. I think the House will agree—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not read it\"]—that I have very fresh in my memory the wishes of the House both as regards the length and time of speeches and the Rule against the reading of speeches. I believe I am not generally very long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-10a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-10", "file": "debates1932-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf01a23cbfff16b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-10a.534.0", "colnum": "534", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir John Simon)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir John Simon)", "preceding_text": "he greater part of the report was drafted by him from a hospital bed in Peking in the month of August, that is to say, a time of year when the ordinary resident of Peking, if he can afford to do so, flies off to the hills or the sea. I feel that the whole House would wish to let Lord Lytton realise how gratefully we regard, not only his tact and his leadership, but his courage and his persistence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-10a.534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-10", "file": "debates1932-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf01a23cbfff16b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-10a.623.0", "colnum": "623", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman also said that Great Britain always honoured her signature. I will put a point to the House and the House can decide in its own mind. Nine Powers signed the Washington Pact guaranteeing the integrity of the Chinese Republic. That Pact was broken and so far nothing has been done. The Japanese invaded Shanghai and bombarded defenceless villages, and nothing but wordy protests were made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-10a.623.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-10", "file": "debates1932-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf01a23cbfff16b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-10a.623.0", "colnum": "623", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "we as a nation admit the right of the Germans to ask us to carry out our pledged word in the Treaty of Versailles. There, again, is a question for the nations of the world. They pledged themselves when they signed that Peace Treaty by saying to the German people: \"We have imposed upon you disarmament of the most crushing character.\" Rather, I should say, disarmament of a most beneficent character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-10a.623.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-10", "file": "debates1932-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf01a23cbfff16b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-10a.623.0", "colnum": "623", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "posed this upon us. You gave us an honourable pledge, or what we thought was an honourable pledge, that you would disarm in the same manner as you disarmed us.\" We have done nothing. When I say, \"We,\" I mean the Great Powers. The Great Powers, ourselves included, have not honoured the letter or the spirit of our pledge. Is anyone going to say that Great Britain has disarmed in relation to Germany?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-10a.623.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-10", "file": "debates1932-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf01a23cbfff16b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-10a.623.0", "colnum": "623", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "f the Disarmament Conference, and we have failed to discover what real contribution the right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues have made to the discussion of this problem. It is no use our blinking the feet that most of the other Governments, of the big Powers, with the exception of Japan, have tabled propositions a one sort or another. The Russians tabled a proposition for universal disarmament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-10a.623.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-10", "file": "debates1932-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf01a23cbfff16b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-10a.623.0", "colnum": "623", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "know they do not mean. Let us take them at their word and test them on the matter.\" It is not a question of whether they mean it or not. It is a question of what you mean. It is very easy to sit in judgment on somebody else. Hon. Members have made speeches tonight about peace and disarmament. Do they mean disarmament some day, some time? Do they mean total (disarmament? If they do, why not to-day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-10a.623.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-11", "file": "debates1932-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d6d2dfb92308977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-11a.662.3", "colnum": "662", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Coal, if you like. The price of coal represents, I think, somewhere round about 17 to 20 per cent. over pre-War prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-11a.662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-11", "file": "debates1932-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d6d2dfb92308977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-11a.663.4", "colnum": "663", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " those 128 bunches to the retailer's shop and, three hours from the time that his flowers were sold for 2s. 4d., he saw them in the shop at 5d. per bunch or £2 13s. 4d. for the lot. The producer got 2d. and the retailer received £2 13s. 4d. If we make adequate allowance for meeting all the charges of the shop, I think there is not an hon. Member but would say that it is an outrage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-11a.663.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-11", "file": "debates1932-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d6d2dfb92308977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-11a.695.2", "colnum": "695", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "preceding_text": "ith which screws are used. The value of the imports affected it is difficult to estimate, but the total value of imports of nails, tacks, rivets, washers and screws for 1931 was something like £230,000. It may be said that they are going to protect the home user, but will they? Every additional duty placed upon any commodity coming into the country means that the user is going to have to pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-11a.695.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-11", "file": "debates1932-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d6d2dfb92308977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-11a.695.2", "colnum": "695", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Screws.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "preceding_text": "d screws for 1931 was something like £230,000. It may be said that they are going to protect the home user, but will they? Every additional duty placed upon any commodity coming into the country means that the user is going to have to pay. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Of course, that is a. matter of opinion. You cannot tell me anything than has been reduced owing to the imposition of an import duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-11a.695.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-11", "file": "debates1932-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d6d2dfb92308977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-11a.702.3", "colnum": "702", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "preceding_text": " the Committee and that duties do tend to an increase in price. In this case they will react on the Lancashire yarn industry. I desire to emphasise this Free Trade point of view. If by a Duty you prevent the purchase of Lancashire yarn the same thing applies if you put a Duty on anything else. We do not send goods out of the country for nothing. The more goods we import the more goods we send out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-11a.702.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-11", "file": "debates1932-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d6d2dfb92308977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-11a.702.3", "colnum": "702", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "preceding_text": "or nothing. The more goods we import the more goods we send out. [ Interruption. ] In that case, why not arm this Committee with the right to prevent all goods coming into this country? If hon. Members are correct it would be a good thing to prevent all goods coining into this country and let us live on each other. And what about the consumer? He gets the advantage of cheap goods under Free Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-11a.702.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-11", "file": "debates1932-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d6d2dfb92308977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-11a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Trade unions!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "titors abroad. Such conditions, however, are not imposed; the matter is left to the exercise of voluntary judgment on the part of steelmasters who are competitive and not co-operative, and who, therefore, cannot possibly do it. Our view is that, if the iron and steel trade is to be reorganised, it can only be done by the imposition of some overriding authority upon the iron and steel trade itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-11a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-14", "file": "debates1932-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "e418e93f2b7d683c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-14a.754.0", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT (CORPS OF CUSTODIANS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Surely the House of Commons, in the last resort, is responsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-14a.754.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-11-14", "file": "debates1932-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "e418e93f2b7d683c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-14a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED STATES (BRITISH DEBT).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "It was published last Friday.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Financial Secretary whether he will be good enough to read the article in connection with this matter which appears in the \"Economist\" of to-day, and whether he can see his way to have it reproduced for circulation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-14a.759.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-14", "file": "debates1932-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "e418e93f2b7d683c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-14a.776.0", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": " savings, we have said that up to the first £50 they shall be disregarded, and it shall be assumed that there is an income of a shilling per week with respect to each additional complete £25. Our recommendations with regard to that is exactly the recommendation of the Royal Commission. There is no difference whatever between what the Bill proposes and what the Royal Commission recommend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-14a.776.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-14", "file": "debates1932-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "e418e93f2b7d683c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-14a.782.3", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "One of the divisions or Nottingham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-14a.782.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-14", "file": "debates1932-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "e418e93f2b7d683c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-14a.787.1", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "I do not want to do an injustice. Suppose a disabled soldier has a pension of 40 per cent., which is 16s. a week. That disabled soldier becomes an applicant for transitional benefit. If he has an income over a certain scale, and he has the 16s. war pension, which has been given to him in consequence of his disability and as a reward for his services to his country, 8s. of that is to be taken away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-14a.787.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-14", "file": "debates1932-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "e418e93f2b7d683c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-14a.804.0", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ble, and unworthy kind. Those of us who know the hon. Member for Gower know quite well that he would not want naturally, under ordinary conditions, to make insinuations of that character. Outside this House, when he has not been lashing himself into a certain amount of rage against a Bill and in favour of an Amendment, which I think by now he is probably rather sorry he has put on the Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-14a.804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-14", "file": "debates1932-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "e418e93f2b7d683c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-14a.811.0", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PIKE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PIKE", "preceding_text": "The only protests on that special point that have been made have been directed through the official machine operating in one trade union branch or another known as the National Minority Unemployed Movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-14a.811.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-14", "file": "debates1932-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "e418e93f2b7d683c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-14a.828.7", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "preceding_text": " able to place their claims before this Commission which was appointed by the Government to investigate them. I think these variations should be ended, and I make the suggestion to my right hon. Friend of a commission. The contrast between affluence and distress was never greater than it is at this moment. The Government must bear in mind that social fact which is affecting millions of our people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-14a.828.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-14", "file": "debates1932-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "e418e93f2b7d683c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-14a.866.3", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "I am not blaming the hon. Member for anything, but I have no means of looking into the brain of Mr. Shillaker when writing these articles, and, therefore, I cannot visualise whether he is actually making an attack upon the hon. Gentlemen below the Gangway. I am sorry if I have offended the hon. Gentleman in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-14a.866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-14", "file": "debates1932-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "e418e93f2b7d683c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-14a.883.1", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "preceding_text": "e human administration on the principle that people shall at least be fed, is more in keeping with, and more acceptable to, our people, than the means test. It may be that among the unemployed there are a certain number who are workshy. It has been said, I think by the hon. Member for North Aberdeen (Mr. Burnett), that 12s. 6d. per week was suffi- cient for any able-bodied man to exist upon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-14a.883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-14", "file": "debates1932-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "e418e93f2b7d683c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-14a.895.3", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap steel.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "d to the hon. Member for the correction. I simply mentioned the figure which was used by the hon. Baronet on Friday. The hon. Baronet argued as to the dire distress of the firm which he instanced. He said that before the tariff, or 12 months ago, this firm was employing 425 men and now it was only employing 225 men and was working only 35 hours a week. That is to say they have failed to get—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-14a.895.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.967.0", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CHARLES KERR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CHARLES KERR", "preceding_text": "of us all to protect the unemployed and to watch over them, not only now, but, what is still more important, in the future. We must think of the future in this matter. The Opposition well know what danger there was a year ago in this country. They know perfectly well that it was touch-and-go whether the unemployed were to receive anything at all. That is the point. The country was in great danger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.967.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.967.0", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CHARLES KERR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CHARLES KERR", "preceding_text": "fectly well that it was touch-and-go whether the unemployed were to receive anything at all. That is the point. The country was in great danger. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"] Never mind whether it was nonsense or not; it was a fact. When hon. Members appreciated the danger that the country was in they left the ship, and the National Government took the ship over when it was very nearly on the rocks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.967.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.973.1", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": "or Central Nottingham like to have an investigator coming to the place where his house is situated and inquiring from all his neighbours as to whether they think his income is more than he has stated it to be? But that is what is clone among the poor. How would he like an investigator coming to his house and asking if he is really married to his wife and whether his children are legitimate or not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.974.3", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": "ut not too much, and yet avoid penalising him for thrift. But that is not the line which has been drawn by the public assistance committees and the Government in- the administration of the means test. The line is drawn to-day between semi-starvation and absolute starvation. In many cases that line has been crossed and people are dying, no doubt, as a result of the administration of the means test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.974.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.974.8", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": "wholesale—not by individuals but by the whole family—and he expressed the belief that a huge majority of people supported that idea. We deny that that is the case and' we oppose that principle which we do not consider to be just. In fact I think it is disgusting, revolting and obscene and that is why I am opposed to -it. It is creating tragedies in countless homes all over the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.974.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.981.3", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PIKE", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PIKE", "preceding_text": "What I mean is that when the 50 per cent. of the total pension received is taken into consideration, it will enable the committees to administer to the limit to these people, whereas if they were in receipt of full pension, and their full pension was taken into consideration, certain deductions from the limit would have to be made. This Bill is therefore a concession to the ex-service men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.981.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.986.4", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "ys at home and does not. He says that some action must be taken to see that the two are treated alike, and I say to him, \"Therefore you propose to stop the man who wants to from leaving home.\" He says: \"No, I do not want to do that.\" What does he intend to do? What he intends is that if a man is unemployed and lives in a home with an unemployed family he is not to be allowed to go out of the home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.986.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.986.4", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "propose to stop the man who wants to from leaving home.\" He says: \"No, I do not want to do that.\" What does he intend to do? What he intends is that if a man is unemployed and lives in a home with an unemployed family he is not to be allowed to go out of the home. [ Interruption .] Yes, that is what he meant. He said things about the Labour party, but let us go over what he said and what he wants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.986.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.986.4", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "ut the Labour party, but let us go over what he said and what he wants. [ Interruption .] Do not try to slip away from what you mean, like the Labour party. What did he say? We all heard it. He said a man got the benefit if he left the home and did not get it if he remained in the home, and. that some action should be taken to stop that man from getting public money. What other means can you take?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.986.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.986.4", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "eans can you take? [ Interruption .] I have already given way for one or two questions, and I will give way again, but I want Mr. Speaker to take notice of this. The hon. Member said some action should be taken. What action does he intend should be taken? There are only two kinds of action that you can take. One is to stop the man from leaving, and the other is to give him nothing because he left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.986.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.996.0", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "preceding_text": "he parents. That is mean and contemptible. No one with any soul can give support to any such abuse of power. Is it a wonder that our people loathe the vile business of the means test. It is so abominable in its requirements that it is causing revolt in the mind, spirit and feeling of the people of the country. It is cold, calculated and brutal starvation. I often wonder what is the value of words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.996.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1003.0", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Mr. R. S. Hudson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Mr. R. S. Hudson)", "preceding_text": "State responsibility. In the second place, it shifts the responsibility from the local authority to the central authority, and in the third place it scraps the whole of our existing system and methods. It is based on the theory that unless the community so organises industry that every man willing to work can get a job, the unemployed, as the reserves of industry, are entitled to full maintenance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1003.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1005.3", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "d upon that path, it could not stop and say: \"Thus far and no farther.\" It would have to take one step after another, and the last step would be that it would have to control the size and number of the working man's family. That is what you will be inevitably driven to. I do not believe that such a step is conceivable, that such control by the State is conceivable in any future that matters to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1005.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1016.2", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "Always on previous occasions we have had the Amendments printed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1020.3", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "The whole thing is out of order. I say emphatically that the House of Commons is jockeying with the Bill, that the Bill itself is an insult and that this Committee stage is a farce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1020.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1034.2", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "erved under four Ministries, but I have served for 42 years as a Poor Law guardian, and know what I am talking about. I know that, if people go to the public assistance committee, they will, unless the House tonight changes it, be dealt with as destitute persons, or they will not be dealt with at all. My point is that it will be an iniquity if this Amendment is limited to able-bodied persons only.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1034.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1035.2", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I understand that we are being allowed to discuss it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1035.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1040.3", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ied it will mean that only the men out of work will get the advantage which the other men are getting. It will mean that only able-bodied unemployed men who are not and never have been insured will be able to get the advantages of the rest of the Act. I wish to join in the appeal made by the hon. Member for Gorbals (Mr. Buchanan). I was trying to make the appeal but I was ruled out of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1040.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1045.0", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "The position is this, that a Poor Law authority will be able to apply this rule if they like to an ex-service man and to workmen's compensation cases in their area, but in the case of a Poor Law person who is, they think, undeserving—I use the term \"undeserving\" because it is a little less harsh than that of \"waster.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1045.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1045.5", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REID", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REID", "preceding_text": " way to deal with that matter is to have a full investigation and a new Bill to deal with those people. If it is found on investigation, and there has been very little investigation before this Bill was introduced, that those people are being harshly treated, I should not for a moment oppose but, on the contrary, I should enthusiastically support any measure to give them fair and proper treatment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1045.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1047.0", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Mr. Skelton)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Mr. Skelton)", "preceding_text": "rrel with the distinction which many Poor Law authorties in Scotland have made in giving a more generous scale to the infirm poor. In the absence of any legal foundation the case for the Amendment drops. But the argument against the Amendment is, I confess, in many ways attractive because it would perpetuate the distinction made in Scotland between the ordinary poor and the able-bodied poor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOROBIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not £5,000 a year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOROBIN", "preceding_text": "t is not a question of how many people it affects. It is a question of principle. The Poor Law has always rested on an intelligible principle, the principle—let it be good, bad or indifferent—of destitution. We are now introducing the principle that where there is £300 you take off la. a week. I ask the Committee if £300, why not £3,000? If is a week why not 2s. or 10s.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1068.0", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOROBIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOROBIN", "preceding_text": "ic assistance committee who treated such a person as I have mentioned as a proper subject for relief. Am I to understand that if the West Ham Public Assistance Committee or the Chester-le-Street Public Assistance Committee passed a general resolution saying that they proposed to exempt £300 from the calculation, that the Minister could not tell them that that was a wrong thing for them to do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1068.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1069.0", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is very ingenious in having discovered an imaginary loophole. May I inform him that it is au imaginary loophole?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1069.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "of the representative of the Ministry of Health. They are entitled to some sort of apology for the statement he made. I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman will have something to say on that point at a later stage of the proceedings, but if not I shall certainly take the opportunity to go into this point at greater length when this matter again comes up for discussion. Finally, let me say this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "up a spirit of hostility in what are to me quite unexpected quarters, against the groping and investigating that goes on. A man who is subjected to investigation for purposes of Income Tax thinks himself a very much maltreated citizen, but he is a citizen. The man who is held up as an unemployed man and as a \"transitional\" man, is held in that position because he is treated as of an inferior type.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1075.1", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS (DETERMINATION OF NEED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "I am very much obliged for your Ruling. I am still more obliged for your taking so long to think about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-15", "file": "debates1932-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "66f6f9367efff7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1094.1", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "CLASUE 1.—(Provisions with respect to the discipline and internal administration of visiting forces.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "It is quite true that the Government business was to be finished first, but it is equally true that these Bills were considered as non-contentious. It has been discovered by the legal gentlemen whose duty it is to discover these things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-15a.1094.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-11-16", "file": "debates1932-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "0741c6aa41582f91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1131.0", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "Surely, this is a very unsatisfactory state of affairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1130.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-16", "file": "debates1932-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "0741c6aa41582f91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1152.4", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": " now altered. Under Circular 1421—there are a good many circulars coming from the Board in these days, all meaning economy, of course—that is reversed, or rather, added to, and the State now says: \"Before you can get a special place\" —not a free place—\"you\"—the child—\"must be exceptionally clever and your parents must be exceptionally, if not degradingly, poor.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1152.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-16", "file": "debates1932-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "0741c6aa41582f91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1152.4", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": " fact, Circular 1421, with its means test and its imposition of fees, is a tax on the married man who happens to have clever children. If a man is a bachelor, or if a man has no children, he does not pay, but if a parent happens to have children who are able to pass the examination to go into a secondary school, the State comes along with this circular and says, \"Here is a tax on the married man.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1152.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-16", "file": "debates1932-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "0741c6aa41582f91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1179.2", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "preceding_text": " a partnership between the State and the local authorities, with the Board acting as director and adviser. Its power conies in as the holder of the purse-strings. I have said that the Parliamentary Secretary was frank, but there is one thing he did not tell us. It has been common talk as to what this Circular aimed at securing in the way of economy, but I do not think he even mentioned any figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-16", "file": "debates1932-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "0741c6aa41582f91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1186.0", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ADRIAN BAILLIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ADRIAN BAILLIE", "preceding_text": " some misapprehension, but at least the apprehension is there. It may be said that under the present system there are dull boys in the secondary schools. There are also dull bishops, and, indeed, there are dull Members of Parliament, but that does not mean that anyone would suggest that Parliament should be abolished, or that we shall all have to pay fees for our Parliamentary training here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-16", "file": "debates1932-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "0741c6aa41582f91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1229.0", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Miss CAZALET", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss CAZALET", "preceding_text": "f the Circular. It might be found impossible, in certain areas, to make any alterations at all, and there seems to me to be nothing in the Circular to prevent the Board from agreeing if a good case is made out. The Board have made it perfectly clear—and this is a very important point—that they will not sanction any proposals which they think would be detrimental to secondary education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-16", "file": "debates1932-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "0741c6aa41582f91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1247.3", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "preceding_text": "ries. It is on the teachers that we must rely for an efficient educational service, and it is to the teaching profession that we want to attract the very best men and women from all walks of life, from our public schools as well as from our secondary schools. We want to get the finest body of teachers it is possible to get. The teachers themselves realise that the cuts of last year were necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1247.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-16", "file": "debates1932-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "0741c6aa41582f91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1248.0", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. ACLAND", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "at rate it would of course be outrageously hard on the poor people but the system of the Board more or less, and the system that I have in mind, would make the payment which people give for secondary education exactly of the same type as the payment which people give to their doctors now. Lately, I happened to be unwell in Devonshire. My next door neighbour is a carter and his wife was unwell too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-16", "file": "debates1932-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "0741c6aa41582f91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1254.0", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "it of the Education Act, 1918. Hon. Gentlemen opposite have been very careful to try to make out that the effect of this is only to discover who is able to pay. There is more in this Circular than that. There is a complete change in the philosophy with which the Government approaches the provision of secondary education. This Circular makes it quite clear that the new rule is to be \"All must pay.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-16", "file": "debates1932-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "0741c6aa41582f91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1254.0", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "losophy with which the Government approaches the provision of secondary education. This Circular makes it quite clear that the new rule is to be \"All must pay.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I agree that there are exceptions. I am taking the principle first, and I will come to the exceptions afterwards. Am I right or wrong when I say that the new rule, whatever the exceptions may be, is that all must pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-16", "file": "debates1932-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "0741c6aa41582f91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1254.0", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "be, is that all must pay. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong.\"] Well, we will see what the Circular says. Under the new Regulations fees will be charged in all schools\"— Will be charged!— and, while places in future to be called special places will continue to be filled by open competition, the parents of pupils successful in the competition will be expected to pay the school fee. That is the rule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-16", "file": "debates1932-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "0741c6aa41582f91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1254.0", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": " that a wrong interpretation has been put upon this Circular in regard to its incidence upon the poorer people. First of all, the Circular lays down that there is to be a competitive examination. When you have got your competitive examination in a good area, Devon or Glamorganshire, if you like, there are to be a certain number of what we used to call free places. Suppose there are 30 free places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-16", "file": "debates1932-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "0741c6aa41582f91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1260.2", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "I wonder if you are going to pay that in future. I very much doubt it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-16", "file": "debates1932-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "0741c6aa41582f91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1262.0", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSBOTHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSBOTHAM", "preceding_text": "ed children, the gifted and the intellectual, and from these schools we expect leaders of industry and commerce in the coming generation. We cannot make everybody in the country a leader. They cannot all be generals, and there must be privates, and if hon. Gentlemen opposite get their way, instead of having free secondary schools for all, it will end up by there being secondary education for none.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-16a.1262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-22", "file": "debates1932-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "798e251703d177ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.7.4", "colnum": "7", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROY BIRD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROY BIRD", "preceding_text": "th the assistance of the funding of our Debt, which has just been so successfully concluded, and with other economies which I have no doubt my right hon. Friend has in mind, we shall make further progress on our way. But I would ask him not to adopt in toto the recommendations which have appeared quite recently in a publication which has reached my hands, at a rather belated date it is true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.7.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-22", "file": "debates1932-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "798e251703d177ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " conclusions that may be arrived at by the Round Table Conference. Nor is there a word about Ireland. Not a word of sympathy for the people of Ireland, who are being subjected to an economic war just now. I should have thought that in a King's Speech at this time some word might have been inserted telling the people of Ireland of some proposal for dealing with the economic strife that is going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-22", "file": "debates1932-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "798e251703d177ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ve thought that those who are the advisers of the Monarch who rules the Irish Free State at present owe some sort of allegiance and would have put some words in his mouth to let the Irish people know that there was an avenue open by which this difficulty could be solved. If hon. and right hon. Gentlemen have made up their mind that there is not any solution, but that one side shall eat dirt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-22", "file": "debates1932-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "798e251703d177ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "cheering and jeering, and that what hon. and right hon. Gentlemen want is that Mr. de Valera, as representative of the Free State, shall do exactly what this House requires him to do. There is no answer to that. It is a disgraceful thing that there is not one single word of sympathy in the Gracious Speech, not one single word to indicate a desire that this quarrel, this economic war, should cease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-22", "file": "debates1932-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "798e251703d177ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ment. I thought that no one outside Bedlam ever gave utterance to that lie now; I thought it was dead and buried. Every one knows that the same world conditions that are quoted here as the cause of unemployment prevailed two years ago. They prevailed even when the right hon. Member for Epping was Chancellor of the Exchequer. They have prevailed all the time that there has been a capitalist system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-22", "file": "debates1932-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "798e251703d177ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ulture. I learned what I knew about agriculture by going to Denmark and sitting at the feet of Sir Horace Plunket and others like him. I am confident that if years ago the problem had been dealt with on the lines of real land development in this country, our land would not be in the condition in which it is to-day. But there it is. All that we are doing is talking and talking and talking about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-22", "file": "debates1932-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "798e251703d177ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " me while I was at dinner last week. He had not a pair of boots on his feet. He said, \"George, you told me and the unemployed that we ought to wait. What am I to do? I begged the public assistance committee for a pair of boots, and they said 'No.' I have not come here to get them from you. I have come here with this question, what am I to do? Have I to wait four years till you can win a majority?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-22", "file": "debates1932-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "798e251703d177ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is your answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "come here with this question, what am I to do? Have I to wait four years till you can win a majority?\" [ Interruption .] The only thing some people can think about is jeering at the man who is starving. After all this man knew perfectly well that we hope some day to be in a majority in this House. I ask the Government, What is their answer to that man? I ask the Prime Minister, what is his answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-22", "file": "debates1932-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "798e251703d177ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.31.3", "colnum": "31", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman tells us that he is going into the country to expose to the people of the country the mind of this House. So, I hope, are hon. and right hon. Gen- tlemen who sit here. I am going to do a little of that in this week. Before this week is over I shall have something to say on that very subject outside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.31.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-22", "file": "debates1932-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "798e251703d177ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.31.3", "colnum": "31", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are you going to do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ent which, at the end of 1932 with all the experience that we have got, all the record that is behind us of years and years and years of perfectly honest experimenting with the unemployment problem—the Government which to-day imagined that that section, which is a large section, could be dealt with by spending £100,000,000 on public works, ought certainly to be turned out neck and crop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.31.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-22", "file": "debates1932-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "798e251703d177ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "Of course, the right hon. Gentleman could not, and I do not blame the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-22", "file": "debates1932-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "798e251703d177ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tariffs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "hould still have been sitting at Lausanne without any conclusions having been reached. The expert is a great servant, and in this country and in every other country of economic development there is a body of experts that every political negotiator must thank, and thank, and thank again on account of their extraordinarily valuable help in all these negotiations. There are a great many difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-22", "file": "debates1932-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "798e251703d177ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is going quicker than that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " end. I want to give the assurance to this House and the country that the Government will do everything they possibly can to get over the little hold-ups that have happened in order that the International Conference may meet at the very earliest moment. The world cannot afford to wait. One is appalled sometimes when one reads articles as though the world is going at the rate of five miles an hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-22", "file": "debates1932-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "798e251703d177ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVID MASON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVID MASON", "preceding_text": "lves that we wished to dispose of, but it penalised our imports, so that our last state was worse that the first. It is also argued that it would entail very serious deflation and a still further fall in prices. We all desire to raise prices provided it is brought about in a legitimate way, but to raise prices by manipulation of the currency would, of course, leave us in a worse state than before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-22", "file": "debates1932-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "798e251703d177ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And in England!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "preceding_text": "so that a bill on London is as good as gold, will mean that the foreigner will keep large balances in London, and these are the resources of the London money market. When you have restored confidence and have large funds accumulated in London, you are in a position for the flotation of foreign loans. There is a great field for development in China, India, Bolivia and in all parts of South America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-22", "file": "debates1932-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "798e251703d177ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE-BRABAZON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE-BRABAZON", "preceding_text": "tal figure, with the top hat and the button hole, who sat for such a short period on the Front Bench. I do not want to follow the argument on gold or silver, but I think there is much more to be said for the legalisation of silver as legal tender than getting back to the Gold Standard. But these are Treasury matters and it ill behoves a private 'Member to join in debate on these particular points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-22a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-23", "file": "debates1932-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "3494f0ead0a229ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-23a.73.4", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "esses are not confined to this side of the Atlantic Ocean. The question of the settlement of War Debts has been largely removed, I am afraid, from the high circle of American statesmen who understand all the world position and all the arguments in this matter, and is largely now in the hands of obdurate assemblies, newly elected, whose members have all given specific pledges to their constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-23a.73.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-23", "file": "debates1932-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "3494f0ead0a229ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-23a.94.5", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "xpression of what the people really think. I want to ask the Leader of the House if there is any likelihood of any of the suggestions in the report of the Committee on Finance and Industry being taken up and put into operation by the Government. I notice from the King's Speech that it is the intention of the Government to accept at once the report of the Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-23a.94.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-23", "file": "debates1932-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "3494f0ead0a229ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-23a.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "preceding_text": "at we need is an effective demand; that is, need, plus currency. Economists tell us that we are suffering from a condition of glut. This month the Government, and I voted for them, stopped meat supplies coming into England. Was that because my constituents, 14,000 of them on the dole, had enough meat to eat or had gone vegetarian? Nothing of the kind. They have not the wherewithal to buy the meat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-23a.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-23", "file": "debates1932-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "3494f0ead0a229ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-23a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HALL", "preceding_text": " to comply with the condition that they will not compete in the labour market. Agriculture is referred to in the Gracious Speech from the Throne. I should have thought that agricultural Members had already had sufficient to enable them to get along for a considerable time to come. If there is any industry which has been spoon-fed in this country during the last eight or 10 years it is agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-23a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-23", "file": "debates1932-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "3494f0ead0a229ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-23a.191.1", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "r potatoes and various vegetables, the bill will be brought up to approximately £63,000,000 per annum handed over to agriculturists in this country. Assuming that the thing works out as was stated by the Under-Secretary of State for the Dominions a short time ago, when he said that our object was to raise prices so that the producer abroad would be able to pay his debts to this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-23a.191.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-24", "file": "debates1932-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0f0e924c55434c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-24a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "Cabinet has to do for the rest of the country, and I think that he ought to have more assistance. At the present time he has got one Under-Secretary. Scotland is not unduly remunerated in this respect by the munificence of the Imperial Parliament. The Secretary of State has still the salary of a junior Minister, 22,000 a year, instead of £5,000 which is paid to every other Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-24a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-24", "file": "debates1932-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0f0e924c55434c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-24a.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "fy the particular kind of constitution in detail. That is a matter for Scottish public opinion to decide. Scottish opinion has not ripened to the point at which it is possible to lay down in detail the constitution which is to be advocated. As regards finance, that is the crux of the question. The right hon. Gentleman said that the proposals of the Home Rulers are very vague. That is their wisdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-24a.279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-24", "file": "debates1932-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0f0e924c55434c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-24a.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "l affairs. These things are vital, and we must certainly continue to have our share in their control. We are a mother nation in the Empire, we have responsibilities in every part of the Empire which we shall continue to bear, but we can, and we' ought, to have control of our own domestic affairs, in the same way as Northern Ireland and as the Isle of Man, without any serious results to the Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-24a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-24", "file": "debates1932-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0f0e924c55434c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-24a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": ", he would have stood at that Box as a. member of the Cabinet and made a speech saying that they could not go on with smallholdings in Scotland; exactly the same speech as will be made by the present Secretary of State. If Ottawa had gone Free Trade the Cabinet decision about smallholdings would have been the same and the right hon. and gallant Member would still have been a member of the Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-24a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-24", "file": "debates1932-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0f0e924c55434c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-24a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "on about smallholdings would have been the same and the right hon. and gallant Member would still have been a member of the Cabinet. [ Interruption. ] In any case there would have been only two changes, and it cannot be said that they would have dominated the Cabinet. The financial situation may be different but the Cabinet is substantially the same, and the Cabinet has decided against the policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-24a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-24", "file": "debates1932-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0f0e924c55434c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-24a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "—the illegitimate birth-rate, the morals of the streets, cleanliness, anything you like, and, even with unemployment, the modern women more than compare with any generation of women who have gone before them. We hear a lot about how the older women could cook and so on. I am not very long married and my wife is a typical Glasgow woman —just a typical, decent, fairly good-looking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-24a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-24", "file": "debates1932-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0f0e924c55434c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-24a.290.0", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "o dissent from it and I am not to be moved from that dissent. I would be a liar if I said that I approved of the appointment of the present Secretary of State for Scotland. In all our hearts we know that he ought not to be there. He has been 21 years in this House. I have been here for 10 years and during that 10 years he has taken practically no part in the public affairs of the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-24a.290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-24", "file": "debates1932-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0f0e924c55434c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-24a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "business, the Christian ideal or anything of a humanitarian kind, it is sound economics. There would be on an average an increase of 10s. a week going into about 2,500,000 homes in this country. That would mean that nearly £1,500,000 would be spent every week. The money would not be invested in the Argentine or in Brazil, which never pays, as Russia has done, although you always blame Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-24a.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-24", "file": "debates1932-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0f0e924c55434c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-24a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL CHAPMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL CHAPMAN", "preceding_text": "t, but let me thank him publicly in this House for what he did for me about three or four years ago in helping me with that factory on the side of Loch Lomond. It was no stunt of mine. Everyone whom I could get hold of came in to help. There is another factory in Paisley—now four altogether. This is all I have to say. I am sorry to have to read this letter because it refers to me personally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-24a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-24", "file": "debates1932-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0f0e924c55434c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-24a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL CHAPMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL CHAPMAN", "preceding_text": " to the protection of the silk industry\"— That was the time when I asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer— and asked your opinion as to what you thought might be the trend of events under the National Government. After prolonged consideration, and following the suggestion which you made, that before we came to a conclusion, we should visit Scotland and particularly Ditmlermline,\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-24a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-24", "file": "debates1932-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0f0e924c55434c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-24a.344.6", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEONARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The League of Nations Union\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEONARD", "preceding_text": "hill), who dealt with the League of Nations and matters affecting the Geneva and other international conferences. I regret very much his reference to the gullibility of the League of Nations. If there is one body of men and women of all countries who have striven with courage might and main to see that peace may be brought to this world, it is the organisation known as the League of Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-24a.344.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-25", "file": "debates1932-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "70fcc63b0d5f26be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-25a.391.1", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ces the proposition of how to deal with the problem he comes back to the central power of the State. But the State has not merely to be ready to use this power against the poor. That is easy, and is not brave. One of the things that has always irritated me is the way in which the National Government has patted itself on the back, like this, and said: \"Look at us doing our duty nobly and bravely !\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-25a.391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-25", "file": "debates1932-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "70fcc63b0d5f26be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-25a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" e!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ll consider this, We will watch that.\" If one may judge by the speech of the Prime Minister and the speech of the Minister of Agriculture, if we are speaking about catchwords to which the right hon. Gentleman has been referring this afternoon, I would say that the catchword of this Government is\" Watch and Pray.\" Indeed, I would spell\" pray\" with a\" y,\" so far as the social services are concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-25a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-25", "file": "debates1932-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "70fcc63b0d5f26be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-25a.437.1", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "In Russia to-day, at any rate, there is a far smaller volume of unemployment than there is in any other industrial country in the world. It may be that the people are poor, but their poverty is not the poverty of the days before the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-25a.437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-25", "file": "debates1932-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "70fcc63b0d5f26be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-25a.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "nd the idle machinery to the idle worker presents insuperable difficulty. We have proved that it can be overcome. It is very little use for hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite to declaim against Socialism. The First Commissioner of Works talked about catchwords. Heavens knows the party to which he belongs has invented many in its time. But capitalism expresses something which we all understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-25a.438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-25", "file": "debates1932-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "70fcc63b0d5f26be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-25a.439.1", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "#8212;instead of leaving it to their own inspiration—the ideas which they desire to express. Production for use and not for profit means something to me and my hon. Friends on this side and it expresses something which has been adopted time and time again, not by my hon. Friends here hut by Conservative and Liberal Members of local authorities. The whole theory of Socialism may be due to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-25a.439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-25", "file": "debates1932-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "70fcc63b0d5f26be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-25a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACMILLAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACMILLAN", "preceding_text": "u can borrow from the bank short-term credit, but if you want long-term credit, you have to make an issue on the market sufficiently large- to pay all the costs of underwriting and so on. If you are in a small way, there is no machinery, or, at any rate, there is a lack of machinery, for providing long term credit upon reasonable terms. It is very difficult, at the end of a Debate like this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-25a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-28", "file": "debates1932-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3e9d19cfb174183e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-28a.471.2", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEVY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEVY", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister define what he means by \"satisfactory works\" and \"self-supporting,\" because I underStand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-28a.471.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-28", "file": "debates1932-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3e9d19cfb174183e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-28a.487.7", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "e for the community. That brings me to the crucial point of all this business, because this is where we part company with the hon. Gentlemen who have put the following notice of motion on the Order Paper: \"Sir Robert Horne, Mr. Macmillan, Sir Geoffrey Ellis, Sir Philip Dawson, Mr. Law, Mr. Caporn\"— All good, solid Tory Members of this House, real good—I was going to say something else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-28a.487.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-28", "file": "debates1932-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3e9d19cfb174183e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-28a.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ly? Will you allow private people to come in? \"The Noble Lord and his right hon. Friend really ought to remember what their own party have done. Under the leadership of the Lord President of the Council, their own party, quite recently, took the whole of the electricity supply —the production and a great part of the distribution—out of the hands of municipalities and of private people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-28a.493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-28", "file": "debates1932-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3e9d19cfb174183e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-28a.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "preceding_text": "been lost for many years. It may sound very foolish perhaps, but as far as I have heard this Debate, all that you have suggested is to make roads on which traffic will never travel and bridges over which traffic will never go. In other words, all that you can suggest is the digging of holes in the ground and the filling of them up again. I may be accused of being somewhat Socialistic in my ideals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-28a.509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-28", "file": "debates1932-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3e9d19cfb174183e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-28a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Earl CASTLE STEWART", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Not so simple\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl CASTLE STEWART", "preceding_text": "eft completely on one side the Amendment which is before the House, and dealt with India, Disarmament, and other subjects which are completely extraneous to that Amendment, while the hon. Member for Southampton confined himself to the difficulties of a single industry. What struck me about those speeches was that the hon. Member for North Bristol, who is labelled a \"Liberal\" pure and simple—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-28a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-28", "file": "debates1932-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3e9d19cfb174183e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-28a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Earl CASTLE STEWART", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl CASTLE STEWART", "preceding_text": "ot of Capitalism, but of Free Trade. I submit that the evils which have overtaken us would have overtaken us even if we had had Socialism and a Socialist Government, because if they had had the sole control of all the capital in the country for the last generation, and if they had pursued the policy of Free Trade, they would have sent that capital abroad and got into exactly the same difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-28a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-28", "file": "debates1932-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3e9d19cfb174183e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-28a.597.5", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that even the Noble Lord knew that if you had what was the maximum of employment you must always have a certain amount of unemployment owing to movement in industry. It is an absolutely indispensable feature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-28a.597.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-28", "file": "debates1932-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3e9d19cfb174183e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-28a.597.5", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " matter of national interest why should not the nation shoulder the burden of the export of cheap coal. It is done in order that we may get wheat, raw material and other commodities. Under a system of nationalisation the miners wages could be put upon a fair basis, quite irrespective of whether on some book-keeping account or not it happened, theoretically, to show a profit on a capitalist system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-28a.597.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-11-28", "file": "debates1932-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3e9d19cfb174183e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-28a.602.0", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "How about the Prime Minister?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "use people were very tired of extravagant pledges from whatever quarter they came, and because politicians greatly underrated the character and common sense of the people, who really wanted in a difficult time to be told the truth. We won really without any pledge of any sort or kind. Yes, but who are these people who are charging us with extravagant pledges? There is a proverb about glass houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-28a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-28", "file": "debates1932-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3e9d19cfb174183e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-28a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Has it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": " to carry out our mandate, but that we were grossly exceeding it in every respect. We could not do both. What have we done? What were the pledges which we gave? Let us see how a year of our work has compared with a year of the work of hon. Gentlemen opposite. This is their charge and not mine—that we failed to carry out our pledges. We gave a pledge to balance the Budget. That has been done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-28a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-28", "file": "debates1932-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3e9d19cfb174183e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-28a.603.3", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ed at a profit or not. What were they going to do? To mobilise our foreign investments—the invisible trade balance on which the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Darwen (Sir H. Samuel) laid such particular stress. I think that both sections are completely in unity on this point. They were going to mobilise our foreign investments, realise them, and pay away our capital as long as we could.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-28a.603.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-28", "file": "debates1932-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3e9d19cfb174183e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-28a.610.1", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " is a Debate at a moment when the needs of the time transcend all party issues, and when certainly no one is going to serve even their party interests best by bringing forward an Amendment of this kind. We shall go forward with our task. At a time of national need and world crisis, the hon. Gentlemen opposite might have played their part, but they chose to show their courage by running away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-28a.610.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-11-29", "file": "debates1932-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a9aa42374eeb5752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.645.5", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANNEL TUNNEL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend be willing to test the feeling of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.645.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-29", "file": "debates1932-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a9aa42374eeb5752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" No, the last House\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "preceding_text": "On that point of Order, may I say that the course which my hon. Friend adopted of moving to report Progress was adopted for the general convenience of the Committee. It was intended—and I hope that the Committee will assent to this—to remind hon. Members that the Bill had been before a Joint Committee of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-29", "file": "debates1932-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a9aa42374eeb5752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Read it! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "or new Members. I do not know why he should refer to new Members in particular, because old Members are equally justified in wanting to know the effect of the large number of Amendments which have been put down. If hon. Members will turn to page 101 of the Amendment Paper, they will find a new Clause running over three or four pages, and dealing with a large number of by-laws and provisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-29", "file": "debates1932-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a9aa42374eeb5752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I hope the Committee will allow me to intervene in the discussion in order that we may all fully appreciate the position that has been reached. I think some of my hon. Friends have overlooked a Motion that was carried last Session and have also overlooked the history of the Bill. It is what in Parliamentary language is called a hybrid Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-29", "file": "debates1932-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a9aa42374eeb5752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "You will allow me, Sir Dennis. This is a very important matter. The three Amendments with which I expect the learned Attorney-General is going to deal are very vital, and if he is going to put the point of view of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-29", "file": "debates1932-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a9aa42374eeb5752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.682.5", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Hear, hear \"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": "lar to that stated by the Attorney-General will of course be in order. What I want to guard the Committee against is a discussion, on the merits of one particular Amendment, of the type which should take place when a particular Amendment is called. If the statement is made I shall do my best—and I hope hon. Members in all quarters of the House will give me the credit for trying to do my best", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.682.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-29", "file": "debates1932-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a9aa42374eeb5752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY JACKSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY JACKSON", "preceding_text": " basis is the same. The only difference is that the amalgamated railways—the great four—have decided, out of their own funds, over which they have complete control, to guarantee the Metropolitan ordinary shareholders a fixed interest return over a number of years. That is a private arrangement between the amalgamated four and the ordinary stockholders of the Metropolitan Railway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-29", "file": "debates1932-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a9aa42374eeb5752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. JACKSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Oh ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. JACKSON", "preceding_text": "eir undertakings. They are coming immediately after the debenture holders, between the debenture holders and the preference shareholders, and there, again, there is the substantial return of 4½ per cent. as a practically guaranteed dividend. Of course, we are all sincerely hoping that as a consequence of this merger economies will be possible. You cannot have a great merger without economies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-29", "file": "debates1932-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a9aa42374eeb5752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.720.4", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must not expect to catch me by asking me a question when I have already said that I do not think it is in the interest of the Bill or of the undertaking, or in the public interest, that I should inform the Committee as to the years' purchase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.720.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-29", "file": "debates1932-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a9aa42374eeb5752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.720.4", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " as reasonable business men, to take the advice which is tendered to them in the absence of any criticism of any particular figure as being unsound or inaccurate in point of calculation. Everyone can form his own opinion, and all prophecies of what is coming must be matter of opinion. I see no reason why the Committee should adopt that pessimistic view of the future of Government transport —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.720.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-29", "file": "debates1932-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a9aa42374eeb5752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" What about the Cabinet?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " experience of life, would say that six people sitting round the table with a chairman was a very convenient number to discuss business matters. When you have got six, one more does not make much difference, but two make a difference, and 10 or a dozen are inconveniently cumbrous, and likely to shelve the responsibilities. I venture to think that the Committee has thoroughly discussed this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-29", "file": "debates1932-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a9aa42374eeb5752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.768.5", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "the Government to-day realise that the only alternative to a Tory Government is a Labour Government, aid they are taking every precaution possible to see that Labour does not come into its own. What would happen if the Minister of Transport was responsible, as he ought to be? The value of the House of Commons to us is that we can put the Minister through it on behalf of the folk whom we represent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.768.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-29", "file": "debates1932-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a9aa42374eeb5752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.770.4", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "We have nobody here at the moment because we have to negotiate with them direct, as the concern is supposed to be run under private enterprise. Now we are supposed to have introduced a sort of Socialist Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.770.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-29", "file": "debates1932-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a9aa42374eeb5752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": ". Apparently, the Minister has decided to turn himself into a little switch, and the big switches are to be the five or six distinguished ladies or gentlemen who will hold the offices mentioned in the second part of the Amendment, which is to be dealt with separately. It is rather interesting that there is no limitation on the personnel of these people. They may all be Members of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-29", "file": "debates1932-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a9aa42374eeb5752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.781.7", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ery eager to defend the trading interests of their particular constituencies, and that they were for ever bringing up the question of different trades that would either be injured or benefited by the imposition of tariffs. It was said to me, \"What are we here for if we are not here to look after the interests of our constituents?\" That is what I should like to ask now. What am I elected for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-29a.781.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-30", "file": "debates1932-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "7d8dc7ae9563745b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-30a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "MATRIMONIAL CAUSES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "d women together to-day is being flouted. I am convinced, from the point of view of marriage, that for this House to agree to this Motion would be a most serious step. The hon. and learned Member was most correct when he said that he was not speaking for himself. It appears to me that the National Government have a life of about five years before it. Five years according to the ordinary run—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-30a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-30", "file": "debates1932-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "7d8dc7ae9563745b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-30a.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Sir BERTRAM FALLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BERTRAM FALLE", "preceding_text": "ple said, \"What are you grousing about? Have we not the Navy?\" That was the effect if not the words. The country now gives little thought to the Navy. It looks upon the Navy just as it does upon the sun, which does rise even in London every morning. It looks upon the Navy as part of itself, like its house, its food, its children. The Navy is the silent force, with one or two remarkable exceptions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-30a.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-30", "file": "debates1932-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "7d8dc7ae9563745b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-30a.856.3", "colnum": "856", "heading": "ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "deal of interest and I think the right hon. Gentleman's argument might be stated thus—that in a world armed to the teeth you would be quite sure to have peace. Perhaps I have not quoted him quite accurately, but I do not think I do him a great deal of injustice in putting that interpretation upon his argument. In any case he was for more armaments as a preservative of the peace of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-30a.856.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-30", "file": "debates1932-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "7d8dc7ae9563745b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-30a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VYVYAN ADAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Translate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VYVYAN ADAMS", "preceding_text": "ders of our great party, Disraeli, Salisbury, Joseph Chamberlain and Balfour? Are they not part of England? At all events the last-named of that great four appreciated in 1922 that we were living in a completely changed world. It may be objectionable to the hon. Baronet to recognise these facts, but when he quoted to us Si vis pacem, para bellum. I felt inclined to counter, with a Greek quotation:", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-30a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-30", "file": "debates1932-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "7d8dc7ae9563745b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-30a.892.4", "colnum": "892", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAIKES", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAIKES", "preceding_text": "to bear in mind that the object and functions of a second chamber are totally different from the functions of a. legislative chamber. It is a revising chamber and one which requires different qualities from those which are needed for the initiation of legislation. It is a chamber which requires fairness of outlook, and it must be, at any rate, in its best sense conservative, and not revolutionary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-30a.892.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-30", "file": "debates1932-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "7d8dc7ae9563745b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-30a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "n like that, one. There will be a revulsion of public opinion and the more you pile on the agony the bigger the revulsion will be. You have asked for it—not us. I have never hidden my opinions either on the public platform or anywhere else. I do not believe in second chambers at all. If this were a proposal to be acted on even hon. Members opposite would be afraid to face their constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-30a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-30", "file": "debates1932-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "7d8dc7ae9563745b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-30a.919.1", "colnum": "919", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "I am sure the House will not wish me to follow the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-30a.919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-11-30", "file": "debates1932-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "7d8dc7ae9563745b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-30a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "Lord SCONE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord SCONE", "preceding_text": "ic, by the British Medical Association, and so on. I would widen the basis very much. I would introduce representatives of our Dominions and the larger Crown Colonies. Furthermore, I would give representation to large employers of labour, to the Federation of British Industries and similar bodies. I may say for the benefit of the Opposition I would give adequate representation to the trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-30a.943.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-11-30", "file": "debates1932-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "7d8dc7ae9563745b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-30a.945.0", "colnum": "945", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOVAT-FRASER", "preceding_text": "f Lords with a certain amount of contempt. This House has always regarded itself as the superior House. A certain very distinguished statesman of the earlier part of the 18th century, Lord Chesterfield, described the House of Lords as \"a hospital for incurables,\" and the Duke of Wellington, in the earlier part of last century, said of the House of Lords: Nobody cares a damn for the House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-11-30a.944.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-01", "file": "debates1932-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "0c65d65e5d29beb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Chainman of the County Council.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "es. You might perfectly well have the Archbishop of Canterbury and the President of the Peace Society. After all, although London traffic is necessarily a matter which is of some interest to all the citizens, London being the capital city, it is also a London matter, and one would have thought some attempt would be made, if you were to appoint these trustees, to have someone connected with London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-01", "file": "debates1932-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "0c65d65e5d29beb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "at has a banker to do with London traffic? A bank clerk would be much better. He travels third class and not first and is a strap-hanger. I have never known a Government with such a high opinion of chartered accountants. They farm out all their work to chartered accountants. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has almost a sinecure. He hands over his most important functions to a chartered accountant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-01", "file": "debates1932-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "0c65d65e5d29beb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": " A bank clerk would be much better. He travels third class and not first and is a strap-hanger. I have never known a Government with such a high opinion of chartered accountants. They farm out all their work to chartered accountants. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has almost a sinecure. He hands over his most important functions to a chartered accountant. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] I do not know why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-01", "file": "debates1932-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "0c65d65e5d29beb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1007.2", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No pay.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": " be selected more than any others? This is the first time in my recollection of the House that it has been proposed to give an important office to a solicitor and the barristers have not protested. I do not know whether they are daunted by the fact that the Attorney-General is in charge of the Bill. I have never known a previous instance where there was a plum going for the legal profession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1007.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-01", "file": "debates1932-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "0c65d65e5d29beb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1016.0", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Leave it to the Chair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Sir Dennis. We have left the Minister out of the Bill. We have made a decision upon that matter, and I think that the right hon. and gallant Gentleman is out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-01", "file": "debates1932-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "0c65d65e5d29beb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1017.1", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " has come under the Board of Control for mental deficiency, or something of that sort. In that case, what is wanted are the Visiting Justices and not the appointing trustees. What does misbehaviour mean? I suppose it means being convicted for drawing a horse in the Irish sweep, or something of that sort. If a man has really been certified, I should think that, obviously, he would go off the board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1017.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-01", "file": "debates1932-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "0c65d65e5d29beb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1030.1", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "man's party is could have made a really strong plea for placing on a board of this kind some representative of organised labour. The hon. and learned Member for East Bristol (Sir S. Cripps) was very strong in his criticism of any kind of body that had not what he called continued responsibility. I understand that in all organisations of trade unions there are continually being changes of chairmen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-01", "file": "debates1932-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "0c65d65e5d29beb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1045.3", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "traffic area is a larger area than any of the others to which I have referred. I wish to point out the danger of allowing London to continue to claw away and take in more of the counties surrounding it. London's influence is not good from a county point of view. People come to live in the counties simply to use them as a dormitory, and in my humble opinion they do not have the right county spirit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1045.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-01", "file": "debates1932-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "0c65d65e5d29beb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "have some Amendment to provide for another little electoral college in order to choose a representative for the two counties. There is indeed no intention of riding roughshod over the Committee. I have listened to all the representations, and I believe that, broadly speaking, the Committee are in agreement with the proposal that these five people should be left to carry out the duties in question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-01", "file": "debates1932-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "0c65d65e5d29beb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1068.1", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are not the other bodies?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "preceding_text": " that the appointments to the board should be removed from politics, and that is the reason, in my opinion, why it would be a mistake to make the appointment to the appointing trustees which is suggested. The chairman of the Co-operative Union may not be a directly political person, but there is no doubt that there is an element of politics in his union just as there would be if we included—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1068.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-01", "file": "debates1932-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "0c65d65e5d29beb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1068.1", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"What about the London County Council?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "preceding_text": "he Co-operative Union may not be a directly political person, but there is no doubt that there is an element of politics in his union just as there would be if we included—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Are not the other bodies?\"] Wait a moment. The whole point is, that the trustees whom we are appointing are entirely divorced from politics. You cannot, in our view, say that of this particular gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1068.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-01", "file": "debates1932-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "0c65d65e5d29beb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commander MARSDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEMS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander MARSDEN", "preceding_text": " The hon. and learned Member said that the chairman of the Clearing House Banks had never been a supporter of the Labour movement, what I call the Socialists, but there is no reason why he should not be. He may in the past have been a Liberal, and I certainly know of Liberals who have been Socialists. But the chairman of the Co-operative Union definitely has to be a Socialist to obtain his office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-12-01", "file": "debates1932-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "0c65d65e5d29beb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1079.2", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Ask the Liberal party!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ed and the semi-learned professions. Moreover, I do not understand the Amendment to the proposed Amendment, and I would ask the hon. Gentleman who moved it to explain it further. What does he mean by the expression, \"each to act in turn on alternate occasions?\" How is that to be worked out? I hope that someone speaking on behalf of the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors will explain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-01", "file": "debates1932-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "0c65d65e5d29beb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1102.3", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Hoist. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Of course, I fully accept what the hon. and learned Gentleman says. My reason for objecting is that if you accept this Amendment now you will make it very much easier for another Minister to take away the whole power of this body and return it to the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1102.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-01", "file": "debates1932-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "0c65d65e5d29beb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I think that if the Government press the Amendment we shall probably carry it. We may assume that. Therefore, I am not in the least making the suggestion that I am about to make because of any inability to persuade the Committee, but I am anxious as far as possible to carry the whole Committee with us on a Bill of the greatest possible importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-01", "file": "debates1932-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "0c65d65e5d29beb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "y member of the board while he serves. The Minister is only out of the picture when the new appointments are made. I want the Committee to realise the vital nature of the change to which the Attorney-General has consented after pressure by hon. Members. The Government have now reverted to their original proposal. Every Member, if the Amendment is accepted, can say that this is a Socialist Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-01", "file": "debates1932-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "0c65d65e5d29beb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1132.1", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I rise to make an appeal to the Committee that, unless anyone has a fresh argument to bring forward, they might allow us now to have this Clause; and in spite of the fact that it was agreed that we should not go on after Eleven o'Clock with anything really controversial, I would ask that we might also be given Clause 2 to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-01", "file": "debates1932-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "0c65d65e5d29beb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1133.3", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "though we agree that it applies to other interests as well. The workers are to have no part in the appointment of the board. I put this point to Conservatives. In past years they have said that they wanted to associate the workers with the conduct of business generally and the great industries. Just after the War, that was a popular theory. I think most hon. Members who are employers, admit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-01", "file": "debates1932-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "0c65d65e5d29beb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1135.3", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOWARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOWARD", "preceding_text": "ition of all individual enterprise in Lancashire in two years' time? If they vote for this Board for London, they cannot resist a similar board for Lancashire in the near future. I object to being asked to put up such a board for London. Where is the necessity for it? Has any country Member arriving at Euston or King's Cross, at Victoria or Cannon Street, ever had any trouble to get across London?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-01", "file": "debates1932-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "0c65d65e5d29beb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOWARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"We do not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOWARD", "preceding_text": "I am not going to enter into a controversy as to when the pact was made. I am going to continue my opposition to the inauguration of this hoard. I ask hon. Members opposite how they can, if they had the interests of the working-class at heart, support the establishment of a board of this sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-01", "file": "debates1932-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "0c65d65e5d29beb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1138.2", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOWARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOWARD", "preceding_text": "I sincerely apologise. It was the baiting opposite that caused it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1138.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-01", "file": "debates1932-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "0c65d65e5d29beb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1138.2", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOWARD", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOWARD", "preceding_text": " only cause one of my temperament to go on for four hours instead of 40 minutes. There is one other serious matter from the workmen's point of view. It is admitted that if this Board is established it will be possible, by the co-ordination of traffic, to reduce the number of omnibuses by 1,000, the number of trams by 500. That will mean that 7,500 men will lose their employment in the London area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1138.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-01", "file": "debates1932-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "0c65d65e5d29beb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOWARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOWARD", "preceding_text": "I will not pursue that subject now, but will wait for some of the other Clauses. I only want to conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-01a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-02", "file": "debates1932-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e2f03f0494248b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-02a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOG RACING (LOCAL OPTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MABANE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MABANE", "preceding_text": "ocal authorities, are not the best judges as to what the area wants. No suggestion has been made so far as I know that greyhound racing should be absolutely uncontrolled. It is recognised that some degree of control is necessary, but apparently those who oppose the Bill think that control by an organisation called the National Greyhound Racing Society is better than control by the local authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-02a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-05", "file": "debates1932-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f916dbaa1e213ec1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-05a.1261.1", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Pybus)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not necessarily.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Pybus)", "preceding_text": "that, if after careful consideration we were of opinion that these additional words would be of any value, we should have no hesitation whatever in putting them in. The hon. Member will appreciate the fact that the Bill already provides that the enterprise shall be conducted efficiently, and I do not see how it is possible to conduct an enterprise efficiently without doing so in an economical way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-05a.1261.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-05", "file": "debates1932-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f916dbaa1e213ec1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-05a.1308.3", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "the whole scheme. Nobody who knows anything about the Bill would ever suppose otherwise. The question put to the Government is what inducement has led the main line railway companies to give this guarantee to the Metropolitan Railway Company? Is not that a question entirely for the main lines? I think I could answer the question, and I think every Member of the Committee could answer the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-05a.1308.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-05", "file": "debates1932-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f916dbaa1e213ec1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-05a.1349.1", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "I have received a note which has been passed to me from a representative of Messrs. Tilling who happens to be in the Gallery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-05a.1349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-05", "file": "debates1932-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f916dbaa1e213ec1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-05a.1372.1", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "te, and is doing very well. It is to be squeezed out in favour of some of the privileged groups. I do not think that that it is fair or just. How far are the Combine going? They are spreading their claws all round. They are taking control of all the small companies and squeezing them out of existence. Where is the process going to stop? Is individual enterprise going to be squeezed out altogether?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-05a.1372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-05", "file": "debates1932-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f916dbaa1e213ec1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-05a.1379.1", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "t in 1924 the London traffic area was created. My Noble Friend the Member for Horsham (Earl Winterton) has a prejudice about the London traffic area. He says that he objected to its constitution. I dare say he did. I do not remember whether I did or not, but I dare say I did. But I am afraid that we cannot go back upon Acts of Parliament simply because they were passed when one party was in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-05a.1379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-05", "file": "debates1932-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f916dbaa1e213ec1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-05a.1386.0", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "through omnibus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-05a.1386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-06", "file": "debates1932-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "3eb0b0234777815a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-06a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "erella of London traffic. We are the only traffic authority outside London proper that has control over its own roads and the making of its own vehicles. Leyton, East. Ham, Ilford, and the other outer areas are practically under the control of this new dominating factor. Where do we come in? Nowhere, because the name of West Ham stinks in the nostrils of hon. Members opposite and their associates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-06a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-06", "file": "debates1932-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "3eb0b0234777815a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-06a.1464.5", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "I mean that the hon. and gallant Member is putting forward their case, which is the ordinary meaning of the term.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-06a.1464.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-07", "file": "debates1932-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "154749db09faa36f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-07a.1637.1", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "mate of something like £4,500,000 but, unfortunately, the committee are limited to an estimate of £1,600,000, which is quite inadequate to meet the needs, if we are really to tackle the arrears of the housing problem. My own view is, and always has been, that the best way to tackle slums is to build houses—not houses crowded round the slums—and the slums will cure themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-07a.1637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-07", "file": "debates1932-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "154749db09faa36f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-07a.1668.1", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "mand that if they are to take care of money that is invested they are going to be paid for taking care of it. We are living in a peculiar age. The working classes, with all their drawbacks, were never so intelligent. They never took such an interest in politics as they are doing to-day. We of the Labour party have gone all over the country telling them that politics is a bread and butter question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-07a.1668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-07", "file": "debates1932-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "154749db09faa36f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-07a.1741.1", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "EMPIRE MIGRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "n is just the same in the old country. Think what it would mean if we had the railway to build from London to Glasgow, if we had all the railway systems in the country and all the railway systems in the world to build, as we had. It is no idle boast. In my father's day Britain was the workshop of the world. We built all the engines and the ships. We did the world's work. Now that work is all done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-07a.1741.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-12-08", "file": "debates1932-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8ced40d4ef472a79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-08a.1762.1", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech !", "preceding_speaker": "Miss PICKFORD", "preceding_text": "he Civil Service recommended that the aim should be to provide an adequate avenue of promotion for the clerical writing assistants showing a capacity for better work and up to the standard of those classes; and that recently 15 writing assistants qualified for such promotion in the Ministry of Health for whom no vacancies could be found, while a large number were being taken on from outside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-08a.1762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-08", "file": "debates1932-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8ced40d4ef472a79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-08a.1793.0", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ANGLO-PERSIAN OIL COMPANY (CONCESSION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "In reference to the last part of the statement, may I ask whether it means that if certain contingencies arise the Government propose to take measures, armed measures, against Persia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-08a.1793.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-12-08", "file": "debates1932-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8ced40d4ef472a79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-08a.1793.3", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ANGLO-PERSIAN OIL COMPANY (CONCESSION).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " His Majesty's Government would hold themselves free to take such measures as they thought fit. I want to know whether that means that in certain circumstances, while the matter is being arbitrated upon, His Majesty's Government might consider themselves obliged to take certain measures. I am bound to put a hypothetical question simply because of the hypothetical statement made by the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-08a.1793.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-12-08", "file": "debates1932-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8ced40d4ef472a79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-08a.1793.6", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ANGLO-PERSIAN OIL COMPANY (CONCESSION).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will appreciate that, if he puts a hypothetical question, all I can say is that His Majesty's Government can only he guided by circumstances as they arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-08a.1793.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-12-08", "file": "debates1932-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8ced40d4ef472a79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-08a.1793.8", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ANGLO-PERSIAN OIL COMPANY (CONCESSION).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I should like to put a question to the Lord President of the Council, whether before any measures are taken, although the matter is referred to arbitration, the House will have an opportunity of discussing them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-08a.1793.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-08", "file": "debates1932-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8ced40d4ef472a79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-08a.1798.2", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "May I repeat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-08a.1798.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-08", "file": "debates1932-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8ced40d4ef472a79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-08a.1871.2", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Major Elliot)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are hundreds of miles away !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Major Elliot)", "preceding_text": "ere small when Vermuyden made them in 1600, and have not grown since. Therefore, the case for dealing with the catchment areas for Ouse and Trent is strong. They are heavily burdened, and cannot bear any further expense, but I ask the House to consider, even in those areas, whether there is not a responsibility of neighbourship towards the people who have suffered severely twice within six months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-08a.1871.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-08", "file": "debates1932-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8ced40d4ef472a79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-08a.1893.1", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He paid his 2d. !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "preceding_text": "mber for Don Valley (Mr. T. Williams) to show neighbourliness. I should very poorly represent my Yorkshire constituents if I did not show a real appreciation of that request. Of course we show neighbourliness, but it is reasonable for us to ask that the Minister should have regard to the conditions that make neighbourliness possible. The classical example of neighbourliness was the Good Samaritan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-08a.1893.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-12-08", "file": "debates1932-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8ced40d4ef472a79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-08a.1918.0", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear !", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SOPER", "preceding_text": "hment Board will not pay any attention to the smaller River Dearne, which is our own immediate anxiety. Therefore, I ask the House to accept the Bill as providing the only means of rescuing scores and hundreds of homes from a danger which constantly threatens them, and which safeguards the huge amount of public money that has been invested in these houses. It is useless to talk at this hour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-08a.1916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-09", "file": "debates1932-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "584f4297a424957b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-09a.1948.1", "colnum": "1948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT (LIMITATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON.MEMBER: \"Get on with it‡ \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ed Bill on London passenger traffic, drafted by the right hon. Gentlemen above the Gangway here when they were in office, with the assistance of the officials of the House who are specially employed for that purpose, and redrafted by the present Government. I hope, therefore, they will all be very humble in their attitude towards the drafting of Bills, having regard to our recent experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-09a.1948.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-09", "file": "debates1932-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "584f4297a424957b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-09a.1948.1", "colnum": "1948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT (LIMITATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh ‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": ",000,000 are out of action. I know that in actual application it is not a simple mathematical proposition. I know that in a capitalistic system of society, it is very far from being a mathematical proposition, but if it can be stated mathematically, then my hon. Friend the Member for Springburn (Mr. Emmott) will agree that it is basically true, mathematics being the one science which does not lie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-09a.1948.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-09", "file": "debates1932-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "584f4297a424957b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-09a.1951.1", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT (LIMITATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not very successfully.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "—in support of the argument, said \"At what cost did Russia abolish unemployment?\" The hon. Member for Gateshead (Mr. Magnay) suggested that unemployment was abolished in Russia because Russian conditions were the same as in Durham gaol. Certainly they are similar. Durham gaol is organised and planned; Russian industrial life is organised and planned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-09a.1951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-09", "file": "debates1932-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "584f4297a424957b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-09a.1951.1", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT (LIMITATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "t was abolished in Russia because Russian conditions were the same as in Durham gaol. Certainly they are similar. Durham gaol is organised and planned; Russian industrial life is organised and planned. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Not very successfully.\"] I wonder if any hon. Members have ever worked in a public works in this country Do they imagine that an industrial worker employed in our industry is free?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-09a.1951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-09", "file": "debates1932-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "584f4297a424957b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-09a.1953.1", "colnum": "1953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT (LIMITATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You will‡ \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " the end of the Question, to add the words \"upon this day six months\". We have listened to very eloquent and interesting speeches from the Proposer and Seconder. The Seconder associated with his remarks that element of humour with which he always lightens the tragedy of life. He has had advantages over some of us, because, s he has explained, he has been in gaol. I have not yet had that advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-09a.1953.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-09", "file": "debates1932-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "584f4297a424957b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-09a.1954.1", "colnum": "1954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT (LIMITATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "nomic grounds. He said that he was opposed to it, too, on social grounds, and that he told the men: \"Your wives would be sick to death of you if you were limited to those hours of labour.\" Does anyone think that it is morally good to work only six hours a day? I say deliberately that people ought to work more than six hours a day if they are to retain their self-respect and decent outlook on life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-09a.1954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-09", "file": "debates1932-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "584f4297a424957b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-09a.1960.1", "colnum": "1960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT (LIMITATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "dity in a world where the price level is otherwise stable. Therefore, we have to separate quite clearly those two things. The main burden behind the speech of the hon. Member for Merthyr was that at the moment we are producing too efficiently. He is seeking to reduce our efficiency of production. He wants to make every workman in this country 25 per cent. less efficient than at the present moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-09a.1960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-09", "file": "debates1932-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "584f4297a424957b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-09a.1962.3", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT (LIMITATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense ‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "it increase or diminish employment? Obviously, it would diminish the employment enormously, because newspapers would be written out by hand and very few people could afford to buy them. Let us take the machinery of transport. We are told that that machinery displaces great masses of people, so therefore let us abolish the machinery of transport. Let us break up all our locomotives on the railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-09a.1962.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-09", "file": "debates1932-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "584f4297a424957b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-09a.1964.1", "colnum": "1964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT (LIMITATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or than 12.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "any ways. It can be attained by machinery; it can be attained by efficiency of organisation; but it cannot be attained by reducing the hours of work to the particular figure of six hours a day. As anybody who has had experience of a factory knows, that is a number of hours which it is almost impossible to work efficiently. An eight-hour day is certainly satisfactory, and better than a 10-hour day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-09a.1964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-09", "file": "debates1932-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "584f4297a424957b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-09a.1984.1", "colnum": "1984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT (LIMITATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Merthyr Tydvil ‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "preceding_text": "I beg your pardon, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. I have gone through the Bill, which has been very ably put forward by the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-09a.1984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-09", "file": "debates1932-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "584f4297a424957b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-09a.2006.5", "colnum": "2006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT (LIMITATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh ‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "eople have to spend large sums in the Law Courts finding out their meaning, could read into these words other than what I have stated. If this Bill is to be interpreted not by skilled draftsmen, who seem to exist for the purpose of keeping the law courts busy—indeed I often wonder if they are paid commission, and, if they were not civil servants, one would almost doubt their integrity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-09a.2006.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-12", "file": "debates1932-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "407f477e2fb5b44f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-12a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or in garden cities.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "nd to put the site to the best economic use. It is near the centre of the city and I would like to build garages, offices, or warehouses. The site is shut in and airless. There is no public park near, where children can play. Many of my present tenants are unemployed, and cannot find employment in the locality. It would be far better that these people should be housed in council houses elsewhere.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-12a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-12", "file": "debates1932-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "407f477e2fb5b44f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-12a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. TATE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. TATE", "preceding_text": "ty borough and of every county district shall have power to publish information and give advice, for the assistance of landlords and tenants, as to their rights and duties under the principal Acts. I regret that I have no legal knowledge, but I would like the Minister to say exactly what that means. Does it mean that it is going to be compulsory on the councils to set up these advisory committees?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-12a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-12", "file": "debates1932-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "407f477e2fb5b44f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-12a.141.3", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT ASKE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Paragraph (ii).\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT ASKE", "preceding_text": "have quoted. At any rate, if that is not the case I shall be very glad if the Minister would explain the situation. Another point which arises is that for the first time the means of the tenant are not an essential ingredient of the definition of alternative accommodation. In paragraph (i) there is no reference whatever to the means of the tenant—a most important thing to have been left out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-12a.141.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-13", "file": "debates1932-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "452a048df3d9b55f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-13a.240.0", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "on who are gravely disturbed and concerned as to their position under the proposals in Clause 1. These people at this moment are under the heaviest weather economically. Their expenses are mounting up, they are struggling bravely to maintain themselves in the positions to which they have attained and they are confronted with increasing difficulties. These men and women are key figures in industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-13a.240.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-12-14", "file": "debates1932-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "21c4e7981c6e3915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.356.1", "colnum": "356", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-14", "file": "debates1932-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "21c4e7981c6e3915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.375.7", "colnum": "375", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "oes not bind us as regards the payment. But either we intend, until we get an agreement, to comply with the terms of the Agreement of 1923, or we have departed from that and have tendered the sum of £20,000,000 in gold which is to be taken as a sum towards a final capital settlement of the debt. We must take up one of the two positions. We cannot say that it may be one or it may be the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.375.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-14", "file": "debates1932-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "21c4e7981c6e3915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "t is a commercial quid pro quo \"? Mr. Stimson, in his Note, said: In such an examination there would necessarily be consideration of other forms of tangible compensation available for the expansion of markets for the products of American agriculture and labour. We have to remember that if we are going to do a deal with America it may be necessary to go back on what has already been done at Ottawa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-14", "file": "debates1932-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "21c4e7981c6e3915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "s arduous office, but no one shall say what he said on that occasion without my endeavouring, amicably and at the same time pointedly, to show that there were more sides to the controversy than were represented in his censure. My right hon. Friend said: The Member for Epping has done no service to the country in endavouring to undermine any confidence which may have been aroused by this settlement", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-14", "file": "debates1932-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "21c4e7981c6e3915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ghtly and so easily? When I read on Friday that the Government were actually urging France to pay the United States, having cheerfully let them off the obligation to pay us, I was profoundly shocked and distressed. It seemed to me that it was hardly possible that such an inversion of good sense could have been put forward. We were actually urging the French to pay the United States at our expense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-14", "file": "debates1932-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "21c4e7981c6e3915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "were to pay £4,500,000 to the United States and we had foregone the £6,000,000 due to us. That is the position which still exists, I believe, in the case of Italy. If Italy pays the United States, she will pay the United States £250,000 and withhold the £2,000,000 which it is in her power and her duty to pay under the very generous settlement, the too generous settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-14", "file": "debates1932-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "21c4e7981c6e3915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.406.5", "colnum": "406", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "I am not talking about the reasons; I am talking of the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.406.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-14", "file": "debates1932-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "21c4e7981c6e3915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.407.0", "colnum": "407", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "Hon. Gentlemen now cheer without having the slightest knowledge of the facts. That is not the temper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-14", "file": "debates1932-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "21c4e7981c6e3915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.407.2", "colnum": "407", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "I will ask the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Bewdley (Mr. Baldwin) who represents the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-14", "file": "debates1932-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "21c4e7981c6e3915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On what lines?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is making a statement now really without authority. If he will look at the documents, he will find that there is no word of that kind. He was entitled to make a settlement on those lines. If he did not secure a settlement on those lines, he was bound to refer back to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-14", "file": "debates1932-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "21c4e7981c6e3915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Under 20 millions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "untries. He has never done so; he has suppressed that article, though he knew that it had been written. The right hon. Gentleman now says it was so favourable a, settlement that I advised the people at home to accept it; that I sent a cable within two hours to advise them to accept it lest they should have worse. It is something which is represented by 30 millions of gold which is going to-morrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-14", "file": "debates1932-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "21c4e7981c6e3915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The franc went down to 2d.!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ther payment would be due until 1955.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 12th December, 1932; cols. 43–44, Vol. 273.] You can read the rest. What does that amount to? We settled in a hurry. I do not want to say hard things of the right hon. Gentleman, although I think he is more responsible than the Lord President of the Council. If we had not settled, should we have been worse? France did not settle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-14", "file": "debates1932-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "21c4e7981c6e3915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is gibbering?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " there was a decision. Belgium also referred the matter to its Parliament. The one Parliament in Europe which has no opportunity of recording its view on this settlement is the Mother of Parliaments. We have now an opportunity to discuss it. One can see the kind of discussion allowed here. One can have the opportunity of discussion—the poor old Mother of Parliaments can gibber in her corner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-14", "file": "debates1932-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "21c4e7981c6e3915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They would not do it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "orium, things were bad. You did it to save the world, of which we are a very important part. We ask you to put it off. We could not ask you when there was a General Election on, and it is only just over. We ask you to put this off until there is someone with whom we can talk to face to face and someone who can give an answer.\" What has that to do with repudiation? What has that to do with default?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-14", "file": "debates1932-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "21c4e7981c6e3915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Repudiation\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "there is someone with whom we can talk to face to face and someone who can give an answer.\" What has that to do with repudiation? What has that to do with default? [An HON. MEMBER: \"They would not do it!\"] If they did not do it, I should say, as the French Chamber has said: \"No parley, no pay. If you are not prepared to talk to your debtors in an emergency of this kind, we will wait until you do.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-14", "file": "debates1932-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "21c4e7981c6e3915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "I hope the Financial Secretary to the Treasury will make a note, among those which he is so industriously writing for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, of the fact that everyone—on both sides of the House in every party—is unanimously of opinion that we must not combine this payment with deflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-14", "file": "debates1932-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "21c4e7981c6e3915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "grace to any nation that calls itself civilised. You are not going to get out of those conditions by defaulting now, or by paying this debt, or by anything of that kind. You are only going to get out of that set, of conditions by building your life on a new and better foundation. You have built it on bloodshed, domination, and on the starvation of the masses. The greatest Imperialism always—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-14", "file": "debates1932-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "21c4e7981c6e3915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "faulting now, or by paying this debt, or by anything of that kind. You are only going to get out of that set, of conditions by building your life on a new and better foundation. You have built it on bloodshed, domination, and on the starvation of the masses. The greatest Imperialism always—[ Interruption. ] I can understand the insolent jeer of the hon., well-fed Members sitting there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.469.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-12-14", "file": "debates1932-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "21c4e7981c6e3915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.471.0", "colnum": "471", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "kind. You are only going to get out of that set, of conditions by building your life on a new and better foundation. You have built it on bloodshed, domination, and on the starvation of the masses. The greatest Imperialism always—[ Interruption. ] I can understand the insolent jeer of the hon., well-fed Members sitting there—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order !\"] He knows perfectly well that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-14a.469.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1932-12-15", "file": "debates1932-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ed0a14c9b335c470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-15a.496.2", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COURTS OF SUMMARY JURISDICTION (APPEALS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Wrong question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman state if the governors of any of the prisons have, from time to time, brought the prisoners together to ask them whether they have any complaints to make?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-15a.496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-15", "file": "debates1932-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ed0a14c9b335c470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-15a.561.0", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "I am proposing no amendment or changes in the Act of 1930. I am proposing a vigorous campaign to have the Act carried out and a further financial provision in order to enable the Act to be carried out. The House will understand that this depends on finance. We can do more if we get more money. I am glad to say I have got more money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-15a.561.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-15", "file": "debates1932-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ed0a14c9b335c470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-15a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Worse than that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "preceding_text": "ocal authorities are going to keep control over the houses which are to be provided under these new schemes, I wish God speed to the proposal to bring in the co-operation of the building societies. Now I come to the broad problem of London, which is a problem on its own. I make no apology for asking for the special treatment of London. We are not a little village, and we are not a provincial town.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-15a.577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-15", "file": "debates1932-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ed0a14c9b335c470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-15a.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "ing Committee of Liverpool, dealing with the housing problem, and I naturally thought that when one got among experts in the House of Commons, and more especially with a National Minister, one would find some knowledge of the subject of housing in our great cities. This Bill, however, only deals with financial matters, and it is a travesty to say that it contains a solution of the housing problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-15a.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-15", "file": "debates1932-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ed0a14c9b335c470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-15a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "e the people. Surely there is nothing more disastrous than outbreaks of typhoid, small-pox, and fevers in the densely populated areas of our great cities? From the point of view of health alone, the nation should be prepared to get rid of the slum problem. It will never be removed if we are only to have what is announced by the Minister of Health. He says 12,000 people per annum are to be removed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-15a.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-15", "file": "debates1932-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ed0a14c9b335c470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-15a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You said people.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "w of health alone, the nation should be prepared to get rid of the slum problem. It will never be removed if we are only to have what is announced by the Minister of Health. He says 12,000 people per annum are to be removed. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It is an insult to the intelligence of this House to say that 12,000 houses are to be dealt with in slum clearance every year. Do hon. Members dispute it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-15a.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-15", "file": "debates1932-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ed0a14c9b335c470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-15a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": " is housing, and when they profess to the people that they come here bursting with all that ardour and enthusiasm for the poor down and out and the fools who voted them in they are not present. As soon as the bell goes, they rush into the Lobbies without ever knowing what they are voting for and vote against this Amendment of the Labour party. This is the most unintellectual body I have ever seen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-15a.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-15", "file": "debates1932-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ed0a14c9b335c470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-15a.674.3", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OTTAWA AGREEMENTS ACT 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "ams). I am afraid he did not listen quite intently to the form of licence which I endeavoured to explain to the House it was the intention of the Board of Trade to adopt. Nothing that has happened under the voluntary restrictions is the least guide to what is to happen under this Order. This Order may, in fact, be made expressly to counteract something that had happened under the voluntary scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-15a.674.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-19", "file": "debates1932-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "aa87aa3ba92f113d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-19a.810.1", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have not conquered the air yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "e direction of trying to solve that problem, we have intensified man's power of production to such an extent that to-day there is a surplus amount of labour in every country of the world. The human element has become less, and the mechanical element has become more. We have annihilated space. We have harnessed science to the machine. We have almost conquered the air, and we have bridged the ocean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-19a.810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-19", "file": "debates1932-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "aa87aa3ba92f113d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-19a.850.5", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major PROCTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was there a crisis?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major PROCTER", "preceding_text": "getting into debt at the rate of £1,000,000 per week. It was for that reason, not because of the amount that was paid to the unemployed, but because of the lack of confidence and the lighthearted way in which the Labour party dispensed public funds, that we lost our national credit. It was the reason people abroad were taking their money away from our banks, and the reason there was a crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-19a.850.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-19", "file": "debates1932-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "aa87aa3ba92f113d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-19a.853.2", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "of just giving enough to keep people alive. I live in the centre of my division, and it has only to be known that I am at home for an hour or two and my house is beseiged. I see people in the morning and on Saturday and Sunday, and I see them coming backwards and forwards to this House, and I tell this Committee that you are crushing the physical life out of thousands of people in Bow and Bromley.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-19a.853.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-19", "file": "debates1932-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "aa87aa3ba92f113d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-19a.862.3", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "t thinking about it from the very foundation, you will not look at the thing as it really is. If you did, you would see, I am sure, as I see that there is no way out by this patching up, by trying to dominate people abroad, by trying to keep people quiet by charity or any other means. I hate doles as much as anyone here, but I have helped to give away more doles probably than any other individual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-19a.862.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-19", "file": "debates1932-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "aa87aa3ba92f113d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-19a.865.3", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How old was he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": " was well that we put Commissioners in. The first is the case of a single man, whose father had £1,600 invested, four cottages worth £600, one house worth £230, and was living in his own. Nevertheless, that single man was being given, though he was living at home, 10s. The Commissioners, quite rightly, I personally think, have decided that he is not in need of any assistance at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-19a.865.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-19", "file": "debates1932-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "aa87aa3ba92f113d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-19a.874.1", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And high Income Tax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ted towards the end of coping with the cause which has brought about this great increase in unemployment. I want the Minister to consider that the increasing unemployment which he has to report, as compared with the period before the means test and the economy cuts, is the direct and definite result of the combination of economy cuts, means test operations, and reductions in working class incomes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-19a.874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-19", "file": "debates1932-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "aa87aa3ba92f113d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-19a.875.3", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "My hon. and gallant Friend the Member for North St. Pancras (Captain Fraser) says that it was uneconomic. Frankly, I do not know the meaning of the word—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-19a.875.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-19", "file": "debates1932-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "aa87aa3ba92f113d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-19a.875.3", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was because of the War!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ir tea; they were paying their rents, and they were getting their entertainments. If that is uneconomic, I do not understand the meaning of the word \"economy.\" National economy, in my view, means maintaining a social system that enables all your people to live in a reasonably comfortable way, and that they did during the years when Income Tax was at its highest, because employment was at its best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-19a.875.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-19", "file": "debates1932-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "aa87aa3ba92f113d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-19a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "hen you must take certain vital factors into consideration. You must recognise the point made by one hon. member about the increased productivity of labour. If all these three factors are added together, namely the limit of the home market, the limitation of the purchasing power of your own people, and the increased productivity of each unit of labour, you are bound to have increased unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-19a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-20", "file": "debates1932-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "3e43b497c01a5259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-20a.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "AUSTRIAN LOAN [GUARANTEE].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And a good job too!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "less there has been some implied obligation on the part of the Labour Government, this loan would never have been made. If there was no implied obligation all I can say is that this is a matter which must do damage to our own country. I do not think that anybody however much they might have welcomed going off the Gold Standard, imagined it to be a sign of financial strength. We were forced off it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-20a.941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-20", "file": "debates1932-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "3e43b497c01a5259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-20a.973.6", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "es Act must be added the sum raised upon Irish imports under the Import Duties Act since 15th November. The total sum raised in respect of both of those Acts up to 10th December was £1,357,160, and the Customs estimate of the yield to the end of the financial year—though naturally the estimate is of a very rough nature because the experience of these duties has not been a very long one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-20a.973.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-20", "file": "debates1932-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "3e43b497c01a5259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-20a.993.3", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "preceding_text": "We were told then by the Irish party that if we gave way in this respect and that, all would be well in Ireland. The Liberal party believed that story and adopted that view of the situation. My hon. Friend the Member for Windsor (Mr. A. Somerville) wisely and properly remarked that the results of Liberal policy were seen in Ireland during the War when hostilities broke out in Dublin and elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-20a.993.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-20", "file": "debates1932-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "3e43b497c01a5259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-20a.1012.1", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "I opposed the War, but everybody in this House who has been in the Army knows that the great bulk of the Army was composed of Irishmen, including Irish Roman Catholics, and you could never have carried on the War without their backing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-20a.1012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-20", "file": "debates1932-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "3e43b497c01a5259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-20a.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "tervene because of certain interruptions that have been made. I know as well as anyone the old difficulty of the Irish question, and I am not anxious, in the changed conditions of the English nation, to arouse the antagonism of the Irish race. I certainly felt that the responsible Minister would have been able to make a more conciliatory statement than he has made. I know it is a delicate problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-20a.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-21", "file": "debates1932-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "92db8e45010bbe1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-21a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "MONETARY REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "he Gold Standard? Has our employment increased? Most Members of this House were returned on the basis that they were to defend the Gold Standard. I was not, because my by-election came when people had forgotten all about it, and therefore I have a greater measure of electoral freedom than most of the hon. and right hon. Gentlemen whom I am addressing. They said all sorts of things on the platform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-21a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-21", "file": "debates1932-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "92db8e45010bbe1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-21a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "MONETARY REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " my by-election came when people had forgotten all about it, and therefore I have a greater measure of electoral freedom than most of the hon. and right hon. Gentlemen whom I am addressing. They said all sorts of things on the platform. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I know we had been pushed off the Gold Standard before the election. Nevertheless, you were still explaining to the people, all of you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-21a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-21", "file": "debates1932-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "92db8e45010bbe1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-21a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "MONETARY REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " Nevertheless, you were still explaining to the people, all of you—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] You do not know what I was going to say. You were still explaining to the people that it was a vital necessity to balance our trade, because if we did not there would be an enormous enhancement in the price level. There was not a single Member of this House who was not expressing (that fear at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-21a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-21", "file": "debates1932-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "92db8e45010bbe1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-21a.1214.1", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "MONETARY REFORM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. MASON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. MASON", "preceding_text": "n ounce of fine gold. The difference between the price of £4 4s. 11½d. and £6 2s. 3d., the present market price for fine gold, is the measure of the inflation from which we are suffering to-day. When the hon. Member speaks of the high price for gold bullion, it is not that gold has gone up in price, but it is owing to the inflation of our paper, for our paper has gone down in price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-21a.1214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-22", "file": "debates1932-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "497ca3763a6a2e1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-22a.1268.1", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ging men to throw themselves against the police or the military. In any case, what has he done all his life? What has been his job in life? He has simply been working for poor people, and his position to-day is that he is a very poor man indeed, so that no one in this House can stand up and charge him with being \"on the make.\" That may be done with people like me; it has been done sometimes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-22a.1268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-22", "file": "debates1932-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "497ca3763a6a2e1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-22a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "The tariff people come here. She says that it is the duty of the workers to do this. Is that wrong? What is there in that? Every member of a local public assistance committee who refuses relief to unemployed men or who wants to send an unemployed man to Belmont must be identified so that he can be intimidated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-22a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-22", "file": "debates1932-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "497ca3763a6a2e1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-22a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "aid that he saw Duncan at a demonstration in Hollydale Road, Peckham, outside the works of Mr. Evan Cooke, a borough councillor: The demonstrators— not this woman— used filthy and insulting words. They then went to Camberwell Town Hall where they were refused admission. Meetings have been held outside my house and most uncomplimentary things have been said about me by Tariff Reformers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-22a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-22", "file": "debates1932-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "497ca3763a6a2e1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-22a.1300.0", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "Whether that was so or not, the whole position is this: that if we had a repetition of what happened before it was going to lead to very grave disorders. In an endeavour to prevent it these men are asked to give undertakings that they will not incite or take part in any such disorderly proceedings. Is it too much to ask?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-22a.1300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-22", "file": "debates1932-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "497ca3763a6a2e1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-22a.1322.3", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Conservative side?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "men since the war. During that time, 170,000 people have left the land, and the population is poorer by that amount. It is no advantage to the country to lose 10 ploughmen and gain one smallholder. That is a disadvantage to the country, and not an advantage. To put on 30,000 smallholders and lose 170,000 farm workers would be folly. We on the Conservative side of the House have every reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-22a.1322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-22", "file": "debates1932-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "497ca3763a6a2e1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-22a.1322.3", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "e is that the committee has powers to recommend the regulation, that is to say, the restriction, of imports. Do hon. Gentlemen opposite stand for that or do they not? Will they back us up in that in the future, or will they not? These are the questions which we and the Government have a right to ask. It is no use merely saying, \"What are your plans?\" We have a right to say, \"What is your support?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-22a.1322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1932-12-22", "file": "debates1932-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "497ca3763a6a2e1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-22a.1336.1", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": "eirs. There is a diversity of opinion among those connected with the coal trade, and the diversity of opinion in this House again, namely, that the bulk of those who have spoken have spoken against the Act and only the minority in favour, is not comparable to the diversity of opinion outside in the coal trade. The majority of the coal trade outside would be in favour of the continuance of the Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1932-12-22a.1336.1"}